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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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is it mother's instinct are just
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coincidence tonight a fascinating look
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at the mysterious telepathic link
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between mothers and children
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Carolyn Iver was cleaning up after
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dinner when she suddenly sensed that her
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8 month old daughter was in grave danger
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Carolyn rushed to the living and saved
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the baby from choking Delaney was
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overcome by a strong inexplicable
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feeling of dread during an out-of-town
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trip later she would learn that at that
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very moment her son had been seriously
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injured in the fall both women attribute
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their experiences to a special Sixth
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Sense possessed only by mothers also
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tonight in 1990
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Anita Greene was gunned down by an
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unidentified man in the parking lot of
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her husband's office two years later a
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friend of Anita's Michelle sent is
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writing a book of taste and found
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herself targeted by a vicious unknown
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stalker if she believes it's the same
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man who murdered her friend this tragic
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accident left one person dead and three
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injured but in reality it was no
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accident it was a result of a deadly con
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game gone wrong a con game springing up
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all over the country and you could be a
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target
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finally the intriguing mystery of this
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century-old edition of the Bible it was
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found accidentally in a second-hand
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stores pages crumbling in his gold gilt
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long since faded but as it turns out
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there was a lot of life in this old book
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the enigmatic secrets of a family whose
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heirs may be watching tonight join me
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there seems little doubt that Norma's
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magical bond exists between some mothers
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and their children it is perhaps the
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most wonderful and heartwarming of all
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mysteries January of 1974 was a blur of
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diapers and dishes for Carolina bear a
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mother of two the Carolyn will remember
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one day in particular for the rest of
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her life
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was in the evening I was in the kitchen
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doing the dishes my husband was down the
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hallway reading the newspaper
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my daughter Monica was in there doing
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her homework and Sarah her little baby
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was playing with her toys and you know
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you're not your mind is not really
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usually very far away from your children
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you think about them and this night I
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was thinking about Sarah and suddenly I
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had a feeling that there was something
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wrong it was a very focused feeling and
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in my mind I saw that she was choking on
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something I didn't know what Carolyn
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says that she had inexplicably sensed
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her 8 month old daughter silently
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choking on a balloon you would think
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about the what if what if I hadn't
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listened and just thought well I'll go
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in a few minutes but this was not that
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sort of the feeling this was get there
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you're needed call it mother's instinct
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call it ESP caught us simply the power
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of love accounts of the extraordinary
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intuition two mothers have been handed
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down for generations such a bond seems
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to defy the limits of time and space and
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what it may never be scientifically
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proven it is far too compelling to be
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denied it's not like watching your child
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walk down the street and say oh I know
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they're gonna trip over the sidewalk
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it's not like that it's so powerful and
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so strong and it's very different
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feeling in 1983 business had taken
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Elaine Emmy and a neighbor Sharon
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Crocker to Palm Springs 110 miles from
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their homes in Los Angeles they were
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just sitting down to eat an elaine was
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seized by an overwhelming sense of dread
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about her four-year-old son it was like
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being hit by a wave it was a very
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powerful feeling both emotionally and
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physically
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Sharon something's wrong what do you
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mean something's wrong
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something's happened to Matt overlaying
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stop worrying I'm sure he's just
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it's like someone flipping a switch all
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of a sudden you feel something and two
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seconds before you didn't feel that you
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weren't thinking about that at all I
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knew something was wrong with Matt
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immediately and it wasn't just a
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foreboding
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I mean sometimes people get a strange
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sense that something's not right it
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wasn't like that it was a very definite
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feeling something that you couldn't just
