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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries when the investigation into
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the murder of a Texas woman comes to a
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standstill a Cold Case detective brings
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on the
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heat in Pennsylvania church goers are
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certain that they've seen a miracle in
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the eyes of a carved wooden
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statue a Washington DC woman leaves the
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city to find peace and quiet in the
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country instead she dies at the hands of
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a brutal
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killer and Bonnie Potter searches for
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the mysterious woman who called her one
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day Bonnie now knows that she is the
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sister she never
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knew our team is standing by and maybe
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someone watching can help bring in one
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of these bad guys and you know what it
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could be you I'm Dennis finina join us
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burhill Virginia is less than 70 M from
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Washington DC but it's like a different
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world the community consists of little
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more than a post office and a few homes
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to Ethel kid and her husband Gilbert it
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seemed like the perfect escape from the
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big city they bought a piece of land and
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began building a retirement home the
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move was a dream come true for Ethel her
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children and grandchildren lived in the
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area and much of her life centered
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around her
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family she was a good person she was
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liked by
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everybody she liked to cook she lik to
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have cookouts and picnics
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and she just enjoyed
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life one Wednesday after visiting her
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daughter who lived nearby was seen
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checking her mailbox around 2:00
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p.m. Thursday the next morning my wife
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called her mother about 7:30 and the
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answer machine answered and she said
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that's funny mom must have left early
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either she's on her way here to have a
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cup of
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coffee but 9:30 I rode by and I saw the
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car there something hit me that
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something wrong if she didn't answer the
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phone I saw this book and I saw that it
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was a an atlas a map and I just picked
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it up and carried it with me I thought
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maybe e may have dropped
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it when I open the door that's when my
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heart come up in my throat Al I knew
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something was wrong she would never
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leave the door unlocked she always had
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the door locked even during the day
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Ethel are you
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here but there was no sign of Ethel and
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there was no sign of a burglary or Foul
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Play everything in the house was in its
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place it was as if Ethel had been there
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one moment and then simply vanished to
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the
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next the police mobilized a large Task
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Force officers fann out from methyl's
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home and searched the woods and Fields
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acre by acre they found no sign of Ethel
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kid then 8 Days Later 3 miles from
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Ethel's home a hunter Came Upon A
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shocking
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sight it was Ethel's body bound to a
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tree facing a Logging Road less than 50
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ft
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away investigators determined that Ethel
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had been strangled they also found found
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evidence of sexual assault and estimated
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that she had been dead for about 7
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days this area had been searched by land
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and air she was definitely not at that
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location earlier in the week the Killer
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is extremely Brazen to bring a body back
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to the area where it was kidnapped from
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and place it in a position so it would
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be found facing a road just off of a
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state road and just off of a Logan Road
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um it's even as if he may have been
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tonning the police uh saying Catch Me If
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You
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Can police noted that the body showed no
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signs of
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decomposition it seemed that Ethel had
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been kept in Cold Storage after she was
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killed who the medical examiner stated
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that in his opinion that she had been
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kept in an insect free climate
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controlled condition which could mean
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Refrigeration uh either stationary or
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mobile the authorities thought that the
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body could have been kept in a
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refrigerated truck or a walk-in
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freezer Ethel had been tied up with a
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type of drapery cord used in hotels and
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hospitals car upholstery fibers were
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recovered from her clothes but the
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investigation centered on items tucked
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inside the road atlas that was found in
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Ethel's front
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yard these two sheets of paper from a
