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tonight on unsolved mysteries in Venice
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California a late-night trip to the
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corner store becomes a terrifying
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descent into an urban hell which ends in
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a brutal death for the son of a
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prominent television actor
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when Milly McGregor got hopelessly lost
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in the wilderness an army of highly
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trained searches was mobilized for the
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rescue effort but they had no luck until
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a soft-spoken cowboy guided by a
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mysterious vision came riding along four
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years
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Tim Harrell was totally been abandoned
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by his birth mother left as an infant in
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a garbage can
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too late Harrell learned that the tale
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have been a tragic misguided deception
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concocted by his adoptive mother and in
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one of our most bizarre cases a
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self-styled preacher allegedly
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brainwashes a young farmer and turns him
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into a virtual prisoner in his own home
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join me perhaps you hold the key perhaps
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you may be able to solve one of
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tonight's unsolved mysteries
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actor Dennis Cole has appeared in dozens
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of television shows like The Young and
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the Restless Fantasy Island and the fall
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guy if life was scripted like a
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Hollywood movie Dennis his only son Joe
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might have followed in his footsteps but
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Joe Cole died unexpectedly barely out of
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his twenties I have like 29 years of
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remembering of doing all of these things
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I mean I was a kid I was a teenager when
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he was born there's not a day that goes
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by that I don't think about him and you
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know we've always shared things it's
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like I I've done a lot of new things and
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it's like I have no one to call up say
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hey hey Joe guess what happened here and
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he would do the same thing with me I'm
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it's like a part of your heart we just
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taken and pulled out
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there is no good way to lose a child
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sudden random violence is one of the
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worst al unknown gunmen shot Joe Cole
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during a holdup that netted less than 50
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dollars he was murdered in front of his
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home in Venice California near one of
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the most violent sections of Los Angeles
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but Venice Heights is troubles well
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indeed this beachfront suburb is a scene
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of a year-round street party for decades
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the area has been home to writers
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artists and musicians Joe Cole
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an actor and a photographer fit right in
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in Venice
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Joe Cole set himself the task of
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documenting the plight of homeless
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Vietnam veterans Cole was helped by his
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longtime friend Henry Rollins a writer
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and lead singer of the Rollins band
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those men you see talking to themselves
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standing next to payphones on streets he
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would bond with these people where they
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wouldn't give you the time of day they
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would tell the story of their lives to
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Joe
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Joe Cole was murdered before he could
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complete the work at the time he and
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Rollins were running a house just
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outside Oakwood the toughest part of
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Venice looking back
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Rollins has a lesson innocent view of
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life on the edge you get in your little
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rituals when you live in a community you
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go you know wash days fried a chicken on
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Sunday all that and for a predator for a
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robber this is what they go on they need
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habit it was Rollins and Cole's heavy to
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shop at an all-night grocery store a
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block from their house their visit on
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December 19th 1991 was forget ibly
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ordinary until they got to within 50
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feet of their front door within one
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second you are going from the 90 million
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thrip to the grocery store home to two
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guns in your face and you know your
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reality change is very appropriately
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everything seemed to go very slowly and
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time seemed to kind of hover
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one robber shoved Rollins to his knees
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the other forced joke called face down
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on the ground a guy who is on me said if
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you yell or if you scream I'm gonna blow
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your head off and I said okay
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what zoom through my mind was if I speak
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loud the gun will go off and if I
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whisper maybe it won't
