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for in the quiet town of caracal Romania Alexandra maches shanu vanished Without
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a Trace one day later her desperate calls to the emergency services prompted
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a dire situation one in which she desperately needed rescuing despite her
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bravery both the operator and the authorities failed her leading to the worst possible outcome and with that
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said their grievous mistakes would cause Mass outrage which led to multiple sackings and dozens of protests when
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detectives eventually traced her last known location what they found was a monster lurking in the shadows one who
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seemed willing to expose several terrible secrets and reveal more than just one victim so who was Alexandra
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maches shanu how did Louisa meenu become part of a story who is this mysterious
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man visible on Google Maps and how did all of their Fates intertwine welcome or welcome back to
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Coffee House crime folks my name is Adrien and in this video we're looking at one of Romania's most infamous modern
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dinkar welcome to Romania folks now I don't think we've covered this country before so here is a quick rundown for
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you formerly part of the Iron Curtain Romania has long struggled with its position between the Communist East and
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the Democratic West with 19 million residents is one of Europe's largest nations which at least when compared to
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other European countries is also remarkably quiet in the news and interesting fact but did you know that
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Romania is home to one of Europe's largest underground glaciers today we're focusing on a small city named caracal
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which is located near the country's Southern border derived from the name black Fortress Caracol was the regional
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capital for quite some time with its population peaking at 40,000 in the year
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1992 it has since dropped to 27,000 through industrial hardship the Romanian
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revolution of 1989 saw revolutionists violently overthrow the country's Communist party which would eventually
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lead to Romania's cohesion with the west and while almost all Romanians see this as a massive win for the country it did
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unfortunately see Carl's predominantly agricultural industry collapse nowadays
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it's a sleepy city with a whole bunch of nothing going on I mean you do have several supermarkets and three or four
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industrial zones oh and a military B space nearby but otherwise life here is
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pretty quiet with nothing but small murmurings being the main Talk of the Town however on July the 25th 2019 all
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of that would suddenly change it was at 11:05 that morning that
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a young woman named Alexandra matches shanu dialed 112 which by the way is the
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phone number for a mania's emergency services what you hear behind my voice is the actual recording but with this
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being Romanian it's better that I translate it for you Alexandra greeted the operator by saying hello I want to
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talk to the police I am 15 years old I was kidnapped by a man yesterday the
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operator asks what's your name where the young go then responds Alexandra maanu
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please come quickly I don't know where I am rather confused the operator then asks what do you mean you don't know
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where you are do you know what locality to which Alexandra responds in caracal
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he took me in caracal but I don't know exactly where in an ironic tone the
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responder then replies with well give me a milestone where you are in caracal how do you think we can find you hello were
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you assaulted Alexandra then weekly replies yes wait please don't leave me
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oh no he's coming back he's coming back here please come quickly please the call
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is then abruptly disconnected and for half a minute the the operator who has asked for support from her team member
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is Frozen with what to do they had no idea how to track Alexandra who could
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only confirm the city that she was in but not the house streets or even suburb
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thankfully she would then call back only 1 minute later and this time they would learn of a few more details after
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greeting the caller Alexandra then responds to the operator by saying it's me again I don't know where I am in
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caracal I was blindf fed and when I could see something for the first time I was near a d it is at this point that
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she then incorrectly tells the operator that her abductor is a man named pesu
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Gabrielle it is worth noting here that although she was smart enough to find his business card in the room that she
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was in it did not actually belong to the kidnapper Alexandra then goes on to say
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I cannot see where I am I am locked in a room all I can see is a gate yesterday I
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hitchhiked to go to town that is when he took me in his car he then locked the
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car and told me that he could take me I don't remember the license plate but the car was gray and flath headed I passed a
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dam along the way but now I don't know I think I'm in bold maybe I don't know the
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operator then asks do you have your phone with you to which Alexandra responds yes but he's got it I'm calling
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from his phone now please send someone I am scared the police would then proceeds
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to take over the phone call at 11:07 a.m. again asking Alexandra where precisely she was desperately looking
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around the room for a clue she then said I passed by the dam and I think I'm in
