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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a young woman is brutally
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beaten by her ex-husband you shut up
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then he targets her new
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boyfriend a journalist and former
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stripper writes about the Seedy
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nightlife she knows all too
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well and then she
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disappears 16 tons of gold may be buried
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somewhere in the New Mexico desert will
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the treasure ever be
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found and for a female ramp supervisor
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in Boston sexual harassment turns to
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murder join us for five cases with
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twists and turns that you can hardly
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believe I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved
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Mysteries
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King Fisher
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Oklahoma 23-year-old Teresa Stamper
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leaves a small dinner party with her new
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boyfriend Chris Butler the quiet evening
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is a pleasant change for Teresa who had
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just ended an unhappy and abusive
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marriage Teresa doesn't know that her
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estranged husband Paul Stamper is parked
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nearby watching her every move through a
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high-powered telescope
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for 6 months Paul Stamper stalk Teresa
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night and day she was constantly looking
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over her shoulder never knowing where or
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when he would appear Paul Stamper was no
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longer the man that Teresa once
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loved when Teresa met Paul Stamper he
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was the owner of a thriving oil
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equipment
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operation he had hired Teresa as his
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secretary was a real charmer and you
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know I I worked for him and he took me
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places and we flew a lot of places and
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you know I was you know it was different
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for me you know hey Teresa honey you
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been outside yet this morning it was on
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my birthday he called me about 7:00 in
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the morning and said have you been
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outside and I said no so I looked
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outside you know and went out there and
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there was this 82 Red Corvette
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that's what he liked to do he liked to
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spend money and buy nice things and I
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liked living like that you know it was
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fun
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and and we got
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married Teresa thought that she was
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marrying a successful young
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businessman in fact Stamper was a
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convicted felon with a record for theft
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assault and
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fraud she didn't know that his recent
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business practices were under
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investigation we had unconfirmed reports
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that he went out and destroyed some
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equipment on locations so that those
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same people would call him the very next
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day and have him come out and repair
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it within 6 months the marriage began to
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fall
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apart you mind telling me where the hell
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You' been at the grocery store getting
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dinner grocery store been gone for 2
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hours now who are you with he he started
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watching me and having people follow me
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and he wouldn't let me visit my friends
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I want to know who you were with and I
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want to know it now in one moment he'd
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be nice in the next moment he would hit
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me I just I didn't know how to handle
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him get everything P get your nice place
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to live and buy your nice things and you
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just you're running around this crazy I
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don't you shut
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up he was jealous and you had better be
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here when I get
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back I mean I could be sitting we could
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be sitting at a red light and I could
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just turn and look at someone and it
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could be a guy sitting in this car and
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he would just double his fist up and
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just hit me right in the mouth I mean it
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was just it was Unreal to the abuse that
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he did to
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me five different times Stamper was
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arrested and charged with assault and
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battery each time the charges against
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them were mysteriously dropped he
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bragged to Teresa that he paid off the
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authorities we had heard rumors that uh
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that there was payoff attempts uh
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whether it's true or not I don't know um
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we we looked into a couple incidents we
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could absolutely find no basis for it U
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but there was a lot of talk about it the
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couple had only been married 2 years
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when the violence reached a new