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and the gun is very delicate and has a
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life of its own and if I'm cool maybe it
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won't jump out and bite me get up get up
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anybody home my roommates home he's
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watching TV
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I lied hoping they would go Oh people in
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the house you better get out of here but
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that didn't bother him at all I'm trying
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to come up with some kind of way to get
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us out of this because it's not as if
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you're gonna go for some movie stunt
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like grabbing the gun and wrestling
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around that's you know that's fiction
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I'm at that moment what I thought was
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going to happen was we were going to be
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marched into the house and executed
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while they robbed the place at their
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leisure
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I heard feet scuffling on the front
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porch and then I heard gunshots and I
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remember standing there very you know
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perfectly still with my hands up for a
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couple of seconds afterwards thinking
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how strange gunshots sounded inside this
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room as they the sound ricocheted around
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the walls and then my legs took off but
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I did not know the state that Joe was in
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I had I didn't even hardly remember
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leaving the house all of a sudden I was
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at a phone and I didn't called the
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police and told them what I thought had
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happened though the police arrived
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within minutes Joe Cole was already dead
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and the killers had melted into the
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night my partner and myself had put in
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thousands of hours interviewing hundreds
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and hundreds of people our investigation
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has led us to believe that the suspects
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probably live in the Oakwood community
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criminals always talk and they talk to
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other people somebody knows something
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out there that happened to Joe Cole
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when someone dies in this way it's not
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just the loss of a life there's a mother
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there's a father you know and then all
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of us the friends who lost this
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fantastic person and you never recover
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from it all the way he always carries
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some of it and unit it wrecks you year
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after year as mutilated a concept as
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justice is in this country and how it
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only seems to benefit a certain skin
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color in a certain economic place in
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America real justice is a pretty
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righteous thing and I'd like to see it
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done and exact it on these individuals
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the only justice that can be done here
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is to get those guys or guy off the
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street so they don't do it to your
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friend or your sister or your parent or
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your child
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in a moment Gilly che Smith joins us
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with the latest news from the phone
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center also a veteran journalist needs
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your help to unlock the secrets of his
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past
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[Music]
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tonight we have a heartwarming update to
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one of our most poignant lost love cases
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perhaps you remember the story
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a few days after Christmas in 1961 a
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diesel engine rumbles out of Dallas
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Texas and headed west nearly 200 miles
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down the line in Abilene Texas
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Darlene out found oh and a friend
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gathered up their children for a trip
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into town the train reached Abilene at
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the same time as the two mothers and
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their children inexplicably
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their car came to a sudden dead stop at
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the railroad crossing
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[Applause]
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the accident killed three children and
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one of the mothers that anyone at all
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came out of the wreckage alive seemed a
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miracle Fred I'll follow a US Army
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sergeant lost his wife and two of his
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daughters in the crash his third child
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LaDonna suffered massive head injuries
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mommy's an angel
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sure
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[Music]
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over the years LaDonna endured a
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succession of operations that gradually
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rebuilt her face but of course nothing
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could restore her sisters or her mother
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Darlene I have no memories of my mother
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at all I look at pictures of her and I
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try to remember something it's like
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looking at a magazine article of a woman
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my father has told me stories about us
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as children with my mom and it doesn't
