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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast
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Christmas Day 1985 a relaxed joyful
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holiday for 28 year-old Debbie wolf
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hunter family 7 days later Debbie's body
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was found submerged in an oil can a pond
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behind her home police say she drowned
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accidentally her mother says it was
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murder 80 years ago the young mother
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Conrad ena Olson boarded a train and
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booked field Wisconsin and vanished
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now Conrad Ines grandpa has uncovered a
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string of bizarre clues leading to an
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unmarked grave and more unanswered
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questions 1959 Fidel Castro seizes power
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in Cuba four years later former Air
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Force pilot Jeffrey Sullivan undertakes
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a clandestine mission with anti-castro
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forces and disappears somewhere over the
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Caribbean Sea Sullivan's daughter has
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uncovered evidence that her father may
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have been imprisoned in Cuba also
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tonight we'll update our reach the story
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of a daring prison escape bikes to our
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viewers a female prison gardener
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jailhouse lover were tracked down to a
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motel in Canada and captured jointly you
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may be able to help solve a mystery
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[Applause]
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when Debbie wolf a 28 year old nurse
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from Fayetteville North Carolina
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disappeared her family became
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understandably concerned it began as a
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tragic but uncomplicated missing-persons
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case but a number of unanswered
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questions hinted at a darker secret for
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Debbie's family and friends a police
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investigation appeared flawed Debbie
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thought that helping people was the best
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thing in the world she could do
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she thought that if she could be a nurse
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and she could pay back some of the
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kindness and some of the consideration
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that had been given to her during her
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short lifetime that maybe she would make
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her own market and I think she did on
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Wednesday December 25th 1985 Debbie
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celebrated a typical family Christmas at
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her mother's home a day devoted to close
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friends and goodwill
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or p.m. the day after Christmas upon
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completing her shift at the hospital
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Debbie wolf left work presumably heading
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home the next morning Debbie should have
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been at work she had to be at work at
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8:00 Debbie did not go to work
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Debbie did not answer her telephone it
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wasn't like Debbie at all she never
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missed work she would call in if she was
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even going to be a few minutes late she
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would call in let them know but they had
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had no word from Debbie and I had had no
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word from Debbie December 27th a day
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after Debbie disappeared Jenny Edwards
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drove to Debbie's home with her husband
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John and a family friend Kevin Gorton
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Debbie lived in an isolated cabin 7
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miles outside of Fayetteville because
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Debbie was unusually neat and meticulous
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they were surprised by what they found
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in and around the cabin that seats
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pushed way back Debbie's car was not
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hard to wear she always parked we looked
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around and we saw beer cans laying in
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the yard and it was definitely a brand
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of beer that Debbie did not dream
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her dogs were running loose as they
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normally did but they had not been fed
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Debbie Debbie are you home
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there were small things that were out of
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place that Debbie would not have put
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where they were placed there was a
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uniform laying on the floor in the
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kitchen things thrown in in the kitchen
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on the floor like maybe she took them
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off it's a uniform John yeah John Kevin
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Gordon found Debbie's purse shoved back
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under her bed hey guys I think I found
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Davey's purse
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found what
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then here work today
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there was also an odd message on
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Debbie's answering machine recorded
