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On a crisp fall morning in 2007, a small airplane took flight over the forested town of Graham, Washington. The pilot was a detective with the Pierce county sheriff’s department, and he was flying a somewhat unusual mission. He wasn’t looking for a lost person, or chasing a fleeing suspect. Instead, he was circling the sky above the scene of a double-murder case that had him – and his whole department – stumped. The detective had run out of ideas on the ground. So he’d decided to take flight. He always thought better in the air – and he figured he would literally get a new perspective on his evidence this way. He circled over the house where the homicides took place. And that’s when he noticed something – from the sky, it became obvious in a way that he never considered from the ground. With a rush of adrenaline, he turned his plane back toward the airfield. He had a hunch – and if he was right, he’d just cracked the case.
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0:09.9 | On a crisp fall morning in 2007, a small airplane took flight over the forested town of Graham Washington. |
0:16.8 | The pilot was a detective with the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, and he was flying a somewhat unusual mission. |
0:22.9 | He wasn't looking for a lost person or chasing a fleeing suspect. |
0:26.5 | Instead, he was circling the sky above the scene of a double murder case that had him and his whole department stumped. |
0:33.5 | The detective had run out of ideas on the ground, so he decided to take flight. |
0:38.3 | Plus, he always thought better in the air, and he figured, you know, while he was up there, |
0:42.3 | he would literally get a new perspective on his evidence this way. |
0:45.3 | He eventually circled over the house where the homicides took place, and then also began to |
0:49.3 | kind of loosely circled the neighborhood. |
0:51.3 | And that's when he noticed something. |
0:53.3 | It was something that he wouldn't |
0:54.6 | have noticed on the ground, but from up here, it was incredibly obvious. With a rush of adrenaline, |
1:00.3 | he turned his plane around and headed back toward the airfield. He now had a real hunch, |
1:05.1 | and if it was right, that means he just solved the case. But before we get into that story, |
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