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Jack the Ripper kills his fourth
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victim Scotland Yard is
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helpless 400 mil away an extraordinary
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man works on edinburgh's top murder
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cases a leading professor of Medicine Dr
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Joseph Bell is a Pioneer in a new field
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forensic
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science desperate Scotland Yard enlists
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bill to help crack the Ripper
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case what the police do not know is that
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Joseph Bell is the real life model for
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the greatest fictional detective in
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history he inspired his student Arthur
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Coran Doyle to create a legend
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this is the story of the
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real Sherlock
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Holmes Sherlock Holmes is created in a
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small village in sou sea
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England Holmes is the brainchild of
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Arthur conand
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a 27-year-old
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doctor he makes his first public
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appearance in November
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1887 and becomes the most famous
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detective of all
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time literary historian Owen Dudley
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Edwards the Holmes character has been
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the most frequently performed on
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television on the stage in varieties of
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adaptations in screen in caricature in
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pasti P Elementary my dear Watson there
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are no tarantul in South Africa but
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Holmes is more than just a literary
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character all over the world people
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still believe that Sherlock Holmes
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actually lived I am Sherlock Holmes I
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know
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everything what is it that makes this
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imaginary Victorian detective seems so
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real Arthur Conan Doyle created a
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character who seems real the Ducks
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because he is
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real Doyle literally lifted homes from
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his
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past he was Conan Doyle's teacher and
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Mentor Dr Joseph
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Bell 3 years before he and Conan Doyle
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meet Bell is a surgeon and lecturer at
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the University of Edinburgh follow to
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the mysterious but charismatic he keeps
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his private life separate from his
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Public
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Image Bell has an ambitious dream to
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apply science to Crime
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detection he's in the sitting room sir
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hello
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Henry how are you hi an old friend Dr
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Henry Duncan Little John offers Bell a
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gateway to the Dark World of crime I'm
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conducting an autopsy this afternoon he
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wants Bell to help him investigate a
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suspicious
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death young
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Lindsay and Lindsay she died last night
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in hospital two weeks after a stabbing
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incident there may be spinal damage so
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I'll have to do an multiple stab wounds
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but survived in hospital what how are we
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look two weeks later Lindsay
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died one
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right Little John wants Bell to help
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determine the exact cause of death trus
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they will mat the weapon inflamation
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would explain one of Lindsay's wounds is
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still seeping yeah let's have a look at
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it
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the minor wound is a breeding ground for
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a major
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infection bacteria propagates beneath
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her skin coursing through her
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bloodstream vessels dilate reducing
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blood flow to a lethal
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trickle the heart starved for oxygen
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slows down and
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finally stops
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beating doctors in 's day no little of
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bacterial
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infection still his autopsy confirms
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it an Lindsay died of an infection from
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her
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wounds now police can launch a criminal
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case for forensic anthropologist and
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best-selling novelist Dr Kathy reiches
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Bell's work in pathology is
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groundbreaking Joseph Bell was probably
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one of the first forensic Pathologists
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as we know them today he was one of the
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first to use an autopsy to investigate a
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criminal
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situation B biographer Dr Eli
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Libo there hadn't been much in the way
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of science Det detecting in solving
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crimes the time Joe Bell became a
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forensic expert but Bell with his
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scientific background definitely felt
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that science could get to the root of
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solving criminal
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problems Bell has found a new
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calling from this day he moves crime
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detection forward
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former detective and legal specialist
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Richard
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ly Joe Bell was well placed uh in terms
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of History of Time uh and professionally
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to provide a new method a new way of
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approaching crime
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investigation although it was simple it
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was crucially important and it was it
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was lacking at that
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time in the late 1800s
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Edinburgh is in the throws of
