411: What if you foresaw your own abduction?

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Witt Misseldein 0:00
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Annette Bricca 0:22
Even though I had seen this in the video tape. it was more than a million times worse that it was so horrific and so terrible There's no horror that I could possibly say. The sheer panic. Because it wasn't even the panic of what was happening. It was the panic of what was about to happen.
Witt Misseldein 0:51
From Audible Originals, I'm Witnessledine. You're listening to this is actually happening. Episode four eleven. What if you foresaw your own abduction?
Unknown 1:17
Police in Urban, California, are investigating the double murder of a young couple in the parking lot of their apartment complex. A double homicide grabs the public's attention by the throat. We have
Alice Levine 1:26
identified Christopher
Unknown 1:27
Dorner as a suspect in this double homicide. A former cop and still on the loose. Considered armed and extremely dangerous. And scariest of all, he left something behind. A particular interest is a multi-page manifesto.
Annette Bricca 1:43
This manifesto on Facebook is eleven pages long.
Unknown 1:46
Trace, this manifesto from this suspect who's targeting cops, it's stunning. Listen to the show the New Yorker calls one of the best podcasts of the summer. Dan Taberski's Manifesto. And I tell you, this manifesto, it scares the hell out of me. Listen to Dan Tabersky's Manifesto, wherever you get your podcasts, orb into the entire series right now, only with Audible.
Witt Misseldein 2:13
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Witt Misseldein 2:55
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Annette Bricca 3:31
My father was raised on the south side of Chicago from a family of Polish descent. My grandparents were really hard working, decent, fabulous people. My mother got married quite young. She was about twenty years old. My father was twenty two or twenty three. My mother it felt like wanted to get out of her house as soon as she possibly could. And I think that marrying my father felt like a pretty safe bet. I had an older brother and a younger sister. My brother was two years older than me. My sister was one year younger. We moved to Sheriffville, Indiana, which at the time that I was growing up was a really fabulous place to live. We lived in a beautiful brand new house. And I think that by anybody's standards, they would have looked at our family thinking we had it all.
Annette Bricca 4:19
We were the all-American family for sure. My father worked. He was a a butcher. He worked. My mom didn't. So she was home with us. She was like a typical housewife back then. It was in the 60s and she would cook for us and we would swim and ride our bike and have sleepovers and have a lot of friends on the block. So it just felt really idyllic. I was not only a happy kid, I talked a lot, I was engaged. It was the kind of childhood that anybody would love to have that feels too good to be true, but it was. As a child before six years old, I had a knowingness.

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