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National Motel chain contain sexually
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suggestive
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messages however the most chilling
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Discovery was a handwritten list of
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seven items police suspected that this
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was a meticulous blueprint for
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murder line to listed clothing and
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accessories which may have been used for
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a
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disguise 3 R ID
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ASAP paper trip book authorities were
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aware of a book called The Paper trip
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which described how a person could
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obtain a new identity item four simply
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read choose
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location item five listed the
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abbreviations HC TP and SG the best that
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we can come up with would be handcuffs
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tape and either surgical gloves or stun
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gun this individual is a methodical
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cunning individual he is a loner he is a
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white male probably between 35 and 45
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years
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old he has not had successful
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relationships with females we have to
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assume that this individual does
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traveling and stays in motels which
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could be considered assistant with an
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interstate trucker or a
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salesperson Ethel was extremely security
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conscious authorities believe that the
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as salant may have used the road atlas
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to trick her into thinking that he
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needed directions H excuse me I'm lost
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can you show me where Co pepper is this
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was a very cunning devious calculated
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murder because of leaving clu
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bringing the body back just the way that
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he did everything in this case and
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hasn't been caught yes it's my opinion
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that he will kill again hopefully if he
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gets put away for doing this that it
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won't be done to anybody
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else cuz nobody deserves to be done like
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this nobody deserves to die like
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this
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update investigators are always believed
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that their best clue was the road atlas
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found in Ethel's yard forensic
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technicians lifted fingerprints from
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several pieces of paper that were tucked
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into the atlas but without a known
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suspect the prints are useless but after
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watching our broadcast one person
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thought that the handwriting looked very
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familiar the tipster provided a name
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Edward Wayne Beverly he had lived in
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burill Virginia just a few miles from
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Ethel
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kid shortly after her murder he had
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suddenly left town Virginia authorities
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located Beverly in a Tennessee prison
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where he was serving time for armed
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robbery we compared fingerprints and
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they matched to Mr Bev's prints and on
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the victim's body there was evidence
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there indicating uh uh sexual contact
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and we compared Mr bevy's blood through
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DNA testing and that matches up
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also I'm convinced that we have the
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right guy that did this crime based on
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the evidence that's
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available Beverly was identified just
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months before his scheduled
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release he was tried for the rape and
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murder of ethal kid found guilty and
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given three life
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sentences Edward Wayne Beverly died in
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prison
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when we come back mysterious phone calls
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may be Clues to the fate of a young
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woman who has been missing for 25
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years in the days before abortion was
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legal some pregnant women turned to
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bogus doctors to perform the procedure
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many women died at least one young woman
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went in for the operation and simply
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disappear
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appeared in Coral Gables Florida a
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22-year-old medical technician named
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Judith heims learned that she was
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pregnant here test all right if you'll
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just sign your name and address here the
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name she gave for her pregnancy test was
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a false one B Kenny an indication that
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she may have been trying to keep her
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condition a
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secret Judy never said anything to me
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that she might have been pregnant she
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never even told me that she went to have
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a test a pregnancy test um she called
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me I guess the day that she was going to
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have the abortion if that is what
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happened uh to tell me that she was
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going shopping she was leaving work
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early and going
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shopping that day Judith went to her
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bank in with Drew
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$300 she told her friends that she was
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going to buy a watch police believe that
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Judith used the money for an illegal
