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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries just after World War II a
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squadron of five Avenger torpedo bombers
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disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle
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some people are saying that this mystery
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has finally been
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solved two women out for a stroll a
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discarded shoe and then a gruesome
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Discovery there was a foot inside the
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shoe a van full of holiday
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Travelers death seems inevitable can two
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strangers save
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them she was a lonely Widow he was a
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convicted murderer on death row then
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let's go let's go she helped him
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Escape join me for five cases that will
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surprise you and perhaps even shock you
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I'm Dennis finina and for the next hour
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it's UNS
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Mysteries
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it became known as The Legend of the
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Lost Patrol just after World War II a
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squadron of five torpedo bombers took
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off from Florida just five hours later
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the entire Squadron vanished
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where over the Bermuda Triangle where
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else Fort Lauderdale
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Florida the Navy Squadron Flight 19 was
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on a routine training flight it vanished
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somewhere off the Florida coast in an
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area known as the graveyard of the
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Atlantic the Bermuda
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Triangle for 9 years Aviation
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investigator John Meyer has studied the
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flight plant and radio Transmissions of
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the Lost Squadron when I read the story
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and I read the transcripts of the radio
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conversation
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uh it triggered a response in me and I
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said if this is true and this is true
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then then I think I can find one of the
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airplanes Meyer has never believed that
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the Squadron disappeared because of a
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mysterious Force coming from the Bermuda
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Triangle we must have got lost after
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that last turn he believes the planes
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all crashed in the ocean due to a series
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of navigational errors I got a D you
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read Meyer is convinced that one of the
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The Avengers was forced to ditch in the
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water just 30 Mi off the coast of Cape
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Canaveral
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Florida but finding a single Avenger in
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the ocean was an overwhelming task until
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a national tragedy made it
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possible when Salvage Crews searched for
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debris from the space shuttle Challenger
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they located the wreckage of a plane it
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was at a depth of 400 ft we knew we had
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a wreck but we didn't know what type of
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airplane it was and to say I was on the
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edge of my seat along with my colleagues
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would be an
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understatement an underwater survey
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revealed that the plane was an Avenger
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torpedo pomber could it be one of the
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planes of the Lost Patrol more than 40
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Years of coral and Barnacle growth made
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positive identification impossible the
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only way to prove whether this is indeed
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Flight 19 aircraft is going to be raise
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that sucker out of the water I and my
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partners believe that we're correct but
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it'll remain a mystery until we can
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raise the
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airplane John Meyer and his Partners
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began a massive recovery operation
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called project 19 30 Mi off the Florida
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coast a fourman submersible was launched
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to pinpoint the location of the plane
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previous Dives had shown the engine and
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propeller had separated from the main
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body of the plane
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there was a Navy Bureau number on the
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engine there was an engine
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manufacturer's number on the engine and
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there was also a manufacturer stamp
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number in the engine block so if we
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raise that engine we should be able to
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get a positive ID from that now as to
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how how much corrosion has occurred over
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the last 40 almost 46 years now it's
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difficult to
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say the submersible robotic arm
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Maneuvers nylon straps around their
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propeller and engine housing a 50 ton CR
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train begins to slowly raise the
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wreckage from Beneath the Sea 35 minutes
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later the propeller and engine assembly
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is hoisted on
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board the condition of the wreckage
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kills any possibility of immediate
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identification should be our last dive
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that we have to to go down for to do to
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do a hookup the crew plans the next and
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most crucial phase the recovery of the
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plan's wing and fuselage section Mike
