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Mysteries a US spy is found dead in his
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motel room the Army says that it was
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suicide his family thinks that he was
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tortured and
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electrocuted when a Small Town Bank
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president is killed some believe the
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robbery is a coverup for a contract
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killing a desperate Chase in a parking
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lot shootout the suspect was captured
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only to escape
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again and a beautiful young waitress at
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a topless Club disappears her boyfriend
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becomes the prime
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suspect whether it's murder Larsen or a
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foul play sometimes these cases are
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solved thanks to you I'm Dennis finina
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and this is unsolved solve
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Mysteries
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Houston
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Texas The Men's Club an upscale night
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spot the clientele adult males the
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entertainment young
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females
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topless most people know what goes on in
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clubs like these and make assumptions
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about the kind of women who work here
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but Tara was a waitress not a dancer her
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life wasn't what anyone
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expected Tara grew up in Del Rio Texas
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population
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34,000 she was the third of five
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children in a devoutly religious
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family After High School Tara arrived in
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Houston to pursue a career in
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photography it wasn't long before the
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cost of big city living forced her to
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find another
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job as a waitress at The Men's Club Tara
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found the cash that she needed Tara
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wasn't the type of person you would
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think would work in a place like that it
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was more just for the money you know she
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was going to school and stuff so it made
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her the money that she was comfortable
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with and she was happy with that Tara
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was a small town girl with big city
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dreams but late one night she was
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driving back to her apartment after work
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and she never made it home the police
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feared the worst high on the list of
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possible suspects Tara's boyfriend a
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young man named Wayne
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Hecker Wayne and Tara met 2 years after
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Tara arrived in Houston even though Tara
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never danced at The Men's Club Wayne was
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less than thrilled with her
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job Wayne was not happy about Tara
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working at a topless Club but Wayne
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wasn't working at the time so he didn't
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have much of a choice she loved the
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money and she loved the atmosphere and I
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guess that's just something that you
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want to grow out of and I'm not going to
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tell her where to work you know despite
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Wayne's concerns he and Tara moved in
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together at first they seemed happy but
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the romance did not last Tara and
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Wayne's relationship was kind of Rocky
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to say the least um she was always
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talking about moving out or thinking
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about moving out and uh we would discuss
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it at times and she would say she needed
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to talk it over with him and and uh
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occasionally we talked about her doing
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it without talking it over
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first Tara's job at The Men's Club
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distracted her from the problems with
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Wayne but on one very slow night she did
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something that remains unexplained
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anybody want to go I'll go you want to
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all any one more any volunteers I'll go
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home I'm kidding yeah it's slow not much
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happening when the manager asked for
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volunteers to end their shift ear
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Tara agreed to go home it'd be a little
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unusual for Tara to ask to go home she
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wasn't always interested in leaving she
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was there till 2:00 to see if she you
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know till closing time make as much
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money as she could Tara changed into
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Street Clos and at 1220 a.m. punched out
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for the night Tara when she left walked
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past the doorman without saying you know
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goodbye or without responding to his
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goodbye and that would have been
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unusual the security guard at the club
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told police that he walked to to her car
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and that she drove off without
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incident Wayne Hecker later told the
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police that at the moment Taro was
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leaving The Men's Club he was in a pool
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hall 15 minutes away Wayne said he
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called Tara earlier that evening but
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never spoke to her and did not know that
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she left
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early I probably got home at
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around 5 and I expected to see Tara
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either laying on the sofa or in bed and
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she wasn't there so at that point I mean
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would do like anybody else would that
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was in love with someone
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or I went to find her at 7 the next
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morning Wayne found Tara's car abandoned
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on a busy freeway when I saw the car the
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first thing comes to my mind is what's
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it doing there uh apparently she drove
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the car there the car alarm wasn't even