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abortion uh we were able to determine
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that she contacted a close friend of
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hers who uh helped arrange an abortion
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through the suspect uh Dr George haju
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and uh through that a date and time and
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a price were set for it Judith made the
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arrangements to get the uh money the
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last time she was seen we feel that she
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was on her way to get this
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abortion
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get plenty of rest you'll be fine in
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your huh George haju was a Hungarian
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immigrant who posed as a doctor police
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say that he operated an illegal abortion
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clinic in Coral Gables
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Judy having an abortion I don't think
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she really had any other choice because
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nobody in those days would have a child
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and keep it it just wasn't done judie
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Judy
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Judy
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right through here huh a lot of people
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have said that what happened to her was
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that she died having an abortion Judy
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was a lab technician she had a lot of
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medical knowledge I find it hard to
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believe that she could have died having
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an abortion uh I mean surely she would
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have known she was intelligent enough to
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know to go for help
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someplace wherever she had gone that day
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Judith heimes never came
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home
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3 weeks later a rental car registered in
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Judith's name was found 650 Mi away in
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Atlanta Georgia on the back seat were
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traces of
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blood unfortunately the car had sat
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there for two or 3 days before it was
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found and then by the time we were able
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to conduct any crime scene on it the car
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had been handled by other people other
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police agencies and by the time it got
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back to D County to be processed
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whatever crime seemen resist it was
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totally
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ruined a local resident had seen a man
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in his 30s parking the vehicle he
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removed what appeared to be a duffel bag
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from the trunk and then left the area
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this man has never been
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identified 3 months later George haju
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was arrested for impersonating a doctor
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yes G police are under arrest police
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suspected Hau might know about Judith
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heim's disappearance however haju jump
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Bond and was never seen
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again shortly after he fled the
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investigation into Judith's
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disappearance ground to a
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halt a quarter of a century past and
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then a bizarre series of events caused
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the case to be reopened it began with a
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routine law enforcement seminar Captain
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Chuck Shear of the Coral Gable Police
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Department lectured at a poli Police
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Academy near Omaha Nebraska when Sher
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returned to Florida he received a
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mysterious phone
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call hello hello is this Captain Sher
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yes it is what can I do for you the
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caller claimed to be the host of a radio
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program in Omaha he said that he had
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received a phone call about The
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Disappearance of Judith
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heims but when Captain Shear called the
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station the f following day the radio
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host said that he had never heard of
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Judith heims nor had he called Captain
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Shear a woman in well now I'm confused I
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don't know what to think why would a
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25-year-old case surface all of a sudden
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out of Omaha Nebraska when in fact I've
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never been to omahoma Nebraska in my
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life prior to this time uh and had no
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knowledge or anything about the case I
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never mentioned the case whatsoever the
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whole time we were out there for the
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simple reason I really didn't even know
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about the case uh to give anybody any
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information or
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anything good evening coab's Police
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Department Captain Shear one moment two
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days later sheer received another
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strange phone call hello Captain sheer
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Judy heims is alive and she lives in
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Omaha who is this please Judy HS is
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alive and she lives in Omaha who is this
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hello who is
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this my gut feeling is that something is
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going on to bring this case back up 25
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years later and it very possibly is that
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Judy is in fact living in in the Omaha
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area then a story on a heimes Case
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appeared in a local newspaper and
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Captain Sher received a third mysterious
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phone call this one mentioning the
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fraudulent doctor george hatu hello
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Captain sheer the third phone call that
