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next on unsolved mysteries
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a man on the run ends up dead in a
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deserted parking lot in tennessee
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who was he running from and why
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legend has it that a fortunate gold bars
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was hidden deep inside a new mexico
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mountain
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was the treasure removed in a secret
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government operation
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he seems like a charismatic ladies man
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in reality he's a brutal serial killer
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who murdered five women
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and
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a drug lord awaiting trial is
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hospitalized
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and then he pulls off a daring escape
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addressed as his own
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sister
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five stories they're all strange but
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guess what
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they're all true i'm dennis farina and
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this is unsolved streets
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the baja california peninsula 300 miles
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south of san diego
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a young american disoriented penniless
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and obviously out of place
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wandered into the mexican village of
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colonia vicente guerrero
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he lingered for months
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living on handouts depending on the
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charity of strangers
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for one california couple
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tales of the young stranger were a ray
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of hope in the search for their 34 year
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old son
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gordon collins had been missing
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for months
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i know he's alive
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i can't get on with my business i can't
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get on with nothing until
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you know we get him home
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gordon was vacationing with his
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girlfriend anastasia seals and another
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couple near santa rosalia a popular deep
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sea fishing port near the middle of the
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baja peninsula
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four days after they arrived the group
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secured a boat at a local hotel
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gordon's friend wayne schwartz had
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fished off the baja coast many times
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as the group left port a fisherman on
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his way in
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warned them a storm was growing
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several hours later a fierce storm would
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indeed hit the area
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gordon collins and his friends never
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returned
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the next day a hotel employee was sent
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out to look for them
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his search ended
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28 miles northeast
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gordon's girlfriend anastasia seals
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and wayne schwartz
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were dead
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but gordon and wayne's wife arlene
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burlington were nowhere to be found
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the bodies and all the paraphernalia out
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of the boat was all within one square
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mile of each other because i talked to
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the fellow that fished the bodies out
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and uh and so
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we say hey where's the other two jackets
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where's the other two people
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for three days the united states coast
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guard searched a
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250-mile area
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nothing
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it seemed obvious that gordon and arlene
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had also perished
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in time gordon and arlene's parents were
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asked to sign death certificates
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however
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reports that gordon was still alive had
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already begun to filter across the
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border
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some thought that he might be suffering
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from amnesia
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his parents went south to mexico
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to find
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and two mexican fishermen come running
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up to us and kept pointing to the flyer
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he said they seen a guy come out of the
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water and just had shorts he was all cut
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up waiting there that they're trying to
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get on the bus station
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i was very excited
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things started fitting together because
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this is where the accident happened they
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found the bodies just a mile and a half
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off of this shore
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it's got to be gorgeous
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around the same time gordon was also
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spotted on a nearby beach by a man named
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jose peralta
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you have your blanket okay
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you have your blanket i'm cold jose said
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that gordy said he was waiting for
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friends he went fishing with
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and could he have jose's blanket because
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he was going to sleep on the beach there
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at cabo and wait for his friends
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on one trip we headed toward the paws
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and we stopped at a few of these taco
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places and it says yeah seen him an hour
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ago
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so we went on down for probably another
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three or four miles we stopped again and
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the guy said yeah we've seen him about
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30 minutes ago so we finally got right
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into town and this is yeah within five
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minutes
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and then they seen us all seeing us
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together and i don't know what happened
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but everybody just clammed up we
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couldn't get oh we couldn't get no no
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more information
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over the next three months gordon
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collins was spotted at least 50 times in
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seven different locations all in the
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area of la paz and cabo san lucas at the
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southern end of the baja peninsula
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gordon's parents hired bill garcia a
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private investigator who alerted
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newspapers in baja
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after the articles ran garcia received
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several calls from a village 300 miles
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south of tijuana
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it was four or five months here
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in town he never worked here never work
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and he only hang around here in town he
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was walking all the time
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and almost in the town everybody knows
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him
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we've shown them pictures and everyone
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recognizes him and they're positive that
