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There's a type of intruder that moves with an almost
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supernatural speed. It's not exactly alive, and yet with every
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breath of oxygen it takes, it grows. It has no hands,
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but tears through furniture and walls, and though it has
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no mouth, if it drinks, it dies. But until it's
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put down, it will take whatever it wants, including you.
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It doesn't matter if you know where you are. It
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will obscure your exits and disorient you, creep up on you.
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It cries for help will mean nothing as you slowly suffocate,
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reaching through the darkness for help that isn't coming. And
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if that growing bright light ahead of you will burn
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even hotter. Welcome to sword and scale nightmares. True crime
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for bedtime or nightmare begins now. The Quaker Hill Nursing
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Home in New South Wales, Australia is responsible for eighty
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eight souls on the morning of November eighteenth, twenty eleven.
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The patients living here are elderly, many of them bedridden.
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They might look like your grandmother or your grandfather suffering
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from dementia. Some of the residents have amputated limbs or
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in some cases, intellectual disabilities that make it impossible for
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them to take care of themselves. It's four point fifty
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am and most of them are sleep but unbeknownst to
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anyone in the facility, a silent killer has begun stalking
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the halls. Thick billowing smoke replaces the cool air, accompanied
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by a putrid smell that will not go away. They
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head nurse Roger Dean, is frantically running past the front desk,
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elbow covering his mouth. He has a yellow bag slung
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over his shoulder as he races from room to room.
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As the fire alarms blare. Roger enters a room with
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four patients, one of whom has a broken hip and
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another is paralyzed. A third woman is being treated for emphysema,
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but she's easier to maneuver, and Roger gets her outside,
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informing her that help is on the way. At four
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fifty three am, local firefighters are alerted of the blaze.
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I won't say the senior citizens at the nursing home
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are lucky, but fortunately for them, the recently constructed fire
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station is extremely close by, located within half a mile.
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There are two crews on the ground within six minutes. Unfortunately,
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emergency services have no idea, how many lives are at risk,
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or where anyone is located. They also do not know
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the source of the flames, which continue to grow with
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every passing minute. Eventually, the media arrived, snapping pictures of
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the chaos for their clickbait pieces, including one of the nurse,
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Roger Dean, seated in a folding chair and being provided
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with oxygen via face mask. He's an odd, effeminate thirty
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five year old man with spiky black hair that's been
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dyed red at the tips. Roger also talks with the
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Channel seven News crew, saying, quote, there was a fire
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and I just quickly did what I can to get
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everyone out, and the smoke is just overwhelming. But you know,
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we've got a lot of people out, so that's the
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main thing. There's still probably a few people and the
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people are trying their best to get everyone out at
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the moment. Yeah. End quote. He tries to shrug it
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off like a hero would the whole awe shucks, just
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trying to do my part thing. But he looks anxious
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because there's two things that Roger Dean doesn't tell Channel
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seven News. The first and probably the most important, is
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that he's the one who caused the fire, and an
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even worse secret to keep from everyone is that he
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didn't just light one fire, he intentionally started to. When
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the first team of firefight enters the Quaker Hill Nursing
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Home in New South Wales, Australia, they are immediately enveloped
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by blinding black smoke. There is simply put zero visibility
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and very little can be heard above the sounds of
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breathing and respirators. The rescue team has no idea how
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many people are inside, and they are forced to crawl
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on their hands and knees from room to room, feeling
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the walls with their hands, reaching over beds and onto
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cabinets where people may have gone to hide from the
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growing blaze. Some of the patients here have Alzheimer's, Others
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are blind, confined to wheelchairs and beds. All of them
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are frail and in various states of confusion and shock,
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as others stumble around in their hospital pajamas. Early on
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in the rescue, emergency crews try to wheel the beds
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out of a side exit, but the nearest ramp had
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been built illegally and without proper approvals. It's too narrow
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and the handrails immediately jam up the first bed, they
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have to try to find another way out. While the
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facilities have fire extinguishers and fire doors, they do not
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have overhead sprinklers as required by law, so now smoke
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fills the ceiling cavity and the fire spreads to the
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roof down below. Furniture made from materials banned in the
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United States and Great Britain make for explosive kindling, and
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more toxins fill the air as plastics and metals and
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vinyl begin to melt. And then there's the matter of
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the second fire. By the time it's discovered in Room
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A one, not to be confused with the delicious steak sauce,
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it has reached temperatures higher than a stagger during eighteen
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hundred degrees fahrenheit. The painted hallways leading up to the
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room are bubbling and boiling, and the source of a
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fire is hot enough to break the rescue crew's thermal
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imaging equipment. It's eventually learned that the two bedridden patients
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sleeping in Room A one were among the first to die.
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The exact details of a third on site death are
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more difficult to discern. By the time the fires have
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been extinguished. The parking lot had become a triage center
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as burned and confused senior citizens were hosed down and
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treated for injuries. In total, thirty two people were taken
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to various hospitals, many of them sent to intensive care
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to be treated for smoke in elation and severe blisters
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and burns. Eight of those people later died in the hospital.
