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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast every customer has been
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labeled one of the country's smooth as
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con men charming intelligent and
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cosmopolitan he has won the hearts of at
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least four middle-aged women and then
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left on broken and bankrupt I know on a
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certain how many women Eric Kessler has
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victimized how many hundreds of
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thousands of dollars he's allegedly
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stormed but authorities believe that at
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this very moment Kessler may be spinning
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a web of deceit for another unsuspecting
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victim in a moment we'll bring you a
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fascinating profile of this master
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conman as well as these other remarkable
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mysteries two years ago Daniel Wilson
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West Spokane Washington to visit his
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mother's home in Colorado he never
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arrived and authorities are still
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baffled by the discovery of his
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abandoned car in a remote area of
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Montana miles of his attended route
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and in Minnesota a daring gang of
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thieves who stole nearly two million
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dollars in a series of violent armored
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car robberies also the authorities are
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searching for a ruthless rapist to use
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his prescription drugs as subdue his
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victims
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perhaps some watching tonight can help
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capture perhaps it's you
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this is the story of a cunning operator
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who's allegedly built several
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middle-aged women out of hundreds of
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thousands of dollars the victim we are
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about to meet whom he will call
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Katherine never imagined that she'd fall
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prey to a scam she was a successful
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highly intelligent businesswoman who
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owned one Wisconsin most popular hair
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salons according to police she was
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swindled by one of the most devious
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conman to ever operate in the state no
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one knows how many women is victimized
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no one is even certain of his real name
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September 1986 Katherine was at a
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singles party when she was approached by
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a well-dressed stranger who spoke with a
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pronounced European accent he introduced
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himself as Mary Kessler I was born in
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Hamburg Germany the night I first met
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Erik Kessler he presented himself as a
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businessman who was in town on business
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and would be staying for probably a year
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some business associates have asked me
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to look at some property here about some
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I was impressed on his dress on his
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mannerism I never got an impression that
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he was even attempting to make a pass
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here you work very concurring Katherine
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to reveal intimate details about herself
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he soon learned that she was divorced
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operated a hair salon it was concerned
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about being able to put her children
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through college it's such a coincidence
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that we should meet I'm talking with
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some friends of mine from Western Europe
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are telling me about some very important
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changes in the cosmetology and then to
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make a beauty business that this Jurek
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happened I have a solution he had
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learned it in a small resort town 120
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miles away there was a prototype of an
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invention which could revolutionize
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Katherine's industry well I'd like to
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hear about that what what area of the
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businesses well it's very complex and
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very technical but I this was the hook
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that lured Katherine into Kessler's
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scheme I did not get any impression that
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this would be a physical relationship I
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just felt that it was an opportunity yes
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I was excited about it
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Eric arranged for Katherine to see the
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image system known as the video makeover
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at that time it was the cutting edge of
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technology enabling clients to see how
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they would look with different hair
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styles and colors now what if we cut off
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a little bit on
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can you do that why don't we do it that
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way just by doing that I thought that
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the concept was fantastic from you could
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charge large amount money for Erich
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Kessler had convinced Katherine that he
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could place the system in a major
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Midwest department store chain but she
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needed to come up with the investment
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capital to get them started Sylvia it's
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called a video makeover
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Katherine secured a $50,000 loan from a
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wealthy friend Eric was to repay the
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loan four months later she did not ask a
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lot of questions because she believed in
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me
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she wrote a check for $50,000 that
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Eric's insistence the business account
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was established in Katherine's name
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she had sole discretion over deposits
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and withdrawals a few days later Eric
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suggested that he move into Katherine's
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basement so they could work more closely
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together
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it appeared that their business was
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starting to take shape we brought in
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another telephone line which was
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strictly a business line at one point in
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time my son took the message from the
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department store saying they wanted to
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set up a meeting with Erich Kessler he
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was very convincing
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before long Eric began to romance his
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new partner when I really think about it
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what he really did was to find out where
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I was
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business-wise I have dealt with people
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who have attempted to con me or take me
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in business matters when Erich Kessler
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came into my life it never occurred to
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me that the man was a con artist because
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I certainly assumed that I would know I
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would recognize that the fact that Eric
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also made me feel that he was in love
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with me
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also put me off-guard
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three weeks later Eric's conquest was
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complete he surprised Catherine with a
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most unusual gift I have a gift for you
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that other bed was too small for us one
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day when I came home from work there was
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a king-size bed in my bedroom and he had
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made the decision that it would be much
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easier if he could have the office
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downstairs and didn't have to use it
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also as a bedroom and his way of doing
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that was to bring in a king-size bed do
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you like it I love it oh thank you Eric
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seduction now evolved into a strategy of
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psychological manipulation well here you
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look so beautiful in the outfit I have
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chosen for you it makes you feel good
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makes you feel confident
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Harry control Katherine's every decision
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selecting her wardrobe her makeup the
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jewelry she wore I did get to the point
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that I I was not confident I mean I
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wouldn't bought a pair of earrings at
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that point because I didn't think that I
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was capable of doing it anymore mr.