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it's him
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the people that have talked to him know
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some things about gordon
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and feel confident that he is there
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the man identified as gordon was
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eventually arrested for stealing food a
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local sheriff brought in james hatfield
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an american living in the village to
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translate
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my name's james what's yours
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hi i'm gordy
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there's no doubt on my mind it's gordon
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because when we met him in jail i
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introduced myself to him and he gave me
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his name gordon
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and then when the flyer came out it's
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right there on the flyer gordon and you
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can't get the two pitchers mixed up it's
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the same
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he moved on shortly before we were able
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to get to that area and we haven't been
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able to find where he's gone from there
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over the next year sporadic sightings of
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gordon continued
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the u.s consulate has officially
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reversed its position and no longer
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presumes that gordon collins is dead
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you just can't up and give up because
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it's your son
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i know it keeps me driving and keeps me
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going
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and i want to get him home
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gordon collins is six feet two inches
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tall and has light hair and blue eyes
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based on eyewitness descriptions a
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police artist made this sketch of the
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man thought to be gordon collins
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if you have any information that might
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help find him please log on to our
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knoxville tennessee
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bobby what's going on
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strangers find a dead man beaten and
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half naked in a parking lot on a great
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july morning
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scattered around the body are a mix of
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german canadian and u.s currency
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totaling about 4 000
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the contents of his wallet identify him
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as 31 year old blair adams of suri
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british columbia
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every aspect of this case is mysterious
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there's no logical explanation for
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anything he did we can't say for a fact
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that this is why he did that because
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there's no explanation for it we cannot
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come up with a motive for this man to be
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dead
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we can't come up for a reasoning for him
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to be here we can't come up for a reason
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for him to leave canada nobody knew he
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was going to take his trip nobody
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this is an actual whodunit
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no one knows why blair left his home in
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british columbia or how he ended up over
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2 000 miles away in knoxville tennessee
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his murder is one of the stranger cases
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we've ever come across
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was blair running away from a killer
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or was blair
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just running away
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from himself
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before his mysterious death
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blair adams was a foreman with a
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construction company in surrey british
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columbia
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those who knew him
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say blair liked his work and he did it
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well
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blair did seem to have a normal life he
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had many friends
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he had a job he traveled on occasion had
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a history of several different
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girlfriends was well liked by virtually
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everyone that we've had contact with
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but then something changed
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blair started having wild mood swings
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i asked him numerous times what was
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wrong and he said i don't think i should
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tell you about it
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and to this day i don't know what it is
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on friday july 5th blair withdrew all
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his savings
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he emptied his safety deposit box more
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than six thousand dollars in cash and
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thousands in jewelry gold and platinum
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on sunday claire tried to enter the
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united states two different times
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where you going uh seattle can you step
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out of the car
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i see some id but he was refused entry
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because he was a young single guy
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carrying a lot of cash the profile of a
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drug trafficker just get back in the car
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and turn your vehicle around
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the next day blair showed up at his job
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but he wasn't there to work
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i need to quit my job
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why
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need some time
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can i get my check
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that afternoon he spent sixteen hundred
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dollars on a round-trip airline ticket
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to frankfort germany
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just hours after buying the ticket blair
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showed up at a friend's home in a panic
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i need you to take me to the border take
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you to the border it's the middle of the
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night i can't leave my kids
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okay somebody's trying to kill me
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blair seemed terrified but his friend
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just couldn't help him out
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okay forget about it sorry to bother you
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thanks thanks anyways
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on tuesday instead of leaving for
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germany he turned in his tickets rented
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a car and headed back to the border
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this time blair managed to slip through
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he ended up in seattle where he dropped
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his rental car at the airport and bought
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a one-way ticket to washington dc
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he paid about 770 dollars for a one-way
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ticket when he could have purchased a
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round-trip ticket for approximately 350
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or 400
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so it would have been half the price for
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for a round-trip ticket as he paid for a
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one-way ticket
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it just
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seemed very unusual
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blair arrived in dc early wednesday
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morning and headed to knoxville more
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than 500 miles southwest