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earlier that day before Jenny arrived
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you've been out a lot of days making it
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worried when you meant another one just
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want to make sure you're okay
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what concerned me about his message was
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that he said that she had missed a lot
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of days at work and she hadn't in fact
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she had only missed a few hours at work
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at the time that he put the message on
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the answering machine
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fifty feet from the cabin was a pond
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they searched the entire area and found
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no trace of Debbie
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Jenny Edwards call the Sheriff's Office
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she was told that law enforcement would
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become involved only after 72 hours had
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elapsed from the time of the
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disappearance on Tuesday December 31st
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the Sheriff's Department finally
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conducted a full-scale search five days
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after Debbie had last been seen they
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searched the cabin later that afternoon
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they brought the bloodhounds out which
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they could find nothing at all they then
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walked around the edge of the pond I was
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there for that and they looked across it
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granted it's a small pond but it's deep
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in some places and it's not that small I
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asked if they were going to put a boat
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into the water and at least a paddle
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across it they said they didn't know it
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was getting too late and that they would
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let me know the next day of course some
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of the individuals there that had that
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were friends other family had been there
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a couple days prior had done some
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searching on their own and I think it
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was mentioned that they had already
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looked in the pond there was no use for
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us to look in the pond so I don't think
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we did a dive of the pond or a complete
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search of the pond on that day no we did
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not
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at that time I asked him if it would be
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all right then if I got my own divers to
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go into the pond and he said certainly
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New Year's Day 1986 Debbie Wolfe had now
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been missing for six days
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Kevin Gorton had another friend Gordon
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Childers returned to the pond
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both men were familiar with rescue work
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Gordon dragged the pond looking for
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evidence
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he was in the water approximately two
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minutes when he called out to me and
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told me that he had found what looked
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like a set of footprints in the drag
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mark um as he continued to zigzag back
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and forth across the pond
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he continued to come over these tracks
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two sets of footprints were found along
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with the drag marks these prints
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remained in the mud for weeks I went out
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and went under and following the trails
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maybe six inches from the bottom and
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just kind of like coasting along the
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bottom after no good hard kid I hit
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something my mask flooded
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looks like a body down here are you sure
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let me double check so I went back down
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confirmed the whole spent more time
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looking didn't touch or disturb anything
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I couldn't see above mid-drift is as in
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Saba look like a burn barrel there's a
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rusty 55-gallon oil drum type thing with
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holes in
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the police were called to the scene
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a dead woman was identified as Debbie
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wolf an autopsy revealed no trace of
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drugs or alcohol and Debbie's system
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there were no obvious signs of foul play
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the corner rule the cause of death is
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drowning but was unable to determine
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exactly when Debbie had died a number of
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discrepancies soon surfaced which led
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Debbie's family and friends to believe
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Debbie had not drowned and Claude state
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just a fight for life which was quite on
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contrary wait Debbie was the eyes were
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closed the mouth was closed arms were a
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relaxed state just her whole body was
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relaxed she looked like she was asleep
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we theorized that if it was an