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industrialization crime is
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rampant it is more than the police can
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handle it's very very probable that many
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cases of homicide went
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unnoticed and were probably written off
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as suicides or accidents because there
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was there was a an inability to detect
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the signs of homicide at that
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time between 1874 and
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1878 Bell develops his detection skills
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in chemistry toxicology pathology and
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handwriting
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analysis they are the first steps
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towards what we now know as CSI crime
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scene investigation
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Bell works on seven known cases and puts
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five men in
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prison well just as you say it's about
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sanitation I agree the city should know
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more about the cause of
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death he insists on anonymity excuse me
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Mr L John Kelly mlin from the Scotsman
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yes would you answer a few questions
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about he wants his name kept out of
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legal records and will not speak to the
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Press we'll talk again soon Henry set up
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the camera
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here first a loss of motion on the upper
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half of the tongue a young man will soon
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draw Bell from the Shadows ratify your
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deductions in
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1877 a new student joins his
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class his name is Arthur Conan
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Doyle any questions
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in
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1877 Arthur Conan Doyle is a 17-year-old
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medical
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student born into a poor Irish Catholic
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Family his parents struggle to send him
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to medical
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school his grades are poor
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doy's home life is Bleak come on can't
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be the drink woman his father Charles is
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unemployed
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alcoholic and violent come
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on so he's somebody who's known
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suffering somebody who's had to conceal
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it somebody witnessed the fact he became
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a doctor somebody who wants to be a
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Healer both in his own family and in the
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world World At Large
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I'll be
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the the university becomes Conan Doyle's
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Sanctuary which symptoms allow diagnosis
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nowhere more so than in the classroom of
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Dr Joseph Bell first a loss of motion of
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the upper half of the tongue and a
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portion of the mucus he dazzles his
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students with his powers of
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deduction the first anomaly of the
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pancreas is the glands he calls it the
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method the second therefore is the DTs
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observe carefully deduce shrewdly differ
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and confirm with hard evidence diagnosis
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eyes and ears to see and he and memory
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to record the senses such are the
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Implements of a successful
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diagnosis o bring in an experation
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please one of the stories that Doyle
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likes so very much and that he puts in
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his autobiography
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was the man who came across the uh
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Meadow and came to the Outpatient
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Clinic and Joe Bell said when the man
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walked
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in sir did you enjoy your I see you've
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been across the West links today well
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yes how in the world did you know that
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he said
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sit he said I can see from the red clay
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on the bottom of your shoe that that's
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where you've been it's the only part of
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Edinburgh where you're going to find
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clay like that now what he is this man
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and then he says what's wrong with him
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pointing to one student and the student
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said he has hip problems sir use your
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eyes I know he said but that's not his
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real problem his real problem is he's
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got chronic
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alcoholism look at the rubican nose the
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fluid face but since you must make a
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complete diagnosis you will see sticking
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out of his right coat pocket whiske a
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bottle of whiskey
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always gratify your dedu you must verify
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your
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conclusions Bell's astonishing powers of
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deduction Define Conan Doyle's famous
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detective Sherlock
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Holmes in The Adventures of the five
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orange Pips Holmes will Echo Joel
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Bell you have come from the southwest I
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see that clay and chalk mixture which I
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see upon your toe caps is quite dis
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distinctive the metallic poisons B was
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something of a showman and one suspects
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that initially cono was put off by
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this the more one saw of bell the more
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extraordinary it was that his deductions
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really proved to be absolutely
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true on January 2nd
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1878 Bell is summoned to solve a mystery
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worthy of homes it unfolds at the home
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of Eugene Shan trell a wealthy French
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linguist good afternoon sir
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afternoon this way
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gentlemen Dr shant trell's wife