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his travel was unlogical in itself i
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mean why go to dc to turn around to come
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back to knoxville he had no reason to be
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in east tennessee he had no reason to be
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in knoxville everything we can find out
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he knows no one in east tennessee or the
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eastern united states
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all right
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hi can you help me i can't get my car
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started what's the problem
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blair was first seen in knoxville around
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5 30 that afternoon
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oh this can't be your key yeah that's my
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key well this is a nissan key yeah well
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this is a toyota so
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well it won't start it well that's the
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key i've been using
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do you have another key no
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somebody can't say okay empty out your
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pockets and let's look for it he empties
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out all his pockets there is no key to
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the toyota
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blair couldn't get a new key from the
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rental car company until the next
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morning he was stranded in knoxville a
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mechanic drove him to a nearby hotel
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best way to describe would be paranoid
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nervous agitated
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expecting someone to come in on him even
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though there wasn't anybody there
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i don't know who he was looking for but
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he was waiting for somebody to walk in
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for him
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maybe blair was being followed or maybe
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he only thought so
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the hotel's security camera shows that
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in a space of an hour blair went in and
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out of the lobby five times before
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finally paying for a room
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we can only assume that something was
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wrong with his thought process he wasn't
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acting rationally
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after checking in he walked out the
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front door it was 7 37 p.m
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the last time clara adams was known to
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be alive
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twelve hours later blair's body was
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found in a parking lot about a half mile
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from his hotel
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he was naked from the waist down
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blair's death was as strange as the last
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few days of his life
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his pants were removed
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in a way
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not like someone would take their own
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pants off but in a way that someone else
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would remove your pants from you
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his socks were turned inside out his
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shoes were off and his shirt was ripped
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open
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four thousand dollars in american
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canadian and german currency was
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scattered around blair's body
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a small pack held another two thousand
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dollars worth of gold and jewelry
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and strangely
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the key to blair's toyota
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was laying about 10 feet from his body
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we start looking at the angle of maybe a
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drug deal going bad that didn't pan out
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robbery was immediately first thought of
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you throw it away because all the
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money's still there
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we tried to find anything in his
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background that would lead us to believe
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that he frequent with prostitutes or
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that he even had any homosexual
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experiences
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you know anything to explain how he was
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found the way he was found
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we found nothing
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the autopsy stated that blair sustained
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many cuts and abrasions
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this would indicate that he was trying
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to defend himself from attack
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blair was ultimately killed by a violent
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blow that ruptured his stomach
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okay somebody's trying to kill me
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although blair believed that his life
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was in danger authorities have another
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theory
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they think that the threat was imaginary
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and blair's journey was an escape from
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his own delusions
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either way blair adams wound up dead
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just as he had feared
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i want blair back i want him well and
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healthy i want him to knock on the front
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door and come in but obviously
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that's not going to happen
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i don't know you know blair is dead
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and it would be nice to to have some
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understanding of why he died
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if you have any information about the
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murder of blair adams please log on to
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nassau county new york
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on a july night a 20 year old man named
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ricardo caputo makes a call to the
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police how can i help you
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i want to report something very
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important
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caputo has a girlfriend named natalie
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brown he tells police to go to the home
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of her parents
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caputo had been dating natalie for over
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a year and told authorities that they
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planned to marry
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i responded to the scene on middle neck
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road
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i went in the front door and immediately
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on my left i saw a kitchen and in the
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kitchen was the body of miss brown
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she had been stared repeatedly the room
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was covered with blood it was really a
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vicious assault on her
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it was the worst i ever seen in my she
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nice
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covered a lot of homicides in my life
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natalie brown's family and friends
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described her fiance as likable and
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attractive
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but in the case of ricardo caputo
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appearances were more than deceiving
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they were lethal and natalie wasn't his
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only victim
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after caputo was arrested for natalie
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brown's murder
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a psychiatric review determined that
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caputo was not competent to stand trial
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so he was sent to new york's matawan
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state hospital
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at the maximum security facility he met
