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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a traffic accident opens the
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door to a murder case the prime suspect
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is still on the
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Run 3 months after a 16-year-old girl
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disappears police get a call from an
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eyewitness to her
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abduction how much does he really
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know a young man becomes the innocent
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victim of a gang shoo and his parents
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take the lead in tracking down his
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killers and how do you treat an
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arthritic tiger that has an attitude you
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call on Linda tellington Jones the
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therapist with a Magic
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Touch some hot cases some cold cases and
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some cases with surprising Revelations
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I'm Dennis finina and this is UNS Sol
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Mysteries
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Denver
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Colorado at 2:00 in the morning two
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vehicles Collide on a downtown
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Street One driver flees the scene
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leaving his pickup
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truck a few minutes later police arrive
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coming right in intersection when they
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searched a truck they find a room key
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from a local motel and a bloody Jack
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handle at the motel police discover the
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room is registered to Larry
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Monroe in his room they find a pair of
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pants and a sweatshirt both covered in
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blood it turned out the truck belonged
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to a man named Donald Smith from hemid
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California donal's wife hadn't heard
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from him for 12 days what started out as
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a simple traffic accident would soon
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turn into a bizarre case of
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murder when Don left hemt he was headed
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to Idaho to visit his daughter Brenda
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except for his two dogs Don was
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traveling alone Brenda was the only
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child from Don's first marriage for most
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of her life she and her father have been
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kept
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apart my mother kept me away from my
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father they didn't get along real well
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after the divorce and I think I only saw
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him like once um up until the time my
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mother died and then I started searching
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for him uh he was searching for me as
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well when Brenda was 26 years old she
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and her father were finally
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reunited you know he was very protective
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of me and if any one ever you know if I
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ever had a problem he said you know just
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let me know I'll take care of it for you
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you know he was kind of a macho man I
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guess basically it was a real good
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relationship my father drank um which he
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didn't do very often you know thank God
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he turned into kind of a different
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person when he was
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drunk the day after Don Smith left home
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he and another man pulled up in front of
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the hospital where Brenda worked as a
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nurse Don stayed in the truck while His
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companion
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went in hi I'm looking for Brenda Walker
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she's not working today the receptionist
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referred the man to Brenda's supervisor
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John slain yeah this is
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John slain went outside to talk to Don
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he you're branda's dad yeah where's my
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baby girl Brenda yeah he was obviously
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had been drinking and he said where's
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Brenda at and I said well she's on
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fishing with her girlfriend the guy that
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was driving leaned over you know to get
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the
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directions 15 mil away Brenda and her
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two friends had given up fishing and
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stopped by a Tavern near the
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lake the door opened and everyone in the
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bar turned around there was a a black
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man that had come in and he closed the
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door he had sunglasses on took the
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sunglasses off and uh looked around for
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a few minutes I think he was probably
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allowing his eyes to adjust to the
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darkness then he walked into the the
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restroom
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and about probably a minute later um
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this man came in with wild hair and his
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shirt was untucked hi is there a Brenda
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Walker in
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here I want
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D it took me a minute to really realize
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who he was it was my father he looked so
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different from the last time I saw him
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and he hugged me and sat at the bar with
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me for a minute and I realized that he
