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broken light bulb hung from a string.
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there was an old clock in the rear wall of the closet...
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it had been there for so long that it had begun to grow a kind of mossy rot inside the glass face.
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best to cover the seats completely.
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in one corner was a child's sneaker.
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also, streaked with rot.
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i immediately pictured myself inside that closet, facing the wall or some other student who had broken the rules. locked inside-
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suffocating. listening to the clock tick.
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maybe in the dark with the walls closing in as the minutes passed.
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mrs. willett's class, who left secret the year before in the middle of first grade...
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she may have even been mute for all i knew.
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but mrs. willett became more attentive to sally toward the end of the school year-
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which was apparently the american flag or the trashcan that sat beside the door.
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i was no good at math and had trouble concentrating.
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and my eyes wandered over to sally trent.
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mrs. willett didn't notice her. sally...
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began to scream. the whole class looked up.
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sally just pointed and screamed uncontrollably.
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terrified, mrs. willett gathered her up in her arms and led her to the door.
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with every inch that she was guided toward the corner of the room.
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as if she were being forced toward an object or apparition that...
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she dreaded more than death itself.
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finally, mrs. willett got her through the door.
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she eventually came back and explained that sally had had an attack of some sort and everything was all right.
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a fire alarm sent all 304 students of seacrest elementary out onto the playground in what appeared to be a routine drill.
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bell didn't turn itself off after 30 minutes of constant ringing.
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instead, it repeated its buzzings after a two minute silence.
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where he decided he had to detach it for the day.
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he thought he had found the problem by the time the students went home and everything seemed all right.
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grades one through three were already outside.
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period. maintenance detached the system again for closer inspection. the...
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no problem was found. at 1:40 the same day, the alarm sounded yet again.
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it truly was. maintenance was puzzled.
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the fuses of the main alarm station in the boiler room had to be yanked. even though they appeared to be working fine.
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the next day, the state sent over a safety supervisor to look at the alarm system.
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she decided to unhook the entire system for one day for schematic testing and possible replacement.
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just in case. so there were no operational alarms when the students came back to school on friday morning.
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a fifth grade teacher on the second floor in room 51 named erica ells.
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heard a low rumbling noise and saw a tuft of black smoke drifting by in the hallway.
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the rumbling became louder. she moved 15 feet down the hallway to an unused room, 57...
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a big one. smoke was filtering through the bottom of the door into the hallway.
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it was the first major fire in sechrest's long history.
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it was also most likely the first time there was no way of alerting the entire school at once.
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the children were already panicky. they could hear the rumbling from 57.
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two other teachers came out into the hallway and mrs. els alerted them to the presence of the fire.
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the door to room 57 had caught fire and was almost entirely eaten through.
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children who saw the flames screamed and started to run downstairs.
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there was a social studies lesson going on...
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the first sound i heard was the clopping of feet. as the upper grades flooded down the steps that...
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holbert, fourth grade, rushed in and ordered us out in a torrent of panicky and almost unintelligible speech.
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three or four children started to scream.
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and mrs. willett cut them off flat.
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back upstairs, mr. wells grabbed a fire extinguisher and began to desperately spray the fire.
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in the administrative office, some of the staff were still unaware of anything being wrong.
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children rushed by in bunches. the teachers couldn't corral them.
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there were shouts, screams, and orders from teachers to shut up and slow down. the exit doors banged open and children spilled out.
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i was suddenly pushed to my right, into a bank of lockers.
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i kept moving blindly. an adult's hand steadied my shoulder and the hallway became very bright. the-
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then, i was out the door and onto the playground.
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two minutes later, i could hear sirens.
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shouting and hysterics. there were about 20 injuries altogether.
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room 57 was destroyed, but no further damage was done.
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the sun courier took a couple of photographs, which entered the seacrest legend right away...
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after the fire, the photographer's assistant claimed that the photos had been damaged in transit between the lab at the newspaper to the copy room in the adjacent building.
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because of this mistake, the only photos printed by the courier were of the damaged room and of the playground after the fire.
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the photographer was devastated. he thought he had gotten two truly shocking photos of sechrest elementary.
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believed he had seen being severely burned.
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no one had suffered any burns.
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he walked away very puzzled and very anxious to see what came out of his film.
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the photographer, his assistant and soon all of sechrest were utterly perplexed by the photographs.
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the photographer had shot them looking in through the main lower grades entrance.
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the door to that entrance had two wire mesh windows, which allowed a dim view of the interior hallway.
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the photographer took the pictures with a telephoto lens...
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and ran across the blacktop and opened the door to find no one inside.
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their hands are pressed against the meshed glass as if they were trying to get out.
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but couldn't. the child on the left appears to be about six or seven, may-
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the identity impossible to make out.
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it's even questionable whether it's a boy or a girl.
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the child's hands are clearly on fire from the wrists up.
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another child right next to him or her.
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above the shoulders, there's only a bulbus, massive fire...
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to no avail. someone with a persistent imagination could argue that...
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were never locked, barred or blocked at any time that day.
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was never truly determined. beginning when i was 13-
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i was addicted to a drug called [inaudible 00:09:17]
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lower barbiturate content. i bring up the [inaudible 00:08:28] because according to the physician's desk reference...
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one of its side effects is occasional hallucinations in 5% of-
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of users over an extended period of time.
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even when they're taken off the drug...
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what i had when i returned to seacrest elementary, 18 years after it had closed for good...
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it ended for good with my 14-day coma.
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i was feeling unusually calm that day.
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he was 29 on the day of the murder. he-
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he'd been committed to upham after being found at the site of a nasty car wreck 10 miles north.
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he had been drinking at a local bar.
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he was completely unhurt.
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his parents were dead. he was schizophrenic.
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learning disabled, unable to fend for himself.
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he'd had occasional psychotic episodes. this...
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state put him in upham hill.
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