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shrug off sharing Matthew has been hurt
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I just know it I'm gonna go call home
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I'll be right back
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Alain had instant panic she wasn't what
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I would consider out-of-control but just
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her mannerisms gave me the impression
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that she was very concerned and knew
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that there was something very wrong
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Alain immediately called home no answer
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convinced us something truly terrible it
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happened she phoned shares husband
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tongue
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hello hi Tom its lane where are you
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Tom had not heard from Elaine's husband
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her seen anything unusual at their house
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just across the street so I said well
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then why don't we just have lunch
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she said no there's something wrong we
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need to go home and that's what we did
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Elena used to worried
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I don't know
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I just can't get rid of this feeling
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that's something Awful's happened back
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twice during the trip back to Los
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Angeles Elaine stopped a call home still
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no one answered Sharon tried to reassure
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me that everything was probably alright
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but the sense of urgency was still there
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and there was nothing I could do to get
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rid of that feeling
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it was the longest three hours of Layne
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Emmys life when she and Sharon finally
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arrived home Cher's husband had stunning
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news yet learned that Matt was in the
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hospital when Elaine arrived Matt was
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being prepped for surgery to reattach
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severed tendons in his arm he had fallen
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and crashed through a plate-glass door
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at the very moment the sense of dread
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had swept over Elaine I was feeling what
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Matt was going through no doubt about it
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I don't think I ever questioned that I'm
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not sure why I was able to feel that but
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I know without any doubt what I was
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feeling and what I was experiencing it
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made the hair stand up on the back of my
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neck thinking oh my god she actually did
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know that something was happening when
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it happened Elaine and her son had been
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separated by more than 100 miles and yet
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she had been as certain he was hurt as
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if she had seen the accident with her
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own eyes I think that this connection
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starts in the room I think even in the
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womb some children and some mothers are
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more connected than others and if they
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are really connected of course then it
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will continue for the rest of their
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lives it is a connection of love whereby
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the mother anticipates the child's needs
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whether it's a small baby toddler and
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adolescent but she anticipates it not
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only on a physical level which of course
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is part of Maternity but on a level we
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might almost call telepathic spiritual
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so that the whole mother is in touch
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with a whole child sometimes it just
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happens once in a lifetime and you may
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never be able to repeat it again but it
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just happens you have tuned in that one
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person who is sending out those signals
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because it's important to you
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if Elena me does have a psychic bond
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with her son it seems logical that it
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originated in the womb however many
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adoptive mothers have also reported
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these astounding experiences simply the
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fact of having adopted a child doesn't
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mean the woman's divested of all her
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instincts and I believe that women have
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instincts a woman's intuition whatever
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you want to call it in March of 1987
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Linda Babb and her husband Dirk already
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the parents of four were looking to
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adopt for the second time Linda says it
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around that time she had a most
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incredible dream unlike any she's had
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before or since I had a dream and in the
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dream I saw a young woman and she was in
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labor a light headed woman that was fair
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complected and I didn't know who this
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person was but I did see that she was in
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labor and at the point of giving birth
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and as she pushed I saw the baby's head
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crown and then be born
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he had lots of dark hair on his head I
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remember that and he was dark complected
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and at the moment that he was born and
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began to cry I woke up from the dream I
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felt startled because it was a very
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vivid and realistic dream I had never
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had a dream so vivid and I looked at my
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clock on my bedside table and it was 259
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in the morning on March 8th next morning
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at breakfast
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my wife said sweetie I've got the most
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incredible dream I witnessed the birth
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of a child and I said what child she