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accidental drowning that at that point
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she may have been out around the pond
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her dogs were running loose when the
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family members and the Sheriff's
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Department personnel were there possibly
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she was playing with the dolls and fell
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in another thing that struck me funny
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was the fact that Debbie was was clean
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the clothes were clean you know her face
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was not carrying a lot of silt the day
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that me and Gordie went into the water
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and spent maybe 20 minutes it took us
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both about three days to watch her wash
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her dive suits out from just the
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accumulation of the silt and mud that
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was in the bottom of that pond
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police also began to deny that the body
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had been found inside of a barrel after
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the body was retrieved and dispatched to
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a local hospital I walked away from the
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pond up to the cabin as I was walking
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away they were discussing how to mark
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the barrel and how to bring it out then
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I thought surely they would do that I
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walked back out of the cabin about ten
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minutes later and saw all their cars
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leaving and I asked one of our friends
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who were there I said
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what happened do they have the barrel
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and they said no they decided to leave
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it there they'll get it in the morning
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the next day they went back to get the
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barrel it seems that the barrel was gone
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all of a sudden it didn't exist the same
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barrel that had been there the night
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before
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in my opinion and opinions of some of
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the investigators what appeared to be a
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barrel to some of the divers could have
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been the field jacket which may have
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ballooned out as she was laying at that
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angle at the bottom of the pond there
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was never a barrel touched by any of the
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divers according to their statements
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most definitely bout none of our divers
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than we ever touch a barrel there was no
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doubt my mind her purse had positive
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that it was an old burn barrel or
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something about nature you know metal
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rusted 55-gallon type drum and that the
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body was in I remembered the barrel that
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was sitting by Debbie's cabin this is
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known here as an oil barrel it's a big
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round metal drum farmers use it for
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burning trash however she didn't use it
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for that instead we used it for target
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practice when we were out there shooting
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pistols when after I had called law
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enforcement that we had located a party
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I went over to the spot where the barrel
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was and the barrel was gone
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the indention of the barrel was still
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their own on the ground but the barrel
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was no longer there
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a few months later
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Jenny discovered another inconsistency
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when I got a chance to examine the
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clothes that were owned Debbie's body I
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looked at them very carefully and
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realized that those were not Debbie's
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clothes the pants were very very much
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too long for Debbie the Field Jacket
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Debbie had owned a field jacket that had
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belonged to her brother and that is a
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totally different field jacket than what
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was found on the body the bra was cup
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sized three sizes too large for her and
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around size it would be two sizes too
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large for her the shoes
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Debbie wore a ladies size seven and
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these were a men's size six which winds
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up being about three sizes larger I
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don't know why clothing belonging to
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Debbie or what didn't blown today of
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course my mother would probably know
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that information or have that
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information know more about what blown
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to hurt him then we would of course
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investigators all we do is ask questions
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and and try to get some answers we do
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know for a fact through our
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investigation that the tennis shoes she