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Elizabeth is Gravely ill who shant thank
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you for coming good morning sir good
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morning she's
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catatonic I can barely detect her pulse
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her breathing's very
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shallow how long have you been here 25
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minutes I started AR as soon as I arri
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her pulse is weak her breathing shallow
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what do you think Joe I they get her to
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the hospital I agree with
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that she was mooning on the bed barely
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TR tells B what happened down the to
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shut off the m i don't understand
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it my wife was feeling a trifle ill last
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night she barely ate and retired to her
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room
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early I spoke to her before she went to
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sleep told her that a good rest would
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surely bring her strength
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back this morning my servant heard
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Elizabeth making moaning sounds in her
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bed and roused me when I ran into her
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room there was a gurgling noise coming
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from her throat can you not smell that
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woman go down the gas I could barely
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breathe I ordered the maid to turn off
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the supply at the meter and called for a
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doctor for the life of me I have no idea
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where the league came from
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on the count of three gentlemen wait a
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minute then something
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strange they look like vomit
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stains nausea is uncommon in cases of
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coal gas
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poisoning thank God you're here it
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doesn't add up she's c
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t the evidence tells Belle that
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Elizabeth went to bed conscious
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and the breath of victims of cool gas
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poisoning should wreak a
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fumes there is not the slightest
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scent Joseph Bell had to rely on his
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ability at observation today we have
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many Hightech methods that will allow
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scientists to notice evidence that might
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otherwise go unnoticed with the naked
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eye
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the technology is called an omnichrome
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ni it emits ultraviolet light calibrated
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to illuminate iron an element found in
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human fluids blood semen saliva and
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vomit even faint stains become apparent
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revealing potential sources of DNA
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or Trace
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narcotics the hard evidence
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investigators need to crack a
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case in
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1878 Bell has only his senses to guide
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him and he knows something's
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wrong he takes the evidence to the lab
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for
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analysis Elizabeth shantrell will never
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tell her
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story at 400 p.m. she
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dies if she died of gas poisoning there
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should be telltale signs small
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scle organs would wkak of gas
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they smell
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normal coal gas contains carbon monoxide
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which turns the victim's blood bright
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red again the test is
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negative Bell is
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convinced gas did not kill Elizabeth
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shantrell he made sure that there was no
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evidence of pre-existing disease or
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death of a natural cause such as stroke
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there was none that left only poisoning
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which is what Belle
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suspected Elizabeth vomited on her bed
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sheets and fell into a coma before
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death this is not symptomatic of cyanide
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strick nine and arsenic
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poisoning for Bell the only alternative
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is opium
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a heavy dose of dissolved opium enters
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the digestive tract passes through the
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stomach lining and is absorbed into the
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bloodstream it invades the lower brain
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and shuts down the central nervous
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system the signal that commands the body
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to breathe stops
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within hours the lungs stop pumping and
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the victim
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dies Belle removes a blood sample from
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Elizabeth's
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heart after preparation and heating a
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series of crystals remain each has a
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signature
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shape Belle can't even find a single
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opium
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Crystal but Belle knows that opium
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dissolves quickly a perfect murder drug
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for a late 1800's
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killer if Dr Bell were working today he
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would take a sample of blood from Miss
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Chantell and after properly preparing it
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inject it into a machine like this a gas
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chromatograph
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the sample is vaporized and ejected into
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a super sensitive
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Tube gas chromatography detects the
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presence and precise concentration of
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every chemical in a
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sample even the faintest Opium traces
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would be
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found Belle's tests are not so
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accurate but his instincts sense murder
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on the bed barely conscious I SM gas
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Sean TR said he suspected a leaky gas
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pipe smell that