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and myself will be up front Dave and
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John this is our next to last schedule
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dive this one hopefully will complete
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the rigging and we will pull the plane
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up on the next
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lift 3 hours later the rigging is
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complete the crew of the submersible
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attaches the primary lift cable to the
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harness that cradles the sunken
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Avenger the huge crane begins to lift
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the plane 400 ft to the surface the
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plane weighs about three times more than
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expected the harness and cable strain
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under the
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weight night closes in making the
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recovery more
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dangerous then suddenly the crane steel
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cable go
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slack the plane either collapsed or
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something CED it wasn't even pulling up
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when it actually happened and some went
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boom and now there's not much
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load okay what went back down in what
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shape we don't know what
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broke we'll take a look as it comes out
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the cable is snapped in two sending the
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Avenger back to its watery grave very
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disappointing but we're not dead we're
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going back we're going to get it just
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complicates things oh we'll have a game
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plan first thing in the
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morning it's the uh Bermuda Triangle
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continues its way
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just after Dawn the submersible is
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launched to relocate the wreckage it's
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still sitting in the same position that
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it was before which is upside down all
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the rigging is still on it so all we've
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got to do is get down there hook on to
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it and it's going to come up we're going
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to see it
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today things are in position as good as
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they can be we're about to start the
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lift bring it up very slow very easy see
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what we can do for reinforcing video
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while we go and hopefully get it on Deck
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an hour and a half later the plane is
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less than 100 ft from the surface but
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there's a problem the wings are
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buckling divers are immediately
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dispatched we put straps about 3/4 of
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the way out along the wings cuz when it
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was down at 40 or 50 ft even in these
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light Seas the heave of the boat was
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causing the wind Wings to Flap up and
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down about 2 ft we don't want to stress
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it so we put straps around the outer
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portions of those wings brought them up
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tight to give them a little extra
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support 2 and 1/2 hours later the plane
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breaks the surface for John Meyer the
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recovery of the Aventure marks the end
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of a 9-year search you know it's it's
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strange you'd think you'd be elated and
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everybody screaming and jumping up and
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down I
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it's there but it's subdued you know
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it's tempered by KN some good people
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died long time
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ago and uh we're not going to forget
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them the wreckage is taken to marine
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land near St Augustine Florida there
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numbers are collected from various parts
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of the
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aircraft several of these numbers do
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partially match those of the Lost Flight
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19 but unfortunately Jon and his team
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are still unable to prove the recovered
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plane belong to the missing Squadron
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once again the Bermuda Triangle has
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guarded its secrets and the fate of the
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Lost Patrol remains an unsolved
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mystery next a family's harrowing
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accident and the two mysterious
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strangers who rescue them from certain
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death
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60 Mi Northeast of Monteray
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Mexico the do family was making their
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way to a Christmas celebration with
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relatives it's a traveler's worst
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nightmare you're a stranger in a foreign
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country you don't know the language
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you're Gravely injured alone on an
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isolated Road and if you don't get help
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quick you face certain
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death the trip began 2 days before
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Christmas six members of the Dober
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family and one friend packed the car and
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headed off on the long drive to Mexico
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turn around sit down
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please we had just purchased a new
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customized van and it was loaded with
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everything we had a television and we
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had uh uh refrigerator so we were
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stocked up and just make an extremely
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good time and having a good
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time the drive from Atlanta to see.