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had on were her tennis shoes we have
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photographs of them of her with those
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tennis shoes on prior to her death
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that's much no want comment on the club
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Jennie Edwards became convinced that
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Debbie had been murdered
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I owe you today among her duties at work
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Debbie was assigned to coordinating the
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hospital volunteers
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I don't want to go out with you I've
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told you I volunteer in particular seem
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to bother her quite a bit because he had
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a history of psychiatric illnesses wait
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according to Jenny the volunteer
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obtained Debbie's home phone number
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hello it's me look I told you I don't
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want you calling me here anymore you
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don't even know where I live look I was
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investigated you I did sure the night
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that the body was brought to the surface
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however he provided an alibi and refused
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to take a polygraph
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so he wasn't questioned any longer he
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left several days after that to go out
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of state
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the second man suspected by Jenny
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Edwards was also a hospital volunteer he
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did there was another volunteer at the
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hospital at the same time that wanted to
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become romantically involved with Debbie
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Debbie discusses with everyone including
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him and told him that she would be his
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friend but nothing else she was
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interested in someone else totally away
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from the hospital you know I've got a
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boyfriend jenny is convinced that this
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was the man who called Debbie the day
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after she disappeared expressing concern
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that she'd been missing from work for
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day
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you've been out a lot of days make me
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worry the second suspect was also
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questioned by police
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anyone family requested that we talk to
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our interview we tried to interview of
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course through the information we
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received 30 in these interviews there
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was nothing there that we could use in
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any criminal prosecution or there was
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nothing there at the indicate to us that
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this was a homicide what really happened
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to Debbie wolf her mother believes she
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was taken hostage by one of the two
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suspects kept alive for several days and
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finally killed
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later she believes someone returned to
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the pond to remove the barrels so the
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ruling of foul play would be dismissed
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there are people out there who know what
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happened to Debbie they know who's
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responsible and I'm hoping that they
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will come forward and finally say
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something
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Debbie was a lovely person and she was
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loved by very very many people and I
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think that she has a right to be put to
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rest
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finally and I'd like to do that next our
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viewer tips in Canada led to the capture
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of a woman who allegedly helped her
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lover escape from prison
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last month we profiled the case of a
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corrections officer from Maryland whose
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secret love affair with a prison inmate
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changed her from a devoted mother into a
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wanted fugitive on the run tonight a
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dramatic update to the story
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for ten years 46 year-old Sandra Kay
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Beeman worked as a prison matron at a
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maximum security facility in Cumberland
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Maryland 30 year old Edgar Kearns is
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being held at the Cumberland prison will
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awaiting sentencing on charges of check
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fraud on August 29th late 290 head ger
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Kearns and another inmate
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James Barr has made a daring escape it
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appeared that they had taken Kate Beaton
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hostage authorities were shocked when
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they later learned that Kate demon had
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actually helped through the escape and
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that she was in love Edgar Kearns
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I guess you maybe fall in love with
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somebody and do some strange things but