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woman go down and shut off the gas line
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yes sir in so many English Homes at the
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time many people were asphyxiated by gas
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so when chantrell immediately started
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talking about bad pipes and Cal Gas the
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police bought that
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story for the life of me I have no idea
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whether the Belle does not he sends a
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man from the Edinburgh gas company to
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inspect Elizabeth's
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bedroom the gas fitter confirms Belle's
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hunch I went to Mr shant's
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house and I think it was deliberate the
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pipe had been tampered
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with I checked the gas line I believe it
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was deliberately sliced but even if sha
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trell ruptured the pipe himself there is
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no way to prove
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[Music]
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it it will be 27 years before the courts
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admit fingerprints as evidence in a
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capital
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case if an investigating officer had
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gotten a comment from Mr chantrell that
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he hadn't touched the gas piping and
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then they found his fingerprints in
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those locations that would go a long way
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towards showing inconsistencies in his
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story today a viscous solvent called
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superglue makes fingerprints highly
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visible under ultraviolet
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light the print is photographed enhanced
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and compared with the
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suspects print analysis is the number
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one source of forensic evidence used in
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legal prosecution
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in
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1878 Bell has no such
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luxury he returns to the scene of the
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crime to hunt for other
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Clues Henry
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opium you're right get this to Dr Kum at
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the
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University Dr Shan trell bought 30 doses
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of opium shortly before his wife's death
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the report that you wanted sir tests
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failed to detect opium in Elizabeth's
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blood but Days Later Belle receives the
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chemical analysis of the vomit stains on
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Elizabeth's
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pillow it confirms
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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opium on J anuary 5th Eugene shantrell
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is arrested for
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murder he spends the next 4 months
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awaiting trial you don't they have taxis
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come on and you
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go
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that's the case is the top of
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Edinburgh Bell does not attend the trial
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Little John presents their
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findings like Sherlock Holmes Bell
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recedes into the
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background Sherlock Holmes in the sign
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of four Echoes Bell's
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action I am the highest court of appeal
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and detection I examine the data as an
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expert and pronounce a specialist's
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opinion I claim no credit in such
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cases my name figers in their
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[Music]
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newspapers at the trial Little John
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provides the hard
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evidence the public is
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captivated not detect any smell like
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that of cold Gust in 1878 the language
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of science is alien to the courts of
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England but there is one Element missing
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motive State her name and Sean's ma
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takes the stand I miss Mary Burns Irish
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Woman made a fool of me again have you
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master took a good deal of drink and he
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often used strong language a good Jo of
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opion will lay you down for good and no
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one will be the wiser he was fond of
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saying go to hell many times he told her
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to go back to her
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[Music]
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mother what qualifies as an accident
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then more incriminating evidence I have
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a friend who a son died Dr Shan tr's
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insurance broker testifies that 3 months
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before her death he had Elizabeth's life
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insured for
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£1,000 the equivalent to almost
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$85,000 today payable to
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himself the jury deliberates for just
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over an hour and returns a verdict
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guilty of murder
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[Music]
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the judge condemns him to death by
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[Applause]
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hanging however the story is not over
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for Joseph Bell Eugene shant trell's
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dying words will haunt Bell from Beyond
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the
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Grave he put away his last cigar took
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off his hat and said bye-bye Little John
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you did it little John give my
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compliments to Jo
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you both did the two of you did a good
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job in seeing me hang
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father come be done on Earth as it is in
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heaven give us this day our daily bread
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and forgive us our trespasses as we
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forgive those who trespass against us
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lead us not his temptation us from for
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thine is theing power and Glory forever
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and ever amen
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[Music]
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Shan trell's Last Words reach the
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[Music]
