# 3 Unsolved True Crime Mysteries You Didn't Already Know

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## Transcript

[0:00] In 1997, a quiet estate in rural Rhode Island became the scene of
[0:04] a chilling discovery. 2 new home owners investigating A foul odor
[0:09] and an overflowing septic system opened the underground tank,
[0:13] expecting a plumbing issue. Instead, a skull bobbed up in
[0:18] the murky water, and these remains were soon identified as
[0:22] those of Cam Lyman, a multimillionaire dog breeder who
[0:25] had vanished A decade earlier. Cam Lyman was born in 1932 into
[0:32] a prominent Boston family, though his path in life was
[0:36] anything but usual. The Lymans were old money
[0:39] aristocrats who had been established since the 18th
[0:42] century. Cam shared his father's passion
[0:46] for purebred dogs, especially Clumber spaniels, and became a
[0:50] highly respected breeder and exhibitor in the dog show
[0:53] circuit. By all accounts, Cam was
[0:56] talented yet reclusive, preferring the company of his
[0:59] dozens of prize winning dogs over people he never married or
[1:04] had children, and instead his dozens of show quality spaniels
[1:09] were his pride and joy. In the 1970s, after his parents
[1:14] passed away, Cam retreated from society almost completely, only
[1:19] communicating with friends from the dog world.
[1:24] After his parents had passed, Cam publicly transitioned to a
[1:28] male identity. The reports suggest his few
[1:31] friends had known this for years.
[1:34] This decision appears to have further alienated him from his
[1:37] aristocratic friends who already saw him as an unusual and
[1:41] eccentric figure who didn't fit into high society.
[1:47] At around 6 feet tall with a mustache, short cropped hair and
[1:51] tweed jackets, Cam cut a distinctly masculine figure and
[1:56] by 1985 he had legally changed his name.
[2:00] Despite a significant inheritance and a multimillion
[2:03] dollar trust fund, Cam lived in a way contemporary reports
[2:07] called relatively modestly on a 40 acre estate in Hopkinton, RI.
[2:13] And I assure you that the words relatively are doing some heavy
[2:16] lifting here since to me it looked like he was living large.
[2:22] He built a high stockade fence around his house and installed
[2:26] no trespassing signs deterring visitors.
[2:30] Cam's daily life revolved around his kennel of dogs and feeding,
[2:34] grooming and training them for competition.
[2:38] While he was rich and dog companions, his human friends
[2:41] were few and mostly also drawn from the same upper class
[2:45] background. However, one person managed to
[2:48] enter Cam's insulated world, George O'Neill, A fellow dog
[2:53] enthusiast. Cam met George around 1981 at
[2:57] dog shows and by 1984 he had hired O'Neill as a caretaker and
[3:02] assistant. George helped manage the estate,
[3:06] pay bills and drive Cam to dog events.
[3:10] In time, George became Cam's closest confidant, and reading
[3:14] between the lines, it looks as though he portrayed himself as a
[3:18] non judgmental figure in his life.
[3:21] Cam trusted him enough to grant George power of attorney over
[3:24] his affairs, meaning O'Neill could handle Cam's finances and
[3:28] property. According to later court
[3:31] records, Cam even named O'Neill as sole beneficiary in his will,
[3:36] designating that O'Neill would inherit Cam's personal estate
[3:39] upon his death. It was an unusual level of
[3:42] trust, and one that would come under scrutiny once Cam
[3:46] disappeared. Sometime in the summer of 1987,
[3:51] Cam Lyman vanished. The exact date isn't clear, but
[3:56] July 20th, 1987 is often cited as the day anyone last heard
[4:00] from him. As indicated in court
[4:03] documentation which I was able to dig up, George O'Neill would
[4:07] later tell police that he and Cam had an argument over the
[4:10] phone about dog business, and Cam abruptly hung up on him.
[4:14] The next day, O'Neill drove to the Hopkinton estate to check on
[4:18] his supposed friend. What he found was strange.
[4:22] The mansion's doors were left wide open, the telephone had
[4:26] been ripped out of the wall, and Cam was nowhere to be seen.
[4:31] Dozens of Cam's beloved spaniels were unattended on the property.
[4:36] O'Neill claimed he never saw Cam again after that day.
