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Mysteries an undercover drug bik goes
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south and a federal agent is
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shot smoke pills from a woman an old man
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bursts into flames two bizarre cases of
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spontaneous combustion it was the
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wildest town in the wild west today some
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say that the legendary law man who tamed
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it is still haunting the streets of
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Deadwood the police called it suicide
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but the evidence tells a different story
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who killed Danny
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Williams five cases with strange Clues
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and bizarre twists and secrets that you
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would never expect I'm Dennis finina and
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this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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pleasure cruises on the surface they
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seem like a perfectly safe way to take a
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vacation but appearances are not always
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what they seem according to the New York
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Times beneath the Carefree party
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atmosphere lies a little known secret
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sexual
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assaults some claim crime occurs more
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regularly than Cruise Lines would care
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to
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admit this was true of the Bradley
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family when they set sail from Puerto
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Rico they had no idea of the disaster to
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come
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Amy Bradley was an All-American Girl she
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was pretty outgoing and athletic and
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even though Amy was a strong swimmer and
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a trained lifeguard she was terrified of
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the
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ocean her parents had to persuade her
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into joining them on the Caribbean
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cruise ship raps city of the
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Seas she was reluctant about going up to
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the uh Rail and it was kind of like that
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kind of a Feeling
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but her dad and her brother both said
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come on here and we'll hold on to you
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congratul oh my God it is so far Amy
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managed to put her fears
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aside Cruz life offered plenty of
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distractions their third night at Sea
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Amy and her brother Brad partied long
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and hard neither returned to the
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family's cabin until 3:40
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a.m. Amy's dad Ron woke up up when she
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came in Amy swe could you turn that
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light off for me please
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thanks hey she said she hadn't been
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feeling too well because of the motion
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of the boat since we left Aruba um that
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evening so she said she was going to
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just stay out there and get some fresh
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air the next time Ron woke up Brad had
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gone to bed and Amy was asleep on the
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balcony I could see Amy's legs from her
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hips down she looks like she's resting
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comfortably and
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uh doze back off to sleep uh the the
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balcony door was closed cuz if it hadn't
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been closed I would have got it up be
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closed
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it 30 minutes later the Bradley's dream
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vacation morphed into a nightmare about
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6:00 something awoke me again got up
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looked at on the balcony and the balcony
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door was open about 14 16 in and Amy
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wasn't on the deck and I was I had a
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little funny feeling at at that time
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because it was unlike her to be up that
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early in the
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morning
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Amy excuse me we need some help I'd like
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to have a page for my daughter is
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missing may I ask how old she was the
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ship's crew claimed that it was too
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early to use loud
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speakers and to make matters worse the
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ship had just stocked into the port of
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kurasa unless it's a medical emergency
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we do not page and I got very very
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panicked and frightened and I asked them
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to please don't put the gang plank down
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you need to lock the ship up you need to
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back the ship off of the dock don't let
