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[Music] That's the wind dancer. That's my uncle's boat. You can see on the bow that used to say
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wind dancer. The boat is just trashed. Something really bad happened there. [Music]
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I'm Ezra North and Don North is my uncle. Don decided that he was going to go do
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what everyone dreams to do. He sailed the entire Caribbean and found absolute paradise.
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It is breathtaking. We understand why Don loved it so much there. My uncle lived on this boat for 22
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years. This was his life. Don just wanted to live his life in nature. He was a beautiful person.
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[Music] Don knew that bad things did happen, that there were pirates. He did have a gun. He bought a taser
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just in case something did happen. In mid January, we started asking each other around the family, "Have you heard
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from Don?" And all of us said no. We sent an email to him. I said, "Don, hey, what's up, buddy? Um, people are
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looking for you. Where are you?" But, you know, Don didn't write back. It was as if he had sailed into a black
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hole. I remember just thinking, I don't think this looks very good. Time was of the essence. We knew there
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was one person who could make things happen and that was Don Winter. I can't walk away from something like
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this. If I can get involved and help, I'm done. There's a lot of moving pieces in this
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thing. Different physical locations, people using aliases. There's all kinds of opportunities for
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bad things to happen. Oh my god. I gave him this hat. This isn't good. This was Don's worst nightmare.
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Our friend Don was missing. Something terribly evil penetrated this this utopia.
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Dark Side of Paradise. Tonight's 48 Hours Mystery. [Music] [Music] [Music] My uncle was an absolute free spirit.
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[Music] Loved people, loved animals, loved plants. He was just a lover of life. When Don North and his sailboat, the
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Wind Dancer, disappeared in the waters off Panama in January 2011, his nephew Ezra was sick with worry.
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It's hard to work. It's hard to eat. It's hard to sleep. You're thousands of miles away from someone you love, and
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you've got a million scenarios playing out. Ezra, an engineer for an oil company,
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was determined to unravel the mystery of what had become of his uncle. Friends recommended the one American in
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Panama who might be able to find Don North. All they said to me was, "Call Don Winner. This man can help you."
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Don Wy is a former intelligence officer with the US Air Force and an investigative journalist who runs a
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website for expats. He's also a CBS news consultant. When I get involved in something like
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this, I drop all the other stuff and I go focus on the on the the most important thing. What is it about you
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and who you are that makes you want to get involved? Why not? Why wouldn't you? If you knew that there was a family
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member that was asking for help, wouldn't you drop what you were doing to go help that guy? I mean, it's just the
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right thing to do. Winner told Ezra that he needed to file a missing person's report.
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This should do it. I love you. Keep in touch. Okay. Ezra abruptly said goodbye to his wife in
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Houston, Texas, and headed for Panama. What was it like for you to arrive here in Panama City that first time?
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Overwhelming. [Music] Ezra and Winter hit the ground running north, searching for any information about Don
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North. For Ezra, being in the Caribbean brought back memories of happier times with his
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uncle, Dawn. My uncle was like one of my best friends. He taught me how to scuba
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dive. He taught me how to hunt. Is everything that you want from an uncle, you know?
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Look at the life he lived. And what a life it was. Back in the 1990s, Don North sold his
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stateside gardening business, bought a boat, and set sail, cruising from Florida to Curissau to
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Colombia, kicking back and just enjoying life. Every day of his life, he did what
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he wanted to do. And he was a beautiful person. Don was a member of a tight-knit cruiser
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community. People who choose to live their lives on the water. Tell me about the cruising lifestyle. For a lot of
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people who live their life on a couch with a remote in their hand, it is extraordinary what you do. I think we
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cruisers enjoy the the the freedom of being out there and being self-sufficient. Glenn Tuttle and his
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wife Eddie are friends of Don North. Both are retired FBI agents who've been cruising the Caribbean for years.