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Victoria was about 12200 miles the Dos
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plan to complete the trip in just 48
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hours and arrived by Christmas day to
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save time they stopped only for gas and
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the adults took turns driving we got
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into Ledo Texas Saturday morning which
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was Christmas Eve Andross the Border but
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feather long we got it uh in the
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afternoon it really began to get cold
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and and began to snow the weather was
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getting really bad and I had been to
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Mexico several times in the past and I
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had never experienced anything like this
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in my life it was extremely cold rainy
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snowy it was just very uncharacteristic
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for the area Vance was behind the wheel
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when they crossed the border they were
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just an hour away from montere the last
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major city before their final
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destination supposed to go over a
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mountain range to get to the city and
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then we were diverted there was a
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policeman in the road we need to go to
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monter Vance learned the main road
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through the mountains had been closed
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and we were had to circle around the
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mountings and come into Monteray from a
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more easterly Direction and the snow
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began to really pick up and it was a
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real driving snow it wasn't coming just
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straight down and and the sides of the
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road began to be coated we can see it on
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the Hills ant want don't you slow down a
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little bit there buddy it's getting a
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little bit slick out there okay yeah my
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father had just told me to to even be
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extremely careful moments after he had
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told me that I suddenly lost
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control I don't know how much time
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elapsed I don't know how long I was out
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I have no idea if it was 5 minutes or an
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hour but uh I woke up and it was just a
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matter of moments when someone opened
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the door and pulled me out and the pain
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that I felt at that time was absolutely
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excruciating Vance was completely
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unaware of the tragedy that surrounded
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him the four occupants of the other
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vehicle had been killed instantly
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several people in his own car were
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barely alive a passing American couple
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who just happened to be driving driving
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by joined the rescue effort my father he
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was taken and and put in the back of a
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pickup
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truck as well as my
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grandfather my grandfather had received
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just severe head injuries to the point
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of his skull was sh his cut his head was
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just cut really badly and U the doctors
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later told us that by him putting being
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put in the back of a pickup truck
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actually saved his life because the cold
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weather actually help seal up and clot
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the
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blood through a haze of terrible pain
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Vance realized that the two Americans
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had taken charge of the rescue operation
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my cousin Tommy was uh pulled from the
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van and his uh vital signs were taken
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and it was assumed that he was dead I'm
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still not getting aul pulling other
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people out and trying to revive the ones
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that they thought were still alive the
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nearest clinic was in monter
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approximately an hour's Drive the
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unidentified American woman stayed by
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Vance's side during the entire
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trip the hospital I was taken into was
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was unlike anything I'd ever seen before
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it reminded me almost like a mash unit
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or a something out of a war movie we
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we're trying to help you can you tell
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me she told me that my leg was broken
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really bad and she told me that they
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didn't have any anesthesia that they had
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to put it in traction she said they were
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going to have to put a pin through my
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knee where's everybody else where are
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the others there's a man and a woman and
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a child here the nurse was referring to
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Vance's cousin Tommy his friend Maryann
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and Tommy's son David the nurse told me
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that they were injured severely they had
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head injuries and she didn't think that
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they would make it through the night
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there were appeared to be no sign of my
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father and grandfather and I had all
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kind of thoughts go through my head I
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mean I mean they weren't at the hospital