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Castle Eric even convinced Katherine to
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lease a high priced cadillac with all of
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the options this package does include
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the electric sliding sunroof the
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hand-sewn leather upholstery the leather
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covered steering wheel the am/fm stereo
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radio with cassette and high performance
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sound system and the six way adjustable
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seats that's good I want the car
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telephone it also includes a telephone
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with a fully retractable antenna good
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now on a 24 month closed-end lease
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agreement that would bring your payments
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down to four hundred eighty seven
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dollars and seventy five cents a month
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Erica I don't think this is a good idea
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I don't think we have $500 a month to
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spend on like yeah this is a taxable
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deduction why can't you make an
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intelligent business decision why are
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you wasting the uruk's domination became
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more calculating he deprived Catherine
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of sleep insisting they conduct their
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business at night after cheaper than a
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full day of work at the saddle and on
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evening entertaining prospective clients
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there must be noises to be paid yeah we
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hadn't planned on these expenses many
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times Eric demanded that Catherine give
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him large cash advances claiming the
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money was old to suppliers who would not
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accept checks now we have accountants
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Fiat business managers we have lawyers
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we have tax cancer as a start-up capital
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dwindled Harry convinced Catherine to
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put an additional 20 thousand dollars of
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her own money into the business I didn't
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know who I was more angry with myself or
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Eric all we had done is spent money it
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had not been spent wisely Here I am as a
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business woman and I have blown it I
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mentioned to him that I thought that he
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was a con man and I had thought about
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going to the police he said what good
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would it do you you got the money
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you signed all of the checks you agreed
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to all of the decisions that were made
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there is nothing that ties me in I have
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never signed anything it is your word
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against mine
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the relationship completely
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disintegrated Eric we have to talk
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please
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now Eric please yeah - wine please
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Erica taken another lover and moved out
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of Catherine's apartment when the day
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arrived for Erik to repay the loan
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Catherine met him at a bar to ask for
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the money mister do I am supposed to
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give Silvia $50,000 tonight there's no
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money in the account what am I going to
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do
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you were right her a check with what
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there's nothing left in the account I
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have a check coming by special courier
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tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. for
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$50,000 and if they don't come what then
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it would be mostly I was drained and I
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was exhausted I wanted to believe that I
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was going to get money I down deep I
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didn't believe it but I had there was
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the only thing I had left I had to hope
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that the check was going to be there
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I met my benefactor that night I wrote
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the check I was very hesitant if it all
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was going to come through
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hello
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I don't know who is this he bounced a
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check in here last night for $1,000 and
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I want to know where he is I don't know
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when the bartender called me the next
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morning right down I knew right then and
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there it was all over
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Catherine lost more than $75,000 and was
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unable to pay for her children's
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education she was forced into bankruptcy
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and sold her business finally she left
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Wisconsin and moved to another state to
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start over again
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authorities were certain that Edward
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Maynard was somewhere in the u.s.