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a 26 year old psychologist
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named judith becker my doctor my friend
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i believe it was a relationship of a
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a psychologist
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and
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a patient
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she felt that her patients were also her
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friends she wanted them to trust her
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and i think she felt they had to trust
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her in order to
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for her to be able to help them
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judith was charmed by caputo and over
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the next two years he worked to gain her
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trust
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apparently he succeeded
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and speaking to other inmates of madawan
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state hospital several of them stated
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that ricardo cupero had been bragging
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that he was going to use judith becky
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to gain his freedom from madawan state
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hospital
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with her help caputo was transferred to
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a manhattan psychiatric hospital that
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allowed patients to leave during the day
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this gave judith and caputo more time to
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spend together outside the hospital
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walls
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she even took him home
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to meet her family
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when we met ricardo she introduced him
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as a fellow who worked with her at
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madawan
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she continued the relationship as a
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as a friend and as a psychologist
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and as somebody he could turn to
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and i don't believe
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that she knew she was in as much danger
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as she ultimately was
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one october day judith didn't show up
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for a family boating trip
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concerned her parents went to her
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apartment
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judy
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when they entered the apartment where
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she lived
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there was dinner for two
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on the coffee table in the living room
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judy
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and when they walked into the bedroom
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they found their
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daughter
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lying on her back
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in bed
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wearing only a half slip
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she had been brutally beaten about the
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head and strangled with one of her
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stockings
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caputo had disappeared with judith's car
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checkbook and some of her clothing
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five months later in san francisco
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ricardo caputo met barbara taylor a book
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editor
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these photos of barbara were taking on
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the trip to yosemite
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she was later found beaten to death in
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her apartment
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caputo's fingerprints were at the crime
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scene but he had vanished again
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el paso texas
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five days after barbara's body was found
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a man calling himself ricardo diaz was
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held by the u.s immigration officials
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he was turned over the custody of u.s
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officials and he was incarcerated
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at the alien detention facility which is
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located here in el paso texas
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like the other detainees diaz was
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fingerprinted he knew that it would not
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take long for his real identity to be
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uncovered
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because diaz was in reality
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ricardo caputo
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three days later caputo and three other
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prisoners took a guard hostage using
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kitchen knives as weapons
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the men escaped the compound and crossed
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the border to mexico in a stolen car
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all were recaptured except for caputo
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the escapees told police that he was
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headed to mexico city
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there he moved in with a young 21 year
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old college student by the name of laura
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marie gomez
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two years later
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laura was found dead in her mexico city
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apartment
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ms gomez was found
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brutally
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beaten stomped to death she had been
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tortured
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prior to her death laura was two and a
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half months pregnant
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police believe the father and the killer
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was ricardo caputo
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since he's done this all over the united
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states and in mexico we have to consider
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him a serial killer
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six years later and two thousand miles
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away he may have struck again
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sixty sixty-year-old jackie bernhard a
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prominent author and social activist was
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found murdered in her manhattan
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apartment
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a private investigator hired by jackie's
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family received the tip identifying
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caputo as jackie's killer
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the caller also said that caputo boasted
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about killing
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several
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other women and also some men
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update
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after nearly two decades on the run
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ricardo caputo turned himself into
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police in new york city
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he said that he decided to surrender
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after his victims began appearing in his
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nightmares
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and that he was afraid
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that he would kill again
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while a fugitive he traveled throughout
00:25:08
north and south america married twice
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and fathered six children
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ricardo caputo pleaded guilty to two
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murders and was sentenced to 25 years to
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life
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three years later he died of a heart
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attack while playing basketball in
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attica prison he was 48 years old
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next a man and his family have searched
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for a treasure for over 50 years
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was it stolen
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by the u.s
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military
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in 1937 a man named doc nas claimed that
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he found an incredible treasure deep
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inside victoria peak in southern new
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mexico
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he reported seeing more than 100 tons of
