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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 21

March 09, 2017 / 42:53

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers several chilling cases, including a serial killer in New Hampshire, the disappearance of Bonnie Haim, and the tragic story of Suya Kim.

In Claremont, New Hampshire, 17-year-old Bernice Caman and 27-year-old Ellen Freed vanish, leading police to suspect a serial killer. Criminal psychologist John Philpin assists in profiling the killer, who is believed to have murdered multiple young women over nine years.

The episode also highlights the case of Bonnie Haim, who disappeared shortly after a heated argument with her husband Michael. Evidence suggests Michael may have been involved in her disappearance, leading to a civil court finding him liable for her death.

Another segment focuses on Suya Kim, who vanished while shopping in New York City. Her body was later discovered, and her husband Su Young Kim struggled with the aftermath of her murder.

The episode concludes with heartwarming reunions, including Michelle Neil's search for her birth mother and John Ellis's reunion with his father and son after years of separation.

TL;DR

This episode covers a serial killer in New Hampshire, Bonnie Haim's disappearance, and Suya Kim's tragic murder, along with emotional reunions.

Episode

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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries an investigator tracking a
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serial killer in New Hampshire gets a
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lead from a victim who got
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away you understand me when a young
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woman vanishes police suspect that her
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husband knows much more than he's
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saying a Korean man relocates his family
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to the US hoping to build a better life
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and then one day day his wife leaves
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home to go shopping and never
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returns and a man is separated from his
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father in one war and his son in another
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will he ever find
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them these cases have twists and turns
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that you can hardly believe I'm Dennis
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finina join
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us
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Claremont New
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Hampshire 17-year-old Bernice caman sets
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off for her boyfriend's house she gets a
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ride from a stranger and is never seen
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again can you hang on just a minute
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there's this guy that keeps driving back
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and for two months later 27-year-old
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Ellen freed a register nurse also from
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Claremont calls her sister from a pay
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phone after that she too
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vanishes rather than stalking a
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particular victim um I don't believe any
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of these women themselves were
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pre-selected as victims um he selects
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sights and he goes from sight to
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sight 18 months later the skeletal
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remains of Ellen freed are found in a
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remote area near clar Bernice's body
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would eventually be discovered in the
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same Woods only one mile
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away and then a year later the body of
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yet another young woman Barbara agnu is
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found on a lonely Hillside in Heartland
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Vermont a chilling pattern has revealed
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itself when tracking a serial killer
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authorities triy to determine how he
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thinks to anticipate when and where the
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killer might strike again even when
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there are several crimes that may offer
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several Clues it is a a difficult
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difficult
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task over a 9-year period the bodies of
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several young women were discovered
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within a 50m radius along the New
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Hampshire Vermont Border Police believe
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that six of them were abducted and taken
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to remote areas where they were all
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murdered all of the victims had similar
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stab wounds and police began to suspect
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they were all killed by the same
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person wondering if you'd take a look
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through these reports and give us your
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opinion on whether or not there were no
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Witnesses and little physical
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evidence investigators were stumped as a
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last resort the New Hampshire State
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Police brought in a criminal
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psychologist John philpin to develop a
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profile of the killer police reports
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autopsy reports autopsy photographs
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every bit of information that that would
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be available typically uh to the
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investigators that's what I would begin
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with profiling is something that you
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just as from law enforcement standpoint
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you have a belief in it
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works it's not so scientific that it is
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absolute it's not going to tell you this
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is the individual but it does give you
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the type of individual that you can be
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looking
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for I did make several trips out to the
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locations where Bernice and Ellen were
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killed what could I hear what could I
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smell how could this very bizarre dance
