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Tapes from the Darkside | Crime & Psychology

S8, Chapter 6: Requiem for a Son

Tapes from the Darkside | Crime & Psychology

T. Z. Borden

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary, History

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

“In the end, however, despite all the mystery still surrounding Otto, it is essential to remember two facts that endure as unyielding as gravestones: Otto’s death and the grief of those he left behind.” —Doug Bock Clark, investigative reporter

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Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-discussed-using-nuclear-weapon-north-korea-2017-blaming-someone-rcna65120
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/u-s-speaking-one-voice-north-korea-state-dept-spox-n791261
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-crisis-how-events-have-unfolded-under-trump-n753996
https://abcnews.go.com/International/fire-fury-rocket-man-barbs-traded-trump-kim/story?id=53634996
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/trump-fire-fury-improvise-north-korea/index.html
https://thetab.com/us/2017/06/26/professor-said-otto-warmbier-got-deserved-will-not-rehired-69870
https://www.thedailybeast.com/larry-wilmore-apologizes-to-otto-warmbiers-family
https://web.archive.org/web/20180217063012/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/otto-warmbier-death-professor-facebook-post-north-korea-delaware-university-fired-a7809146.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/9/28/no-signs-of-torture-in-death-of-otto-warmbier
https://www.wlwt.com/article/president-recognizes-otto-warmbiers-parents-during-state-of-the-union/15932163
https://nextshark.com/white-people-made-comedy-north-korea-now-want-sympathy-otto-warmbier

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tapes from the dark side.

0:31.6

I think it's something that everyone secretly longs, horror wants.

0:41.3

The look in his eyes was absolute horror.

0:46.3

Horror, like he'd seen the devil.

0:49.3

He was with the devil. Hi there, the Dark Side.

0:55.0

The Dark Side. Josh Clancy from the Sunday Times of London.

1:13.6

You spoke about cardiopulmonary arrest.

1:18.6

What kind of things might cause cardiopulmonary arrest?

1:24.6

I mean, because it sounds to me like, you know, physical abuse might

1:30.8

be something that could bring that on.

1:32.8

Could you say a little more about that?

1:36.5

We have no certain or verifiable information about what happened to Otto prior to his departure

1:40.6

from North Korea.

1:42.4

But in general terms, one of the more likely causes of a

1:44.8

cardiopulmonary arrest and a young person would have been a respiratory arrest.

1:48.0

Hi, Miguel Marquez from CNN. On your MRI and scans that you did of Mr. Warrenby,

1:55.0

was there any indication of trauma to any part of him? Were there any fractures, any, anything in the head or

2:04.7

other parts of the body? And would you know if he were in a coma for quite some time,

2:10.4

if he had suffered a heart attack or something that would cut off blood supply to the brain,

2:16.5

would you be able to tell at this

2:17.8

point that he suffered botulism took a sleeping pill had some other cause some

2:23.9

allergic reaction or some sort of reaction to something he took there well there's

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