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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast tonight on unsolved mysteries
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this peaceful suburban neighborhood in
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New Jersey concealed a violent the
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secretive Colombian cocaine gang a
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vicious ringleader of this gang vanished
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in 1986 the FBI wants your help tracking
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him down the sweetheart swindler is a
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charming but ruthless con man who preys
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on unsuspecting women by stealing their
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hearts and their money in an 11 hour
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period March of 1988 a sadistic spree of
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violence left four people dead in two
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different states and shockingly the
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suspects are two teenage boys also we
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will present a most unusual and poignant
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case of kidnapping in 1944 two teenage
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girls told ten-week-old Lars Harding jr.
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in front of his mother Chicago apartment
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for over 45 years as brother Jeffrey has
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been trying to solve this case he is
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convinced that Lawrence is still alive
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and may even be watching tonight join me
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you may be able to help solve a mystery
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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imagine watching television and suddenly
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learning you've been kidnapped as an
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infant and had a brother and two parents
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that you never thought existed well
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somewhere in the United States there is
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a man who in the next few minutes may
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make the shocking discovery it all began
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37 years ago in 1953 when an 8 year old
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boy named Jeffrey Harding was tottered
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by schoolmates about a brother he never
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knew
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that same day Jeffrey's mother showed
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him some scrapbook stored in the Attic
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she explained that he did indeed have a
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brother but the boy was kidnapped before
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Jeffrey had been born
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I really didn't know see I didn't need
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to spend a lot of time like I spent with
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you I just didn't know what to do I felt
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so empty inside and I felt so so sad for
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my parents I could just look in my
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mother's eyes and see the pain his two
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girls came he took him they ran and I
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also wanted to know what it was like to
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have a brother and I always felt cheated
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that I couldn't communicate with him I
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couldn't play with him couldn't wrestle
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with him couldn't go to a ball game with
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him I couldn't do anything like
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everybody else did with their own
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brother and sister this is the article
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FBI reported in search for kidnapped
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baby the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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yes Jeffrey's mother brought on a baby
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book and read him clippings she had
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saved about the events of June 30th 1944
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the baby was kidnapped eight days ago by
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two Negro girls
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Spencer Dayton of the Chicago FBI
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Department declined comment according to
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federal law
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that morning with ten-week-old Lars jr.
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in his carriage Jeffrey's mother made
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her customary trip to the corner market
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and while she was in the store there
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were two girls there that teenage girls
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that didn't look like they were up to
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anything bad thank you it's my first
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Margaret didn't recognize the two girls
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from the neighborhood there [Â __Â ] their
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attention was innocent as my mother was
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coming home from the market the two
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girls were following her but she had to
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think a whole lot of it she just thought
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that the two girls were walking down the
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street as she was going home
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and when she pulled into the yard with
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the baby carriage she saw a neighbor who
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lived upstairs
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you mind lawrence for me sure I will I'm
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just gonna run these inside okay
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the lady who was supposed to be watching
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my brother didn't keep an eye on him
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long enough she watched him for a little
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while and then she kind of turned away
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by the time my mother who was running as
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fast as she could got to the alley and
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could couldn't run after the girls could
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give chase to the girls the girls were
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gone
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[Music]
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hello
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after three agonizing days Nadi's
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received a phone call you have the baby
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the girl on the other end of the line
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identified herself as one of the people
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that took the baby and the girl said
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we're going to bring the baby to you and
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my mother said when will you please
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bring him home and as she was waiting
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for an answer the girl hung up on her
