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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries he was television's first
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Superman Superman but offc screen actor
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George Reeves was a mere mortal no match
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for a Bullet to the Head how do you
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become one of North America's most
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prolific bank robbers put the money in
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the bag a good plan a bad disguise and
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some
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luck a team of high-tech go Ghostbusters
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search a 19th century Mansion they're on
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the trail of an elusive female
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ghost a California couple finds their
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backyard littered with hundreds of $20
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bills where did it come
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from murder missing persons wanted
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fugitives and the Paranormal I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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early one morning in June of 1959 Los
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Angeles police raced to a high-priced
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Hollywood Hills
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home upstairs they found the homeowner
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naked and sprawled across his bed he was
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dead from a single gunshot wound to his
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right Temple the official ruling suicide
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unofficially well that's still a
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mystery
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how's this for a movie plot out of work
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actor in a quirky love triangle turns up
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with a bullet in his head actually it
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was a movie Hollywood land starring Ben
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Affleck it was based on the real life
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and the real death of a television
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superhero faster than a speeding
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bullet more powerful than a
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locomotive able to LEAP tall buildings
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at a single bound look up in the sky
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it's a bird it's a plane it's Superman
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yes it's Superman in the 1950s millions
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of TV viewers knew actor George Reeves
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as Superman the Man of Steel both
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indestructible and Invincible Steel in
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his
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hands Superman was a big hit and Reeves
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was a big
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star it was quite a leap for a guy who
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once dug septic tanks for a living off
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camera George Reeves was as much Romeo
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as he was Superman he had a steady
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girlfriend named Tony manx a former show
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girl 8 years his senior it was a classic
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younger man older woman Affair but with
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a Twist she was rich generous and
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married her husband Eddie manx a former
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vice president at MGM was a powerful
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force in Hollywood and for his own
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reason manx actually encouraged his
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wife's involvement with
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Reeves the relationship between George
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and Tony was a very open
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relationship she took care of George
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very well the car that he drove was
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bought by Tony and the house that he
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lived in was Tony's house but something
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happened in late 58 that uh broke that
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relationship off Tony was devastated but
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George soon hooked up with Lenor lemon a
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twice married Cafe Society
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girl Lenor was a lot younger and a lot
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wilder than
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Tony she had a reputation for fights in
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clubs in New York I think George like
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the excitement that he found with
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her another George although he always
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seemed the life of the party Reeves life
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was actually falling
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apart Superman was canceled and the
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bills were stacking
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up and then there was Lenor she
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apparently wanted to get married and
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live in high style the perfume I think
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George Reeves was going through a
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midlife
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crisis there are reports that George was
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planning to marry Lenor lemon I don't
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think he was going to do that and that's
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that's where I think an argument uh came
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up by midnight his party guests were
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gone only re Lenor and writer Robert
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Condon were in the house when two of
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Leno's friends bang on the door looking
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for a
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party this is George Reeves Mrs is
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William Bliss the bar is closed George I
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think this made Lenor lemon very angry
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that he treated a friend like that she
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went up and I think an argument started
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a I think George at that time told her
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that he had no plans to marry her and
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that she became very angry angry and
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pulled out a gun and I don't think on
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purpose but I think accidentally shot
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George well we were downstairs and we
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heard a shot uh we went
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upstairs the Unseen ruling was suicide a
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pistol on the floor between ree's legs
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seemed to confirm it but there were
