She Went From Ivy League Student to Having IQ of 6 Year Old - Jealous Evil Classmate?

[Music]. bada bing badao the 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 chingua. 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 women 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. and they're sitting and they're waiting. for this performance to start there was. a lot of pressure on the tingua. University students that would be. performing on stage that night and an. even greater pressure pressure on one of.

the students named Ling Ling was going. to have a 6-minute solo this could be. the most important 6 minutes of her life. okay that sounds dramatic like uh 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 guing so the guing. is an ancient Chinese instrument like to. even know how to play this inst 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 teach here and there you know.

an ancient guing from the Song Dynasty. actually sold for $22 million making it. one of the most expensive instruments. ever sold in the world really yeah. there's okay from from the S Dynasty. then that would be a piece of artifact. yeah I mean it's crazy but in this. theater where everybody is from money. and Prestige like the novelty of knowing. how to play a historical instrument. nobody cares everybody knows how to so. the only thing lean 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.

they 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 6 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 she was having what friends. thought was stress and du 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 2 months. into the music and it was. cathartic so when the 6 minutes were up. the audience erupts into this Applause.

Ling's friends stand up and some of them. are even screaming like w 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 but one. of her eyes has a slight twitch that. night Ling with 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 over her head.

polka doted like someone had just cut. off holes from her. scalp and 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. will go from being one of the most. promising students at chinga University. to having the mind of a 6-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.

[Music]. as always full show notes are available. at Rotten Mingo podcast.com this case. takes place at one of the top. universities in China we had our Chinese. speaking research assist with the.

Gathering of the data on this one I do. have to preface this one by saying a few. of our researchers were generally. 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 but uh with that. being said let's get into it you have a. higher chance of getting into Harvard. than chingua University okay before you. get Ri up that's not to say that chingua.

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. so for example Harvard and Stanford both. have an acceptance rate around 3 to 4%. chinga in comparison has a domestic. acceptance rate of. 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 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 US 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 chingua the. motto for chingua officially is. self-discipline and social commitment. but a lot of netizens say the real motto. of chingua 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 wow and you can feel the. money on campus there's multiple Gardens. observatories an art museum Grand. libraries auditoriums like this is the. place where Daughters of powerful. political families walk around with. their books sons of wealthy businessmen.

are sitting on the grass discussing. share prices like everyone at chingua. 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 chingua life is good lifetime of. prestige they said right work your ass. off till you get accepted and then. you're done but it said the peer.

competition at chinga is next level. absolutely. 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 the 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 chingua. University that year her class is just a. total of 31 students wow like the. graduating class is much bigger but. chemistry Majors 31 students that's it. 20 guys and 11 girls these 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. chingua I 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 somewh 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 cuz they're not great with people. but they're really smart they'll be okay. but with L 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 she'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. chingua yeah they're honestly kind of. jealous of her I'm going to be honest. yeah but but they she just had this it.

Factor she would walk around campus go. into 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 let me. explain originally lean 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 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 light and. even during the lecture she would sit in. her seat and there would be like sweat. dripping down her forehead and it it. seems like she's in pain she's not. focused she 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 lean 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 l are are you in here is. everything okay they'd walk in and. they'd find her like shivering and. whimpering in bed just in pain there. would be not fists sized clumps but. pretty good clumps of black hair on the. pillow next to her not just like strands. of hair that natur really 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 most. 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. class 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 with 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 youd lose hair. but 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 the other students are like. what do you mean like what what does. that have to do with how 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. Mis practice for orchestra or something. cuz 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 and 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 hurt thems like. that but that would be really crazy. though poisoning herself by accident. trying to make a name for. herself Bae 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 ba 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 ba said when he saw Ling. lying on the hospital but his first. instinct was to turn around 180° and run. out the hospital he 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. think 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 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 that can take away. everything that she works so hard for.

wait so what is the hospital saying. what's going on they have no idea what's. going on with her they don't know what. no 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 nonstop her 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 ba calls an. unknown language whether it's just. sounds trying to make words come. together he can't understand thing and.

this all happened in a couple months. like 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 and 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 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 and the doctors are stumped then ba. 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 ping in her stomach it's like ooh ouch. a cramp she would win but just as fast. as it comes it goes it'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. so she just resorted to drinking a lot. of Chinese theseal 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 chingua. 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 so 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 that this is probably the most. shocking visually just because um 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 and I think. the visuals of having it come out in. clumps that can't be associated with. anything good like that 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 BAL 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 Whispers. of hair and this is a few days before. Christmas she'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 cuz she's a. chem student but all of her levels are. normal which honestly was a bit weird. because she had me lines on her. fingernails me 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's some vertical lines. right now but if you see really intense.