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between two people how could it have
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been choreographed in this space how
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could it have
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happened when I get to the point where
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I'm beginning to develop some feel for
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what is going on in the mind of a killer
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I'll go back to the scenes using what I
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have learned and simply going through
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what might have happened just as though
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I I were him I'll do anything your much
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I'll what am I hearing then do I hear
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the noise of the river going by or is I
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blocked out am I so focused on the
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activity of killing that I don't hear
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that what does it tell me about this
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person's ability to perceive in terms of
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sound in terms of what I'm feeling in
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terms of what I'm able to
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see part of what goes on with this
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killer is that he has a very strong need
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to take these women away alive during
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which time clearly he owns them they are
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his to do with whatever he
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wishes midnight Winchester New Hampshire
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a 23-year-old woman who we'll call Jane
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was on her way home from a county fair
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when she stopped for a soft drink it was
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a hot muggy evening and Jane was 7
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months
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pregnant is that phone work I I don't
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know okay if you want to be that way
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come
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on what do you
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want
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Jane broke away from her attacker but he
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caught up and stabbed her
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repeatedly he had walked all the way to
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his vehicle and by this time I started
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getting up on my hands and knees and
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when he was driving by me he just looked
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right down at
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me I could feel the blood rushing out of
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me and I just kept telling myself Jane
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you're going to
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die that's all I could think of and I
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just felt like I had to get to my
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friend's house to get
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help Jane had been stabbed and slashed a
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total of 18 times she somehow managed to
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call back to her car and drive to a
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friend's house 2 m away I was in shock
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of course so I'm really not sure how
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fast I was driving
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but evidently pretty fast because before
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I knew it I was right behind
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him and as I was behind him all I could
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think about was he was going to stop or
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he was going to turn around and follow
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me he left me for dead I know he left me
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for dead no doubt about
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that when Jane finally reached the house
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her attacker turned back
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he stopped for a moment in front of the
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driveway and then disappeared into the
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night all sign at this time
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BP miraculously none of the stab wounds
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hit vital organs or Jam's 7-month-old
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fetus 2 months later she gave birth to a
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baby
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girl you feel more
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comfortable with your eyes
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closed if you choose to Close Your Eyes
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under hypnosis with Jan philpin Jane
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gave a graphic account of her terrifying
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ordeal from what Jane said during the
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hypnotic session it became clear to me
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that she was not stoed uh her decision
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to go to the fair was a last minute
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decision she had no sense of anyone
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following her either going to the fair
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while she was at the fair leaving the
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fair she was able to supply very
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specific details of this man getting out
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of the car and coming up on the other
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side that phone
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working hey let me Al let me Al get away
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get away this man is very deliberate
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very methodical very calm we know
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especially from the graphic description
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that Jane provided for us that he
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doesn't get
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rattled what Jane described was a
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tremendous struggle a tremendous amount
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of resistance on her part the desire to
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protect her baby but that at some point
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during the assault it was as though she
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had done everything that she could do
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and she couldn't do anymore and she
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stopped struggling and it was at that