[4:41] Perhaps even stranger, O'Neill didn't report Cam missing, and
[4:45] he later asserted that Cam had a habit of taking off
[4:47] occasionally. This appears to be true, and Cam
[4:51] was indeed an eccentric multi millionaire with no
[4:54] responsibilities beyond his dogs.
[4:57] That said, he took his responsibilities to his dogs
[5:00] extremely seriously, and these animals had been left in a
[5:03] precarious state on the property.
[5:07] O'Neill said he assumed Cam left town voluntarily for a surgery
[5:11] to cement his male identity. However, he offered no evidence
[5:14] for this theory. Nonetheless, O'Neill treated the
[5:19] situation as if Cam was simply away on an extended trip.
[5:23] He continued caring for the dogs and maintaining the estate.
[5:27] He even started showing Cam's prize dogs under his own name at
[5:30] competitions, as if the animals now belong to him.
[5:37] For over a year, none of Cam's relatives realized he was
[5:40] missing, showing just how secluded Cam's life had become.
[5:45] The first red flag came that winter, when Cam failed to send
[5:48] his usual Christmas cards in December 1987.
[5:53] Cam had a tradition of mailing cards each year, and he wasn't
[5:56] known to forget. Still, for reasons which remain
[6:00] unclear, months passed before the family took action in 1988.
[6:06] Cam's sisters and brother grew increasingly concerned by the
[6:09] silence and by some odd financial signs.
[6:12] Checks from Cam's trust fund, which were normally signed over
[6:16] to him, we're being cashed with a strange Rhode Island bank
[6:20] account number instead of Cam's signature.
[6:23] This indicated someone else was depositing Cam's money.
[6:27] By December 1988, nearly 18 months after Cam's
[6:31] disappearance, the Lyman family finally contacted the Hopkinton
[6:35] police and filed a missing person report.
[6:39] They also alerted the law firm managing the Lyman Family Trust
[6:43] that something was very wrong. When authorities approached
[6:49] George O'Neill in late 1988, he repeated his belief that Cam had
[6:53] likely gone abroad for personal reasons.
[6:57] At the time, local police didn't treat the disappearance as foul
[7:01] play and wrote it off as just an eccentric rich person doing
[7:04] eccentric rich people things. The Lyman siblings hired a
[7:11] private detective named Charles John Allen to dig into Cam's
[7:15] disappearance. Allen quickly grew suspicious of
[7:19] George O'Neill's role, and he discovered that O'Neill had been
[7:22] depositing Cam's investment dividend checks into a Rhode
[7:26] Island bank account. O'Neill, it turned out, had
[7:29] nearly complete control over Cam's money, and he found out
[7:33] about the power of attorney and the will situation.
[7:36] In essence, if Cam had passed, O'Neill stood to inherit a
[7:40] substantial fortune valued at around $2,000,000.
[7:45] By the early 1990's, the case remained unsolved and
[7:48] increasingly cold. Cam's two sisters, Mary and
[7:52] Edith, pushed to have him officially declared dead in
[7:55] absentia so that his affairs could be settled.
[7:59] In 1994, seven years after Cam's disappearance, they petitioned
[8:05] the Rhode Island courts for a death declaration.
[8:08] This move drew media attention, partly because of the aspects of
[8:12] the story involving A wealthy individual who sought to
[8:15] transition, which wasn't a commonly known practice at the
[8:19] time. In June 1995, before the skull
[8:24] was found, Cam Lyman was legally declared dead.
[8:28] Despite the legal declaration, Cam's actual fate was still a
[8:32] mystery. No body had been found, and no
[8:36] one had been charged with any crime in relation to the case.
[8:40] George O'Neill continued to maintain his innocence and
[8:43] insisted that he believed Cam was alive somewhere.
[8:49] Everything changed in the fall of 1997, when A twist of fate
[8:53] finally answered the question of where Cam Lyman had gone.
[8:57] That year, Hopkinton got a new police chief, John Skunkyo, who
[9:02] decided to take a fresh look at the cold case.
[9:06] Skunkyo, a former state police detective, was apparently amazed
[9:11] that a wealthy person's disappearance had never been
[9:15] thoroughly investigated. And yeah, I'm just going to stop
[9:19] here for a second to let that sink in before we move on.