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stalking his next victim calls to our
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telecenter confirmed their suspicions
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the night of our broadcast authorities
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learned that Maynard had recently been
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in Naples Florida using the alias Eric
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Kelly last December he became
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romantically involved with a woman who
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will call and Maynard alias Kelly
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persuaded and alone him fifteen thousand
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dollars then left with their life
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savings last February Maynard showed up
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in San Antonio Texas once again using
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the name Eric Kelly
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he began wining and dining another woman
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he kept talking about how that he could
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really do a lot for me but of course it
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would take a lot of money and he started
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asking me if I had money how much I had
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and so I started feeling very strongly
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that something was wrong he said I need
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you to loan me some money
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and I indicated that I didn't want to at
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that point he got very loud a violent
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temper I needed now do you understand
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and to be very honest he frightened me
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so I gave him the money and I did not
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see him again after that evening Barbara
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notified the local sheriff's department
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about her run-in with Eric Kelly
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Wednesday evening I got a phone call
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from someone in the Sheriff's Department
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it said hey are you watching teeth
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unsolved mysteries on TV our boy was
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just on there I said Eric Kelly he said
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yes bigger-than-life I'm getting ready
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to call the FBI and give him all the
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information than I have
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four days later another viewers tip
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placed Edward Maynard in Houston Texas
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he was registered at this motel under
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the same alias Eric Kelly the FBI closed
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in we immediately dispatched a number of
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agents out there in fact there was up to
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eight agents that are on the scene and
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within 45 minutes he was apprehended
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next a story of an unscrupulous doctor
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turned rapist who uses drugs to
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overpower as victims
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the crime of rape is a tragic and
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all-too-frequent fact of life in the
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United States
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sadly the stigma attached to the women
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who are victimized mean such crimes
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often go unreported this is especially
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true of date rape victim knows and even
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trust the man who rapes her in our next
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story the methods of the rapist are
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particularly in cities this is a case of
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a doctor who uses a powerful sedative to
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render his victims helpless and then
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assaults them one woman agreed to talk
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to us on the condition that we do not
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use her real name Saturday night a bar
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in Bakersfield California
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patty Roberts and Stephanie Phillips
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were shooting pool we were greeted by a
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friendly skeptic he introduced the two
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women to his companion dr. Kenneth Frank
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Stephanie and Patti agreed to join them
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in for a drink immediately I liked Oh
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i he was well-dressed well men so he's
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real friendly doctor yes what do you do
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I'm a dental assistant well I'm studying
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to be a dental assistant you serious
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about it really I work with a couple of
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dentists he said he had a friend and he
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said he might be hiring and he would
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give me card
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you know referral and all that that help
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you out yes
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hey no problem I'd love to do basically
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he he did that professional okay well
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okay why walk to the restroom and I was
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talking to this girl that was in there
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so I was in there a few seconds and then
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I came back out and he was still sitting
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there and my friend had was not there
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it's been late they decided to leave
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they're not coming back first I thought
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he was just playing and I said no really
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knows what yeah I said what he said I
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can give you a ride home and I said no
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way
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she didn't show ever a few minutes later
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and I was ready to go and so I said okay
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well do you want to still give me the
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ride home and he said sure and I said
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you sure you don't mind he said no so he
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left in his car and then he wanted to
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stop by his apartment
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to do something he said and I wanted him
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to get that job referral that he had
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told me about a dentist fan that was
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hiring by the time they got to dr.
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Frank's apartment that Saturday night
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patty was complaining of a chest cold
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here we go just make you feel a lot
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better drink that dr. Frank Whitley
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mixed up a home remedy a special coffee
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drink he claimed would alleviate Patti's
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call
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I drank it quickly
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it wasn't long after that my eyes
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started getting blurry and then I was
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sitting there trying to figure out why
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my eyes were blurry and then my ears
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started ringing
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and then I just I fell over I remember
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laying there and I
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daddy come on patty time to wake up it
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was not until Monday morning that patty
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awoke she would soon discover that while
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she slept she had been raped seven
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o'clock it's Monday morning I've got to
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get to work come on let's get going
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Monday morning I couldn't figure out
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what happened to Sunday somewhere I lost
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Sunday you raped me I didn't rape you I
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knew that he had taken advantage of me
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and I I was so mad I just felt like you
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know I wanted to hurt him like he hurt
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me you know my feelings cuz I that
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wasn't given to him he took it patty had
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been knocked out for at least 26 hours
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still groggy and disoriented as yet
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unaware that she had been drugged patty
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had the doctor drive her home we turned
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the corner right by my apartment and I
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lived in a really huge apartment complex
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so I told him to let me out there I
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didn't want him to see what apartment I
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lived in because I didn't want him to
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come after me patty I wouldn't tell
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anybody about this if I were you
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if you do like so we'll have to fix it
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so you can't
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I started reading trying to get to my
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apartment
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as I got to my apartment which was in
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the very back I saw him in his car he
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was right in front of me so he knew at
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that point where I lived I went home and
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took a shower and I went to my aunt's
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house and I just started feeling
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nauseated real real bad and I remember
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getting sick everywhere and I couldn't
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you know I couldn't help it it was kind
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of like the flu or something
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Patti continued to be immobilized by dr.