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was drunk and I went into the restroom I
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was a little upset because he had showed
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up drunk and it kind of embarrassed me
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in front of my friends she's such a
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sweetheart I sure missed her I went into
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the restroom I came back out you okay
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uhhuh how about you I want to be with
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you so much he starts crying immediately
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and he's babbling and he's talking about
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how he doesn't want to be alive anymore
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and how he's got cancer and he was going
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to be with my mother in heaven and then
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His companion came out of the restroom
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hey the black man just kept on walking
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you know he kind of looked looked over
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at my father and then just kept walking
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like he didn't really know who he was
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and went out and got into the truck and
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got into the driver's seat of my
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father's truck I don't know he looked
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real impatient looked disgusted with
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being
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there yeah I don't want to hear you cry
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I don't want to hear this why don't you
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just go get a motel room sober at and
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then come back and talk to me tomorrow
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about
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it anyone want to fight in here let go I
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can FP anyone in here when her father
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became belligerent Brenda Walked Out Of
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The
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Saloon after a few minutes Don followed
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Brenda outside but she left without
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speaking to
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him I wish that I would have had more
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patience with him I wish I would have
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understood his situation I wish I would
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have you know tried to be more
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compassionate with him it was the last
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time I saw him he he opened up the the
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camper and let the dogs out and let them
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run around and I just drove away
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two weeks later in the high desert
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outside Twin Falls a couple out for
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their morning walk made a horrifying
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Discovery think better follow the
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police police were called in to remove
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and identify the dead
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body we observed a body that appeared to
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have been thrown over the guard rail
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laying down uh the body was decaying for
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approximately 2 weeks we could not
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recognize him at that point there was no
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identification found around him or on
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him at this time we had no idea who we
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had we just had another John do an
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autopsy was done and we found a blung in
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marks on the back of the head indicating
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cause of death was by
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blent also outside of the guard rail
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where possibly the victim was thrown
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from uh we found a sack with a bottle of
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wine in it it was just taken as
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evidence the twinfalls sheriff's
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department had no idea who the body was
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until they heard about the truck that
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had been abandoned about 700 mil away in
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Denver Denver Police had sent out a
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teletype indicating that they had a
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vehicle involved in an accident that
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possibly was involved in a homicide so I
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called the Denver uh police department
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and they gave me the name of a
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subject Donald Smith
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fingerprints positively identified the
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dead man as Donald
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Smith police began to piece together the
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events that led up to Don's
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murder on the day he left home he ran
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into trouble with a trailer that he was
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Towing just outside Las Vegas he
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arranged to leave it with a local
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man one theory is that soon after Don
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left Las Vegas he picked up a hitchhiker
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at some point along the away they
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started
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drinking the day after he saw his
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daughter Don turned up in Park City
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Utah he called his sister and Vancouver
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asking her to wire him
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$200 when Dan picked up the money he was
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with someone who looked exactly like the
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man Brenda had seen with her father in
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the
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bar police believe that the hitchhiker
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murdered Don for the money when he
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stopped to let his dogs out for a
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run on boy come Bo the murder weapon was
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probably the Jack handle grabbed from
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the rear of the
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truck