[9:26] He quietly reopened the case and even brought a cadaver sniffing
[9:29] dog to search Cam's old estate. By this time, Cam's property had
[9:34] been sold to new owners, dog breeder Greg Signer and a
[9:38] partner who had purchased the 40 acre spread and moved in with no
[9:42] idea of its dark history. As Skunky O's team was sniffing
[9:47] around the grounds, the new owners themselves stumbled onto
[9:50] the crucial evidence. In late September 1997, Seiner
[9:55] noticed a repugnant smell and sewage backing up signs of a
[10:00] septic tank problem. On September 24th, 1997, Seiner
[10:06] and a friend opened the underground septic area,
[10:08] assuming they'd find a clog. They did indeed find the most
[10:12] horrific clog imaginable, partly caused by a skull floating amid
[10:16] the sludge. Investigators recovered a nearly
[10:20] complete human skeleton from the septic tank, which was located
[10:24] just yards from Cam's old house. Right away, there was little
[10:30] doubt who the remains belonged to.
[10:32] No other person was known to be missing in Hopkinton in that
[10:35] time frame, and Cam had literally been right under
[10:38] everyone's feet the whole time. Over the next year, forensic
[10:43] experts confirmed via dental records that the bones were
[10:47] indeed Cam Lyman. The medical examiner determined
[10:50] that Cam's death was from foul play, likely occurring around
[10:54] the time he disappeared in 1987. In other words, Cam had been
[11:00] slain and his body hidden in his own septic system.
[11:04] Truly a disturbing final resting place for someone who just
[11:08] wanted to be left alone with their dogs.
[11:11] While finding the body brought some closure, it also ignited a
[11:15] further investigation. From the moment Cam was
[11:20] confirmed slain, George O'Neill became the prime suspect in the
[11:24] eyes of many, including Cam's family and the police.
[11:28] The motive seemed clear. As with Cam out of the picture,
[11:32] O'Neill had stood to gain financially and did in fact
[11:36] assume control of Cam's assets for years.
[11:40] Several suspicious actions by O'Neill, both before and after
[11:43] the disappearance bolster this allegation.
[11:46] George never alerted authorities or family that Cam was missing.
[11:50] He waited until the family contacted police over a year
[11:53] later, and even then he was nonchalant, as if Cam's absence
[11:57] were no big deal. Forensic accountants discovered
[12:02] significant irregularities, and it appeared that a large portion
[12:06] of Cam's net worth ended up vanishing under George's
[12:10] questionable stewardship. O'Neill had legal power of
[12:14] attorney and was named to inherit Cam's estate in the
[12:17] will. This allegedly gave him a strong
[12:20] motive to ensure Cam never returned.
[12:23] Despite all this circumstantial evidence and suspicion,
[12:26] authorities never charged O'Neill or anyone else with
[12:30] Cam's slaying. No direct evidence or forensic
[12:34] links to George could ever be established.
[12:36] And interestingly, he wasn't the only credible suspect.
[12:42] There were a couple of other persons of interest floated in
[12:45] Cam's case. One was Bob Ragosta, Cam's
[12:48] attorney and Co trustee of the Lyman Trust alongside O'Neill.
[12:53] Ragosta had also been given power of attorney by Cam as
[12:56] well, and was named executor of Cam's will.
[13:00] Essentially, Rogosta and O'Neill together controlled Cam's
[13:03] finances when he disappeared. If O'Neill had a hand in
[13:07] wrongdoing, some wondered if Rogosta could have been
[13:10] complicit, or at least aware. However, no concrete evidence
[13:15] tying Rogosta to the disappearance ever surfaced
[13:18] publicly. Another pair mentioned by the
[13:21] authorities were John and Judy Weeks, a couple who worked as
[13:25] caretakers on Cam's property before the sale to the new
[13:28] owners. It's unclear what, if anything,
[13:31] made the Week suspicious to investigators, and the case
[13:35] remains an active and ongoing investigation.
[13:39] To date, no charges have been filed against Rogosta or the
[13:42] Weeks, and they have denied any involvement.