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level one night a man entered the
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Stamper home Teresa was out of town and
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a friend of hers was staying over
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the woman survived the attack and called
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the police she later identified her
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attacker as Gary trout a local mechanic
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who worked for Paul Stamper Gary trout
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informed me that Paul Stamper had
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contacted him and asked and Paul asked
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of Gary to kill his wife and was willing
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to pay
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$5,000 up front and then $5,000 to
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finish
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it Snapper was arrested and charged as
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an accessory to attempted murder but at
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his trial Gary trout refused to name his
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boss once again all charges against
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Stamper were
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dropped meanwhile Teresa moved in with
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her parents but she never felt
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completely safe the threats
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continued
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I had uh went to the window and looked
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out the window and there he was just
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reving up the
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engine and he just let me see him and
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let me know that he did it and then he
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just drove off Teresa reported the
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incident to the sheriff's department but
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that didn't stop the
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harassment then life seemed to improve
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when she found a new boyfriend Chris
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Butler we were just driving down the
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highway and you know we weren't speeding
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or anything and all of a sudden these
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lights come
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on we thought it was a highway with
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trollman Teresa honey you get out of the
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car put down the gun get out of the car
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now
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Comey
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Chris what are you doing oh the door
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I'll shoot you through the window come
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on okay finally you know he I was so
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scared that I just I unlocked the door
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and he just grabbed me around my neck
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and just forced me out of the
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car Chris had came too and he had yelled
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don't leave me here you know Teresa
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don't leave me here you know and there
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was there wasn't anything I could
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do a passing witness called the police
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Chris was in critical condition the
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bullet had punctured his heart pancreas
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spleen and lung but miraculously he
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survived Stamper held Teresa at gunpoint
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as he headed north 2 days later they
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stopped at a restaurant in Topeka cansas
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C is that it that's
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it look I got to go to the
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bathroom
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I was walking toward the restrooms and I
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kind of looked around my shoulder you
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know to see if he was following me and
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he wasn't he was just sitting there with
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his back toward
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me and so I just took off
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run Teresa ran to the manager's office
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and begged him to call the police by the
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time the police arrived Stamper had
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vanished
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police quickly caught up with him as he
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bordered a bus in Salina
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Kansas he was brought back to the king
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fisher County Jail in Oklahoma to await
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Trial 6 months later a man who had been
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offered $10,000 by Stamper broke into
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the jail in the middle of the
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night go turn around open the
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S shut up
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Paul
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Stamper
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escaped
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update just minutes after the story
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aired the FBI received information from
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several of our viewers that Paul Stamper
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was living in Commerce City a suburb of
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Denver
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Colorado only 3 hours later he was
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arrested as he left his home he had been
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living near Denver under the assumed
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name Gary wickle for almost four
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years this is one of the more efficient
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uh cost effective Speedy apprehensions
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that we've ever made for us to uh not
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have any idea early evening that this
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individual is in the Denver area and by
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11:30 he is captured he's off the
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streets and he's on his way to Denver
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City Jail that that uh I think may be
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close to a record for
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us at his trial Paul staer pleaded
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guilty to kidnapping attempted murder
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and prison escape he was sentenced to 35
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years and was released after 10
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years next an ex stripper writes about