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said I don't know six weeks later we had
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a call from our adoption agency we had
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applied to adopt and they called and
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asked us if we would be interested in
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adopting a baby boy when they brought
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the baby in he looked to me like the
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most beautiful baby I'd ever seen he had
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beautiful golden brown skin and a head
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full of dark hair he looked very much
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like the infant in my dream
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yes a lot he was born March 8 Margie
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what time 2:59 a.m. when she told me the
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baby had been born March 8 that 259 in
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the morning I was stunned for a moment I
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was just speechless and I turned to Dirk
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and I said that's the same time and the
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date of that dream I had I thought my
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wife really had seen the birth of this
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child with her mother that was the dream
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and it was confirmation to me at that
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time that this was meant to be but this
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was a child for us Linda and Dirk
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adopted the infant was very birth Linda
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feels certain she witnessed any
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remaining doubts vanished 18 months
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later when Linda was shown a picture of
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her son's birth mother my first thought
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was how beautiful she was and how much
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he looked like her then I realized that
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this was the light haired light
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complected woman of the dream the mother
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that had the baby
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an adoptive mother can feel this
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communication almost as a radar of love
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because whether she has formally applied
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to adopt a child or not
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she still has in her heart this
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intention and it's almost as if the
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right child somehow contacts her
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psychically sometimes even before the
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child is born
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those two vibrations somehow meet each
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other
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and it may happen once in a tent once in
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10,000 cases and that's the one that we
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perhaps hear about but that very special
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case just proves the fact that at least
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it can happen
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I'm as skeptical as the next person
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always looking for another explanation
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it does seem a little far-fetched all I
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can say it was a gift I don't know why
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it happened or why I would be given such
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a gift I just know that it happened and
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that's the only explanation I have there
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is no rational explanation for these
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things but just because there's no
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rational explanation for these things
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doesn't mean that it didn't happen I
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don't understand the connections but I
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think the connections are there and a
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lot of it probably just has to do with
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survival we want to make sure that the
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next generation grows up
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taking at face value these three stories
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and countless others like them point to
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an apparent telepathic link between
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certain mothers and their children while
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such a connection may never be fully
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explained
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if you someday get the prickly feeling
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that your child is in danger it might
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not hurt just to wander over and take a
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look next a woman is gunned down in
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broad daylight the man who pulled the
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trigger is still on the loose North
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Hollywood California
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October 25th 1990 woman sitting in the
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driver's seat of her own car in the
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parking lot of her husband's accounting
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firm was shot once through the head
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the woman's name was Anita Greene she
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never regained consciousness after two
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days in a coma she died and the man who
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shot her is still at large now a woman
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named Michelle salmon believes the same
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man as targeted her Michelle was Anita
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greens friend she has written a book
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called no sanctuary about Anita's murder
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the knowledge that this guy is out there
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out on the streets terrifies me every
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day whether it's the person I think did
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it or not because any person who did it
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knows that I know a lot about this case
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that they don't want me to know this is
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a chilling story of two innocent women
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one of them murder the other apparently
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stalked
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it is a most bizarre and complex case
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one of the highest profile cases in
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recent Los Angeles history the saga
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began in 1974 when Anita Greene met her
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husband at the time
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Anita worked as a bookkeeper and know
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Greene's accounting firm both were
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married to other people after nearly
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seven years they left their spouses to
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Wed one another
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Anita's friends were shocked not only