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on um the flashers weren't even on that
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really surprised me the car was locked
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and a can of Mace was inside she always
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carried her mace on her and when I saw
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the mace in the car I thought why is the
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mace in the car and why aren't the
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flashers on and why isn't the car we did
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have a car alarm why wasn't it engaged
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police feared that Tara was a victim of
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Foul Play it wasn't long before
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suspicion began to Center on Wayne
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hacker
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police wanted to know if he had a solid
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Alibi the night that tar disappeared we
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have employees of the club that
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indicated that he left the club
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approximately midnight 12:30 and was
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next seen approximately 1:45 in the
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morning the pool hall is located 15
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minutes from The Men's Club Tara's car
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was found about 3 mi from the club
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according to Witnesses Wayne was gone
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from the pool hall for a full hour and
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45 minutes well there's certain uh
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actions and reactions that we've got
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from Wayne that uh that cast suspicion
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upon himself later we put the question
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directly to Wayne Hecker how do you
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respond to the charge that Wayne Hecker
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had something to do with our
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disappearance uh to tell you the truth
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um I don't I don't know an explanation
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to anybody but the Lord and the Lord has
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given me uh you know he's I'm I'm
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waiting I'm waiting hear something and
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it's from him I I I can't I can't answer
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anybody cuz there's not an answer uh
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that I have only he has it and and until
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there is an answer I don't think anybody
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will be
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satisfied with no concrete evidence of
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Foul Play Taro was officially listed as
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missing when police obtained a series of
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love notes indicating there was another
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man in Tara's life they thought there
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might be a break in the case one note
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said quote please don't be scared do
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what your heart tells you I'm very
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excited that you'll marry me but in
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another one quote the more you hold out
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the longer you jeopardize what I feel
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for you
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unquote according to co-workers at the
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club Tara's secret admirer was a
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frequent visitor who lavished her with
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$100 tips he knew about her problems
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with Wayne but in the end the notes
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suggest that Tara rejected him there was
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nothing threatening in those notes uh we
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interviewed the individual uh our our
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opinion at this point it's uh he was
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just an individual that had an
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attraction toward tar and nothing more
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once again the trail LED right back to
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Wayne
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Hecker I haven't been charged with a
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crime no not at all I I love the woman
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to death she's the best thing that ever
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happened to me um she's a great girl
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yeah I do I love her I love her with all
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my heart and and um I hope the Whole
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World Hears that uh I didn't commit a
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crime so I canot be charged with one
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simple as
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that other than her abandoned car no
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trace of Tara Breen Ridge has ever been
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found Tara is 5' 5 in tall and weighs
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120 lb she has a small scar under the
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left side of her lower lip a scar under
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her left arm and a scar on her left
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side if you have any information about
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next an outlaw that neither police nor
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prisons can keep Behind
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Bars
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Fountain Valley
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California after being called to the
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scene of a burglary police are swept out
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in a high-speed
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chase it ends in a parking lot officer
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Kevin AR takes off after one of the
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suspects everything is supposed to go a
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certain way we chase him and and tell
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him to get down the ground he gets on
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the ground and we handcuff him and
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that's the end of the problem uh this
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one all of a sudden he wasn't obeying my
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commands they're struggling over the gun
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and I realized that he's trying to kill
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me to avoid being shot with his own gun
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Arnold tries to empty his
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revolver no there's one
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left Arnold reaches for his second
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revolver the suspect survives his name
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is Michael Wade Mohan a background check
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shows five pages of previous
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convictions it turns out that Mohan is
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also a master of disguise with a talent
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for
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escape after his arrest Mohan remained
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in police custody awaiting
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trial once a week he was brought to a
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local hospital for physical therapy to
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treat his bullet
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bounds well one day when he was going to
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therapy uh there was a nurse that was
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talking to someone else and she made a
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mistake by saying out loud that he was