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You can literally catch dinner under the boat. You can snorkel and spear fish and
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and catch lobsters and it's it's a paradise. He loved life. I know he loved me. Um we
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had a lot of fun together. Becky Reynolds, Dawn's former girlfriend, recalls the first time she set eyes on
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Dawn. And I just remember just seeing the yellow dinghy with a pink motor and I thought, "Oh my gosh, who's this
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character?" And he just struck me as just a very kind of funny guy and interesting
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character. And um we exchanged numbers. Becky and Dawn wound up living together for five years.
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Their sailing days were idyllic. Even though Don didn't actually do much sailing. In the five years that I have
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known Don North, we sailed probably seven times. Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. He lived on his boat. It's it
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it's on the water. He liked to be on his boat, but that was his home. He liked his boat. He liked his radio.
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He liked his dog kuna. He liked his plants. That was Don. Captain Jack Vonolan and Dennis Morris were fellow
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cruisers who knew Don well. Oh, Don was a classic guy. His claim to fame was that he never went anywhere fast and if
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there was any wind, he wouldn't go. After cruising the Caribbean for 20 years, Don North finally found his
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little piece of paradise. and he dropped anchor here in the beautiful Sand Blas Islands off the coast of Panama.
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Don spent most of his time on the island of Chichime where he had a special bond with the
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Kuna Indians. [Music] Tell me about your uncle's relationship with the indigenous people here, the
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Kuna. He He loved him. He respected him. He helped them garden. He helped them dig a water well. And what' they think
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of your uncle? They loved him. But by mid January 2011, no one, not the Kunas or any of Dawn's
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friends, had seen or heard from him in weeks. December 20th, 2010. Ola, this will be the last email for a while as my
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phone modem broke. In one of Don Nor's last emails to his nephew, he told of a series of terrible
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storms ravaging the Sandlas Islands. Don did his best to help out, rescuing this man,
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Javier Martin, whose boat had sunk after hitting a reef. As Ezra and Winter tried to pick up
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Dawn's trail, all they had to go on was a handful of clues. When we started looking for him, we were told by other
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cruisers that, yeah, he's sailing to Colombia. He's sailing with Captain Martin.
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Supposedly, Don was making the 5-day trip to Cartahena to renew his visa and took along Javier Martin for company.
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When he was missing, at first I thought, "No, Donald, show up." I just kept thinking, "Don, show up."
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One of the last times I spoke to him, he said, "Please don't forget me." And I said, "Don, how could I ever forget
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you?" So, but then came the worst news imaginable. A man's body was discovered floating
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near the Sand Blau Islands. [Music] [Music] [Music] With Dawn North missing for more than
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three weeks and a body discovered, And floating off the Caribbean coast of Panama, Don's
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former girlfriend, Becky Reynolds, got a horrible feeling. I called Ezra and he just said, "Pray as hard as you can."
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And that scared me that if their concern was like that just doesn't happen. Fortunately, the body was not Don Norse,
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but friends and family remained deeply worried. I I felt sick. I I at that point I realized that there's something
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very wrong going on and and something bad must have happened. The bulletridden body was identified as
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a Frenchman, Jean Pierre Buard, captain of a large catamaran. He'd been shot in the head, tied to an anchor, and thrown
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overboard. Don's friend Glenn Tuttle. We knew immediately it was more than a coincidence that this Frenchman had been
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found murdered and our friend Don North was missing. But what was the connection? Working his
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sources, Winter learned that the dead Frenchman was last seen with Javier Martin, the same man Don North was with
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when he set sail for Colombia. It instantly became, "All right, everybody focus. Find Javier Martin.
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Wy was convinced Javier Martin would lead them to Dawn North. What was going through my mind was we got business to
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do. Their first stop, the headquarters of the National Police Force. We went to the office of the uh chief of operations
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and uh and I sat Ezra down in his office and said, "Here's the deal. This is what
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happened. This is what we think is going on and uh we want to get the ball rolling on it."
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And when Wter talked, the Panameanian police listened. Just months earlier, he had helped them catch accused serial
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killer Wild Bill Halbert, an American who prayed on retired expats. How many murder cases have you solved here in
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Panama? Four. And that's in a year, year and a half. Don't mess with Don Wy. Don't kill anybody.
