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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries after murdering 48 women the
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Green River Killer is finally behind
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bars but did police get the wrong
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man could the former pilot of the Delta
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Queen dead for over half a century be
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playing Matchmaker from Beyond the Grave
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a police captain is found dead
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detectives say he killed himself his
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family calls it
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murder an Oklahoma farmer is lured from
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his home by a mysterious stranger he
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hasn't been seen
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since five cases some without endings
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our team is working on them and perhaps
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you can help I'm Dennis finina and this
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is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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police spent 20 years hunting down the
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Green River Killer
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a man named Gary Ridgeway has been tried
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and convicted of the crimes but some
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believe that the wrong person is behind
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bars Seattle
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Washington it was one of the largest
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serial murder cases in US history 2
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years 48 victims all young
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women most of them were prostitutes
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along the SeaTac strip near the Seattle
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Tacoma
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Airport nearly all of them were
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strangled and dumped in a remote
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area thousands of leads were
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investigated hundreds of suspects
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interrogated one suspect stood
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out his name William J
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Stevens he was a petty thief in and out
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of trouble with the law for most of his
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life in 1981 he simply walked away from
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a minimum security facility where he was
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serving time for
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burglary over the next 8 years Stevens
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avoided arrest dividing his time in the
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cities of Seattle Spokane and
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Portland Bill Stevens was an alienated
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um disaffected individual who never held
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a job he fit all the FBI profiles of
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serial killers his poor relationships
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with
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women a mother who rled his personality
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in development he was raging to his
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friends about how the prostitutes of the
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SeaTac strip were spreading the AIDS
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epidemic my brother told people on
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several occasions that he wanted to kill
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women he wanted to torture them he
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wanted to cut them up dissect them he
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wanted to fill them with rocks he wanted
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to fill them with
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concrete and he wanted to still put all
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of this on tape he thought that would be
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neat
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can County
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Police Chris take the back January 1989
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acting on several tips police searched
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the house in Spokane where Stevens lived
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with his
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parents they uncovered a stash of guns
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and police badges they also found dozens
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of Polaroids of nude women most of them
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prostitutes in another room police
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discovered dozens of pornographic tapes
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and fraudulent credit card receipts from
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19 1981 to
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1989 the years of the Green River
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killings the Stevens also had a fully
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equipped police car which he had managed
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to get registered to a a non-existent
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city he had an ambulance police
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motorcycle investigators later searched
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a second house in Portland where Stevens
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lived until
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1985 in the basement there was a secret
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room which can only be accessed by using
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a garage door
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opener the secret room first came to the
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attention of a neighbor who lived
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outside Portland at the same time
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Stevens did he invited her into see this
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room in the room as I remember it uh
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there was a
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bed and on the bed was a mannequin a
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store dummy that was uh Dressed in
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women's underwear and was struck in a
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obscene
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pose in January of 1989 Bill Stevens was
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arrested and charge with felony Escape
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in a series of weapons
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violations that summer Stevens was
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publicly named as a prime suspect in the
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Green River
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killings but within months authorities
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had cleared Stevens based on an alibi
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provided by his younger brother
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Bob I visited him in the king County
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jail and he mentioned that he couldn't
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have done the killings because he was on
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a trip in Connecticut visiting me in
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1982 when the killings first
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happened after that 1982 visit Bill
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Stevens then joined his parents on a
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cross country
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trip Bob produced receipts which seemed
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to prove that his brother was still