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caves pretty well lost about everything
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that she ever had over this one incident
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up to attack just six hours after our on
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Twitter
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Sandra key be led returns were captured
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in Canada on September 10th place after
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the escaped demon and currents checked
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into the beach motor motel in Hamilton
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Canada they registered as husband and
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wife under the assumed names Fred and
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Sandy Smith I was watching TV and all of
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a sudden this lady's picture come on so
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I called my wife and she was over the
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kitchen ironing and I said do you
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recognize this lady and she said yes
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she's the lady that's living in room 12
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and by this time the gentlemen come on
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and I said oh he also lives in there so
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I reached over immediately and picked up
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the phone and call the police
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when we got to the beach Motor Hotel the
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information from the Mitchells was the
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effect that they hadn't left the room
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and it wasn't their policy to leave the
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room during the evening we were
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convinced they were still inside the
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room the officers of the emergency
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response unit which is equivalent to the
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SWAT team forced the door open and
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almost found to be they could
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a witness later told authorities that he
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had seen the fugitive couple getting
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into a taxi cab earlier that evening we
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were able to determine the name of the
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cab and a check with a cab company
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revealed the driver I think about the
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beach trip and that just up from the
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motel and they I asked him where they
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were going and they said the red rose
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motel when we got to the motel the cab
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driver said he had taken one of our
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officers was able to determine from the
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office register at that location that
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they had in fact booked in and that
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currents in fact that uses bright name
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humorously
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the emergency response unit we did three
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or four officers of the emergency
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response and approached the front door
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the motel room it was at that point that
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someone from the inside of the room
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looked out through the drapes
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the officers been forced open the door
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entered the room turns he was forced to
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the floor the motel room and held in a
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position of safety the female in the
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room was in the bed and her hands were
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handcuffed above her head to the head at
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that point they're both persons were
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arrested Kearns was removed by my
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partner myself and transported to
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Central Station
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we wanted to know how we had learned of
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his wearables we asked him if he had
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ever seen the program before he said yes
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he had you told him that he was on it
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tonight he was astounded on October 30th
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1990s and rock a demon and Edgar Kern's
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were returned to Maryland
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next a woman's search for her missing
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grandma collides with a mysterious
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legend of murder
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amid the windswept prairie near the
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small town of Ellis Missouri lays a
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lonely unmarked grave
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legend has it as a resting place of an
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unknown woman found murdered near the
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railroad tracks years ago
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for as long as anyone can remember the
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grave has been maintained by railroad
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workers adorned with flowers every
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Memorial Day in the past three years
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here featured many stories of lost loves
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our next story also concerns a missing
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loved one but with an odd twist the
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woman disappeared 80 years ago this is a
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story of a granddaughters relentless
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search that has brought her face to face
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with a mysterious legend our murder in a
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small town and dark family secrets kept
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hushed for nearly a hundred years
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Brookfield Wisconsin the early 1900s
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thirty-eight-year-old con Rodina Olson
