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Rotten Mango Podcast Notes - Episode #309: She Went From Ivy League Student to Having IQ of 6 Year Old - Jealous Evil Classmate?
Episode Summary This episode of the Rotten Mango podcast dives into the tragic story of Ling, a chemistry major at Tsinghua University, often referred to as the "Harvard of China." After a stunning performance at a prestigious event, Ling experiences a rapid decline in her health, ultimately leading to severe disabilities and a diminished mental capacity. The episode explores the possibility of her being poisoned and the mystery surrounding the identity of the perpetrator.
Key Themes
Prestigious University Life
- Tsinghua University: Known for its competitive atmosphere, Ling was part of a small cohort of chemistry majors.
- Pressure and Expectations: Ling faced immense pressure to excel, which contributed to her stress and health decline.
Ling’s Decline
- Initial Success: Ling's six-minute solo at a significant performance showcased her talent and potential.
- Health Deterioration: Post-performance, Ling experiences severe health issues, including hair loss, physical weakness, and cognitive decline (reducing her mental capacity to that of a six-year-old).
- Mysterious Illness: Ling's symptoms were initially brushed off as stress-related but escalated into a life-threatening condition.
The Poisoning Theory
- Thallium Poisoning: Experts suggested that Ling may have been poisoned with thallium, a highly toxic substance that induces slow degradation of health.
- Symptoms: Symptoms included severe pain, hair loss, temporary blindness, and eventual paralysis.
Investigation and Suspects
- Potential Suspects:
- Sunny: Ling's best friend and roommate, who had access to thallium and exhibited jealousy towards Ling’s success.
- Lack of Evidence: Despite suspicious circumstances, the investigation faced challenges due to lack of concrete evidence against Sunny.
- Familial Connections: Sunny’s powerful family connections raised questions about possible protection from legal repercussions.
Key Arguments and Discussions
- Peer Competition: The cutthroat nature of university life can lead to extreme actions driven by jealousy and rivalry.
- Health and Mental Decline: Ling’s rapid health deterioration serves as a cautionary tale about the pressures faced by students in prestigious educational environments.
- Societal Views: The episode reflects on societal views of success and the tragic consequences of envy and competition.
Conclusion Ling's story remains unresolved, with no clear answers about the identity of her potential poisoner or the motives behind her suffering. The case has led to broader discussions about mental health, academic pressure, and the dark side of competitive environments.
Final Thoughts
- The episode closes with a note of caution about being aware of one’s surroundings and the people in one’s life, especially in highly competitive environments.
- Listeners are encouraged to reflect on the implications of Ling's story in relation to their own experiences or those of people in similar high-pressure situations.
Additional Notes
- Listener Engagement: The host encourages audience interaction by inviting listeners to share their thoughts on the case and the characters involved.
- Future Episodes: The episode hints at possible future discussions surrounding similar themes of crime and psychological analysis of human behavior.
For more details, full show notes are available at [Rotten Mango Podcast](http://rottenmangopodcast.com).
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:02The Harvard of China was having a special performance at the Beijing Symphony Orchestra. This is a very big deal. Black cars are pulling up. Valet workers are rushing to open the back door for these high-profile guests that are in attendance that night. So the symphony, I mean, they usually have like a rather high-class demographic, but because this is hosted by Tsinghua University, like the Harvard of China, it's just a different breed of people, a different class of people. Couples dressed to the nines. They're gracefully walking into this massive grand theater. Men in perfectly tailored black suits with their shiny little cufflinks peeking out.
0:43Women in dresses that are touching the floor and they've got little sparkly clutches. Everybody's smiling at each other. They're making small conversation while they make their way to their seats. Imagine a room full of Harvard alumni professors, parents of the students, and donors. Like the collective power and influence in this very theater that night is kind of scary to think about. Some of the most powerful figures in politics, business, finance, health, I mean, sectors of industries that we don't even think about that secretly control everything, they're probably in that room. They're gathered in that crowd.
1:19They're sitting and they're waiting for this performance to start. There was a lot of pressure on the Tsinghua University students that would be performing on stage that night and an even greater pressure on one of the students named Ling. Ling was going to have a six-minute solo. this could be the most important six minutes of her life okay that sounds dramatic like it's not that big of a deal it kind of is because if she were to look out into the crowd into the audience those are her deans her professors but also these are probably her future bosses these are probably her future sponsors donors everyone that she might need in the future to make a name for herself is in that room she can't make a mistake she can't mess up she needs to impress them if she thought too long about it it was just an anxiety inducing feeling she just needed to get into the flow and it would be her and the guqing so the guqing is an ancient chinese instrument like to even know how to play this it's not like the violin nothing's wrong with the violin but it's to even know how to play this old school instrument is typically already a status symbol it's not a common instrument where you can find a bunch of teachers here and there you know an ancient Gu Qing from the Song Dynasty actually sold for$22 million making it one of the most expensive instruments ever sold in the world really?
2:40yeah oh okay from the Song Dynasty then that would be a piece of artifact yeah I mean it's crazy but in this theater where everybody is for money and prestige like the novelty of knowing how to play a historical instrument nobody cares everybody knows how to so the only thing Ling can do is nail it so the instrument is like this long wooden board with seven strings attached you sit down in front of it so you almost sit like on a cushion on a floor and you use your fingers to play the strings imagine a much much smaller harp but it's got the same requirements in the sense that half the performance is the music and not making mistakes yes but half of it is the elegance and the poise that one has while they play it like they should have the perfect posture they're not hunched over the instrument.
3:29They should move their body with the music as if they're like in the ocean being pulled by the same wave. So to be a source of comfort for Ling, a lot of her friends had showed up and they're seated in the front to kind of ease her nerves. A lot of them were almost as nervous as Ling. They had seen everything that she had been through in the past two months to get to this point. Like every part of Ling's life up until this very moment was about these six minutes. She had basically given up her own health for this. I mean, the nerves had gotten so bad that the past three days leading up to her solo couldn't even stomach a single thing.
