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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries Dan mon Calo is serving 27
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years to life for his wife's murder but
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he just might be an innocent man is this
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sea monster just a legend or a real
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dinosaur as eyewitnesses
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claim a young man embarks on a spiritual
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journey across the New Mexico desert and
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then mysteriously
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vanishes and an outlawed biker who
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manufactures methamphetamines finally
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gets
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caught five stories of crime deceit and
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Intrigue I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries join
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us
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Burbank
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California
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we shot I can't understand you were you
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shot my wife please hurry police
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received a frantic 911 call from a man
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who said he and his wife had been shot
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by
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Intruders I'm on the
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way moments later Patrol units
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surrounded the home of Dan and Carol
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Monty
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Cala Dan had been shot once in the lower
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back but was able to leave the house
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house on his
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own inside officers found his wife Carol
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mortally wounded shot twice in the neck
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at first police believed that it was a
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clear case of a burglary that had ended
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in
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violence however within 24 hours they
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began to think that Dan Monty Cavo had
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staged the entire episode they suspected
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he murdered his
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wife Mon caval was for L charged with
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murder today he is serving 27 years to
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life for a crime that he swears he did
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not
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commit did you kill your wife
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no could you have
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never why
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not I mean I love it I love it I mean
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the bond we had was not just a an
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emotional bond and a physical Bond a
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spiritual
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bond to the police Dan m alvo was a
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murder suspect with an obvious motive he
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was an alcoholic ex-convict with huge
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gandling deaths and his wife was worth
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more than a half a million dollars in
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life
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insurance Dan has always insisted that
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Carol was murdered by Intruders and now
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a witness has come forward to confirm
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his
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story Dan Monty cell met Carol in the
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state penitentiary in Oxford Wisconsin
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she was a prison Minister he was serving
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20 years for bank
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robbery she had so much so much goodness
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such a joy such a peace about it that
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she would let up light up a room anytime
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she walked in the smile the eyes would
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just capture you so in a period about a
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year and a half we we fell in love it's
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a difficult place to fall in love but we
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did Dan and Carol married Dan received
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an early parole and eventually the the
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couple moved to
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California a few years later Dan was
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diagnosed with a bleeding ulcer unable
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to work he drank heavily and gambled
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another one when Carol won a trip to
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Hawaii through her job both of them
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hoped that it would be like a second
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honeymoon so what else did you do today
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know what you are about to see is Dan
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Monty C's version of what happened the
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night before their departure at about
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10:30 Dan and Carol went for a walk as
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they did almost every night car and I
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had did some shopping that night to pick
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up some last minute items and then as
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was our habit changed clothes and took a
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walk this is a night we're happy we're
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going away tomorrow just looking forward
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to it because we were taking Carol's car
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the next morning we had decided to
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change the registration tag on Carol's
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car her registration expired that night
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at midnight well honey give me your keys
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and I'll go get a paper towel to clean
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that oh that's a good idea
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and with that she went into the
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house and I was thinking about putting
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the water sprinkler on cuz we're going
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to be gone for a week I heard her say
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something and it got my
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attention as soon as I ran inside I was
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grabbed from
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behind El pressed him to my back knew
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was a gun as I twisted I saw a mustache
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remember going down I remember a voice
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saying let's get out of here because I
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was laying right there by the front
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door you know you just got the sense of
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people going out the front
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door so um I was able to get up look out
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the front door to see if I can see I
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couldn't see
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nothing Dan had been shot once in the
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lower
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back no vial organs were hit and there
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was almost no bleeding when he saw Carol
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lying in the hallway
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he ran the call
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911 the office phone was broken so Monte
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calvo ran to the living room it was
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11:01
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p.m. what's your
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emergency
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sh what shot I can't understand you were
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you shot yeah my wife don't please Hur
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me I'm on the way we're on the