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because Mel weighed more than 500 pounds
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but also because he convinced Anita to
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sign an outrageous prenuptial agreement
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basically there was a provision in it
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but he wore the pants in the family and
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he was the supreme boss the God the
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absolute ruler and if they ever had an
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argument or disagreement he would
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automatically win just because of that
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well we'll review Cathy's report on
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Wednesday night Anita threw herself into
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activities at her synagogue and he does
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according to Anita's friends Mel
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attended services less and less often as
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Anita's involvement grew him most of the
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time Anita made excuses for her husband
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but occasionally she let down her guard
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let's go I'm late all right
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she'd say she was afraid of her husband
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but then she said oh you know Mel he's
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just a loudmouth who likes to hear
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himself talk he's a blowhard he's not
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really gonna do anything to me she had
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all the classic symptoms of a
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woman thinking they were in control
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thinking that they knew what they were
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doing but really frightened and scared
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Anita took refuge from her marriage by
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becoming more and more involved in the
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synagogue eventually she was elected
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president of the congregation as a
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result Anita and the rabbi's saw one
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another more and more often allegedly
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the two became entangled in a love
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affair when Anita asked Mel for a
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divorce he was infuriated
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I absolutely demand that my property is
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handed over to me I have an extensive
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stamp and coin curiously despite his
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bitterness Mel was adamant that Anita
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continue to work with him at the
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accounting firms office she has to work
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for me the business depends upon it Mel
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was inconsistent one minute I don't need
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you you're not worth anything but the
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next minute he would absolutely be
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insistent she had to work for him
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and I frankly I think both Anita and Mel
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were indirectly acknowledging that Anita
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knew where the Barrett bodies were
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buried throughout the divorce
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proceedings Mel bombarded Anita and her
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lawyer with threatening letters only
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after Anita was murdered where the
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letters turned over to the police
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Marvin Greene did send some letters
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where he threatened to kill any degree
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in my mind it just gave more credence to
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him being involved in her shooting
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detective Hernandez soon found three
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different witnesses who believe they saw
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Anita Greene's killer one was a man who
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worked across the street from Mel
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Greene's accounting firm
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yet observed Green emerged from the
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building Menace before Anita arrived in
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her red Corvette that's a door that is
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not used very often so it was unusual to
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this witness across the street to see
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this after he observed Melvin green
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looking he observed Anita green turned a
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corner closely followed by a motorcycle
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a second witness observed even more he
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stated he was working on a roof directly
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across the street for a needed green it
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parked her red Corvette and what brought
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his attention was he heard a motorcycle
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arrive parked on the wrong side of the
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street he observed the individual
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approach needed green fire one shot
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immediately ran to his motorcycle and a
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high rate of speed go northbound on the
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street
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finally a third witness helped police
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artist come up with this composite the
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witness had seen the motorcyclist just
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after Anita's murder without his helmet
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and visor on investigators began to
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suspect that Mel Greene had hired a
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hitman to kill his wife
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Belle Greene's behavior at his wife's
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bedside did nothing to alleviate police
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suspicions only moments after Anita died
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with her body still in the room
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Mel reportedly had a bizarre exchange
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with Anita's friend Phyllis Bolton I
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look pretty good don't I the new liquid
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diet that I'm on he was talking about
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how much weight he had lost and how good
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he had look it was absolutely nauseating
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there was not one moment of remorse not
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one tear shed he was as talkative as if
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she was wide awake and sitting there
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watching us the day after Anita was shot
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detective Hernandez went to Melvin
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greens office to interview it did you
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stop right there
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I can't talk to you my attorney says I
