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tonight on unsolved mysteries hope drove
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Kentucky had a dirty little secret a
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house of ill-repute which allegedly
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operated with a full knowledge and
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protection of the police then two
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prostitutes were murdered and the
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brewing scandal boiled over 24 years old
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blonde pretty an Olympic hopeful and
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missing for 18 months
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cut her husband have masterminded Amy
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Bechtel disappearance Mississippi River
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1947 Mary green piloted the riverboat
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Delta Queen for two years before she
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passed away some crew members are
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convinced that she never left her post
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when she was only 14
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Margie Hamilton was forced to marry a
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man four times her age then forced to
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give up the firstborn for adoption
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perhaps you can help create a mother and
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son William R every mystery there is
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someone somewhere who knows the truth
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perhaps that's you
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join me for another edition unsolved
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mysteries
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a brutal double murder allegations of
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police corruption a house of ill-repute
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and a madam who refuses to keep quiet it
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has all the elements it's a kind of case
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guaranteed to rip a small town apart
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September 20th 1994 3:00 a.m. it was
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called a new light massage parlor but
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everyone in Oak Grove Kentucky knew the
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girls were prostitutes this night
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customers were scarce and then Mary not
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gonna grab some drinks you want to go
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with us no thanks you sure uh yeah I
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think I just 22-year old candy belt was
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a single mother working to support two
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young children
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eighteen-year-old Gloria Ross had been
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married less than a year and had a six
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week old daughter two young women
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perhaps a bit desperate just trying to
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pay the bills within the hour both of
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them would be dead shot execution-style
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their throats slashed
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I felt some responsibility for their
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deaths at least Tammy poplar around the
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new life massage parlor you know it's
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kind of like I'm I'm like their mom and
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I'm responsible and I'm supposed to see
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this through almost three years went by
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in the case remained unsung then Tammy
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pepper what public was stunning
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accusations about the police
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department's accusations that have been
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widely disputed I don't think the
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murders were ever meant to be solved and
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they thought if it got solved it would
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be a really big embarrassment to have
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two police officers arrested for killing
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two prostitutes bring somebody the proof
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and the evidence needed for indictments
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or convictions I will assist any agency
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and their apprehension until then I'm
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not gonna point fingers at anybody
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Tammy pepper opened the new life massage
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parlor in 1992 like the tiny town of Oak
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Grove his main business was serving the
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soldiers at the Army's Fort Campbell a
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half mile down the road a coating the
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Tammy pepper the police didn't shut her
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down because they stood to benefit in a
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big way she says new light massage
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parlor became City Hall's golden goose
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the police department would pick out
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specific things for us to buy and they
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would order them I know there were
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lights for just about every car shoes
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uniforms k9 t-shirts Christmas parties
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Christmas bonuses they get basically
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what they want
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little seven or eight police officers in
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the mayor run the whole town
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pepper says one Oak Grove police officer
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took excessive advantage
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a patrolman named Ed Carter Carter has
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denied the accusations you're about to
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hear edy Carter would ask a lot more
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than the other officers would she wanted
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services and it was like y know what's
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going on you know I'm a police officer
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who were they gonna believe you or me he
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had the gun I didn't someone asked me
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for money and they have a gun I'm gonna
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give it especially one that I know can
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put me in jail and that's that's exactly
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how everything got started a coating a
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Tammi pepper once Carter got started he
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didn't stop he insisted that she
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contract with him for janitorial
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services services that he reportedly
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intended his own wife to perform Patrick
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claims Carter soon became a fixture at
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new life when she went on vacation
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pepper says edy Carter virtually took
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control of the massage parlor it was
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like he was the madam I wasn't the madam
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anymore it was actually like he was he
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was the one it was in charge of the
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parlor he was running it I was furious
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with him I didn't want him around my
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business anymore I didn't want him
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around the girls I informed the girls
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you keep the door locked if he comes in
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you just shake your head no don't allow
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him to come inside this business yeah
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I told him don't ever come around here
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again you stay away and I made sure we
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had had a meeting and I informed each
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and every one of him with this you do
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not allow him around here anymore it's
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the end of it a few weeks later the
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murders Oak Grove police were on the
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scene minutes after the bodies were
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discovered by the time major Billy
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gloried of the Christian County
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Sheriff's Department was called in to
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assist the crime scene had been severely
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compromised the Oak Grove officer in
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charge was detective Leslie Duncan
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according to Tammy pepper he was well
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known to her Duncan was also Ed Carter's
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former roommate I feel like ed Carter
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killed them
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I honestly do I feel like he is the one
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who actually pulled the trigger mr.