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I received was from a man that
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identified himself as an informant for
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the FBI yeah would you give me your name
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please he refused to give me his name
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but he said that he had just spent
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several weeks with haju over in Budapest
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Hungary and he gave me the phone number
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I contacted interpole and interpole
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determined that the phone number that he
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gave me indeed comes back to the same
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name of the suspect at that time the
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doctor that supposedly performed the
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abortion police couldn't locate George
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haju in Hungary but they felt that it
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was highly unlikely that he was
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responsible for the phone calls Judy
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heims is alive and she lives in Omaha
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the only real evidence that Judith was
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alive came from the mysterious phone
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calls if they were telling the truth
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then where is Judith Hees today could
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Judith herself had made the calls or if
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Judith had died during a botched
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abortion who was making the calls and
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why the only possible scenario that I
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can see is that she didn't want the
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family to know about the supposed
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abortion at the time and she just
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disappeared and in fact has been missing
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for 25 years not wanting her family to
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know about it who I'd like to believe
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that she's someplace and that she could
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be found or that she'd come back or that
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we'd know that she's all
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right um I I guess my personal theory is
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is it's hard to believe that she that
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she would be
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dead but I can't understand if she's
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alive why she wouldn't contact somebody
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after all this time
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after all there's no more stigmas left
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why wouldn't she come
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back
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update 4 days after our broadcast an
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unsigned letter arrived at the Coral
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Gables Police Department the typewritten
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note said that Judith heimes died from
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complications during an illegal abortion
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and that her body was dumped in bis Gan
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Bay near
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Miami Police field that the letter is
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legitimate and have no explanation for
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the mysterious phone calls from
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Nebraska we would like the author of the
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letter to come forward and to contact us
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at the Carl Gable Police Department we
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are not interested in any prosecution
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because basically the statute of
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limitations has expired on this case and
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it would be no criminal
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prosecution also we would guarantee
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total confidentiality to the writer of
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the
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letter
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if you can help authorities with this
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case please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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coming up parishioners in Pennsylvania
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believe that they see a miracle in the
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eyes of a
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crucifix Ambridge Pennsylvania
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abandoned steel mills line the banks of
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the Ohio River a grim reminder of the
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Region's lost Prosperity but many
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residents of Ambridge refuse to move out
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of town some of these people gather at
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the Holy Trinity Church to gain strength
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from their Catholic faith and from each
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other the congregation is proud of the
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beautiful crucifix which has been at the
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church since 19
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1931 it was refurbished by a local
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artist Dominic
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Leo I became really deeply involved for
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2 weeks with the crucifix it had been
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here at this church possibly over 60
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years so now it was time to restore and
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when I completed everything and finally
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got to the face I actually worked on all
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of the face and the eyes last of all and
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when I got to the eyes and I just
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painted them and put the color of the
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blue gray into the retina and then I
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started to put some accents into the
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sockets of the eye to show the the the
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the color of
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death after Dominic finished his work on
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the crucifix the church held a special
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3-hour mass to celebrate Good
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Friday Jim sukovic was the nephew of the
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parish priest and that night he was
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serving as an altar
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boy everything was normal you know we
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had our readings and sang the songs and
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veneration of the cross I got communion
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and I went down on the side of the altar
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um just waiting for everyone else to get
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done that's when my brother Tom came up
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next to me and I was looking up and I
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was