4:03She was having what friends thought was stress-induced stomach pains. She's barely getting any sleep. She has a hard time keeping her eyes open. Her vision's getting blurry because of how dry her eyes are. And everyone's like, shh. She's getting started. Ling walks onto the stage, bows, sits down, and starts playing the instrument. for the first few moments her friends they're kind of like holding their breath they're so nervous but eventually they kind of ease up even they get lost in the music you would never be able to tell that Ling was nervous she was one with the music that night her hands were moving as if they had a mind of its own creating just the most beautiful sounds that were now just echoing through the theater some of Ling's friends were even moved to tears it's like Ling had channeled all of that stress and anxiety the past two months into the music and it was cathartic so when the six minutes were up the audience erupts into this applause Ling's friends stand up and some of them are even screaming like whoa they're so proud of her Ling smiles at them and she bows deeply and there was just too much going on for her to see that her very best friend was standing in the crowd She's standing up too with this big beaming smile and she's clapping so loud that her palms are getting red.
5:24But one of her eyes has a slight twitch. That night, Ling would skip the celebrations and go home to finally get some rest. So now that all the pressure has worn off, she's feeling the exhaustion. She steps into the shower and she starts calmly washing her hair. And she looks down. There's a fist-sized ball of hair in her hand. She reaches up to run her hand through her hair once more and another fist-sized clump of hair is now next to her feet. She opens the shower curtain and looks in the mirror. There are just big, bald patches all over her head, polka-dotted, like someone had just cut off holes from her scalp.
6:04And this was only the start. Within a few weeks, Ling would be wheelchair-bound, unable to move, unable to speak, or even control her own facial muscles. She would go from being one of the most promising students at Tsinghua University to having the mind of a six-year-old child. This was not a disease. This was not a genetic condition. Something was happening to Ling. Or maybe someone was happening to Ling. As always, full show notes are available at RottenMinglePodcast.com. This case takes place at one of the top universities in China. We had our Chinese-speaking researchers assist with the gathering of the data on this one.
6:41I do have to preface this one by saying, A few of our researchers were genuinely spooked by working on this case. You'll see why by the end of the video, but it's one of those cases where you start wondering, oh, how much power does this person have? And what if they don't like that we're talking about this? That's kind of the feeling, so save me. I'm just kidding. But with that being said, let's get into it. You have a higher chance of getting into Harvard than Tsinghua University. Okay, before you get riled up, that's not to say that Tsinghua on a global scale is better or more respected than Harvard, but it's a good look at like the ultra competitive atmosphere of the Ivy Leagues of China.
7:22So for example, Harvard and Stanford both have an acceptance rate around three to 4%. Tsinghua in comparison has a domestic acceptance rate of 0.4%. They're pretty welcoming of foreigners, so it's easier to get in as a foreigner. But when you're born in China and you're studying in China, 0.4%, that's not even a full number. It's not even 1%. It is consistently ranked number one in the best global universities in Asia by U.S. News and World Report. And regardless of how you feel politically, the most powerful man in all of China, Xi Jinping, is an alumni of Tsinghua. The motto for Tsinghua officially is self-discipline and social commitment.
8:06But a lot of netizens say the real motto of Tsinghua is lifetime of prestige. And from the moment you step on that campus, you feel the prestige. You feel the power. Like truly. It's so strong. It feels like it's something that just circulates in the air. Like just wafts through the AC vents. The university has a yearly budget, spend budget of$5 billion. Yeah. And you can feel the money. On campus, there's multiple gardens, observatories, an art museum, grand libraries, auditoriums. auditoriums. Like this is the place where daughters of powerful political families walk around with their books.
8:41Sons of wealthy businessmen are sitting on the grass discussing share prices. Like everyone at Tsinghua either comes from a super powerful, prominent influential family or they're a level of smart where I'm like, I don't even know if I can have a conversation with this person. Like we're not even the same species, I feel. Or sometimes they're both scholars from influential families. And you would think, you know, once I get into Tsinghua, life is good, lifetime of prestige, they said, right? Work your ass off till you get accepted and then you're done. But it's said the peer competition at Tsinghua is next level.
9:17Absolutely brutal. Cut throat. Former students have admitted to doing things that they probably wouldn't have done otherwise had it not been for this unrelenting pressure, Unrelenting competition that was fostered at this school. Backstabbing, cheating, betraying friends. Stress takes a toll on people. And people are wondering, did perfect Ling crack under that stress? Okay, so Ling, she's one of the 31 chemistry majors at Tsinghua University that year. Her class is just a total of 31 students. Like the graduating class is much bigger, but chemistry majors, 31 students. That's it. 20 guys and 11 girls.
9:57These are probably the 31 most competent students in the nation. And even within that group, Ling was probably ranked top three. Wow. She was perfect, Ling. That's how everyone describes her. She was the perfect of the perfect students. What made her really stand out was she's smart, but she's also tall and beautiful. And she kind of has this stoic personality. And all of that combined is just the walking definition of Ivy League elegance and poise. Like if you want to look at the poster child for Ivy League student, it's Ling. The fact that she stands out as being a sophisticated student at a place like Tsinghua.
10:33I mean, I think that says a lot about her. So most of the kids, you can kind of guess where they're headed. You're like, I mean, they're all smart. So probably somewhere great. But you're like, yeah, that one's probably going to work at his dad's company and be like a multi multi millionaire because his dad's already rich. That one for sure is going to attempt to be a government employee. Probably won't be spectacular at it because they're not great with people, but they're really smart. They'll be OK. But with Ling, everyone was like, I don't know exactly what she's going to do, but she's, yeah, she's going to be someone special.
11:00She's like destined for big things. We're going to read about her in the news. Which they would, but for a different reason. But she's not pretentious though, nor is she spoiled about it. She was just classy in a way that money can't buy. She just has this level of self-assuredness. And interestingly, charisma is often defined to be the combination of warmth and competence. when someone is super competent at what they do but they still have the ability to be warm to others that's what a lot of people say charisma is and that's Ling so when she first gets to campus and starts living in the dorms all the other students I mean it's Tsinghua yeah they're honestly kind of jealous of her I'm gonna be honest yeah but she just had this it factor she would walk around campus going to classes and all these guys would just gravitate towards her and slowly as the months went by there was this weird unexplainable decline in Ling.
11:55Let me explain. Originally Ling came to class early not a hair out of place. I mean even during finals week she didn't look that stressed. She looked more focused and in the zone. It's like the type of person how do you have so much energy? How are you like we're working on the same things. Are you getting any sleep? How are you fine and I'm dying? But as the months dragged on Ling started to crack. She starts showing up to class late. And even during the lecture, she would sit in her seat and there would be like sweat dripping down her forehead. And it seems like she's in pain. She's not focused.