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Carter's never run
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he's never fled the area he's never left
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the area whenever he was questioned he
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always cooperated and I find it
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troubling that after three years that
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there they are no closer to making an
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arrest of of the anybody much less mr.
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Carter three years is a long time
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memories fade evidence disappears and
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the only thing that's the same here is
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these bear unsupported allegations that
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are being made by the tech paddlers and
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I just I just questioned the motive I
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questioned their interest in this thing
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according to the sheriff's department
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Edie Carter freely admitted he stopped
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by the massage parlor that night
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but claimed he went home to his wife at
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3:00 a.m. before the murders occurred
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Carter and his wife has since gone
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through a divorce she disputes her
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ex-husband's alleged account he came in
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a few minutes after 4:00 I made it a
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habit of looking up at the clock when he
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came in the two women were shot with a
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small-caliber gun the police say ed
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Carter told them he owned no such weapon
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again his ex-wife disagrees Edie did own
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a small caliber God he kept it under the
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mattress for my protection it was not
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there that night I had not seen it from
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the Christmas before the shootings ed
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Carter voluntarily took a polygraph exam
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a few weeks after the murders I can't
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tell you whether or not he passed or
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failed his polygraph the only thing I
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can tell you is that he did resign from
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a police department and that he did
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secure an attorney after the polygraph
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soon after ed Carter moved to another
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part of Kentucky a year later Leslie
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Duncan also voluntarily resigned
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despite Tammy peppers efforts the murder
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investigation languished finally
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claiming she was fed up
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Tammy decided to make a public stink
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state your name please
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Tammy poplar she chose a City Council
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meeting on July 15th 1997 there were two
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girls killed in the massage parlor I
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feel like they don't think these lives
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were important that these girls were as
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important as if I don't know maybe if
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there was a deputy's daughter or a
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mayor's daughter but I just feel like
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they felt they didn't have to
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investigate it because no one's gonna
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ask any questions they're just two dead
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prostitutes and no one's gonna care
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about it I have returned but at least
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one person at City Hall did care the one
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person who said she could verify some
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aspects of peper story at her City
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Councilwoman patty Balu once known as
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Harley one of Tammy's girls announced
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everybody that her allegations of police
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corruption and thinks if that nature
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were true known about him about him
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coming in the parlor and the reason I
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know about that's because I used to work
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there
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patty Beaulieu had worked at the new
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light massage parlor for two years she
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claims she knew had Carter and some of
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his friends I always felt that the
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police officers were involved they were
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there all the time
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they knew the routine they knew
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everything they knew the ins and the
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outs about the place just just so many
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things that just kept pointing towards
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them Eric Carter did not commit these
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murders yes ed Carter did work at this
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facility as a janitor but ed Carter did
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not commit these murders he wants to
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have this matter as far as he's
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concerned brought to closure he wants to
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see the final chapter written where it
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can be stated without a doubt that Ed
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Carter had absolutely nothing to do with
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the murders that occurred in the city of
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Oak Grove
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two young women dead two families
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destroyed and a killer walking free the
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controversy makes it all too easy to
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forget I hope that justice will be
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served
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I hope that they charge the police
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officers I hope they clean up the
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corruption and I hope they start the
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town hall on you because that's the only
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way that it can honestly be cleaned up
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and brought but most of all I want glory
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and candy to know that we fought for
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them and that we're gonna see justice is
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served when coming up in Wyoming a
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marathon runner mysteriously disappears
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could her husband have been involved
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late afternoon late summer
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a runner moves easily along the mountain
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switchbacks high above the small town of
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Lander Wyoming her stride is strong
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smooth that of a dedicated athlete an
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Olympic hopeful her name is Amy Wroe
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Bechtel she is 24 years old on this day
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she runs into the tall trees of the
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Shoshone National Forest and disappears
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Sam and I are going to do boys earlier