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when she was never asked for ransom and
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that was the last contact my mother had
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with the kidnappers the FBI the Chicago
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police searched for Lawrence Junior to
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no avail finally after four weeks the
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investigation was called off
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Lawrence Harding jr. had vanished into
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thin air forty five years ago because
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the authorities couldn't help my parents
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and because everyone was advising them
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that they should try to adjust to the
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fact that they would never see their son
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again for the last 45 years they've had
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to do just that they've had to try to
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live in a life a full life knowing that
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they would never see their son again
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when one mother told me what had
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happened and I think it was then that a
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seed was kind of planted inside of me
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that because I love my parents I wanted
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to make this right for them
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geoffery search for his missing brother
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ran into one stonewall after another
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until August of 1986 thanks to the
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Freedom of Information Act he was able
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to secure the original FBI records
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pertaining to the case of his brother's
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disappearance in these files Jeffrey
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found a startling new lead and he hired
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private investigator Paul Rigsby
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together the two men learned that in
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1944 the FBI had interviewed two
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railroad porters who told a curious tale
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July 4th 1944 Chicago's main train
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station
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four days after Lawrence Harding juniors
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disappearance the FBI file from
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Washington that we were able to get a
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copy of indicated one of the teenage
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girls showed up at the train station
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where the baby meeting the descriptions
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of Lawrence
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excuse me ma'am are you going to say
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goes yes I am
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I just have to run to the washroom and
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that's really nowhere for me to put him
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down in there well I've got to get that
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train
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okay I'll be back in just a moment
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more than likely the woman was on the
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platform with the baby the Train is
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fixing to pull off and she's not sure if
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the teenage girl is on the train or not
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on the train and realized that it was
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her time to get on the train and was
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believing the teenage girl when she had
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told her not to worry
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and more than like that she got on the
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train with the child waiting for the
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teenage girl to find her however after
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the train took off it became obvious
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that the teenage girl didn't make the
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Train
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track three right
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when the older woman with the baby
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arrived at Union Station in st. Louis
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she approached to porters George Hill
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and a Charlie McCall and explained to
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them how she came by the baby can you
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help me yes ma'am I was in the Chicago
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train station and this teenage girl left
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this child friend alone she said just
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one for the washroom but she never came
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back out have you seen anybody around
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here looking for a child no ma'am what
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was she wearing she also told him that
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she was going to Magnolia Arkansas but
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told them that if that mother decided
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she wanted the child she'd be in
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Magnolia and she could find her there I
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know one more I'll hurt me well I'll
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keep an eye out for a man thank you
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yes ma'am when Paul first told me about
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the lady taking my brother all the way
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to make Miller your Arkansas made me
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really feel good I was really kind of
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hoping against hope that that he would
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that the lady had taken in Magnolia
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Arkansas which is a very small town
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everybody knows each other and it would
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be easy to locate my brother
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armed with this promising information
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Rigsby immediately went to Magnolia he
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conducted interviews and combed through
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the town's records but unfortunately
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turned up no trace of the woman or her
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family when Paul returned from Magnolia
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Arkansas and he basically came back
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empty-handed
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it was a blow but it wasn't one that I
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couldn't overcome or the Paul and I
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couldn't overcome then Paul theorized
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and I do believe this is true that more
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than likely because it was July 4th
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weekend that this lady returned from
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Magnolia Arkansas either to Chicago or
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maybe even to Detroit and that may be