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can't speak with anyone why do you need
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an attorney he's a criminal attorney why
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do you need an attorney I'm only here to
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speak to you about your wife you talked
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to my attorney he says I can't speak to
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anyone now the scenario of Anita greens
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murder began to gel
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we were able to piece together the fact
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that Marvin green specifically
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controlled the date and time
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Anita green was supposed to be at his
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office that would allow Melvin green to
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have somebody hired to follow her and
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shoot her and that's how a the Green was
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shot
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ultimately Melvin green was arrested for
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conspiring to kill his wife even though
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there was no direct evidence that he had
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hired someone to shoot her
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on March 4th 1992 a jury convicted
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Greene of first-degree murder and
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sentenced him to life in prison without
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the possibility of parole
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but the case was far from over Mel green
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appealed claiming he was innocent and
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the hit man whoever he was remained at
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large in May of 1992 Michele Samet
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visited Mel green at the Los Angeles
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County Jail where he was awaiting
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transfer to a state prison against his
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lawyer's advice Green had agreed to be
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interviewed from Michelle's book hello
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Mel how are you doing I wanted to go in
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there with an open mind and I started to
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listen to and for the first few weeks of
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our visits it wasn't certain of anything
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anymore most if I didn't shoot her
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there's no connection so there's more
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than one road to reasonable town but as
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our visits continued Mel himself made me
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more certain of his guilt than ever
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before Michele continued her
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investigation but one thing nagged at
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her how and when Atmel paid the hit man
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michele claims it in the course of her
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research she finally uncovered evidence
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that Mel Green had sold off a thirty
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thousand dollar coin collection just
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three weeks before Anita was murdered
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Michele told the police about her
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discovery but decided not to tell Mel
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Greene my innocence will come the show
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claims that during one of their
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subsequent interview well made unusual
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comments when another visitor showed up
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this is a man I call my brother because
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he'd do anything for me
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in fact he's a homeowner because of me
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you can wait outside
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Mel had visitors come every day during
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our visits my visits were all day long
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well had never asked me to leave during
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his visits before and in that alone I
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thought was unusual and I went
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downstairs and I went into my car and
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sat I knew I'd have about a half hour
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until this guy came out and my mind
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started to run away with me that this
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guy looked a lot like the police
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composite of Anita's shooter
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according to Michelle when the visitor
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left he got on a motorcycle which fit
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the description of a one driven by
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Anita's killer when I went back to the
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jail I made a very stupid mistake I said
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to Mel I've got this theory that paid
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for the murder with the money from the
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coins you said I need a stole she didn't
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steal them you're not gonna write that
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you can trace your claims of course she
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told Mel her suspicions he threatened me
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if you end up dead after I make a call
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you'll know who did it
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I knew Mel likes to talk like that you
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know this is just a blowhard just a man
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talking and I realized God how stupid
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can you be Michele that's exactly what
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Anita said and she's dead the next day
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June 17th 1992 Melvin Greene was
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transferred as scheduled to calop at RIA
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State Penitentiary east of San Diego he
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peppered Michele's salmon with angry
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letters he's threatened to harm my
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children he's threatened to hurt me
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never before had I encountered this
00:27:12
feeling of fear before because I'd never
00:27:14
been so involved in a story before where
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it took on a life of its own but I
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couldn't stop because I knew I had the
00:27:24
potential to find the answer
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Michell sammich says that over the next
00:27:29
few months someone began a stalker the
00:27:33
front gate to her house is ripped from
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its hinges the house itself was
00:27:37
vandalized and finally Michelle says it
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in the driveway of her own house an
00:27:43
unidentified man hit her in the face
00:27:44
breaking her nose a lot of that has
00:27:49
stopped now that the book has come out
00:27:50
but of course you always live your life
00:27:52
fearing that what you've uncovered might
00:27:56
lead to some potential danger for your
00:27:58
family for me I'm okay because I
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understand that's the risk by taking
00:28:03