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Winner convinced Panameanian authorities to form a special task force to look for
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Don North. They also enlisted the FBI which has agents stationed in Panama City. So because of all that then the
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the the investigation went from from zero to 100% literally in a matter of 2 or 3 hours.
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Ezra and Wy joined the task force as it began the hunt for Javier Martin. The biggest fear was that he might split
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and be gone and be on the run for years before he finally turns up. I consider him as a pirate. A pirate because he was
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committing crimes during his travelers. A pirate who became the focus of a manhunt overseen by this man, Gustavo
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Perez, national director of police at the time. He leads thousands of officers like
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these commandos and personally oversaw the pursuit of Javier Martin. So you have people like this this officer ready
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to move. You got a task force together in this case and off you went. Exactly. Using all that manpower, the police
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quickly picked up Martine's trail. It led to Captain Jack's where Don Nor's friends were told the lead suspect had
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stayed in their hostel. The hero would stand up on my my arms and my back. The more Ezra learned, the scarier
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Javier Martin became. Um, one lady at one of the hostels had said, "That guy is a psychopath. He he caught a snake
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one time and cut the head off and ran around shaking the snake everywhere." Javar Martin. Yes. Yes. Where are we
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right now and where are we going? Okay, we're uh on the road to a town called Porerto Lindo. Retracing Winter's
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investigation, we head to a sleepy port village near the Sand Blouse Islands when you come into a little village like
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this? I mean, what are your instincts? What are you trying to do as an investigator? Well, it was all related
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to tracking the movements of Javier Martin, trying to find out where he went, what he was doing. He stayed in
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this room and this is the bed that he would always stay on. Did you sense something right away? Did
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you sense this man was troubled? He he said he he I didn't think he was a drug trafficker. I thought he was more
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like just crazy. He just somebody that doesn't that's that's out of control. In late January 2011, after Dawn North
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went missing, locals reported that Javier Martin, who had always lived hand-tomouth, suddenly was living large.
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They they said that he had he bought he went out and bought a like a large screen plasma TV, brand new. He bought a
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sound system. He bought a guitar. And he may have bought all that stuff using Dawn's ATM card. I believe that these
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are the ATM machines that were used by uh either Javier Martin himself or uh people that were helping him to uh pull
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money out of the bank accounts of the victims using their ATM. He he got their cards, he got their pin numbers.
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Taking into account the dead Frenchman, the missing money and Javier Martine spending spree, Wy knew in his gut it
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wasn't looking good for Don North. No doubt in your mind that Javar Martin is the man responsible for the
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disappearance of Don North? I got no doubt. I I've got no doubt whatsoever. Ezra realized he had to face the hard
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truth. His uncle was most likely murdered by Javier Martin. This bastard killed my uncle and we need to make sure
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he's in jail. [Music] Javier Martin, the man at the center of this manhunt, had spent years fing
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backpackers between Panama and Colombia. He came into contact with a lot of Americans like Garrett Paul and Jessica
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Stout. We were at the start of a six-month backpacking trip and we needed to get from Colombia to Panama. And
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along the way, they were looking for adventure. We usually like to think outside the box and do do things that
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are a little different and unique. He's not kidding. Garrett and Jessica were contestants on the CBS program, The
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Amazing Race in 2009, a year after they happened to meet Javier Martin. came across a pamphlet for Javier Martin with
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a number of recommendations and called him up to see if we could meet him and see the boat. The couple signed on with
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Martin and spent the next 5 days aboard his boat, the Twilight. Javier was a little salty in that he just, you know,
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you could tell he'd been spending some time out on the ocean. He was, you know, flirtatious, fun captain, hanging out
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with all of us. Even had a barbecue on one of the islands, so it was social. They liked Javier well enough to later
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recommend him, never suspecting he might be dangerous. It was shocking to us, but you know, you
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never know what people are capable of. I think there were two sides to Javier Martin. The side that could, you know,
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have the persona of a businessman and hang out with the passengers and sail them, you know, and cook for them. and
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the side that obviously Don eventually found out. Becky can imagine how the two men became
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friends after Dawn rescued Javier from his sinking ship. I think that they probably broke bread, probably had a
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drink together, hung out. I'm I'm speculating, but Don, you know, was a friendly guy. a friendly guy who
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investigators now believe had been killed at the hands of Javier Martine. Do you believe this was a calculated
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murder? A spur-ofthe- moment killing? What do you think? I think it was calculated.