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way Patrol unit soon began to
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arrive the officers proceeded cautiously
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thinking that the gunman may still be
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inside the
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house Dan says that he stayed with his
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wife still no one entered the home
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door fire finally Dan Monty calvo came
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to the front door calling to the police
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to help his wife the police could not
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hear what he was saying they yelled for
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him to come out with his hands
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up Dan claims at first he could not hear
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the
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police at least 10 minutes after Dan
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Monty C called 911 the police finally
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entered his
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house Carol m calvo was pronounced dead
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at the
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scene Police Department is about 2
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minutes from my
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home St Joseph's Hospital is 1 minute
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from my home if my wife could have got
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help at the trauma center it was a
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certified Trauma Center she might be
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alive
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to that night the bullet was removed
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from Dan's back for the next 4 days
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detectives searched his
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house at first they found evidence EV to
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support Monty Calo story there was a
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small slit in the rear screen door a
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cash box in the filing cabinet
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containing it had been jimmied open Dan
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Clan $800 was missing hry bring me one
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of those baggies here police also found
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a shell casing from the bullet that hit
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Dan yet other things didn't make sense
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Carol's purse was left untouched and the
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police didn't think that a burglar would
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break into a house with all the lights
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on and two cars in the
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driveway and then they learned that Dan
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Monty calvo was a convicted bank robber
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I think once they ran the WAP sheet on
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Dan and saw some of his paranoid
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Tendencies and his fear of the police
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that they eliminated any other option
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and everything began being put into a
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pretty much scene through the tunnel
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vision of this guy had to have done it
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now let's prove
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it according to Monte Cal's lawyers the
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bur Bank police secretly tape recorded
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conversations with
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him I'd like to ask you some questions
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about what happened that night how
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already told you everything that
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happened that night I told you already
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well you don't mind you Danny I mean you
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don't have anything to hide do
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you no I have anything to hide in one
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conversation Dan revealed that Carol had
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been heavily insured and that he owed
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more than $20,000
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in gambling
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debts it gave them all they needed to
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believe there was a
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motive it was very simple if if he
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killed Carol he walked with a h more
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than half a million dollars that coupled
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with the fact that I have a record that
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coupled with the fact that in their
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minds nobody else was
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there I was guilty and they were never
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going to look any other way anywhere
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else the investigation dragged on for
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over a year Dan sold his house and put
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most of his belongings in storage 14
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months after Carol's death he filed a
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negligence suit against the Burbank
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Police Department alleging that his wife
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might have survived if the police had
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responded more quickly some thought that
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Dan was trying to capitalize on his
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wife's
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death around the same time detectives
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obtained a warrant to search his storage
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locker they found what they believed had
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been The Hiding Place for the murder
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weapon a hollowed out
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book The hollowed out book was the most
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compelling piece of evidence against Dan
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it was the exact size of the two guns
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and if you work the two guns in the
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right direction it exactly fit the same
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guns that were used in this
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crime the case against Mony calvo was
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getting
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stronger when we return a witness says
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that she knows who committed the murder
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and that it wasn't Dan Monty
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C in the months after Carol Monty
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calvo's murder police began to build a
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case against her
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husband excuse me Dan Monty caval was a
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known heavy drinker and his character
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had become a major issue and when I go
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to Vegas they treat me like a king
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detectives found Witnesses who said that
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while Carol was still alive Dan had a
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reputation for coming on to women in
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local bars I would like you to go to
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Vegas with
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me the image of the da painting me as
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some sort of character you know that was
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out there drinking and and and carousing
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and whatever it's not
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factual I challenged the prosecutor from
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the stand to bring one woman into court
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that said I cheated on my wife with her
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one but they couldn't I was no angel I
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was a jerk many times okay but what they
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tainted me as now
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now nearly 2 years after Carol's death
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Dan Mony calal was forly charged with
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murder at the trial Monty calal and his