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where my brother is today the woman at
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the train station probably thought that
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the girl didn't want this child
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I believe that this woman was a good
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Samaritan she took care of the child she
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did everything she could to let the
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porters know where she was going and in
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in no way shape or form did she have
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anything to do with the abduction
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Jeffrey Hardy will not give up his
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search until he finds out what happened
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to his brother he is certain that he is
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alive and probably unaware of his
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strange past if there's anything that I
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dream about as being the happy ending it
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would be finding my brother finding out
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that he was raised in a loving
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environment finding out that he would be
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willing to accept me and accept my
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family and that we could spend our lives
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together as friends next the story of
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how FBI surveillance on a quiet New
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Jersey suburb revealed a vast money
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laundering and cocaine distribution
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crime
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in the summer of 1986 a cat-and-mouse
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game between the FBI the notorious drug
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dealer played out in an unusual setting
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an affluent suburb of Cliffside Park New
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Jersey the FBI had managed to trace a
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money-laundering ring to its lair and
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they wanted to track these illegal
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millions to their source cocaine this
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quiet wealthy neighborhood would seem to
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be an unlikely place to find a criminal
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gang but its isolation and security was
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exactly what the mastermind of this
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money-laundering ring was looking for
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[Music]
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pedro Uribe was a 38 year old Colombian
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direct ties with the infamous medellin
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cartel ran his criminal organization
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with a ruthless hand just saw you hit
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Becky
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Pedro Uribe ran this organization by
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fear informant information tells us that
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one of his couriers lost 75 kilos of
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cocaine Uribe on hearing this had this
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individual as well as his family members
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murdered it later turned out that the
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man was innocent this only added to Yuri
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Bay's reputation for viciousness
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surveillance i-4 is ready in May of 1986
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the FBI decided to set up
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round-the-clock surveillance of several
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of Yuri base properties
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they soon learned that in order to keep
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the outward appearance of normalcy
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people posing as families were trucked
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in on weekends ironically the
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surveillance showed that these MOC
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families changed from week to week in
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the evenings in order to make these
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homes look less suspicious each was
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occupied by a live-in babysitter Uribe
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was also careful in selecting a style of
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house he occupied one of the primary
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features that they look for when renting
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these houses was an attached garage with
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an automatic garage door opener and if
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it didn't have it they did install one
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this was done so they could get in and
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out with different individuals and less
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chance of being seen by the neighbors
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using these houses as a base Uribe had
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developed a simple and seemingly
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foolproof money-laundering scheme
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low-level operative nicknamed Smurfs by
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the FBI were dispatched from the houses
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to banks throughout the New York
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metropolitan area yes could I please
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have a money order there for 1980
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dollars these Smurfs would then use
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small amounts of the illicit cash to buy
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legitimate money orders from many
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different banks at the height of the
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operation there were seven Smurfs
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identified that were money laundering
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$50,000 a day and during five working
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days they could money launderer up to
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two million dollars a week though the
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FBI knew Uribe was a money launderer
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they had yet to prove that he dumped
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cocaine but one day they got lucky on
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September 3rd 1986 outside of one of
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uribe safe houses agents observed a
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surreptitious delivery of some
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mysterious boxes gambling that there was
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cocaine hidden inside those boxes the
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FBI decided to try and catch Uribe
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red-handed
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the following night made their move
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bang we got 20 keys in there search of
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the house the FBI found 307 kilos of 95%
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pure cocaine wrapped in plastic bags the
