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🗓️ 14 March 2020

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October 12, 2013. 2am. Mark Waugh, Rahul Gupta, and Taylor Gould are caught on surveillance entering the Silver Spring, MD hi-rise where Gupta and Gould share a studio on the 16th floor. They seem in good spirits returning from an alcohol-fueled night of partying celebrating Gupta's 24th birthday. There's no sign of distress, an argument, or anything similar. But within an hour, one of them will be dead, the victim of a vicious stabbing, and the survivors claim they can't remember who the assailant was. In the end, one of them would walk free, while the other got life in prison. But the question remains... What really happened that night behind closed doors?

Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological investigation into the narrative surrounding the death of Mark Waugh in an attempt to uncover the truth.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host
0:09.3	Ryan Kraus and this week we're diving head first into a horrific yet baffling crime, the murder of Mark
0:16.0	Waugh.
0:17.4	On October 12, 2013, the 23-year-old Georgetown Law student met his friends 24-year-old Raoul Gupta and
0:26.7	Gupta's 23-year-old girlfriend Taylor Gould for a night of partying to celebrate Raoul's birthday.
0:33.6	After having dinner and bar hopping until 2 a.m.
0:36.9	the couple returned to their Silver Spring, Maryland High Rise Studio
0:40.4	apartment on the 16th floor along with Mark Wall. Surveillance footage of the
0:46.2	trio entering the building shows no behavior indicative of the explosive
0:50.8	violence that's about to transpire. But within an hour, Mark Wahl will be
0:56.7	viciously stabbed to death and in a situation where intoxication prevents Gold and Gupta from remembering what happened.
1:05.9	No one can recall the brutal murder itself.
1:09.4	Or so they say, what starts as the couple feigning ignorance, soon turns to finger pointing, and by the end
1:16.4	will realize that no matter who's guilty, they were all hiding something, from the victim
1:21.9	to the assailant to the conduit between them.
1:25.2	So let's try to figure out what went down behind closed doors that fateful night.
1:29.5	The main players in this night out are the three I've already mentioned, plus another friend named Josh.
1:35.0	According to witnesses, there was somewhat of a disagreement between Josh and Taylor later in the evening as the drinks led to more drinks and everybody started to get a bit sloppy.
1:46.0	Taylor was known for being flirtatious with Raoul's friends,
1:50.0	something he apparently didn't enjoy.
1:53.0	On this night, however, while Josh claims Taylor was flirting with him,
1:58.0	Taylor says the opposite is true, that she was not flirting with him and wanted him to stay away.
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