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Frank's home remedy spending much of the
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rest of the day in a deep drug-induced
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sleep like many victims of rape Patti
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was so overcome by fear and
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embarrassment she could not yet bring
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herself to go to the police
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seven days later Patti had a second
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encounter with dr. Frey who acted as if
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nothing was wrong
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Patti decided to play a lawyer hoping to
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get frankly admit his crime I was kind
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of offended at first and I thought well
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if I'm gonna find out anything you know
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there have to be nice to asking
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questions and stuff
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so tell me what was that stuff he gave
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me the other night I didn't give you
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anything we just had a good time you can
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tell me some some pretty wild stuff he
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was gonna tell me he didn't give me
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anything and then he told me that it was
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a sedative and then I was kind of like
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an experiment for him you raped me I was
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really angry at him did and when after I
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started screaming yelling at him he knew
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that I I wasn't gonna play his little
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games anymore because I had decided then
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I was gonna go
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basically I just looked around at all
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the little girls out there running
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around they don't know about stuff like
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this and I thought you know if I can at
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least give a report to the police then I
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can help someone else three months after
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the rape patty filed an official police
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report but stopped short of pressing
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charges she was worried that a trial
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would come down to her word against dr.
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Frank's an unknown student against an
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established physician patty also
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believed that being associated with a
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rape case would jeopardize her future
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chances for employment are you willing
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to press charges
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no she also feared the dr. Frank might
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make good on his threat to harm her if
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if he does this again to somebody else
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yes I will four months after he had
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raped patty dr. Frank raped another
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woman
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theirs was an established professional
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relationship this victim too was given a
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sedative when she awoke 24 hours later
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Frank admitted that he had drugged her
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it was later estimated that the amount
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of the sedative in her system was eight
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times greater than that normally
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administered to patients in surgery she
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was a professional woman in town in her
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mid 30s and after she became aware of
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this situation after dr. Frank told her
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what happened she went to a local lab in
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town had her blood tested for the drug
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he told her he had given her and it did
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come back positive for that particular
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drug and then she went to the police
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based on the statements of Patty and the
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other victim Kenneth Frank was arrested
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in February of 1986 legal wrangling the
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latest trial until December of 1989
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Frank showed up on time for every court
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appearance December 20th 1989 the jury
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rendered his verdict he was convicted of
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two counts of rape by administering and
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intoxicating or anesthetic substance
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carries the same amount of time is what
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more common type of rape known as a
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forcible rape the what happened is the
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jury verdict came in and at that time I
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requested the judge take the defendant
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into custody because he was looking at a
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maximum of 16 years in state prison he
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was out on his own recognizance at the
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time so there was no bail up at all and