12:26She always seems tired now out of it. She never knows what's going on in the lectures, which is weird. Initially, she and even her professors thought maybe it's stress. Maybe it's some sort of stress causing gastrointestinal problems because her stomach was hurting a lot. She tried to go to the school clinic and get some painkillers, but it didn't really help much. So Ling went from being early to being late to just full on not showing up to class. Her friends are starting to get worried. So they would go visit her in her dorm room where she lived with three other girls. They'd say, Ling, are you in here?
12:57Is everything okay? They'd walk in and they'd find her like shivering and whimpering in bed just in pain. There would be not fist size clumps, but pretty good clumps of black hair on the pillow next to her. Not just like strands of hair that naturally fall out as you're rolling around in bed, but like a chunk. what is happening is that your hair like are you okay are you sick shouldn't you go to a doctor ling would brush them off and tell them she was fine it's just the stress but she would be back in class tomorrow and it was going to be okay by the end of that semester perfect ling was gone instead people said she was kind of like the campus ghost her face was pale as snow and her lips were almost always purple she would walk slowly and it looked like she was just in pain every time she took a step.
13:45Most of her hair had fallen out and she was completely bald. There was just like wisps of hair. So it wasn't even a clean bald, just little bits of strands of hair coming out. And she always wore a hat to cover it. And she's still going to classes? Sometimes Ling's eyes would just glaze over and she would tell her friends, I can't see anything. She would lose her vision for hours at a time. What? So there were theories spreading on campus of what was going on with Ling. I mean, the obvious one was people thought, okay, maybe it's some sort of stress-induced disease, an undiagnosed disease. Maybe she has cancer, an autoimmune disease, alopecia, where you lose hair.
14:24But then more sinister theories started circulating amongst the students. I think it's the stress. I heard she was backstabbed by her best friend. Yeah, Sunny. Yeah, I don't know. She just hasn't been the same since they got into all these fights. And the other students are like, what do you mean? Like, what does that have to do with how she's doing physically? I don't know. apparently she was friends with this girl Sunny who constantly lied to professors about where Ling was. Like Ling would have to miss practice for orchestra or something because she had a crazy test. But Sunny would just lie and tell the teacher that Ling didn't want to show up because she's already too good.
14:55And all the other kids need to catch up to her so they should come to practice. Yeah it's really bizarre but maybe it was just too much for Ling to handle. You know maybe she grew up sheltered and she never realized that people are cutthroat in this real world. Other students had wildly different theories. She's a chem major. Maybe she was trying some secret experiments, trying to make a name for herself. It wouldn't be the first time an overly ambitious student heard themselves like that. But that would be really crazy, though. Poisoning herself by accident, trying to make a name for herself?
15:25Bae had been friends with Ling since high school. When he heard she was hospitalized a second time, he rushed to go see her with a get-well-soon basket. Now, I'm not sure how much of the situation Bae knew beforehand, But he assumed that his friend from high school was tired, maybe sick, but he would keep her company. He would sit next to the hospital bed, read her books. They would watch dramas together. He would hold her hand when she was in pain. The silver lining was maybe they'd have some time to finally catch up. But when he walked into that hospital room, he stopped dead in his tracks. Bae said when he saw Ling lying on the hospital bed, his first instinct was to turn around 180 degrees and run out the hospital.
16:04He wanted to run as far away from Ling as possible. and that sounds really evil, but it wasn't evil. It's not because he was scared of her or thinks she's contagious, but it was one of those moments that made him question the rules of life. You know, you hear about people, people get sick and it's a slow, typically, unless there's a big accident or some sort of trauma that happens, it's a slow regression of their health. But it just didn't make sense for a smart 20-year-old to be lying on a hospital bed like this. It just felt random and I think that randomness is scary for people. Ling had done everything right What do you mean she's got some mystery illness That can take away everything that she worked so hard for Wait so what is the hospital saying What's going on They have no idea what's going on with her So just a few months ago Ling is perfectly healthy But now she's laying here half naked With several machines hooked into her Tubes running out of her body Through her nose, through her mouth Her hair is all gone Her mouth is wide open She's having these entire body convulsions non-stop.
17:06Her face is semi-paralyzed and her eyes, they alternate from bulging out of her face as if she's pleading with the people in the room to help her, to save her. And then they would unconsciously roll towards the back of her head. Like she's honestly like being possessed is how they describe it. Kind of very visually concerning. Then her eyes would roll back and they'd be bulging out, but she can't, she can't communicate with people. She's like screaming, but it's in what Bae calls an unknown language. Whether it's just sounds trying to make words come together, he can't understand a thing. And this all happened in a couple months?
17:43Like two, three months. And the doctor have no idea what's going on? No. They're just standing around like, we have no clue. Truly. If they even tried to touch her, she would start convulsing in pain as if they're like shocking her with electricity. And they're not even touching her rough. They're not like trying to move her around. they're just trying to comfort her by maybe grazing her arms softly it seemed like even the hospital gown that was touching her skin was sending her body into a state of pain it just it was confusing and bae felt like this girl my best friend from high school is asking for help i can see it the way that her eyes are looking at me the way that she's trying to talk but nothing is being communicated he said he would never forget that look so he did the only thing that he knew how to do so he starts asking questions he and ling's parents they ask the doctors at the hospital what they think the diagnosis is the doctors are stumped then bae asked the parents for a list of everything that's already happened in the past like month or two give me all of ling's symptoms this is the second time she's in the hospital what happened the first time they said i mean at first the symptoms seemed very innocent ling would be studying and she said that she had this ache in her stomach like a like a pang in her stomach it's like oh ouch a cramp She would wince, but just as fast as it comes, it goes.
19:01It's gone. And stomach cramping is hardly an alarming or life-threatening situation, especially for women. I mean, you chalk it up to cramps, menstrual cycles, hormones, all those things. But a week later, she said the ache stayed a little bit longer. Then it started to feel so strong, the pain would just have her double over in agony. Sometimes the only relief that she would get was to drop onto the floor and curl herself into a fetal position. and I'm sure she just kind of brushed it off initially. A lot of East Asians and probably some here too, stomach pains are often contributed to stress and anxiety, which she clearly has a lot of at school.
19:37So she just resorted to drinking a lot of Chinese herbal teas. But gradually it became so intense that she would pass out from the pain and like that, that's not normal. And she would think, I need to go get this checked out after this exam, after this class. but at Tsinghua University there's really never enough time. There's no good opportunity to take some time off to worry about your health. There's always the next thing you need to get through.