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praying as Jim looked upward into the
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face of Christ he had a stunning
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surprise the eyes that were once open
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now appeared to be closed I was shocked
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I didn't know what to believe at first I
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was happy but I was scared at the same
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time because you know you figure that
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God you know he did this right there
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while I was kneeling right there Tom
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what and I turned to tell my brother Tom
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what just look and he looked up and
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verified what I saw his eyes are closed
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go to the other side and check maybe the
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we thought maybe it was just the lights
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or something just to make sure that you
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know we just weren't seeing things I had
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to go to the other
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side I looked up and noticed that the
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eyes were still
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closed it didn't hit me until we went
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into the back and I had time to think
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about it for a few minutes and that's
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when I I started crying because you know
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you don't expect something like that to
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happen and you know it was something I
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was a part of they were crying and I
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asked him what happened and they says
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the eyes on the cross are closed so I
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went back out with another priest who
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was helping me that evening and we
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looked and there was a change and I
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started look around in church at the
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people going out the doors and on the
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back was the artist who had refurbished
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a cross and I called out his name two or
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three times and asked him to come to the
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altar area and I just simply said to him
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would you look at the cross and tell me
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what you
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see first when he told I was wondering
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what could possibly be wrong you know I
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says is it falling
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down and the second thing I says it
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don't look like it's falling down I says
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is it a defect some of the plasters
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falling down or something you know and
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it wasn't
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that and my eyes just went straight up
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to the crucifix and I couldn't believe
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what I saw because not only were the
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eyes closed but there was like all kinds
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of Tears underneath it and they were
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fleshy like there
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were the the eyelids were were moving
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and moving like this and all the tears
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were in there and it was just like as if
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crucifixion had just started again from
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2,000 years it looked just like that
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they were all on her knees and
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everything it was just I could never
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forget that never
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never Dominic go ahead up you go up
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first you know the crucifix better than
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anybody the crucifix was suspended 22 ft
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in the air so a ladder was brought in to
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allow for a closer look do domic was the
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first to make the
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climb I went up to the tip top of the a
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ladder I straddled the ladder the top of
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it and I had a very close look at the
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eyes the uh the left eye is closed and
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the right eye is slightly slightly open
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it was just unbelievable what I saw this
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eye here this eye here was close
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completely except for a little sliver of
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gray but this eye here was open slightly
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and you could just see the bottom the
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bottom of the retina and this is what
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really did it because when I seen that I
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it looked like it was burned that it had
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been burned from energy of some
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sort another parishioner who had to see
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for himself was Pennsylvania state
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trooper Chris
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Marion I wanted to make sure nobody had
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tampered with it and I got real close
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like a three-year-old would look into
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its father's face and as I looked at it
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I realized there's no way it was too
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high I I knew no one could have tampered
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with it and it was fine and I felt good
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about it I've been trained to look at
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things a little differently than Norm
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the normal I just like I knew the
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crucifix a lot better than
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everybody this wasn't some hoax this
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wasn't a bunch of people just making
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this up and everything had happened here
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it was for a reason and was definitely
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the most religious experience that I've
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ever heard of in my
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lifetime Sue Tula was another member of
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the church familiar with the cross
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the cross used to be in an Al Cove area
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where anyone could come and light the
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big candles and I've done that lots of
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times and anybody that has ever lit a