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traveling with their parents when the
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first five victims were murdered
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additionally we were able to determine
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that Stevens was not in the Seattle area
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he was either in Spokane or or Portland
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OR Vancouver Washington on the day
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before or the day after 19 Green River
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victims were last
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seen however Bob now believes that his
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brother got away with murder at least 48
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times I really believe my brother is a
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green M
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killer it's a surprising twist for Bob
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the very person who provided his brother
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with an
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alibi the police had the killer behind
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bars in 1989 and I helped get a killer
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away
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free Bob Stevens now questions whether
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his brother was in fact with their
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parents when the first five murders were
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committed my dad had told me that my
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brother didn't always leave with them he
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would always just maybe just kind of
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join them
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somewhere just appear on their trip and
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then leave again that was his way of
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providing a paper
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trail he used my parents as his
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Alibi Bob Stevens has never contacted us
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and provided us with any information
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contrary to what he initially gave us
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this is uh basically news to
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me Bill Stevens died in prison of cancer
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in
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1991 7 years after the murders
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officially
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ended we've explored the reasons why the
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killings may have stopped suspect could
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be dead could have be incarcerated for
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another crime could have moved to a
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different part of the
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country Rick Thorp claims that the
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authorities did not reinvestigate
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William Stevens for one simple reason
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the police are involved and misdirection
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here because they don't want uh the
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public looking too closely at the very
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ious roles Stevens played in his
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life he believes that Stevens was a
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police
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informant police are only as good as the
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information they get from people who
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live as Stevens did on the edge of
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society a guy like Stevens is constantly
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giving them information about more
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serious criminals but at the same time
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he was indulging in his his little sport
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there which was the murder of uh young
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girls Bill Stevens was never an
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informant with the local police
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department and was never affiliated with
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any of the local police
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departments there's no cover up with
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regards to uh the investigation of
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William Stevens he's simply not the
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Green River
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Killer critics of the investigation
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still insist that Stevens could have
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been the serial
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killer one Theory even suggests that
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others may have been involved it seems
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very clear that Stevens did not work
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alone Stevens phone bills were in the
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possession of the police and one of the
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detectives told me that they were
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puzzled about hours and hours of
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longdistance calls to a certain
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number what were they talking
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about there is no evidence to support
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the theory that there was more than one
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killer long telephone calls to a friend
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are are are not in any way incriminating
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and then in many cases tend to providing
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with aliis there have been killings
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since that are Green River type killings
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suggesting that the person who was
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Steven's accomplice has
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continued
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update Gary Ridgeway an early suspect in
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the Green River killings has been
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arrested a lab matched his DNA to
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evidence found with a number of the
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victims Ridgeway was arrested and he
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eventually pled guilty to murdering 48
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women in exchange for The Plea he was
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given life without the possibility of
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parole despite the evidence Bob Stevens
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still believes that his brother Bill was
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somehow involved with the Green River
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killings next a woman flees with her son
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after trying to murder her husband 8
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years later she's finally Behind
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Bars
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Redwood City
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California we recently told you the
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story of Gilbert Ortiz who suddenly got
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sick at work and was rushed to the
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hospital after drifting in and out of
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Consciousness for 2 weeks Gilbert told
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police that he thought he might have
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been
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poisoned by his