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bring back any memories whatsoever none
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whatsoever
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LaDonna is only hope of finding her
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mother's family rested with his 28
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year-old snapshot of her mother's sister
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Patricia hits key Lee was at the phone
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centers a dramatic story unfolded Bob
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the night of our broadcast Madonna's
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search came to a glorious end in fact it
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was more successful than she ever dared
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hope for not only did she find her aunt
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Patricia but she located her maternal
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grandparents as well before the evening
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was out plans were underway for a long
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overdue family reunion
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a few weeks later LaDonna was pulling up
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to her aunt Pat's house in Sioux Falls
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South Dakota totally changed my life you
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believe yeah it's just finding them then
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they're great people and they're
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beautiful I just um I just feel totally
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might that hole that empty hole is
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totally filled she lost her mother I
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lost my sister and it's just like she
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found us another mother and I found a
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new sister and I just feel like I just
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feel like we're just connected I really
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do ladonna x' first visit with her
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grandparents in more than three decades
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made the reunion complete I can't even
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express it
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I just really cannot express how I feel
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there's just too many emotions going on
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here and it's just a wonderful wonderful
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feeling it's just it's great I just feel
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like I'm I just feel really like I'm at
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home it's really great
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Madonna's joyous rediscovery of her
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mother's family was tempered by an
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unexpected loss two days after the
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reunion
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Madonna's grandfather Stanley hints
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passed away he was 86 years old
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Tim Harrell a news producer at Los
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Angeles television station is a veteran
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journalist a man whose 30-year career is
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earned him numerous awards and
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commendations tim has covered thousands
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of stories but for the last six years
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one story has been a priority
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now Tim Harrell needs your help yeah I
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built Tim heroine our Channel 13 News
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it's so frustrating to know that Here I
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am I can go out and get good stories I
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can break stories I can do great
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interviews I can get nominated for Emmys
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I can win awards but I can't find my
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mother
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tim was raised by a woman named Helen
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Harold she never made a secret of the
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fact that Tim was adopted and she never
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shielded him from the near tragic
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circumstances but she said brought him
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to her in 1947
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she told me that she had found me
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abandoned in a garbage can behind Barnes
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Hospital in st. Louis before she worked
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as a nurse and that when she found me I
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was very sick I had a birth defect known
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as a cleft palate and a harelip and she
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took me in and had a plastic surgeon
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repair that I also had rheumatic fever
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which was a heart problem where I had a
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heart murmur as well and she took care
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of that Helen managed to adopt the baby
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at a time when single parenthood was
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almost unheard of somehow she was able
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to cut through the red tape she always
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was concerned that there was never a
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male force in my life so she made sure I
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was in military school she made sure I
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was in the YMCA she made sure I was in
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Little League and she went to these
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things with me I mean she went to the
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Little League games with me she went to
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the YMCA with me she took the role of
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being father and mother inevitably
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however the day came when Tim wanted to
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know more about his past
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yes what happened to my mother
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what on earth are you talking about I'm
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your mother
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I mean what happened to my real mother
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Timmy your mother was not a good mother
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she and your father were low-class
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trashy her favorite term for those
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white-trash taking care of you I just
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hated my birth mother I thought my god
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how could a human being just throw away
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a baby particularly one who had a
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physical defect and just throw him in
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the garbage like it was a piece of