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that same day it was a typical day for
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Amy and her husband Steve I'm gonna have
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the phone turned on in the new place
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today bye
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Steve was going rock climbing with a
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friend and Amy was going to teach a
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fitness class
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Amy and Steve Bechtel had been married
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for a little more than a year
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both were competitive athletes running
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for Amy
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climbing for Steve they moved to Lander
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because it's rugged terrain made it a
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perfect training ground
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Amy's I was really fond of saying you
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know let's retire now and then we'll
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work when we're old yeah we you have
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some debts and we have have to work some
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odd jobs and things like that but
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basically every day we live the way we
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want to you Amy and Steve had recently
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bought a home of their own they plan to
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move in over the next few days the night
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before Amy disappeared I went over with
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Steve and Amy to see their new house and
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to help him move a load of stuff over
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there and Amy showed me where she was
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gonna have her sewing room and where
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Steve was gonna have her his gym and
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they were just really excited about the
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house Amy had a long list of errands
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that day call the phone company get the
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gas turned on by home insurance once
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those tests were done she turned to
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something fun planning a route for a 10k
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Mountain running
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hey hey John found a nice friction climb
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when Steve returned from his all day
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climbing trip
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Amy wasn't home yet I couldn't do it
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today here just talk to you casually and
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he asked about Amy and that's I said I
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don't know if she's up somewhere she
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goes okay no problem hey guys early
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evening Steve stopped by the neighbors
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Todd and his wife Amy were making dinner
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Amy Bechtel still wasn't home I think he
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was getting more and more worried at
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this time she just leaves a note I'm
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sure she'll be back soon
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he wasn't panicking by any means because
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of still light and still you know she
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could have been out doing something it
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was it was not an an ordinary day for
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Amy so we didn't think it was unusual
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that she was gone but when we got back
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from the movie I was really worried
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Amy's not back yet I called the police
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they're out looking for Todd and Amy
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searched Rose where Amy Bechtel most
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likely went running Steve stayed behind
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hoping his wife would call Todd and I
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had been driving on the loop road for
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about an hour or so and right around one
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o'clock we a glimpse to Amy's car pulled
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off the side of the road we saw her car
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there and it was like you know we were
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relieved it's like home and we thought
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we'd found her so I walked up it's
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completely expecting for her to be in
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the car she's not in there like in had
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run out of gas or not been able to start
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it or a dead battery or who knows what
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the heck at that point it was relief you
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know and concerned because you know her
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car's still up there and it's it's you
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know after midnight and you know she's
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probably cold and maybe has a twisted
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ankle
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but Amy was nowhere to be found not in a
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few minutes not even a few hours by
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morning the search for Amy had expanded
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dramatically soon dozens of volunteers
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were scouring the mountains eventually
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more than 500 people covered a 20-mile
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radius not a single clue was found we
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should have found Amy Bechtel if she
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were a runner up there and nothing else
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entered the picture could she still be
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there yes but given the circumstance
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it's the lack of clues I think she is
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after eight days the massive search was
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called off
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where was Amy Bechtel her sunglasses car
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keys and to-do lists from the seat of
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her car apparently just as she had left
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them only her wallet was missing if she
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wasn't injured as something terrible
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happened to her had she been kidnapped
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even murdered sheriff's investigators
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soon tested a theory some found shocking
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no this is evidence that ties you
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directly to Amy's disappearance I can't
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believe this is happening I was pretty
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blown away you know I turned today
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that's like you know Dave what's going
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on here and then this is this is not
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cool
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he was floored basically he slumped down
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in the chair we have some serious
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questions about you and your wife's
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relationship the best thing you can do
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right now is cooperate the guy says look
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if you take a polygraph test we'll get
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this cleared up right now and I was like
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wait a minute you know a few guys are
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accusing me of something I didn't do
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I'm gonna want to talk to legal counsel