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total amount of cocaine seized that
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night would have been worth seven
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million dollars on the street FBI agents
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searched Uribe's other safe houses one
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home a specially trained dog led the FBI
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directly to a large potted plant when
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the plant was examined the agents got a
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surprise they found eight hundred
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thousand dollars in cash covered with
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enough traces of cocaine to have
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attracted the dog's attention but
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unfortunately Uribe and his henchmen had
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been tipped off and managed to escape
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and today he and his associates are
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wanted men
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Pedro Uribe is believed to be regularly
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commuting between the United States and
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Colombia he was last spotted 1989 in New
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Jersey at a christening ceremony for a
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relative three of Yuri based partners in
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crime are also Colombian nationals they
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have been identified as Hugo bulb beam
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and two brothers Luis Nirvana Rango the
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three fled to Colombia but the FBI have
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reason to believe the Arango brothers
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are back in the New York area
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another Uribe henchman Miguel Villegas
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is believed to be in the Los Angeles
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area
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recently law enforcement officials in
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Utah contacted us with an urgent request
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police believe they are very close to
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solving one of the most appalling crimes
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in the state's history they hope that
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someone watching tonight may be able to
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supply the final piece of evidence they
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are offering a $20,000 reward for
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information leading to a conviction in
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this case
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on August 26 1982 three year old Rachel
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Runyon is abducted from a playground
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near her home in Sunset Utah 24 days
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later Rachel's body was found partially
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submerged in small creek about 20 miles
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from the playground
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eyewitnesses described rachel's abductor
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as a black male in his 20s or 30s
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approximately six feet tall two and a
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half years later police discovered a
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gruesome message scrawled across a
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bathroom all of the local all night read
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beware I'm still at large
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I killed a little Runyan a memory beware
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message was signed with an upside-down
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crucifix number six six six with the
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upside-down cross and the triple six it
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indicates to us that there could very
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well be a satanic cult involved in the
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kidnapping of Rachel Runyon in recent
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months investigators have uncovered even
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more disturbing information Rachael's
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case the new information that we have
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received through an informant leads us
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to believe that the motive behind the
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kidnapping of Rachel Runyon was done for
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making a movie of her being tortured and
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her being sexually molested and
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exploited by these people that had
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kidnapped her and being murdered
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on what is commonly known as a snuff
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movie in this photo
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rachel is wearing the same dress that
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she had on the day she was abducted
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police speculate that she may also be
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wearing it in the film
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next the story of a cunning Casanova who
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is used at least 15 different aliases to
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book lonely women of their savings
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our next story profiles a particularly
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devious con man police have nicknamed
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him the sweetheart swindler he
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victimizes women vulnerable divorces and
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widows in their middle years one of his
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victims a woman from Missouri whom we
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will call sara has agreed to describe
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her five-day ill-fated romance with a
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sweetheart swindler it all began last
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August with a phone call no miss
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gentleman called me and he said that he
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had met me look I've got and that he was
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calling to see if I would go out and
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have dinner with him how would that be I
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was divorced at this time and I wasn't
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in the habit of dating so it sounded
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kind of pleasant to be able to go out
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and have dinner at this particular time
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and this is one reason why I agreed to
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go have brunch the next morning I've
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been divorced for a long time and I
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raised my children myself so I work very
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hard at brunch Sara quickly gave up her
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effort to remember where she had met
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Jerry before and simply enjoy the
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conversation soon he had completely won
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her think you understood at all I'm glad
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we were finally able to get together