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going to be coming again on a certain
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day and of course Mohan is the type of
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person that would file it away for
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future use just as scheduled that
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certain day arrived and Mohan was at the
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hospital for
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treatment as they got to the back door
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of the Therapy Building he walked again
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he stumbled and fell forward don't move
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ra Sho once he had the deputy handcuff
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himself he took a second set of cuffs
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moved him down the hall and used that
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set of cuffs to cuff him to a fire
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pipe yeah I feel
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it Mohan bolted out the door and jumped
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into his wife's pickup truck Michael
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Mohan had escaped
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again I got to get into my clothes
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clothes are in that bag on the floor
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during the course of the follow-up
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investigation it was our conclusion that
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it was Sharon Mohan that had been
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driving the truck we also felt that she
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was the one that planted the gun and
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when we took her into custody a couple
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of days later we arrested her for aiding
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and abetting and she eventually plad
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guilty Sharon Mohan was sentenced to 2
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years for helping her husband get
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away
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Mesa Arizona one week after Mohan
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escaped another high-speed chase this
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time at more than 100
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mph eight different police departments
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joined the
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chase then police put up a
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barricade the Chase had lasted 2
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hours right light over your
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right
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once again Michael Mohan was in
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custody but not for
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long Mohan was Shackled to seven other
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convicts in the back of a van at the
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Tempe
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Courthouse after mohan's preliminary
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hearing I drove the inmates over to the
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Tempe Justice
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Court I had one inmate that had to go in
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there for a preliminary hearing I I
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parked in front of the court secured the
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van took the prisoner inside I was
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inside approximately 10 minutes during
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those 10 minutes Mohan and another
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inmate managed to kick out the van's
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windshield then they disappeared into
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the crowded Campus of Arizona State
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University yeah let come on let's
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go Mohan and his accomplice Jeffrey
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Leslie stole a truck and drove away to
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Freedom against all All Odds Michael
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Mahan had escaped
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again
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update 1600 M from Tempe in Mobile
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Alabama minutes after the story aired
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the FBI received a tip from a viewer who
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reported that she recognized Michael and
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Sharon
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Mohan the tipster that called in
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indicated that she had seen uh Mohan and
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his wife in m Bill and that they were
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using an assumed name of Steve and Mary
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Boswick at first I didn't think it was
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him and then I noticed her immediately
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there was no
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doubt the caller told authorities that
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Mohan and his wife were living in a
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trailer located behind a house just
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outside of mobile the FBI staked out the
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trailer two individuals a man and a
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woman who fit the description of Michael
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Mohan Sharon Mohan went to a Autoport
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store and after Mr Mohan came out of the
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Autoport store he was arrested along
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with his wife Sharon Mohan Michael Wade
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Mohan was tried and convicted of assault
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with a deadly weapon and armed robbery
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he was sentenced to a total of 16 years
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behind bars Sharon Mohan served time for
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aiding in The Escape of a prisoner both
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have since been
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released
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next a daring American spy suddenly
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turns up dead did he take his own life
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or did someone have him
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kill round go try it 11:00 p.m. in a
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motel room near Fort me in Maryland Army
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officer Ralph Sigler is found dead the
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Army claims that he committed suicide
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electrocuting himself with wires wrapped
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around his
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arms but just before sigler's funeral
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began his daughter Karen had a few
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moments alone with him she was shocked
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to discover the condition of his
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body when I looked at him the first time
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I didn't believe it was him his body was
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so so bruised so
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mutilated so it didn't look like my
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father at
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all I noticed that his nose was broken I
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noticed that there was a dent in the top
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of the head and there was blood I looked
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inside his mouth he was missing the two
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front teeth but all the teeth were
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cracked and and Jagged as if someone hit
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him in the mouth what are you
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doing mom he looks lousy look at this
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look at his hand I took off one of his
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gloves I saw cuts on the Palm look look
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at his arm I rolled up the sleeves I