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wife on the day Gilbert got sick
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Elizabeth brought him a special
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bodybuilding drink at work it was
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premixed in a plastic Sports
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bottle it looked like a real Shake I
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mean like a real chocolate shake and
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then I when I Tred to sort of like burn
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my
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throat and then my throat's really
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really burning you and I was all shaky
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and then I felt like getting
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sick paramedics rushed Gilbert to the
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hospital Elizabeth Ortiz met them there
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in the emergency room doctors hoped that
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she had a reason for Gilbert's sudden
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illness have you ever seen that bottle
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no never I've never seen we needed to
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know where that Sports bottle came from
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if it was something that was purchased
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and it was really a bad mixture that
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really made him sick or whether it was a
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deliberate mix this is Hospital test
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showed the shake had been laced with a
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common
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insecticide police obtained a search
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warrant for the Ortiz
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apartment there they discovered
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Elizabeth Ortiz had vanished
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along with her son
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Jonathan then that's when to hit me she
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did
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it you want to tell me I said where's
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the baby he's
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gone that really got me Elizabeth
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Fuentes Ortiz became a fugitive wanted
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for attempted
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murder
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update after following up on thousands
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of reported sightings of Elizabeth Ortiz
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Sergeant Katherine Anderson finally got
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a break I received a phone call from the
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FBI telling me that they had Elizabeth
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Ortiz in custody in Mexico when
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Elizabeth was arrested in Mexico she was
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by herself the FBI gave me their word
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that they would continue to look for the
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little boy in Mexico in the area that
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they had arrested Elizabeth in Elizabeth
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Ortiz was brought to Redwood City for
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trial but where was
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Jonathan assuming Elizabeth would
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arrange for her son to visit her
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Anderson had this age processed
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composite of Jonathan posted at the
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jail I received a phone call from a
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deputy telling me that they had a little
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boy at the jail and the little boy was a
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dead ringer for the composite picture
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that we had Jonathan had been brought to
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the jail by a
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relative the following day Gilbert
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finally was able to see the son he had
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been missing for 8 years it was two
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years old when he disappeared
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and when I got him back he was
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10 I mean as soon as I saw him he just
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came and hugged me that's all it took
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one big hug I cannot explain what that
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feel
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like Gilbert and Jonathan began the long
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process of getting to know one another
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as Father and Son meanwhile Elizabeth
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Fuentes Ortiz was convicted of attempted
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murder and was sentenced to 25 years to
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life she served her time and has been
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released New Orleans is home to a living
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Monument of the Romantic Era when
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steamboats worked the Mississippi river
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built in the 1820s the Delta Queen is a
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National Treasure during World War II
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she transported wounded soldiers to
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hospitals and then the boat was
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refurbished to carry tourists but there
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is another side to the Delta Queen and
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it's a scary
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one it was a stormy night in New Orleans
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the Delta Queen was laid up for repairs
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her first mate Mike Williams was the
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only person on
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board I was quite exhausted and was
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sleeping a very deep solid sleep uh when
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I was awakened by a sound as if someone
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had said next to my ear I was quite
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startled because I was couldn't
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understand how someone could have gotten
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in my room and out so quickly without me
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hearing the door open and
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close there was a very loud slamming of
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a door back in the after cabin Lounge
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area and I had personally made sure that
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every one of those doors was locked
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before I had
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retired
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there was not supposed to be anyone on
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the
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vessel I proceeded down several doors
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until I arrived at cabin 109 and it
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swung open in my
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hand I was a little frightened and
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intimidated I took a flashlight and
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looked in the
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room there was no one
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there Mike had heard stories that the