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the world she knows oh so well and then
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mysterious serously
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disappears Nutley New
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Jersey okay David why you're over here
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today don't watch so much television
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okay read a book or something Susan
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Walsh is in a hurry she drops off her
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son David with her estranged
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husband she doesn't explain where she's
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going thanks Mark you'll be back right
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oh yeah yeah uh I got to make a couple
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of phone calls and um run a few errands
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okay in just a few minutes right but it
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wasn't just a few minutes Susan never
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returned police believe Susan Walsh
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simply chose to disappear others however
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fear that she was swallowed up by the CD
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sex industry but the bottom line is this
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Susan is
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missing Susan grew up in a broken home
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by most accounts it was a bitter
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childhood still Susan dreamed of being a
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poet by the time she turned 20 she was
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far from her
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dream she was instead a substance abuser
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supporting herself as a stripper still
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she kept her hopes alive using her
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dancing tips to pay her way through
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college by the time she graduated she
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traded strippy for a writing
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career Susan had been sober for over 4
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years she got married and became a
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devoted mother looks just like me Susan
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loved her son very much and she was
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always there for her son the two things
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that meant a lot to her were her son and
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her career as a journalist eventually
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she and her husband
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separated her writing job didn't pay
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enough to support her son she went back
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to stripping unable to resist the Easy
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Money Tuan would say she was like an
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addict and that the whole sex business
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was kind of like an addiction and she
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was trying to break this
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addiction she will talk endlessly on an
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intellectual level against dancing and
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sometimes cre articulation you know you
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feel like this is very profound stuff
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and then you know she's out there doing
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it hey now lunch in half an hour okay
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eventually Susan landed an internship at
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New York's freewheeling newspaper The
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Village
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Voice because of her background as a
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stripper she was assigned to research
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the sex industry she soon turned up a
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hot
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story Russian Mobsters in New Jersey
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were allegedly forcing young immigrant
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women to work like slaves in strip clubs
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the van guy I think he's going to take
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me to the head guy the head of the
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M when are you supposed to be out there
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tonight 11:00 Susan was a fantastic
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researcher she really poured herself
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into this she spent hour after hour day
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after day then she got into the
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situation where the people were alleged
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to be an organized crime the managers in
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these clubs began to side with the
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Russian women against the Russian
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manager so it was like the two mobs meet
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and Susan then of course loved this
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thing and she got right in the middle of
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it
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Susan earned praise for her Russian mob
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article but she also received serious
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threats when it was published but that
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didn't stop Susan from taking another
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dark
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assignment this time investigating
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vampire
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nightclubs these clubs attracted kids
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called Goths they were known for their
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outrageous black outfits but some took
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it further even drinking
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real
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blood Susan was attracted to the vampire
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world she even started dating a man who
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claimed to be one of the
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undead Susan wrote a detailed article
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but she seemed to lose her journalistic
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objectivity she sort of like took it in
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whole cloth and she believed a lot of
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the things that these guys were telling
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her about how there were secret murders
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and on and so forth in the vampire
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world are there a lot of regulars um at
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the clubs yeah she would come and say to
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me I met these two guys and they got
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this van and it's very scary and I don't