this kind of story am i following
00:28:04
through for my children I'm worried
00:28:07
every day
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Michelle Samet believes the man she saw
00:28:12
visiting Melvin green in prison was the
00:28:14
same man pictured on the police
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composite he would today be in his early
00:28:18
30s he has blond hair dark eyes and a
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muscular build and may own a red or
00:28:24
maroon suzuki motorcycle
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[Music]
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[Music]
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next authorities need your help to stop
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a deadly insurance fraud scheme
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responsible for dozens of accidents and
00:28:45
nation's highways it is an
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all-too-familiar seen on our nation's
00:28:56
highways emergency workers struggle to
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free the occupants of a car which has
00:29:01
been rear-ended by a tractor-trailer
00:29:03
break in this case on Interstate five
00:29:07
near downtown Los Angeles the driver of
00:29:10
the car and two passengers were rescued
00:29:12
however a third passenger was pronounced
00:29:14
dead at the scene
00:29:16
what made this tragedy all the more
00:29:19
chilly was that it may not have been an
00:29:21
accident at all
00:29:22
authorities believe it was part of a
00:29:24
carefully orchestrated insurance scam
00:29:26
that backfired the police in Los Angeles
00:29:32
cause the swoop and squat a scheme in
00:29:35
which people intentionally create
00:29:36
rear-end collisions in order to collect
00:29:38
on bogus insurance claims authorities
00:29:41
estimate that the super squat cost
00:29:43
consumers millions of dollars every year
00:29:45
even though the scam originated in
00:29:47
Southern California it is now popping up
00:29:49
all over the country watch closely you
00:29:52
may find yourself involved in one of
00:29:55
these situations
00:29:57
here's how the swoop and squad works a
00:30:00
typical operation involves two or three
00:30:03
cars they cruise the highway intent I'm
00:30:05
searching for a victim incredible the
00:30:08
vehicles they most often choose the
00:30:10
target are the most dangerous large
00:30:12
tractor trailers trucks are a favorite
00:30:16
target among us upin squat rings because
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one they know that trucks will have a
00:30:20
lot of insurance and two that there'll
00:30:24
be a lot of damage which is compensable
00:30:26
by the insurance companies the scam
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unfolds quickly first the squat car
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normally filled with passengers
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positions ourself directly in front of
00:30:38
the targeted truck
00:30:46
Greta's second car pulls alongside the
00:30:49
truck effectively boxing it in over the
00:30:52
next several mine
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the driver of the splut car may try to
00:30:55
distract the truck right
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finally the suit car appears and makes a
00:31:02
smooth forcing the other drivers to jam
00:31:05
on their brakes
00:31:17
immediately afterwards the people who
00:31:19
are in the squad car will then claim
00:31:21
injury injuries are almost always soft
00:31:24
tissue injuries because they're so
00:31:26
difficult to disprove though exchange
00:31:28
insurance information and then a couple
00:31:30
of days later the attorney makes the
00:31:32
claim we've had one situation where two
00:31:36
attorneys made over nine million dollars
00:31:38
from a two-year period of time from
00:31:40
simply buying stage accidents the
00:31:44
ringleaders of the swoop and squat are
00:31:46
often well-to-do attorneys who work out
00:31:48
of the safety of their offices far
00:31:50
removed from the accident scene each
00:31:52
accident can mean up to $20,000 and
00:31:55
false insurance claims a large part of
00:31:57
it pocketed by the attorney by contrast
00:32:03
those who risk the most in the con game
00:32:05
are paid the least usually a middleman
00:32:08
called a capper seeks out people who are
00:32:10
willing to do almost anything for money
00:32:14
the people who are in the swooping squad
00:32:17
accidents as passengers or drivers may
00:32:19
be paid as little as two hundred and
00:32:22
fifty to three hundred dollars to risk
00:32:24
their lives in that accident cappers may
00:32:27
get approximately fifteen hundred
00:32:29
dollars all the money is made by the
00:32:31
professionals who are are corrupt the
00:32:33
attorneys who are financing these staged
00:32:35
accident activities the crash on
00:32:40
Interstate five had all the earmarks of
00:32:42
a classic swoop and squat but in this
00:32:45
case informants are willing to talk they
00:32:47
led police to the man who had allegedly
00:32:49
organized the operation one philemon
00:32:52
Santiago Santiago is a Mexican national
00:32:57
who lived in West Hollywood California a
00:32:59
search of his apartment turned up
00:33:01
documents linking him to a Beverly Hills
00:33:03
attorney named Gary Miller
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[Music]
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[Music]
00:33:24
[Music]
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in a moment the intriguing mystery of an
00:33:33
old family Bible perhaps you can help
00:33:36
locate the rightful owners in a place
00:33:47
like this time stands still random
00:33:50
moments of other people's lives are
00:33:52
frozen caught as if in amber
00:33:54
and behind every captured moment every
00:33:56
object is an untold story when you
00:34:00
collect antiques you never know when one
00:34:01
of those stories might intersect with
00:34:03
your life
00:34:04
and draw you into a small unsolved
00:34:06
mystery of your own
00:34:07
[Music]
00:34:13
Jonathan Grady a Los Angeles collector
00:34:16
understands that all too well in 1980
00:34:19
Jonathan was out browsing when he spied
00:34:21
a box of sundry items excuse me yes how
00:34:29
much for your Bunsen burners let me see
00:34:31
I'll tell you what I'll give you the
00:34:34
whole box for 75 how's that that's too
00:34:37
high I'll give you 50 Wow okay you could
00:34:40
have the whole thing I'll write it up
00:34:42
after buying the box I noticed there was
00:34:44
several other things in a box things
00:34:46
that I could use that wasn't oil cans
00:34:48
there and old scrub brushes and there
00:34:50
was his Bible it's a very large Bible
00:34:53
I'm very old and the binding was was
00:34:56
torn and but yet it was part of the
00:34:58
purchase price so I took it home the
00:35:04
Bible was more than a century old so old
00:35:07
it was literally falling apart its
00:35:09
emboss cover was cracked his pages
00:35:11
crumbling
00:35:16
I thought something like this would be
00:35:18
nice to display in my living room but I
00:35:22
had to have it repaired and after
00:35:24
checking with several bookstores in the
00:35:25
area I was told it would cost between
00:35:27
two and three hundred dollars so I put
00:35:30
it into the garage and I stored it away
00:35:34
the Bible they'd forgotten and Jonathan
00:35:37
Grady's garage gathering dust and
00:35:39
guarding his memories for more than a
00:35:41
decade in the meantime Jonathan embarked
00:35:46
on a writing career one day he found
00:35:48
himself in need of a quote from the book
00:35:50
of Job as he leaped through the old
00:36:01
Bible Jonathan was caught short by a
00:36:03
presentation page which he had not
00:36:05
noticed before everything stopped right
00:36:10
there I was I was completely surprised I
00:36:13
never found a character of job instead I
00:36:16
found Lazarus the Bible had apparently
00:36:21
been given to a mr. Charles Lazarus and
00:36:23
his bride Fannie Berkman on their
00:36:25
wedding day
00:36:25
March 25th 1874 they were married in
00:36:29
Cincinnati Ohio
00:36:32
when Jonathan turned the page the
00:36:34
history of a family unfolded Charles and
00:36:39
Fanny Lazarus had recorded the birth of
00:36:41
two sons Joshua and Samuel and three
00:36:43
daughters Bluma Mae and Reina Joshua had
00:36:48
married Dora Fleischman of Americus
00:36:50
Georgia
00:36:51
Samuel ADA hazard opposed in Michigan
00:36:54
and bloomer a German immigrant named
00:36:56
Michael Michaelson
00:36:59
on the facing page Charles and Fannie
00:37:02
recorded the birth of one grandchild
00:37:03
bloomers daughter Helen Mae Michaelson
00:37:06
born in Denver Colorado on May 2nd 1895
00:37:12
I'd looked at this Bible for several
00:37:14
days after that I would refer to this
00:37:16
page back and forth I watched his kids
00:37:19
grow some unknown source pulled me into
00:37:22
this man's life and I have not quit
00:37:25
I have not quit trying to locate another
00:37:27
man's family
00:37:28
mrs. Johnson gradient Los Angeles
00:37:31
calling regarding and Lazarus family
00:37:33
Bible Jonathan became obsessed with
00:37:35
returning the treasured family heirloom
00:37:37
to its rightful owners thanks to his
00:37:39
efforts several newspaper articles were
00:37:41
published and he actually got a lead
00:37:43
this letter from 81 year-old Bernard
00:37:46
Fleischman of South Carolina mr.