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well I didn't know anything about you or
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who you were but I enjoyed the brunch it
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was pleasant and we decided to kind of
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spend the day together
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Jerry told Sarah he was in the jewelry
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business on the road constantly with a
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company Car and Driver he said he had
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sent his driver to make a delivery in
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another town was temporarily without a
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car he told Sarah he was a widowed woman
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very lonely he needed someone to share
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his life traveling from one luxury hotel
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to another dining at the best
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restaurants
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he confessed to Sarah that she was just
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the type of woman he had been looking
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for I wanted to believe him and all
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these bright beautiful pictures that he
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painted life really hasn't been easy for
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me you know is really nice to think that
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I'm maybe would be able to relax to
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travel to have all these nice things and
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I wouldn't have to work to me this was
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appealing very appealing one of the
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goals I made for myself before I died is
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to visit all different states that same
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evening Jeremy took Sarah and her
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daughter Ellen out to dinner
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Ellen was sketchily Jerry soon
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ingratiated himself he impressed both
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women when he brought out samples of the
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jeweler and said he sold city to city
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look at those rings stones are those
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gorgeous Ellen here just trying that
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little cocktail ring
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little head say well compared to some of
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the other stones I have it is may I try
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one sure that's what two ways for us to
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be warned look at it that's a real
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diamond Frankie okay
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I can't hurt its destructive was a
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diamond Jerry did not make any sexual
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advances the day after he and Sarah met
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he began to plan their wedding he asked
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her to go with him on a road trip which
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would culminate in their marriage he was
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the type of a man they took control this
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was something that I liked I liked
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someone to kind of take over take charge
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I've got some checks coming from the
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east coast
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Jerry to Sarah that he would soon be
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receiving several checks and that one
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would be made out to her he wanted her
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to deposit it in her account so that she
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could pay her bill before they left but
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Sarah had no way of knowing was that
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Jerry had stolen the check from one of
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his former girlfriends and made it out
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to Sarah himself
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late the next afternoon Gerry rush Sara
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to the bank telling her the check had
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just arrived at the last moment he asked
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her to take out cash for him yes I'd
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like to deposit this and I'd like to
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withdraw $3,000 ma'am
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this is an out-of-state check yes I'm
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going to have to get my supervisors
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approval coming in at that time
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these Coast banks are closed I looked at
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the check solid it was made of Sarah she
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was a good customer and she was
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insistent the check was good so I went
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ahead and okay to check for her you have
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a good day thank you thanks Mike I
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appreciate it okay we were immediately
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gonna start traveling we were going to
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Nashville
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greenie he was going to get my
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engagement ring there and then we were
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going to go on further east and when we
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met up with his daughter and son then we
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were gonna get married he told me he was
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gonna buy me a five carat diamond
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engagement ring that was quite a large
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engagement ring that same afternoon just
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four days after they had met Jerry and
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Sarah are on the road to Tennessee and
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Sara's car Jerry had invited Sarah's
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daughter Ellen to go with
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five minutes early don't worry about
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okay now this is the picture it's
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exactly where he said to be in Memphis
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Jerry said he had a business meeting and
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asked Sara and Alan to meet him in the
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hotel lobby afterwards he never showed
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up
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wonderful I guess he should be coming we
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waited around the hotel and after her a
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couple hours I knew they wasn't coming
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and as time went along I realized that
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we had been taken I realized we were
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being made fools right there I was angry
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truly I was angry I really didn't know
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what to do back in Missouri Sara found
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out that the check Jerry had given her