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point that the assault
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stopped it seemed as though the greater
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her resistance the more determined he
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was as soon as her resistance began to
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wne the attack
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ended I'm coming up
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behind another car and it's um the
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license plate Jane focus
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in 6 6 2 um it's too dirty I I can't see
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it that's a picture that you can hold
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you can hold that picture after getting
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the description
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one of the things that we decided to do
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was see if we could identify this Jeep
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in order to do that we generated a
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computer print out of all registered
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Jeep wagoners matching the description
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that Jane had given us Jane described it
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as between being a 75 to an 85 police
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narrowed the search through 1350 Jeeps
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throughout New England however none of
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the leads led to a
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suspect I just feel really fortunate to
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be alive but I just wish he could be
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found so it wouldn't happen to somebody
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else maybe they won't be so fortunate
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like I was to
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live update Jane now believes that she
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knows her attacker's
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identity a private investigator came up
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with evidence pointing to a Vietnam
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veteran who later killed himself and his
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entire family in Florida but DNA tests
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have so far been
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inconclusive the murders of the women
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found along the New Hampshire Vermont
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border remain unsolved if you have any
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information about these crimes or the
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identity of the serial killer please log
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on to our website at unsolved.com
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next the mysterious disappearance of a
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young woman some believe her
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three-year-old child saw what happened
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to her
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Christmas morning in Jacksonville
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Florida a young wife and mother Bonnie
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hay opens presentence with her son
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Bonnie's husband Michael captures the
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moment forever on
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video less than 2 weeks later Bonnie
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disappeared appears police begin to
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suspect that Bonnie is dead a victim of
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Foul Play their suspicion soon focus on
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Michael Haim among the most damning
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evidence is the extraordinary testimony
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of a surprising witness Aaron Michael
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and Bonnie's three-year-old son this
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case has fueled its startling family
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dispute contrary to what you might
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expect Bonnie's own parents say that she
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willfully abandoned Michael but some of
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Michael's relatives are equally
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convinced that he murdered
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Bonnie
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Bonnie I'm sorry to say is is gone she's
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not alive if she was alive and had 1 o
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of life in her she would have contacted
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someone there are thousands of women
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that leave their husbands and families
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every
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year and it's always a complete surprise
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rise to their
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families should have done by the end of
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the day okay they need Michael worked as
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a manager in the construction supply
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company owned by his aunt Evan and her
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husband Bonnie did their accounts Bonnie
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let's go to lunch Evan claims that
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Michael was often abusive to Bonnie at
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the office well just go without me what
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is so important that you can't go to
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lunch Ian also says that at least once
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Michael's abuse became
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physical one day they got into an
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argument in a fight in the parking lot
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and she came in crying and he had
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slammed her hand in the door and her
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nails were broke and she was very upset
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at that
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point Bonnie decided to leave her
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husband in preparation she opened a bank
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account in her own name to keep her
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plans secret Bonnie had the bank
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statements mailed to her at work Ian
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says Michael somehow found out and was
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Furious Michael what are you doing why
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don't I know about this we're
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married this is our money should be in
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our account well it's from my paycheck
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well you're going to close it you're