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the judge declined to do that when he
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came up for sentencing 28 days which is
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the normal period of time he didn't show
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up
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when we return the bizarre tale of a
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mild-mannered man whose temper suddenly
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erupted at work on a very day he
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vanished
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what happened to Daniel Wilson Dan
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Wilson of Spokane Washington was known
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as a quiet religious man in 1986 when
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Dan was 33 his marriage broke up but he
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remained close to his young son and
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daughter and visited the lawful 1987 Dan
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suffered a nervous breakdown which he
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felt was due to the trauma does divorce
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by the summer of 1988 Howard was off his
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medication and seemed to have his life
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back under control in June dan went to
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work at the ASC machine tool company in
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Spokane and according to co-workers with
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a steady reliable employee then Sutton
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August 24th everything changed
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every time I try to get my work did you
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come down here and give me a hard time
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about it what's going on wait with I
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didn't say anything about your work heck
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yeah I know what you've been saying what
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they've all been saying about me I don't
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like I don't need to be quiet I just
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want you to leave me alone so I get my
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work done all right
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dan Wilson's Foreman I was shocked by
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the outburst Ian the plant manager were
00:27:43
concerned told Dan to take time off who
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returned to work whenever he felt ready
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Dan left the pilot 11 o'clock in the
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morning was Wednesday August the 24th
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1988
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two days went by dan Wilson's neighbors
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noticed that his sprinklers had been
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left running but Friday they turned them
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off never suspecting that anything was
00:28:16
wrong
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dan was not scheduled to visit his
00:28:19
children that weekend so his ex-wife
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never noticed he was missing his mother
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lived in Colorado telephone it was not
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alarmed when she received no answer
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Saturday then Sunday came and went no
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one even knew Dan Wilson was missing
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Sunday August 29th 1988 in a remote area
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of Custer County mom town and encar was
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investigated by Sheriff Tony Harbaugh
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when the car was found the doors were
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unlocked in fact one of the doors was
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ajar check for keys the keys were not in
00:29:01
the vehicle when it was found there were
00:29:04
a few miscellaneous items one of which
00:29:06
was a Bible laying on the front so you
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had a Bible on this Daniel Wilson
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inscribed in the front of it
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sheriff Harbaugh traced the car to
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Daniel says it had been abandoned more
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than 700 miles from Dan Spokane
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residence there was no luggage in the
00:29:24
car to indicate that animal was planning
00:29:26
a trip nothing that would really give us
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a firm indication of what Daniel was
00:29:31
thinking or doing in the area record
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this location of this vehicle towed into
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town we conducted both ground and aerial
00:29:39
searches it's my belief that if Daniel
00:29:43
Wilson was in the area in in any of the
00:29:46
area that we covered we should have
00:29:48
found him at that time there seemed to
00:29:52
be no explanation for Dan's car being
00:29:54
found abandoned in the middle of the
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Montana Prairie
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baffled Dan's mother Darlene Wilson
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along with two of his cousin's went to
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Montana to talk to the sheriff I looked
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for some answers we've checked the car
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we've searched the ground around the
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area here the sheriff told us the car
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looked like it had just been parked
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there and that someone had walked away
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from it they had looked under the hood
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and there was nothing wrong there and
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there was a third of a tank of gas thank
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you
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I couldn't visualize in my mind that he
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would just walk away from the car and