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bold now it can't be anywhere else hold on I found an address it's number n
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Antonius carala Boulevard da now unfortunately this address was not the
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correct one when officers highlighted to Alexandra that this address contained a block of flats she reiterated that she
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was somewhere more Rural and could see a courtyard and a gate by now the operator
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and the officer sounded agitated and even condescending towards Alexandra and so despite her incredible efforts to
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loat a phone call the police twice and then even find Clues and details to her whereabouts her savior seemed audibly
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annoyed the officer then tells her to stay put and that police are coming but she responded by saying she had no
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choice anyway because she was locked in the room she also added that she was EXT extremely scared and that she had been
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beaten by now you could tell that Alexandra was desperately begging for help but between her cries the officer
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who was quite audibly impatient told her to hang up the phone and wait to be contacted terrible attitude aside I feel
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like this advice is the total opposite to what you should say I mean I'm pretty sure in any other country the operator
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would ask you to stay on the line and not hang up and wait alone now unfortunately these phone calls will get
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even worse and will be sure to leave your blood boiling however before we get to those phone calls who precisely was
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Alexandra matches shanu and how did she end up in this mess born on September the 15th 2003 to
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her father and her mother Alexandra was raised on the outskirts of caracal in a
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small village named do Russa Veni described as a friendly and popular girl at school she had absolutely no trouble
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in fitting in with her classmates and after attending primary school she moved on to become a student at the mihai baju
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theoretical High School described as a bright and kind-hearted student she was very close to her family and had big
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aspirations for the future but moving into our case today she was only 15
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years old when this story takes place being from the small village of Doos Leni where the population barely scrapes
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past 3,000 residents she would often make her way into the city to meet friends and go shopping however with
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public transport being unreliable if not existent at all she would often rely on
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other forms of transportation and unfortunately I'm talking about hitchhiking here now hitchhiking is a
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very debatable and controversial topic for a very good reason although some
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people argue that statistically speaking the odds of running into trouble are minuscule there are inherent risks which
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could lead to a catastrophic outcome unpredictable drivers potential for violence or assault being stranded and
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the risk of exploitation are all things that you need to look out for especially if you're young small or female I mean
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if you're 7 foot male and 40 years old and you like to wrestle then you can probably defend yourself however quite
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understandably it is much less advisable if you're a 15-year-old girl but it is worth noting here that hitchhiking is
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much more common in Romania than other countries like America or the United Kingdom in fact it is even illegal in
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parts of Australia including the state of Victoria anyway on July the 24th 2019
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and while visiting friends in the city Alexandra tried to hitch a ride back home to the Village of do Ros Leni and
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unfortunately that is when she would meet a driver who had ulterior motives parking his vehicle beside her the man
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then asked where she was going and after explaining that she needed a lift to go back to do Ros lenni which was only a
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few miles down the road the older man agreed to help her out Alexandra thanked
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the driver popped in the car and then put on her seat belt but after the vehicle was then put in motion the
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driver manually locked all the doors and then told her to remain calm within minutes he stopped the vehicle where
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Alexandra was then forced to place a blindfold over her head of course this preventing her from knowing where
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precisely they were going her abductor then took her to his home where she was then tragically assaulted several times
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throughout the evening alexandre's parents were fairly quick to realize that something was wrong especially
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after she stopped responding to text messages and phone calls and so when that happened they went down to the
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local police department and reported her as missing but it wouldn't be until the following day that Alexandra herself was
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able to make contact with the police this was after her abductor had foolishly left his phone with her while
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leaving the property so I've already described to you the two initial phone calls made by Alexandra to the police
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however there would be a third and final call made only several minutes later and guess what but their response was even
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more infuriating after the phone call was terminated
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Alexander then called Emergency Services yet again the operator picked up the phone to say hello what's the emergency
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Alexandra then asked if they had sent anyone yet to which the operator then reconnected the police officer she then
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asked them please did you send anyone here I am terrified I am scared of the
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man he beat me the officer then responded with we did they cannot fly over to you 2 minutes young lady stay