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I didn't know maybe they were taken to a
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Mor I me I had had no idea and no one in
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the hospital knew where they were
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at Christmas morning dawned with a
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Christmas miracle Vance woke up to find
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that his cousin had escaped unharmed and
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that Maran and Tommy were going to pull
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through he was surprised to see that the
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mysterious woman his Guardian Angel was
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still with him Merry
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Christmas Merry Christmas it brought a
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lot of joy to me knowing that she was
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there and she um she brought us both a
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little Christmas present and she spent
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Christmas morning with us there the
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woman raised Vance's Spirits even higher
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when she told him that his father and
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grandfather were still alive my
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grandfather they're going to be fine
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they're at another clinic and my husband
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is with them right
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now you remember anything about last
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night
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I was driving and she told me that her
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and her husband were on vacation and
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they happened upon the accident just
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moments after it
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occurred I've always wondered what would
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have happened had they not come upon the
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accident because we were an hour or so
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outside of this major city and there was
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nothing out there at all and these
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people just showed up doctors showed up
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out of nowhere I feel like it was
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Miracle uh many times it's an accident
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and you know we just drive by an
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accident but uh and they could have done
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that that day but they did they stopped
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and through their stopping they saved
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the lives of our family and we just want
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to say thank
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you
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update one of our viewers in Houston
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Texas realized that she had heard the
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very same story from her friends Dr
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Nancy neth Hannon and her husband John
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the hannans were in fact the Good
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Samaritans who had rescued the do
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family a few weeks later the do family
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gathered to meet the hannans and compare
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memories of that frightening Christmas
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Eve like I guess as a physician that was
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one of the most helpless feelings I've
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ever had I mean to have the knowledge
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and everything but not the tools to do
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anything it was just was really
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frustrating to us you were like an angel
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from God both of you that you were right
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there at the time and and had you not
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been there uh the whole family uh you
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know could have possibly died and you
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were so instrumental and so we just
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wanted to say thank
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you for the do family that Gathering was
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a chance to say thank you and to finally
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close this dramatic chapter of their
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lives
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next sometimes falling in love can take
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an unexpected twist especially if you
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fall in love with a convicted
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killer Mogi Oklahoma all right make a
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wish and blow those candles out Sher
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nickerson's fifth birthday party was
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hardly a happy event she was living with
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her uncle's family and though they did
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their best it was impossible to pretend
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that anyone was happy I was numb I
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didn't I didn't feel anything I wasn't
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happy it was the worst birthday of my
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life no surprise sher's party included a
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number of uninvited guests Oklahoma
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state troopers were posted
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everywhere the troopers were there
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because two lifers had escaped from a
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nearby Oklahoma prison just 9 days
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earlier and sher's mother Donna Moses
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Brown drove the getaway car I'm Michael
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I know I'm Donna at first Donna thought
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that she was simply doing a good deed
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when she was introduced to Michael Wayne
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Brown her church group had started
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writing letters to convicts to help them
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find spiritual comfort you know I don't
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know if I can make it in this place if
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it wasn't for those letters that I get
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from you oh well you know whatever we
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can do to help she was lonely she hadn't
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had anybody for a very long time and she
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needed that companionship someone to
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talk to her about things and show her
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love and affection and that's what she
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got from
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him how you