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said goodbye to her four children
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thank you guys I'll see you tomorrow she
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told him she was going to Milwaukee for
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a doctor something he would return the
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following day no I'd rather stay here to
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fight you
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[Music]
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Kandra Dina Olsen's family never saw her
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again
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[Music]
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for the rest of his life Kandra Dena's
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eldest son had one regret not getting on
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the train that morning he felt that if
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he had went with her she would have been
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back she would have come back to them my
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father he suffered for this all of his
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life he couldn't accept why and how she
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went away he never knew why she went
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away and didn't come back in 1983 Geneva
00:24:24
Fox er began investigating her
00:24:25
grandmother's disappearance hoping to
00:24:28
find answers to the questions that
00:24:29
haunted her father his entire life she
00:24:33
learned that in 1891 20 year-old Conrad
00:24:36
ena Heitmann married thirty year old
00:24:38
Karl Olson a railroad coachman
00:24:40
by all accounts Carlin Cardenas marriage
00:24:43
was not a happy
00:24:49
and all of my research I found out that
00:24:52
my grandfather was I don't know if he
00:24:55
was abusive physically to my grandmother
00:24:58
but I did understand that he was not
00:25:02
good to hurt
00:25:07
the back in those days when there was a
00:25:09
bad marriage people didn't get a divorce
00:25:13
one of one of the people just walked
00:25:16
away from the marriage and this this is
00:25:19
actually what I had thought for many
00:25:21
years that had happened to her but now I
00:25:24
don't I feel she was taken something bad
00:25:29
had to happen to her
00:25:32
in September of 1985 while working at
00:25:36
her gift shop on South Sioux City
00:25:37
Nebraska Geneva had a bizarre encounter
00:25:40
with one of her customers
00:25:41
Alice chance meeting as startling
00:25:44
possibility began to emerge this was a
00:25:48
quiet day and all I suppose around noon
00:25:51
this lady come into my store I knew
00:25:54
there was something different but I
00:25:57
couldn't grasp what it was and she
00:25:59
walked around a bit I I usually let
00:26:01
people walk around my store so I don't
00:26:03
you know I don't bug
00:26:06
[Music]
00:26:07
and so she come up around counter and we
00:26:12
got to talking and she told me her name
00:26:14
was Susanna I'm looking for a Pegasus
00:26:16
Pegasus and she says well I'm a psychic
00:26:18
well no I'm a psychic and just out of a
00:26:23
clear blue sky she said you want to ask
00:26:24
me about your grandmother don't you and
00:26:27
I was amazed I said yes and she said do
00:26:31
you have anything of your grandmother's
00:26:32
here nice and yes I said I have a
00:26:34
marriage license and I said I have their
00:26:36
wedding picture and she closed her eyes
00:26:37
and she says not only talk be very quiet
00:26:41
in then all of a sudden she said I can
00:26:44
see her boarding a train
00:26:45
I can see children crying I can see her
00:26:48
being beaten and I feel that your
00:26:51
grandfather knows what happened to her
00:26:55
it's just kind of sent shivers down my
00:26:58
spine I I was flabbergasted I thought I
00:27:04
don't believe this how could she know
00:27:05
how could how could she know this about
00:27:08
my grandmother later
00:27:11
Susanna's office Geneva was given more
00:27:13
possible clues about her grandmother's
00:27:16
disappearance Susannah to Geneva that
00:27:20
she would soon be receiving a packet of
00:27:22
old letters the letters would pinpoint
00:27:24
the year the Geneva's grandmother
00:27:26
disappeared Ellis has something to do
00:27:30
about where she is at this point she
00:27:33
also told you neva that the name Ellis
00:27:35
was somehow connected to the
00:27:36
disappearance and that her grandmother
00:27:38
was buried in an unmarked grave
00:27:41
and she says also I see within a year's
00:27:45
time you will be getting a letter from
00:27:48
an unknown source yet not heard from
00:27:50
somebody you don't even know of that is
00:27:53
going to tell you where this greatest in
00:27:56
cutter several weeks later Susanna's
00:27:59
first predictions seem to come true
00:28:04
within two months time I did get a
00:28:07
packet of letters and pictures also
00:28:10
there was many of them from eighteen and
00:28:15
eighteen hundreds
00:28:16
and within these old letters it states
00:28:21
there was some dissension in the
00:28:22
marriage and it also states that she
00:28:25
that the last known from heard from her
00:28:28
it was around 1910 encouraged by this
00:28:32
new information Geneva sent a letter
00:28:34
detailing her search to a Midwestern
00:28:36
newspaper the editors found the story
00:28:39
interesting and printed the letter I got
00:28:42
in contact with Geneva when I read a
00:28:45
piece and in a monthly magazine that she
00:28:49
was looking for her grandmother bill
00:28:53
carpenter route to Geneva and told her
00:28:55
of the unmarked grave near Ellis
00:28:57
Missouri
00:28:58
he says there's quite a story about this
00:29:01
death and he says it is an unmarked
00:29:03
grave in its in its along the railroad
00:29:05
right away and when he said it's along
00:29:08
the railroad right away I couldn't
00:29:10
believe it I just tears come to my eyes
00:29:12
I just wanted to cry you know this was
00:29:15
another prediction of Susanna's that
00:29:17
came true
00:29:19
at the turn of the century Ellis
00:29:21
Missouri was a small farming town
00:29:23
according to local legend fashionably
00:29:26
dressed woman got off the train at Ellis
00:29:31
she was seen arguing with a man
00:29:33
witnesses reported that it appeared to
00:29:35
be a lover's quarrel with a couple storm
00:29:38
east down the tracks a man was later
00:29:42
seen returning to the station of law he
00:29:45
boarded another train and left town
00:29:48
three days later the woman's body was
00:29:50
discovered alongside the train tracks
00:29:52
she had been murdered there was nothing
00:29:56
to identify the woman reveal where she
00:29:58
had come from
00:30:02
according to the legend railroad workers
00:30:05
buried the woman in a field a few yards
00:30:07
from where she was found
00:30:10
I want to think this is my grandmother's
00:30:12
grave in my heart I think it is and I
00:30:18
don't know what else could have happened
00:30:19
to my grandmother I think with all my
00:30:20
research I would have found out
00:30:22
something anything but this is what it
00:30:25
has led to and all of these predictions
00:30:27
have all all come here they've all how
00:30:29
could this not be my grandmother I
00:30:32
certainly wish her well in finding her
00:30:34
grandmother but I remain rather
00:30:36
skeptical about the story because the
00:30:38
fact that that we have newspaper
00:30:40
articles about the unknown grave
00:30:42
dating from before 1910 when her
00:30:44
grandmother apparently disappeared this
00:30:47
newspaper article does seem to discount
00:30:49
Geneva's conclusion it was published in
00:30:52
1888 22 years before Conrad ina Olsen
00:30:55
disappeared it describes a dead woman as
00:30:58
being less than 20 years old
00:31:00
Conrad ena Olsen was 38 when she
00:31:03
vanished 40 years ago I talked to an 85
00:31:08
year old man that had worked for the