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know where I should go in their van and
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so I said you know hey look um don't go
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in the van because they might not be
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vampires you
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know to Susan's disappointment The
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Village Voice never ran her vampire
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story she went back to dancing full time
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in a documentary made by a friend Susan
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talked about the toll stripping had
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taken on her life draining me and I've
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been in it 4 and 1/2 years four years
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too long I'd say and I'm stuck in this
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conundrum because I feel so drained and
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I'm damaged right now I will admit that
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very damaged from this business I'm
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hurting very bad I was with her 2 days
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before she disappeared and she said she
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had bronchitis empyema and an ulcer she
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said she hadd been in the hospital twice
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that week um she talked about her mood
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swings and being depressed um and about
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just holding on to
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live you'll be back right oh yeah just a
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few minutes right 48 hours after Jill
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last saw her Susan
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disappeared did she collapse because of
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her depression and poor health or was
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she out there waiting for help Susan's
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friends had to consider darker
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theories I think Susan was probably
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pretty hooked on
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drugs and I think she went out and
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probably called somebody to come and get
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her and then she went and she uh may
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very well have
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odid and she may very well have odid in
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the presence of someone who knew her and
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was frightened to uh do anything about
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it the police have a completely
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different Theory I believe that Susan
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Walsh is alive uh for some unknown
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reason to me at this time she opted to
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leave her family and home which she has
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a perfect right to
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do a number of people including an old
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friend Melissa Hines told the police
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that they saw Susan after she
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disappeared
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Susan
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Susan I definitely think it was her I'm
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positive that I seen Susan a month after
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she
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disappeared the license plate number
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that Melissa Hines provided to us we did
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a track down we spoke to the owner and
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operator of that vehicle he had been
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with a woman fitting the description of
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Susan he did view photographs and felt
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he was pretty sure that had been but
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again we had no positive identification
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of Susan Walsh at that
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time Melissa believes that if Susan is
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alive she may be deliberately hiding out
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Susan definitely felt that she was in
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danger she was scared for her life and I
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think she was also scared her son's life
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could be endanger
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too Susan actually told me that she
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wasn't going to make it in the next year
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she felt that that she was going to be
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killed I believe there's a chance that
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the mob was after her people in
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organized crime were concerned that
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Susan had information that would send
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them to jail according to Susan that's
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was the the case someone was definitely
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following
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Susan I thought at first that it was
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just her imagination but um I seen it
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with my own
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eyes
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I would see
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cars follow her both of us people follow
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my car she was a my car somebody was uh
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stalking
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her who was it that could have been
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following Susan no one knows but now
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years after she vanished police believe
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she was murdered and the case remains
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open if you have any information about
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Susan Walsh please log on to our website
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at
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unsolved.com
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next 16 tons of gold is missing the man
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who knew its location is dead but he did
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leave behind a few intriguing
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Clues Farmington New Mexico
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1933
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In the Heat of the summer a pilot named
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red moer lands several mysterious
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flights in the desert there he's met by
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a Mexican millionaire named Leon
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truko these two men have a
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secret it's believed that Leon truko and