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doing I'm okay he spoke with her and I
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think that that's pretty much all that
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mattered he wrote her it was somebody
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new in her life and uh I think that it
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probably could have been anybody to him
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but she was the victim that fell into
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the the line of fire I guess look what I
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brought
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you Mike Wayne Brown like a lot of the
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men are incarcerated for long periods of
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time they really don't have any concern
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for other people's rights or or lives
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they've got all the Time in the World to
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scam to scheme on people and they get
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quite good at it they can say you a
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chainsaw the desert she wrote him every
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day she talked to him on the phone every
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day it kind of started and went full
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force there was no slowing
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down I think Donna Brown was under the
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misconception that Mike Wayne Brown was
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just a misunderstood young man who
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through unfortunate circumstances was
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doing time it seemed that everyone but
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donana knew Michael Brown was a
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coldblooded
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killer
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9 years earlier when Brown was 18 he and
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another teenager Dennis Woodward
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burglarized an insurance office in
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Oklahoma what are you doing here huh
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what are you doing here shut up Richard
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Sullivan picked the wrong time to stop
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by the office turn around turn around
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and face the wall give me the gun turn
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around Brown was very
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very hyper after that event he said I I
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killed him I killed him almost bragging
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about it he looks over at Woodward and
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he said if I had one more bullet I would
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have shot his eyes out and uh thereafter
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uh they went off to have breakfast at a
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local
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restaurant while Brown was dining on his
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bacon and eggs 41-year-old Richard
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Sullivan bled to death on his office
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floor he left behind a wife and a young
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daughter Michael Wayne Brown was put on
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death row however the sentence was later
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commuted to life without parole by the
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time Brown met Donna Moses he had
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already spent 9 years in prison Donna
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had been married twice tragically both
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of her husbands had been murdered it was
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ironic that Donna now found herself in
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love with a killer it was consuming her
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too much she didn't have time for
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anything else but him I mean she could
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visit him every weekend and it was like
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the whole week was preparing to see him
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this is your
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copy there she is hi Hi and then just 3
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months after they met do you donos take
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this man to be your lawfully wetted
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husband to love and to cherish him from
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the state forward as long as you both
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shall live I
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do I love you love you moments after the
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ceremony the honeymoon was over over
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Brown was put back in shackles and his
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prison orange and returned to his cell
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Donna sent her children to stay with
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relatives and Then followed Brown as he
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was transferred from prison to prison
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sometimes living in her car Michael
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Wayne Brown became Donna's whole world
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he was eventually transferred to a
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minimum security prison it was a perfect
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opportunity for
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Escape 3 weeks later Brown and another
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inmate jumped a 4ft fence and raced for
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Freedom Donna was waiting nearby in the
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getaway car let's go let's go by the
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time guards discovered the inmates were
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missing they were long gone a few days
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after the escape police tracked Brown to
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Paris Texas but missed him by a matter
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of
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minutes for 3 years Don's family had no
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word from their mother and no idea if
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she was alive or dead finally Sherry
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received an unexpected phone
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call hello hi Sher yeah hi it's me Mom
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Mom are you okay yeah I'm okay I'm out
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of Oklahoma but I want to come home it
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was just kind of a quick thing and
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that's all she told me she loved me and
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that was it Donna said she wanted to
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come home but she never did I'm afraid
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that she's afraid that we don't want her
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back I'm afraid that my Mom feels like
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that she did something really bad and