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looked at the arms I found a lot of
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bruises from looking at the body and the
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condition that the body was in I don't
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think he committed suicide I believe
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that he was beaten to death I believe he
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was
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murdered Ralph was no ordinary army
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officer
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Ralph Sigler was a spy who worked for
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both the Army and the FBI his assignment
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to deceive the KGB and exposed Soviet
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spies he was walking a Razor's Edge in
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service to his country his family
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believes that it may have led to his
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murder and now they want to know who
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killed Ralph Sigler and why the idea
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that Ralph Sigler committed suicide in
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the way that the Army and the Maryland
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State Police described
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is patently and totally
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absurd Ralph's Life as a double agent
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began when the Army sent him to the
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Soviet Embassy in Mexico
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City I'd like to speak to the KGB
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resident Ralph told the KGB officer that
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he could provide them with stolen
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documents that would compromise US
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missile
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defenses
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what do you want I want to come to work
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for your government I when the Russians
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took the bait Ralph's double life
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began for 10 years Ralph contacted his
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Soviet handlers through various covert
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methods and provided the KGB with bogus
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Secrets cooked up by Army intelligence
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one of his superiors at the time was
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Lewis Martell Ralph was considered a a
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very good double agent by the community
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uh he was a shining star and in I say
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community I mean that's the FBI and to a
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degree the CIA as a very valuable asset
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and a man who was doing a a very good
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job Ralph was so successful that other
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agencies got wind of him the FBI
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secretly asked Ralph to expose Soviet
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agents to them one of the most notorious
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was Rudolph Herman a Soviet Master spy
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who lived and worked in the United
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States when the FBI asked Ralph to keep
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this mission to himself he
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agreed when Ralph was asked to take a
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routine polygraph test the results
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surprised his superiors have you ever
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passed any unauthorized intelligence to
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the Soviet
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Union no the question or question that
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showed something was bothering were
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questions involved with what he had
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given to the Soviets that he was not
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authorized to give that question was
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asked time and time again on every poly
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and every ply it showed indications of
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deception journalist Joe trento believes
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that Ralph failed the polygraph due to
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his secret assignment with Rudolph
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Herman the operation the Army knew
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nothing
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about Rudolph fman was the number one
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Soviet spy in America and this was the
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great secret that the FBI kept from the
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army they were never told that Ralph
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seagler was servicing Herman so when
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they asked him questions did you ever
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have any unauthorized contacts with the
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Soviets Ralph would say no and it would
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show up his deception Ralph of course
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thought that the FBI would clear it for
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the Army and they never did that as
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suspicion grew the Army gave Ralph even
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more polygraphs he failed in
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any other money from one of your
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missions no finally Ralph was called in
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for
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questioning with army brast already
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assuming that he was a traitor it was
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going to be a rough
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meeting you think just 24 hours before
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the interview Ralph Sigler called his
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wife at
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work hello Elsa Ral is that you now
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listen to me this is important where are
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you I want you to hire a respectable
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lawyer he sounded tense as if he was
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under a lot of pressure I want you to
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sue the US
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Army I'm dying I never
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lied then the phone was disconnected
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Ralph's wife rushed home and called Army
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intelligence hours later Ralph was found
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dead in his motel
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room Maryland State Police took charge
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of the
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investigation as as far as the uh the
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room looked there did not appear to be
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have been a struggle the locks on the
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door uh to the room had been double
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locked from the inside as a result of
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our investigation uh we found that
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sometime during that evening Ralph
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Sigler apparently took a cord lamp cord
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cut it off spliced the wires and WRA
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both wires around his
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biceps he plugged the outlet in the
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socket causing him to be
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electrocuted there was no evidence
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developed to indicate that the uh death
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of Ralph Sigler was anything other than