20:07So her symptoms they start escalating. Ling would have blackout moments where she would be staring down at her paper. The words would start blurring together and she would rub her eye because she's thinking maybe there's something in my eye blurring my vision but no for hours the blurriness would stay. She would have a loss of vision temporarily for hours at a time. And then her hair started falling out. This is probably the most shocking visually just because, you know, and I know that some people are going to try to make it sound silly, but hair is a huge part of someone's identity and self-confidence.
20:37And I think the visuals of having it come out in clumps, that can't be associated with anything good. Like that is a very scary underlying health problem type of feeling. Ling is having clumps of hair fall out in the shower. And at first, again, not a suspiciously large amount of hair, but later fistfuls of hair. Even when she would just run her hands through her hair, she would be left with a bald spot on her head. Within weeks, all of her hair had fallen out except for tiny little wisp, like tiny little strands. So she gets hospitalized the first time. She only had little wisps of hair. And this is a few days before Christmas.
21:13She's hospitalized the first time and her parents are staying by her side the entire time. She goes through a month of treatment, a month. Nobody knows what's going on. They test her for arsenic, mercury poisoning because she's a chem student. But all of her levels are normal, which honestly was a bit weird because she had Mies lines on her fingernails. Mies lines. It's when someone's nails look like there are blue, black, white lines running across. It's super noticeable. So if you look at your fingernails, there are some vertical lines right now. But if you see really intense, thick, horizontal lines, you need to go to the hospital.
21:49I mean, unless you like jammed your finger and it's a bruise or blood pulled under there. If you've got them on all 10 and it's super noticeable, like dark black ocean waves on your nails type, it's usually a sign of some strong underlying health problem like kidney failure or even poisoning. So she's got Mies lines. Her kidneys are fine, kind of. And she doesn't have arsenic or mercury or really anything suspicious in her system. and the hospital decides to go to Tsinghua to request a log of all the chemicals that Ling would have come in contact with because all of it is logged and there was nothing that could have poisoned her.
22:20They weren't working with some crazy radioactive chemicals just there's nothing so it had nothing to do with her major it wasn't cancer it wasn't an autoimmune disease it wasn't kidney failure it was just it was just a mystery. How do you go from being perfectly healthy to not even being able to pick up a pen or use the restroom on your own. But after a month, Ling gets better. And she's like, mom, dad, I need to go back to school. I can't do this. Like I've already missed my finals because I came here before my finals, literally during finals week. I got to go back and take my finals ASAP while the information is still fresh.
22:52Otherwise this whole semester down the drain, I have to repeat it. I can't do that. And her parents are like, no, you can't go back to school. Like you're our only precious daughter. We don't even have answers on what caused this in the first place it feels dangerous to send you back to where the illness started and like what if it's from stress surely going back to school cannot be that important and li is like no if i don't go back to school i might as well be dead so she goes back to school regains all her strength and she's like see mom and dad like look i even have a skip in my walk i'm good don't worry she goes back to school on february and by march she was laying in the hospital bed unable to even communicate.
23:32Bei tried to take matters into his own hands for his friend. He started reaching out to a bunch of professors, medical professionals, not just in China, but all over the world. He translated all the symptoms that Ling had into different languages and started posting them on all these internet forums. And I'm not talking like Reddit or 4chan. He's trying to target medical forums. In less than 30 minutes, he got his first email back. And within a few days, he had close to 2 ,000 emails from 18 different countries. No way. Yeah. And these, again, are not just some random people on the internet. They're not Stephanie Su, leave in a comment.
24:10Some of the most notable responses came from doctors working at the Chinese embassy in the U.S., a Chinese doctor living in California that had studied poisons, foreign doctors that worked at some of the world's most well-respected hospitals, like institutions on a global scale. and all of them gave the same response. Thallium. And if her symptoms are already this bad, that means most likely someone is poisoning Ling and they want her dead. Not only that, they want it to be a very slow, painful, torturous death. Thallium is to make someone a shell of a human before they kill. Thallium? Yes. I'm going to get into the whole thing.
24:53Now, one email like this could be written off as a super dramatic pessimistic doctor who has like a propensity of fear mongering. But when half the emails that Bae is getting from respected doctors say the same thing, Bae and Ling's family, they have to take it very seriously. So they start doing their own research. Thallium is heavy metal atomic number 81 on the periodic table of elements. It's a highly toxic metal, once considered the magic ingredient in rat poisons and insecticides, mainly because it's just really, really good at killing. Like it's not any sort of crazy science of like when it enters the rat, the rat has this.
25:28And then with the rat coming. No, it just like kills anything. It just kills. It's really good at it. Eventually, it was banned in rat poison in most major countries, including China and the U.S. because people started using it not on rats, but like on their boyfriends, on their rich aunts, you know, their wives. And actually, interesting history. Before it was used in rat poison, back in the early 1900s, it was used as a lice deterrent. So if your kid had lice, you would go to the pharmacy and pick up a bottle of thallium, feed it to your kid because it causes hair loss. No way. Yeah. And your kid would just go bald.
26:01And you'd be like, well, that got rid of the lice, which is, I don't know what kind of problem that is. Imagine having a bruise on your arm and then cutting off your arm. But nowadays, thallium is called the poisoner's poison. It is odorless, colorless, tasteless, slow acting, and painful. Thallium causes such a wide range of symptoms that it's often overlooked and misdiagnosed by doctors. And it leaves no bruises, no wounds, no obvious signs of infection. Doctors are led to believe the victim is suffering from kidney infection, bowel infection, UTI, autoimmune diseases, stomach infections, way before they even think, oh my god, is this thallium?
26:35So for that reason, it's also often dubbed as the inheritance powder, because of how many wealthy grandparents started showing symptoms of thallium poisoning. and the creepiest part about thallium poisoning is you don't know until it's too late, typically. And I really try to not get too paranoid when I'm talking about these cases, but I will say this is a case where it does make me feel a little bit more protective of my beverages and my food. So with thallium, it can enter your body through inhalation. So it can be in the air. It can be absorbed through the skin in a lotion, any skin contact and ingestion.
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27:10A lot of killers will actually go the ingestion route because it's odorless it's tasteless and it smoothly blends into drinks and food without changing the color or texture much so you could put it into coffee and it's not going to do like the whole coffee creamer thing where it makes it like a lighter color you wouldn't even taste it you wouldn't even see it and all you need is less than a gram that is less than half a dime you know the coin the dime half of a dime that's like deadly just how much in an adult that's all it takes and it's bad there are three phases to poisoning before death by thallium the symptoms will initially start off slow and again it's very confusing for the person who has it because you're thinking oh my god do i have a stomach bug so you get stomach eggs diarrhea vomiting most people at this stage are like what did i eat and then the unbearable pain hits you realize this is not an ordinary stomach bug you have tremors you've got headaches insomnia, temporary if not permanent loss of vision.