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steamboat was haunted he had always
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dismissed them until
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now what happened next would change Mike
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Williams forever two women came into his
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life one was a coworker on the Delta
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Queen the other had also worked on the
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ship the only difference was that for 50
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years she had been
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dead Mary green was one of the first
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women to ever pilot a
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steamboat she was in charge of the Delta
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Queen when it was purchased in 194 47
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Mary was
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79 after only 2 years of piloting the
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boat Mary died where in Cabin
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109 the same one that was mysteriously
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unlocked another night on the Delta
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Queen hello Myra fuger a new Delta Queen
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employee was working late oh oh we'll
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have someone right over I received a
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call from an elderly lady in a cabin and
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she stated that she was cold and she was
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very uncomfortable and could I please
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send
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someone at this uh particular evening
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Mike Williams was the mate and I called
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up there and he answered and I told him
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the situation
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and hello it's the mate does someone
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need help Myra has sent him to cabin
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109 the beds were made little mints on
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the pillows the room was obviously
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unoccupied that
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cruise it was around this time that had
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this feeling that somebody was behind me
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or looking at me and certainly through
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the window I saw this little round
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benevolent
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face but something was Eerie about it I
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thought thought well perhaps that's the
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lady who needs assistance so I walked
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out of the Persia's office to see if I
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could catch up with her and talk to her
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and she wasn't there there was no one
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outside on the
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decks I was you know a little shook up
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and I went back into the persas
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office yeah come in Miss FR I uh just
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came from room 109 there's nobody there
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and you're sure it was 109 absolutely
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they checked the passenger list no one
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was registered for cabin 109 Myra was so
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upset by what she had seen that Mike
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offered to walk her back to her cabin he
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didn't mention that she might have seen
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a
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ghost
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wait that's the woman I saw the woman in
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the portrait was Mary
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green it was very very scary at at first
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surprising too because I just saw her on
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the deck but uh for me it was uh kind of
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exhilarating I began to suspect that
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someone was trying to introduce me to
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this young
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lady my and I became very close we just
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clicked each one of us had something
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that the other
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needed the ghost of Captain Mary had
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become a Matchmaker Mike and Myra fell
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in love and got
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married I believe since sincerely that
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so long as I care for this vessel in
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some way that the captain Mary green
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spirit will protect our family and guide
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us as she
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has next a police captain is found dead
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of a gunshot wound one suspicious death
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two theories murder or
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suicide
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Cook County
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Illinois Captain Michael omera of the
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Cook County sheriff's police was the
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straightest of straight
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arrows he was a devoted husband and
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father the only officer in the sheriff's
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police trained at the FBI Academy omera
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became famous for leading raids on the
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Illinois
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Mafia he spent his later years at a desk
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job in the records department and was
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getting ready for a quiet
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retirement it never
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happened at the Cook County Courthouse a
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sheriff's police patrolman pulled into
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the private service area to gas up his
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car an unmarked police car was parked at
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the pumps with a gas nozzle in the
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tank yet no officer was in sight anybody
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here
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as the patrolman's flashlight searched
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the lawn around the service area it
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flashed on a gruesome sight
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hello Michael Oma's body was slumped
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over a rock in the middle of the
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lawn he had been shot once through the
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forehead his wallet and his briefcase
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had not been
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touched there was no sign of a robbery
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but Michael Oma's record of fighting
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organized
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crime made murder a real
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possibility we approach a death scene as
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possibly a homicide initially who did