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was no good she had been count out a
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three thousand dollars Sara finally went
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to the local police to file a report
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they discovered that Jerry had been
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practicing the same scam all over the
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country for at least two years since I
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started my case I believe he's a suspect
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in at least 22 or the cases and as many
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as 15 different states unfortunately
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probably only a third of the cases get
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reported due to the to the victims being
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embarrassed we think he locates victims
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primarily through newspaper articles or
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advertisements we've known that on
00:26:54
occasion he has access Lonely Hearts
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clubs or mailers you have to understand
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that that is all he does I can be very
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very good at it that's how he makes his
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living and one shouldn't particularly be
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embarrassed by being pulled in by this
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type of scam I mean a lot of women in my
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line of work but I never know whether
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they're interested in me or they're just
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after my jewelry well I'm an attorney
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and I'd like to see him stopped I'd like
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to see him pay for it
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I mean I know how I feel from all this
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it's a very devastating feeling yeah
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well well I can understand that well
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maybe we can get together some other
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time then
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the sweethearts winter is still active
00:27:37
he has recently surfaced in Nevada
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Colorado California and Washington State
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using the aliases jerry roberto gamble
00:27:45
Robert Jake Oakland and 15 others he
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left his latest victim in the lurch
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after she had invited 60 guests to their
00:27:52
engagement party police believe he is
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almost certainly involved in another
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whirlwind romance at this very moment
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and that the object of his affection
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should watch her chequebook very
00:28:02
carefully these are bank surveillance
00:28:08
photos of the sweetheart swindler he is
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between five five and five eight and
00:28:13
height weighs 150 to 160 pounds and is
00:28:16
around 48 years old he has a New York
00:28:19
accent his known own a 22 revolver today
00:28:23
Diaz made off with a total of 125
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thousand dollars all in relatively small
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amounts update the sweetheart swindler
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has been captured on March 28th 1991
00:28:37
police in Kenosha Wisconsin arrested a
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man calling himself Robert cook after he
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allegedly romanced a woman and then
00:28:44
swindled her out of ten thousand dollars
00:28:48
at the time of kooks arrest police
00:28:50
recovered a dozen false identification
00:28:52
cards all issued in different aliases
00:28:54
from various states
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they also found blank checks apparently
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stolen from previous victims
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flex the shocking story of a brutal
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crimes that left four people dead in
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less than 24 hours last March the FBI
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asked unsolved mystery to help them
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unravel one of the bloodiest and
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cruelest crime sprees in the history of
00:29:39
Texas and Arkansas perhaps the most
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frightening thing is if the FBI believes
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that killers are two teenage boys who on
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the surface appear innocent and harmless
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Gainesville Texas a small bedroom
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community 30 miles north of Dallas close
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to the Arkansas Oklahoma border 10:00
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a.m. March 7th 1988 just outside
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Gainesville Tomi Mathews and Kenny Davis
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local electricians see two teenagers
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poking around their father-in-law's
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Lincoln Continental when we first seen
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him one the blonde
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suspect was looking into the white
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Lincoln like he was looking for a set of
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keys or something
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we made a u-turn and come back out the
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drive and we stopped them in the
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driveway in front of his house is there
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a problem yeah there's a problem I don't
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know what you're doing here well we we
00:30:39
needed to use the phone and well there's
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not a phone in that color and there's
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not anyone home so I think y'all need to
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get out of here okay no problem we'll
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just use the phone down by the store
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they didn't act violent or look violent
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you know they just look like two kids
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running around getting into mischief you
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know
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10:15 the two boys walked toward the
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intersection of County Road 131 and
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Route six around 11:00 a.m. just 200
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feet away from the intersection 23 year
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old Dina Woodard and her one-year-old
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son Cory returned home to their trailer
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somebody here hello
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1:10 p.m. Dina Woodard is found dead
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brutally stabbed and nearly decapitated
00:32:16
with an axe miraculously her baby is
00:32:18
unharmed
00:32:20
from the appearance of everything out
00:32:23
there there was a struggle inside the
00:32:25
residence and they killed her and then
00:32:29
stole her two guns and left in her 1981
00:32:34
paper Dina wouldn't kill errs head
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towards state highway 82 they drive 60
00:32:43
miles southeast to the small rural
00:32:44
community of farmersville texas when you
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have a situation start developing like