00:31:10
railroad all of his life and he said
00:31:15
that the lady that they found along the
00:31:18
tracks was approximately in her 30s I
00:31:22
feel it is her grandmother that's my
00:31:26
feeling if the woman found murdered
00:31:28
alongside the railroad tracks was Conrad
00:31:31
ena Wilson then who was the man seen
00:31:34
arguing with her at the Ellis train
00:31:36
station at the time my grandmother
00:31:38
disappeared I've always heard the story
00:31:41
that my grandfather also went away for a
00:31:43
period of time I don't want to believe
00:31:45
that my grandfather did
00:31:47
with her I don't believe he did I don't
00:31:49
want to believe it but the way this is
00:31:53
all coming about I don't know what to
00:31:56
think about it
00:31:58
until I find for sure this is my
00:32:01
grandmother I will always have that
00:32:03
doubt of not knowing and I want to know
00:32:06
not only for myself but for my father
00:32:12
I'm gonna find her I feel that there's
00:32:14
somebody out there that knows what
00:32:16
happened to her
00:32:16
and I I just wanna know when we return
00:32:23
the disappearance of an American pilot
00:32:26
apparently on an anti-castro mission in
00:32:28
Latin America
00:32:29
one eyewitness claims he was imprisoned
00:32:31
in Cuba
00:32:35
[Music]
00:32:45
September 23rd 1963 Waterbury
00:32:48
Connecticut 28 year old Jeffrey Sullivan
00:32:52
a former Air Force pilot prepared to
00:32:55
depart on a mysterious covert mission
00:33:00
the way my mom relates it and my father
00:33:03
I was supposed to come back in five days
00:33:05
[Music]
00:33:07
give you a call as soon as I get a
00:33:09
chance to I don't know if he was nervous
00:33:11
but he gave her his Saint Christopher
00:33:14
medal which he wore all the times he
00:33:17
explained to her that this would be his
00:33:20
last trip yes you do and not because he
00:33:25
wasn't coming back but because he didn't
00:33:27
want to be involved in this type of
00:33:28
operation anymore
00:33:33
he took off that morning and that was
00:33:36
the last time she ever saw
00:33:38
[Music]
00:33:42
four days later Jeffry Sullivan
00:33:44
disappeared over the Caribbean the
00:33:47
mystery of what happened during those
00:33:48
four days still haunts his daughter
00:33:54
sherry Sullivan was seven years old when
00:33:57
she lost her father today Sherry's a
00:34:00
private investigator living in Bangor
00:34:02
Maine for the past six years she is
00:34:05
sifted through a labyrinth of
00:34:06
bureaucratic red tape and false leads
00:34:08
hoping to uncover the truth of her
00:34:10
father's fate no one wanted to say he
00:34:14
wasn't coming back as it rolled into the
00:34:19
years it was a kind of thing that just
00:34:20
wasn't talked about I mean no one knew
00:34:22
what to say and none of us were ever
00:34:25
allowed to go through a grieving process
00:34:27
because as far as we were concerned he
00:34:29
wasn't dead
00:34:33
Jeffrey Sullivan enlisted in the Air
00:34:35
Force when he was 18 in 1957 he earned
00:34:38
his wings
00:34:39
two years later Sullivan receives an
00:34:42
honorable discharge and became a
00:34:44
freelance commercial pilot the same year
00:34:50
Bedell Castro's revolution triumphed in
00:34:52
Cuba
00:34:53
the communist threat was now only 90
00:34:55
miles from American shores almost
00:34:58
overnight both US government backed and
00:35:01
independent covert operations were
00:35:02
launched to undermine Castro's regime
00:35:08
one of the men involved in these
00:35:10
operations was 37 year-old Alex Roarke a
00:35:13
journalist and photographer from New
00:35:14
York by writing a series of articles
00:35:17
about Cuban exiles walk became active in
00:35:20
the campaign to overthrow Castro's new
00:35:22
government Jeffrey in 1961 Jeffery
00:35:32
Sullivan and Alex Roth met work soon
00:35:36
hired Sullivan as a pilot for his plan
00:35:38
destined anti-castro activities when
00:35:42
Jeffrey Sullivan shook hands with Alex
00:35:44
Roark he sealed his own fate after the
00:35:47
Cuban Revolution a staggering array of
00:35:49
anti-castro operations sprung up in the
00:35:51
United States many of them were
00:35:53
organized by shadowy characters it was a
00:35:56
murky underworld of these clandestine
00:35:58
operations in which Jeffrey Sullivan
00:36:00
became caught up March 1961 us-backed
00:36:08
human exiles prepared to invade Cuba the
00:36:10
Bay of Pigs
00:36:12
on April 17 they were defeated in less
00:36:15
than a day because the US government
00:36:16
failed to supply air support in October
00:36:21
of 1962 Soviet missile silos were
00:36:23
discovered in Cuba for seven days the
00:36:26
world was on the brink of nuclear war
00:36:31
after the missile crises operations
00:36:34
against Cuba were still carried on by
00:36:36
the US government but they were trying
00:36:39
to be more discreet about it and they
00:36:42
did shed some of the more loose canon
00:36:46
operations and I think Alex Rourke's
00:36:49
could have been classified as such there
00:36:52
was a public order to men like Alexander
00:36:56
Rourke and Geoffrey Sullivan to stop
00:36:59
their operations against Cuba altogether
00:37:06
on September 23rd 1963 eight days after
00:37:10
the official warning was issued Geoffrey
00:37:12
Sullivan left Waterbury Connecticut the
00:37:15
next day he resurfaced in Fort
00:37:17
Lauderdale Florida with Alex Rourke
00:37:20
[Music]
00:37:23
in Fort Lauderdale Sullivan and Rock met
00:37:25
with two men one of them was Frank
00:37:27
Sturgis who had also been named in the
00:37:29
public warning years later Sturgis had
00:37:32
become well known for his role in the
00:37:34
Watergate scandal crook told me he did
00:37:38
buy a b-25 bomber and he wanted to take
00:37:42
to be 25 to Nica Raja wanted to sit down
00:37:47
and talk with general samosa in order to
00:37:50
have a base of operations in Nicaragua
00:37:53
and to as the general to fit out the b25
00:37:57
for bombing missions inside of Cuba I'll
00:38:00
need to see your Sturgis convinced wrong
00:38:02
that they should first meet personally
00:38:03
with Nicaraguan officials the floor men
00:38:06
rented an airplane and agreed to depart
00:38:08
for Nicaragua the following morning the
00:38:15
next day
00:38:15
Rourke's wife drove him to opal acha
00:38:17
Airport in Fort Lauderdale on the way
00:38:24
they picked up another man mrs. rora
00:38:28
didn't know who this gentleman was he
00:38:31
spoke broken English but she drove the
00:38:34
both of them to the airport where my
00:38:36
father was and dropped them off
00:38:39
at approximately 8 a.m. the santa lair
00:38:42
twin-engine plane took off from Fort
00:38:44
Lauderdale on board were Jeffrey
00:38:47
Sullivan Alex Roark and the stranger
00:38:50
curiously Frank Sturgis and his
00:38:52
associate were left behind what
00:38:56
transpired during the next 48 hours
00:38:58
remains a jumbled maze of unanswered
00:39:00
questions
00:39:01
[Music]
00:39:04
according to the official FAA report
00:39:07
Sullivan's flight activities were highly
00:39:09
unusual
00:39:10
he returned to Fort Lauderdale three
00:39:13
times with very little explanation
00:39:16
on his third return to the airport the
00:39:18
planes landing gear remain retracted all
00:39:21
on your landing gear appear to be up
00:39:22
side steps into riding over it Sullivan
00:39:28
did not attempt to land at Fort
00:39:30
Lauderdale again five hours later he
00:39:37
arrived at North Perry Airport just 30
00:39:39
miles away the plane made a short puddle
00:39:44
hop over to Hollywood Florida which is a
00:39:47
very short distance away and told the
00:39:51
people there to refuel right and the an
00:39:56
operator the Flying Service said that it
00:39:59
hardly took any gasoline to refuel it
00:40:02
what should have been a 20-minute flight
00:40:04
had taken nearly five hours no one knows
00:40:08
where the plane was during that time
00:40:15
at 1:30 p.m. Sullivan and his companions
00:40:18
departed north Perry the official flight
00:40:21
plan was to Tegucigalpa Honduras as
00:40:24
their final destination
00:40:29
Sullivan next contacted the tower at
00:40:32
Miami International Airport at 3:43 p.m.