28:09There are reports that people suffering from thallium poisoning can't even see a water cup right in front of their eyes. Every part of the body starts to feel pain just by existing. It feels tender as if someone went and used tweezers to peel every single piece of skin off the first layer of your skin and anything touching your body now feels like a fourth degree burn. A lot of people report feeling, you know, even the pain of having a bed sheet, not even a blanket, like those thin sheets on you, it's like the Eiffel Tower stabbing into your body. You can't get up because it feels like you're walking on hot coals and your skin is burning.
28:45If you try to lift the leg of someone suffering from serious thallium poisoning, even a gentle touch to the leg is so painful that you're just going to hear some of the most horrific cries for help. And it's on every part of your body. It's not just your extremities like your arms and your legs, some people report feeling these never-ending, ruthless, stabbing sensations all over their body, including their private parts. And then the neurological phase hits. The final phase before death. You're talking involuntary movement disorders. Seizures may start to occur. You lose a function of your own limbs and extremities, leaving you paralyzed temporarily or indefinitely.
29:23Impairment of thought and mood. Regression of mental acuity. And in this case, Ling was going from being a chemistry major at the Harvard of China to having the IQ and mental competency of a six-year-old child. The most notable person associated with thallium is actually a man named Graham Young. Let me know if you want a case on this. Graham Young, he didn't discover thallium. He was a serial killer that poisoned 70 people with thallium in their teacups. He was fascinated by thallium. he wanted to watch his victims suffer in the most painful this is not um it's not a graceful way to go it's not a painless you know you have some cases in true crime where the murderer wants that person dead and they want to get it fast like get it over with this is not one of those it's a slow burn it's a full degradation of human bodies when young went too long before killing again, he would miss the kill.
30:21And he said, I miss the power it gives me. I suppose I cease to see these people as people. They were simply guinea pigs to me. So Bae and Ling's parents, they're reading about all of this and they eagerly tell the doctors everything they just learned. And they're like, we just cracked the code. We need to get her the antidote to thallium because guess what? There's an antidote to thallium. And they're telling the doctors it's thallium. It makes sense. She's got the telltale symptoms. Look at these doctors. They've studied thallium extensively. these are the emails that they've sent. They said that we never found it in her blood because we need to send it to a specific lab that can test specifically for thallium.
30:57So they never tested that. No. And the doctors look at them and they go, you know, no, it's not thallium. These internet doctors are just doctors on the internet, but we are her real doctors. We see her every day. The hospital argued that it's not thallium poisoning for the exact reasons that Bay was arguing it is thallium poisoning. So Ling's family is arguing, you know, thallium is rare. That's why it's so hard to pinpoint the symptoms to get the correct diagnosis. But thallium is the only thing that makes sense. All the symptoms line up. But then the hospital is arguing it's not thallium precisely for that reason.
31:32Do you hear yourself? It's so rare. Thallium is a highly regulated substance. Who would go to great lengths to poison a random college student with it? The hospital refused to track down the antidote for thallium or even send her blood to get tested for thallium. And they said, even if it is thallium poisoning, like hypothetically speaking, which it's not, I assure you, but even if it were, the antidote isn't going to help right now. She's too far gone. Wow, I cannot believe this. Which really is not a great sentiment. Ling's family and friends were shocked. Thallium is particularly dangerous because our bodies confuse it for potassium, which we have a lot of in our systems, and we don't fight it.
32:14We let it just like wander around our body. It floats through our bodies and just starts honestly messing things up, causing severe irreparable nerve damage. It's the equivalent of letting a friend into your house and letting them wander, have freak rain and control over your home without knowing that they're going room by room, killing anything and everything, destroying it one by one. the book the poisoner's handbook says this about thallium it was one might say a chemist's poison it's one of the worst poisons killing slowly it gives the poisoner control over how quickly the victim dies so time is of the essence with thallium in most cases even if someone survives thallium poisoning if it's this level of severe their lives are changed forever likely they will never be able to feel their legs again they will never grow their hair back and these are just some of the smaller changes.
33:04For Ling's case, she could forever mentally regress to a six-year-old unless they figured something out quick. The hospital's not helping. It seemed like Ling's parents, her friends, and family, they were the only ones that could help her. So the main question would be, who would want to kill Ling? Because we got to answer one of these questions of who, how, why, right? So who? There was an incident in Ling's past that made people wonder very briefly if maybe there was someone out there who had it out for her long before she even came to Tsinghua. Maybe someone had been targeting her her whole life.
33:38Ling had an older sister named Jing. But she died mysteriously and the circumstances surrounding her death are just weird. To give you some context, Jing and Ling were considered the perfect daughters. Like even when they were kids, they were both super disciplined, studious. They wanted to make their parents proud. And you know the children that talk so eloquently? you're like, why does this five-year-old talk like they've already read all the Shakespeare novels and like dissected the meeting behind the Catra and the Rye? That was them. But between the two of them, they never had that sibling rivalry competitiveness.
34:09They just found comfort in having each other and supporting each other. So Jing being a few years older, she gets into college first. Beijing University. This is like Yale. If Tsinghua is Harvard, Beijing University is Yale. wow they're both so smart and at this point ling was still living at home jing is away at college and one weekend jing and her 10 friends decide to go to a national park a few hundred miles outside of beijing everything was meticulously planned they were going to get there really early saturday spend all day saturday on these outdoor activities and then sunday they would return by bus or train in two groups so some people had study groups on sunday so they would catch an early morning bus back to campus.
34:49The other group, they didn't have a study group. So they're like, why don't we just explore a little bit more? And then we'll go in the afternoon. The day of the outing, very memorable. Everybody's having a good time. The next day rolls around and Jing is on the early morning bus. All of her things are packed and she's waiting for the rest of her friends to pack up their stuff. And she's thinking, you know what? Why am I just sitting here in this hotel? I'm going to go out and like grab a cup of coffee and I'll meet you guys at the train station. Okay. Takes her luggage with her doesn't show up at the train station and since everyone had already bought their tickets and they need to go to this study group they just kind of left they assumed she's an adult she's more than capable of having her own schedule nobody overthought it she's probably going to catch up with the second group and come with them on monday she doesn't show up to class okay that's not like jing jing is very studious she takes her classes very seriously her classmates called her parents to see if she had gone home maybe she hadn't so everyone rushes back to the national park and they start looking for Jing.