[13:47] George O'Neill was eventually charged with embezzlement in
[13:50] relation to a false check for $15,000 he had unlawfully cashed
[13:54] for himself. All of the other financial
[13:57] irregularities appear to have simply been chalked up to poor
[14:01] management rather than malice. At any rate, George eventually
[14:05] pleaded guilty to the embezzlement and was given one
[14:08] year probation. George O'Neill would die in 2011
[14:12] without ever revealing any further information about the
[14:15] slaying of Cam Lyman, if he knew anything at all anyway.
[14:21] Obviously, theories about Cam Lyman's passing have centered on
[14:24] the people closest to him, and the most obvious suspect has
[14:27] always been George O'Neill. Still, the theory that O'Neill
[14:31] ended Cam is built almost entirely on inference.
[14:35] There's no forensic evidence linking him to the remains, no
[14:38] eyewitnesses, and no confession. Other figures in Cam's life were
[14:43] mentioned as possible suspects, though nothing concrete tied
[14:48] them to the crime either. The truth is that Cam was
[14:52] reclusive, wealthy, and surprisingly vulnerable and
[14:56] isolated, which meant multiple people may have had reasons to
[15:00] take advantage of him. Given the fact that no
[15:03] functional investigation started until almost a decade later, we
[15:07] may never know who else stood to benefit.
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[15:44] It was supposed to be a night of birthday celebrations under the
[15:46] stars. In late May 2011, twenty year
[15:51] old Madison Scott, better known to her friends as Maddie, joined
[15:55] dozens of friends for a camping party at Hogs Back Lake.
[16:00] This is a secluded camping site about 10 miles South of
[16:03] Vanderhoof in British Columbia, Canada.
[16:07] By the end of that weekend, Maddie had vanished without a
[16:10] trace and her pickup truck and tent were found abandoned at the
[16:14] campsite, but she was nowhere to be seen.
[16:18] The baffling disappearance of this vibrant young woman would
[16:22] grip her community for over a decade, until an astonishing
[16:26] break in 2023 finally brought even more questions.
[16:33] On the evening of May 27th, 2011, Madison Scott headed out
[16:37] to Hogs Back Lake with friends to celebrate a birthday at a
[16:41] popular camping spot. The lake was a peaceful wooded
[16:45] area with a small campground and normally a great place for a
[16:48] weekend party around a bonfire. Maddie had even brought a large
[16:53] tent, planning to spend the night by the lake after the
[16:56] festivities. At some point after midnight,
[17:00] most of the group decided to pack up and leave.
[17:03] A friend offered Maddie a ride home, but Maddie chose to stay
[17:06] in camp, intending to sleep in her tent by the Lakeshore.
[17:10] By around 3:00 on the morning of May 28th, witnesses recalled
[17:15] that Maddie was last seen still at the campsite, now essentially
[17:19] alone as others departed in vehicles.
[17:23] What happened in the dark early morning hours after three
[17:26] remains a mystery. Another friend swung by the site
[17:32] around 8:30 the next morning to pick up some belongings and
[17:35] noticed Maddie's tent unzipped and her things scattered, but no
[17:39] sign of Maddie herself at the time.
[17:42] No immediate alarm was raised as it was possible Maddie had woken
[17:46] up and left the area for a bit. However, when the entire
[17:50] Saturday passed with no word for Maddie, her family grew
[17:54] concerned. By Sunday, May 29th, Madison's
[17:59] parents drove out to Hogs Back Lake to check on her.
[18:03] What they found sent a chill down their spines.
[18:07] Maddie's blue tent was collapsed flat on the ground, and her Gray
[18:11] pickup truck was still parked there.
[18:13] It was locked and contained her purse and other personal items
[18:16] which she absolutely never would have willingly left behind.
[18:20] Yet Maddie was gone, and after searching the immediate area and
[18:25] calling out for her with no result, her mother phoned the
[18:28] Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Now, despite their questionable
[18:33] reputation, it appears they actually conducted a very
[18:36] thorough search here. As you'll see in a moment,
[18:41] investigators and volunteers launched an intensive search
[18:44] operation almost immediately. The fact that Maddie hadn't
[18:47] contacted anyone all weekend was completely out of character, so
[18:52] police treated the situation as suspicious from the start.
[18:56] Over the following days and weeks, hundreds of people combed
[18:59] through the rough terrain around Hogs Back Lake looking for any
[19:03] trace of the young woman. Search team scoured the woods on
[19:07] foot and on horseback, while helicopters equipped with
[19:10] infrared cameras flew over the area.