thick horizontal lines you need to go to. the hospital I 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 meas 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 tingua 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. they 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 otherwise. this whole semester down the drain and 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 L 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 Bae 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 translate all the. symptoms that Ling had into different. languages and started posting them on.

all these internet forums wow and I'm. not talking like Reddit or forchan like. 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 Sue leaving a comment some of. the most notable responses came from. doctors working at the Chinese Embassy. in the US 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 thalium 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 wanted to be. a very slow painful torturous. death thalium is to make someone a shell.

of a human before they. kill thalium yes I'm going to get into. the whole thing now one email like this. could be written off as a super dramatic. pessimistic Doctor Who has like a. propensity of fear-mongering who 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 pallum 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. and then with the rat com 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 us. because people started using it not on. rats but like on their boyfriends on. their Rich aunts. out 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 and. 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 thalium is called the. poisoner's poison it is odorless. colorless tasteless slow acting and.

painful thalium 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 utti. autoimmune diseases stomach infections. way before they even think oh my God is. this thalium so for that reason it's. also often dubbed as The Inheritance. powder because of how many wealthy. grandparents started showing symptoms of. thalium poisoning and the creepiest part. about Thum 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 a. 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 that much. in an adult that's all it takes and it's. bad there are three phases to poisoning. before death by thalium 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 egges 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 there are. reports that people suffering from. thalium poisoning can't even see a water. cup right in front of them 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 if 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. NeverEnding. 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 function of. your own Limbs and extremities leaving. you paralyzed temporarily or. indefinitely impairment 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 6-year-old child the most notable. person associated with thalium is. actually a man named Graham young let me. know if you want a case on this Graham. Young he didn't discover thalium um he.

was a serial killer that poisoned 70. people with thalium in their teacups he. was fascinated by thalium 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 lowb burn it's a full. degradation of human bodies when young.

went too long before killing again he. would miss the kill and he said I miss. the power it gives me I suppose I seized. 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 thalium. because guess what there's an antidote. to thallium and they're telling the. doctors it's thalium it makes sense. she's got The Telltale symptoms look at. these doctors they've studied Thum.

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 so they never tested that no. and the doctors look at them and they go. you know no it's not theum 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 thalium poison poisoning. for the exact reasons that ba was.

arguing it is thalium poisoning so. Ling's family is arguing you know. thalium is rare that's why it's so hard. to pinpoint the symptoms to get the. correct diagnosis but thalium is the. only thing that makes sense all the. symptoms line up but then the hospital. is arguing it's not thalium precisely. for that reason do 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 anti for thalium or even. send her blood to get tested for thalium.

and they said even if it is thalium. 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 it. really is not a great sentiment Ling's. family and friends were shocked thalium. 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 we 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 free. reain 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 thalam it was one might. say a chemist 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 thalium in most. cases even if someone survives thalium. 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 for Ling's case she. could forever mentally regress to a. 6-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 cuz. 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 chingua. maybe someone had been targeting her her. whole life Ling had an older sister. named Jing but she died mysteriously and. the circumstances surround 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 stud. they wanted to make their parents proud. and you know the children that talk so. eloquently you're like why does this. 5-year-old talk like they've already. read all the shakesphere novels and like. dissected the meeting Behind The Catcher. And The Rye that was them but between. the two of them they never had that. sibling rivalry competitiveness they. 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 chingua 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 the 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 the 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 stud. as 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 and they start looking for Jing. this 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 3. 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 almost like she was. laying there taking a nap like it didn't.

look like she fell off somewhere no 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 cuz there's just so many weird. things about it and 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 freef fall Cliff. there were no scratch marks on her hands. none on her arms her clothes were un. wrinkled and intact there were no. injuries or even dirt underneath her. fingernails it looked like someone had. placed her under the cliff but. authorities they rued 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 side note this is. really sad but the top two schools in.

the nation of China are Beijing. University and chingua University it. said 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 chinga wow what a. tragedy wow yeah this family yeah so. anyway 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. maybe 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 it 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. highlevel 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 again 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 is she poisoned that. could help their best guess was that she. ingested thalium 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 some in some sort of vacuum sealed. room where she was only inhaling thalium. vapor and nobody else was but that. doesn't make sense nobody else on campus. ever showed signs of thallium poisoning. so it's got to be ingestion or contact. they go to her dorm room chingua. University chingua okay there's a. shampoo. Thief. conveniently what at the nation most. prestigious University they say there's. a thief who stole shampoos mhm while.