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Determined to bring Martin to justice, Ezra went allin with Don Wy. I trusted him with my whole heart and whenever he
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asked me to do something, I was going to do it. Not only had Winter convinced the
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Panameanian police to form a task force, he's a big believer of putting things out there, he also coraled a group of
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local reporters to begin spreading the word that a man who allegedly killed Don North and Jean Pierre Buhard was at
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large. I said, "Hey guys, you know, huddle up. I got one for you. Here's a deal."
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[Music] I said, "Apparently, there's a another serial killer on the loose and we're
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looking for this man." When you tell these reporters there's a potential serial killer out there, right? Are they
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interested? Oh, absolutely. Ezra, that night the story about Ezra and his missing uncle went national
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in Chich in Samblas. That clip aired on the prime time news that night and it was headline news.
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Winner kept digging. He got a tip that a Spaniard named Louise once had Don Norse
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ATM card. The same card used to drain his bank account. Tell me where we're going and why. All right, we're going to
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go take a look at this uh yellow triaran right here. This is a boat that's owned
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by uh Luis. Uh, Luis was the guy who's associated with Javier Martin. Wy suspects Louise may have played a
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role in draining Don Nor's bank account. Hello. Hola. Yeah, someone's head just popped up
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there and went down. I saw him through the window. Winner warns us to be alert that Louise might be armed and
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dangerous. You saw somebody hit I saw someone's head. They they popped up there and they looked right back down.
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It was on this right window here. Long hair guy. That's Luis. Luis. Buenas. Luis. Okay, there he is. Hola, Luis.
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See, Buenardes, we're with CBS News. We're doing a a story about the death of Don North. The
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murder of Don North. I was a friend of of Don. You were a friend of Don North. Were you also a friend of Javier
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Martinez? Yes, I know. Wasn't a friend of him. I know that guy. I know that guy. I talk with this guy, but it was
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not a friend of me. I I'm I was a friend of Don and me and my wife. Luis admits he did have one of Don's bank cards, but
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insists Don gave it to him to get some money because he was running out of dollars there and he didn't like to move
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and they give me Don give me his car. Who gave you the car? Don relevance with this case. I don't know.
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And then this come with this That is our name. Finish for today. All right, let's go. Amigo,
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[Music] based on your experience as an intelligence officer, you can read people, you can read body language. What
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were you seeing with all the folding up and the attitude? Scared, nervous, afraid.
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He wasn't putting out that I had nothing to do with it vibe. Two days into the manhunt, Javier
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Martine's whereabouts remained a mystery. While the task force spread out over a
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vast area, including these scores of islands off of the coast of Panama, he was actually hundreds of miles away here
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in the tiny village of Santa Fe, not far from the border with Colombia. This Panamaeanian cowboy says he met
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Javier Martin and sold him two horses. And did he say where he was going to go? [Music]
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and head off into one of the most treacherous jungles on Earth, making his way toward Colombia, where it would be
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nearly impossible for any law enforcement to follow him. The question was, could anyone stop him?
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We knew that Javier Martin was a dangerous killer. We knew that he had killed two people.
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We knew that he was going to flee the jurisdiction of Panama. The trail to Javier Martin led to
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Panama's Darian Jungle. 50 m wide and hundreds of miles long. It's a dangerous corridor. But Martin
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had no choice. It was the only way he could flee Panama and get to Colombia. His
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plan was going to be to ride via horseback through some of the most impenetrable jungle in the world and to
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escape into Colombia. Authorities knew Martin was equipped with guns and money. So time was of the
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essence. You know, you got to wonder, is he going to get away? You know, is is he
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never going to get caught? But luckily, Don Winner's strategy of plastering Javier Martine's face on
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national television was about to pay off. town on the edge of the Deren jungle. This hotel clerk watched that news
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report and was stunned. She knew that guy and more importantly, she knew where he was
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upstairs in room 27. And he wasn't using the name Javier Martin. What name did he register under?
