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🗓️ 22 December 2020
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On August 10th, 1991, nine victims were arranged in a circle and executed in a Buddhist Temple outside of Waddell, Arizona. The Framed Team spent two years combing through every piece of evidence, every misstep, and every alibi to try and figure out what exactly happened in the Wat Promkunaram Temple and, maybe more importantly, why it happened.
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0:00.0 | On the morning of Saturday, August 10, 1991, nine victims were found lying face down in |
0:09.0 | a circle in Wad-Kunaram, a Buddhist temple located in the rural town of Wad-El, Arizona. |
0:16.1 | Each victim sustained at least one gunshot wound to the back of the head. |
0:20.4 | Twenty-one shots were fired in total. |
0:22.8 | The gunmen didn't miss once. |
0:25.2 | By the time the bodies were discovered, they were cold to the touch. |
0:28.9 | The shooters had long since fled the scene, leaving as it seemed, without a trace. |
0:34.3 | A major crime's task force was formed that was comprised of 66 law enforcement officers |
0:39.5 | from federal, state, and local levels. |
0:42.5 | Before the investigation concluded, 1,300 leads were pursued, which generated over 100,000 |
0:48.6 | pages of reports. |
0:50.5 | This was the largest case file in the state's history. |
0:53.6 | The frame team has read every news article, every published book, we've watched every |
0:57.8 | documentary, and we've scoured the internet for every archive blog post. |
1:02.3 | Having gone through it all, we can tell you that there's a lot of misinformation floating |
1:05.9 | around out there about this case. |
1:08.4 | We know this because we have also obtained and reviewed the entire case file. |
1:13.4 | We have the original police reports, the lab reports, crime scene photos, and transcripts |
1:18.4 | detailing not only what was said in the courtroom, but the interrogation rooms as well. |
1:24.4 | Since the hundreds of thousands of pages of wrong information we have gathered, there |
1:28.2 | may be an answer to a question first posed 28 years ago. |
1:32.9 | What exactly happened in the Wad-Kunaram temple on a warm summer night in 1991? |
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