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All right, guys, this is episode 238 of Going West. So let's get into it.

In April of 2003, a psychologist was found dead in his car after a car crash. But shortly before his death, he had received threatening letters. And the day he died, he was seen driving erratically before crashing into a tree.

The police ruled his death as suicide. His autopsy revealed unsettling details, indicating that he had potentially been tortured and held captive before he crashed his car.

This is the story of Philip Schoo.

Philip Michael Schoo was born on July 22nd, 1948 to Miriam and Bruce Schoo in Brookville, Ohio, which is a small suburb of Dayton.

Philip's father Bruce worked at an iron plant, and his mother Miriam was a homemaker. And Philip had two older brothers, Norman, born seven years before him, and Stephen, born two years before him.

Sadly, Stephen passed away at less than a year old from unknown causes, and the inscription on his tombstone simply says infant.

But the family was incredibly overjoyed when two years later, they were joined by Philip, and then three years after that, by another son named Roger.

Philip studied at Brookville High School, where he was very active in student life. He was an honor student and a member of the National Honor Society, as well as the High-Why Club, which is like a social club for students in middle and high school, affiliated with the YMCA.

And while the club has been discontinued, their purpose was, quote, to create, maintain, and extend throughout the school and community, high members of Christian character.

The family were also lifelong members of and very active in their local Methodist church, and Phil was a gifted athlete and competed on his school's baseball, basketball, and track teams.

His friends and family remember him having a passion for life while also enjoying the simple things and describe him as down to earth, Midwestern, and low key.

After graduating high school in 1966, he went off to attend the University of Wisconsin in Madison, which is also the capital of Wisconsin, and basically like this quintessential college town.

There, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree and pre-med, graduating in 1970.

That same year, Philip completed training for the Air Force at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

He was eventually promoted to Lieutenant, and then Colonel.

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