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Don. Don North. Yes. Don North. Javier Martin had assumed the identity of the man he
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allegedly killed. And he didn't stop there. And then he's hitting on her and trying
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to get her to come up to his room and saying, "It's Valentine's Day and I don't want to spend Valentine's Day
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alone." You just learned that Don North is actually Javiar Martin, an accused serial killer and he's hitting on you.
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She says, "I got afraid." Afraid that a killer was in the hotel, she called her boss, who called police.
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After a massive three-day manhunt involving dozens of investigators, searches in the Caribbean and the
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jungle, Javier Martin was arrested. And what he had with him was damning. They found Don Nor's passport.
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They found three weapons. They found like $13,000 cash that he had stolen from his victims.
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The day after Martine's arrest, authorities located Don's missing boat, the Wind Dancer.
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Its name had been changed to the Green Twilight. That was done by Javier Martin.
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And that of course is not the name of the boat. That boat's my uncle's home. Without the
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boat, he he he wouldn't live without the boat. That boat once so alive when Don owned it
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was now empty and a drift. What was that moment like for you when you came to the
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realization that he was gone? I was in shock in all the stages of grieving. shock
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comes first and disbelief and it just to know how he I mean I don't know how he died but I can only
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imagine the fate of him. It that makes it hard and I just hope that it went quickly for him.
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He was killed on the boat. They found DNA on the boat. Investigators treated the wind dancer as
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a crime scene, sharing their findings with Ezra. They found blood in the top of the
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cabin, indicating that maybe a gunshot had to head. And then they found blood up the stairs
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and then on the deck indicating that Javier Martin had pulled him off the boat and thrown him overboard.
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There's very little question that he was killed on his boat. And that's hard to think about.
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Well, it was just incredibly sad. Um, you know, Don, Don, nobody deserves to die like that.
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The evidence against Javier Martin continued to pile up and was even found on Dawn's beloved
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island of Chichim. One tent was right here. He put here another year. Kuna Chief Ombberto showed us where police
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found two tents rented by Javier Martine. Inside, Martin allegedly had stashed many of Don Norse possessions, including
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a gun and equipment from his boat, electronics. It was navigational equipment. So, your uncle's boat had
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been stripped essentially. Yeah, apparently. So, so what was Javier Martine's plan?
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And more importantly, why did he allegedly kill two innocent boat owners, JeanPierre Buard and Don North?
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I think that he killed Don because there were things on the boat that he wanted.
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Remember, Martine's own boat had sunk in a storm. Authorities believe he was desperate to
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restart his business, fing backpackers between Panama and Colombia. And if you're charging them 450 bucks
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ahead, what you want is a big boat that can carry more passengers. And Jean Pierre Buhard's big boat was
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perfect. Which is why police say Martin shot the Frenchman and dumped him overboard
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just days after killing Don North, looting his boat and stealing his money. A cold-blooded killer basically. I mean
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that's that's sounds like he's used to killing people. It's just beyond anybody's comprehension
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that there are people in the world as evil as that to to do something like that.
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And Ezra is about to confront that evil head on, setting foot on his uncle's boat for the
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first time since the murder. Oh my god. [Music] This boat was his life, plain and
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simple. So, it's literally a part of him. Yeah. Yeah. It's part of his identity. This This is to see it without
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him on it just it it doesn't it ain't right. We were with Ezra as he boarded his
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uncle's boat for the first time since the murder. Finally made it. Doesn't look so good in there. What's the
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emotional connection for you to be back on this boat? I remember things, but they're all destroyed. I'm having a hard
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time looking at him because it's been ruined. There's just stuff everywhere. But as he looks closer, that's Don.