35:45This national park is technically a tourist location but only a small part of it. The entire park itself is over 128 ,000 acres. Wow. Jing would not be found till three days later. She was laying at the bottom of a cliff but this is where things don't really add up. If she was found dead at the bottom of the cliff the assumption is that she fell off the cliff but where she was found was pretty secluded. She was laying there and her clothes were neat and her body looked peaceful almost it's not a stretch to imagine that if someone fell off a cliff they would try to grab onto things they wouldn't be found it's almost like she was laying there taking a nap like it didn't look like she fell off somewhere no even if she wasn't trying to grab onto things like the way she would have landed just didn't make sense so is it someone saying that she could have been dead by the time she fell dead and then staged to look like she fell is kind of the thing that nobody will say out loud because there's just so many weird things about it.
36:45And a few other odd details where Jing had left her friends with all her luggage because she was supposed to meet them at the train station. Her luggage was nowhere to be found. Jing had fallen off a cliff that also wasn't straight down. So it wasn't that steep of a cliff. It was kind of more slanted. So she accidentally fell and she was in her right conscious mind. Every human, the instinct is to grab onto something. Nearby tree branches, rocks. I mean, it's more of a tumble. This is a tumbling cliff, not a freefall cliff. There were no scratch marks on her hands, none on her arms. Her clothes were unwrinkled and intact.
37:19There were no injuries or even dirt underneath her fingernails. It looked like someone had placed her under the cliff. But authorities, they ruled out homicide. They ruled out self-inflicted wounds. They said it was an accidental death. But it always affected Ling, that her sister was gone, and it just felt like no real answers or closure. It just didn't make any sense. But now that Ling is also suffering in college, a lot of people are wondering, what if someone has it out for the sisters? Like what if they're both being targeted? But not a single suspect came to mind. Both sisters were generally well loved by their peers and technically Jing's death was, you know, ruled accidental.
37:56Side note, this is really sad, but the top two schools in the nation of China are Beijing University and chinghua university it's that that ling really liked both colleges and it's presumed that had her sister been alive she would have chosen to go to beijing but since she passed she felt like if she went there all she would think about is did my sister walk down this hall did my sister stay in the storm so she chose chinghua wow what a tragedy wow yeah this family yeah so anyway it It was a theory that had to be explored, but then it was shut down. Another theory popped up. The idea that maybe Ling wasn't the actual target.
38:34Maybe Ling's parents were the target, and to get to them, someone went through Ling. Technically, it made sense because Ling is so young and well-liked in school, like, this just doesn't feel like a college crime. If she didn't have enemies, maybe her parents did, and she was just collateral damage. Ling's dad was a senior engineer at the National Earthquake Agency of China. It's a high-level position that works closely with the government, and maybe he knew something he shouldn't have known. Or maybe someone had it out for him. Or maybe Ling's mom was the target. She was an engineer at the Chinese Oceanic Company.
39:05Again, another prestigious position. But both these theories would lead to a dead end. Ling's parents did not seem to have any enemies who would want to harm them or Ling. So now people are thinking, okay, if we can't answer the question of who and why, can we at least find out how? Maybe that leads us to the other questions. How was she poisoned? That could help. Their best guess was that she ingested thallium or applied it to her skin because if it was through inhalation, there must have been others that got sick at this school. Unless she was in some sort of vacuum-sealed room where she was only inhaling thallium vapor and nobody else was, but that doesn't make sense.
39:38Nobody else on campus ever showed signs of thallium poisoning. So it's got to be ingestion or contact. They go to her dorm room, Tsinghua University. Tsinghua, okay? There's a shampoo thief. conveniently what at the nation's most prestigious university they say there's a thief who stole shampoos while ling was in the hospital but only ling's while ling was in the hospital her personal items were stolen her contact lens case which is terrifying to think about lipstick shampoo bath soap all of her water cups where she drinks water towel gone okay then that's i mean that's the investigation right yeah you've got to find out who stole it right exactly so at the time there's no security cameras though so they can't even see who's the thief but they do have some sort of process of elimination the dorms at chinghua are gendered so meaning only female students can get into the female dorms and you had to be a current student to get in you could not be alumni you could not be postgrad you had to be undergrad i also believe the records indicate whenever a professor shows up into a dorm building just because there's no real specific reason for professors to be in dorm buildings.
40:50There's no lecture halls inside the dorm buildings. So they're looking at a female undergrad student. That's still hundreds, if not a thousand people.
41:03While all of this is happening, Ling's parents requested the police to help investigate. They told the officers, it's thallium. We're certain of it. Please, the hospital is doing nothing. You have to help us. And whoever did this to our daughter must have gotten the thallium from somewhere. If it's a highly regulated, like the hospital says, then there must be some record of it. The police, they get to work. Cause like I said, you know, Ling's parents, they're pretty credible people. Not saying that the police should only work off of credible people, but I would imagine that if maybe her parents didn't have some sort of academic standing, I don't know.
41:34I don't know what the cops would do if my mom showed up at a station and was like, my daughter is getting poisoned by thallium. So they're like, okay, fine. We're going to look into it. They start investigating over 20 retailers who supply thallium they start pouring through their records so you're like what i thought thallium is banned it's banned in a lot of commercially available products so rat poison like things that you would buy at home depot but it is still used to make optical lenses like eyeglasses it's used in electronics a lot of phones have thallium in them but you know just because you break apart your phone doesn't mean you're like oh thallium let me poison people it's used in the manufacturing process so they go to these retailers who are like okay who are you selling thallium to and what are they doing with that thallium they start pouring through all the records and they see something shocking chinghua university chemistry department there was thallium in that school now everyone's brains are turning okay someone at that school had access to thallium and they chose to use it on ling maybe a sick professor with an agenda maybe a love triangle between students maybe ling rejected a guy and he wanted to kill her because this wouldn't be the first time that happened.
42:39They go to Tsinghua and they're like, hey, is this true? Like, did you guys experiment with thallium? You said that there's no thallium on campus, but it shows that you guys purchased thallium, the chemistry department, the department that Ling is in. And if so, do you have a list of everyone that was involved in the experiment with thallium? Police discovered that from the entire university, only seven people had access. Two teachers, three female post-grad students and two undergrad students. Wow. So that means whoever did this must have been involved in the thallium experiment and must have had the opportunity to steal the shampoo and toiletries from Ling's room.