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papers Dr Bell's secret is
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out the timing could not be better for
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the impressionable young Arthur Conan
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Doyle just then Belle hires him as an
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assistant let's he Leer's advice in his
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Memoirs he writes is there anything else
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listen ask reason which I've never
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understood he singled me out from the
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drove of students who frequented the
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ward and made me his clerk then I had
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ample chance of studying his methods
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[Music]
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SC go hold him down
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[Music]
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Bell remains formal and
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distant strict Victorian Moors about
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student teacher relations are never
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breached I think coland Doyle was
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probably a little bit more hurt about
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Belle's coldness than he ever let on he
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was a hungry boy as far as affection was
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concerned and he wasn't getting it from
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the man whom he was serving or trying to
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serve so
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well Belle's Frosty manner will fuel
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Conan Doyle's
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fiction in the sign of four Sherlock
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Holmes
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says detection is or ought to be an
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exact science and should be treated in
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the same cold and unemotional
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[Music]
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manner Conan Doyle serves his teacher
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for close to one
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year in 1881 he graduates and leaves
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Edinburgh
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he opens a medical practice in SOI
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England it begins with few patients and
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even fewer
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pounds his practice barely supports
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[Music]
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him Conan Doyle decides to write short
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stories to make 's meet in the spring of
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1886 he gets his great inspiration
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break it up break it up the English
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press is Rife with reports of police
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incompetence that really was one of the
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major conoy cases against the police who
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they rush to judgment so somebody is
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incriminated rapidly and every possible
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fact is Twisted then to show that they
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are
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guilty if careless police are the
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problem a fictional Joe Bell might be
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the answer today
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we are concerned with detecting the
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presence in concent in the only filmed
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interview Arthur Conan Doyle ever gives
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he
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explains I used as a student to have a
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old Professor his name was Bill who
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extraordinarily quick at deductive work
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he would look at the patient he would
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hardly allow the patient to open his
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mouth but he would make his diagnosis of
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the disease and also very often of the
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patient's nationality and occupation and
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other points entirely by his part of
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observation so naturally I thought to
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myself well if a scientific man like
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Bell was to come into the detective
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business he wouldn't do these things by
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chance he get the thing by building it
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up
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scientifically in March 1886
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Conan Doyle gives birth to a
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legend Sherlock
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[Music]
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Holmes in 1887 Conan Doyle publishes the
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first Sherlock Holmes story a study in
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Scarlet Holmes Springs to Life as a
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living person because of course col
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Doyle has a living person very very much
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in mind Conan Doyle's first description
00:31:31
of Holmes matches Bell
00:31:33
perfectly his eyes were sharp and
00:31:36
piercing and his thin hawk-like nose
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gave his whole expression an air of
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alertness and
00:31:45
decision both readers and reviewers are
00:31:48
enthralled upwards of 40,000 copies of a
00:31:51
study in Scarlet cell in the first
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year no one yet knows knows that the
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great detective is based on a real
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[Music]
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man strangely the real Sherlock Holmes
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is about to join the hunt for England's
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most notorious
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killer
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hello in the summer of 1888 London is is
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living in
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Terror a new kind of Predator has
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emerged in 19th century
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England the sexual serial
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killer he appears in the filthy back
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streets of an area called White
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[Music]
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Chapel his name is Jack the Ripper
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[Music]
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when people think of Victorian London
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they think of fashionable London they
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think of men with silk top hats ladies
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with large dresses and even larger
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bustles White Chapel was none of these
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things in 1888 the year of the Jack the
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Whipper murders it was an area of high
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unemployment overcrowded rooms slum
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dwellings
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hello ducky what a quickie that he cost
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you
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Tanner 3:40 a.m. Friday August 31st
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1888 it is the body of a woman Paulie
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Nichols
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her throat is slashed from ear to ear