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anybody off of this boat somebody's got
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my
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dog Bradley please Conta Pur desk the
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Bradley claimed the Purser didn't
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broadcast the first page for Amy until
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10 minut minutes to bradle please
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contact by then most of the passengers
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had disembarked for the day I became
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more and more franic because I knew that
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if she was in a position to hear the
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announcement she would come immediately
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to us and then I had thoughts that maybe
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somebody had her in a room and she heard
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it and couldn't get to it finally the
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captain ordered a search officials
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claimed they com through all 10 decks
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all
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999 rooms and found nothing
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a 3-day search of the ocean also failed
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to turn up any trace of
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Amy the Bradley's began to piece
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together Amy's last hours on board the
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ship she left the balcony between 5:30
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and 6 a.m. they know she took her
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clothes they know she took her
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cigarettes but they don't know where she
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was going and then they found the
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witness a young woman said she saw Amy
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early that morning Amy was with the bass
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player from the ship's
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band I saw Amy and the band member walk
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over and up to the next deck up above us
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and about 10 minutes later he came
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walking around by
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himself others claimed that they had
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seen the bass player flirting with Amy
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the night
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before she said that when they were
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dancing at the Disco he tried to you
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know dance a little too close and she
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had to tell him to back off a little bit
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that morning no one but the Bradley
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family and ship security knew Amy was
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missing no one that is except the bass
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player according to Amy's brother hey
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Brad sorry to hear about your
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sister that's a really odd thing to say
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um that early in the stages of this
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thing you know nobody knew except for us
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or my family and I and security that
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something may be
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wrong authorities never found any
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evidence that the bass player was
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involved with Amy's disappearance then a
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disturbing new Theory
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emerged there's rumor and Legend
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surrounding slavery in the Southern
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Caribbean it's not uncommon knowledge in
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the
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um in the maritime community that young
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white
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women are considered to be um very
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desirable to foreign
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procurers Amy would have been a trophy
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Amy would have been someone that I
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believe could have been picked out and
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fingered to move off of that ship she
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could have been held and
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hidden she could have been possibly
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drugged taken from that
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ship the Bradley left the cruise ship
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not knowing if they would ever see Amy
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again but still hopeful she will one day
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return I have strong belief that that
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she is live and she's trying to get back
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to us and I just pray that one day we'll
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we'll get a phone call or we'll get some
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information from someone that will lead
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us to her how in the world can anybody
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ever give
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up looking for their
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child never in my lifetime not until I
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put my hands on her we get her
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home officials of the cruise line insist
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that Amy either left the ship on her own
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or met with an accident however her
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parents are still convinced that she was
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a victim of Foul Play they're offering
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A4 million do reward for information if
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you know anything about this case please
