What Did You Take? | 1
One Click
Vespucci
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Two similar yet unrelated deaths in different parts of the country lead to the same agonizing conclusion -- cause of death unknown. Eventually, both cases reveal a gruesome truth: an obsession with weight loss led them, and many others, to be cooked alive from the inside.
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| 0:28.1 | Due to the graphic nature of this content, listener discretion is advised. It started just like any other case would for us, you know, sitting in the office, the phone rings. |
| 0:50.3 | It's a police officer. Hey, we have a 47-year-old male who doesn't really have any medical history. |
| 1:00.4 | We need you to respond because we don't have a clear-cut reason for him to be deceased at this time. |
| 1:07.6 | And I responded to his home, and the roommate mentioned, you know, the night prior he was complaining of, he described it as burning up. |
| 1:21.6 | The decedent was laying on the bed, face up. |
| 1:26.2 | The bed didn't have any sheets on it or covers on it. And I remember thinking |
| 1:33.7 | it was kind of odd because he was unclothed and he had what appeared to be a magazine between his legs, |
| 1:44.9 | and it looked as if he had been pulling the magazine and ripping it to pieces. |
| 1:51.4 | And there were pieces of the magazine lying all around him on the bed. |
| 1:57.8 | But as far as his actual body, there wasn't really anything unusual. |
| 2:05.8 | We did the autopsy, we did the toxicology testing, we did the histology testing, |
| 2:13.1 | we got the medical records, and we didn't have a cause of death. |
| 2:18.7 | So this is where the, you know, the previous comment about this being pretty standard as far as cases go, |
| 2:28.2 | it completely changed. |
| 2:33.9 | On April 25, 2018, |
| 2:37.5 | investigator Allison Gaines responded to the mysterious death of a man named James Potter. |
| 2:43.7 | But it would be months before she knew what killed him, and so many others. |
| 2:49.5 | This is a story about how a split-second decision on the internet can change your |
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