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inconsistencies not a single finger
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print was found on the gun the Fatal
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bullet was lodged in the ceiling above
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the bed yet the shell Cas casing was
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found underneath the
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body if George Reaves had committed
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suicide and held the gun to his head the
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bullet casing would have been expelled
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away from his body not in the back of
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his body where he would have fallen on
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it there were no Powder Burns in his
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hands there were no Powder Burns in his
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head which means that the gun was held
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far enough away from his head that there
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weren't any powder
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burs somebody else pulled that trigger
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but who was that somebody else Lenor was
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suspect number one suspect number two
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according to writer Michael hay was
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Eddie
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manx word around time was that manx was
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angry at Reeves for dumping his
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wife I believe that Eddie manx tired of
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listening to his wife grieve and obsess
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over George Reeves decided that it was
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time to take some
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action it was my understanding that
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George's house was pretty much an open
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house and I think it was relatively easy
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for Eddie manx to send someone over to
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the house during the course of a party
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that may have been going on and Eddie
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mannox had the guy killed hey Georgie
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Boy George that Eddie manx by the end of
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the 50s who was retiring would endanger
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his life and the end of his life by
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having something nefarious done to
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George is to my mind
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ludicrous Reeves biographer Jim Beaver
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agrees with Larson he says there's a
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reason for the
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inconsistencies the absence of powder
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burs raises a question in a lot of
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people's minds because most people have
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a misconception about powder burs they
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believe that powder burns happen when a
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weapon is placed up against the skin
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that's not the case when a weapon is
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placed against the skin the powder goes
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into the wound and does not burn the
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outside of the skin according to the
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autopsy the bullet entered ree's head
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about 1 in above his right ear it exited
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an inch and 3/4 above the left a and
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then lodged in the ceiling the angle of
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the bullet suggests how ree's head and
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the gun might have been
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positioned if George had held the gun
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not this way but in this way the more
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comfortable and and natural position he
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would have ejected the shell directly
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behind him and onto the bed
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he couldn't get a job I couldn't get a
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job in the United States I was too typed
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as Jimmy old absolutely typ nobody
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wanted me to work at all so I was
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depressed and I accepted instantly that
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he had committed suicide there is
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evidence to support all three theories
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about his death I think there is
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evidence to support suicide there is
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evidence to support uh tragic accident
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and there is evidence to support murder
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the only people who know how George
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Reeves died are no longer with
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us next don't let the cheap wig and
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baseball hat for you this guy knows how
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to rob banks and later next time your
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ship comes in it might just fall into
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your
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backyard
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put the money in the bag the man in the
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cheap wig on the other end of the gun is
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no ordinary bank robber the police have
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been chasing him for years his nickname
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is the Satchel Bandit because he leaves
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every hold up with his shoulder bag
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stuffed with cash your
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turn
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dozens of banks always a precise plan
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and always that same cheesy disguise so
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far he had been both good and lucky but
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now his luck was about to run
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out for the first time Witnesses got a
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clear look the Satchel Bandit was
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unmasked
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hey detective Stewart Tut went straight
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from the robbery scene to the accident
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scene what' you find this right here on
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the ground the first thing I saw was a
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wig that had been dropped by the suspect
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also on the front seat of the vehicle
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was a loaded magazine for a 380
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automatic handgun
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that was just the