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garbage I mean that just not away at me
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and as I got into journalism as I did
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stories about mothers who abandon their
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children you know I always swapped my
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birth mother in with them and they were
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always usually people that were
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low-class that that had no caring for
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their children and I would always
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identify my birth mother with us those
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people by 1976 Tim was on staff at the
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Los Angeles herald-examiner he was
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married and had a son of his own
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that summer Tim received a phone call
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that haunts him to this desk speaking
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who's calling
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excuse me what are you talking about my
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mother's at home it came right out of
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the blue like a bolt of lightning I mean
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I've been to riots that covered things
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in Vietnam but that just was the most
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emotional thing that I've ever had in my
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life to get that phone call don't you
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think it's a little late to suddenly be
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taking an interest in my life what I do
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understand is you left me to die in a
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trash can
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all of a sudden woman all the hatred
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baby and a chest exploded
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I said how could you how could you throw
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me away like that was a piece of garbage
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how could you do that and she said well
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you don't understand I said I don't want
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to understand there's no way you're ever
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gonna see my son you ever try to contact
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me or my son I'll get a restraining
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order against you I don't know you would
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think all the emotions just flowed out
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of me the city editor who was working
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there looked at me and he says my god
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what's wrong you look like you've seen a
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ghost and I told him I have
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she said she was living near San Jose
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and she wanted to meet Adam later that
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day I told him about the phone call and
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she got hysterical of course not
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I've no interest in seeing her or my
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father I told him to stay away from my
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family she promised me well not try to
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find her she abandoned you when you were
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a baby nothing good could come out of
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you meeting her Helen's reaction
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solidified Tim's decision not to allow
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his birth mother into his life six years
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later in 1983 Helen passed away by then
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Tim had divorced and his son had gone to
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live with Tim's ex-wife it was a lonely
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time a moment when Tim became acutely
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aware of how much family meant to him in
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1986 Tim married his second wife Denise
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but he couldn't shake the feeling that
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something was missing on a trip back to
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st. Louis in 1990 Tim and Denise tried
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to locate his birth mother through
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adoption records you realize mr. Herold
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I'm not at liberty to divulge any
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information regarding your adoption I
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don't know where else to go I'm sorry
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but it's the law
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and she said adoptions in Missouri are
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confidential we played sort of a game of
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20 questions
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she's just think Bay Area
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I said San Francisco she says no a
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little further south and I said San Jose
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she said yes
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she says think relative of your mother
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your adoptive mother couldn't think of
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who that would be your mother have a
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sister
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are you saying that my real mother was
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Helens sister I'm not saying anything
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listen I'm gonna go get a cup of coffee
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seems silly to put this away just to get
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it out again later
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I'm gonna be gone for about five minutes
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in those five minutes
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Tim learned Helen had lied about every
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detail of his birth his birth mother was
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not some cold-hearted stranger who would
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abandon him in a garbage can aim as
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Muriel Carol she was apparently Helens
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old niece and she had given Tim up only
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because she had to let through me like a
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jolt of electricity they only thought my
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mind was is I really wanted to find her
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now I really wanted to say look I didn't
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know and I am so sorry
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I am so sorry for what I said to you and
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in how I acted to you
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tim was deeply moved to learn that
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Helen's niece was only 18 when he was