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gold bars stacked like firewood
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doc and his wife babe filed a mining
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claim
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they hired an expert to widen the tunnel
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but the blast caused the mine shaft to
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cave in
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by the time he died in 1949
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dachnas had not gotten any closer to his
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treasure
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for two years babe tried to dig through
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the rubble and reach the gold but she
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too was unsuccessful
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and then in 1951 the army established a
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missile range at white sands new mexico
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they annexed victoria peak and forced
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babe to stop her digging
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during the late 1950s two airmen claimed
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that they had actually entered the
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mountain and seen the gold bars
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but they said that the military would
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not allow them to go back and remove
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them
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in 1961 babe accused the military of
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digging for the gold themselves
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the army officially denied her
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accusations
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she was protesting vehemently that the
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army would be excavating on her claim
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while they were denying her access to do
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the same thing
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finally the army did allow babe one of
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the airmen and their team to excavate
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the peak
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but the military placed a two-week time
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limit on the dig
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and babe found no gold
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if the mountain has not been penetrated
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and materials removed from this mountain
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this will be the biggest thing that this
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country's ever seen
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update
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after our broadcast
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two viewers contacted us with new
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information about the disputed treasure
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on victoria's peak
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the first call came from gene and
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juanita irwin a retired couple living in
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baytown texas
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juanita irwin's brother captain orby
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swaner had been stationed at the white
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sands missile range in the early 1960s
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swaner told his family an extraordinary
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story
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he started to tell the story
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of the treasure that was found at white
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sands missile range
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now captain swaner
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went out to inspect and confirm
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and uh
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sure enough it was true when the
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pentagon sent down a special team
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which included my brother-in-law captain
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swaner
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there were several chambers in the cave
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and it had immense amount of stuff in it
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and they photographed
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and he said it was in excess of 300
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million dollars i asked him what they
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did with the goal once they removed it
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and he said
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he thought they took it to fort knox
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we confirm that captain swaner served as
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an officer assigned to security at white
00:29:16
sands missile range in 1961
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but the u.s army denies any knowledge of
00:29:23
the treasure
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i know i know nothing i've seen nothing
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of any such claim
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in the records that i've seen
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russell dunn the second person who
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called our phone center was a friend of
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captain swaner
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dunn says that swanner told him
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the same story
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he further told me that there was a
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government agency and as i recall he
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mentioned secret service
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did remove the gold
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it was in bars
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and it was taken away in trucks
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i believe he was honestly telling me the
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truth
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there is still more evidence that the
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military took gold from victoria peak
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judge h.l morton who knew babe stated in
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a 1961 affidavit that he and three
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friends had actually seen soldiers at
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work on the peak
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moreland claimed that he saw military
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equipment and beams that could be used
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to support underground tunnels
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well it was a military conducted
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operation out there and of course they
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had access to the equipment they had
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access to the location
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and they were out there doing the same
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thing we were doing they were looking
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for the gold
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moreland testified that his group talked
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to captain swaner who ordered them to
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leave the area
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when marlin reported the activity to
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babe nas
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she called the new mexico state land
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office they contacted a colonel jaffe at
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the missile range
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from the name of jaffe a colonel jaffe
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and i asked him i said is there somebody
00:31:02
in there digging i said they shouldn't
00:31:04
be doing that
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and he said no there is no
00:31:07
digging on that
00:31:08
peak and he said if there are it's none
00:31:10
of your damn business
00:31:13
jordan says that within 24 hours he
00:31:16
received the call from major general
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john r schenkel the commander at white
00:31:21
sands schenkel admitted that there had
00:31:23
been digging on the peak but said that
00:31:25
it would stop
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immediately
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the military withdrew
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soon after moreland and his friends
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returned to victoria peak
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they found roads scaffolds and tunnels
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but no sign of babe's gold fortune
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they exploded her claim and i think
00:31:44
maybe have the money has gone away i
00:31:47
think it's gone
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i think the soldiers may have moved it
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out
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there was absolutely no foundation to
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the charts
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that gold was
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being removed or and there was
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absolutely no
00:32:00
evidence
00:32:01
that gold had ever been removed
00:32:05
one of the few eyewitnesses who claimed
00:32:07
to have actually seen the gold was
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captain orby swaner the former head of
00:32:12
security at white sands
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but
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is there any physical evidence that
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swanner was inside victoria peak in
00:32:20
1961.