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suicide the suicide Theory makes no
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sense because Ralph had no motive for a
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suicide the Army told him that no matter
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what he had done they didn't care they
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weren't going to prosecute him they
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weren't going to punish him they weren't
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going to hurt him in any way the fact of
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the matter is the experts we Tau to
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about electrocution electricity told us
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that the amount of damage caused to
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seager's Arms by the presence of the
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electrical wire wrapped around them
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couldn't have been made by 110 volt
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circuit that you'd find in a normal
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Motel lighting situation is as you did
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at this motel and in fact it would take
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a much greater amount of electricity to
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do this sort of damage I'm sorry folks
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we conducting a police investigation
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please clear the hallways the Toros
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believe that Ralph Ziggler was kidnapped
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by the KGB tortured and then murdered
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his double life had finally run
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out they knew Ralph was going to be
00:24:03
questioned standard tradecraft on the
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part of the KGB would mean that they
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would take Ralph and put him through
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their own hostile interrogation probably
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torture him and the Soviets have a
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history of using electricity for torture
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and get the answers they needed I want
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you to sue the US Army was he one of
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their agents or was he really a double
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agent for the Army had he snookered him
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all these years and Ralph may have been
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for to give up those answers had he
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compromised Rudolph fman to the Army and
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to the FBI that's why the Soviets had
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every reason in the world to kill Ralph
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seagler at this point uh my feelings
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about the theory is that the KGB did not
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kill Ralph Zigler in fact uh my opinion
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and strictly my opinion based on
00:24:49
facts is that Ralph Ziggler committed
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suicide however what about the broken
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nose missing teeth the bruises on
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Ralph's body and the cuts on his hands
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Elsa Sigler is convinced that her
00:25:03
husband's death was not
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suicide the government told me all the
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time if anything happen we'll be here
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for you we're taking care why they lied
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to me when he died he wasn't double
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agent I respected National
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Security could have come and tell me the
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truth I want to know the
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truth we may never know the truth about
00:25:35
Ralph sigler's secret
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mission if he committed suicide because
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he betrayed his country then he was a
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traitor but if he was murdered by the
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KGB after exposing a master spy he was
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an American
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hero sigler's family will not rest until
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they find the truth
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if you were part of the intelligence
00:26:01
community and know something about Ralph
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Sigler or if you have any information at
00:26:07
all about this case please contact our
00:26:09
website at UNS south.com
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next a bank president is murdered was it
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a bungle robbery or an
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execution
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an employee of the NL Missouri State
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Bank arrives at 8:30 a.m. to open the
00:26:44
doors she's startled to find one of them
00:26:49
unlocked anybody
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here inside another surprise the vault
00:26:57
is wide open
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open the bank has been
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robbed authorities discover that $70,000
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is missing from the Vault some of it in
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coins on the floor they find two Spence
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shell casings from 45 caliber
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bullets try to end short
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again they make repeated attempts to
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contact Bank President Dan short but
00:27:25
he's nowhere to be found is just raining
00:27:29
okay some begin to wonder if Dan short
00:27:31
has robbed his own
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bank at the time Dan was 51 years old he
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had been president of the bank for 6
00:27:41
years and was respected by people in
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town 5 days after the robbery police
00:27:48
found Dan's body floating in Grand Lake
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about 20 mi from the bank investigators
00:27:55
would soon come to a grim conclusion
00:27:58
when Dan short was thrown into the water
00:28:01
he was still
00:28:03
alive he was tied to a chair which had a
00:28:07
concrete block taped to it with duct
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tape no apparent wounds to the extent to
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cause death it appeared at that point
00:28:16
that he had indeed been drowned by being
00:28:19
thrown from the bridge uh it was
00:28:22
appalling to think that any human being
00:28:24
would do this to another particularly
00:28:27
with the obvious motive being just to
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conceal a robbery or the identities of
00:28:33
the perpetrators if Dan short was
00:28:35
murdered as part of the bank robbery why
00:28:38
would the thieves choose to kill him in
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such a coldblooded way it is possible
00:28:43
that Dan's shocking death was a
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premeditated
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execution when Dan short became
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president of the no Missouri State Bank
00:28:52
the local economy had been in bad
00:28:55
shape he was faced with with balancing
00:28:58
the financial needs of his customers
00:29:00
against the bank's need to turn a profit
00:29:03
in the process he made a few enemies how
00:29:06
are you this morning good uh Dan could I
00:29:09
talk to you about that apprais sure he
00:29:11
had some difficulties that he had to
00:29:13
straighten out in order for the bank to
00:29:15
to function properly uh there was
00:29:18
repossessions restructuring denial of
00:29:21
credit but even though he had a
00:29:24
difficult position he was able to win
00:29:26
the people over he became a friend of
00:29:28
the people uh he wasn't particularly
00:29:31
outgoing uh he wasn't a backs slaber but
00:29:35
people accepted him for what he was and
00:29:37
that was just a genuinely nice
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person Dan lived about 8 mil out of town
00:29:44
in a remote rural area on the night of
00:29:47
the robbery he had a guest who left just
00:29:50
before 11:00
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p.m. the FBI has tried to Recon instruct
00:29:57
what happened next they believe someone
00:30:00
showed up at his door between 11:00 p.m.