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start police found duffel bags full of
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new clothes road maps of Canada and the
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US camping
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gear and lollipops the Bandit apparently
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had a sweet
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tooth 5 Weeks Later 700 M Away in
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Portland
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Oregon Charles Valentine head of
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security for a local department store
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arrived at
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work right away he noticed the car that
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seemed out of
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place the car had out ofate plates on it
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there was a gentleman sitting in the
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vehicle my first thought was uh that
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there was something definitely unusual
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here Valentine was absolutely right 2
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hours later a customer complained that a
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suspicious character was lurking near
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the store entrance when the stranger
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walked away Valentine followed his gun
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Instinct he checked out the car that he
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had seen
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earlier he found it at the side of the
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building directly behind the bank next
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door his instincts were dead
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on I wrote down both plate numbers and
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at this point I also saw him walking
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from the store towards the Bank of
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America so I immediately returned to the
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store and notified the Clackamus County
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Sheriff's
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Department ma'am before Valentine even
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hung up the phone the Satchel Bandit
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made his
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move hurry up but an alert teller left
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him a big surprise
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the bandage escaped in a cloud of red
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dye and tear grass leaving behind a
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trail of ruined
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money the FBI traced this Canadian
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license plate they got a name and a
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location Robert Taylor New Westminster
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British
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Columbia we spoke to the land lady and
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found out that Robert Taylor was a man
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in his mid-50s and he was living with a
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woman who was approximately 40 years of
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age and had a hearing impairment that's
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fine thanks a lot no one was home so
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police obtained a warrant to search the
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apartment we checked through the
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apartment and what struck us was that
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all the Furnishings were brand new from
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the living room furniture the bedroom
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furniture even down to the last fork in
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the kitchen and we found books that
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would reveal how to beat the criminal
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system or beat the justice system we
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then tried to find the articles that
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would identify Robert Taylor and show us
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that he was living there we found
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absolutely
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nothing back in Portland Taylor's
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getaway car was located inside
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investigators found the one clue that
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would break the case and tie the
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Portland and Edmonton robberies together
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lollipops everyone now knew that Robert
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Taylor was the Satchel Bandit
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but Taylor had gone deep underground
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with a
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woman a woman we'll call Jane Jane was
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born both deaf and
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mute and she was in the de and mute
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school till the age of about
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12 so there's a lot that she didn't
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learn about the world a lot of things
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she don't understand because of that in
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time she got a job an apartment and a
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boyfriend Jane's father will never
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forget the night he met met Robert
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Taylor actually I found the guy to be
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quite a gentleman although I could sense
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that there was something out of the
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ordinary about the man what Robert what
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do you do for a living oh I used to work
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for the government for a few years and
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then I hurt my back and I've been living
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on permanent disability ever since I
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found that awfully strange because he
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was spending a lot of money and the
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Disability Pension don't pay all that
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much money I pull over to say get out of
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the car a year later Robert and Jane
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moved to British Columbia for a while
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she stayed in touch with her father then
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nothing her last letter included this
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Snapshot from Portland Oregon along with
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the news that she and Taylor were
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married I was very worried because I
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never got a birthday card and that was
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the first time that this had ever
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happened fathers they went through and I
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never got got no father discard so I
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knew there was something wrong indeed