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born
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still almost a child herself Tim's
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father had just gotten out of the Army
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and was in no position to be both a
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husband and father
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they gave Tim to Helen and bowed out of
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his life
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it aches at my heart to know that I have
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a family out there and I don't know who
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they are may have lived in the st. Louis
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area back in 1947 I have to find this
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woman even if it turns out that she has
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died I want to go to the grave I don't
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want to talk to her I didn't give her an
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opportunity to explain here I am a
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journalist I'm supposed to be fair I'm
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supposed to be even-handed I'm supposed
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to listen to both sides and I would even
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get my real mother the opportunity to
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explain what happened I to this day I'm
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very worried that I don't have that
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opportunity
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[Music]
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coming up when an elderly woman gets
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lost in the Sierra Nevadas it seems that
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only a miracle concealer but first day
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Freeman posed as a hard-working man of
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God but when his employer turned up dead
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Freeman emerged as a prime suspect
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[Music]
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November 14th 1994 Folsom West Virginia
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acting on an anonymous tip police
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arrived at the house of a well-to-do
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farmer named Tim good the tip had come
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from an unlikely source a would-be thief
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had broken in and found more than he
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bargained for the caller had said look
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in the basement police came across what
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appeared to be sparse living quarters on
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the bed a grisly discovery the
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decomposed body of 37 year old Tim good
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good had been strangled and left
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undisturbed for over a year where the
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body was located it was basically a
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dungeon or a cell bare walls concrete
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floor upstairs of the the residence it
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was lavishly furnished hot tub Jacuzzi
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three large screen TVs a wet bar it was
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very nice upstairs and was a dungeon in
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the basement strange the investigation
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quickly revealed that someone had been
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living in the house almost the entire
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time the Tim Goods dead body had been in
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the basement all of the air vents were
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sealed no doubt to prevent odors from
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wafting upstairs then police uncovered
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volumes of diaries written by this man
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who was known as Dave Freeman
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it was Freeman's cryptic writings that
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would help authorities piece together
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the tragic demise of Tim good
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Tim good owned-and-operated a 350 Acre
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dairy farm in Connersville Pennsylvania
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one of his workers was a young man named
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Jean Kennedy Kennedy had come from a
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broken home
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and Tim was his unofficial guardian when
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I first come and live with him instead
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of making it feel like he was just
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giving it to me it was like I was
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learning salt you know 13 years old
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fifty bucks a week and being on your own
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and a place to live I was free neat for
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me the author of the Diaries Dave
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Freeman hired on in 1987 at the time he
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went by the name Ben here I found some
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cooling in the oil pan I'm gonna rethink
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this filter off and see if it's
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contaminated but within months Freeman
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and his wife Eliza had moved into the
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main house with Tim and Gina before you
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know it it's he was there it's just how
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it was yeah Tim never even hinted that
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he knew even like Ben I think in the
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beginning he didn't
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we're gonna be leading a Bible study up
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at the house leaders evening thought you
00:26:50
might like to come up and check it out
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by what time Freeman was something of a
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self-styled preacher Tim God was
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estranged from his family and apparently
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turned to Freeman for spiritual guidance
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things to help you out with other people
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Ben would have an unusual twist to the
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way he spoke with Tim implying that he
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knew more than what most people did and
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therefore Tim looked at him as being a
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very wise man I think it started off
00:27:20
that Tim thought he found somebody he
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could trust you know somebody that was
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pretty well educated that would more or
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less stick with him instead of everybody