00:30:03
and 1:30 a.m. my car broke down up the
00:30:06
road may I use your telephone probably
00:30:08
the perpetrators went to his front door
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armed and when Mr short answered the
00:30:13
door they immediately restrained him and
00:30:17
later took him to the bank Lo the bank
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we want the
00:30:22
money according to the FBI Dan and his
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abductors arrived at the bank around 2
00:30:29
a.m. indications are that the
00:30:32
perpetrators forced him to turn the
00:30:34
alarm off to unlock the front doors and
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then after gaining entry into the bank
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dealt with the surveillance camera to
00:30:41
some extent spray painting the lens and
00:30:44
turning the camera around
00:30:46
backwards Hey where's the money it's
00:30:48
right there open it up come
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on the perpetrators took only what cash
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they
00:30:58
saw in the vault which was approximately
00:31:00
$70,000 including coins where's the rest
00:31:04
of the money anymore leaving behind
00:31:07
approximately $100,000 that Mr short was
00:31:09
aware of led us to believe that he was
00:31:11
not willingly
00:31:13
involved and probably did not volunteer
00:31:16
that the extra currency was there at the
00:31:19
time of the robbery as they left the
00:31:22
bank one of the thieves fired two shots
00:31:25
at the surveillance camera people who
00:31:27
lived nearby heard the
00:31:33
shots minutes later on the edge of town
00:31:36
a caravan of three vehicles was seen by
00:31:39
a local trucker he says the first
00:31:42
vehicle looked like Dan's
00:31:47
pickup Only The Killers know exactly
00:31:50
what happened next at some point they
00:31:52
ditched Dan's pickup and put him in the
00:31:56
van
00:31:58
there they chained him to a kitchen
00:32:00
chair weighted with concrete
00:32:04
blocks we know that Mr short was alive
00:32:06
when he was thrown into the
00:32:08
lake what we don't know is if he was
00:32:11
conscious or
00:32:14
unconscious but the fact that he was not
00:32:18
gagged leads us to the believe that he
00:32:21
was unconscious when he was thrown into
00:32:24
the
00:32:26
lake
00:32:31
Witnesses reported seeing a dark vanan
00:32:33
stopped on the bridge at 6 a.m. but It
00:32:36
sped away before they could get a
00:32:38
license
00:32:42
number one nagging question remains why
00:32:46
was Dan short killed in such a cruel and
00:32:49
ruthless way sorry I'm going to have to
00:32:53
turn you
00:32:54
down well I'm certain that there are
00:32:56
some people out out there that has some
00:32:57
real animosity some hatred towards the
00:33:00
State Bank of Noah and Dan short he had
00:33:03
deny credit to people and the denial of
00:33:06
credit probably broke
00:33:08
others Dan had worked in I think three
00:33:13
other Banks maybe something followed him
00:33:15
here from someplace else maybe he stubbl
00:33:18
across something in this area he
00:33:20
shouldn't have police hold on to the
00:33:23
theory that the bank robbery was nothing
00:33:25
more than a cover of for an execution
00:33:29
they believed the thieves were amateurs
00:33:32
they left behind plenty of fingerprints
00:33:34
stole heavy bags of coins and fired
00:33:37
unnecessary
00:33:40
shots I want them to find the people
00:33:43
that did this and to explain to
00:33:46
me why they had to kill my brother
00:33:50
over50 or
00:33:52
$60,000 and I want to know why that
00:33:55
happened
00:34:00
update after a 2 and 1/2 year
00:34:03
investigation the FBI arrested two
00:34:05
brothers Shannon Wayne agofsky and