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just take off it certainly was not an
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area where you would expect a person
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would stop and take a walk I really
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feared for his safety from the beginning
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because of the State of Mind he was in
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Glenda had visited Dan two days before
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he disappeared she was surprised by the
00:31:03
disarray in his home looking around I
00:31:07
seen that the children had been there
00:31:08
that weekend things had been left quite
00:31:12
messy which was very uncharacteristic
00:31:13
for him he seemed agitated and he seemed
00:31:20
real tired it is everything okay Oh
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early shifts at the job and trouble
00:31:25
there you know before she left
00:31:28
Glenda suggested that Dan take time off
00:31:30
to visit the family on Colorado 48 hours
00:31:38
later Dan had his outburst at work and
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vanished
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his family believed he had taken
00:31:45
Glenda's advice and started for Colorado
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to visit
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Dan's family lived here in Longmont
00:31:55
Colorado he had made the trip from spoke
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and a long walk many times before
00:32:02
using the roof he normally traveled
00:32:04
interstate 90 Dan would have headed
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south at Billings Montana
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instead dan turned on to a different
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highway Interstate 94 heading due east
00:32:15
he continued for 150 miles into the
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sparsely populated area of Montana or
00:32:20
his Carla's father Howard Dan strayed so
00:32:25
far off course on such a familiar route
00:32:28
his mother suspected foul play
00:32:34
I know that he did pick up hitchhikers
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if he felt he could give somebody a ride
00:32:41
he would I'm concerned that maybe he was
00:32:45
not the first thing that parked the car
00:32:47
in Montana that it could have been
00:32:50
somebody else determined to unravel the
00:32:56
mystery Dan's mother and cousins went
00:32:58
back to Spokane Dan's form was an even
00:33:01
worse disarray than when Glenda had
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visited ten days earlier
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I'll go look in the bedrooms
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surprisingly his luggage his clothes and
00:33:12
a nun cash paycheck for all is still in
00:33:15
the house suitcases are still here I
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couldn't see where he had taken anything
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at all not even a toothbrush a razor
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they just looked like that he had just
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left and and intended to come back
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the next day Dan's family left Spokane
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more puzzled than ever
00:33:39
Darlene and Glenda drove Dan's car on
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the return trip enroute they both had
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sore throats he felt an odd burning
00:33:47
sensation in their eyes
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now my eyes a bit
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as soon as they returned home they had
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the car inspected folks what we have
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here is a faulty muffler on the car it
00:34:01
could be allowing exhaust gases to enter
00:34:05
into the interior of the car I would say
00:34:07
the car would be unsafe to drive it
00:34:10
appeared that a carbon monoxide leak in
00:34:12
the muffler might have caused Darlene's
00:34:13
and Glenda's physical symptoms thank you
00:34:16
then had been driving the same car every
00:34:18
day for over a year it is possible the
00:34:21
carbon monoxide poisoning could have
00:34:23
caused him severe physical and emotional
00:34:25
damage
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chronic exposure to carbon monoxide can
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cause fatigue can cause definite changes
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in personality confusion can cause
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permanent loss of function of the brain
00:34:41
intellectual ability memory as well as
00:34:44
severe personality changes resembling
00:34:47
psychosis
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a memory loss confusion and Misha maybe
00:34:58
he knows his name but maybe that's about
00:35:00
all maybe he doesn't realize for his
00:35:03
family is or how to get in touch with
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any of them
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Darlene Wilson flooded the state of
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Montana with fliers in late November of
00:35:14
1988 a homeless shelter in Billings
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Montana set Darlene a copy of his desk
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register
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registers showed that a Daniel Wilson
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had signed in to spend the night on a
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member 12 nearly three months after
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Donna disappeared
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Darleen compared the signature with one
00:35:32
of her sons a similarity was striking so
00:35:36
she and her nephew decided to go to
00:35:38
Billings and talk to the men who ran the
00:35:40
shelter still clinging to the fragile
00:35:46
hope that Dan might be wandering
00:35:48
aimlessly knowing his name but nothing
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else
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Darlene brought along several
00:35:52
photographs of him hoping for a positive
00:35:54
identification could help us I believe
00:36:09
I've seen this young man David oh yeah
00:36:14
we've seen before
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I'm serious about the night too it was
00:36:18
really a sense of relief for us we
00:36:21
thought surely if he has been here that
00:36:25
recently that he still would be around
00:36:27
somewhere where we could find him
00:36:29
so we distributed more posters around in
00:36:34
buildings and throughout all the area
00:36:37
from Billings into Spokane again
00:36:45
there has been no trace of Dan Wilson
00:36:48
for nearly two years
00:36:51
authorities found no sign of violence
00:36:53
and no evidence of a second person in
00:36:56