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else turning him away and I think that's
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what Tim wanted and needed
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but Freeman seemed to have his own
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agenda Jean Kennedy claims that Freeman
00:27:42
began acting as if he owned the farm
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what are you doing I told you don't come
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here until you call I live here too yeah
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well you can't come in right now I'll be
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in and out all right look my wife's
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asleep upstairs you can't come in quiet
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my wife's asleep upstairs I understand
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that but he lives here too okay let's
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just forget about him all right come on
00:28:08
let's go inside sure it's all right it's
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okay trust me cool when Ben showed up it
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wasn't I'd say about a year after that
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Tim stop dairy farm you know you'd come
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down on the farmers no cows there's no
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calves there was no dry stock everything
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was empty Tim looked at me one day and
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he said you're gonna hate me he says I
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sold the farm he says I got a million
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dollars for the farm maybe a little more
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and he'd laugh he thought that was
00:28:41
really funny it was real proud of
00:28:42
himself Tim turned around and bought
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another much smaller farm in West
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Virginia Jean Kennedy stayed in
00:28:51
Pennsylvania
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but Freeman and his family made the move
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with Tim oddly Freeman was now calling
00:28:58
himself Dave over by the fence by that
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big tree yeah you know what come to
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think of it you don't have clearing that
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why don't you get somebody would over
00:29:13
there for kindling how much you think we
00:29:15
need Tim would be always out there doing
00:29:17
the work and Dave would always be at the
00:29:19
house oh it says the man it doesn't work
00:29:21
doesn't eat it seemed more like dave was
00:29:23
the boss
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instead of Tim I've been the one that
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owned it it seemed more like dave was
00:29:32
the living arrangements reflected this
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strange role reversal Freeman's Diaries
00:29:38
revealed that while he and his family
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lived comfortably upstairs Tim good
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became a virtual prisoner in the
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basement please bless this food and
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please watch over me the diaries were
00:29:52
very detailed he indicated in the
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Diaries what chores Timothy good was to
00:29:56
perform that day he even indicated what
00:29:58
Timothy good was to eat that day if he
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was allowed to eat that day every aspect
00:30:04
of Timothy Goods life was controlled by
00:30:06
Dave Friedman that's right I told you to
00:30:15
clean the basement get up here whenever
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you clean up yesterday yesterday every
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single day Tim did something that would
00:30:25
irritate or disgust Dave freedom you see
00:30:29
it's just my shoes that's just your
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shoes basically Timothy good couldn't do
00:30:33
anything that's correct and everything
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that he did was a mistake or it wasn't a
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God's way to do it God requires that you
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when I first met Tim he used to come to
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my house all time we were every day
00:30:50
seeing each other and talked every day
00:30:51
we talked a lot about farming and stuff
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and he was gonna get his firm cleaned up
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and do a lot of work to it and
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everything
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but then in Tim to start to stand away
00:31:02
from in fact George Anderson did not see
00:31:07
Tim good or Dave Freeman for about a
00:31:09
year he assumed they had left the area
00:31:12
then one afternoon in October of 1994 a
00:31:16
taxicab came up the road headed for Tim
00:31:19
goods farm my grandkid was out in the
00:31:23
yard and they'd seen him and they
00:31:24
started hollering at me time McDavid
00:31:26
lies it was back and so I told me I was
00:31:30
going up and talked to Dave and find out
00:31:31
about Tim my god Tim had been going for
00:31:34
about a year the road to the farmhouse
00:31:40
is blocked by a fallen tree so Freeman
00:31:42
and got up on foot hey George how's it
00:31:45
going buddy where are you man oh I was
00:31:48
just up the house looked like somebody
00:31:50
broke in the back window I asked him
00:31:54
where Tim was at and he said he hadn't
00:31:55
seen him for a long time and he had no
00:31:59
idea but he said he had walked up to the
00:32:01
house and somebody had broken the
00:32:03
kitchen door and he said he opened the
00:32:06
door and looked in and he said that's as
00:32:08
far as he went
00:32:09
I believe that Dave Freeman came back to
00:32:12
the good farm to remove the diary's and
00:32:15
I believe that they were surprised by
00:32:18
the neighbors and there's no way that he
00:32:20
could have removed anything from the
00:32:22
home without the neighbors observing
00:32:24
that
00:32:27
later that day George Anderson's son in
00:32:30
law gave Freeman and his family a ride
00:32:32
to Washington DC he dropped them off at
00:32:35
a service station along the Beltway they
00:32:37
have not been seen since two weeks later
00:32:43
police discovered the decomposed remains
00:32:45
of Tim good grocery receipts indicated
00:32:49
that Freeman and his family had lived in
00:32:51
the house for approximately seven months
00:32:53
after Goods death they apparently left
00:32:56
when they ran out of money goods bank
00:32:59
account which had previously held almost
00:33:00
a million dollars now contain less than
00:33:03
two dollars Dave Friedman indicated in
00:33:08
his diaries the Timothy good question
00:33:10
him about the money and Dave Freeman was
00:33:13
starting to realize that he didn't quite
00:33:15
have the control on Timothy good that he
00:33:18
had once had and I believe that that
00:33:20
quite possibly led to his demise
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next tragedy seemed inevitable when a
00:33:45
massive search for a lost hiker yielded
00:33:47
nothing then a quiet cowboy rode to the
00:33:50
rescue
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apparently spurred on by a divine vision
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the Sierra Nevadas in Northern
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California had changed little since the
00:34:12
first pioneers came through a hundred
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and fifty years ago today the steep
00:34:18
trails are the province of weakened
00:34:19
explorers like 63 year-old Millie
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McGregor despite a mild heart condition
00:34:25
Millie thinks no more of an all-day ten
00:34:27
mile trek and she would have strolled to
00:34:29
the corner grocery store but when she
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set out on Labor Day in 1995 Millie