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four other men were quietly buying up
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much of Mexico's gold reserves and then
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they plan to resell it in the United
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States when the price went
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up truko was convinced that because of
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the Great Depression the United States
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would soon devalue the dollar and that
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gold prices would
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Skyrocket but the chance to make huge
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profits carried huge
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risks the gold had to be smuggled into
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the United States if the men were caught
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they faced long prison ter
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at a makeshift Mexican Foundry gold
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coins and jewelry were melted down and
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cast into ingots in less than 3 months
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the partners had collected almost 16
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tons of solid
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gold so Mr truko this is the property I
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was telling you about lots of space to
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store stuff truko searched the US for a
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safe place to hide the illegal treasure
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when he couldn't find a suitable spot he
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decided it would be smarter to bury the
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gold it's too big I need something a
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little more secluded
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secluded Legend has it that truko chose
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a sparsely populated region of New
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Mexico near the Ute and Navajo Indian
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reservations red moer allegedly made 16
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flights carrying one ton of gold each
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time pickup trucks then transported it
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to a secret burial site truko never
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revealed the location to his
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co-conspirators and he never made a
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map 6 months after the final shipment
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was delivered the gold Reserve Act of
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1934 became law the the price of gold
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soared overnight the men's potential
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profit increased by $7
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million the group decided not to sell
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the gold hoping the price would go even
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higher but they were not aware of an
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executive order related to the gold act
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it declared that after January
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1934 private ownership of gold within
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the US was
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illegal the partners had missed their
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chance to strike it
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rich well when FDR put the gold embargo
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that takes gold off of the market it's
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illlegal and so consequently these five
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men from Finance years from Mexico City
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they had 20 ton of junk it was not worth
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worth a dime because they couldn't sell
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it for
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anything the gold seemed to bring bad
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luck within 5 years three of the
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partners had died untimely
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deaths over the next two decades truko
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was unable to sell the now illegal gold
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when he died he apparently took the
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secret location to his
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grave for 35 years Ed Foster has
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searched for trabuco's treasure in the
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desert around Farmington New Mexico he's
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convinced that he found a 1933 Landing
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Strip used by Red moer it's on a plateau
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called Conger
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Mesa I believe that Conger Mesa is where
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the plane would adjust and come in and
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land I met this Indian lady that uh
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couldn't speak speak English so I got an
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interpreter she said she had watched
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that plane land there many many
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times Ed interviewed another Navajo
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woman who was 6 years old in
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1933 she remembered several Mexican men
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who lived on the
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reservation this would be very unusual
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for a Mexican to move out here for a
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Spanish or a white man to move out here
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and live would be unheard
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of 20 mi west of the Mesa near an old
00:25:34
Navajo home stands a building unlike any
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other on the reservation Ed believes
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that it was built by men truko hired to
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guard the
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gold this house has Windows a front door
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and a back door and it had a veranda to
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me this house would look good in Tiana
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Mexico but not on the Navajo
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reservation Ed also found another
00:26:03
intriguing clue it was etched in the
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face of a stone
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outcropping he calls it Shrine Rock and
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believes it may be the key to finding
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tbo's
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treasure this is
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1933
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16 t o
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n it is sure that the gold is buried
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somewhere within this triangle formed by
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Conger Mesa Shrine Rock and the Mexican
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style
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home ed asked renowned treasure hunter