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That's your uncle as a young man. Mhm. Ezra discovers more remnants of Don Norse's life. There's my uncle at at his
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nursery. There he is. And there's Becky. Becky Reynolds is right here. Yeah. This
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was his dog he had in Trinidad. His name was Jesse. Ezra then searches for a precious family heirloom. All right.
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Well, I think this is the bag that my dad described. Something he assumed the killer must have stolen.
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Wouldn't that be cool if there was some gold in here? [Music] [Music] Oh my god. Four solid gold Krueger rans.
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I found them. My god. Unbelievable. Your uncle's gold. The killer didn't get the gold. Had found
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the gold. Your uncle Don right now has got a smile on his face. He does. This belongs to the family. He does.
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I've traveled thousands of miles to to get to this moment and here they are. It's unbelievable. But it still doesn't
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bring him back. But as you find the gold, the storm is kicking up. The rain is hitting.
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Maybe he knows. Thanks, Uncle Don. What would your uncle be saying to you right now, Ezra?
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He'd be proud of me. He He always told me he's proud of me. He'd call me and told me he's proud of
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me. And uh I just do what I think I can do is right. That's all I can do. I don't I
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don't feel like I've done anything special. Well, we've got one more search to do,
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don't we? Yes. And if he's if he's got any say in it, we'll find him, too. With that in mind, Scott, what is this?
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What we have is an acoustic camera that allows us to see things using sound in motion.
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48 hours brought sonar expert Scott Walters down to the Sand Blouse Islands to look for the one thing that could
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lead us to Dawn's body. We're looking for an anchor. If we're lucky enough to go over one, will this device detect it?
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Absolutely. This is this is the best thing that we could have for a search of this kind.
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Authorities believe Don's body was tied to his anchor and thrown overboard. We scan the channel that sources tell us
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Javier Martine sailed after the murder. And so this yellow tint we're seeing through here, that's the bottom.
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Correct. Yep. This line is the bottom. But after four multiple attempts, we all come to realize the water is just too
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deep. And if a body was here, is it almost impossible to find? It makes it a lot
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more difficult. Not impossible, but more difficult. Not possible. It's just more
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difficult at these these types of depths. While Don North may be lost at sea forever, we head off to meet the one
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person who may know where his body was dumped. We're just outside the worst, most
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notorious prison in all of Panama, Laouittita. And this is where Javier Martin lives a wedding trial. We've been
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trying for months to get to this man and we'll see what he has to say. Javier Martin, now facing more than 70 years in
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prison and a trial date later this year, agreed to an interview with 48 hours. We're just outside the uh director's
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office. We've been told this is the place we can interview Javier Martin. But with the cameras ready to roll,
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the accused double murderer backs down. He's not in the word to get any interviews. He's not interested.
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Surprisingly, he did manage to contact producer Chris Okonnell the next day. First by email. Javier and then on a
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phone that someone had smuggled in. It's Peter Vans. And this is a story I know you want the world to hear. Immediately
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it's clear Javier Martin has only one thing on his mind. He's like I need I need the money. The only way I would do
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it is um Javier, we can't pay for an interview. He's cutting you off. He's like I'm not going to do anything. Okay.
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Did you kill Don North? He says I'm not going to do it anymore. Okay. In other conversations with 48
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Hours, Javier Martin claimed his innocence, but Don Wy is sure he got his man and he's proud of it. I really do
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like the idea of being responsible for putting the bad guys in jail. I think that is a noble service.
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Despite the many unanswered questions, friends and family of Dawn North take some solace in the knowledge that his
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body is most likely in the waters that he called home. Where do you think Don is today? Don's watching. He's around.
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He'll send his little signal some way. [Music] It is kind of ironic also that he is in
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the sea. [Music] And actually when I went snorkeling a few weeks ago in the Grand Caymans, I
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remember just that the quiet of being underwater and I thought about him. It's peaceful.
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It's definitely his resting place and he would have told me cremate my body, spread my ashes here in Chich.
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I am at peace though. I'm at peace that he's with the sea. That's where I would want to be.
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[Music]