[19:14] Divers plunged into the lakes cold, clear waters and dogs
[19:19] sniffed through the surrounding brush.
[19:21] Despite the exhaustive efforts, not a single definitive clue
[19:25] turned up in those early searches.
[19:28] There were no footprints leading away from the campsite, no signs
[19:32] of a struggle, and no biological or physical evidence indicating
[19:36] what had happened. In the absence of answers,
[19:39] Maddie's family and the town of Vanderhoof refused to let her
[19:43] case fade. One complicating factor in the
[19:48] investigation occurred just one day after Maddie went missing on
[19:52] the Saturday night, completely unaware of the soon to be
[19:56] unfolding tragedy, something would happen which would
[19:59] potentially destroy a significant amount of evidence.
[20:03] As many as 150 new people showed up to socialize at the lake that
[20:07] night, and they seem to have held a pretty wild party.
[20:11] Importantly, just so the timeline is clear, this was
[20:14] before Maddie was reported missing and these weren't people
[20:17] partying in an area of an ongoing investigation.
[20:22] During this gathering, someone reportedly came across Maddie's
[20:25] tent and, not realizing its significance, ended up
[20:29] flattening or tripping over it. By the time police formally
[20:34] processed the scene, any footprints or subtle evidence
[20:37] around the site may have been trampled by this unrelated
[20:41] party. Investigators did identify and
[20:45] question the individual who collapsed the tent, but nothing
[20:48] useful came of it. After nearly 12 agonizing years
[20:53] of mystery, the case saw a major development in late spring 2023.
[20:59] In the last week of May 2023, investigators executed a search
[21:03] warrant on a rural property on the east side of Vanderhoof.
[21:08] Acting on new information, police scoured the property and
[21:11] made a heartbreaking discovery. These were human remains, which
[21:16] the BC Coroner Service soon confirmed to be those of Madison
[21:20] Scott. The location of the discovery
[21:23] raised eyebrows and new suspicions.
[21:26] The rural property where Madison's remains were recovered
[21:29] was just over a mile from Hogs Back Lake, not far from where
[21:33] she vanished, according to one report from the CBC, Canada's
[21:38] national broadcaster. It's been alleged that the
[21:41] property belonged to the father of two men who saw Maddie at the
[21:44] party that night. Ultimately, while the police
[21:49] believe that foul play was involved, they haven't outright
[21:52] confirmed this, nor have they confirmed the report about the
[21:55] two men. The authorities are still
[21:58] investigating the case and have yet to formally name any
[22:02] suspects or persons of interest. On a cool October evening in
[22:07] 1983, nineteen year old Patty Osbourne stepped out of a
[22:12] Seattle motel and into the neon glow of Aurora Ave.
[22:17] She told her, quote UN quote, boyfriend she was heading to
[22:20] meet a man at a nearby restaurant, a quote UN quote
[22:24] date arranged by phone. She never made it to that
[22:28] meeting, and Patty vanished without a trace into the night.
[22:32] In a city already on edge from a string of grisly attacks
[22:36] targeting young women, Patty's disappearance would soon become
[22:39] part of one of the most notorious cases in American
[22:42] history. Patty Osborne's life hadn't been
[22:47] easy, to say the least, and she grew up in a very rough
[22:50] household. Born in 1964, she grew up in
[22:55] Washington state and by her teenage years struggled with
[22:58] substance use and frequent trouble with the law.
[23:02] At just 17, Patty left her family home for good and drifted
[23:07] into life on the streets of Seattle, where she became
[23:10] involved in illicit work to survive.
[23:13] Despite the hardships and risky lifestyle, Patty remained in
[23:17] contact with her mother, Patricia Muse.
[23:21] She never let a holiday or birthday pass without a phone
[23:24] call home, a reassurance that she was still alive and thinking
[23:28] of her family. Concerned and unable to reach
[23:32] her daughter, Patty's family feared the worst as the fall of
[23:36] 1983 dragged on. On October 28th, 1983, Patty was
[23:45] last seen along Seattle's North Aurora Ave. an area dotted with
[23:49] motels and known strolls for this sort of paid work.
[23:53] She had been staying with a man described as her boyfriend at a
[23:57] motel on N 115th St. in Aurora. That evening, Patty left the
[24:03] motel room to meet a client at a nearby restaurant.