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going to close it today you understand
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me Bonnie closed the
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account but friends say she never
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wavered in her plan to divorce Michael
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she gave money to a friend for
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safekeeping put down a deposit on her
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own apartment and enrolled her son in a
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new preschool hi
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on the evening she disappeared Bonnie
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came home from work at about 7:30 p.m.
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she intended to drop by evans's later to
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finalize plans for a friend's baby
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shower about 8:30 that evening she
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called me on the phone hi um listen
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about tonight I'm not going to be able
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to make it I'm really sorry she was
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crying and she was upset Bonnie is
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something the matter and I asked her if
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she wanted me to call her back
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later and she said no that she would
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just talk to me in the morning oh
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actually not too good I think I'm coming
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down with something but the next morning
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neither Bonnie nor Michael showed up at
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work well she got mad at me last night
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and took off uh I don't know where she's
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at hopes for Bonnie's safe return began
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to fade that same morning her purse
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turned up only 5 miles from home buried
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in a motel dumpster near the
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Jacksonville airport robbery apparently
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was not a motive due to the amount of
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money and the credit cards being there
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the purse was secured by the maintenance
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worker and a police officer was called
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to the scene along with family
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members does there appear to be anything
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missing from the purse no it's all there
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as far as I can
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tell when I walked into the room Mike
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and his dad were in there Michael didn't
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say much about Bonnie being missing what
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the hell was Bonnie doing with all that
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money he didn't didn't just come out and
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like oh my God my wife is gone where is
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she um just nothing
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nothing from the start Michael has
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insisted that he was not involved in his
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wife's disappearance he says that Bonnie
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drove off alone after a heated argument
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at around 11:00
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p.m. mom thanks for stated that he
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called his mother Carolyn H and asked
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her to come over to the house in early
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morning hours and watch Aaron while he
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went and looked for Bonnie I won't be
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long you be careful according to Carol n
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Mikey was gone approximately 45 minutes
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then after he allegedly did that he
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returned to the house where he waited
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until the next morning never calling the
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police and called in and told his
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employer that he was going to be sick
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that
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day detective Henson wasn't buying it he
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went back to the Jacksonville airport
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near the motel herb isn't that it and
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sure enough there was Bonnie's car
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abandoned in a parking lot what was
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unusual was the positioning of the
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driver's seat which appeared to be
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farther back than would have been
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comfortable for Bonnie it was more in
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relation to someone about Michael H size
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car unlocked after the vehicle was
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processed we found a shoe print in the
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driver's side floorboard it was a very
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pristine
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print police believe that the print was
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made by the last person to drive the car
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the distinctive tread pattern was traced
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to a rare style of athletic shoe the
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exact pair was owned by none other than
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Michael Hayne if it's his footprint I'm
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not sure it means anything my footprint
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is in my wife's car that uh doesn't mean
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I have ever done her any
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harm did you ever see your mommy sad
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mhm was she okay or was she hurt she is
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hurt next investig arranged for a child
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psychologist to interview Bonnie and
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Michael's son did you see Mommy get hurt
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yes how did she get
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hurt pushed her down from what Aaron
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told us that day my only conclusion was
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that there had been a domestic fight and
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that Michael Haim had killed his wife