00:34:36
never expected she would take a wrong
00:34:38
turn into a life-and-death ordeal and
00:34:41
she certainly never expected a near
00:34:43
magical rescue it seemed like it started
00:34:48
off good had a good trail and a ways
00:34:50
back that trail split off to two places
00:34:53
and I'd picked out the one I thought I
00:34:55
should go on I was probably several
00:34:58
hours maybe more like three hours
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beginning to climb and I got chest pain
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perhaps it was the altitude perhaps the
00:35:11
exertion for some reason Millie's heart
00:35:14
medication made her queasy and
00:35:15
disoriented before she knew it
00:35:19
Mele was lost the beautiful scenery now
00:35:24
became a terrifying maze as the Sun went
00:35:27
down Willy began to realize she would be
00:35:29
spending that night alone in the wild I
00:35:33
was kind of relieved knowing that I
00:35:35
didn't have to hike anymore I was
00:35:38
worried that my husband would be worried
00:35:41
but other than that it felt like I would
00:35:43
be okay that first night it was terrible
00:35:47
I didn't get another Guinness sleep at
00:35:49
all that first night I walked it floored
00:35:50
and what trying to watch the TV and I
00:35:52
couldn't do that search and rescue team
00:35:55
sprang into action the next morning but
00:35:58
an entire day in the wilderness yielded
00:36:00
nothing not a single clue Milly faced
00:36:04
another night in the bitter cold I know
00:36:07
the first night I spend a lot of time
00:36:10
praying that my husband wouldn't worry
00:36:13
the next night when I was still there
00:36:16
and I was cold and I was thirsty and I
00:36:22
sort of said well at least at least he's
00:36:26
warm he's got a goat at least he has
00:36:29
water and I sort of started praying for
00:36:31
myself that I would get you know get out
00:36:33
of there
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day 2 concern was mounting how many
00:36:40
30-degree nights could Milly survive
00:36:43
authorities pulled out all the stops
00:36:48
additional search teams and mounted
00:36:50
patrols were recruited from neighboring
00:36:51
counties helicopters equipped with
00:36:54
infrared sensors took to the skies but
00:36:58
it was as if the earth had opened up and
00:36:59
swallowed Millie McGregor by the end of
00:37:04
the second day we still have no clue no
00:37:07
footprints no drop clothing no hits from
00:37:10
the dog there was no sign of Mildred
00:37:16
with an army of searchers unable to find
00:37:19
Millie McGregor it seemed a tragedy in
00:37:21
the making but no one counted on a
00:37:24
soft-spoken cowboy named Randy Spears
00:37:26
riding to the rescue Randy lives in the
00:37:30
area however he says that he was so busy
00:37:32
that week he wasn't aware that Millie
00:37:34
was lost until the evening of the second
00:37:36
day of searching what's the use that for
00:37:38
well there's a lady that's lost up in
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Sisco Grove she's been up there lost I
00:37:43
think for a couple two or three days and
00:37:45
he's a brother search and rescue I know
00:37:50
where she's at Brandi says it in his
00:37:53
mind's eye he envisioned the silhouette
00:37:55
of a Sierra peak located around 50 miles
00:37:57
from his ranch though he had never had
00:38:00
any kind of psychic experience randy
00:38:02
somehow knew with absolute certainty
00:38:04
that he would find millie on the
00:38:07
mountains southern slope just flashed
00:38:10
what big-screen TV is like i got this
00:38:14
picture of a mountain with my hand in
00:38:16
front of it and i said i know right
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where she's at it was something you
00:38:22
didn't mess with you know you didn't
00:38:24
doubt him there was a real strong
00:38:25
feeling around him even though it was
00:38:29
well past midnight randy collected his
00:38:31
friend frank smith and headed for the
00:38:33
mountains
00:38:36
randy just looks up there and he goes
00:38:38
she's right up there put his hand up
00:38:41
there and just just pointed to her like
00:38:43
exactly in a certain area on the side of
00:38:46
that mountain he goes she's right there
00:38:50
she's right there
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meanwhile milli hunkered down for a
00:38:57
third night of withering cold that night
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I gathered up pine needles and just kind
00:39:05
of put them all around when I couldn't
00:39:08
even put some in my hat help keep my
00:39:10
head warm but I had an extra pair of
00:39:12
socks so I put those on my hands like
00:39:17
what's at night was very very long with
00:39:19
like minute by minute you know the moon
00:39:22
come up and you're watching watched and
00:39:24
pretty soon the moon goes down and then
00:39:26
it gets colder when the moon goes down I
00:39:27
got damn fish and it was cold real cold
00:39:34
that night Randy and Frank also slept
00:39:37
under the stars they were up at the
00:39:39
crack of dawn first up the search
00:39:41
command center there was a little
00:39:44
strange because they all kind of looked
00:39:46
at us like who are these guys because we
00:39:49
didn't have the orange vests and all
00:39:51
that fancy searcher gear and that they
00:39:53
had these companies scruffy-looking
00:39:55
Cowboys with long-haired mules it was a
00:39:59
job and it was just something that we
00:40:02
were gonna do there was absolutely no no
00:40:06
guessing or anything he he knew where
00:40:07
she was at and we're gonna go get her I
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know Billy hadn't seen food or water for
00:40:16
three days I was not real strong at that
00:40:20
time I was shaky and it was like every
00:40:23
step I prayed and I kept picturing in my
00:40:25
mind a glass of cold water and a bathtub
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forty-five minutes of riding took the
00:40:35
Cowboys three miles from the command
00:40:36
center randy says he sensed they were
00:40:39
getting close to Milly he and Frank
00:40:41
separated to cover a wider area Randy
00:40:45
just kept going
00:40:46
and I watched him go up I mean he was
00:40:49
just on a light beam dude straight I was
00:40:53
kind of thinking now what do I do and I
00:40:57
saw Randy coming up on the mule and it
00:41:05
was spectacular it was just a light he
00:41:09
appeared there like magic just
00:41:11
unbelievable I was amazed that she was
00:41:19
after three days up there in that cold
00:41:22
weather to see her standing up I know
00:41:25
three days out of myself out there with
00:41:27
a dark shirt been tough and for a lady
00:41:31
[Â __Â ] she has a lot of spirit
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thanks to Randy's vision millie's
00:41:39
hammering brush with death and hidden a
00:41:41
triumphant ride down the mama at the
00:41:47
command center the sight of million to
00:41:49
rescuers created quite a strain most of
00:41:53
the guys kinda stood around speechless
00:41:55
thinking that that can't be Mildred
00:41:56
we're still looking for her we have a
00:41:57
million dollars with her equipment out
00:41:59
there and resources and she's coming
00:42:00
back to camp on her back of a mule I
00:42:05
probably looked like I was a hundred
00:42:07
years old but it felt great I don't know
00:42:13
why it happened and why the brandy was
00:42:17
picked her and Frank too and I pray for
00:42:20
them because I think God used him I
00:42:24
don't know any other way of exploiting
00:42:26
it I'm not even gonna try because that's
00:42:28
that to me feels right
00:42:33
Brandee Spears quiet unassuming cavalier
00:42:36
perhaps blessed with a vision that
00:42:38
guided him through the wilderness
00:42:39
straight to Milly McGregor some may call
00:42:43
it luck but to Randy and Milly
00:42:45
there was nothing less than a divinely
00:42:46
inspired revelation
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next friday marks the start of an
00:43:03
all-new season here at unsolved
00:43:05
mysteries tune in these intriguing cases
00:43:10
in the 1960s and 70s an unknown killer
00:43:13
called a Zodiac terrorized Northern
00:43:15
California in the 1980s and 90s the
00:43:18
infamous Unabomber terrorized the nation
00:43:21
now a startling scenario could the
00:43:24
Unabomber and the Zodiac be the same man
00:43:28
when Yantra cember was struck by a
00:43:30
debilitating nerve disorder doctor said
00:43:33
only a miracle could save her from a
00:43:34
lifetime of pain and Trish believes one
00:43:37
did join me next Friday for all this
00:43:42
much more on the exciting season
00:43:44
premiere of unsolved mysteries
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you
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