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candle when you look up Jesus is looking
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at you I remember the eyes were opened
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very clearly the eyeballs the white the
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bluish gray he was alive Christ dying on
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the cross and his eyes were still
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opened and that on Good Friday they
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closed before church officials will
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pronounce a miracle authentic they will
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thoroughly investigate every aspect of
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the event in this case the bishop of
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Pittsburgh was in charge of reviewing
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the mysterious crucifix in Holy Trinity
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Church there is always value when people
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return to their faith but you would want
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them to return for the right reasons for
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what if they found out later that there
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was some deception here or some defraud
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that could be very harmful to their
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faith and that's what the church is
00:26:41
always concerned about and in an invest
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in investigation like this that we are
00:26:46
very objective we are very careful
00:26:49
because of the harm that can come to
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Faith since that Good Friday Ambridge
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has been visited by thousands of people
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who wanted to see the crucifix for
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themselves but what really happened in
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the Holy Trinity Church was it a miracle
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or
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hallucination at times I sit here I
00:27:10
wonder if you know is this of God is
00:27:13
this of something evil but I know the
00:27:15
people who are coming here were praying
00:27:17
they come from all over the place and
00:27:18
when they leave they have peace so there
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to me this is all
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positive The Bishop's Commission
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reviewed videotape and photographs
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showing the crucifix before and after
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the alleged Miracle of Good Friday its
00:27:37
conclusion there was no convincing
00:27:39
evidence that a miracle properly defined
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occurred at Holy Trinity
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Church this decision meant that the
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Vatican will take no further action on
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the
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case but to many people in Ambridge
00:27:55
Pennsylvania this will always be one
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miror
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that cannot be dismissed I think my
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little nephew summed it up best for me
00:28:04
he said to me Uncle Chris I know what
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happened he's 5 years old and I said
00:28:07
what happened he said well God closed
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his eyes so everybody else would open
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theirs next a remarkable detective with
00:28:18
more than 400 cold cases solved maybe
00:28:22
you can help her find the killer who has
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stayed just out of her reach
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Houston Texas 8:00 a.m. 64-year-old Opel
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Zacharias leaves her home for
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work she has no idea that two men are
00:28:49
lying in weight in her
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garage who are you take it easy lady
00:28:58
what do you
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want yes give us
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a give us a p their plan may have been
00:29:07
to Simply Rob her but there was a
00:29:13
struggle opal Zacharias died at the
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scene and authorities could not identify
00:29:18
either suspect The Killing remained
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unsolved for over a decade and then it
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was assigned to one of the most
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successful c-case investigators in in
00:29:29
America her name is Robin
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Talton over the years she's repeatedly
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proven herself with amazing
00:29:39
results detective tton found her career
00:29:43
by accident literally she and her
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partner were closing in on a wanted
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felon at a Texas machine
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shop we were told he had escaped three
00:29:54
different times so he was a known rabbit
00:29:57
and we fig figured that he would run
00:29:58
from us the manager there was very
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Cooperative he he actually agreed to
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point the guy
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out detective Toton here's County you're
00:30:09
under ARR let him go I got
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him the detective that was with me kept
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after the defendant and he did get him
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and I did not want this crook to know
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that I was
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hurt
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we walked it down to where the unit
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was are you okay yeah man I'm hurt I'm
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hurt bad can you make it back to the car
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yeah detective Talton chipped her left
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kneecap and fractured the lower leg in
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two
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places this arrest would change her
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life feeling okay yeah all right while
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Talton recovered from her broken leg she
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is assigned to the newly created cold
00:31:00
warrant unit what we'd like to do is get
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you to working on a computer and see if
00:31:07
you can find some new sources of
00:31:08
information where we can find these guys
00:31:11
the unit was set up to trace and
00:31:12
apprehend Harris County's Most Wanted
00:31:15
felons many of these criminals had been
00:31:17
on the lamb for more than a decade hey
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I'm in I'm in okay can we start tomorrow
00:31:23
we can do that
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okay after 10 years working the street
00:31:28
detective Talton found herself armed
00:31:30
with faded warrants and outdated
00:31:33
information but she proved to have a
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talent for tracking down
00:31:38
fugitives the C- warrant unit is a
00:31:41
little bit deceptive it's not a a band
00:31:44
of of detectives it's one detective
00:31:46
Robin Talton and U after she does her
00:31:49
research we have about an 80% rate of
00:31:53
arrest by the time I get the warrant
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it's old enough that I feel like these
00:31:58
guys have settled down and they think
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they're
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safe sometimes I start with just a name
00:32:04
an age range and an old Landress and I
00:32:08
put together past acquaintances family
00:32:11
members trying to find somebody that
00:32:13
could fit it's like putting the pieces
00:32:16
together to see if it's going to make
00:32:18
sense Jerry yeah sure am it's kind of
00:32:21