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and had removed her and that their three
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and a half-year-old son Aaron Haim had
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witnessed
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this can you show me where Mommy was
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hurt on her tummy on her tummy The
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credibility of a child is something that
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you have to judge in
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perspective he's said a couple of things
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that we know were not true mom's car is
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in the lake we know her car wasn't there
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no one has asked Aron why did you say
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mom's car is at the bottom of the lake
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the issue of child witness credibility
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is always a concerned but generally
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children do not lie about what they see
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and they do not lie about what happens
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to
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them custody of Bonnie and Michael's son
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was in question meanwhile the families
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remained split about what if anything
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Michael knew about his wife's
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disappearance I'm not saying that I'm
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100% convinced that Mike is innocent I
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haven't seen any evidence that convinces
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me he's guilty his
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behavior and general
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attitude convinces me
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that he's he's not guilty I think
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that Michael did something to Bonnie I
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think eron was there and I think he's
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seen exactly what happened I think he
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witnessed his mother's
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M update Bonnie has been declared
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legally dead and a civil court found
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Michael Hayne liable in her death He was
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ordered to pay
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26.3 million to his son and his wife's
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estate there are new developments in
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this case here's one of our staff with
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details for years investigators needed
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one more piece of the puzzle to solve
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The Disappearance of Bonnie hay in 2015
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workers were Excavating a swimming pool
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at the ha's former residence when they
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Unearthed a human skull and other human
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remains DNA tests confirmed they were
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Bonnies Michael hay was arrested and
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will stand trial for her
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Murder coming up a family's dream of a
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better life in America ends in
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tragedy New York City has always
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promised the hope of a new start to
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immigrants like Su young Kim and his
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wife suya they came to the United States
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after their marriage in South
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Korea many who arrive in the United
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States work low-paying jobs until they
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can save enough to build a business of
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their own and so it was for Sue young
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and suyak Kim they were living the
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American dream or so it
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seemed Su young and suya had worked in
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flea markets until they were finally
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able to open two stores on their own
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one was in Long Island and the other in
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Bushwick a section of Brooklyn known for
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its ethnic
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diversity my wife and I were very
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nervous about our
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opening we work very hard from early in
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the morning till late at night 7 days a
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week and we were blessed with fortune
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and
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happiness good size good color for as
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the business grew so did the Kim family
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suya and Su young had to two sons and
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often the whole family could be found at
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the Brooklyn store 10%
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discount the Kims eventually moved to a
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large apartment in Queens there just 5
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days after they celebrated their 10th
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wedding anniversary suya left the boys
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with their grandmother while she went
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[Music]
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shopping when Su young came home at 8:00
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p.m. his wife still had not returned
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from her shopping trip
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he called all her friends but no one
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knew where she
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was Su Young found his wife's car still
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parked in the garage its engine Stone
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Cold my wife had never been out that
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late for the 10 years of our marriage I
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was getting more and more worried I
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could not stop thinking that something
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bad must have happened to her I stayed
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up all night waiting for her but she did
00:22:57
not return home
00:23:01
the cor owner gave us a call last
00:23:03
evening the next day Su young was called
00:23:05
to the medical examiner's office to