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log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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coming up a ghost from the wild west
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still calls Deadwood South Dakota his
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home but next an undercover drug by ends
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in a deadly
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shootout
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recently we profiled career criminal
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Thomas Dixon Dixon couldn't care less
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about rehabilitation in fact his 10
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years of hard time for armed robbery
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only left Dixon hot for another score
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this is a whole up during the 5 months
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following his release from prison Dixon
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with a series of different accomplices
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knocked off seven banks in North
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Carolina an FBI raid finally Dixon back
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to prison for another 10 years once
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paroled Dixon never hesitated he robbed
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more banks no apologies no regrets this
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is a hold up Dixon again hit banks in
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the Carolinas five in a 7-week period he
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showed up in one surveillance tape after
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another have you FBI ever heard of
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Thomas Dixon Dixon had refined his Mo he
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began to taunt the FBI with advanced
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notice of his bank jobs Carina Dixon
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even left one of his getaway cards
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hidden in plain sight inside were photos
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of Dixon's intimidating Arsenal in a
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note Dixon threatened further robberies
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and warned that any attempt to stop him
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would end in Bloodshed Dixon was
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alerting us to the fact that that he is
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uh heavily armed and he has every
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intention of using those arms in a
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confrontation with law
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enforcement
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update just before our initial broadcast
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Thomas Dixon hit another bank and then
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headed to
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Tennessee in Tennessee Dixon took a room
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in this Motel housekeeper Pam potit
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sensed right away that Dixon was trouble
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it's the way he acted he was weird I
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Manan he stood by the beds in between
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the beds by the
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luggage he wouldn't never sit down
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didn't want you to make the beds you
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know stuff like that it's like he was on
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guard you know his luggage he just was
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you know ready watching
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you when Dixon's story aired Pam
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recognized him instantly her tip led the
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FBI straight to his doorstep we knew he
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was armed and dangerous and he had vowed
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not to be taken alive uh with that
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information obviously you want to
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approach the subject with Extreme
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Caution but once we got him subdued he
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was very Cooperative uh all he said is
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uh you got me good basically that uh the
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way that you guys arrest me was the way
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you needed to arrest me it was a lot
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better that way than uh quote to throw
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bullets at each other
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after his arrest Thomas David Dixon pled
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guilty to seven armed robberies in four
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states he was sentenced to 28 years and
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is serving his time in a federal prison
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Dixon will remain Behind Bars until at
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least the year
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2020 a pickup truck makes a late
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afternoon stop at an auto repair shop it
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seems normal enough but there was
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nothing normal about it inside the truck
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were two undercover DEA agents they were
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posing as drug buyers and carrying
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$160,000 in cash one of the agents was
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Richard fos after 8 years on the street
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he had just been promoted to a desk job
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this was his last undercover
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assign I think Richard was in a position
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where he was ready to advance his career
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uh this this is really a positive
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stepping stone uh in in in an agent's
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career the previous day F had set up a
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deal with this man Augustine Vasquez
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Mendoza known to the agents as