00:37:49
Fleishman had met Dora long since dead
00:37:52
from the town of America's Georgia he
00:37:55
felt she might be the same Dora
00:37:56
Fleischman who married Joshua Lazarus
00:37:59
unfortunately mr. Fleishman had lost
00:38:01
touch with his aunt Doris family but the
00:38:04
letter only strengthened Jonathan
00:38:06
Grady's resolved to find an heir to the
00:38:08
Lazarus family Bible there are family
00:38:12
members there were four siblings living
00:38:14
siblings of this man all married there
00:38:18
has to be a granddaughter a
00:38:19
great-granddaughter a great-great
00:38:21
granddaughter
00:38:22
there's a relative fair I know the
00:38:26
original owner of the Bible Charles
00:38:28
Lazarus died on the 4th of July 1913 and
00:38:32
was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in
00:38:34
New York any direct descendant of
00:38:37
Charles and his wife Fanny would have a
00:38:38
legitimate claim to the family Bible
00:38:41
[Music]
00:38:47
next a respected physician is now on the
00:38:50
run charged with sexual assault we will
00:39:02
call the young woman you are about to
00:39:03
meet Patricia she is the daughter of a
00:39:05
military chaplain on January 7th 1992
00:39:10
when she was 19
00:39:11
Patricia went to a clinic in San Diego
00:39:13
California complaining of flu symptoms
00:39:15
Thank You Patricia had no way of knowing
00:39:21
that the doctor who would examine her
00:39:23
that day had recently been forced to
00:39:25
resign from the staff of another clinic
00:39:27
for different complaints of sexual
00:39:29
misconduct has been filed against him
00:39:31
each by a young woman in her 20s the
00:39:37
doctor's name was Arvind Sinha a
00:39:39
California State Medical Board had
00:39:41
chosen not to revoke his license stating
00:39:43
at all four complaints for cases of the
00:39:45
patient's word against the doctors he
00:39:57
kept asking me questions about family
00:39:59
about I'm having a boyfriend and I was
00:40:02
really sick I had a fever I wasn't
00:40:05
feeling well
00:40:06
this combined with all the questioning
00:40:09
it really just threw me off you know I
00:40:11
just figured that he was just trying to
00:40:14
meet more helpful and caring Patricia
00:40:19
says it was a nurse gone doctor sinha's
00:40:21
examination became a criminal assault he
00:40:25
manipulated me into position where I
00:40:27
couldn't even see what he was doing and
00:40:31
I didn't even know what he was doing or
00:40:34
trying to do until I had
00:40:36
realized that he had raped me well after
00:40:43
he had left the room I just started
00:40:45
crying I knew what had happened I just
00:40:48
could not believe that that had happened
00:40:51
to me okay Patricia was afraid to let
00:40:57
anyone at the clinic know what had
00:40:58
happened she telephoned her mother a
00:41:00
short time later
00:41:02
Patricia's pears took her to another
00:41:04
hospital she was examined and the
00:41:06
authorities duly notified after a
00:41:10
week-long investigation
00:41:11
dr. Arvind Sinha was arrested by
00:41:13
detective Christine Gregg of the San
00:41:15
Diego Police Department he had no
00:41:20
reaction he kept repeating after I told
00:41:22
him what she was alleging he said oh how
00:41:25
interesting and throughout the interview
00:41:27
he repeated how interesting
00:41:29
no emotion no reaction just he said he
00:41:34
didn't do it that he might have been
00:41:35
framed but I would have expected a
00:41:38
little reaction out of an innocent
00:41:39
person
00:41:41
the next day dr. Sinha posted his own
00:41:46
$175,000 bail within a month he had
00:41:48
disappeared later his medical license
00:41:51
was revoked by the state of California
00:41:54
every woman he's around is in danger
00:41:57
he's not gonna stop he had four warnings
00:42:02
and lost a job and then he came back and
00:42:04
raped Patricia he's not gonna stop the
00:42:07
only two places I really felt safe was
00:42:09
at church or at the doctor's office you
00:42:11
know and now you know I don't have that
00:42:16
trust for any money anywhere
00:42:23
[Music]
00:42:30
join me next time for another intriguing
00:42:33
edition unsolved roads
00:42:36
[Music]
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[Applause]
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