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here it wouldn't let any client take a
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lie-detector test they're completely
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inaccurate they come in about 1/3 of the
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time as a false positive and it would be
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a terrible injustice to Steve if he fell
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within that 1/3 false positive and it
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was used wrongly against him so Steve
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Bechtel did not take a lie-detector test
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deputies armed with a warrant searched
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his home among the items they
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confiscated or a series of journals
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Steve had been keeping since high school
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journals investigators found potentially
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incriminating we've obtained many pages
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of writings journals if you will of
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Steve Bechdel's those are somewhat
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disturbing
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there are song lyrics in there and there
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are writings about power and death some
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about killing people sheriff's
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investigators asked Amy's family and
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friends to read excerpts I was floored
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at that point my wife and I we both you
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know there are some things that we've
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seen in the past that you know maybe
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somebody should be aware of there was
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one night for instance uh Nels Rowe and
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his wife had a me and Steve over for
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dinner just a broom just a bruise
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sometimes Amy just laughed it off it
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would not look me in the eye and I said
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that is not a normal reaction it's
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particularly for Amy
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deputies also found a camper who claimed
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that on the day Amy disappeared she had
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seen a blue pickup driving fast on the
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mountain roads near her Amy's car was
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found a man was at the wheel a blonde
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woman in the passenger seat the next day
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the campers saw the same truck at the
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search site based on that information we
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showed her pictures of Steve Beckles
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truck and she concluded that that wasn't
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the same truck she had seen evidence
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seemed to be mounting against Dee
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Bechtel
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but was that evidence accurate
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statistically he did it and don't
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misunderstand me I'm not saying he did
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the first person we have to eliminate in
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a case where there may be a foul play
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involved and once disappearance is the
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person closest to that person sheriff's
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investigators believe there were vital
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gaps in Steve's activities that day time
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when he could have harmed Amy he was
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with people all that afternoon and
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evening so I don't I don't have any
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question about about that he just didn't
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have the time but what about the camper
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who said she saw what might have been
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Steve's truck according to phone records
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Steve made a call from his house at 4:43
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that afternoon that's about the same
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time the camper saw what she alleged was
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his truck on the Mountain Road a
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45-minute drive from the Bechdel's home
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I don't see how Steve ever had the time
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to get up to where Amy's car was and
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back
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and what about motive investigators
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believe Steve's journals show a desire
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for power and control that may have led
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to murder Steve and Amy's friend Todd
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Skinner strongly disagrees he thinks
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Steve is innocent a psychologist can
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read anything into any writing that you
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can ever wish to put in there and to me
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I've never seen more innocuous writing
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taking taken out of context more heavily
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to you know to a worse result this year
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runners competed in the run for Amy in
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her hometown of Douglas Wyoming Amy's
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family and friends were there to honor
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her memory but they still want answers
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they want Steve to take a polygraph test
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I don't feel like me going in and
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getting attacked is going to solve any
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problems I feel like you know I went and
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I tried to work with Dave and it didn't
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work out and you know things need to get
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solved a different way now the see
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Bechtel murder his wife Steve and his
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family believe a stranger could have
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kidnapped Laura motorist could have
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accidentally struck Amy and then a panic
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disposed of her body next meet a young
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man and woman whose lives have been
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changed forever by a riverboat captain
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who some called a matchmaker ghost
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the Delta Queen a national treasure was
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built in the 1820s during World War two
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she transported wounded soldiers to
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hospitals then the vessel was
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refurbished to carry vacationers she is
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one of the last living monuments of the
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Romantic era when steamboats plied the
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Mississippi but there is another side to
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the Delta Queen a rather scary side
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it was a stormy December night in New
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Orleans the Delta Queen rested
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impatiently for repairs her first mate a
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single man named Mike Williams was the
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only person on board that was quite
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exhausted and was sleeping a very deep
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solid sleep when I was awakened by a
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sound as if someone had sensed