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I want to know why he killed my father I
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want to know why he took my my father
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away from me and away from my children
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my father was the only family I
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had this composite of Don Smith's
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mysterious companion was made from
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various eyewitness accounts he is black
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but with relatively light skin he's
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about 6 ft tall and weighs around 180 lb
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today he would probably be in his 50s he
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may use the name Larry Monroe and might
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once have lived in Blackfoot
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Idaho if you have any information about
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this man or the murder of Don Smith
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please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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next police are looking for the
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eyewitness to the Abduction of a young
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girl
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when you think Las Vegas you think slot
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machines Blackjack and high States
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gambling but just one mile Off the Strip
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is another side of Las Vegas an ordinary
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part of suburban
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America 16-year-old Kathy Hobbs is
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reading a romance novel in her bedroom
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at 11:00 p.m. she decides to walk to the
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local supermarket just 1 and 1/2 blocks
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away to buy another
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book she came out to me and she said Mom
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I'm going down to the store and buy a
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book and she said give me a kiss before
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I go and I said right I'll be up when
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you get back and she says well she says
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I probably will stop and talk to the
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kids so you might be in bed when I get
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back so I gave her a kiss and that was
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the last I saw of
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her Kathy often walked to the store late
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at night usually her friends hung out at
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the apartment swimming pool so Cathy's
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mother Vivien wasn't worried about
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her assuming that Kathy would be with
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her friends viven went to
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sleep then at 3:00 a.m. a strange dream
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woke her up I woke up at a sound sleep I
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felt like I had been hit on the head and
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all of a sudden I got a very peaceful
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feeling and it was well it's over
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now and I fell back to
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sleep the next morning Vivian discovered
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that Kathy's bedroom was
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empty within the first day we had track
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down friends uh relatives and done a
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very extensive media campaign on the
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television with Cather 's picture all
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day long at the end of the second day we
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were pretty much convinced that
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Catherine was probably
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abducted Kathy's family had been
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terribly worried about her as a child
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she had frightening premonitions several
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of them that she would die at an early
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age when she was eight she became even
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more specific telling her friends that
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she would not live past the age of
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16 she did not have a happy
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childhood her father and I went through
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a divorce when she was 8 years old she
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and her father were extremely close when
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she was in the seventh grade a very good
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friend of hers died of a heart disease
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that affected Kathy very
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much and that's one of the main reasons
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we moved to Las Vegas was to give Kathy
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another chance to get away from that
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atmosphere and the environment that she
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grew up
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in after the move Kathy BL blossomed and
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made new friends but as her 16th
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birthday approached her old fear of
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dying
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returned she got very teared one night
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and told me Mom I don't want to get any
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older I want to be a little
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girl and I told her I said Cathy we all
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have to grow up and you know it's it's
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not the easiest thing in the world to do
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but we all do it she told me I'm not
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going to she didn't think she'd make her
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16th birthday
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Kathy spent all of her time in her room
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and would not leave the
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house and then on the morning of her
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16th birthday she was surprised and
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relieved to find that she was still
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alive and she came out of her bedroom
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and she said Mom I did it I did it I
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made it and I said what and she said I
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made 16 I didn't think I'd live to be
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16 Kathy now seemed to have a new
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enthusiasm for life she began to go out