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there yes who are you scared of who is he Alexandra replied I think his name is
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pesu Lucian Gabriel I don't know I found this business card I thought maybe it's
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his card but I don't know if it's him the officer replied ah so you don't know
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that either okay stay there a squad will arrive in 2 to 3 minutes hold on while
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crying Alexandra once again begged and pleaded for the officers to stay on the phone with her but that is when he said
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Miss I cannot stay on the phone with you we have other calls too stay there for a police crew to arrive and calm down a
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little bit will you clear the phone line if we are stuck on the phone then the crew will not be able to talk to you and
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that is when the phone line was suddenly
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cut when officers arrived at The Address given by Alexandro via that business card they did realize that unfortunately
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it was the wrong address and the wrong name with that in mind officers had no idea where she was and with them forcing
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her to end the phone call well they had no way of communicating with her either no surprise but the police finally
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realized how royally they had screwed up and so they immediately tasked all Personnel to try and locate Alexandra in
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situations like this every single second counts and every minute that passes by feels like an hour and tragically they
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would take 15 hours to trace her calls the police asked the special telecommunication service to help locate
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the phone calls but unfortunately the coordinates given by the STS covered an
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area too large to analyze however police officers were able to find a car in that
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area which did seem to match the description given by Alexandra which was further cooperated by finding this
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surveillance footage with that said they would eventually track the vehicle to a property which belongs to a man named
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gor Dinka who at the time was a 65-year-old mechanic living in the area
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and unfortunately his other job seemed to fit the story too you see on the
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sideline gor was a taxi driver of sorts and I say of sorts because actually he
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was illegally operating as one without a license so with that in mind he may have
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been able to make Alexandra feel safer by claiming that he was one found on the western edge of caracal G's home was a
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monster of a property filled with dense bushes and walls that protected the house and its additional three floors
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not only that but it also had a metal gate that matched the description which was given by Alexandra funnily enough
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they wouldn't have to look very hard to get a profile of gor either because by simple dark coincidence Google Maps had
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even captured several images of the man standing outside of his property only a few weeks prior however here is yet
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another infuriating fact despite learning of her location at 2: a.m. on
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July the 26th police officers and prosecutors decided to wait an additional 4 hours before executing any
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sort of police raid with an active search warrant and by the way this is despite the law not even requiring them
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to have one now I do understand that this could perhaps build a more robust case against him in court but I would
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argue that Alexandra's life was far more critical at this stage anyway officers
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finally raided gor's home at Sunrise to which they found themselves entangled in a horrific scene one that would
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evidently end up being far more gruesome than they had bargained for on the other end of the stick goray was shocked to
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find dozens of officers barging through his front gate the move clearly surprised him so much so that it
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wouldn't take long for gor to reveal his darkest and most depraved secrets to
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which some of them would take many investigators by surprise tragically police off officers
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were too late to save Alexandra by the time they raided his property she had already been dead for several hours
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goray admitted to murdering the young woman after kidnapping beating and assaulting her before then trying to
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dispose of her body by burning it
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after conducting a thorough search of the property and all the grounds nearby they found human remains and jewelry in
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a barrel to which sadly it all belonged to Alexandra however that wouldn't be
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all that police officers would find it turns out that this was not gor's first
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rodeo because after admitting that he had murdered Alexander ra he then diverted investigators attention to
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another missing person's case which sadly had only taken place 3 months
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prior in April it was at this time that an 18-year-old woman named Louisa meenu
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had vanished from her hometown of caracal never to be seen again and well
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it turns out that he was also responsible for her disappearance meaning that at the very least Alexandra
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was the second woman to be murdered on his property as you can imagine The public's response here was strong
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emotional and intense many Romanians were outraged for several reasons which
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would lead to a protest of more than 2,500 people in Bucharest not only were
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they devastated by Alexandra's and Louisa's deaths but they were angry at how the authorities dealt with both of
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their disappearances the sluggish response time was already frustrating enough but what angered the public even