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next to my ear I was quite startled
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because I was couldn't understand how
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someone could have gotten in my ruin out
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so quickly without me hearing the door
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open and closed there was a very loud
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slamming of a door back in the after
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cabin lounge area I had personally made
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sure that every one of those doors was
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locked before I had retired
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there was not supposed to be anyone on
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the vessel I proceeded down several
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doors until I arrived at cabin 109 and
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it swung open in my hand I was a little
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frightened and too intimidated I took a
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flashlight looked in the room there was
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no one there
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Mike had heard stories that the
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steamboat was haunted
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he had always brushed them off but how
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could a door that was locked suddenly
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slammed shut that's what drew him to
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cabin 109 that moment for The Skeptical
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Mike Williams is clearly frightening
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indeed it would be the first incident in
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a chain of events that would change him
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forever two women would soon come into
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his life
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one was a co-worker on the Delta Queen
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the other was also a worker on the ship
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but had died 40 years earlier Mary green
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had been one of a handful of women to
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ever pilot a steamboat she was in charge
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of the Delta Queen from the time it was
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purchased in 1947 Mary was 79 she
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oversaw a lot of the day-to-day
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operations financial even navigating the
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boat managing deckhands painting the
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paddle wheel supervising food
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preparations and everything she really
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doted on this boat she loved it sadly
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after only two years of piloting the
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boat Mary died where where else cabin
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109 the same cabin that was mysteriously
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unlocked that night
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much of what Marygreen did when she was
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alive
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Mike Williams does now but Mike had no
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idea that Mary's unearthly connection to
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him
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would transform his life in a very
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surprising way another night on the
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Delta Queen this one in June 1985 an
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attractive young woman named IRA frou
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Jae a new Delta Queen employee was
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working late I received a call from an
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elderly lady in a cabin and she stated
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that she was cold and she was very
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uncomfortable and could I please send
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someone at this particular evening Mike
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Williams was the mate and I called up
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there and he answered and I told him the
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situation
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Myra had sent him to cabin 109
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the beds were made little mints on the
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pillows the room was obviously
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unoccupied that cruise it was around
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this time that had this feeling that
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somebody was behind me or looking at me
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and certainly through the window I saw
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this little round benevolent face but
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something was eerie about it I thought
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well perhaps that's the lady who needs
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assistance so I walked out of the
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Purser's office to see if I could catch
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up with her and talk to her and she
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wasn't there there was no one outside on
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the decks I was you know a little shook
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up and I went back into the purchase
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office I just came from room 109 there's
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nobody there you're sure it was 109
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absolutely no passenger was registered
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for cabin 109 Mike held his tongue about
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who had once occupied the room but Myra
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told him about her odd experience she
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was so upset by it that Mike offered to
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walk her back to her cabin
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wait
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that's the woman I saw the woman in the
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portrait was Mary green it was very very
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scary at first
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surprising too because I just saw her on
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the deck but for me it was kind of
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exhilarating I began to suspect that
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someone was trying to introduce me to
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this young lady wire and I became very
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close we just clicked each one of us had
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something that the other needed captain
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Marion life had become matchmaker Mary
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in death Mike and Myra fell in love and
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got married we stayed together a newly
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Wed couple in a tiny cabin on board the
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vessel and that is where our beautiful
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daughter Heather was conceived I
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certainly believe in am very thankful
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you know for that nice Spirit in our
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life Mary green who brought us together
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I believe sincerely that so long as I
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care for this vessel in some way that
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the captain Mary green spirit will
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protect our family and guide us as she
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has Myra and Mike are living happily
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ever after Mary meanwhile lives happily
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in the Hereafter
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watching over them and the Delta Queen
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America's highways are becoming a war
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zone forget to signal when you switch
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lanes or dare to play the radio too loud
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you could find yourself under attack