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again and started making plans for her
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future she was ecstatic she came out she
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goes I made it Mom I made it I'm
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16 I did it I'm
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alive after Kathy vanished police
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assumed that she had been abducted and
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issued photos to the media eventually
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one crucial clue
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surfaced a clerk remembered seeing Kathy
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in the supermarket the night she
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vanished store receipts confirmed that
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someone did purchase a paperback novel
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at
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11:17 that night apparently Kathy had
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made it to the store but not
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home this intersection is a large
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intersection widely traveled and the
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store is a 24-hour major store and to
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have people coming and going from the
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store and nobody seeing anything with
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was very very
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surprising 9 days after Kathy vanished a
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hiker was searching for rock crystals
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out in the desert near Lake me was
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walking back to the car and was probably
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150 ft 200 ft from the road and was
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stopped by a very strong odor decided to
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see where it was coming from or what it
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was and that's when I found Catherine's
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body it was the most horrible thing I'd
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ever seen in my life I had to sit down
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and and gather my thoughts and and make
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sure that what I was looking at was
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real within probably 20 minutes of our
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arrival we knew it was Catherine there
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was no doubt in our own minds that it
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was going to be
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Catherine and it does get very quiet and
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uh you can't help but look at it and see
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your own children and say for the grace
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of God there goes one of
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mine you want to run home grab your
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daughter by the arm and bring her to the
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scene and say this is why I say no you
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can't go out late at
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night Tire prints at the scene showed
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where a vehicle had pulled in turned
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around and left investigators also found
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two rocks spattered with Cathy's blood
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the coroner concluded that she died from
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repeated blows to the
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Head she was 16 years 3 months and 3
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days old when she was killed so she made
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it to
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16 but uh not much after that but she
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was right you know she did have this
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premonition that she wasn't going to
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live to be an
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adult after Kathy's death letters were
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found in her room addressed to each
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member of the family they were dated 1
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month before her 16th
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birthday dear Mother in event of my
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death you shall get this letter
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I hope you live happily and I don't want
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you or anyone else to dwell on my death
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I love you all very dearly you are good
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to me and nobody else could have been a
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better mother keep me alive in your
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heart and don't ever forget me love
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always
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Kathy exactly 3 months after Kathy
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vanished A call came in to the Las Vegas
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Police Department their answering
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machine recorded this message from a man
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who may have witnessed her
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abduction grabbed this girl in front of
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the uh uh store on Desert in in
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Maryland this is a few months ago I've
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been out of town for a few months and I
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wrote this down because she was
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screaming and they pull her in the car
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she's a very young girl wearing a white
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uh jacket and pink pants and the guy's
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name he holler to him push you in the
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car her his name was
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Robbie the theory that we have is is
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that she was abducted uh between the
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store and her apartment uh by one or
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more suspects uh we think she was driven
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to the lake that night I believe that
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she was abducted and killed that
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evening the caller reported the license
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number of the car but did not leave his
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name or phone number the police checked
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the license number and discovered it did
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not exist
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and the witness still has not called
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back today the murder of Kathy Hobs
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remains unsolved her mother and the Las
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Vegas Police hope that the witness will