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Norman Scott to make a detailed survey
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of the area I get an awful lot of
00:26:44
stories coming to us after 30 years in
00:26:46
the business and probably about 80 or
00:26:48
90% of them you have to uh talk up to
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some fictional writer is writing a book
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or magazine but this one has a ring of
00:26:56
authenticity to to
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it I have looked with my eyes and metal
00:27:04
detectors for many years and now they
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have
00:27:08
technology and that's why I think it's
00:27:10
going to be found with technology it's
00:27:13
not going to be found with dumb luck cuz
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I've spent all of
00:27:19
that is Ed Foster just chasing a legend
00:27:23
or does the desert of New Mexico hold a
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secret to Leon tabo's long lost
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Fortune we may never
00:27:35
know next a dead woman's diary reveals
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shocking details of sexual harassment
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and possibly holds the key to her
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murder Boston 's Logan Airport
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24-year-old Sue Tasco witz was a
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Trailblazer she was a woman working in a
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man's world on the tarmac of the airport
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hook up the ground power put the AC on
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the aircraft Sue loved being on the ramp
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she liked doing the job sometimes she'd
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come home and say I lift a million bags
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today and they were 200 lb each should
00:28:22
make a joke out of it but she never came
00:28:24
complaining about the job she loved it
00:28:27
yeah you don't have to do the paperwork
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Sue was the second woman to ever work
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for Northwest Airlines as a ground
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Service employee she worked her way up
00:28:36
from cleaning the Interiors of jets
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after 3 years she was promoted to ramp
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supervisor she was the first woman to
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ever hold that position see that I know
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it's not oil I call you guys the shortly
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after beginning her new job Sue's car
00:28:54
was discovered at an auto body shop not
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far from the a airport Jee see if you
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can pop that trunk latch will you in the
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trunk was Sue's
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body she had been beaten and then
00:29:08
stabbed multiple times there was no sign
00:29:11
of robbery or rape so her family assumed
00:29:15
that she was the victim of a random
00:29:18
crime for more than a year Sue's family
00:29:21
grieved then at Christmas time marleene
00:29:24
terasa witz finally went into her
00:29:26
daughter's room room for the first time
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since the murder what she found there
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was
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shocking I tried many times to go in
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Sue's room you know you just you've got
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to do this it's a year you know you
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should let me get something that was
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special to her we'll just put it out and
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I started going into her closet and I
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saw a briefcase
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there inside Sue's briefcase was a diary
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in Vivid detail she described the sexual
00:29:59
harassment that she had endured on the
00:30:01
job ugly incidents she never mentioned
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to her family the journal included
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examples of the graffiti insulting
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demeaning and lured that had been etched
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in the men's rooms at the airport and
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even in the cargo holes of jets what I
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read the filth that somebody would write
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about my
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Susan and I thought is this why she was
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murdered and we thought this is it we
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have solved Susan's
00:30:32
murder in page after page Sue described
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acts of hostility the following is
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typical April 12th
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1989 Bobby came into the break room hey
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that's my
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radio what that's my radio I'll buy you
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a new one what'd you do that for the
00:30:54
Bruins lost he left the room and one of
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my my co-workers picked up the radio and
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plugged it in to see if it still worked
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yay
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thanks Bobby came back into the
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room Sue's boyfriend who also worked at
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the airport spoke to Bobby and demanded
00:31:16
that he replace the radio then later
00:31:18
that day Sue confronted Bobby come on
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Bobby that was the radio that my mother
00:31:23
got me for Christmas what are you going
00:31:25
to do send your little punk boyfriend
00:31:26
over here again he going to beat me up
00:31:29
he's lucky I didn't kill him Sue filed
00:31:31
many formal complaints with the
00:31:33
management of Northwest Airlines and her
00:31:36
Union but little was done to stop the
00:31:39
harassment in fact it increased often in
00:31:43
the form of nasty
00:31:47
graffiti it wasn't apparently just one
00:31:51
or two pieces of graffiti that made
00:31:53
their way up and then were washed away
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it was
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repeated cases of um graffiti of varying
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kinds in some cases amounting to death
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threats against other workers um who
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were supporting
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Sue Sue also talks in her diary about
00:32:16
getting Anonymous phone calls um all
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hours of the night she records some of
00:32:20
the times the phone calls happen who's
00:32:23
there get off our backs Su baby who is
00:32:27
this she also had instances where her
00:32:32
car was vandalized her boyfriend's car
00:32:35
was vandalized friends who were
00:32:37
supporting her had their cars
00:32:42
vandalized despite the abuse Sue's
00:32:45
career hadn't slowed down she was
00:32:47
promoted to ramp supervisor and put in
00:32:50
charge of the employees that she had
00:32:52
once worked wither but I need you to
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take your crew and get the next two
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flights initially Sue was passed over