Dan's car so they have tended to
00:36:58
discount the foul play they made they
00:37:01
have however suggested the possibility
00:37:03
that Dan Wilson made a conscious choice
00:37:05
to disappear I feel it's not impossible
00:37:10
that Dan made a decision to disappear
00:37:14
and start a new life he was under a
00:37:17
great deal of pressure he had not had a
00:37:19
happy life since coming to Spokane but I
00:37:24
feel the possibilities are small due to
00:37:28
the fact he was so devoted to his
00:37:30
children and he felt the children needed
00:37:33
him so badly I feel that whatever has
00:37:37
happened is something beyond his control
00:37:42
he could be most anywhere and we would
00:37:45
each be able to locate him or he
00:37:47
wouldn't be able to locate us
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[Music]
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[Music]
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when we return three daring armored car
00:38:11
robberies executed with military
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precision
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an ingenious gang of thieves is still at
00:38:16
large every day billions of dollars and
00:38:31
hard kurtz been transported by armored
00:38:33
cars considered by most criminals to be
00:38:36
impregnable these vehicles have recently
00:38:38
been targeted by a brazen heavily armed
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gang who carry out their raids with
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almost military precision
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1:00 p.m. April 18th 1989 Eden Prairie
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Minnesota
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[Music]
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don't overshoot
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instinctive guard grabbed one of the
00:39:02
robbers go that was quickly subdued no
00:39:05
shots were fired at these guys scenes up
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move very smoothly they didn't seem to
00:39:11
be in a hurry or panicky or Nothing they
00:39:13
very smooth these robbers come very
00:39:16
heavily armed and and very much ready to
00:39:20
shoot almost simultaneous the second
00:39:24
phase of the heist began another vehicle
00:39:26
pulled up in front of the armored car
00:39:28
cutting off any route of escape
00:39:30
a fourth robber then placed what
00:39:34
appeared to be a bomb a trucks hood
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[Music]
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in just under a minute robbers had
00:39:47
stolen close to 1 million dollars
00:39:49
and then vanished without a trace it
00:39:55
seemed like kind of a commando type
00:39:57
thing like these people had been well
00:39:59
trained at that type of thing or well
00:40:01
practiced a bomb squad was immediately
00:40:04
dispatched to the scene attaching guide
00:40:08
wires to the device they carefully
00:40:10
removed it from a trucks hood x-ray is
00:40:16
later revealed a bomb was a fake
00:40:18
the FBI concluded that it was nothing
00:40:20
more than a genius delaying tactic the
00:40:25
FBI linked this fake bomb to an
00:40:27
identical device using the Baltimore
00:40:29
Maryland robbery three years earlier in
00:40:31
that operation the thieves made off of
00:40:33
over $600,000 the FBI concluded both
00:40:37
robberies were executed by the same gang
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[Music]
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in the first two heists through a
00:40:44
combination of careful planning a
00:40:45
clockwork timing the crooks is stolen
00:40:47
1.6 million dollars they had also
00:40:50
brilliantly covered their tracks
00:40:52
every vehicle they had use had been
00:40:54
stolen wiped clean of evidence and then
00:40:56
abandoned it was thought that the gang
00:40:58
would quit while there were a million
00:40:59
dollars ahead but one year later they
00:41:02
struck again March 27th 1990 Burnsville
00:41:08
Minnesota was ten miles from the scene
00:41:11
of the last robbery as one Brinks guard
00:41:14
waited in the cab another made a cash
00:41:16
pickup in a local bank
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[Music]
00:41:26
underground underground right now okay
00:41:31
once again the second guard was caught
00:41:33
behind the wheel as I turned around I
00:41:36
see this band that was coming up in
00:41:38
front of me I hit the ban real hard I
00:41:46
knew that I turned my siren on shots
00:41:49
went on scared the living daylights out
00:41:52
of me I made a circle to come around so
00:41:56
I could see what's going on and when I
00:41:59
was about 3/4 of the way through my
00:42:01
circle I could see where our cart was as
00:42:05
ice going by I could see my partner in
00:42:07
the ground all the shots that were going
00:42:09
on
00:42:09
I thought they'd killed him I thought he
00:42:11
was dead he was just laying on the
00:42:13
ground fortunately that guard was
00:42:15
uninjured hey [Â __Â ] back at the time I
00:42:19
thought well I got these guys right
00:42:21
where I want
00:42:22
[Applause]
00:42:24
I just rammed it as hard as I could
00:42:27
[Music]
00:42:38
despite the collision robbers still
00:42:41
managed to get away it's a real lucky
00:42:44
situation that some innocent bystander
00:42:46
wasn't killed because there were a
00:42:48
number of shots fired and there were a
00:42:50
number of shoppers passing and Bank
00:42:52
customers passing right by the area
00:42:58
the robbers abandoned their car behind a
00:43:00
nearby shopping center and left on foot
00:43:03
the FBI theorized that they may have had
00:43:05
another vehicle parked nearby which they
00:43:08
used to leave the area
00:43:17
authorities quickly cordoned off the men
00:43:20
they brought in tracking dogs road dogs
00:43:24
were set up the gang at once again made
00:43:27
a clean getaway
00:43:29
the following morning police found one
00:43:31
of the gang stolen cars less than a mile
00:43:34
from the bank as in the other ride it
00:43:38
contained no evidence that identified
00:43:40
the robbers currently all the
00:43:43
authorities can do is wait for the
00:43:45
elusive robbers to strike again these
00:43:48
individuals could be living anywhere in
00:43:50
the United States and we would like to
00:43:51
get information from anybody who has any
00:43:55
indication that people that may be able
00:43:59
to perpetrate this type of crime have
00:44:01
come into a lot of money or that had the
00:44:03
capability to commit these robberies and
00:44:06
in any one of these three cities there
00:44:09
are apparently at least four members of
00:44:11
the gang and authorities have managed to
00:44:13
create composites of three of the men
00:44:16
the first suspect is a white male in his
00:44:19
late 30s with five feet nine inches tall
00:44:21
with dark hair and a dark mustache
00:44:25
suspect number two is white between 35
00:44:29
and 38 years old about six feet in
00:44:31
height weighs between 170 and 180 pounds
00:44:35
the third suspect is approximately 6
00:44:38
feet tall is between 35 and 40 years old
00:44:41
he has gray or white hair and may wear a
00:44:44
false beard the same color
00:44:47
[Music]
00:44:56
join me next week another edition of
00:45:00
unsolved mysteries
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
