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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Discretion is advice. |
0:10.0 | This is a minute burn. |
0:21.6 | In 1970, |
0:22.6 | In 1970, Robert, was born to an American father and a Korean mother. |
0:43.6 | And as the youngest sibling of seven, his childhood was a bit chaotic. |
0:48.7 | Robert's dad was in the U.S. Air Force, causing that large family to move states several times |
0:54.0 | before finally settling down |
0:55.9 | in Arizona when Robert was in his early teens. The frequent moves weren't the only unstable |
1:01.8 | aspect of Robert's childhood. One of his older siblings abused him, and he became suicidal, |
1:08.6 | causing him to be removed from his family and put into foster care. |
1:11.6 | Several other members of Robert's family were diagnosed with mental illness, |
1:16.6 | and eventually Robert was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. |
1:20.6 | When he was only 15 years old, his emotional state was so bad that he was institutionalized. |
1:26.6 | He attended high school up until the |
1:29.0 | ninth grade when he decided to drop out. During this time, Robert's life had been taken over by a deep |
1:34.9 | obsession with a celebrity, Samantha Smith, an activist in her early teens who had become famous |
1:41.4 | after her anti-war letter to a Soviet ambassador received international |
1:45.8 | attention. Robert's fascination with 13-year-old Samantha quickly snowballed out of control, |
1:52.8 | and before long he was actively stalking her. He even traveled to Maine in the hopes of meeting |
1:58.6 | her in person when she returned from a trip to the |
2:01.4 | Soviet Union, but after a run-in with police, he lost his nerve and went back home. Regardless, |
2:07.7 | Robert planned on continuing to stalk Samantha. But then in 1985, Barr Harbor Airlines Flight |
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