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call back and give more details or that
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someone watching May recognize the voice
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of the mysterious
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caller update there are new developments
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in this case here's one of our staff
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with
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details while the the witness never
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contacted authorities and was never
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located this case has been closed an
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alleged serial killer named Michael Lee
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lockheart was a key suspect in Cathy's
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murder after his arrest for another
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murder he was put on trial convicted and
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has since been
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executed next how can the touch of a
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human hand ease the pain of a suffering
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tiger this woman has the
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answer
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KO the killer whale escaped to the open
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sea in the film free Willie but in real
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life Koo suffered from a strange wlike
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growth called the papala beneath his
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pectoral
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fins for 10 years no one was able to
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cure it then Linda tellington Jones came
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along with a technique she calls the tea
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touch when I was asked to work with k
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with the touches I really didn't know if
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it would help him or not what I was
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hoping is that these little circular
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touches would actually affect the cells
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and help to reduce the effects of this
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virus like
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papala koo's handlers saw results almost
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immediately the day after Linda was with
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Koo we we saw big changes on the
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papiloma um it was very thin and it it
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wasn't broken as always
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is so he was active also he was like
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kind of very
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happy Linda next tried her hand at the
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Out of Africa Wildlife Park in Phoenix
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Arizona a 400 lb Bengal t tiger named
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Kipling had joints that were inflamed
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and very painful Linda was convinced
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that she would be able to help by the
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tea touch her own system of therapeutic
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touching they're a collection of
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circular touches done all over the body
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with the idea with the intent of waking
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up the functioning of the
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cells jumping more than he
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we to make the connection I did big
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circles and say feel you feel you and
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then when I really went into the joints
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it's this very directed connection so
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that he really feels the intent of
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waking up those cells it's like turning
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on the electric lights of the
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body it seemed to calm him down and his
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body relaxed and his breathing came
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heavier um so he was going into a a deep
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uh relaxed state by her touch when she
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got to a point where it was obvious he
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his joints hurt him he reacted but not
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violent in any way so now we know where
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to touch and where he really needs it
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just from from what she did with that
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that session with
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him the Siberian tiger named Genesis
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offered the most dangerous test for
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Linda's tea touch therapy Genesis had
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been known to attack anyone within reach
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even the handlers he had known for
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years he has attacked me I have a
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personal experience with Genesis where
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he actually went through my arm and uh
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way into my
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arm
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it was much too risky for Linda to go
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inside the Tiger's
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enclosure from outside she got it Bobby
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in performing The Tea touch while
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another Handler kept Genesis calm by
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letting him lick her
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fingers if there's a way you can keep
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him sucking and you reach back and you
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can get to the neck and shoulders and at
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least te touched seemed to be working
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Genesis hadn't attacked anyone yet keep
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the primary contact with the hand where
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he feels safe up on the shoulder and the
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other one just kind of moves
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back and up there what we find is that
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the touches override fear or
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aggression those are instinctive
00:24:13
responses and that when we do these
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little circular touches all over the
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body you can take an animal who is very
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fearful or an animal who is aggressive
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and suddenly you change them at a core
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level at the level of the brain as