like a game of Catch Me If You
00:32:24
Can usually she can detective talton's
00:32:29
work has led to the arrest of more than
00:32:31
400 fugitives but despite her legendary
00:32:34
success Talton is troubled by the cases
00:32:38
that she has not yet cracked cases like
00:32:41
the ruthless killing of opal
00:32:45
Zacharias from what I remember the
00:32:47
gunshot wound apparently entered the
00:32:50
thigh and came out the back of the hip
00:32:52
so the the shot itself was not a fatal
00:32:56
shot but they had her purse and car keys
00:33:00
and ended up stealing the the car and
00:33:02
backing over and that's actually what
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killed
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her a witness reported seeing one of the
00:33:12
suspects flee the scene by climbing over
00:33:14
a
00:33:18
fence later that day authorities found
00:33:21
opal's abandoned car however it yielded
00:33:24
no clues that would lead to the
00:33:26
killers
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a year later a police informant
00:33:30
identified the trigger man as Lance bedg
00:33:35
good he was still at large when Robin
00:33:38
tolton got the case while trying to
00:33:41
locate Lance bedg good I came across
00:33:43
some post office boxes three in fact
00:33:46
that are still being looked at today
00:33:49
what we're assuming is that he's using
00:33:52
three different post offices basically
00:33:54
is a mail drop so he can keep in contact
00:33:58
detective tton discovered the mailboxes
00:34:00
were registered to three of bedg Good's
00:34:03
relatives and paid for by a
00:34:06
fourth but that's as close as she could
00:34:08
get bedg good remains a
00:34:12
fugitive Lance bedg good is 5' 8 in tall
00:34:16
he has tattoos on his arms and legs and
00:34:18
a scar over his left eye he is wanted
00:34:21
for the murder of Opel Zacharias bedg
00:34:24
good should be considered armed and
00:34:27
dangerous
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well I'm glad that the investigation
00:34:31
hasn't been
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forgotten the sad part is my aunt's life
00:34:35
was taken and she didn't get to see the
00:34:38
the family grow up and mature and that
00:34:42
said if you have any information about
00:34:46
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00:34:49
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coming up a mysterious phone call lead
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two women on a search for a secret half
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sister Nukem New York was the home of
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Oscar Norton for most of his 72 years he
00:35:17
was a well-respected member of the
00:35:19
community and with his wife he raised a
00:35:22
large family no one suspected that for
00:35:25
more than 40 years Oscar had kept a
00:35:29
stunning secret his daughter Bonnie
00:35:31
first learned about it 8 years after he
00:35:37
died hello yes may I please speak to
00:35:41
Oscar Norton oh my goodness my father's
00:35:44
been deceased for 8
00:35:46
years may I ask why you're calling why I
00:35:50
was informed that he's my
00:35:53
father I was taken back by the phone
00:35:56
call because this is something you never
00:35:58
expect in your life and she preceded
00:36:01
with her conversation asking uh if she
00:36:04
could ask a few questions and I said
00:36:06
well sure was his mother name Eleanor no
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her name was
00:36:13
Nelly oh as the conversation kept going
00:36:16
on it didn't connect that this was
00:36:19
anything feasible and I said well may I
00:36:21
ask you a question would I be speaking
00:36:23
to a black woman or someone from the
00:36:25
south well yes you are do you know
00:36:28
you're speaking to a white woman well
00:36:30
yes I do and I'm thinking then there's
00:36:33
been a mistake here and uh I said Gee
00:36:36
it's such a beautiful Sunday it's too
00:36:38
bad that um I couldn't have found a half
00:36:41
black sister and then the conversation
00:36:44
you know um
00:36:45
ended goodbye Bonnie just assumed that
00:36:49
it was a case of mistaken identity but
00:36:51
she could not get the call out of her
00:36:53
mind she immediately phoned her twin
00:36:56
sister phone call I just got what this
00:37:00
woman called and said I asked Bonnie did
00:37:02
you get her name or phone number or what
00:37:05
part of the country she was from and she
00:37:06
said no she hadn't and then when she
00:37:08
said she was uh of mixed race I thought
00:37:11
no that really can't be possible because
00:37:14
uh where would dad have ever met a woman
00:37:16
of mixed race because we live in the
00:37:17
northern part of New York State and it's
00:37:20
primarily Caucasian and my father was
00:37:23
always very busy raising a family and
00:37:25
where could he have been to meet this
00:37:26
woman
00:37:30
before he was married Oscar had enlisted
00:37:32
in the Army one of his favorite War
00:37:35
Stories was about a motorcycle crash he
00:37:38
had in the summer of
00:37:40
1942 while training at Fort Hood in
00:37:43
Colleen Texas but there was a part of
00:37:46
the story that he kept secret hey you
00:37:48
hear the good news what's that you
00:37:51
getting
00:37:52
up oh I guess that is good news you
00:37:55
don't have to eat this Army hospital
00:37:56
food anymore
00:37:59
hey come
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00:38:04
here what's what's that I'm going to
00:38:06
miss
00:38:07
you what why don't you let me give you a
00:38:10
call oh I don't think that's such a good
00:38:13
idea no come on please I'll think about
00:38:17
it I have to tell you Oscar and his
00:38:20
former nurse were soon dating you look
00:38:23
so beautiful but interracial
00:38:25
relationships were not tolerated by
00:38:27
local residents at the time looks like
00:38:30
it's some menu excuse me sir I'm the
00:38:33
manager and I'm terribly sorry but this
00:38:35
table is reserved for some other folks
00:38:37
well I had a reservation your name
00:38:41
sir Oscar Norton well we have no
00:38:44
reservation in that name and I'm afraid
00:38:46
it's going to be some time before we
00:38:47
have another table available might I
00:38:50
suggest y'all be more comfortable in an
00:38:53
establishment across town we aren't
00:38:55
going anywhere Oscar it's okay we can go
00:38:57
go to another restaurant
00:39:03
okay your hat
00:39:09
sir take care okay we
00:39:13
will got to go Oscar and his girlfriend
00:39:16
eventually had a
00:39:18
baby they lived together off base for
00:39:21
more than a year but in the fall of
00:39:24
1943 Oscar was transferred overseas he
00:39:27
never saw either of them
00:39:31
again Dad wanted the information to be
00:39:33
given out to all of us ironically the
00:39:37
one family member that my father
00:39:38
conveyed this story to was to a family
00:39:41
member that is is having a difficult
00:39:44
time dealing with his own um Prejudice
00:39:47
he didn't tell the rest of the family
00:39:49
after my father passed away and then
00:39:52
when we got the phone call from the lady
00:39:55
he felt apparently some twinge of
00:39:57
conscience that he should come forward
00:40:00
and tell us was his mother's name
00:40:03
Eleanor no her name was Nelly oh my
00:40:07
goodness when Connie thought back to the
00:40:09
conversation she realized that the woman
00:40:11
referred to as Elanor could have been
00:40:14
her grandmother Nelly and I said Bonnie
00:40:17
Nelly and Nelly are nicknames for elanar
00:40:20
and Bonnie goes oh my God she goes maybe
00:40:22
we had the right
00:40:25
woman I've talked about it several times
00:40:27
s the phone call with family members and
00:40:29
we're just hoping that she's not ill
00:40:32
we're actually hoping her mother's
00:40:34
alive we' we'd like to meet her
00:40:37
mother why don't she let me give you a
00:40:39
call oh I don't think this was a woman
00:40:42
he had feelings for and that was too bad
00:40:46
if someone else couldn't deal with it
00:40:49
you look so
00:40:50
beautiful thank you
00:40:52
Oscar it was an ongoing relationship it
00:40:55
wasn't a army weekend out with the boy's
00:40:58
relationship he stuck with her he stayed
00:41:00
with her he had a child that he didn't
00:41:02
deny with her granted the denial has
00:41:04
been for many years to our family
00:41:08
because he was protecting his children
00:41:10
from Prejudice that Society instills on
00:41:12
all of us there's times when people
00:41:14
still find that kind of uh Prejudice now
00:41:19
but hopefully our family's gotten beyond
00:41:22
that the majority of our family at least
00:41:23
has gotten have gotten beyond
00:41:26
that she's going to be received with
00:41:28
open arms and a whole lot of
00:41:32
love Bonnie Potter and Connie fontain
00:41:35
are still looking for their half sister
00:41:38
they want her to know that they care
00:41:40
about her and hope that she contacts
00:41:42
them
00:41:43
again their sister was born in 1943 in
00:41:47
Colleen
00:41:49
Texas her mother worked at a hospital
00:41:51
near Fort Hood when she met Oscar Norton
00:41:54
oh I don't think that's such a good idea
00:41:56
no come on un fortunately all military
00:41:59
records from that time were destroyed in
00:42:01
a fire if you have any information about
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