00:23:07
identify a
00:23:11
body I could not and did not want
00:23:14
believe what was going
00:23:17
on as soon as I recognized my wife's
00:23:20
body I felt everything was over the
00:23:23
whole world seemed to crush upon on me I
00:23:25
could not think of anything else except
00:23:28
my
00:23:34
children suya Kim had been stabbed nine
00:23:37
times her body was dumped in the bedy
00:23:40
section of Brooklyn 7 miles from the
00:23:43
Kim's Department in Queens although her
00:23:46
body was nude there was no evidence of
00:23:49
rape suya appeared to be the victim of
00:23:52
random violence but unlike many random
00:23:56
crimes this one had a
00:23:58
witness the body was discovered by Joe
00:24:01
Jones a security guard hired to patrol
00:24:04
the area around 3:00 a.m. 10 hours after
00:24:08
suya had disappeared Jones noticed a man
00:24:12
behind the building hey yo man you can't
00:24:14
dump
00:24:15
there I can't dump here no you can't
00:24:18
dump here he like hesitated you know
00:24:21
couple seconds then he said um what if I
00:24:24
give you $20 so I said you're okay so at
00:24:28
that time when I'm taking the $20 I see
00:24:30
that he had blood on him so I said um
00:24:32
how you get blood on you like that oh um
00:24:36
I just got into a
00:24:37
fight the man's demeanor made Jones
00:24:41
suspicious he got a brief glimpse of the
00:24:43
license plate just before the car backed
00:24:46
out he gets in a car drive away but he
00:24:49
stops at the corner I think he thought I
00:24:52
was going to go back and see what he put
00:24:53
in the garbage and I really got
00:24:55
suspicious when he was looking at me and
00:24:58
I was looking at
00:25:02
him so when I went back I looked on the
00:25:05
ground I saw spots spots of blood going
00:25:08
towards the garbage can that open Joe
00:25:11
recruited a friend and together they
00:25:14
searched the
00:25:15
dumpster under layers of
00:25:19
debris they saw a woman's hand it was
00:25:23
the body of
00:25:25
suya they flagged down a passing
00:25:27
ambulance but it was too late suya had
00:25:31
been dead for hours Joe contacted the
00:25:34
police and gave them a full description
00:25:37
of the suspect and his
00:25:40
car we ran all the Nissans that fit that
00:25:42
description with that plate number in
00:25:45
New York City and we tried to uh match
00:25:47
registered owners by using that partial
00:25:50
plate and we're able to come up with one
00:25:52
match could you do me a favor just go
00:25:54
over your steps last night where the
00:25:55
vehicle was registered to a Taiwanese
00:25:57
student at a Long Island College she
00:26:00
said that she had not driven it since
00:26:02
about 10:00 the night before and what
00:26:05
time did you get back in I come home 10
00:26:08
there was no blood in or on the car when
00:26:11
police checked the engine they found it
00:26:14
had not been driven for hours there was
00:26:17
a blue Nissan at the description that Mr
00:26:19
Jones told us however it wasn't the car
00:26:21
we don't believe it was the car at this
00:26:24
time police then began to look at their
00:26:27
our witness Joe Jones as a suspect they
00:26:31
asked Jones to take a li detect the test
00:26:33
and he passed it with flying colors and
00:26:36
the police are positive that he had
00:26:38
nothing to do with siya's
00:26:43
murder for nearly 2 years suang Kim
00:26:47
stayed in the United States but the
00:26:49
memories of his wife proved too painful
00:26:52
he eventually closed his businesses and
00:26:55
returned to South Korea with his two
00:26:57
boys
00:26:59
I could not stand being in the store
00:27:01
anymore because everything there remind
00:27:03
me of my wife now there are no good
00:27:06
memories for me here in
00:27:08
America since it happened I lost all my
00:27:11
hope and dream I have suffer so
00:27:15
much I'm still struggling hard to get
00:27:18
over my wife's death for the sake of our
00:27:21
children I still truly love her and miss
00:27:26
her
00:27:28
the suspect is approximately 5' 6 in
00:27:31
tall he has blonde hair and blue eyes
00:27:33
and weighs between 130 and 140 lb if you
00:27:38
have any information please log on to
00:27:41
our website at
00:27:43
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00:27:47
next a woman is forced to give up her
00:27:50
child for adoption decades later they
00:27:53
are reunited with the help of one of our
00:27:56
viewers
00:28:00
[Music]
00:28:06
Michelle Neil Arin of Hoffman Estates
00:28:09
Illinois has been searching for her
00:28:11
birth mother for more than a decade is
00:28:14
there a Patricia Hensley by there
00:28:15
Michelle was raised by lne and Wilbur
00:28:18
Neil they loved her as their own but
00:28:21
Michelle always suspected she was
00:28:23
adopted when she was 18 she learned the
00:28:27
truth
00:28:29
Michelle's birth mother was a woman
00:28:30
named Patricia Bonner Michelle's father
00:28:34
had died before she was even born
00:28:36
Patricia was unable to raise her four
00:28:39
children alone so she gave Michelle to
00:28:42
the
00:28:43
kns can I just hold her one more time
00:28:46
please uh of
00:28:50
course I can understand what she did
00:28:52
back then I would just feel better just
00:28:56
knowing where I came from what my
00:28:59
relatives what you know just simple
00:29:02
basic questions that any person would
00:29:08
have
00:29:10
update Michelle search ended the very
00:29:13
night of our broadcast her half sister
00:29:16
Sandra called our phone center with
00:29:18
exciting news Michelle's mother was
00:29:22
living in Chicago only 10 mil from
00:29:25
Michelle they were soon talking on the
00:29:28
phone I could not believe it until I
00:29:30
heard her voice and she told me she was
00:29:33
Michelle and no it's just you don't know
00:29:37
the feeling I
00:29:39
had the following weekend at a hotel in
00:29:42
Chicago Patricia waited with her
00:29:45
children for Michelle and her family to
00:29:52
arrive I was really happy that she was
00:29:54
so happy to see
00:29:56
me
00:29:57
cuz that was one fear I had that she
00:29:59
wouldn't care you know that I was doing
00:30:02
this all for nothing but the fact that
00:30:04
she was looking for me and I was looking
00:30:05
for her this is
00:30:09
unbelievable you want to meet your older
00:30:11
brother John yes want back
00:30:14
yes well hello in addition to her long
00:30:17
lost brother and sisters Michelle also
00:30:20
learned that she had two half brothers
00:30:22
and a half sister I had no clue that I
00:30:25
would ever have so many brothers
00:30:27
brothers and sisters and the resemblance
00:30:30
in my kids you out to them is just it's
00:30:34
unreal it's
00:30:37
shocking Michelle's adoptive parents
00:30:39
were there too happy that her daughter's
00:30:42
search was finally over the two families
00:30:46
are now
00:30:47
[Music]
00:30:53
one in a recent show we profiled a man
00:30:56
named John Ellis sadly during World War
00:30:59
II JN was separated from his father and
00:31:02
if that were not enough years later
00:31:05
during the war in Vietnam John was
00:31:08
separated from his
00:31:10
son still wish he could come with when
00:31:13
John was only 5 years old his father
00:31:15
Melvin was ordered to return to the
00:31:17
United States from his duty in China
00:31:20
because his parents were not married
00:31:22
John and his Vietnamese mother were
00:31:24
forced to stay behind John never saw his
00:31:28
father
00:31:31
again 19 years later John had a son of
00:31:34
his own the boy named Daniel lived with
00:31:37
his mother after she and John split
00:31:42
up as Saigon collapsed during the final
00:31:45
hours of the Vietnam War John Nellis was
00:31:48
among the last to escape in the chaos
00:31:51
Daniel then 5 years old was left
00:31:56
behind if my father and my son watching
00:32:00
me right now I would like to tell them
00:32:02
how much I miss them and I love them and
00:32:07
I like to reunite it and see them
00:32:13
again
00:32:15
update as a result of our broadcast both
00:32:19
of these Mysteries have been solved
00:32:22
after John's story aired he learned that
00:32:24
his father was retired and living until
00:32:27
Tokyo
00:32:28
Japan and just 3 weeks later he was
00:32:31
reunited with his son Daniel they hadn't
00:32:34
seen each other in 17
00:32:40
years for so many years I miss him I
00:32:44
think of him all the time and I'm so
00:32:46
happy to see him this is a real dream
00:32:48
come
00:32:49
true
00:32:51
and it's a
00:32:55
miracle when I saw my dad I was so