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more was how the officer and the operator would sound s itic and even annoyed during the phone call with
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Alexandra who clearly was terrified for her life while these protests were going
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on Alexandra and Louisa's friends and family both held vigils for their daughters both who were now faced with
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the immeasurable pain of grief and loss however as I will explain later on in
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this video not everyone was on board with their deaths meanwhile in the interrogation room gor told the
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investigators that he burned Alexandra's body to dispose of the evidence while simultaneously confessing that he threw
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Louisa's body into the danu river found nearby however he would later change his
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statements to claim that he also burned Louisa's body he then agreed to take the investigators to a forest where they
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found several cremated bone fragments in an area where he claimed to have disposed her remains but forensic
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experts could not establish an exact DNA profile from these fragments as unfortunately the bones found in the
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woods were too calcinated a state in which all the organic carbon has burned away from the bone leaving it Pure White
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and sometimes unidentifiable sadly DNA tests soon confirmed that the bones found at gor's
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home did in fact belong to 15-year-old Alexandra maches shanu and so with all
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said and done they knew that she had been murdered moving to the legal proceedings
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of this case gor's trial would begin in August of 2022 now in the Romanian system there are no juries and so both
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civil and criminal trials have what we know as a bench trial where a single judge will render the verdict in
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addition to this they also have what they call a finalizing process where the tribunal can take up to one year to
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determine if the verdict and sentence is fair now as we know this man was up against a slew of charges including
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human trafficking child trafficking sexual assault murder and desecration of a corpse and so as expected this man
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would give a lot of resistance in court although he initially confessed to the murder of both women he would later
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change his mind in court and even deny that he had anything to do with their death however his involvement was almost
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irrefutable at this stage in the investigation in addition to the phone call evidence and confession
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surveillance footage also captured his vehicle close to the area where Alexandra hitched to ride which was also
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confirmed by additional surveillance footage of her walking nearby it was determined that the first of his crimes
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began on April the 14th 2019 when at that stage he kidnapped Louisa meenu
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before then taking her to his home while there she was subjected to multiple counts of assaults before then
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tragically being murdered the next day Alexandra suffered the same fate only a few months later in July evidence found
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suggests she had been chained to the man's bed before then being murdered both women would have experienced a
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horrific reality for the last several hours of their lives before the cruel monsters then attempted to burn their
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existence away forever to make this case even more disturbing it turns out that
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gor could not keep his Sick and Twisted Fantasy a secret while Alexandre was
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under his captivity he would then go on to tell one of his friends named Stefan ripeanu who then also assaulted her and
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despite gor being a total pig of a man he somehow actually had a wife and she
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too would also be arrested for potentially carrying knowledge of Louisa's disappear appearance and then
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subsequent murder to add to all of this gor's trial would be wrapped not only in
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controversy but also wild claims despite the evidence and his confession the
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families of Alexandra and Louisa do not believe that gor murdered their daughters by himself and that's because
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they believe that he lied to police officers in order to cover up a human trafficking Network which In fairness is
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known to be a widespread issue in Romania so did gor act alone or did he
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have other accomplices they also believe that the prosecutors who worked on Alexandra's disappearance intentionally
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delayed the raid on his property in order to give him time to hide evidence not only that but it was also noted that
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while working on Louis's disappearance only 3 months prior the prosecutors who obtained surveillance footage of gor's
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car and license plate failed to question him or even conduct a surge on his property now at least personally
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speaking I think there are only two options here there is either gross incompetence in the police force or they
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are actually trying to hide
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something gor's neighbors would also provide conflicting testimonies about smelling anything odd coming from the
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property and none of them saw any fire or smoke coming from the garden as you can imagine the incineration of a human
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body would provide some rather nasty smells so did the wind affect their
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testimonies or was there no f at all obviously the main Theory here is that gor was merely a scapegoat or a porn to
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a wider criminal organization and perhaps even in cahoots with the government it is also noted here that
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dcot which is Romania's homicide agency made multiple mistakes with the evidence available and that's because although