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Fernando Mendoza's product 22 lbs of
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speed 6:25 p.m. leaving pelo in the
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truck Fast enters the garage the the man
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in the dark blue shirt is a confidential
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police informant the other man is Juan
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Vasquez Rubio Fernando's half brother
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Fernando himself is not present in the
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back of the garage two more men wait on
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the left a second police informant on
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the right a man named Raphael Rubio
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Mendes another Fernando associate Juan
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Vasquez Rubio demands to see the cash
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let me see he looked into the deel bag
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and uh didn't touch it or anything but
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uh apparently he he was satisfied that
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there was in fact
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$160,000 there yeah we got a
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deal 6:30 p.m. Rubio makes a call
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apparently to confirm that the buy is
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good yeah you got him 6:32 p.m. outside
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pelo alerts his backup units the deal is
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going
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down 6:35 the operation goes completely
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to hell I want to Rubio and Mendes want
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the drugs and the
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cash Richard told the individual that if
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he wanted the money that he didn't have
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to do this that he had kids he had a
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family that he was just doing this to
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for profit and that he didn't have to do
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anything wrong that that anything he
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wanted he could
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have one individual told the other one
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to handcuff Richard and the two
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informant I believe that Richard saw
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death staring him in the face and he
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reacted Mendez has been shot once he
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goes in One Direction Rubio in the other
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oh yes it's going to hell it's a rip off
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it's a rip off I'm going
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in was very chaotic at that point but
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when I saw the vehicle leaving I tried
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to Ram it and I missed it I was on the
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radio all this time and I just put out a
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message that that vehicle needs to be
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stop been hit was been hit where is he
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he's in there let's go with backup units
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in pursuit of the suspects helano rushes
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inside no Richard fos has been shot five
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times at Point Blank rage he will be
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dead within an
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hour right
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now
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6:41 p.m. drug enforcement agents are in
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a highspeed pursuit of Mendes when he
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fled in the vehicle it was rush hour
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traffic he was on both sides weaving in
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and out of traffic and he was making
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every attempt possible to avoid being
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captured 6:45 p.m. agents take down
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Rubio in a nearby
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alley 6:52 p.m. 3 mil away Mendes is
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cornered get here down by 7:15 it was
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all over Raphael Mendes and Juan vquez
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Rubio would each be charged with
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first-degree murder they were both
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convicted and sentenced to life but drug
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boss Augustine Vasquez Mendoza was in
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the wind he was also charged with
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first-degree murder authorities had no
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doubt that he was The Man Behind the
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Ripoff robbery was their motive from the
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very onset uh I don't think that there
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was ever any intent to do a dope deal
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with us I believe that Richard realized
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that he had to do something to protect
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not only his life but the life of other
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people as
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well Richard fos died a hero's death at
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the age of 37 he was honored with the
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dea's award of Valor he left behind a
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wife and four children Richard will
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always be in my heart nothing can ever
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take those memories and him away from
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me but our main intention now is to seek
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this fugitive that's out
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there
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update Augustine Vasquez Mendoza is no
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longer out there he was captured in