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that she can't face us anymore how are
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we going to act to her and what I say to
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her is it's
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okay authorities never filed charges
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against Donna Brown they believed that
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she was a victim and was coerced there
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is no arrest warrant either issued by
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the state of Oklahoma or by the federal
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government for her she's not wanted on
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any charges and in fact we would
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encourage her if she's no longer with
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brown or if in fact she is with brown to
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immediately contact the
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authorities
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update Michael Wayne Brown has been
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captured one of our viewers logged onto
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our website and noticed a striking
00:25:18
similarity between Michael and Donna
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Brown and a couple who owned a local
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video store they had been living under
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the assumed names of Kenneth and Linda
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gter once they were identified the
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couple drove themselves back to Oklahoma
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and turned themselves in Donna was
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reunited with her family Michael Brown
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was returned to prison and received an
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additional 2 years for his Escape they
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are still
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married next hands that heal a
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controversial technique that defies
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conventional medicine
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you are witnessing a controversial
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healing technique called Therapeutic
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Touch or TT its practitioners believe
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that by running their hands a few inches
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above the body they can pinpoint areas
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of disease or injury they also claim
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they can direct energy from their own
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bodies to others in order to promote
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healing does Therapeutic Touch really
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work to find out we went to Pittsburgh
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Pennsylvania and talked to a TT
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practitioner one day Janet Ziggler drove
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her three boys to the regular martial
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arts class at just 7 years of age
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Janet's youngest son Michael was already
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an accomplished
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pianist
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Michael went in and as he was slipping
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his shoes off he put his hand up in the
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jam of the
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door by that time I'd gotten out of the
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car and Michael ran out of the school
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and he was I don't think he realized
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what happened he wasn't crying or
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anything but his finger was bleeding
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profusely and he said Mom I think I
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pinched my finger and I looked down at
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his finger and it was gone and I said
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Michael where is your finger Michael
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what's wrong I got my finger caught in
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door okay stand very still almost
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instinctively Janet began to treat
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Michael with Therapeutic
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Touch This immediately calmed him he
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didn't shed a single tear at all through
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the whole
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process okay sweee let's go wash it off
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I looked in the door jam to find the
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finger and I found it it was actually
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unrecognizable it was totally squashed
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and of course the nail was gone it
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really didn't look like a finger but it
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was the only thing in the door jam so I
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assumed that's what it was it was scary
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uh I hadn't started to cry or anything
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but uh the blood and the and seeing my
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finger gone and wondering what's going
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to happen it was just a fear that went
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through me a friend rushed Janet and
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Michael to a local emergency clinic the
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injury was not life-threatening but
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Michael's future as a Pianist was now in
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question I'm sorry but this is never
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going to take I don't think we can
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reattach this finger well please try
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he's a Pianist he's got to have this
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finger need to suit your kit some saline
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the doctor he turned to me and he said
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what are you doing to him and I said I'm
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doing Therapeutic Touch to keep him calm
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the energy of the finger so he said well
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I don't know anything about that he said
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but whatever it is you're doing keep
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doing it because I've never seen a child
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so calm in such a
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situation despite his misgivings the
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doctor reattached the fingertip he
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recommended that Michael see a plastic
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surgeon as soon as possible the very
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next day when I went to the plastic
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surgeon he unwrapped it looked at it and