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alexandre's DNA was confirmed to be identified in some of the dental pieces inside the burn barrel some of those
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results were deemed to be inconclusive and that's because some of the teeth found in the barrel did seem to exhibit
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Dental work that Alexandra did not have however the frenic Specialists failed to note this and furthermore they examined
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the teeth as a whole using a destructive method that would render individual analysis of each tooth to be impossible
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afterwards despite the uncertainties of these results Dart would issue a death
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certificate for Alexandra to which her family refused to recognize rumors and controversy aside the judge who was
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working on this case was absolutely Furious and of course he had to act on the evidence available so it's no
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surprise that gor Dinko was ultimately found guilty of all charges and was therefore sentenced to 30 years behind
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bars now according to Romanian law a 30-year sentence is the maximum that a
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person over 65 years of age can receive which is good enough in this case because considering his age he will
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never walk a day free again in addition to a sentence the court also ruled that he must pay moral damages of €700,000
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which which is the equivalent of $722,000 to the two victims families
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although his sentence was not yet final and could theoretically be appealed the court of appeal would ultimately rule
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that 30 years was not only valid and justifiable but also Final in addition
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to this his accomplice Stefan reanu was also sentenced to 12 years in prison it
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should have been more in my opinion but with other inmates knowing why he's there I am sure his time behind bar will
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be Total Carnage and so we conclude the fate of gor Dinka not that he matters
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anyway his despicable behavior and actions which were fueled by disgusting lust and assault would ultimately end
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the lives of two young women who were forced to experience pure Horror in their final hours Alexandra matches
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shanu and Louisa meenu were Bright Young Souls whose lives were lost far too soon
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their dreams laughter and love for their families were tragic ically cut short leaving behind a nation in mourning
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Alexandra's bravery in the face of unimaginable fear stands out very prominently in this case to me she was
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abducted beaten assaulted and then kept caged in a room but despite all of the pain that she experienced she managed to
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find a phone call the emergency services find Clues hidden around the room and ultimately help solve her murder it is a
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terrible shame that the operator and officer were not more helpful during these phone calls
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and the least they could have done was Provide support and comfort to Alexandra in her final conversation with the human
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and I'm not counting yor here because that man is an absolute monster May the memories of Alexandra and Louisa serve
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as a reminder that no one should suffer as they did and this is precisely why Romania continues to fight for better
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laws and rights to protect not only its women but its younger Generations too
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sadly Louisa's grandmother does not accept the tragedy and to this day she believes that her granddaughter will
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eventually return home as a measure of good faith she continues to look after her pet dog and anticipates giving him
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back on her arrival in the aftermath of this case gor's home has since been
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abandoned with overgrown weeds covering every fertile corner of the
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garden this case would also highlight the serious problem of public transportation or the lack of it in the
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Romanian Countryside and how essential h i can be to get around again hitchhiking
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is much less frowned upon in Romania and this is in stark contrast to some countries which have even made it
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illegal for the record Lucian pesu who was the man identified in that business card was completely innocent and not
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related to this case it turns out that he met gor once when he was a retail estate agent and never even knew the man
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by the way after this case several officers including Romania's National Police Chief were all sacked as a result
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unfortunately I couldn't confirm if the operation was fired or not but I certainly hope so another side note but
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this is yet another case where I've witnessed strange remnants of the story being hidden behind Google Maps I have
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to say there is something deeply odd seeing gor on screen ominously staring at the camera a mere few weeks before
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Alexandra was murdered to make matters worse this was after he had killed Louisa and by the way you may see that
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Google Maps identified the image to be taken in 2012 but this is inaccurate and
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I think they've messed around with the data previous news reports captured citations of the image being snapped in
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May of 2019 and also street view images taken in 2012 were not up to this level
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of fidelity I find those street view images to be deeply unsettling it's kind of like he's there forever but yeah I
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guess that pretty much wraps up this case today folks before I go though I'd love to know what you think about this one and I have several questions for you
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to begin with do you think that goray acted alone or do you think there was a wider criminal organization behind him
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and well yeah some do believe that the government was involved so do you believe that too as always please share
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