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Mexico and after 5 years of negotiations
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extradited to the US Mendoza was
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convicted of first-degree murder in the
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death of Richard fos he was sentenced to
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70 years in
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prison coming up a law man a president
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and a psychic in a wild west ghost
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story the best ghost stories are usually
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the ones where fact and fantasy converge
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what you are about to see has it all a
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legendary law man a future president an
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English psychic and the town that put
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the wild the Wild
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West in the 1870s South Dakota's mining
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towns were flush with Outlaws gamblers
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and swindlers all looking to make a
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quick fck the most famous destination
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was
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Deadwood this was the place where Wild
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Bill Hickock was shot in the back and
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Calamity Jane pedal flesh in the local
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cat house it was a Wild and Woolly town
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the miners just absolutely were raising
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hell in this town most towns are 95%
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solid citizens and 5% characters and
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Deadwood the reverse is
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through but the good times didn't last
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they never do during the 1870s a
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stranger wrode into town his name was
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Seth bulock and he was deadwood's first
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sheriff from what I have read he uh
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didn't have to use a gun actually the
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story is that one look from his very
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penetrating gaze was enough to qu most
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law
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Breakers right boys what's going
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on Sheriff Bullock took his cleanup
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campaign all over the
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territory one afternoon he came across
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three characters who had the look of
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cattle thieves what the hell's going on
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here what are you boys doing in these
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parts we're looking for a horse thief
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what's your name my name is theore
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Rosell and I'm the deputy sheriff of
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Billings County was a rocky start to an
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enduring
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friendship when Theodore Roosevelt
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formed the rough riters Seth joined up
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when Roosevelt was sworn in as president
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Seth was an honored guest after
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Roosevelt's death Seth arranged to have
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this memorial called the Friendship
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Tower erected just outside Deadwood 9
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months later Seth himself passed away
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and he was buried at a grave site
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overlooking the monument
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in recent years Deadwood has boomed
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again thanks to legalized gambling the
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bulock hotel founded by Seth in 1895 has
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been renovated and restored and looks
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almost the same maybe that's why his
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ghost likes to hang out in the
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hallways at this point over 30 employees
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and a handful of Hotel guests have had
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experiences here to the point where it's
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common place to the point where we laugh
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laugh about it and just take us a lot of
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fun in the fact that we feel that we're
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not alone here Norm Stevens is a slot
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machine supervisor at the hotel he was
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working in the basement one morning when
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the mysterious shadow of a man fell
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across the wall when Norm turned the
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shadow
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vanished operations manager Joey George
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walked by the bar after closing time he
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was certain that all of the stools were
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lined up in a row Joey stepped in to the
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office and then heard unusual noises
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behind
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him he returned to the bar every one of
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the
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stools had been moved strange yes
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unnerving a little but mere Child's Play
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compared to this we had a young employee
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who was I think about 18 at the time and
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um he was working in the back which is
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is of the restaurant now and he came