00:40:36
he filed a revised flight plan listing
00:40:38
to command Panama's his destination
00:40:40
[Music]
00:40:44
Sullivan attempted to file a flight plan
00:40:46
for a destination that was some two
00:40:49
hours beyond the normal range of his
00:40:50
aircraft when he was informed of this by
00:40:54
the air traffic controller on duty he
00:40:57
then changed his destination from
00:41:00
however this destination was also well
00:41:03
beyond the range of the aircraft he was
00:41:06
flying seven hours passed again with no
00:41:10
accounting for the planes whereabouts
00:41:14
the 10:22 p.m. sullivan contacted a
00:41:17
miami tower once more this time he filed
00:41:20
a flight plan for Belize British
00:41:22
Honduras traveler 860 the official FAA
00:41:25
report states that he refueled just
00:41:27
after midnight in Cozumel Mexico this
00:41:30
was the last official sighting of the
00:41:32
plane
00:41:33
Jeffrey Sullivan his companions were
00:41:36
assumed lost at sea
00:41:37
[Music]
00:41:42
despite a massive search no trace of
00:41:45
Jeffrey Sullivan or Alex Rourke was ever
00:41:47
found
00:41:50
[Music]
00:41:51
23 years later Sherry Sullivan and her
00:41:54
attorney Karl McHugh petitioned the
00:41:56
United States government for information
00:41:58
concerning Sherry's father
00:42:00
to date they received over 5,000 pages
00:42:03
of documentation from 14 federal
00:42:05
agencies including the FBI and the CIA
00:42:11
very shortly after we initiated our
00:42:14
Freedom of Information Act request to
00:42:16
the FBI my attorney spoke with an FBI
00:42:20
agent on the phone
00:42:21
who wanted to question him about whether
00:42:26
he really wanted to get involved in this
00:42:28
type of thing it's suggesting that maybe
00:42:30
we'd be better off if we didn't he
00:42:33
indicated that we were opening a can of
00:42:35
worms as he put it more than a third of
00:42:40
the 800 pages received from the FBI were
00:42:43
censored
00:42:45
according to Sherry Sullivan information
00:42:48
found in these documents indicates that
00:42:50
at least another four hundred pages
00:42:52
exist but were withheld for national
00:42:55
security reasons it made me more curious
00:42:59
it was almost really the confirmation
00:43:02
where we're looking for it away saying
00:43:03
there is something here in the FBI
00:43:08
documents sherry found the named Floyd
00:43:10
Park
00:43:12
when she reached park by telephone he
00:43:14
told sherry had seen her father two days
00:43:17
after he reportedly disappeared floyd
00:43:23
park indicated that he had seen my
00:43:25
father and alex and spanish fella in
00:43:29
belly's we have not been able to verify
00:43:33
the identity of floyd park who he is
00:43:37
really and what he was involved in in
00:43:39
the 60s and how my father would have
00:43:42
known him you know why they would have
00:43:44
stopped to see him we weren't really
00:43:46
able to get those answers from him
00:43:49
sherry sullivan only talked to floyd
00:43:52
park once she's been unable to locate
00:43:55
him since but park did tell sherry that
00:43:58
her father and Alex Ward might have been
00:44:00
taken prisoner in Cuba I think it's a
00:44:04
very good chance if they ended up in
00:44:06
Cuba I mean they have involved in
00:44:09
clandestine operations in and out of
00:44:11
Cuba Fidel Castro from what I've heard
00:44:14
had a bounty out of my father and Alex
00:44:17
because he knew what they were involved
00:44:19
and he knew they were going in out of
00:44:20
his country so this a very good
00:44:24
possibility that they could have ended
00:44:26
up in Cuba probably some way they they
00:44:30
landed in Cuba in 1986 sherry spoke with
00:44:34
Marty Casey who had been in Cuba two
00:44:36
years after her father disappeared I was
00:44:41
with two Cuban exile from Miami and they
00:44:44
met the fellow that they knew from the
00:44:46
area he was working in the Cousteau most
00:44:49
us how many gonna see sorry medica okay
00:44:52
why no he recognized my American accent
00:44:54
I was speaking Spanish he asked me you
00:44:56
know working and I said what do you mean
00:44:59
O'Rourke O'Rourke na Roorkee the pilot
00:45:02
no LP not a Sullivan no no the other guy
00:45:05
was Sullivan is what should be the way
00:45:08
to pronounce it in Spanish and I said
00:45:11
well how do you know them and they said
00:45:12
I was in jail here with him two years
00:45:15
ago
00:45:15
yoky rockin birthday mucho de Dios or
00:45:18
cap no reason whatsoever to doubt it
00:45:20
because I was the one that thought that
00:45:25
work was over and I thought that work
00:45:28
was a pilot and he was the one who
00:45:30
corrected me he knew I didn't another
00:45:37
name Shari found in the FBI documents
00:45:39
was Enrique Molina Garcia allegedly a
00:45:42
double agent for Castro's government
00:45:45
Sherry believes Garcia was a mysterious
00:45:48
third man on the plane and that he
00:45:51
tricked her father and Alex work into
00:45:53
flying to Cuba unconfirmed reports do
00:45:56
place Garcia in Havana years after
00:45:59
chaeri's father disappeared
00:46:05
[Music]
00:46:14
when I was little I used to go over to
00:46:16
my grandmother's house and wind up his
00:46:18
watch all the time and that was my way
00:46:19
of keeping it alive I think he was in
00:46:25
that watch if I kept the watch going
00:46:27
he'd still be living and of course I'm
00:46:30
not little anymore but the little girl
00:46:33
inside me
00:46:34
the little seven year old girl that
00:46:36
never gave up hoping thinks he's alive
00:46:40
[Music]
00:47:07
for every mystery there is someone
00:47:09
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
00:47:12
that someone is watching perhaps is you
00:47:16
[Music]
00:47:40
[Applause]
00:47:44
[Music]