43:13That made the most sense, which means we can cross out the two professors, the post-grad students, which leaves us with just two undergraduate students. One guy and one girl. The guy couldn't have access to the girl dorm rooms. So that's just one name left. And what's the name? Sunny, Ling's best friend and roommate. Wow, what the heck. The day that Ling's class graduated from Tsinghua, after four long years, three of the 31 students from the chemistry department were nowhere to be seen. One was out sick with the flu, and the other two, best friends Ling and Sunny. Ling was poisoned and could not graduate.
44:01Sunny was identified as a suspect the night before graduation. She was at the police station being questioned for the attempted murder of Ling, and netizens believed this to be a slam dunk case. Sunny had access to thallium, she had access to Ling, she had access to the missing shampoo bottles. She had also checked out books from the school library on thallium prior to Ling's poisoning. Now, one could argue that she was part of a thallium experiment, but I don't know, all of it's pretty convenient. the motive is probably the trickiest part because technically sunny is also an it girl that also had it all she was smart came from a strong family background why would she risk it all to poison ling mutual friends of both sunny and ling said ling just defeated her at the student election and sunny was not the type of girl that was okay with losing she was also just kind of a bitch in general yeah that's what they said she was mean and weird in general sorry i don't know what to tell you that's what they're saying friends said ling was also the type to want to include everyone and everything.
44:55They remembered how Ling brought Sunny to an orchestra practice and proudly announced, this is my roommate Sunny. She loves traditional Chinese music and really wants to join the orchestra. It seems like though, Sunny was accepted into the orchestra and made friends because of Ling. But a lot of friends said, you know, there was a shift once they were both on the orchestra. As Ling progressed and gained more recognition, Sunny seemed annoyed. Allegedly, especially when Ling had been given the chance to perform a solo at the Beijing Philharmonic, it seemed like a major shift in the friendship. A lot of friends speculated that it's just not hard for the girls to see why Sunny could have been beyond jealous of Ling.
45:31Ling was beautiful, highly capable, and she just made everything seem so effortless. She was the it girl. She attracted the admiration of not just other girls, but boys, professors, everyone. And one time Ling had asked her mom, Mom, why would best friends go through rough times? She's like, what do you mean, sweetie? Nothing, there was just an incident. So Ling had been scheduled for orchestra practice, but because of some last minute changes in her academic schedule, she couldn't make it to practice. But she decided she would make up for it by scheduling a one-on-one with the teacher later. But I guess she forgot to tell the teacher and maybe the teacher hadn't gotten her message yet because the teacher looked around during practice and was like, hey, does anyone know where Ling is?
46:11And Sunny allegedly responded, yeah, she just wanted to relax a bit. She said she didn't need practice. She made it sound like this was not a priority for Ling and she's just hanging out in her dorm room with a bunch of boys or something. It was so strange. And of course, the situation got back to Ling and she was confused, but she thought, okay, maybe it's miscommunication. But then allegedly there was another incident. The orchestra had invited this legendary teacher from a music academy to guest teach. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a learning opportunity. Sunny allegedly had a pick-me moment where she said out loud while smiling, allegedly, I'm sure that Ling could sit in the back because she's already so good.
46:47It'd be selfish if she sat in the front or in the middle because other kids need to learn. I mean, there's no way that Ling could argue. And so she sat in the back, but she just felt weird about it. Like, even if Sunny's reasoning made sense, it wasn't her place to call her out like that. But I guess the question now is, is that really a motive? Would she really risk her own life to take someone down? Netizens felt like it. A lot of them argued. Who had access to thallium? Sunny. Who had access to Ling's belongings and food? Sunny. Who had the motive to want Ling gone? Sunny. and who did the police let go?
47:24Sunny. What? Sunny was questioned for eight hours straight and then her family came to pick her up and she was never questioned again. That didn't make a lot of sense to a lot of netizens, including Ling's parents. What kind of weird investigative work is that? Of course she didn't confess in the first eight hours, but bring her back, investigate more, gather more evidence. It's a slam dunk case. That's what a lot of netizens are saying. So some netizens, they started doing their own investigating and they discovered. Sunny's family was one of the most prominent families at Tsinghua University.
47:56Sunny's dad was an important member of the Democratic Revolutionary Committee. Sunny's grandfather was former vice chairman of the Democratic Revolutionary Committee. Sunny's uncle was a pioneer in the development of the transportation sector in China. Most of her family members were either working in government positions or state-run prestigious universities as professors. Her first cousin was the deputy mayor of Beijing, as well as the vice chairman and executive vice chairman of all China Federation of Industry and Commerce. Holy cow. And I mean, if you think having government positions in a place like America pulls a lot of strings, it's probably worse in China.
48:33And just like that, Ling's case was closed, labeled unsolved. Oh, that's it? That's it. Sunny states that she was cleared of any suspicion by the police. She states that she is innocent and has zero motive to poison Ling. She said she also would like the real culprit to be found and face justice. Sunny would go on to change her name, change her legal date of birth, marry an American man, and move to the United States with a green card, and has been living a free life ever since. She's still here? Yes. Oh. Meanwhile, for Ling, everything was too late. It had been confirmed too late that thallium was the poison responsible for Ling's mystery illness.
49:13when she was finally tested for thallium and, you know, after her parents begging and begging, it showed that she had tens of thousands of times higher than the amount that was acceptable. At this point, there is a cure for thallium poisoning called Prussian blue. This is so fascinating, okay? Prussian blue is truly something. Prussian blue is interesting because it's actually a dark blue pigment. It's a synthetic pigment. It's a powder that's blue in color a pigmented powder that's widely used to create paint for artists so the famous great wave painting you know i'm talking about or um maybe van gogh starry night is a more iconic one that uses a lot of prussian blue the color is prussian blue and it makes it sound super fancy but prussian blue was the first synthetic pigment ever made which means it's dirt cheap it's non toxic it's intensely colored it's very affordable it's not like um there's one called like blue lapis that you have to find in nature and it's super expensive this is cheap but you can't just go to a paint manufacturer and demand Prussian blue and start snorting it because you think you're being poisoned with thallium.