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flying out of the back room and he was
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just ghost white and said that he saw a
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figure in a western attire with jeans
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tucked into the boots and he was very
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very much afraid and he would never go
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back into the kitchen by himself after
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that and therea
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quit folks in Deadwood never doubted it
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was the Ghost of Seth Bullock still it's
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good to have confirmation even if the
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source raises a few eyebrows
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5,000 Mi away a self-proclaimed psychic
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says that he was receiving odd messages
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from Beyond the Grave by pure
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coincidence the psychic's name was Sandy
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bulock occasionally various people pop
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through and the name Seth bulock I
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thought perhaps it was an ancestor that
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was coming through to say hello or
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something like that um and I rather
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dismissed it but the spirit of Seth
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Bullock did not go away s s's encounters
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were so convincing that he felt
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compelled to write an open letter to the
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Proprietors of the bulock hotel I
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thought if I write to someone in this
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place called Deadwood they would just
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think I'm a Nutty old Englishman and
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forget it you know threw it
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away sy's letter arrived while the hotel
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was undergoing extensive Renovations all
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information at the time as I read it I
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thought to myself well he found a book
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someplace on Deadwood read it and wrote
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to me but at the very bottom of the
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letter it mentioned that Seth says he
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can't haunt the hotel right now because
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of all the banging that's going on and I
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thought to myself what's driving me
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crazy too so um but he also said but
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that he'll be back and you'll know it's
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old Seth quote
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unquote and that is when again the hair
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stood up on the back of my neck because
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that was my aunt's pet name for SE
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anytime something strange would happen
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Jerry would say old Seth is up to his
00:24:03
tricks again local journalist Reena Webb
00:24:06
was intrigued she wrote back to Sandy
00:24:09
bulck in this letter I said to him I
00:24:13
would like to POs to you a test
00:24:16
question who was the well-known person
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who was a close friend of Seth
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Bullocks and how is Bullock's grave
00:24:26
positioned in relation to that
00:24:29
friendship when I got his letter in
00:24:32
response to my test question he
00:24:36
said tall trees block the view from his
00:24:40
old bones but Teddy and he still meet in
00:24:43
the
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afterlife and I said whoa and I still
00:24:48
get Goose pimples when I think about
00:24:50
that Reena believes the message referred
00:24:53
to this stand of pine trees they now
00:24:56
obstruct the view of the Roosevelt's
00:24:58
Monument from Seth Bullock's
00:25:01
gravite now very few people in Deadwood
00:25:04
know the story about friendship Tower
00:25:06
and the friendship between Seth bolock
00:25:09
and Teddy Roosevelt the positioning of
00:25:11
the Grave to be able to see at that time
00:25:14
friendship Tower Across The Gulch there
00:25:17
was no way Sandy Bullock sitting in
00:25:19
Dorset England could have researched
00:25:21
this I mean it's just not possible
00:25:24
there's just too much evidence of Seth's
00:25:27
presence in this town and particularly
00:25:29
at the bulock hotel to discount it all I
00:25:33
know is the evidence seems to point very
00:25:36
strongly in the
00:25:37
direction of sheriff Seth bulock still
00:25:41
being on the job in Deadwood South
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Dakota
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today next The Strange Case of people
00:25:48
who suddenly catch on fire and nothing
00:25:51
is left but
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ashes
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for K and Mike Fletcher it was a morning
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they'll never
00:26:08
forget
00:26:09
Mike out of nowhere a cloud of smoke
00:26:12
suddenly erupted from Kay's body not my
00:26:15
sweater take it
00:26:17
off so take a look at my back cuz I'm
00:26:20
thinking do I have blisters or what and
00:26:23
he says no it's just
00:26:24
red we really were frantically looking
00:26:27
through the clothing you know like arm
00:26:30
and back and just looking it over very
00:26:33
carefully and we found absolutely no
00:26:36
discoloration we found no sight of any
00:26:39
kind of fire damage yeah I mean it was
00:26:41
actually coming off of her skin but
00:26:44
there was no Flame the smoke was so
00:26:47
thick that we did have to turn on the
00:26:49
fan and open the window just to get the
00:26:52
smoke out of there now earlier in my
00:26:54
life I had worked at a cremator and it
00:26:57
the smell was that of burnt
00:27:02
flesh for the Fletchers the entire
00:27:04
episode was hard to comprehend had Kay
00:27:07
survived the bizarre phenomenon known as
00:27:09
spontaneous human combustion and if so
00:27:12
she was one of the lucky ones most cases
00:27:15
end in
00:27:17
death mainstream science says it could
00:27:20
never happen a person cannot just burst
00:27:23
into flames without warning or cause but
00:27:26
mainstream science
00:27:28
has been wrong
00:27:31
before Kendall M hadn't heard from his
00:27:33
father George all day George retired
00:27:37
fireman had serious lung problems he
00:27:39
needed an air pump and face mask just to