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They were at hospital, as you Australians like to say,
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including one of the first women to be rescued, whose
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bed was directly under where part of the ceiling had collapsed.
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She never regained consciousness. There were certainly incredible acts of
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bravery during the rescue, including two officers who went into
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the fire without protective equipment and still managed to save lives.
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But floating in the background, watching the flames and occasionally
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stopping to comfort and injured patient was the person who
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secretly started at all, Roger Dean. After his interview with
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Channel seven News, Roger stepped away from the scene on foot,
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but then returned shortly after. Roger, though wasn't interested in
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saving anyone else, of course, only himself, and the only
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way to do that was to get back inside the
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scene of the crime. Security camera footage then shows Roger
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talking with firefighters, asking them to let him back inside,
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until shockingly they do. They casually escort Roger as he
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goes behind the front desk, privately filling his yellow shoulder
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bag with important evidence evidence of an entirely different crime
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when he committed just hours before setting the fires that
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permanently devastated hundreds of lives. Families of the victims were
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right for upset at the management behind the Quaker's Hill
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nursing home. The faulty ramp and lack of fire sprinklers
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were one thing, but how on earth had they hired
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Roger Dean and put him in charge of an unsupervised
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night shift. Report suggests that Roger did pass a police check,
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but he did not undergo any mental health assessment. It
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also appeared that he lied on his resume and no
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one looked into his past work references, because you know what,
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nobody wants to do their job anymore. If hr had
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done their job, they would have noticed some unsettling behavior. Notably,
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back in two thousand and seven, Roger resigned from his
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post at Saint George Hospital after it claims that he
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threw paint on a supervisor's car and put nails in
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the tires. Sounds like a hinged individual kind you'd like
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to hire. And to add to that, just a couple
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of months before being hired at Quakers Hill, Roger was
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suspended from his previous job at Saint John of God
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Hospital after claims from a patient that he was completely
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drug addled while trying to dispense medication. According to the claim,
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he struggled to speak and allegedly at white froth foaming
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around his mouth. On November sixteenth, twenty eleven, just twenty
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four hours before the fire, Roger Dean arrives for his
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scheduled night shift. He is unsupervised and spends a large
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part of his shift going back and forth between his
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desk and one particular room. It is not a patients room,
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but rather the room where all of the facility's addictive
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medications are stored. Internal cameras capture Roger visiting this locked
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room thirty six times in a single shift. Over the
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course of this time, Roger steals two hundred and thirty
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seven tablets of a painkiller called end Don. I swear
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to God it's called end Don. End one is how
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it's spelled. End one is what they called this painkiller.
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I swear to God, I'm not making this up. This
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is real life. Supposedly, it's essentially oxycodone with a morphine base,
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and the amount he steals can be obtained with a
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prescription for well under one hundred bucks a benji. But
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like all addiction fueled decisions, this is not a very
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well planned crime. Roger Dean is not a mastermind criminal.
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When Roger starts his shift the following night, on November seventeenth,
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he's approached by the management, who questioned him about the
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missing medication. This is a medical facility, after all, and
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a simple auditing of the log books earlier that afternoon
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reveals a bunch of drugs went missing overnight. Police arrived
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to talk to Roger about the situation, but he plays
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dumb and claims to have no clue what could have happened,
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though he seems incredibly suspicious. The police are eventually called
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away and no further action is taken. Roger continues his
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shift late into the night, once again left unsupervised, only
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this time anxiously reeling about being so close to cod
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He knows it's only a matter of time before he's
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figured out for good, and his narcissistic tendencies take over
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to find some way to cover his tracks and in
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doing so, destroy the evidence of his very stupid crime.
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It's now the early morning hours of November eighteenth, and
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by this time tomorrow Roger will not have a job
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unless he acts very quickly. He approaches two junior nurses
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with an odd request. He wants them both to take
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an early break, and at exactly the same time, the
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same internal cameras that taped Roger going into the locked
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storage room the previous shift, we're now recording footage of
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him walking in and out of several rooms within the ward.
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He's equipped with a stolen cigarette lighter and steps into
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a room not currently being occupied. In these quiet moments,
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it's not too late to turn back, but a slide
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of the thumb changes everything, as a spark becomes a
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tiny flame and the lighter makes contact with the sheets
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of an empty bed. The flames appear to dance as
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they grow. Oh, but it all seems manageable. Roger enters
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another room to bedridden elderly women patience he has known
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and personally interacted with, are fast asleep. Roger later admits
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that he knows they are there in the room, as
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he sets fire to a third empty bed, saying nothing
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to them as he returns to the lobby and just
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keeps walking. It should be noted that while Roger's confession
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was that he lit one fire in an empty room
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and one fire in an occupied room, a chief fire
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investigator stated later that Roger may have actually lit two
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beds on fire in the second occupied room. This was
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theorized after superintendents tried recreating the conditions of the fire.