00:34:09
Joseph Anthony agavi for armed robbery
00:34:12
and the murder of Dan short Shannon
00:34:15
agavi was found guilty of murder and
00:34:18
sentenced to life in prison the murder
00:34:21
trial for his brother Joseph ended with
00:34:23
a hung jury but he was found guilty and
00:34:26
sentenced to life for armed robbery a
00:34:30
motive for the crime was never
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revealed next authorities in New York
00:34:39
force a loving couple to give up their
00:34:42
only child their crime he is black she
00:34:46
is
00:34:55
white Buffalo New
00:34:59
York Elanor Platt and John Elias have
00:35:03
finally found each other they fell in
00:35:06
love as teenagers but racism and
00:35:08
intolerance drove a wedge between them
00:35:11
for more than 30
00:35:13
years while still a senior in high
00:35:16
school Elanor Platt took an interest in
00:35:19
John Elias but there was a problem John
00:35:23
was black and 11 years older in 19
00:35:27
1953 this was not a good idea have you
00:35:31
seen him
00:35:32
around no I think he is so cute I think
00:35:36
you're crazy right away I was drawn to
00:35:39
him and we started talking we met at
00:35:42
different places and I just was
00:35:45
fascinated with the feelings that we
00:35:47
were having toward each
00:35:49
other and I knew that uh I was in love
00:35:53
with him we talked and talked and we
00:35:56
veloped a closer closer relationship and
00:35:59
then I asked her would she marry me and
00:36:02
she thought about it and I asked her
00:36:03
again so finally she decided after
00:36:05
Christmas that she would leave home and
00:36:08
that she would move in with me in my
00:36:12
apartment elanar knew that it was a big
00:36:14
step despite the likely reaction from
00:36:17
her father who was an alcoholic and
00:36:19
prone to violence she ran away to start
00:36:22
a new life with John
00:36:24
Elias I lived with John from the last
00:36:28
part of December until the 26th of
00:36:32
January and on the 26th of January I
00:36:35
decided I was going back home because I
00:36:37
surmised that I was pregnant at that
00:36:40
point she decided she wanted to tell her
00:36:42
mother of her situation because she had
00:36:44
been missing from home I had warned her
00:36:47
before that if she went home that there
00:36:50
would be problems elanar daddy where you
00:36:53
been elanar I've been staying with my
00:36:55
friend John John Elias John Elias you
00:36:59
stay away from him I really want you to
00:37:02
meet him I don't want to meet him I'm
00:37:04
going to have his baby what outraged her
00:37:07
father placed her in a home for
00:37:08
rebellious girls she was put into a home
00:37:12
because that's what they did with girls
00:37:14
that made
00:37:15
mistakes and uh the law took care of him
00:37:18
because they accused him of of
00:37:21
rape and so he was arrested for
00:37:25
that just 3 days before Eleanor's 18th
00:37:29
birthday John was charged with the rape
00:37:32
of a minor and thrown in
00:37:34
jail I pleaded guilty to the grand
00:37:38
jury uh because I did not want to have
00:37:42
elanar go through the ordeal of having
00:37:44
to be in a trial abro on the stand in a
00:37:47
way I felt that I was protecting her on
00:37:50
September 13th
00:37:52
1954 Elanor gave birth to Rosemary
00:37:56
authorities at the home told Eleanor
00:37:59
that it would be best for her to give
00:38:00
the baby up for adoption confused and
00:38:03
frightened Eleanor reluctantly
00:38:08
agreed this is Elanor and
00:38:12
rosemary elor's ready
00:38:15
now I handed my daughter to the social
00:38:18
worker and she took the baby and in turn
00:38:21
handed her to the lady that was standing
00:38:23
next to her I was tore up inside because
00:38:26
I knew that or surmised that these
00:38:29