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skeptic you know I don't I don't
00:24:29
understand part of her philosophy of Dr
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Irvin Ingram a phoenix veterinarian had
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treated jesis several times though he
00:24:38
had doubts about touch therapy Ingram
00:24:41
watched with an open mind in the end he
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concluded that Linda had made an impact
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quietly around the base of the something
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certainly made a difference and she's
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the primary difference I guess today but
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there's no question from this morning to
00:24:56
this afternoon much calmer seems almost
00:24:59
aware of what's around him instead of
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being in his own little world I don't
00:25:02
know why it works I don't really know
00:25:04
how it works we only know from
00:25:06
experience in six continents with
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Incredible numbers of animals and people
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that it does work but it's a
00:25:15
mystery there are more than 1,300
00:25:18
practitioners of the tellington method
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in 26 countries lenda has written over a
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dozen books that have been published in
00:25:26
different languages
00:25:28
She was recently inducted into the
00:25:30
massage therapy Hall of
00:25:35
Fame next it was only a childhood
00:25:38
promise made during a brief Hospital
00:25:40
stay decades later the girl who made
00:25:44
that promise was finally able to keep
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it
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mommy when she was just 7 years old
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Nikki Crowder was in a hospital in Los
00:26:05
Angeles to have several tumors removed
00:26:07
from her throat that's where she met
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8-year-old Sharita Lyn Harding who had a
00:26:13
very rare and a very dangerous form of
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cancer I looked up to Sharita because
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when she was older and she was there
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first so she kind of initiated me of
00:26:25
what you know being in a new place new
00:26:29
atmosphere the two girls became close
00:26:31
friends
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overnight there was a bond there because
00:26:37
we mattered to one another we looked out
00:26:39
for what went you know went on and we
00:26:42
had something in common and that was our
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illnesses
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itself a few weeks after they met
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Sharita went through several hours of
00:26:52
grueling surgery mommy is this going to
00:26:56
happen to me no honey this isn't going
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to happen so that's when my mother
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explained to me that charita had had a
00:27:04
very very delicate surgery and that she
00:27:07
wouldn't be able to have
00:27:10
kids and I remember feeling like oh that
00:27:13
you know was just the worst thing in the
00:27:16
world that night Nikki did her best to
00:27:20
comfort her
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friend I'm sorry you're feeling so
00:27:24
bad does it hurt
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I said you don't have to cry
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because if I ever have a baby I said you
00:27:35
can share it with me and we can both be
00:27:38
its mommy I said and I'll even name it
00:27:41
Sharita after you don't worry after 5
00:27:44
weeks Nikki was released from the
00:27:46
hospital the two friends never saw each
00:27:50
other
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again more than 20 years later Nikki
00:27:57
wanted to find her old friend so she
00:27:59
could be godmother for the christening
00:28:01
of Nikki's three-year-old daughter who
00:28:03
she named Sharita in honor of her friend
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I
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promise
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update a few minutes after we first
00:28:14
broadcast Nikki story we learned that
00:28:17
Sharita Lin Harding was alive and well
00:28:20
and living in
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Oklahoma 21 years after they said
00:28:25
goodbye the two friends were reunited at
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Nikki's home in Los
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Angeles oh my God I can't believe a long
00:28:35
time I'm so glad to see you hi I'm so
00:28:39
glad you're alive I don't think Nikki
00:28:42
has changed that much she was always
00:28:44
caring giving person seems like she's
00:28:47
still the same she would have to be to
00:28:50
try to find me and you know all these
00:28:52
years and be so persistent about
00:28:55
it Nikki was finally able to keep her
00:28:59
promise protect her all the child of her
00:29:03
life it's a gift you can't buy it's the
00:29:05
most perfect gift in the world and it
00:29:07
comes from God and nobody should be
00:29:09
deprived of that whether they have it
00:29:11
naturally or can share it with somebody
00:29:14
and that's something that I wanted to
00:29:15
share with Sharita because of all the
00:29:18
joy and strength she you know she gave
00:29:20
me I could give her back something that
00:29:23
she missed Lord bless them even as God
00:29:26
Parents
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being a godmother is special to me
00:29:29
because I don't have any kids and and
00:29:32
it's giving me like a child of my own
00:29:34
that I you know can
00:29:38
share I'm just honored and so I try to
00:29:41
live up to it best as I
00:29:44
can I Christ the
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Sharia Kennedy
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Crowder near nearly 400,000 Americans
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are victims of gang violence each year
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many are innocent bystanders caught in
00:30:05
the crossfire who don't even belong to a
00:30:07
gang victims like Kevin
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wheel Hawaiian Gardens California just
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south of Los
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Angeles it was here that Teresa wheel's
00:30:22
only son Kevin was Gunn downed by four
00:30:25
suspected gang members
00:30:28
Kevin was what you might say a typical
00:30:32
teenager he loved his music really loud
00:30:34
he was a little bit on the shy side he
00:30:38
had a sense of humor you wouldn't
00:30:40
believe and he always always had a smile
00:30:43
on his
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face Hawaiian Gardens had its share of
00:30:48
gang activity and Kevin knew several
00:30:50
gang members it was a casual Association
00:30:55
that proved
00:30:56
fatal
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on the night that he was killed Kevin
00:31:01
spent the evening at a friend's house he
00:31:03
was driving home around 11:30 p.m. when
00:31:07
according to eyewitnesses a car began to
00:31:10
follow
00:31:26
him
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00:31:38
Kevin was struck twice in the head and
00:31:40
three times in the back an hour later he
00:31:43
was dead police immediately suspected it
00:31:46
was a gang
00:31:48
shooting some of Kevin's friends were
00:31:51
Hawaiian Gardens gang members but that
00:31:54
doesn't mean that Kevin was a gang
00:31:56
member he just associated with them and
00:31:59
I feel the other gang recognized the car
00:32:03
and they just keyed on the car and not
00:32:05
the occupants of the
00:32:08
vehicle I didn't want Kevin's case to be
00:32:11
just another gang related shooting I
00:32:13
didn't want it to be another shooting
00:32:15
that went unsolved I made a promise that
00:32:18
I would do everything in my power to
00:32:20
catch these guys who murdered him
00:32:23
Kevin's parents would not sit still they
00:32:26