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The only way to generate the temperatures approaching two thousand
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degrees to have two fires rolling in a specially constructed room.
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This is a small but chilling detail, as it would
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indicate that Roger not only set fire to empty beds,
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but he may have also directly lit a bed containing
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a sleeping and helpless individual. As the fires obliterated the
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lives of these two women and began to amass horrendous
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volumes of smoke that would result in many more deaths,
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Roger was outside talking with Channel seven News about his
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heroic efforts to get as many people out as he could,
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which was of course total bullshit. It looked like World
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War three in the parking lot with bodies scattered everywhere,
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as delirious and confused senior citizens, many of whom were
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already suffering from debilitating mental illness, were being shipped off
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to various hospitals and churches for treatment. Staff members were
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trying to account for every patient. Frantic families who received
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early morning emergency phone calls were trying to locate their
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loved ones. Strangers from the surrounding neighborhood came out to
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help where they could, and yet throughout the pandemonium, Roger
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was wasting firefighters precious time and resources to help him
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get back inside the charred building. Why, you may ask, well,
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it would seem the whole purpose of the fire was
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to destroy the evidence of his drug theft. During the
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panic of the growing fire, he left the most important
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piece of evidence behind the drug registration log books. After
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the firefighters allowed him to enter the building and unknowingly
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assisted him in accomplishing his goal, left the scene of
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the crime and headed home, where he shredded the contents
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of the log books, and, just like a guilty serial killer,
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his next stop was a dumpster at a nearby shopping
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village to quietly abandon the paper remains, driven by the
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guilt of what he'd done, or perhaps wanting to make
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it look like he was the hero of the story.
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Roger then returned to the Quakers Hill nursing home to
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comfort some of the evacuated patients. Fortunately for police, that
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meant their key suspect, who they were already confident had
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stolen drugs the previous night, was easily taken into custody.
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On the same afternoon the fires were set, Roger confessed
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to everything that he had done. Here is an edited
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version of his statements. I'll spare you the Aussie. That's
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not a knife accent. I just wanted to set a
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light to something. It just so happens there was an
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empty bed and I did it to that. I use
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a cigarette lighter and lent an empty bed and it
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got out of control, and I got really scared because
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I didn't think it would spread so quickly. It started
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just as a small flame, and I thought, that's okay,
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Like that's containable. I didn't expect it to be so big.
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It was just something stupid, something I wish i'd never done.
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Even more unsettling than that, he also told police, in
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a way me deciding to do that was I mean,
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you won't believe it, but it was like Satan saying
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to me that it's the right thing to do. I
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love the residents very much and I have a very
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good rapport with them, So I feel extremely bad and
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I just feel evil that I'm corrupted with evil thoughts
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that made me do that. What is it about religious
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symbolism then makes us forget about all accountability surrounding our
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own actions. Urbana Alipio, Doris Beck, Lola Bennett, Caesar Galia,
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Reginald Green, Alma Smith, Dorothy Sterling, Nail j Valke, Verna Webbeck,
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Ella Wood, and Dorothy Wu. Yes. These were all people
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in their seventies, eighties, and nineties in the final phases
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of their lives. But they did not deserve to die
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like this. Their family members didn't deserve to watch their
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relatives have soot pumped from their lungs, to see the
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horror of their ailing parents' eyes as they struggled to breathe,
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flesh singed or burned away. This is the face of
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true evil, and not some figment of your imagination called Satan.
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This is something inside of humanity, an evil that lurks within.
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At the trial, one woman talked about singing lullabies to
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her mom every day for eleven days until she ultimately
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passed away. Another described how before her father died at
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the hospital, he coughed up thick black tar and screamed
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for help as he traumatically kept experiencing the feeling of
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being stuck in a room on fire. Imagine that being
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the end of your father's life, or your mother's or
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your grandmother's. Roger Dean was sentenced to life in prison
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without the possibility of parole. At is sentencing, one of
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the victim's relatives passed out and had to be removed
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from the courtroom. Many family members cheered and cried at
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the fact that Roger would never be released from prison,
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while others shouted row in hell and you'll get yours,
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you son of a bitch, as Roger was escorted out
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of the room. Roger would later lose an appeal in
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December of twenty fifteen, arguing that his sentence was excessive
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and that he couldn't possibly have foreseen that his actions
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would have caused so much destruction and ended so many lives. Hey,
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action meet consequences. That's a meme that should proliferate, probably
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a bit more. In today's society, your actions have real consequences,
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no matter how dumb you are. To this day, Roger
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Dean is still considered to be one of Australia's worst
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mass murderers, if you can really quantify such a thing.
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Not to minimize his actions, but it's clear to me
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that there's yet another tragedy fueling the fire of the
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more obvious tragedy, another silent killer that's been hovering around
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over this story like a toxic cloud, and we still
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haven't mentioned it. I'm speaking, of course, about addiction. Like
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a fire, it grows and disorients, It demands constant attention,
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and will not be stopped until it consumes everything. If
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