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this there was a gun uh to the uh right
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side of the uh of the body near the
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right hand and there was very visible
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gunshot wound to the
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forehead there was a flashlight found
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next to a rock that we can identify as
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his flashlight the gun is his gun and
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there was one bullet that was discharged
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from that cylinder of that weapon the
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victim's Pockets were intact his money
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was intact his car was intact you've got
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nothing in any way Shaker formed to say
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that there was anybody else there if you
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were going to weigh this there would be
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more weight towards a suicide or an
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accident than there would be towards
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towards a
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murder two weeks after Michael Mera died
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the coroner determined his death was a
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suicide Mike's family could not believe
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that he would kill
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himself his wife Barbara recalls he left
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the house that night in good
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spirits right before he left he said he
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was going to stop on the way back to get
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yogurt and he asked everybody what what
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flavor they wanted and of course day
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before payday and he didn't have any
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money in his wallet so he asked me for
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some money to go Barbara do you have any
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cash thanks why would he take my last
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couple of dollars to get the yogurt if
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he was planning on not coming back see
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you it doesn't make any
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sense in this case you can take any
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isolated fact and say it can be
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consistent with suicide the problem is
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is the whole scenario when you look at
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that is not that of a
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suicide Barbara omera hired Dr Deo to
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review the case there was no financial
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problems no personal problems no fatal
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disease that does not completely rule
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out suicide but it kind of makes the
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conclusion that a death is suicide a
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little more
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difficult the man is found dead in a
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field with a flashlight next to him and
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his gun his car is parked nearby with
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the gasoline nozzle inserted into the
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tank this does not sound like a suicide
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side was kind of
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bizarre based on his investigation Dr
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deile believes Mike was
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murdered the evidence of the scene
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suggests that this Mara began to fill
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the tank of his car when he saw or heard
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something in the field he then took a
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gun from his briefcase and went to
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investigate when he got into the field
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he met somebody or a number of people
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and he was
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shot when our investigators went to the
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scene and they looked in the field there
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was no evidence of of a
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struggle the police pH say that Oma
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killed himself and they consider the
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case closed but if Mike Oma was murdered
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what was the motive could it have been a
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long lost enemy from his past or did he
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have an enemy in the sheriff
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Department based on the information that
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I have in front of me it tends to be
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suicide I don't have any evidence in
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front of me that would conclude that
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this was a homicide and we need when
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we're looking for the
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offenders but Dr demile points to one
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additional fact that argues against
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suicide when people uh shoot themselves
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they tend to put the gun firmly against
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the head at the time of
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discharge in this case the muscle of the
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weapon was between 2 and 4 in away from
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the skin and you could see that by the
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powder tattooing uh on the skin around
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the entrance
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W see
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you he may have chosen to have it not be
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a contact Moon because he taught
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homicide investigation he taught courses
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and he taught about suicide so he if if
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he wanted to make it look like something
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other than it
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was he may have deliberately done that
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it wasn't an accident he was purposely
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shot and uh why it's being covered up or
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whether they know or anybody knows I
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don't know you know what happened out
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there I'll never know but suicide I'll
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never
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believe if you have any information
00:26:23
about the death of Captain Michael omera
00:26:25
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next did this man leave his family to
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get away from it all or is he the victim
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of a mysterious
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stranger Cheyenne
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Oklahoma it began as a typical morning
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at Leonard deron's dairy farm
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Jared breakfast is ready Leonard made
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breakfast for his 19-year-old son Jared