posted thousands of Flyers around the
00:32:28
area where he was shot when the
00:32:30
investigation first started I thought
00:32:32
you know there was so much information
00:32:34
at first that this probably wouldn't be
00:32:35
no problem and being that Kevin wasn't a
00:32:38
gang member you know people would talk
00:32:41
but I was really
00:32:43
wrong gang shooting investigations are
00:32:47
very frustrating within the gang culture
00:32:50
the reason the uh Witnesses are not
00:32:54
coming forward is because they feel that
00:32:57
that being a snitch is worse than death
00:33:00
itself get I hope so the hardest part
00:33:04
for Stan and I right now is I think
00:33:06
dealing with the anger the anger that
00:33:09
our son is dead and buried in a grave at
00:33:12
19 there was no Rhyme or Reason Why
00:33:16
anybody would want to shoot Kevin he's
00:33:17
never been any fights or disagreements
00:33:20
with anybody I mean he was just you know
00:33:23
19-year-old out having
00:33:25
fun it was just so senseless it's so
00:33:28
stupid it was and still is such a shock
00:33:31
that something like this could
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00:33:37
happen police believe Kevin killers were
00:33:40
four males possibly Hispanic they were
00:33:43
driving a white compact car and may have
00:33:45
been members of a gang based in nearby
00:33:50
RT if you have any information about the
00:33:53
murder of Kevin wheel please log on to
00:33:56
our website at
00:33:58
unsolved.com
00:34:02
coming up a woman is convinced that
00:34:05
she's been contacted from Beyond the
00:34:07
Grave by the spirit of her
00:34:18
daughter the death of a family member is
00:34:20
one of the most difficult experiences
00:34:23
any of us will ever face so it's not
00:34:26
surprising that many people wish that
00:34:28
they could somehow speak with a lost
00:34:30
loved one in our next story we'll meet a
00:34:33
woman who believes that she got that
00:34:35
chance after the death of her
00:34:40
daughter Karen Walker was the only child
00:34:43
of Jean and Tom Walker Karen was very
00:34:47
bright read extensively uh from the time
00:34:50
she was about three I no longer had to
00:34:52
read to her she would read the stories
00:34:54
to me instead which was wonderful there
00:34:57
was one story that symbolized the
00:34:59
closeness Karen and her parents felt for
00:35:02
each other the Three
00:35:05
Musketeers The Familiar phrase all for
00:35:08
one one for all became the Walker family
00:35:12
Motel when Karen was 17 the Family
00:35:15
Circle expanded to include her new
00:35:18
boyfriend Jim
00:35:20
Alvarado Karen and Jim seemed an
00:35:22
unlikely match Jim came from a large
00:35:25
workingclass family he was a poor
00:35:28
student who had been told that he would
00:35:30
never amount to much but Karen knew
00:35:33
better she saw something in me in terms
00:35:35
of of potential as far as my intellect
00:35:37
was concerned she didn't know you know
00:35:40
what I lacked necessarily in academic
00:35:42
skills although over that period of time
00:35:43
in study hall she began to to learn and
00:35:46
she began to help me even then the
00:35:48
Clause may be renaming the subject when
00:35:50
Jim's mind would wander Karen had her
00:35:53
own special way of getting him back on
00:35:56
track
00:35:57
pay attention you're not going to get
00:35:59
into college this way and she would get
00:36:01
my attention and and I would straighten
00:36:03
up and and and get back to work and and
00:36:06
do what I had to do she was my tutor she
00:36:09
was my helper she was my friend and
00:36:13
somebody who I love very very
00:36:15
much Karen was only 20 when tragedy
00:36:18
struck the cause of a lingering pain in
00:36:21
her right leg was finally
00:36:23
diagnosed Karen had Ying SAR coma a rare
00:36:28
and usually fatal form of
00:36:31
cancer we reacted with horror but with
00:36:35
determination we were going to see to it
00:36:37
that she got well the Three Musketeers
00:36:39
were going to stay
00:36:40
together Karen began an exhaustive
00:36:43
series of radiation and chemotherapy
00:36:46
treatments oh hello hello after two
00:36:49
months of treatment how you feeling
00:36:50
Karen suffered a painful
00:36:55
setback o
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Karen woke up about 5:00 in the morning
00:37:00
Mom pain in her leg for the first time
00:37:03
in a long time she had been going
00:37:04
through Cobalt therapy and the pain had
00:37:07
disappeared and suddenly the pain was
00:37:10
excruciating my leg it hurts it
00:37:13
hurt okay can't moving the cancer had
00:37:16
eaten the bone completely through the
00:37:18
bone was no longer
00:37:21
there through it all karen Spirits
00:37:24
remained strong and hopeful
00:37:27
in March Jim proposed and they started
00:37:30
to plan their
00:37:32
wedding but only 12 days before the
00:37:35
ceremony Karen lapsed into a coma minute
00:37:39
but I think we're losing
00:37:41
her remember what we used to say about
00:37:44
the Three Musketeers how we'd always
00:37:47
stick together huh one for all and all
00:37:51
for
00:37:53
one I learned that the tumor had gone
00:37:56
into into the
00:37:57
brain I knew we had reached the
00:38:01
end she woke up in the middle of the
00:38:04
night and I held her hand and asked
00:38:07
her how she was because that was the
00:38:09
first time she had talked to me in 9
00:38:14
days Mom it's
00:38:17
time I can't go on like this anymore I
00:38:21
can't think anymore I
00:38:25
understand is it okay
00:38:27
okay of course please tell Dad and tell
00:38:32
Jim that it was my decision that I was
00:38:35
ready to go I will I
00:38:40
promise and as I was
00:38:42
watching something went out of the top
00:38:45
of her head it just lifted and it was
00:38:48
like a whsp of smoke or or fog or
00:38:51
something and as I saw that happen I
00:38:53
said goodbye
00:38:55
Karen
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Karen died on December 17th two days
00:39:02
before she would have been
00:39:05
married the night after Karen died Jim
00:39:08
stayed at her parents house he tried to
00:39:11
study and keep from thinking about his
00:39:13
enormous loss but Jim was about to get
00:39:16
his first hint that Karen's Spirit had
00:39:20
survive
00:39:25
death it was more than a kick it was
00:39:27
really an Awakening on my part that got
00:39:29
my
00:39:30
attention and I realized that at that
00:39:33
point that you
00:39:34
know Karen was was with me at that
00:39:39
point Karen's parents Tom and Jean were
00:39:42
also searching for Comfort over the next
00:39:45
few days they went to psychics and
00:39:47
mediums hoping they might contact Karen
00:39:50
Spirit three times they tried and three
00:39:53
times the Walkers went away disappointed
00:39:57
then they went to see a medium Jean had
00:40:00
read about the Reverend George daisley
00:40:03
Jean and Tom agreed to limit the
00:40:05
information they gave the Reverend they
00:40:08
only told him that their daughter had
00:40:10
recently died but they did not give him
00:40:13
Karen's name please take a seat I knew
00:40:16
they were graving parents I knew nothing
00:40:18
about them whatsoever otherwise nothing
00:40:23
whatsoever Daisy's first comments amaz
00:40:26
da I will tell you everything that she
00:40:30
says your daughter is here she is safe
00:40:34
she is
00:40:36
well she says she doesn't hurt
00:40:40
anymore she wants me to tell you that
00:40:42
you were the Three Musketeers and you
00:40:44
still
00:40:45
are she says we are the Three Musketeers
00:40:49
and we'll always be
00:40:53
together I was just flabbergast Ed that
00:40:57
he could come up with the one piece of
00:41:00
information that was so specific to
00:41:03
us I think if he had said nothing else
00:41:06
that day I would always always know that
00:41:10
Karen was still
00:41:13
alive I'm hearing the name Karen yes yes
00:41:17
it's
00:41:18
Karen it's her birthday soon I believe
00:41:22
yes the details literally Spilled Out of
00:41:24
Reverend daisley the Three Musketeers
00:41:27
Karen's name her birth date even
00:41:30
detailed descriptions of two photographs
00:41:32
taken when Karen was just a
00:41:36
child we went home
00:41:40
smiling and crying but there was always
00:41:44
from then on there was that underlying
00:41:46
current of I know she's
00:41:51
okay according to Jean Karen eventually
00:41:54
began to communicate without the help of
00:41:56
a medium and later guided her to write
00:41:59
this book always Karen it describes
00:42:03
Karen's struggle with cancer her death
00:42:05
and her firsthand views of Life Beyond
00:42:09
this
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one
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