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for the promotion a man in her Union had
00:33:03
illegally bid for the job so sue filed a
00:33:06
grievance and won but the victory made
00:33:09
some of her co-workers
00:33:12
uncomfortable a lot of them felt that
00:33:14
they didn't want any females being their
00:33:16
boss that that should be a man's job
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didn't stop her from coming to work um
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it didn't stop her from standing up to
00:33:27
things that she thought was wrong that's
00:33:29
some good OT huh Ching you going get to
00:33:32
spend some of your hot ear money yeah
00:33:34
right like between this and my
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supervising shifts went a few months
00:33:38
after Sue's promotion the graffiti
00:33:41
became more Sinister maybe take it a
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break I am so sick of
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this I'm going to go on a sandwich run
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to the roast beef place I'll go all over
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tonight no these guys are working hard I
00:33:58
want to treat them so how during a
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graveyard shift Sue volunteered to go
00:34:02
pick up sandwiches for her crew she
00:34:05
never returned and no one reported her
00:34:08
missing for a day and a
00:34:11
half authorities now believe that Sue's
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death may have been connected to a
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federal investigation of Northwest
00:34:19
Airlines that took place that
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summer some baggage handlers were
00:34:24
operating a stolen credit card ring when
00:34:27
shipments of new cards were transported
00:34:29
on Northwest Jets a group of workers was
00:34:32
stealing them using them and then
00:34:34
selling them the scam netted over $7
00:34:38
million eventually 10 Northwest
00:34:41
employees were indicted and convicted to
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marleene some of the names were very
00:34:47
familiar they were names of people that
00:34:49
were in Sue's diary that had sexually
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harassed her from day
00:34:54
one I believe
00:34:57
that Susan was set up by her co-workers
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that for whatever reason they were
00:35:04
afraid that Susan was going to squal on
00:35:07
something as far as the airport's
00:35:09
concerned a lot of people there knew her
00:35:12
a lot of people knew what was going on
00:35:13
around her we've talked to a lot of them
00:35:16
they've given us information but I think
00:35:18
we all believe that somebody there has
00:35:21
more Northwest Airlines declined our
00:35:23
request to be interviewed for this story
00:35:27
but they have settled a sexual
00:35:29
discrimination lawsuit brought against
00:35:32
them by Sue's family it was one of the
00:35:34
largest discrimination settlements ever
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granted in the state of
00:35:40
Massachusetts authorities still consider
00:35:42
Sue's case open and active her family is
00:35:46
offering A4 million reward for
00:35:49
information leading to the arrest of Sue
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killer if you have any information about
00:35:55
this case please log on on to our
00:35:57
website at
00:35:58
unsolved.com
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next one of your tips helps find the
00:36:07
killer of a popular Los Angeles
00:36:17
DJ Los Angeles
00:36:20
California four friends climbed on their
00:36:22
motorcycles to cruise the nearly
00:36:24
deserted streets late at night it had
00:36:27
become a regular weekend ritual one of
00:36:30
the writers was Lee swin a popular DJ in
00:36:35
LA but this night his experience was
00:36:39
different one of the other Riders got
00:36:42
into an argument when a passing car
00:36:44
tried to run him down what are you
00:36:46
trying to do huh when the driver spit at
00:36:50
Le's friend the night turned
00:36:55
ugly
00:37:00
the four Riders scattered a Chase began
00:37:03
although Lee was an innocent bystander
00:37:06
he became the
00:37:16
target the chase went on for nearly 30
00:37:19
City
00:37:25
fors
00:37:28
Lee swin was thrown 180 ft from his bike
00:37:33
and suffered a massive skull fracture he
00:37:36
was rushed to the hospital but died
00:37:39
within
00:37:40
hours I received a call from Cedars they
00:37:44
said that he was in the intensive care
00:37:48
and I knew I just
00:37:51
knew he was such a big part of my life
00:37:55
he was my buddy he wasn't just my son he
00:37:57
was my
00:37:58
buddy the Los Angeles police began a
00:38:01
Citywide Manhunt but Lee sn's killer at
00:38:05
skip
00:38:07
town
00:38:08
update after the broadcast of Lee's
00:38:11
story a viewer called Unsolved Mysteries
00:38:14
he claimed that there was a prisoner in
00:38:16
Georgia who had often bragged about
00:38:19
running down a biker in
00:38:21
La the Los Angeles police obtained a mug
00:38:24
shot at the suspect and these friends
00:38:27
picked the man out of a photo lineup his
00:38:30
name Franklin Legrand
00:38:33
Perkins just 5 days before Perkins was
00:38:37
scheduled for parole he was
00:38:40
arrested one week later he was back in
00:38:43
Los Angeles to face murder charges most
00:38:47
murder victims know they're attackers
00:38:49
know they're Killers but this is a case
00:38:51
that that just wasn't that way this was
00:38:52
a random event uh of of a person who was
00:38:56
basically mining his own business and
00:38:58
and unfortunately was in the wrong place
00:38:59
at the wrong
00:39:04
time Franklin Perkins turned out to be a
00:39:07
member of the vagos motorcycle gang he
00:39:10
was convicted of first-degree murder and
00:39:12
sentenced to life in
00:39:21
prison Danberry Connecticut early one
00:39:24
morning the emergency team on a local
00:39:26
Hospital Springs into action one of
00:39:29
their patients a man registered as Tom
00:39:31
use is in Cardiac
00:39:36
Arrest doctors work to revive him
00:39:39
however after 90 minutes Tom used his
00:39:43
pronounced
00:39:45
dead when the hospital attempts to
00:39:48
contact the man's wife they discover
00:39:50
that her name and phone number are bogus
00:39:54
so are his social security number add
00:39:56
addess occupation and employer Tom use
00:40:01
simply does not
00:40:06
exist it turns out that use was a con
00:40:08
man and professional Hospital patient he
00:40:13
moved from hospital to hospital living
00:40:15
in each for 3 to 7 days before sneaking
00:40:18
out without paying his
00:40:22
bills it appears that Tom would check
00:40:25
into a hospital with some sort of small
00:40:26
self-inflicted wound and have a
00:40:28
complaint of a lower back pain we think
00:40:31
that he was checking himself into the
00:40:32
hospitals to obtain the pain pills want
00:40:34
going to prescribe something a bit
00:40:35
stronger and I'd like to suggest that
00:40:37
you check yourself in for observation
00:40:39
whatever you say you're the
00:40:41
doctor we were able to determine that
00:40:43
Tom had essentially been traveling
00:40:45
across the country and staying in one
00:40:47
hospital after another and taking a bus
00:40:50
from uh uh one destination to another we
00:40:53
were able to track him from uh
00:40:54
California all the way to Rhode Island
00:40:56
and points in between yes my name is
00:41:00
Thomas Hughes I needed to speak with
00:41:02
someone about a personal injury case the
00:41:04
now unidentified man made 16 calls
00:41:07
before he died I'm a civil engineer
00:41:10
investigators traced them hoping to
00:41:13
locate family members instead they
00:41:16
discovered that every single call was
00:41:19
made to an attorney we think he called
00:41:22
the attorneys with a story that he
00:41:24
wanted to have a lawsuit because of his
00:41:26
injuries at work but U I think the real
00:41:29
reason he called the attorneys was to
00:41:31
again tell a story to someone and uh
00:41:34
borrow some money he needed travel money
00:41:37
and he would obtain this by borrowing
00:41:38
small amounts from the
00:41:41
attorneys
00:41:43
update as a result of our broadcast the
00:41:46
Man known as Tom use has been identified
00:41:49
as Thomas Patrick white police believe
00:41:52
white suffered from Munch Housen
00:41:53
syndrome a condition in which a healthy
00:41:56
person seeks constant medical
00:42:00
attention unfortunately the disorder may
00:42:03
have costed white his life right let's
00:42:05
do it again
00:42:25
charge
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