This is the Guardian.

Raul Palma Pettis had gone missing again.

The video game repairman had the evidence that could break open Alex's case, and he was the only one who'd seen it.

And now, he's gone. Not answering any of Eric's calls or texts. Eric keeps checking his phone,

when finally, after more than a week, he hears the ding of an incoming text message. He shows his phone to Jennifer.

He says, I had a brain-eating amoeba.

And so Jennifer and I are looking it up, and we're like, brain-eating amoeba is like so rare.

So we were trying to figure out what it was, because English isn't his first language.

He's Cuban.

So anyway, we assumed it meant

edema, right? We were trying to figure it out. Adema. When you get swelling from retaining fluid.

So we thought, you know what, he's just misspelling edema. That makes sense. His head hurts. He maybe

fell, you know, some swelling, maybe some bleeding.

But it wasn't a typo.

He contracted an amoeba that gets into your nose, travels to your brain, and starts destroying your brain tissue.

Luckily, this is extremely rare.

Unluckily, it's usually fatal.

One, people rarely get them, and two, when you get them, it's like a 90% mortality rate. You don't survive most of the time of a brain eating

amoeba. Of the 167 people who have gotten this amoeba, just four have lived. One of them was Raoul.

Your expert gets a brain-eating amoeba? And it's next level, you know? And then he live, though, right? So you can't

even say you're unlucky. It's like a miracle. So at this point, Jennifer Blag was feeling pretty good.

Her star witness had survived a brain-eating amoeba.

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