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it's a modern madness
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road rage people have been upset on the
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highway as long as they've been highways
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the problem today's we got more
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crowdedness we got more cars and less
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room and we're little impatient today
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than we were in the past the smallest
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thing can get us going you're in my way
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I'm trying to get to my destination I
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feel frustrated and frustration leads to
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aggression
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February 5th 1997 it started as a minor
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fender bender hardly worth reporting
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now you pull this crap you piece of
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garbage
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hey you have got the right to talk to me
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like that let me see your license yeah
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you want to see my license yes I
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47 year-old Richard aderson had been
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shot once in the chest what you're about
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to hear is a desperate plea for help
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State Police second that one what's your
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name sir okay we have a name but anyway
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I couldn't believe that he had been shot
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you live in an area that you think is
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safe um we came from New York City
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we moved north I couldn't believe that
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something like that could happen here
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when I heard the nine one one tape I had
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an overwhelming sense of Richards pain
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and his fear
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I think his fear was for his family
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and his children
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Richard aderson beloved family man
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respected educator died less than an
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hour after making his feudal call to 911
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the incident occurred during a rush-hour
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accident on eastbound i-80 4 in Fishkill
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New York about two miles past the
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Newburgh beacon toll plaza evidence
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indicates Richard Addison was sideswiped
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by the other driver and both men pulled
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over to the shoulder I have never come
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across another crime that parallels this
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one we're speaking here about a minor
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property damage automobile accident that
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escalates into an argument and results
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in the death of one of the individuals
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though no one saw the accident or the
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shooting there were witnesses to the
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argument a gunman was middle-aged
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balding and wore glasses Richard
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Anderson added another detail his
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assailant had a beard
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the gunman drove a green 1997 jeep
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cherokee with New Hampshire plates
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though the shooting occurred in Fishkill
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New York state troopers are naturally
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tracing all such vehicles registered in
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New Hampshire in the meantime Richard
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Addison's family and friends mourn his
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passing still unable to understand why I
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don't think we you are dealing with it I
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don't think that she can deal with this
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my youngest son this morning told me
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when I came here how long are you going
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to be you have to be really careful in
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the car something could happen to you
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those are the fears that he has because
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I'm his only parent that that's left my
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two older daughters can't even speak
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about this it's unfathomable to have to
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experience this next to family search
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for their long-lost children perhaps
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your help can lead to a reunion like
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this
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in this next segment we hope you'll be
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able to reunite two more families both
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lost loved ones many years ago their
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most cherished hope is to find them
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before it is too late I take thee as my
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wedded husband I take thee as my wedded
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husband to have and to hold to have
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imagined you were a young girl barely 14
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your mother is dying in desperation she
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begs you to marry a man she hopes will
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care for you a man more than four times
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your age may kiss the bride that's
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exactly what happened - Margie Elizabeth
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Hamilton in May of 1932 this couple
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husband over the years she told the
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story to her daughter many times the
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pain as vivid as if it had happened
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yesterday
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my mother didn't really want to marry
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because she was a child
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and she wasn't happy about it and she
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told her mother that she didn't want to
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marry him but my grandmother was afraid
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that there wouldn't be anyone to take
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care of her and she'd be left in there
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alone Margie's new husband was James
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Austin Baker a lumberyard worker in
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Atlanta Georgia within a year or so of
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their marriage Margie gave birth to a
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son Benjamin Austin Baker Bennie for
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short to her liveth he was a doll you
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know was her doll and she just was
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really really happy with him because you
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know she's a very loving mother
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her husband however was not pleased he
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already had three grown children from a
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previous marriage he didn't want more
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when penny was 18 months old he became
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ill so ill that Margie had to leave him
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in the hospital for three days when she
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returned her baby was gone she was
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hysterical and trying to find out where
