We're at the farm that I grew up on.
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I → grow → that
This is where … me and my brother and sister grew up … these big white buildings here are the hog barns.
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buildings → grow → ?
Trysten Mullis, along with his younger siblings Taylor and Wyatt, and his parents Todd and Amy, lived on a 400-acre Iowa farm where they grew soybeans and corn and raised pigs.
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they → live → pigs
Trysten Mullis (at the farm): It's a whole family effort to … run a farm this size.
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It → run → farm
And what are you feeling when you like look out here and --
Trysten Mullis: Just nostalgia.
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you → feel → what
it's just kind of peaceful, you know?
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you → know → ?
What happened at the farm the day Amy Mullis died?
That November morning in 2018, started off routinely.
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morning → happen → 2018
While his sister and brother stayed in the house, Trysten, then 13 years old, was with his parents preparing for a shipment of baby pigs.
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Trysten → stay → pigs
Trysten showed me inside the hog barn where they were working.
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they → show → barn
Trysten Mullis (inside the hog barn): Now we're going into the main area of the hog barn.
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we → go → barn
Trysten's job that morning was to carry heaters from the front of the barn to each pen.
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job → carry → pen
Todd was working on the water supply pipes.
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Todd → work → pipes
Amy was cleaning the lights.
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Amy → clean → lights
What she was doing is she would get on the bucket here and stand up, and she would unscrew it like that (demonstrates).
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she → do → that
At one point, Trysten remembers noticing that his mom looked dizzy and unsteady.
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mom → remember → point
She was getting down kind of slow and really grabbing on to the gate …
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She → get → gate
You could kind of see her loopy and swaying a little bit.
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her → see → ?
Just four days earlier Amy had had a minor medical procedure, and Trysten says he and his dad were concerned.
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he → have → procedure
We knew something was not right.
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something → know → ?
Trysten says his mom agreed to go into the house and rest.
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mom → say → house
But before she left, they asked if she could do one thing on her way: get a pet carrier out of the red shed.
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carrier → leave → shed
Trysten says they needed it later that day to protect some kittens from heavy machinery.
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they → say → machinery
We asked her if she could get it outside of the door.
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she → ask → door
Trysten says he saw his mom leave.
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mom → say → ?
She walked down the side there.
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She → walk → side
The last time I saw her was through that window, right in the wall there (points to the front end of the barn).
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I → see → barn
Trysten says he and his dad continued working for about an hour-and-a-half before taking a break.
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he → say → break
We noticed that … the pet carrier wasn't outside.
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carrier → notice → ?
So he said, hey, can you go, uh, get the pet carrier out? …
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you → say → carrier
We just figured she couldn't get it.
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she → figure → it
Trysten went to the red shed to get the pet carrier, and that's when he found his mom on the ground with a corn rake in her back.
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he → go → back
I was just praying that she was still alive.
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she → pray → ?
Trysten yelled for his dad, and they got Amy into the truck — calling 911 as they rushed to the hospital.
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they → yell → hospital
TODD MULLIS (to Trysten): Is she breathing?
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she → breathe → Trysten
I just grabbed her and threw her in the truck.
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I → grab → truck
My son's holding her.
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son → hold → her
OK, you're headed to the hospital and she's in your vehicle?
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she → head → vehicle
How did you hear that your mom didn't make it?
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mom → hear → it
Dad walked in the room and he had tears in his eyes … and told us that mom had passed away.
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mom → walk → us
Amy's mother Peggy, her brother Jeff and her stepfather Randy are still coming to terms with what happened that day.
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what → come → terms
…and 280 more, not listed.
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