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during the 1977 expedition
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babe noss and the other excavators found
00:32:29
orbee swaner's evidence
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they went in and found
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some
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military
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debris battery packs and such
00:32:38
and they photographed on the wall of one
00:32:40
of the deeper tunnels
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a name and a date
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and an army
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serial number on the wall
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the name was captain arby swaner the
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date was october 1961.
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i don't feel that the department of the
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army
00:32:58
in the 60s treated my grandmother fairly
00:33:02
they really tried to make a fool out of
00:33:03
her and all the time she was telling the
00:33:06
truth
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they had sent my grandmother on a wild
00:33:08
goose chase for decades
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if that is the fact
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i think a great injustice has been done
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next a killer who used bombs to murder
00:33:22
innocent civilians is finally brought to
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justice
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and later an accused drug lord concocts
00:33:29
a daring escape dressed in a wig women's
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clothing
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and makeup
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previously we profiled the case of eric
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robert rudolph known as the infamous
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olympic park bomber
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rudolph's first attack was in atlanta's
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centennial park during the 1996 summer
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olympics let's see that pretty small of
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yours
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one
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two
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three
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forty-four-year-old alice hawthorne was
00:34:12
killed and over a hundred more were
00:34:15
injured
00:34:20
six months later a similar type of bomb
00:34:23
was detonated at an abortion clinic in
00:34:26
suburban atlanta
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and a month after that
00:34:34
a midtown atlanta gay and lesbian
00:34:36
nightclub was targeted
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we're building a good prosecutable court
00:34:44
case based upon the forensic evidence we
00:34:46
had where we could tie the bombs
00:34:48
together but we still didn't know the
00:34:50
identity of the bomber we didn't know
00:34:51
who it was
00:34:52
police began receiving letters from the
00:34:54
so-called army of god claiming
00:34:57
responsibility for at least two of the
00:35:00
bombings
00:35:02
those who participate in any way in the
00:35:04
murder of children may be targeted for
00:35:06
attack we will target sodomites their
00:35:09
organizations and all those who push
00:35:11
their agenda we will target all
00:35:13
facilities and personnel of the federal
00:35:16
government
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birmingham alabama 11 months after the
00:35:22
third atlanta bombing
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outside a woman's health and abortion
00:35:26
clinic an overturned flower pot caught
00:35:29
the eye of robert sanderson
00:35:32
an off-duty police officer sanderson was
00:35:34
working that day
00:35:36
as a security guard
00:35:52
sanderson was killed instantly
00:35:55
emily lyons the clinic's head nurse lost
00:35:57
her left eye when she was riddled with
00:36:00
shrapnel
00:36:02
just after the explosion a witness saw a
00:36:04
man remove a wig and throw it away as he
00:36:07
left the scene
00:36:09
he was able to give the police the man's
00:36:11
license plate number
00:36:14
the truck was traced to eric rudolph
00:36:18
when an fbi swat team raided his trailer
00:36:20
in murphy north carolina they missed him
00:36:23
by only minutes
00:36:24
however authorities weren't sure whether
00:36:27
or not rudolph had actually left the
00:36:29
area
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update
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five years after eric rudolph was last
00:36:37
seen a police officer noticed what he
00:36:39
thought was a homeless man
00:36:41