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something was wrong he soon learned that
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his daughter had married a bank robber
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and not just any bank robber the man who
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called himself Robert Taylor was truly a
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career
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criminal his real name was Charles
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Warren Boomer he made his first Heist at
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age
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17 by the time he was 50 Boomer had hit
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hundreds of banks for well over a
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million
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good evening with the news tightening
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Boomer ran he sent his wife to a police
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station carrying a two-page letter which
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he had
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written you should understand that this
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woman holds no responsibility for my
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actions it would be a shame if undue
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pressure were applied against her in the
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mistaken belief that she was somehow at
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fault because of our
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relationship Jane was never charged with
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a crime but Boomer escaped to Rob again
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or so he
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thought
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update 8 months after Boomer ran a
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restaurant manager contacted
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police the manager called in that know
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suspicious person that he believed uh
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possibly was Charles Boomer that uh that
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we responded and arrested him Boomer was
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in handcuffs just 10 minutes after the
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call without his trademark disguise a
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cheap wig and a baseball
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hat he looked a lot
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different when arrested Boomer had a
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loaded handgun a few thousand in cash
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and a police scanner which unfortunately
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for him was turned
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off police soon learned that he had been
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living in a tent outside of
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town at the campsite authorities found
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lists of Banks survival gear and maps of
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possible Escape
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Routes Charles Warren Boomer was
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convicted of 33 robberies and was
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sentenced to 45 years in
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prison next a high-tech search for a
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shadowy woman who's been dead for over a
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century we take a blueprint as well and
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later arson and murder at a desolate
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Montana arrest
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that it's an investigation unlike any
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other nothing has been stolen and no one
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has disappeared but someone is on the
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loose it's important to look at
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thresholds as soon as we walk in the
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object of the search is this woman or to
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to be precise her ghost she's been
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haunting the lusata hotel in Santa Fe
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New Mexico for as long as anyone can
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remember it appears to have all the
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characteristics of what is referred to
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as a classic
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haunt because of the the history because
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of the variety of different types of
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witnesses who had these experience at
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this point we're not sure exactly what
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we're going to find or we're going to
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encounter there's a lot more to
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ghostbusting than just cool gizmos and
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high-tech gadgets you also have to do
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your homework for Christopher shakon and
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his team that meant researching The Life
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and Times of La posada's resident ghost
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Julia
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stab she was the wife of Abraham stab
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one of New Mexico's wealthiest
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men I'm on their wedding day Abraham
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promised Julia that one day he would
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build her a fabulous Victorian
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Mansion seven children and 14 years
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later Abraham
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delivered look at the beautiful parlor
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that Papa has made mama with her
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favorite flower in mind when Julia moved
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into this house she became the queen of
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Santa Fe Society all a major Affairs
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were held here it's
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perfect but in one instant Julia's
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happiness
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vanished a seventh child died in infancy
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and Julia was never the same she was so
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disr over the the child's death and it
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said that she didn't eat uh or sleep for
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for 2 weeks and when she finally slept
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and she awoke and looked in the mirror
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all of the beautiful black hair on her
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head had turned completely white all of
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the grief went into her
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[Music]
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hair Julia died several years later
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reclusive to the very
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end in 1936 the stab man was converted
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to a
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hotel the rooms upstairs including
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Julia's are available for hotel guests
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and that's where Julia is most likely to