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and the two sat down to eat before a
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long day of
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chores then a visitor arrived
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unannounced in a white pickup
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truck
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Jared you know whose truck that
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ISM I let see what he
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want leard spent several minutes talking
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to the driver of the
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truck they did not appear to know each
00:27:33
other but their conversation seemed
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friendly
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enough when Leonard returned he told
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Jared that the man wanted to look at one
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of his stud horses put about 25 bails
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out in that back Leonard gave no sign
00:27:49
that he found anything unusual about the
00:27:53
stranger so he told me that he was going
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to go with him he said to stay here here
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and go to Elk and get some feed and go
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feed the cows and he be back that
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afternoon Jared derkson is still waiting
00:28:09
for his father to come home nobody has
00:28:13
any idea what happened to Leonard
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derkson police found no signs of a
00:28:17
struggle and no evidence of Foul Play
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and
00:28:21
nobody the only clue is that mysterious
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man who came to Leonard's
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house
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after leaving his home Leonard derkson
00:28:31
did not simply
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vanish 2 hours later a waitress claims
00:28:37
she saw him eating breakfast with
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another man at a local coffee shop now
00:28:42
that's a little odd to us because at
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9:00 Leonard just got through eating
00:28:47
breakfast with his
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son it's extremely odd to eat two
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breakfasts in the same day two hours
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apart they were um sitting there in the
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restaurant and the unknown men that were
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trying to identify was doing most of the
00:29:01
talking and Leonard was just drinking
00:29:03
coffee and listening to the man
00:29:06
talk the man at the diner matched the
00:29:09
description of the man who picked
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Leonard up at his
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home there was nothing suspicious about
00:29:16
the man's behavior and if he had metant
00:29:18
the harm Leonard why would he be seen
00:29:20
with him in a public
00:29:23
place yet neither Leonard nor the man
00:29:26
turned up that day at the barn where
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Leonard kept his stud
00:29:31
horses Leonard was apparently seen again
00:29:35
6 months later this sighting was even
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Stranger than the
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first a man at a baron Amarillo Texas pH
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the
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police yeah I want to report this guy
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leard derkson he's supposed to be
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missing the individual that called
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stated I know Leonard derkson I'm from
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Elk City I can't give you my name but
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he's in this bar I'm watching him he's
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wearing a blue check shirt and he's
00:30:03
drunk by the time the local police
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arrived both the caller and the man he
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claims was Leonard
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derkson were
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gone we have no reason to disbelieve it
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it would almost stretch the imagination
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that a guy would dance around in the bar
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screaming hollering it's Leonard it's
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Leonard and it not be Leonard I believe
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he was in the bar in
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amilla
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Leonard had recently suffered through a
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painful divorce and was having business
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difficulties could he have just decided
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to walk away from it
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all there is only one problem with that
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theory Leonard's son
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Jared me and my dad we was together
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every day every morning we'd go work do
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the chores and I go to
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school I don't think he would have ever
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have left me and not ever come back to S
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me or nothing cuz we was close and I
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don't think he'd ever done that to
00:31:05
me if Leonard didn't just walk away from
00:31:08
his life the focus then switches back to
00:31:11
the mysterious
00:31:13
man there's a possibility that that this
00:31:16
man was involved in setting Leonard up
00:31:19
uh to be
00:31:22
murdered if this man didn't do the
00:31:24
murder he may have taken Leonard
00:31:25
somewhere to someone that wanted to
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that's a
00:31:30
possibility we just we don't have a
00:31:32
motive for that uh have not found
00:31:36
one this is a composite drawing of the
00:31:39
man last scene with Leonard derkson
00:31:42
police would like to question him
00:31:43
regarding Leonard's
00:31:45
disappearance if you have any
00:31:47
information that can help solve this
00:31:49
case please log on to our website at
00:31:52
uno.com
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next a sudden death in a doctor's office
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and a deadly insurance scam begins to
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unravel when a patient dies in a
00:32:12
doctor's care it's usually treated as a
00:32:15
routine death and the case is closed and
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that's exactly what Dr Richard bogs and
00:32:21
his partners in crime were counting
00:32:25
on Glend
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California around 7 a.m. paramedics
00:32:32
responded to an emergency Call at the
00:32:34
medical office of Dr Richard
00:32:38
bogs inside they found a man lying on
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the floor of an examining
00:32:43
room bog said that his name was Melvin
00:32:47
Eugene
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Hansen bogs says that he received a
00:32:51
phone call from one of his patients a
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long-term patient Melvin Eugene
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Hansen the Man City been drinking
00:32:58
heavily he was having chest pains and he
00:33:01
wanted to come in and be
00:33:04
examined bog said Hansen had been a
00:33:06
patient for 7 years he agreed to meet
00:33:09
Hansen at 500 a.m. for an
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EKG he brought Hansen in examined him
00:33:17
left him in a treatment room by himself
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to rest for a few minutes I really don't
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think you have any need for alarm I want
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don't you just lie down here for a few
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minutes and I'll be right back
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then bogs went into another room to sort
00:33:30
through things while he was waiting for
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Hansen to rest when he heard a