[24:07] The plan was routine for Patty's line of work, but something went
[24:11] terribly wrong when her boyfriend realized she hadn't
[24:15] come back. And with no word from Patty in
[24:17] the days that followed, it became clear she had
[24:20] mysteriously disappeared. Patty's disappearance didn't
[24:26] happen in isolation, and Seattle was in the grip of fear during
[24:30] late 1983 as dozens of young women were going missing or
[24:35] turning up deceased. Just the previous year, in 1982,
[24:41] police had discovered the bodies of five women in or near the
[24:44] Green River in King County, sparking a massive
[24:47] investigation. Throughout 1983, more women
[24:52] connected to the case went missing, and several bodies were
[24:56] found dumped in wooded areas around Seattle's suburbs.
[25:00] Many of the victims, like Patty, were living on the outskirts of
[25:04] life and were in this illicit line of work or were young
[25:08] runaways. It was against this backdrop
[25:12] that Patty Osbourne vanished and investigators quickly suspected
[25:16] her case was not a simple missing person, but something
[25:20] far more sinister. Within months of Patty's
[25:25] disappearance, law enforcement added her name to the growing
[25:29] list of women believed to have been slain by the then still
[25:32] unidentified Gary Ridgway. This is a name, of course,
[25:37] that's well known to anyone with even a passing familiarity with
[25:40] crime. The Green River investigation
[25:43] stretched on for years without an arrest.
[25:46] It would go on to become one of the largest and longest running
[25:49] serial predator cases in American history.
[25:53] Finally, in November 2001, a major breakthrough came when DNA
[25:59] technology linked a long time suspect, Gary Ridgway, to
[26:03] several of the attacks. Ridgway was arrested and
[26:07] eventually struck A plea bargain to avoid the DP and he agreed to
[26:11] confess to everything so the authorities could bring closure
[26:15] to the families of the victims. In 2003, Gary Ridgway pleaded
[26:20] guilty to 48 counts, making him one of the most prolific
[26:24] confirmed serial predators in history.
[26:30] As part of his cooperation with authorities, Ridgway provided
[26:34] information on many of his victims, including details that
[26:37] helped recover remains of women long missing.
[26:41] In the course of these interviews, Ridgway also
[26:43] admitted to slaying Patty Osbourne.
[26:46] However, unlike most of his other confessions, his admission
[26:51] lacking detail and physical evidence wasn't enough for
[26:55] prosecutors to bring a formal charge in Patty's case.
[26:59] With no body and no forensic proof, authorities had to leave
[27:03] Patty Osbourne's case officially unsolved, even as Ridgway went
[27:07] to prison for life for the numerous other cases.
[27:11] In the final plea agreement, King County Sheriff officials
[27:15] removed Patty's name from the list of victims Ridgway was
[27:18] charged with, citing the lack of evidence.
[27:22] This of course was an awful feeling for Patty's family, who
[27:25] thought that there would be some form of justice for Patty now
[27:28] that Ridgway was clapped in cuffs.
[27:33] At present, most believe that Gary Ridgway was indeed
[27:36] responsible for the slaying of Patty Osbourne in 1983.
[27:40] However, there are lingering doubts because aside from her
[27:44] and two other women, he was able to provide great detail on all
[27:48] his crimes and reveal the locations of his victims bodies.
[27:53] Unfortunately, Patty's body has never been recovered and the
[27:57] authorities have hoped that Gary Ridgway, who is still alive, may
[28:01] one day sing like a Canary. Personally, I believe that he
[28:07] may have simply forgotten the location of her body since he
[28:10] didn't deny committing this horrible act against her.
[28:13] Notably, he did explicitly deny being connected to a few other
[28:17] victims who the task force had thought he had slain, so I
[28:22] suspect he wouldn't lie about Patty's case.
[28:25] And actually, as I read that out, that kind of sounds
[28:27] ridiculous. This guy is one of the most
[28:29] prolific predators of all time, so obviously his word isn't
[28:33] worth a thing. Jimmy here once again, just
[28:38] quickly signing off and wishing you positive vibes and a chill
[28:41] time. And with that said, peace out
[28:44] everyone and don't forget to check out my other videos.
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