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said I'm sorry this is not going to take
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he's going to lose his finger and he
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just wrapped it up again a dry dressing
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didn't do anything at all to the
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finger and it went like that every
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week hello doctor is Ziggler oh Michael
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let me see your hand for 8 weeks Janet
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used Therapeutic Touch on Michael's
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finger and for 8 weeks the plastic
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surgeon warned that the reattachment
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would probably never work look the
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scab's gone looks great they removed the
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bandage the scab and everything and I
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saw like almost a brand new finger with
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new skin and everything I was totally
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overwhelmed as soon as the last bandage
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came off Michael was back at the
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keyboard less than a month later he
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placed first in a piano
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competition the experience in my
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accident and what my mom did for my
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finger most definitely changed my
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feelings about Therapeutic Touch before
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it happened I would go to my mom get the
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treatment from her but was a little
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skeptical you know it looked sort of
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funny and would joke about it after this
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experience I was totally 100% believing
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in her Therapeutic Touch and that it
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definitely
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worked but not everyone is convinced
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that Therapeutic Touch really
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works I think the
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practitioners are good and honest and
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kind
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nurses I think their therapy is
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baloney a nurse named Dolores creger
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first developed Therapeutic Touch and
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defined what makes an effective healer
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what you were moved by originally is a
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compassion you see a compassion to help
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another person and it's the power of
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compassion that brings you across that
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bridge the good effects are primarily
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Placebo effects that
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means that what the patient believes
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will happen will
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happen are Cindy and Kate still here a
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couple will call George and Marie
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learned about Therapeutic Touch
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firsthand when Marie was pregnant with
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her first child we can't wait any longer
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George we have to do with
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cyan George and Marie's daughter Mari
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was was born nearly 3 months premature
00:31:29
and weighed less than 2 lb she soon
00:31:32
developed critical problems in her lungs
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the nurse disconnected the wiring all
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the tubing from the
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baby and put the baby in my wife's
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arms and my wife held the baby and she
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started to
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cry and um I thought that was
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it I I thought the baby was
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dead in a last ditch effort to save her
00:32:03
life doctors put the tiny infant on a
00:32:06
respirator then one of the Intensive
00:32:08
Care nurses began treating Mariah with
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Therapeutic Touch I spoke to your wife
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Marie therapeutic I continued to take
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care of Mariah for the rest of my shift
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and you know contined to work on her
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direct energy and a Therapeutic Touch
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manner to her basically I'm a very
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logical bottom line shoot straight from
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the hip
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person and for someone to talk to me
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about alternative medicines they would
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have to prove it to
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me her oxygen numbers the levels are
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going up that's good right she's
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responding well look at her I'm going to
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accountant uh I deal in numbers and to
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see this I can relate to it
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every time Joanne took care of the baby
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every time Joanne had the baby the baby
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got
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better Marie was in critical condition
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also Joanne began to use Therapeutic
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Touch with her as well Joanne did
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basically the same thing for me as she
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had done for Mariah and little by little
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it
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worked and the pain went away and Joanne
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would not take credit for it it was
00:33:24
funny she would just Chuck It Off off
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like it you know was just an everyday
00:33:28
thing for her it was part of her nursing
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technique your little girl wants her pry
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the bottom line is my baby's alive and I
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have the doctors to think I have the
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whole nursing staff to thank and more so
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I have Joanne to thank cuz I believe
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without
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Joanne we wouldn't have this
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baby even the strongest Believers in
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Therapeutic Touch admit that it does not
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always work it is still considered by
