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Case 88: Stephen Hilder

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Skydiving - The Stephen Hilda Fall

The person who had been targeting Kirk Vernell was never identified. Charlie Mullins, the son of a well-known and controversial skydiving identity, opened his reserve pack to swap it with a new one in 1997. In doing so, he discovered his reserve risers had been cut. The fall left him with permanent brain damage, as well as pins and metal down his entire right side. US police provided British authorities with the names of all those present at the time of these attempted murders. They also handed over the video footage of Carrie Hopwood's fall,. giving real, shocking insight into what Stephen Hilda must have gone through. Two people arrested were Stephen's black-reigned

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