00:27:42
help him breathe even before he went
00:27:45
inside Kendall knew something was wrong
00:27:48
the windows were all brown the door
00:27:50
handle was warm when I grabbed it it was
00:27:53
real dark inside the house and it smell
00:27:56
like it been burnt
00:27:58
dad Kendall couldn't believe what he was
00:28:01
saying all that was left of his father
00:28:04
was a scattering of Ashes a few
00:28:06
splinters of bone and a fragment of
00:28:10
skull it's scary to find somebody like
00:28:12
that to walk in and find somebody that
00:28:14
you love you know all burnt like that
00:28:16
with no explanation as to why or what
00:28:19
happened there's incredible localized
00:28:22
Damage Done to the body uh George M was
00:28:26
incinerated to an extent that we have
00:28:27
been told by forensic experts could only
00:28:31
be replicated inside a crematorium
00:28:33
operating at 300° F or more for 12 long
00:28:38
hours it had all the ear marks of a
00:28:41
spontaneous combustion case the TV had
00:28:44
melted but much of the bedding was
00:28:45
undamaged nearby a box of wooden matches
00:28:48
was still intact and air was still
00:28:50
pumping through George's face mask it
00:28:53
shouldn't surprise anyone to hear that
00:28:54
Skeptics say there's a rational
00:28:56
explanation now do I know exactly what
00:28:59
happened I don't but let me reconstruct
00:29:01
a little bit we're told that Mr Mt was a
00:29:04
former Drinker and a former smoker but
00:29:06
that he had reformed he was depressed
00:29:09
just suppose that he said what the heck
00:29:11
I think I'll have a cigarette this would
00:29:14
explain him taking off the oxygen mask
00:29:16
while the unit would still be left
00:29:17
running and it would explain why the
00:29:19
matches were there now if that's the
00:29:22
case then this is just another case of
00:29:24
smoking in bed and is not mysterious
00:29:28
and is a rather mundane
00:29:31
case but even a confirmed skeptic would
00:29:33
not use the word mundane to describe the
00:29:36
next case a gas company meter man named
00:29:39
Don gnell made an unpleasant Discovery
00:29:43
at the home of Irving Bentley a
00:29:45
92-year-old retired physician as usual
00:29:49
Gosnell LED himself into the
00:29:52
basement when I got to the bottom of the
00:29:54
steps there was a pile of ashes on the
00:29:56
floor and there was an odor something
00:29:59
I'd never encountered before is kind of
00:30:02
a sickening sweet odor and then I looked
00:30:05
up and here there was a hole burnt
00:30:07
through the floor right above me and I
00:30:10
stood there and I looked at that hole
00:30:12
and there was little red ambers all
00:30:14
around the hole yet gnell rushed
00:30:16
upstairs nothing could have prepared him
00:30:19
for the gruesome scene in the bathroom
00:30:21
all there was was part of one leg and
00:30:26
was so discolored I couldn't tell it was
00:30:28
a human being or a mannequin till I got
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right down close and looked at
00:30:32
it and when I got the picture I left
00:30:35
right there what is so amazing and so
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profoundly perplexing to mainstream
00:30:39
science about the scene that Dr Bentley
00:30:41
Left Behind is the incredibly intense
00:30:44
fire that consumed his body quite
00:30:46
literally to powder leaving behind only
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his head a knee bone and a lower left
00:30:52
leg as mute testimony that this had once
00:30:54
been a human being the rest of his body
00:30:55
was Ash in the basement below
00:30:58
we believe that Dr benley answered a
00:30:59
call of nature or standing in front of
00:31:01
the toilet suddenly spontaneously he
00:31:03
became a human
00:31:05
Fireball the nature of the fire and we
00:31:08
kind of use fire in quotes here failed
00:31:10
to produce enough thermal energy to melt
00:31:12
the aluminum walk failed to produce
00:31:14
enough heat to blister paint on the
00:31:16
bathtub inches away and it was quite
00:31:18
capable of directing its energy downward
00:31:21
through the oak beams through the
00:31:22
flooring and into the subfloor beneath
00:31:25
into the
00:31:26
basement
00:31:27
the case of someone like Dr Bentley is
00:31:30
very understandable in the sense of him
00:31:33
being infirm he had a history uh of
00:31:37
setting his clothes on fire from his
00:31:39
pipe his uh clothing was Pock marked
00:31:42
with burns from his
00:31:45
pipe in many of the cases the person's
00:31:48
own body fat can contribute to the fire
00:31:51
if we imagine Dr Bentley with his body
00:31:53
on fire falls to the floor there is
00:31:56
lenium on that floor and lolium once it
00:31:59
catches fire is a very powerful
00:32:01
flammable material the flooring burned
00:32:04
the subf floring burned and beams
00:32:06
there's beams underneath there's a
00:32:07
tremendous amount of wood underneath his
00:32:09
body to act as a funeral pie
00:32:13
mysterious not really not scientifically
00:32:15
mysterious unusual yes the debunkers of
00:32:18
spontaneous human combustion could
00:32:19
conduct a very simple experiment take a
00:32:21
Cav put it on a tar based Anum flowing
00:32:23
put an aluminum wle over top of it and
00:32:25
drop a cigarette on it if it burns the
00:32:27
powder we're going to be real impressed
00:32:28
and that person deserves a Nobel Prize
00:32:30
in physics but I'll wager money that
00:32:32
experiment is going to
00:32:34
fail Larry Arnold theorizes spontaneous
00:32:37
human combustion may be an explosive
00:32:40
aberration of the electrical current
00:32:42
flows naturally present in the body we
00:32:46
have the potential of hundreds of
00:32:48
thousands of volts of electricity
00:32:49
coursing through the body
00:32:50
instantaneously if the ampage is
00:32:52
sufficiently high then the body would
00:32:54
literally become its own electrocution
00:32:56
me
00:32:58
mechanism it would fry itself out from
00:33:00
the inside
00:33:03
electrically uh this is a crack Pottery
00:33:06
of a very high order there is not a
00:33:09
single reasonable theory for spontaneous
00:33:13
human combustion there is no convincing
00:33:16
scientific evidence of it and so the
00:33:18
mystery mongers ought to shut up and get
00:33:21
a life is spontaneous human combustion
00:33:24
real or can every case be explained away
00:33:27
the jury is still up unless of course it
00:33:31
happens to
00:33:33
you next he was young successful and he
00:33:37
had no reason to kill himself and his
00:33:39
father was determined to prove
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it it's the kind of situation every
00:33:56
parent dreads
00:33:57
Larry and Lois Williams hadn't heard
00:33:59
from their son Danny in nearly 2 days if
00:34:03
he doesn't answer the door I'm going to
00:34:04
go inside Danny this is your dad I kept
00:34:08
calling Danny's name saying Danny this
00:34:10
is your dad this me coming in he did
00:34:12
have a gun in the house for protection
00:34:14
and I didn't want to be in a situation
00:34:15
where he was asleep and shot his own
00:34:18
dad that would not be a concern Danny
00:34:22
was already
00:34:25
dead he was sitting on the couch in an
00:34:27
upright position with a bullet in his
00:34:29
head and a gun in his
00:34:32
lap the comment that I made as I went
00:34:34
through the door oh Dan don't let don't
00:34:38
let this be what it looks like
00:34:40
23-year-old Danny Williams was Larry and
00:34:42
Lois's youngest son he managed
00:34:45
distribution for the family's
00:34:47
multi-million dollar apparel
00:34:48
Manufacturing Company Larry Williams
00:34:51
called the Galesburg police well it's a
00:34:53