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[Music]
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[Music]
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a week later Annie chapen is still warm
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when her body is
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found her neck is deeply cut her stomach
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and sexual organs are sliced open her
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intestines placed around her neck
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[Music]
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September 30th in a span of 45 minutes
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the Ripper butchers two more women
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Katherine edos and Elizabeth
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[Music]
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stride then the most nightmarish killing
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of
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all on November 9th police discover the
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body of 25-year-old Mary
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Kelly the right thigh bone was sticking
00:35:22
up in the air it had been split open
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with an axe the Torso had been skinned
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down to the rib age one breast her womb
00:35:29
and her kidneys were found under her
00:35:30
neck the other breast and her liver were
00:35:33
found under one of her feet her heart
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was
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missing large one man has thousands
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living in
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[Music]
00:35:49
fear Scotland Yard is desperate for
00:35:53
help they need someone like Sherlock
00:35:57
Holmes
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after the Eugene shantrell case police
00:36:09
all over England know about Bell's
00:36:14
expertise Scotland Yard sends him the
00:36:16
Ripper
00:36:19
file in their hunt for Jack the Ripper
00:36:23
the police have unknowingly Enlisted the
00:36:25
help of the real Sherlock Holmes
00:36:29
the police have the names of a few Prime
00:36:34
suspects they include a man named
00:36:36
kosminsky a psychopath and White Chapel
00:36:40
resident Michael ostrog a Russian doctor
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woman hater and
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[Music]
00:36:47
convict and montique J druitt an
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unlikely suspect a lawyer and gentleman
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[Music]
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Bell's closest colleague Henry Duncan
00:37:03
Little John also receives a copy of the
00:37:09
file Bell and little John examine the
00:37:11
Ripper
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letters in 1888 Scotland Yard received
00:37:16
thousands per
00:37:18
week only a handful are considered
00:37:21
genuine including one
00:37:23
letter from hell
00:37:33
Belle uses handwriting to deduce a
00:37:35
person's
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[Music]
00:37:42
character today written evidence is
00:37:45
still crucial to investigators but they
00:37:47
rely on a range of new
00:37:50
technologies modern document examiners
00:37:52
are no longer interested in looking at
00:37:54
handwriting to explain personality
00:37:57
they look at the characteristics of
00:37:59
handwriting for identification purposes
00:38:02
and they also bring in a lot more modern
00:38:05
techniques such as the use of chemical
00:38:07
analysis on inks and papers the use of
00:38:09
ultraviolet light sources and techniques
00:38:13
which allow them to bring out
00:38:14
indentations which might have been
00:38:16
created in the document by writing on an
00:38:18
overlying piece of
00:38:22
paper it's called electrostatic
00:38:25
detection and it reveals text invisible
00:38:28
to the naked
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[Music]
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eye the pressure placed on a pen nib
00:38:34
often leaves indentations on subsequent
00:38:36
sheets of
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paper with the help of static
00:38:42
electricity and fine toner particles
00:38:45
these markings can sometimes be
00:38:47
[Music]
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exposed using the methods of his day
00:38:55
Bell draws his own conclusions
00:38:58
as does Little
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John they exchange envelopes and make a
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startling
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[Music]
00:39:13
Discovery the name they write down
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[Music]
00:39:24
matches but sometime after 1888 Bell's
00:39:28
report to Scotland Yard
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[Music]
00:39:32
disappears unless it miraculously
00:39:35
Services we will never know who Dr Bell
00:39:38
believed to be Jack the
00:39:45
Ripper but there is one prime
00:39:49
candidate looking at the suspects I
00:39:52
think that if Joe Bell named anyone it
00:39:55
would have been monteu druid
00:39:58
on January 2nd
00:40:00
1889 montigue druitt is found dead in
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the river
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temps his pockets are filled with
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[Music]
00:40:16
Stones The Killing
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stop possibly Bell by that time would
00:40:22
have already pinpointed uh Dru as the as
00:40:26
as the killer which may again if this
00:40:29
was known to Dr this may have actually
00:40:30
precipitated his suicide it's a
00:40:36
possibility Bell would never know if he
00:40:39
discovered the identity of Jack the
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[Music]
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Ripper in July of 1891 Arthur Conan
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Doyle is commissioned to write six
00:40:53
Sherlock Holmes stories for the popular
00:40:55
strand magazine
00:40:59
now the Strand started with a
00:41:01
circulation of 300,000 and once the home
00:41:03
storage started catching on it went up
00:41:05
to 500,000 and went on
00:41:07
[Music]
00:41:10
climbing readers across England are
00:41:14
captivated to give an example of coland
00:41:17
Doyle's marvelous turn of phrase take
00:41:20
the story Silver Blaze the Police
00:41:22
Inspector rural Police Inspector says to
00:41:24
Sherlock Holmes are there any other
00:41:26
points to which you would draw my
00:41:28
attention to the Curious incident of the
00:41:31
dog in the nighttime the dog did nothing
00:41:33
in the nighttime that was the Curious
00:41:40
incident Coran Doyle's wit and economy
00:41:43
of language is legendary but his
00:41:46
greatest achievement is less well
00:41:48
known coland Doyle picked up the whole
00:41:53
scientific method of medical
00:41:56
investigation and planked it into the
00:41:59
detective process Belle's methods
00:42:02
resonate in
00:42:03
homes good doctors make good
00:42:06
detectives crime is the new
00:42:11
disease half fiction half reality
00:42:15
Sherlock Holmes and Joseph Bell usher in
00:42:17
a new
00:42:18
era what we now know as
00:42:24
CSI basking in his success Conan Doyle
00:42:28
pays personal tribute to Dr Joe
00:42:31
Bell it is most certainly to you that I
00:42:34
owe Sherlock Holmes I do not think his
00:42:36
analytical work is in the least an
00:42:38
exaggeration of what I've have seen you
00:42:40
produce in the outpatient
00:42:42
Ward the golf course on a show Conan
00:42:45
Doyle tells the Press of his real life
00:42:49
inspiration the media smells a good
00:42:53
story Joe Bell was interviewed by
00:42:56
Edinburgh newspaper and he was listed as
00:42:58
the model for Sherlock Holmes and he was
00:43:00
called that they actually called him
00:43:04
Sherlock Conan Doyle's gratitude becomes
00:43:07
Belle's curse the subject is taught in
00:43:10
the lecture room but learn by the B to
00:43:15
his astonishment the Press remakes Bell
00:43:17
in H's cold and calculating
00:43:20
imagei there a man without a heart there
00:43:23
no substitute for practice gentlemen
00:43:29
Bell
00:43:30
writes I hope folk that know me see
00:43:33
another and better side to me than what
00:43:35
Doyle
00:43:36
[Music]
00:43:39
saw I am haunted by my double Sherlock
00:43:45
Holmes but the Sherlock Holmes sensation
00:43:48
is
00:43:50
Unstoppable Conan Doyle's stories are
00:43:52
translated into dozens of languages and
00:43:55
sold around the world
00:43:58
people began to recognize that there was
00:44:01
something there which was new they began
00:44:04
to buy the
00:44:06
magazine and uh it uh prospered so I may
00:44:11
say did I now what was our feel despite
00:44:14
all the attention Jo Bell continues
00:44:17
working until the age of 64 when he
00:44:20
retires to his elegant country estate
00:44:22
morriswood
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[Music]
00:44:45
art imitates life in the second stain
00:44:49
Conan Doyle has homes move to the
00:44:51
country build an apiary and spend his
00:44:54
days keeping bees
00:44:59
Bell dies in 1911 at the age of
00:45:05
74 Bell becomes a mere footnote to the
00:45:08
literary giant he inspired but his
00:45:11
legacy lives on in forensics labs around
00:45:15
the
00:45:16
world and through Sherlock Holmes the
00:45:20
detective who will never die
00:45:30
oh
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[Music]