Ling was in the hospital but only Lings. 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 that's I mean that's the. investigation right You' 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 of chingua 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 can 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 there'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 while all of this is happening. Ling's parents requested the police to. help investigate they told the officers. it's thalium 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 thalium. from somewhere if it's highly regulated. like the hospital says then there must. be some record of it the police they get. to work cuz 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 I don't know what the cops would do. if my mom showed up at a station and was. like my daughter's getting poisoned by. thalium so they're like okay fine we're. going to look into it they start. investigating over 20 retailers who. Supply thalium they start pouring. through their record so you're like what. I thought thalium 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 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 chingua University chemistry. Department there was thalium 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. they go to chingu and they're like hey. is this true like did you guys. experiment with thalium you said that. there's no thalium on campus but it. shows that you guys purchased thalium. 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 tham police. discovered that from the entire. university only seven people had access. two teachers three female postgrad. students and two undergrad.

students wow so that means whoever did. this must have been involved in the. thalium experiment and must have had the. opportunity to steal the shampoo and. toiletries from Ling's room that made. the most sense which means we can cross. out the two professors the postgrad. 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 the day that Ling's class. graduated from chingua 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 Sunny was identified as a. suspect the night before. graduation she was at the police station.

being questioned for the attempted. murder of Ling and neens believe 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 thalium prior to. Ling's poisoning now one could argue. that she was part of a thalium. 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 in general yeah that's what. they said she's mean and rude in general. sorry I don't know what to tell you. that's what they're saying friend said. Ling was also the type to want to. include everyone and everything they. 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 philarmonic 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 Ling 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 and 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 with a bunch. of boys or something he 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 pck me. moment where she said out loud while. smiling allegedly I'm sure that lean. could sit in the back because she's. already so good it'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 lean 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 neisens felt. like it a lot of them argued who had. access to thalium 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. Sunny 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 8 hours but. bring her back investigate more gather. more evidence it's a slam dunk case. that's what a lot of neens are saying so. some neens they started doing their own. investigating and they. discovered Sunny's family was one of the. most prominent families of chingua. University Sunny's dad was an important. member of the democratic revolutionary. committee Sunny's grandfather was former. Vice chair chman 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 and 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 moved 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 thalium was the. poison responsible for Ling's mystery. illness when she was finally tested for. thalium 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 thalium poisoning called Prussian. Blue this is so fascinating okay. Prussian Blue is truly something pre and. 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 what I'm talking about or um maybe. Van Go Star night is 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 lapes 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 press in blue and start snorting. it because you think you're being. Poisoned With thallium there are. pharmaceutical grade Prussian Blue. pigments that are used for people who. ingest thallium what it does is it. basically binds to the thalium 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 press. and pigmented paint Prussian Blue in. 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. that 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 thalium the side effects have caused. her to regress mentally to the age of a. 6-year-old she will need 24/7 Around the. Clock Care on top of that Ling's face. was semi- paralyzed she would ever be. wheelchair bound she lost nearly all her. eyesight the hospital was later.

sentenced to compensate Ling's family. $114,000 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 wow 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 in 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 but. 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 cruy taken from her nens. 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 chingua I mean everything that she. loved loved playing the guing pouring. her heart into her academic studies.

dancing to traditional Chinese music all. of that is gone and 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 a person's Fortune depends on the. seeds they plant with good actions. leading to good causes and bad actions. leading to bad consequences bro there's. a new theory that comes with this though. so listen if your daughter followed a. proper schedule didn't Disturbed others. respected her classmates and maintained. good relationships with her dorm mates. 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. be 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 t o n g Tong. Tong 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 cuz 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 that 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 cuz 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 a 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 like what yeah wow there's no. justice there's no answers nothing I. would say majority of netizens you know. and and I I don't really have a personal. opinion I try not to but I would say. majority of neens 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 like why would she go. after Ling but then the other party the. main majority of nens 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 connect. CS 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 thalium and so they just. wanted to throw someone under the bus do. you think that she was part of a group. that wanted Ling gone 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 minod bye hi.