00:34:00
some to be an unproven therapy but
00:34:04
perhaps in the future Medical Science
00:34:06
will unravel the mystery of this
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intriguing
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technique next a college freshman leaves
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class 6 months later pieces of his body
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wash up on the local
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Beach
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Bristol Rhode Island hey
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man when 18-year-old Brian nisenfeld
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left home to attend college he had high
00:34:41
hopes for his future he had written in
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his high school yearbook that his dream
00:34:46
was to make a difference in the world at
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the beginning of his second semester
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Brian left his afternoon English class
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as usual no one ever saw him
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again 6 months later Lori veils and her
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daughter Chelsea took a walk on Hog
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Island beach just a few miles from the
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University I noticed a shoe on the sand
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that was at the high TI line look like
00:35:16
somebody just walked out of their
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shoe oh my goodness and I just kind of
00:35:22
poked the shoe with my stick and it
00:35:24
seemed hard like something had been
00:35:26
stuck inside the shoe I realized there
00:35:29
was like a white very shiny white almost
00:35:32
plastic looking smooth surface and
00:35:34
around it um like a fleshy substance so
00:35:38
I knew right at that point that there
00:35:41
was a foot inside the shoe DNA tests
00:35:45
determined the foot and a shin bone
00:35:47
found close by were Brian's though
00:35:50
authorities found no additional remains
00:35:52
They concluded that Brian was dead when
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it was a announced that the bones were
00:35:58
possibly
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Brian's it gave us some kind of uh
00:36:02
relief knowing that uh he didn't just
00:36:06
wander
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off so what could possibly have happened
00:36:12
to Brian nisen felt and why would only a
00:36:15
foot and a shinbone wash up on a beach
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and where was the rest of his body well
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some say his death was an accident
00:36:23
others that it was
00:36:25
suicide however his family says that
00:36:28
Brian was
00:36:31
murdered largely based on the fact that
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we have not uncovered any evidence
00:36:38
whatsoever of Foul Play We're inclined
00:36:41
to believe this this perhaps may have
00:36:43
been a suicide I don't think Brian would
00:36:46
commit suicide I don't think he did
00:36:48
commit suicide there's no evidence of
00:36:51
that there's never been any evidence of
00:36:53
that it's all Theory and an accident I I
00:36:56
guess it's possible but in my heart my
00:36:59
gut I don't think that was the case I
00:37:01
believe Brian was
00:37:04
murdered investigators try to
00:37:06
reconstruct Brian's brief term at
00:37:08
college from the beginning his life
00:37:11
there was a struggle Brian's academic
00:37:14
career in high school came very easily
00:37:16
for him this was much more of a
00:37:18
challenge he missed his family that he
00:37:21
was so close to and I don't think he
00:37:23
realized how much his family meant to
00:37:25
him until he had actually went away I
00:37:28
think Brian was homesick he didn't do
00:37:30
very well that fourth semester Brian he
00:37:32
uh his grades kind of plummeted
00:37:35
investigators believe Brian's
00:37:37
difficulties at school might have driven
00:37:39
him to commit suicide
00:37:46
Brian but it's possible something even
00:37:49
more Sinister may have led to his
00:37:53
disappearance dad you have to come up
00:37:55
here and get me just by the reflection
00:37:57
of his voice I knew that he was in a
00:37:59
crisis mood I knew that he was scared
00:38:01
and he said this kid is threatening me
00:38:03
he's harassing me on the phone was
00:38:05
threatening to get on campus threatening
00:38:07
to beat him up and I thought if this kid
00:38:09
can get on the campus then security has
00:38:11
to know about it
00:38:13
Brian campus security called a student
00:38:16
adviser in Brian's dormatory who then
00:38:18
checked up on him how you doing good
00:38:21
Brian said the threatening calls were
00:38:23
from a former student but he was was
00:38:26
either unwilling or unable to say what
00:38:30
motivated the caller yeah yeah you're
00:38:32
okay yeah totally I'm fine all tomorrow
00:38:35
for reasons only he knew Brian grew even
00:38:38
more troubled please let talk to you
00:38:40
Brian didn't tell anyone where he was
00:38:41
going he simply left class and did not
00:38:45
return Brian 6 days passed before anyone
00:38:49
became
00:38:52
suspicious the minute he was called by
00:38:54
the university Brian's father set out
00:38:56
for Rhode Island when I heard that that
00:39:00
my son you know that Brian was missing
00:39:02
for a week two things happened in my
00:39:04
mind one I go through a state of
00:39:06
disbelief and shock and the other thing
00:39:09
is I got to find him I got to get
00:39:11
involved I have to see what the hell
00:39:19
happened nothing's changed it's exactly
00:39:22
the way we found
00:39:25
it
00:39:30
gloves are still here it's it's it's the
00:39:32
middle of the
00:39:33
winter it looked like he stepped out to
00:39:36
get a soda or go to dinner or something
00:39:40
it looked like I should wait and he's
00:39:41
going to show up again but it was 7 days
00:39:44
it was a week since he disappeared so I
00:39:46
knew he wasn't coming back to the
00:39:49
room Brian's parents believe the former
00:39:52
student who threatened Brian over the
00:39:54
phone had something to do with his
00:39:57
disappearance investigators found out
00:39:59
the name of the former student and
00:40:01
learned that he and Brian had been close
00:40:03
friends during his first semester when
00:40:06
questioned he admitted to making the
00:40:08
threatening phone calls but said they
00:40:10
were only a joke Brian being unsure of
00:40:14
himself having some freshman Jitters
00:40:16
really seemed to gravitate toward this
00:40:19
one student I do know just from talking
00:40:22
to Brian's parents and reading some of
00:40:23
Brian's poetry that he did seem to be
00:40:26
a young man who was questioning his
00:40:28
sexuality and while I am not sure
00:40:31
whether it was an overt homosexual
00:40:33
relationship I do think that they were
00:40:35
undertones of
00:40:37
that whatever the nature of their
00:40:39
friendship it ended
00:40:41
suddenly get out Brian never said why
00:40:45
certainly one of the theories that I've
00:40:47
explored is that this former student was
00:40:50
going to expose his relationship with
00:40:52
Brian that there were certain things
00:40:54
that Brian didn't want his parents
00:40:56
parents to know didn't want his hometown
00:40:58
to know and that his homosexuality could
00:41:00
have been one of them was it possible
00:41:03
that Brian was
00:41:04
gay well I guess it's possible he would
00:41:07
not say uh what soured their
00:41:11
relationship he would not tell me
00:41:14
anything in relationship to the
00:41:16
relationship with the former student I
00:41:18
wouldn't do that the former student in
00:41:21
my opinion had something to do with
00:41:23
Brian's death he may not been actual
00:41:27
person to have done him in but I think
00:41:30
he had something to do with Bryan's
00:41:32
death we were able to uh meet uh with
00:41:35
that individual uh conduct a uh
00:41:39
comprehensive interview of him and we
00:41:41
are fully satisfied that that person had
00:41:44
absolutely no responsibility in The
00:41:47
Disappearance of Brian nisenfeld I know
00:41:50
somebody knows something they're just
00:41:52
afraid to talk and I don't know why but
00:41:55
they are afraid to talk talk they're
00:41:56
afraid to come
00:41:58
forward somebody has to know something
00:42:00
about
00:42:01
Brian if you have any information about
00:42:04
the case of Brian nisenfeld please log
00:42:06
on to our website at unsolved.com
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