ladies were going to take her and that I
00:38:31
would never see her again a few months
00:38:33
later John got out of
00:38:35
jail I still wanted to see John and and
00:38:39
get together with John and marry John
00:38:41
because I loved him but John was nowhere
00:38:44
to be found only later did she discover
00:38:48
that he had literally been run out of
00:38:50
town I was continually harassed by the
00:38:53
police department when I was driving my
00:38:55
car they would ask me for my my license
00:38:57
my registration my license my regist a
00:38:59
continual harassment type thing I did
00:39:01
not see eler anymore after that because
00:39:04
I left town where I could get a decent
00:39:05
job and start settling down after that
00:39:08
ordeal because of complications
00:39:11
resulting from rosem Mar's birth Elanor
00:39:14
would never have another child in time
00:39:17
her emotional pain healed and in
00:39:20
1977 Eleanor married Steven
00:39:23
wac together they raised four foster
00:39:29
children John Elias also married and
00:39:32
raised two
00:39:33
children after more than 30 years John
00:39:37
began to search for his long lost
00:39:39
daughter rosem Marie along the way he
00:39:42
located elen yes it's me it's a long
00:39:46
time since I've seen you kill it's good
00:39:47
to see you oh come on in the house it's
00:39:50
too cold out here with the blessings of
00:39:52
their spouses John and Elanor began a
00:39:55
new search for or daughter
00:39:58
Rosemary if my daughter is watching this
00:40:00
girl Rosemary I want you to know that I
00:40:03
do love you and your father loves you
00:40:05
and that's why we're working together to
00:40:06
find you there's so much we want to
00:40:10
explain to you and to tell you that we
00:40:13
really do care and we really did care at
00:40:15
the time I hope that we will be
00:40:18
successful in finding this child who has
00:40:20
been gone for all of these years who was
00:40:22
literally uh taken away from us by the
00:40:24
forces of the law and at that point even
00:40:27
though we don't want to interfere with
00:40:29
her life we just like to know her
00:40:30
whereabouts how she is and how she came
00:40:33
out
00:40:35
update John and Eleanor's search came to
00:40:38
an end the night of our broadcast when a
00:40:41
viewer recognized Rosemarie as a
00:40:43
coworker Sally Riley one of my
00:40:47
co-workers called me on the phone and
00:40:49
he's
00:40:50
hysterical and he's going were you
00:40:53
watching Unsolved Mysteries and I said
00:40:55
no and he said they're looking for you
00:40:57
and I said what do you mean they're
00:40:59
looking for me he says your mother and
00:41:02
father were on TV looking for you 2
00:41:05
weeks later Elanor and John were
00:41:07
reunited with a daughter they once knew
00:41:11
as
00:41:15
Rosemarie hi are
00:41:18
you
00:41:20
hi okay when I first saw my parents I
00:41:23
was I was kind of flavor gasted or in
00:41:25
awe I really don't know the word I'm
00:41:27
looking for but it just you had to stare
00:41:30
at them because you know it's like I'm a
00:41:33
part of them unless a person has gone
00:41:35
through it there is no way to describe
00:41:37
the
00:41:38
feeling that uh a person has once they
00:41:41
find their child that's been adopted I
00:41:44
had carried an imaginary picture in my
00:41:46
mind of how I thought she would
00:41:49
look all I needed I had a a form but I
00:41:53
didn't have a face when she stepped out
00:41:55
of the vehicle I had a face and it was a
00:41:58
good
00:41:59
feeling that's what I was just I'm just
00:42:02
glad I have a very extended family now
00:42:04
and that everybody is accepting me and
00:42:06
I'm accepting them and it just it feels
00:42:09
really
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good
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