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thud bog said he rushed back and found
00:33:37
Hansen lying unconscious he immediately
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called
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911 but found it was
00:33:46
busy bog said he tried to revive Hansen
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for 30 minutes and at 7:04 he finally
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reached
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911 finally p Medics arrived he the body
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was pronounced dead at the
00:34:00
scene originally it was just a normal
00:34:02
death just a natural death in a doctor's
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office with a doctor in attendance
00:34:06
cardiovascular problems when paramedics
00:34:09
examined the body in B's office they
00:34:11
noticed that its condition seemed
00:34:13
inconsistent with the doctor's story
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he's got some riger in his neck his jaw
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the onset of riger Morse suggests that
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the death had actually occurred much
00:34:25
earlier than bogs was claiming
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in fact the EKG tape revealed the
00:34:30
machine had last been used just after
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midnight not at 5 a.m. how long do you
00:34:36
say he's been down suspicious paramedics
00:34:39
called the
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police Dr bogs ignored basic life-saving
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protocol a doctor is not going to try
00:34:46
and help a heart attack patient in his
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office he's going to have an ambulance
00:34:50
waiting for him Dr BOS you tell me a
00:34:53
little more about the 911 call his
00:34:55
comments regarding the 911 bothered me
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he had told us he had gotten a busy
00:34:58
signal uh that time of the morning uh I
00:35:01
found it hard to believe that he'd get a
00:35:03
busy signal on a 911 system three credit
00:35:06
cards and a copy of a birth certificate
00:35:09
were discovered in Hansen's
00:35:11
wallet but there was no Ida with a
00:35:14
photograph of
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Hansen police asked to for an emergency
00:35:19
contact bogs provided the name of
00:35:21
Hansen's business partner John Hawkins
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Columbus Ohio W KS yes bogs was one of
00:35:29
the most respected physicians in
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Southern
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California police were reluctant to
00:35:35
further question him without more
00:35:37
evidence but there were rumors that he
00:35:40
was financially overextended and that
00:35:42
his practice and medical license were in
00:35:46
Jeopardy the most probable cause of
00:35:50
death is acute non-specific
00:35:52
myocarditis when the body was autopsy
00:35:55
the pathologist noted something
00:35:58
peculiar the body is noted to be that of
00:36:00
a Caucasian male appearing to be younger
00:36:02
than the state age of 46 then the
00:36:05
autopsy was
00:36:08
interrupted Hansen's business partner
00:36:10
John Hawkins arrived to claim the body
00:36:14
John Hawkins and Melvin Hansen co-owned
00:36:16
a chain of successful clothing
00:36:19
stores Hawkins said he needed to settle
00:36:22
Hansen's Affairs quickly to get back
00:36:24
home to his business I'd like show you
00:36:27
the re what I really need to know is
00:36:29
when is the body going to be cremated
00:36:31
when John Hawkins arrived from Columbus
00:36:32
Ohio he made arrangements with a local
00:36:34
Mortuary to have the body
00:36:36
cremated when Hawkins learned that the
00:36:39
ashes would not be scattered until a
00:36:41
much later time uh that being up to a
00:36:44
month uh he was upset business there I
00:36:47
need to expedite this as much as
00:36:49
possible is there any other way Hawkins
00:36:51
uh through the mortuary Personnel uh
00:36:54
located a local scattering service
00:36:57
that uh scattered those ashes the
00:36:59
following
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day L Police Department a you go to m
00:37:05
two months later this case took another
00:37:08
intriguing
00:37:09
turn on June 9th a detective received a
00:37:13
phone call from a insurance company
00:37:15
representative who informed him they
00:37:17
were about to pay a $1 million life
00:37:20
insurance policy for the death of Jean
00:37:23
Hansen the beneficiary of that policy
00:37:25
was John
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of Columbus
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Ohio the representative inquired if the
00:37:32
photographs of the body had ever been
00:37:34
compared to any other known pictures of
00:37:36
Melvin
00:37:38
Hansen up to that point that had not
00:37:41
occurred the detective sent away for a
00:37:45
California driver's license photo of
00:37:47
Melvin Eugene
00:37:50
Hansen when the photographs arrived
00:37:53
police realized the man found in B's
00:37:55
office
00:37:57
was not Melvin
00:38:00
Hansen the detective contacted the
00:38:02
insurance representative immediately and
00:38:05
it was too late and that the insurance
00:38:07
company had already paid out the $1
00:38:08
million to the beneficiary John
00:38:11
Hawkins but if the dead man at B's
00:38:13
office was not Hansen then who was
00:38:17
it police used fingerprints to match the
00:38:20
dead body with missing persons
00:38:22
reports the body that bogs had
00:38:25
identified as his patient Melvin Eugene
00:38:27
Hansen was in fact a 32-year-old
00:38:30
bookkeeper named Ellis Henry
00:38:33
green John Hawkins the man who had
00:38:36
ordered green cremated now had some
00:38:39
explaining to
00:38:41
do investigators followed up on John
00:38:43
Hawkins they found that he had abandoned
00:38:46
the residence that he had lived
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in and later discovered his Convertible
00:38:53
Mercedes parked at the airport top down
00:38:56
he's still in the ignition uh indicating
00:38:59
an obvious uh quick exit from that
00:39:02
particular
00:39:03
area when questioned again Dr bogs
00:39:06
continued to insist that the man found
00:39:09
in his office was the man he knew as
00:39:11
Melvin
00:39:14
Hansen right there same man I identified
00:39:16
to the other officers have you ever seen
00:39:18
the other man
00:39:20
before
00:39:23
nope thank you very much for your the
00:39:24
police weren't buying his story and
00:39:26
issued a search warrant for bogs
00:39:29
files his phone records showed frequent
00:39:32
calls to Hansen's business number and
00:39:35
more suspiciously to John
00:39:38
Hawkins bogs also received calls from
00:39:41
Wolf Gang Von Snowden in the same night
00:39:44
that Green's body was
00:39:47
found police wanted to know why and put
00:39:50
snowden's name to law enforcement
00:39:52
agencies around the
00:39:54
country several months when went by
00:39:56
after Ellis green was found in Richard
00:39:58
boog's
00:40:00
office back then a suspicious acting man
00:40:03
was interrogated by Customs officials
00:40:06
after getting off a flight from
00:40:08
Mexico in his bag was
00:40:11
$14,000 in Undeclared cash let me see
00:40:15
your back why I can when the Customs
00:40:18
agent searched the man's bags he
00:40:21
discovered not only the identification
00:40:23
that he was using at that time but he
00:40:25
also disced Ed photo identification of
00:40:27
the same person with the name of Wolf
00:40:29
Gang Bon
00:40:30
Snowden but the most critical Discovery
00:40:33
was the original California driver's
00:40:35
license for the dead man Ellis Henry
00:40:39
green take off your sunglasses why take
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off your
00:40:43
sunglasses the Customs agent made a
00:40:45
computer inquiry and learned that
00:40:48
wolfking Von Snowden was in fact wanted
00:40:51
by
00:40:52
authorities within a few hours the man
00:40:54
who carried ID as wolf gang van Snowden
00:40:57
was finally identified by his real name
00:41:00
Melvin Eugene
00:41:03
Hansen melin Eugene Hansen was
00:41:06
alive yet bogs claimed that he had died
00:41:09
in his
00:41:10
office police began to piece together a
00:41:13
conspiracy to pull off the Perfect
00:41:17
Crime Melvin Hansen and John Hawkins
00:41:19
were business partners police believe
00:41:22
they came up with this plan first they
00:41:25
would murder a perfect
00:41:27
stranger then they would switch his
00:41:29
identity with
00:41:31
Hansen's and finally collect the million
00:41:33
dooll insurance
00:41:35
payoff to cover their tracks They had
00:41:37
the body
00:41:39
cremated 5 days after Hansen was caught
00:41:43
Richard bogs was arrested at his
00:41:45
Glendale office he was charged with
00:41:47
insurance fraud and the murder of Ellis
00:41:51
green Richard bogs was convicted of
00:41:53
first-degree
00:41:55
murder both he and Melvin Eugene Hansen
00:41:58
were sentenced to life in
00:42:01
prison John Hawkins was eventually
00:42:03
caught in Italy and convicted of Fraud
00:42:06
and
00:42:08
conspiracy John Hawkins served his time
00:42:11
and has been
00:42:25
released
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