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to go to try to get him back and no one
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would give her any information behind
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her but her husband had given Benny up
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for adoption there was nothing she could
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do then he was gone and I said to her
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mama why did you stay with him after he
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did this and she said he always promised
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me that he would sign the papers so that
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I could get Benny back and that's the
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reason that I stayed with him three
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years later Margie gave birth to a
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daughter and Naomi
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three years after that our second
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daughter Louis he tried the same thing
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to get rid of us - my sister and myself
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and we were in California at the time
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and the laws are different and that was
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in the 40s so he couldn't and by that
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time my mother had learned to read and
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write so they didn't take us away from
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her in 1944 James Baker died finally
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Margie was free to search for Benny but
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when she went back to the orphanage in
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Atlanta she was given only a photo taken
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when Benny was about seven years old
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they told her the Wreckers were sealed
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to forget she had ever had a son
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she gave up at that point
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that she just figured that she would
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never see him again but she her main
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thing was she always wanted him to know
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that she didn't give him away that he
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was literally stolen from her Louis
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knows there may not be much time left
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for a reunion but she clings to the hope
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that she can give her mother now 81 last
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precious gift it would be so wonderful
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to be able to you know say mama
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here's spinning here's your son mama
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here's your son
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hopefully Louis will get a chance to say
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those words another family is also eager
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to have that opportunity and their
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search is equally heart-wrenching this
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time for two sons January 23rd 1950 twin
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boys Jerry and Terry were born to the
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Robinson family in upstate New York they
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were the youngest of six children
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welcomed and well-loved but terry had
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health problems and their father was out
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of work times were very hard Gale
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Robinson the oldest child still
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remembers how they struggled to make
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ends meet I don't think there was enough
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thought to go around for for all of us
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that's for certain and so I think that's
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that's when it became apparent they had
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to do something the twins were just
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eight months old Gail was six honey I
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know this is gonna be hard for you to
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understand but the babies are gonna go
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away today they're gonna go live with
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another family and Terry he's gonna see
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the doctor the doctor is gonna make him
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all better and we'll get to see him
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again one day
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promise okay a local minister said he
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would find the twins a good home he also
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promised that the boys will be kept
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together and would be given college
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education and at the age of eighteen
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they would be told about their birth
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parents I'll see you again after that
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day the Robinsons never heard another
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word about their twin boys they never
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knew if the conditions had been kept if
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they had ever been told that their birth
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family still mourn their loss
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nine years later Gail's father became
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fatally ill when the twins
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my mother is now 76 years of age that it
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really would be something that would
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would give her some peace of mind if if
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she knew what what happened to them
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that's the twins page over the years the
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Robinsons tried their best but all Lee's
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turned out to be dead ends they have now
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built a website that features photos of
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the twins as babies and their siblings
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at various ages both boys may bear a
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strong resemblance to their brothers
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Alan and Ron part of the genetic history
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that it runs in our family is that my
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father and his three sisters all died of
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colon cancer and colon cancer is very
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high rated in males and my brother and I
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have to take care of herself and be
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checked up for that and we feel very
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strongly that our brothers should know
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that as well
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Jerry and Terry Robinson would now be 48
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years old they were adopted in upstate
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New York in 1950 Terry may have had
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operations on his ears and feet update
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within minutes of our broadcast a viewer
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contacted our phone center to tell us at
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Benjamin Austin Baker once lived as a
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foster child in his home for this
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information
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Lois Baker Lane was able to locate her
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long-lost brother in Everett in
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Washington we will bring you the
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emotional reunion of Bennie Baker with
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his long-lost mother and sister on a
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future program join me next time perhaps
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you may be able to help solve the
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mystery
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