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show up I think there's something here
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there's no doubt I mean too many people
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including uh guests who know nothing
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about the history of the place say there
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is something whether it's a ghost or
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whether it's some sort
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of energy I I don't know
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Manion itself was built back in Chuck
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Veron was a diard skeptic until he and a
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desk clerk took several guests for a
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brief tour of the hotel actually this
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was Julia's room herself even though
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Julia's room was not occupied Hotel
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policy required the clerk to knock
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anyway I'm in
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here I'm in here thought you said nobody
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was in there I'm go double
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check security went in and the room was
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empty the windows were locked from the
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inside nobody come
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out the the door and I really have no
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explanation for
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it Chuck's son John was also a security
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guard he had his own weird encounter
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when he checked the men's washroom one
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night at closing
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time security locking up for the evening
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it's time and there was a face like a
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reflection I felt a cold chill come
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through me and someone told me it's it's
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time to leave and I proceeded out the
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back door and uh I didn't come back I
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feel that it is real there is no doubt
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in my mind because I saw someone
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standing there you know looking down at
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us when Ross weisen Hoffer and Holly no
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checked into the La Pasada they stayed
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in the room across the hall from juliia
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my eyes were closed and at that time I
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felt something steering at
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me you know I'm like my gosh you know
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this isn't happening to me right
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now then I looked up again for the
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second time and at that point it started
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to become more
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defined I put my head back down and you
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know when I looked up the third time it
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definitely was Julia standing there
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and at that point I jumped up out of bed
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and I said we're out of here why within
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5 minutes we were down at the front
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desk so this was uh this was your room
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then yes it was all right just two weeks
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later Ross and Holly were back at the La
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Pasada to speak with Christopher shakon
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from The Office of scientific
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investigation and research and was it
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getting brighter when you had the image
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or was it just getting thicker when you
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shon's team of Ghostbusters included a
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physician a psychologist and an
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electrical engineer it was getting more
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defined where would I be in relationship
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to where you saw of the 800
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investigations Hans and Poltergeist
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phenomena that I've been on 70% of them
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have rational explanations for them we
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have found uh definitively answers
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however there's another 30% which
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apparently we cannot find a rational
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explanation for they Define the known
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laws of nature and physics at least as
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we know them
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today when we get to the aspect of the
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case where we're looking into the
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environment we begin to take samples of
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the water samples of the air we take
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elements that the individual would
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actually have physical contact with
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pieces of carpet with the wall paint on
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the wall we're looking for toxic
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Elements which could somehow affect them
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after examining the environment if we
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don't find anything which is obvious we
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will then proceed to set up equipment in
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the environment to do a long-term
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surveillance the investigation follows a
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very strict protocol first the room is
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sealed Alan go ahead and stand by for
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that state-of-the-art monitoring
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equipment worth more than a half a
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million dollars is set up in an adjacent
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area the team then returns to the room
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armed with special thermal cameras which
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measure temperature variations finally
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the room is plunged into total darkness
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the team uses the most advanced
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equipment to examine the environment we
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have floors that are are at the end of
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every investigation the team sits down
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together for a case wrap up his physi
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based on all the results of the
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investigations we've conducted here we
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haven't found any facts to disprove the