he was rummaging through the trash
00:36:43
behind a market in murphy north carolina
00:36:46
the officer took the man to the police
00:36:48
station and noticed the resemblance to
00:36:50
the wanted poster for eric rudolph he
00:36:53
made the arrest on the spot
00:36:57
during his time on the run rudolph had
00:36:59
survived by eating wildlife in the
00:37:02
appalachian wilderness and foraging in
00:37:04
dumpsters in the surrounding towns
00:37:07
rudolph agreed to plead guilty to all
00:37:09
the bombings in exchange for being
00:37:11
spared the death penalty
00:37:14
he was sentenced to four consecutive
00:37:16
life terms and will spend the rest of
00:37:18
his life
00:37:19
behind bars
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from the age of 17 lionel luliano made
00:37:29
enough money to enjoy the life of a
00:37:31
wealthy playboy
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how did he do this
00:37:35
by being one of the biggest drug
00:37:36
traffickers in the southern us
00:37:39
but when he was just 21 the police
00:37:41
brought his lavish lifestyle
00:37:43
to a sudden end
00:37:46
after a six-month sting operation lionel
00:37:50
luviano only 21 years old was arrested
00:37:53
in houston texas
00:37:55
despite his young age he was a key
00:37:57
figure in an international drug ring
00:38:00
that reportedly moved nearly a quarter
00:38:02
of a million dollars in heroin every
00:38:05
month
00:38:07
lionel luviano led a very extravagant
00:38:10
lifestyle when he was free in the
00:38:12
houston area he's 21 years old and had
00:38:15
all the luxuries of
00:38:16
of an extremely extravagant individual
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before his arrest luviana was involved
00:38:24
in a serious motorcycle accident
00:38:27
while he awaited trial authorities had
00:38:29
no choice but to allow him to continue
00:38:32
his treatment at a local hospital he was
00:38:35
shackled to his bed 24 hours a day in a
00:38:38
room that he shared with a total
00:38:40
stranger
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vasquez
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martinez
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a week after luviana was admitted
00:38:46
some visitors arrive unannounced
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three individuals
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two women and a man walked into lbj
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hospital
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did not have to go through any security
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measures as this is not an institution
00:39:01
walked up to the third floor lionel
00:39:04
luviano's room
00:39:05
we're here to see our friend vasquez
00:39:07
martinez please
00:39:08
yes
00:39:11
they indicated they were going to visit
00:39:13
the individual across the bed from
00:39:15
lionel luviano
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the guard was in a position to see them
00:39:20
walk over to the other individual's bed
00:39:22
so he felt comfortable in the fact as
00:39:24
would anybody that they were just
00:39:26
visiting the individual across the bed
00:39:28
who was not a prisoner and he was able
00:39:29
to have visitors at any time of the day
00:39:32
okay vasquez we got some business to
00:39:34
take care of
00:39:37
in reality the visitors were one of
00:39:40
luviano's sisters and two other family
00:39:42
members
00:39:44
what's going on shut up never mind
00:39:47
believing they were armed vasquez
00:39:49
watched in disbelief as lionel began a
00:39:51
total makeover
00:39:53
a shade
00:39:54
a full cup two-piece woman's suit and
00:39:57
then a wig and some makeup and the
00:40:00
transformation was complete
00:40:05
i think how do i look at that man look
00:40:07
okay yeah
00:40:08
come
00:40:12
escaped masquerading as his own sister
00:40:16
see you
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the guard outside of the hospital room
00:40:21
was not surprised when he saw two women
00:40:23
and a man leave the room that's what
00:40:25
he'd observed walk into the room
00:40:31
luviano's sisters stayed behind
00:40:34
with a concealed gun she kept vasquez
00:40:36
from sounding the alarm she would later
00:40:38
slip away during the confusion following
00:40:41
the discovery of ljubljana's escape
00:40:46
luliana's accomplices were later
00:40:48
captured but the drug lord
00:40:50
is still that large
00:40:53
lionel luviano was looking at
00:40:55
approximately 20 years
00:40:58
in prison
00:40:59
being that it be in a
00:41:01
federal prison
00:41:03
he would approximately do 19 of those
00:41:06
years there's very little good time
00:41:08
given and such like this so i'm sure
00:41:10
that this played quite heavily on his
00:41:12
mind his desire to escape
00:41:15
lionel luviano stands five feet five
00:41:17
inches tall and weighs 120 pounds
00:41:20
authorities believe that he may be
00:41:22
living in mexico he should be considered
00:41:25
armed and dangerous
00:41:27
if you have any information
00:41:29
please log on to our website at
00:41:33
dot unsolved.com
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