9mm semi-automatic pistol the position
00:34:55
of the body the the type of wound the uh
00:34:59
absence of any uh specific evidence of
00:35:01
Foul Play indicated to us uh that the
00:35:05
gunshot wound um could have been
00:35:09
self-inflicted and caused us to classify
00:35:11
the case as a as a
00:35:13
suicide Larry Williams hired private
00:35:16
detective Mike Turnquist to investigate
00:35:19
soon he had something to report the
00:35:22
police said Dany died very early
00:35:24
Saturday morning but a neighbor told
00:35:26
Turnquist that she had seen Dany Alive 8
00:35:30
hours after the time of death I
00:35:34
shouldn't admit it but I watch
00:35:35
everybody's business it was Saturday
00:35:38
morning that I saw Dany get in the car
00:35:41
with this woman so naturally being nosy
00:35:44
as I am I looked her over real good she
00:35:47
had dark hair she would have been
00:35:49
between 25 and
00:35:51
30 the police dismissed the account
00:35:54
saying Mrs sers had her days pied up it
00:35:57
was already established that Danny had
00:35:59
been picked up by his mother on Friday
00:36:01
the day before he died no it was not
00:36:05
Friday it was
00:36:07
Saturday and the lady in the blue car
00:36:11
was too young to have been his mother
00:36:15
other Witnesses noticed activity at
00:36:17
Danny's house on Sunday a full 24 hours
00:36:19
after he died at least one person
00:36:22
described seeing a young man with curly
00:36:24
brown hair approximately 5 4 in tall the
00:36:28
eyewitness testimony can easily be
00:36:31
mistaken it's as simple as that they may
00:36:34
have seen some activity there but it's a
00:36:36
distinct possibility that uh the days
00:36:38
may have been confused as to when they
00:36:40
were uh seeing that uh that
00:36:43
movement Danny's father claims that some
00:36:46
of the physical evidence turned up by
00:36:47
police argued against
00:36:50
suicide the bullet that supposedly
00:36:52
killed Danny exited through his head and
00:36:55
lodged in the wall when the police
00:36:57
removed the bullet there was only one
00:36:59
small spot which appeared to be Blood on
00:37:02
the
00:37:03
paning with the head being that close to
00:37:06
the wall you most certainly would expect
00:37:08
to find large or massive amounts of
00:37:10
blood splatter either at or near the
00:37:13
back of the couch and and most certainly
00:37:15
on the back
00:37:18
wall by now Larry Williams was convinced
00:37:22
Dany had been murdered he brought in an
00:37:24
independent forensic scientist Mark boie
00:37:28
I had this feeling that I was going to
00:37:30
go out see the house see a typical messy
00:37:33
scene and tell Larry that I think your
00:37:35
son commits suicide when we get to the
00:37:38
house and there's a lack of evidence to
00:37:40
support the suicide oh hey Larry you
00:37:43
better take a look at this Bosey used a
00:37:46
luminescent scanner to look for blood
00:37:47
evidence invisible to the naked eye he
00:37:50
found significant samples in several
00:37:52
places even on the television set take a
00:37:55
look at that splatter pattern all over
00:37:57
the TV set if um Danny just shot himself
00:38:01
sitting there you definitely would not
00:38:03
have a pattern at all behind the TV set
00:38:06
and uh there's nothing to indicate Danny
00:38:08
got up after shooting himself and walked
00:38:10
around so someone else obviously dropped
00:38:13
the blood droplets everywhere else that
00:38:15
we found going to have to take a
00:38:17
squabbing of that bring it back to the
00:38:18
lab get a type blood analysis later
00:38:21
revealed the presence of two different
00:38:23
blood types in the house Danny's blood
00:38:26
was type B Mark boie found type B and
00:38:29
type O in the den where Danny's body was
00:38:33
boie also found type O in the bathroom
00:38:35
and inside the pocket of Danny's
00:38:39
jeans is not possible that all the blood
00:38:41
in the room came from Danny it's an
00:38:44
impossibility this evidence suggests to
00:38:46
me that two people in the room were
00:38:50
bleeding two separate
00:38:52
individuals the official police position
00:38:55
is that the alleged type of O blood
00:38:57
samples were compromised by the crime
00:38:59
scene Cleanup Crew samples of the blood
00:39:02
were submitted to the Illinois State
00:39:03
Crime Lab for testing the official
00:39:05
conclusion the samples could not be
00:39:08
definitively typed I could guarantee you
00:39:11
send that same evidence to five
00:39:12
different independent Laboratories that
00:39:14
have no idea what this case is about
00:39:16
that have no idea uh that this was a
00:39:18
murder or a suicide or anything and they
00:39:21
will come back with type B blood and
00:39:23
type O blood the independent uh lab
00:39:27
feels very confident in their
00:39:29
results uh they uh have provided those
00:39:32
results to Mr Williams and that's
00:39:34
contributed to his concerns about the uh
00:39:38
uh finding of suicide we feel just as
00:39:41
strongly about the results of the
00:39:43
Illinois State Crime Lab uh that there
00:39:45
was no evidence of a type O blood in
00:39:48
that home mark Bose's investigation
00:39:51
appeared to turn up one new piece of
00:39:53
evidence that undercut the police theory
00:39:56
in supported his theory that the blood
00:39:58
of two different people was in Danny's
00:40:00
house it's the same type that Danny's
00:40:03
gun would use Mark was uh processing the
00:40:05
room he opened the couch up and a shell
00:40:07
casing fell out later test showed that
00:40:10
this shell did come from Danny's gun it
00:40:12
had been recently fired so there were
00:40:14
two shells found on the couch that came
00:40:17
from Danny's gun from the scene photos I
00:40:20
saw Danny's gun was laying on his lap
00:40:22
his hand was laying on top of the gun
00:40:24
just as if he shot and then set it back
00:40:28
down uh it's a little inconsistent with
00:40:32
a
00:40:33
suicide okay Larry next boy tried to
00:40:36
match the bullet path to Danny's
00:40:38
position on the couch okay how am I
00:40:41
doing the line's right all right and
00:40:44
it's through my head and it can be
00:40:46
squeezed up but you would fall over on
00:40:49
the floor I would fall over on the floor
00:40:51
the body would have gone forward the
00:40:53
body would have moved back into the
00:40:55
position it was in the the gun probably
00:40:57
would not have been in his lap it
00:40:59
probably was would be on the floor a
00:41:00
coffee
00:41:01
table Mark boie now believes that Dany
00:41:04
was probably not shot in his house
00:41:08
here's how it might have happened there
00:41:10
was a fight somewhere else that left
00:41:11
Dany and another person bleeding that
00:41:15
person took Danny's keys out of his
00:41:16
pocket leaving behind a trace of type O
00:41:19
blood finally the crime scene was
00:41:22
arranged to make Danny's death look like
00:41:25
suicide
00:41:27
we can advance theories all day long
00:41:30
everyone can but the factual data that
00:41:33
we've gathered uh we feel comfortable
00:41:36
with Danny this is your
00:41:40
dad the investigators crime labs and
00:41:43
what have you that have had working on
00:41:45
this from the beginning as soon as they
00:41:47
went into the house saw evidence that
00:41:49
was in there then and still there now uh
00:41:52
where convinced that I was that it was
00:41:54
cold blood
00:41:55
murder
00:41:56
was Danny Williams murdered or did he
00:41:59
kill himself the official coroners
00:42:01
report lists Danny's cause of death as
00:42:07
uncertain if you have any information
00:42:09
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00:42:12
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