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fact that the lapasa is haunted too
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there certainly then is that possibility
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that there is unusual paranormal
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phenomena taking place here
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reading the presence of the Ghostbusters
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didn't seem to bother Julia one bit her
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spirit has continued to pop up when
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people least expect it so if you decide
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to take a room at the La Pasada you
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might want to leave a single red rose on
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the
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windowsill Legend says it was Julia
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stabs favorite
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flower coming up a vicious killer shoots
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it out with the police in
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Alabama and later an ordinary
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neighborhood and a pile of unexplained
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cash the ultimate
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Temptation on a recent broadcast we
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profiled a fugitive named Jim
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Burnside he was wanted for the vicious
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murder of his wife Anette shop
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Walker you getting off work now yeah I'm
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going to go home in a few minutes it
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didn't look like trouble at the start
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they worked together at a grocery store
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she was a checker and he was a butcher
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however she was only 18 years old when
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she married
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Jim when the honeymoon ended the abuse
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began she became afraid of him almost
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immediately because he was jealous of
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her and he started telling her right
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from the beginning that he would kill
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her if she ever tried to leave him it
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took 5 years but Anette finally worked
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up to courage to walk
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out two months later Jim Burnside struck
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back it's
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Jim he found the net alone with one of
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her co-workers hey get over here what
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are you
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doing
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anette's coworker survived the attack
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Annette died at the scene she had been
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stabbed 15 times with a butcher
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knife by that afternoon Burnside was on
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the
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run it's bad enough knowing that Annette
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had to die but to know that he is still
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out there it it's horrible we just want
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him
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caught
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update the night this story aired we
00:29:09
receiv received calls from two viewers
00:29:11
from Shelby County Alabama they
00:29:14
recognized Jim Burnside but they knew
00:29:16
him as Al
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Wilson When I saw his actual picture I
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just looked at my husband and I just
00:29:23
started pointing and I'm going you know
00:29:25
tell me my eyes aren't to leing me you
00:29:28
know that is ow and he goes yes that's
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ow the next morning FBI agents and
00:29:34
sheriff's deputies converged on a flea
00:29:36
market where Burnside worked how you
00:29:40
doing when Burnside saw them he took
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off
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FBI FBI hold it The Fugitive pulled out
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a gun and took aim Put the gun down Put
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the gun
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down
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hands up get your hands up burn say was
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shot twice he was arrested and then
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hospitalized from what we've been able
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to determine talking to his co-workers
00:30:13
that he had made a statement on Thursday
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morning that he had anticipated having
00:30:17
problems that day so apparently he had
00:30:20
viewed the um Unsolved Mysteries himself
00:30:22
Wednesday night James Burnside recovered
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from his wounds he pleaded no contest of
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first-degree murder and attempted
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first-degree murder he is now serving a
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life sentence without the possibility of
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parole we've all heard the saying money
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doesn't grow on trees but every now and
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then someone does find that mythical pot
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of gold not at the end of a rainbow but
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in their own
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backyard
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Matt and Wendy Jameson were hoping for a
00:31:03
normal quiet Sunday afternoon it stayed
00:31:06
quiet but it was definitely not normal I
00:31:10
noticed my dog was wet and I was
00:31:12
wondering how she C wet cuz it hadn't
00:31:15
rained and then I noticed looked like
00:31:18
paper all over the
00:31:20
backyard when I walked up there I
00:31:22
noticed it was money I I then I took off
00:31:24
running towards it Wendy it was money
00:31:27
all right lots of it
00:31:30
$6500 in $20 bills origin unknown where
00:31:35
did this come from I don't know just
00:31:37
stop picking it up I didn't know where
00:31:39
this came from I didn't want a lot of
00:31:41
people seeing me have all this money so
00:31:43
I was trying to pick it up as fast as I
00:31:44
could keep picking it up I'm going to go
00:31:47
put this inside it took 20 minutes to
00:31:49
collect all the bills and another 20
00:31:53
just to count them I never seen this
00:31:55
much money before the Jameson's first
00:31:57
instinct was to call the police could be
00:32:00
I don't know but then again
00:32:03
$6500 was a lot of money Temptation
00:32:07
began to creep in we decided to wait
00:32:09
till the next day to decide and then I
00:32:12
was kind of thinking oh well that night
00:32:14
I was saying oh it would be nice to have
00:32:16
some some things so I started kind of
00:32:19
more leaning towards wanting to keep it
00:32:21
well I stayed up the whole night we
00:32:23
found it I I didn't get any sleep any
00:32:25
noise I heard I was up looking around
00:32:27
you know seeing what's going cuz I
00:32:29
expected somebody to come back after it
00:32:31
and you know I have I have a family to
00:32:34
protect and I wasn't about to let
00:32:35
anybody come in this house so I I was
00:32:37
definitely waiting
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up one sleepless night was all that Matt
00:32:43
could take yeah hello Sheriff's
00:32:45
Department I never seen a case like this
00:32:48
in my 27 years of
