#357: Yale Student Found Inside The Wall of Multi Million Dollar Research Lab on Campus

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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There’s a boring red brick building in the middle of Yale University’s campus. If you walk past it you might think it’s an administrative office. It looks - boring. But if you look closely - there are 75 CCTV cameras pointed directly at the building. Covering every square inch of the exterior. Why would they need so much security for a university building? It is the Animal Research Laboratory. It houses over 4000 research mice and has tens of millions of dollars of research experiments being conducted inside the brick walls. It is one of the most secure buildings on campus. Till a brilliant Yale graduate student disappears inside. She walks in. Never walks out. She is nowhere to be found in the building - or at least that’s what the authorities initially thought. But have they checked the walls? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ramble.
0:02.0	Batabin, Bataboo.
0:04.0	It's almost like a game that the lab tech said animal research centers have to play.
0:09.0	It's like a sad, sick game of death that is.
0:12.0	If there's a green tag, the animal must die. A lab
0:16.0	tag at one of the research centers is walking down the row of shelves scanning
0:20.6	the lined up cages of mice that are used for research experiments,
0:24.4	and if they see a neon green tag, they must pull the cage from the shelf,
0:29.6	place it on one of those sterile cold steel carts, start rolling it down the silent
0:36.7	hallway into a separate room.
0:39.5	The death room, I mean that's not what it's called, but sometimes it feels like the death room.
0:43.2	The whole research lab has a certain smell to it the minute that you walk in.
0:46.8	With this room specifically it smells stronger and maybe the mice can sense it, they can smell it, because once that cage enters that room and you open the door to grab the little mouse, it starts trying to run. It starts trying to hide. You have to grab the long thin tail place the mouse into a clear plastic tube a chamber and a few buttons. That's it. A few buttons is enough for the chamber to fill up with this anesthetic and you kill the mice.
1:17.4	Some lab tech say the first mouse is the hardest.
1:20.6	Then it slowly gets easier, but it's never easy like watching the little mouse the
1:25.0	chess go up and down slower and slower until it finally stops and it takes its last
1:29.5	breath like that's never gonna be easy easy. And then the smell.
1:33.3	It smells like decomposition, even though the mouse just passed.
1:37.1	It's mixed with something sickly musky.
1:39.4	It smells like an anesthetic.
1:41.3	It just sticks to you. It's a scent that you're never going to forget.
1:45.1	Some lab techs, they say, I absolutely hate it. The minute that I can get a job outside of this
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