00:32:51
this where the first victim is killed
00:32:53
then it's panic time they run to get
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away and then it doesn't get any better
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farther down the highway they go the
00:33:02
more involved they become and the more
00:33:04
killings that take place mid-afternoon
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the killers approached the farmhouse of
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85 year old Cecil Morrison and a 62 year
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old son Cecil Leonard Morris howdy
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can I use your telephone
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The Killers stay in the house between
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one and three hours savagely torturing
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and beating the two old men with a
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weapon stolen from Deena Woodards car
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they kill both men with a 22 rifle then
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leave 5:00 p.m. a neighbor sees two
00:33:55
teenagers getting into the Morrisons
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beige 1984 Chevrolet pickup truck
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shortly after the boys drive off
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mysteriously Deena waters blue
00:34:07
Thunderbird seems to have disappeared it
00:34:15
was not just a quick murder it was over
00:34:19
some period of time quite a battle going
00:34:21
on in that house and why they felt it
00:34:24
necessary to beat the old man and torch
00:34:27
them like I did we do not know 9 p.m.
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Saratoga Arkansas 200 miles away from
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the Morrisons farm the boys drive the
00:34:37
stolen pickup truck into the shallow
00:34:39
water of a lake then throw in Deena
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woods guns
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9:45 p.m. an eyewitness clearly sees a
00:34:50
teenager's three different times as he
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drives his own truck back and forth
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through Saratoga
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10 p.m. the boys walked to the trailer
00:35:03
of their 4th victim 29 year old Kenneth
00:35:06
old he is inside with his girlfriend
00:35:09
Brenda Gipson yeah my truck broke down
00:35:22
do you think you could give us a hand
00:35:26
yeah come on oh great thank Ken I didn't
00:35:30
think they was dangerous he thought they
00:35:32
was really sincere else he would have
00:35:34
never attempted to help them and when
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they went out through the kitchen door I
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looked at the window
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and that was the last I saw him alive
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10:15 p.m. the two teenagers drive away
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with Kenneth's older in his 1983 Mustang
00:36:02
unfortunately Brenda Gibson does not get
00:36:04
a look at the boys faces sometime later
00:36:10
they arrive at Millwood Dam five miles
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Moulton's trailer the truck should be
00:36:17
run over there
00:36:18
I think the cables are in the back okay
00:36:28
a man
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ain't no truck around here what's going
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on the two teenagers make their getaway
00:36:44
in Kenneth old ins Mustang leaving him
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dead 9 a.m. the next day 200 miles west
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of the spot where Kenneth old and lies
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dead Oklahoma farmer bud Sprouse finds
00:36:59
old ins Mustang he also notices two sets
00:37:03
of footprints had done a lot of walking
00:37:06
by the side of the road there one of
00:37:09
them had 11 or 12
00:37:11
Timmy shoes other than were to be about
00:37:14
it a eight and a half penny shoe in less
00:37:19
than 24 hours the killer's had come full
00:37:21
circle starting in Gainesville Texas
00:37:23
going southeast to Farmersville then
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northeast to Saratoga Arkansas
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finally they returned West to Brown
00:37:31
Springs Oklahoma less than five miles
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from where their bloody path started it
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be questios why would they have returned
00:37:38
to within five miles of where they
00:37:40
commit the first murder we felt like we
00:37:43
were dealing with something here in our
00:37:45
own neighborhood after the two killers
00:37:49
completed their deadly circle by dumping
00:37:51
Holden's Mustang in the lake they seemed
00:37:54
to disappear without a trace
00:37:58
four months into the investigation
00:38:00
another important clue turned up Cecil
00:38:03
Morrison's grandson found an earring
00:38:05
that the FBI believes the killer's left
00:38:07
behind in his grandfather's pickup truck
00:38:09
this ear ring picked the skull being
00:38:12
carried by a bat and that was another
00:38:15
key break in this case the finding of
00:38:18
that earring in that truck we later ran
00:38:21
a photograph of that earring in the
00:38:24
Gainesville local paper and a young man
00:38:26
came forward and identified that ear
00:38:30
ring as belonging to him where did you
00:38:33
get the ear ring
00:38:35
a couple years ago okay you still have
00:38:38
their ring no sir I don't what's
00:38:42
happened to it I'll lend it to a friend
00:38:44
of mine a couple of months ago the boy
00:38:46
Lee Renfro has a 16 year old from
00:38:48
Gainesville he later told police he had
00:38:51
given the earring to another boy named
00:38:53
Caldwell who at the time lived in a
00:38:55
house less than 200 yards from Deena
00:38:57
Woodards trailer the callwell family had
00:39:00
moved out of state one month before
00:39:02
Deena Woodard was murdered they had
00:39:05
given me a lot of earrings and I would
00:39:09
borrow or take some from every once in a
00:39:11
while like whenever I didn't have one
00:39:13
but as far as that earring in particular
00:39:15
I have no idea I just can't remember on
00:39:19
the morning of the murder spree
00:39:20
witnesses had seen two teenage boys who
00:39:23
match the description of the killers
00:39:24
walking away from the call well house
00:39:28
this case has got to be solved as long
00:39:31
as the Sun goes unsolved there's still
00:39:35
that concern that we in the citizens
00:39:39
community have that there's still some
00:39:42
killers out there walking the streets
00:39:44
and who's to say when they might decide
00:39:48
to strike again and go on another crime
00:39:50
spree
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[Music]
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[Music]
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last season we profiled a bank robber
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was clumsy behavior during holdup
00:40:24
surname an unusual nickname authorities
00:40:28
call the robber fumbles and believe that
00:40:30
he may be responsible for as many as 33
00:40:33
bank robberies throughout Florida since
00:40:35
1984 they estimate that fumbles is
00:40:38
stolen an excess of $100,000 in the past
00:40:41
five years alone update the fumbles
00:40:46
robber has been captured within minutes
00:40:48
of our broadcast a clearwater florida
00:40:50
police department received a call from
00:40:52
one of our viewers recognized fumbles as
00:40:55
ross James Preston a 23 year old student
00:40:58
living in Clearwater on May 24th 1989
00:41:02
FBI agents clearwater police officers
00:41:05
and Pinellas County sheriff's deputies
00:41:06
arrested Preston body was test driving a
00:41:09
pickup truck
00:41:10
his search by warrant was made of the
00:41:13
vehicle mr. Preston was driving when he
00:41:16
was arrested inside the vehicle were
00:41:20
found the ball cap would be letters cap
00:41:23
on the cap also found for a pair of
00:41:26
gardening gloves and a pair of
00:41:29
sunglasses and a jacket these were very
00:41:34
similar to items which were observed
00:41:36
being worn by the bank robber we called
00:41:40
fumbles
00:41:42
on August 2nd Ross James pressed
00:41:44
admitted to committing 33 armed bank
00:41:46
robberies but as part of a plea bargain
00:41:49
is charged with only seven of the
00:41:50
holdups
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he has since been sentenced to 25 years
00:41:53
in prison
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join me next week for another edition of
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unsolved mysteries
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