50:12There are pharmaceutical grade Prussian blue pigments that are used for people who ingest thallium. What it does is it basically binds to the thallium inside your body, making sure that it can't just roam around more. Now it's like, you're going to come with me and you're going to get pooped out, basically. It's a pretty effective antidote. And while you can go to any paint store and buy Prussian blue pigmented paint, Prussian blue and powder form, pharmaceutical grade, good enough to help save someone dying from thallium poisoning level of good is nearly impossible to find. Why though? It's so cheap to make.
50:44That doesn't make sense. Prussian blue is also an antidote for radiation poisoning. So even in countries like the US, the government keeps it under close stockpile. They stockpile it in case of a nuclear attack. Wow. They don't just go around giving out Prussian blue left and right because you think someone has thallium poisoning. And at this point, it had already been too late. Like the thallium had been absorbed in her body and it had done all the damage at this point. Even if she took Prussian blue now, it's not going to do anything. Ling had been declared permanently disabled by the hospital due to the nerve damage caused by thallium.
51:20The side effects have caused her to regress mentally to the age of a six-year-old. She will need 24-7 around-the-clock care. On top of that, Ling's face was semi-paralyzed. She would forever be wheelchair bound. She lost nearly all her eyesight. The hospital was later sentenced to compensate Ling's family$14 ,000 for the misdiagnosis and improper handling of her case, which is nothing. Yeah, like that's less than nothing at this point because it's almost a slap in the face. Even more heartbreaking is Ling's family wasn't even alerted that Ling's case was closed. The police did it quietly, which just adds another layer of suspicion and injustice to this case.
52:00In a few weeks, it'll be Ling's birthday, November 24th. She will be 50 years old. Last year, for her 49th birthday, her family all gathered around the house to celebrate. Parents, relatives, cousin, they all traveled to get there and they were trying to smile as big as they could. They brought in giant fruit cakes, Ling's favorite dishes and desserts. Ling's father was busy putting a party hat on Ling and Ling's mom was busy putting away all the gifts and it was supposed to be this very joyous day. The fact that Ling had been able to make it this far, the fact that she was alive to celebrate a birthday was enough for the family.
52:39But there is that underlying sadness that everyone feels. And I just want to clarify the sadness the family feels does not come from the fact that Ling is not able-bodied but everything that they had grown to know and love about Ling had been so cruelly taken from her. Netizens believe maybe it would have been easier on the family mentally and emotionally if Ling had perhaps had a genetic condition that caused her physical decline but this this is the feeling that someone did this to their precious daughter. Someone had so much hatred for her for whatever unknown unjustifiable reason to want this for their daughter who gives someone that power and audacity and then that person whoever it was got away it's a very hard pill to swallow they feel robbed of both their daughters ling had worked so hard to get into chinghua i mean everything that she loved playing the gu ching pouring her heart into her academic studies dancing to traditional chinese music Like, all of that is gone.
53:39And now she can't even use the restroom alone. Even her birthday cake, she has to wait till her mom decides to feed her another bite. You would think that everyone would be sympathetic to Ling's family and what they're going through, but it gets really weird. The family received a letter in 2013, an anonymous letter that was turned over to the police. It reads in short, Your daughter has nothing to do with the term outstanding. Personally, I am a district-level model student and honor student, and I cannot comprehend your daughter's behavior. I have never encountered someone like her. Everything in life follows the law of cause and effect.
54:12A person's fortune depends on the seeds they plant, with good actions leading to good causes and bad actions leading to bad consequences. There's a new theory that comes with this though, so listen. If your daughter followed a proper schedule, didn't disturb others, respected her classmates, and maintained good relationships with her doormates, how could she end up in such a horrible position? Success in life begins with being a successful person. Your daughter's failure in character has led her to this unfortunate situation. If there's a next life, as a couple, you should first teach your daughter how to be a good person, how to respect others, and how to get along with other people.
54:47Be generous, engage in charitable activities, and become someone who can contribute to the country and even the nation. That is what makes a person truly excellent. Signed, Dong Dong. D-O-N-G? Dong Dong. Dong Dong from LA. what the letter was turned over to the police but nothing came of it we don't know who wrote it but a new theory did emerge which was maybe there was more than one person who wanted ling dead it sounds like a group of people decided that ling had to go for whatever reason like schedule if she didn't disturb her dorm mates group mentality is a very scary thing because it's a four-person dorm room one person says hey did you notice that she's a little rude The others might not agree, but the next time they talk to Ling, maybe they start thinking, wait, why would she say that?
55:32That is a little rude, isn't it? Then they go back and maybe it just snowballs into something that's probably rooted in jealousy to begin with. Because I personally, I mean, we tried to dig as deep as possible in this case. There was not one report of Ling being rude, disrespectful, not caring for other people's schedules. She just primarily minded her own business and did her work. So did they all collude to kill her? Maybe it wasn't her dorm mates. Maybe it was the next door dorm. We don't know. Or maybe they just wanted her to drop out at the very least. Unfortunately, we don't have any answers.
56:07A White House petition did get started to get Sunny deported or arrested. It gained over 150 ,000 signatures, but nothing came of that either. That's where we are with today's case. That's it? Yeah. Wow. There's no justice. There's no answers. Nothing. I would say majority of netizens. And I don't really have a personal opinion. I try not to. But I would say majority of netizens from what we could tell in our research, they believe that Sunny is guilty and that she got away because of her family connections. And then you have some people saying, well, no, technically Sunny's family was richer, more powerful, more influential.
56:45Like, why would she go after Ling? But then the other party, the main majority of netizens are saying that's why. Because Ling had all the things that Sunny couldn't buy with money. I don't know. what do you guys think of this case do you think sunny is guilty and if so do you think it's her family's connections that got her off without any trouble do you think that she's being used as a scapegoat maybe someone more powerful was involved maybe the school just really was bad at controlling who had access to thallium and so they just wanted to throw someone under the bus do you think that she was part of a group that wanted lingon for whatever reason or she was working alone let me know in the comments but please stay safe and i guess this is a good time to remind you careful of who has access to your food and drinks and i will see you guys on sunday for the mini sode bye
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What would Ivy League students do to be on top? Or the better question - what wouldn’t they do?
Ling was a chemistry major at the top university in China. The Harvard of China, if you will.
One day, Ling went into the shower and saw fist-sized clumps of hair fall to her feet. By the end of the semester - Ling would be wheelchair-bound, unable to speak, unable to use the restroom on her own, completely bald, and nearly blind.
She went from being one of the most promising students to having the mental age of a 6-year-old.
She was slowly poisoned by someone in that school - but who?
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