00:32:57
excited and very
00:33:00
happy when I looked into his eyes and
00:33:02
saw his family I found
00:33:05
happiness Daniel's first day in America
00:33:07
was overwhelming not only did he reunite
00:33:10
with his father but he also met his
00:33:13
stepmother and half sister for the first
00:33:15
time now he's with me I want to do my
00:33:19
best know give him a good chance in life
00:33:21
and better future for him and make up
00:33:25
for what he has loss come on say
00:33:33
cheese next the amazing life-saving
00:33:36
power of a mother's
00:33:47
intuition as a young mother of two life
00:33:51
was a blur of diapers and dishes for
00:33:53
Carolyn ebear but she will remember
00:33:56
remember one day in particular for the
00:33:59
rest of her life was in the evening I
00:34:02
was in the kitchen doing the dishes my
00:34:05
husband was down the hallway reading the
00:34:07
newspaper my daughter Monica was in
00:34:09
there doing her homework and Sarah her
00:34:12
little baby was playing with her toys
00:34:14
and you know your mind is not really
00:34:16
usually very far away from your children
00:34:18
you think about them and this night I
00:34:21
was thinking about Sarah and suddenly I
00:34:23
had a feeling that there was something
00:34:25
wrong it was a very focused feeling and
00:34:29
in my mind I saw that she was choking on
00:34:32
something I didn't know what Sarah
00:34:41
sah oh poor
00:34:44
baby Carolyn says that she sensed her
00:34:47
8-month-old daughter silently choking on
00:34:51
a balloon you think about the what if
00:34:54
what if I hadn't listened and just
00:34:56
thought well I'll go in a few minutes
00:34:58
but this was not that sort of a feeling
00:35:00
this was get there you're needed more
00:35:03
for you some call it mother's instinct
00:35:06
others
00:35:08
ESP the stories have been handed down
00:35:10
for generations and while this uncanny
00:35:13
six sense may never be proven in a
00:35:16
scientific lab it is reported too often
00:35:20
to be
00:35:21
dismissed hi how many two please two
00:35:25
business had taken Elaine Emmy and a
00:35:27
neighbor Sharon Crocker to Palm Springs
00:35:30
110 mil from their homes in Los Angeles
00:35:33
are we back in minut they were just
00:35:35
sitting down to eat when Elaine was
00:35:37
overcome by a sense of dread about her
00:35:40
4-year-old son it was like being hit by
00:35:44
a wave it was a very powerful feeling
00:35:47
both emotionally and physically
00:35:50
Sharon something's wrong what do you
00:35:53
mean something's wrong Something's
00:35:55
Happened to Matt I knew something was
00:35:57
wrong with Matt immediately I mean
00:36:00
sometimes people get a strange sense
00:36:02
that something's not right it wasn't
00:36:04
like that it was a very definite
00:36:08
feeling fine I'm going to go call I'll
00:36:11
be right back Elaine had instant panic
00:36:16
she wasn't what I would consider out of
00:36:18
control but just her mannerisms gave me
00:36:22
the impression that she was very
00:36:24
concerned and knew that there was
00:36:25
something very
00:36:28
wrong Elaine called home immediately but
00:36:31
there was no answer convinced that
00:36:34
something terrible had happened she
00:36:36
phoned her friend Sharon's husband Tom
00:36:38
hi Tom it's Elaine Elaine where are you
00:36:41
Tom hadn't heard from Elaine's husband
00:36:43
or seen anything unusual at their house
00:36:46
just across the street you haven't seen
00:36:48
my husband or Matt have you no so I said
00:36:52
well then why don't we just have lunch
00:36:55
she said no there's something wrong WR
00:36:57
we need to go home I don't know and
00:37:00
that's what we did I just can't get rid
00:37:02
of this feeling that something awful's
00:37:03
happened to Matt twice during the trip
00:37:06
back to Los Angeles Elaine stopped to
00:37:08
call home still no one
00:37:11
answered it was the longest 3 hours of
00:37:14
Elaine emy's life when she and Sharon
00:37:17
finally arrived home Sharon's husband
00:37:20
had some bad news Matt was in the
00:37:25
hospital D mom I think I'm here when
00:37:29
Elaine arrived Matt was being prepped
00:37:31
for surgery to reattach severed tendons
00:37:34
in his arm he had fallen and crashed
00:37:37
through a plate glass door at the very
00:37:40
moment that sense of dread had swept
00:37:42
across the I think Matt's going to do
00:37:44
just fine aren't you I was feeling what
00:37:47
Matt was going through no doubt about it
00:37:49
not sure why I was able to feel that but
00:37:52
I know without any doubt what I was
00:37:55
feeling and what I was was
00:37:57
experiencing it made the hair stand up
00:37:59
on the back of my neck thinking oh my
00:38:02
God she actually did know that something
00:38:03
was happening when it
00:38:06
happened again Elaine and her son have
00:38:09
been separated by more than a 100 miles
00:38:12
what it was as if she had seen the
00:38:15
accident through her own
00:38:18
eyes I think that this connection starts
00:38:20
in the womb I think even in the womb
00:38:23
some children and some mothers are more
00:38:27
connected than others and if they are
00:38:30
really connected of course then it will
00:38:33
continue for the rest of their
00:38:36
lives if Elaine Emmy does have a psychic
00:38:39
bond with her son it only seems logical
00:38:42
that it originated in the womb however
00:38:45
many adoptive mothers have also reported
00:38:49
similar
00:38:50
experiences simply the fact of having
00:38:53
adopted a child doesn't mean a woman's
00:38:55
devasted of all her instincts inct and I
00:38:58
believe that women have instincts a
00:39:00
woman's intuition whatever you want to
00:39:02
call
00:39:03
it Linda bab and her husband Dirk
00:39:06
already the parents of four were looking
00:39:09
to adopt for the second time Linda says
00:39:12
that at that point she had the most
00:39:15
incredible dream now push push real hard
00:39:18
go ahead and push I saw a young woman
00:39:21
and she was in
00:39:23
labor a light-headed woman that was fair
00:39:28
complected and I didn't know who this
00:39:30
person was but I did see that she was at
00:39:33
the point of giving
00:39:34
birth and as she pushed I saw the baby's
00:39:37
head crown and then be
00:39:40
born beautiful healthy baby boy he had
00:39:45
lots of dark hair on his head I remember
00:39:47
that and he was dark complected and at
00:39:51
the moment that he was born and began to
00:39:52
cry I woke up from the
00:39:55
dream
00:39:59
I felt startled because it was a very
00:40:01
Vivid and realistic dream I had never
00:40:03
had a dream so vivid and I looked at my
00:40:06
clock on my bedside table and it was
00:40:08
2:59 in the morning on March
00:40:11
8th the next morning at breakfast my
00:40:14
wife said sweetie I've got the most
00:40:17
incredible dream I witnessed the birth
00:40:21
of a child and I said what child she
00:40:25
said I don't no Linda jerk I'm so glad
00:40:29
you could make it 6 weeks later we had a
00:40:32
call from our adoption agency we had
00:40:35
applied to adopt and they called and
00:40:37
asked us if we would be interested in
00:40:39
adopting a baby boy here he is and he is
00:40:43
such a cutie pie when they brought the
00:40:46
baby in he looked to me like the most
00:40:49
beautiful baby had had ever seen he had
00:40:51
beautiful golden brown skin and a
00:40:53
headful of dark hair he looked very much
00:40:57
like the infant in my dream how old did
00:40:59
you say he was 6 weeks uh let me check
00:41:04
that yes soone was born March 8th March
00:41:08
8th what
00:41:10
time let's see 2:59 a.m. and she told me
00:41:16
the baby had been born March 8th at 2:59
00:41:18
in the morning I was stunned for a
00:41:21
moment I was just speechless and I
00:41:23
turned to Durk and I said that's the
00:41:25
same time the date of that dream I had I
00:41:29
thought my wife really had seen the
00:41:32
birth of this child with her mother that
00:41:34
was the dream and it was confirmation to
00:41:37
me at that time that this was meant to
00:41:42
be those two vibrations somehow meet
00:41:45
each other and it may happen once in a
00:41:49
10 once in 10,000 cases and that's the
00:41:52
one that we perhaps hear about but that
00:41:55
very special case just proves the fact
00:41:57
that at least it can happen Sarah there
00:42:00
is no rational explanation for these
00:42:03
things but just because there's no
00:42:05
rational explanation for these things
00:42:07
doesn't mean that it didn't
00:42:09
[Music]
00:42:25
happen
00:42:27
[Music]
00:42:42
[Music]