00:32:50
experience first speculation is somebody
00:32:52
may have thrown it out of an airplane we
00:32:54
have a lot of planes flying throughout
00:32:56
the county here and there's airports all
00:32:57
around us the second speculation is that
00:33:00
it could be drug money and somebody
00:33:02
threw it from the street over the house
00:33:04
it landed on a roof and subsequently
00:33:05
fell off into the backyards why don't we
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count this money out and you can verify
00:33:11
that I uh come up with $6500 California
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law required Matt and Wendy to place an
00:33:17
ad in the local newspaper the owner then
00:33:20
had 90 days to make a
00:33:22
claim a lot of people you know say why'd
00:33:25
you turn it in why' you turn it in you
00:33:27
know I would have kept it but I I I
00:33:28
really don't think that you can say that
00:33:31
honestly until you've lived having that
00:33:33
money around and then you know I I
00:33:35
always thought personally if I found
00:33:38
money like that that I I would probably
00:33:40
keep it but now after having that amount
00:33:42
of money around I you know I know that I
00:33:45
did the right thing no one came forward
00:33:48
to answer the ad and the Jameson now
00:33:51
they got to keep the money every penny
00:33:54
of
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it
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next a lone traveler a suspicious
00:34:04
stranger and a road trip to
00:34:16
hell I got to go it was only November
00:34:19
but it already felt like winter Dexter
00:34:22
stepanic was about to leave his son's
00:34:24
farm near Corbett Oregon for a long road
00:34:27
trip but I really have to get back
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Dexter was a 67-year-old widower from
00:34:33
Wisconsin he had come to stay with his
00:34:35
son a few months earlier after his wife
00:34:38
viven died but as the first anniversary
00:34:42
of Vivian's death approached Dexter was
00:34:45
ready to go
00:34:46
home he came out and we thought that
00:34:50
he'd probably spend the winter with us
00:34:52
and then uh it got to be a a difficult
00:34:56
time of year for him i' I've got to go
00:34:58
back now and I tried to convince him to
00:35:00
not leave then thank you winter was
00:35:03
already set in there was really nothing
00:35:04
he needed to go back to Wisconsin
00:35:12
for that's the last I saw
00:35:19
him Dexter left his son's home early on
00:35:22
a Monday
00:35:23
morning he told his son that to save
00:35:26
time he would pull into rest areas when
00:35:28
he got tired instead of looking for
00:35:33
motels Tuesday Morning a bleak stretch
00:35:36
of Montana highway at the bad route rest
00:35:39
area the local sheriff is
00:35:42
summoned when I arrived at the rest area
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and pulled in behind the vehicle uh the
00:35:49
inside was completely engulfed and
00:35:51
Flames I went over and talked to the
00:35:55
state highway department they for me
00:35:57
they didn't see any person inside the
00:36:02
vehicle the car belonged to Dexter
00:36:04
stonic a little over a day had passed
00:36:08
since he left
00:36:09
Oregon better go over there I'll go
00:36:11
check around the other side you check on
00:36:12
that the sheriff's department
00:36:14
immediately searched the area there was
00:36:17
no trace of Dexter and no obvious signs
00:36:20
of Foul
00:36:21
Play yeah we're getting some uh good
00:36:25
indications Sheriff Jim gge brought in
00:36:27
an arson expert to examine the car the
00:36:30
fire had been set deliberately using
00:36:32
gasoline Sheriff George also noticed
00:36:36
that the driver's seat was pushed all
00:36:38
the way back Dexter stonic being a short
00:36:41
man would have had to have the seat all
00:36:43
the way up to the front to drive it so
00:36:46
it had to be a larger man driving that
00:36:48
vehicle 6 or
00:36:52
larger with no other Clues Sheriff
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George needed Witnesses and a
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timeline the car was discovered just
00:37:02
after 10:00 a.m. nearly 2 hours earlier
00:37:06
Fred sigley custodian of the bad route
00:37:08
rest area arrived for work as
00:37:12
usual I got to the rest area between 8
00:37:15
and
00:37:16
8:30 there was a pickup park there and
00:37:20
there was nobody around I really didn't
00:37:22
pay no attention to
00:37:25
it about 50 15 minutes later Clyde
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Mitchell a Highway Maintenance
00:37:29
supervisor stopped at the rest
00:37:33
area Fred pickup was there and a white
00:37:36
Chevy pickup facing
00:37:39
Southeast I saw Arizona plates on the
00:37:42
back walked around the complete outfit
00:37:44
and noticed it was a four-wheel drive
00:37:46
shevy with blue trim and a cow catcher
00:37:49
on the front at the time I didn't think
00:37:51
there was anything suspicious about it
00:37:54
soon after Clyde Mitchell left to
00:37:56
complete his regular
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rounds 15 minutes later Fred sigle saw
00:38:05
Dexter stephonic Brown Plymouth Horizon
00:38:07
pull
00:38:09
in the driver got out carrying two large
00:38:12
plastic containers are you having any
00:38:15
problems no I just run out of gas and I
00:38:18
had to go get some yeah he was around 6
00:38:20
ft tall between 35 and 40 years old real
00:38:25
light complected
00:38:27
no sign anything wrong with
00:38:31
him Fred left the rest stop within 30
00:38:35
minutes Dexter's car was
00:38:40
Ablaze the case went nowhere for nearly
00:38:43
4
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months that's when Bill and Cindy Shaw
00:38:48
made a routine run to a remote landfill
00:38:52
17 mi from the Bad Route rest area my
00:38:56
husband and I came up to dump some
00:38:58
garbage and there was a wallet laying on
00:38:59
the ground and it still had the driver's
00:39:02
license in it was current found a wallet
00:39:05
so I handed it to Bill and later we just
00:39:07
started looking around and there was a
00:39:08
bunch of stuff in the dump that didn't
00:39:09
belong there that hadn't been there when
00:39:11
we were there before and we each kind of
00:39:13
went our own Direction trying to see if
00:39:14
there's anything else that didn't quite
00:39:16
belong in the dump Bo is a shaving
00:39:19
kit good C the boot over here is
00:39:22
practically new bill wasn't prepared for
00:39:25
what he saw when he picked up that
00:39:29
boot a man's foot partially hidden
00:39:33
beneath a
00:39:36
mattress the identification of the body
00:39:38
came as no
00:39:40
surprise it was
00:39:42
Dexter he had been beaten and shot twice
00:39:46
in the head there were marks on his
00:39:48
hands there was Damage Done to his neck
00:39:51
and throat area and he had a bruis or
00:39:54
damaged area on the frontal part of his
00:39:55
skull that was probably caused by a
00:39:58
beating or some type of injury of that
00:40:00
sort some of the evidence didn't quite
00:40:03
add up there was still money in Dexter's
00:40:06
suitcase making robbery an unlikely
00:40:08
motive also Dexter's clothing was found
00:40:12
scattered around the area but it was in
00:40:15
good condition as if it had just only
00:40:17
recently been
00:40:20
discarded yet Dexter's body seemed to
00:40:23
have been in the landfill for months
00:40:27
the condition of the body would indicate
00:40:29
that it had had probably been in the
00:40:30
dump site from the time uh that the car
00:40:34
was found burning until the time it was
00:40:38
discovered see if we can find anything
00:40:40
one week later the authorities found a
00:40:42
final clue in the men's room at the bad
00:40:44
route rest area a small line of graffiti
00:40:47
written in
00:40:49
pencil it began with the words hot
00:40:52
jock police have not released the entire
00:40:55
message but but believe it may be linked
00:40:58
to Dexter's
00:40:59
murder my own theory is that someone
00:41:02
wanted us to see it hot jock could be a
00:41:05
CB handle uh it referred to shot it had
00:41:10
the Wisconsin written in the the
00:41:12
graffiti and a date indicating
00:41:15
November police have only two clues that
00:41:17
might identify Dexter stepanic killer
00:41:21
the description of the suspect's vehicle
00:41:23
and the sketchy description of the
00:41:25
suspect in
00:41:27
himself the vehicle was a white Chevy
00:41:30
4x4 with a wide blue horizontal stripe
00:41:34
it had a white camper shell top and a
00:41:36
cattle Gart on the front bumper it also
00:41:39
had Arizona plates with a phoenix
00:41:41
license plate
00:41:43
holder the suspect is middle-aged at
00:41:46
least 6 ft tall light complected and
00:41:48
clean shaven he may use the nickname or
00:41:51
CB handle hot
00:41:55
jock
00:41:56
if you have any information about the
00:41:58
murder of Dexter stefanic or any of the
00:42:01
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00:42:05
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