Badges

This episode stands out for the following:

  • 85
    Most heartbreaking
  • 80
    Most shocking
  • 75
    Most emotional
  • 75
    Most intense

Episode Highlights

  • The Mysterious Disappearance of Bonnie Haim
    Bonnie Haim disappears shortly after Christmas, leading to suspicions against her husband Michael.
    “If she was alive and had 1% of life in her, she would have contacted someone.”
    @ 12m 41s
    March 09, 2017
  • Suya Kim's Tragic Murder
    Suya Kim is found murdered after a shopping trip, leaving her husband devastated.
    “I felt everything was over; the whole world seemed to crush upon me.”
    @ 23m 23s
    March 09, 2017
  • A Mother's Pain
    Suang Kim returns to South Korea after losing his wife, struggling with grief.
    “I lost all my hope and dream.”
    @ 27m 11s
    March 09, 2017
  • Reunion After Decades
    Michelle Neil reunites with her birth mother Patricia Hensley after years of searching.
    “This is unbelievable!”
    @ 30m 09s
    March 09, 2017
  • Father and Son Reunited
    John Ellis reunites with his son Daniel after 17 years apart, a heartfelt moment.
    “I was so excited and very happy when I looked into his eyes.”
    @ 32m 57s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Power of Intuition
    Elaine's instinct leads her to her son Matt just in time to help him after an accident.
    “There is no rational explanation for these things.”
    @ 42m 00s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • I could feel the blood rushing out of me.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 21
  • I just feel really fortunate to be alive.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 21
  • I could not and did not want to believe what was going on.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 21
  • The whole world seemed to crush upon me.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 21
  • I was so excited and very happy when I looked into his eyes.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 21
  • There is no rational explanation for these things.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 21

Key Moments

  • Serial Killer Investigation03:16
  • Survival Against Odds10:27
  • Murder Discovery23:11
  • Emotional Turmoil23:23
  • Grief and Loss27:11
  • Family Reunion30:09
  • Long-Awaited Reunion32:57
  • Mother's Intuition42:00

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