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attorney hop to prove that other people
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beside Dan and Carol had been at the
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crime scene the police investigation
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uncovered a number of fingerprints which
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they could never identify also partial
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Footprints lifted from their kitchen
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floor could not be tied to Dan or Carol
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this evidence seemed to back up Dan
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story in addition police had questioned
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neighbors who said they heard people
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running from Dan and Carol's house on
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the night of the murder one man said
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they knocked over the ladder in his
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backyard Police Department sorry to you
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named Susan Brown who lived two doors
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away said her wood pile had been knocked
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down when someone jumped over her fence
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I have a pile of wood back in the
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backyard I heard it fall down she didn't
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think nothing of it you know at the
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trial Brown testified on Monty Cav's
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behalf but her testimony had no effect
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on the
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outcome then Monty Cal was convicted and
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given the maximum sentence 27 years to
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life
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but his court appointed investigator
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continued to believe that Dan was
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innocent before that trial came to an
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end I knew Dan was innocent that was
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when I first contacted Susan Brown and
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began talking to
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her after Dan's conviction Jean Brisco
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worked on his own time and without pay
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he continued pressing Brown for details
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um if I guess what happened in that
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house would you tell
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me finally Susan Brown made a stunning
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admission okay you were in that house
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and you shot Carol is that right I
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didn't shoot
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Carol I shot Dan but I didn't shoot
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Carol people keep saying Dan's R's
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wife Dan didn't shoot his wife cuz I'm
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the one to shot
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Dan
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and my partner shot
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Carol Susan says that she and her
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friends were
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partying they ran out of drugs and they
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needed some quick cash they knew that
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Dan and Carol were going to be in Hawaii
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they thought they had already gone and
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that's when Dan and Carol came home from
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their walk because indeed they were not
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gone they're here no get that come on go
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scare the next thing I can only remember
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was here when Carol says what are you
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doing
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here and then two shots
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fired I didn't deliberately shoot Dan I
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ended up wrestling with him and gun
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going off now that fits Dan store
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perfectly so in that sense it definitely
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lends a lot of credibility to Dan Dan a
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Cal's version of events differs from
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Susan Brown's in only one crucial detail
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Dan still insists that his as salent had
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a
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mustache I know when I was grabbed I
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twisted and I saw that mustache right
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and I thought the person that grab me
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was strong I know was taller I don't
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know how Susan and brown thinks she's
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that
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tall um there's one other possibility
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that Susan cannot admit that she shot my
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life I believe Beyond any doubt
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whatsoever that she's telling the truth
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that she was in fact there and she did
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in fact shoot someone she told me that
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Carol had lost one of her flip-flops and
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uh that can only be verified by a police
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report which was taken by Burbank she
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gave me the color of the cash box uh
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taking of $800 she mentioned a slit in
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the screen that was never made public
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she's consistent with the type of weapon
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that was used both weapons a 38 a
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25 I'm convinced Beyond any doubt
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whatsoever that she was inside that
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house and took part of
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that Susan Brown's confession prompted a
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month-long investigation by the DA's
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office however he refused to reopen the
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case Susan Brown allegedly had a history
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of mental illness and some believe that
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she made up the entire story simply to
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get attention when they right mind would
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sit and say they had something to do
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with a murder Knowing damn well it could
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put them
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away when there's already someone
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sitting paying for a crime who would be
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stupid enough to come forward and say
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that unless they're going through what
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I'm going
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through because they did do
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it Dan Monty caval is convinced Susan
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Brown was involved in his wife's murder
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he believes he was convicted not because
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of anything that happened that night but
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because of his criminal past I have a
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record does that make me a murderer I'm
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a gambler that makes me a murderer my
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wife has insurance that makes me a
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murderer forget in the emotional part in
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how much I love Carol okay you think I'm
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going to sit there shoot myself in the
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back I mean it's it's so absurd it's
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pathetic just 17 days after he was
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sentenced Dan mon calvo remarried his
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new wife was one of Carol's close
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friends from church Monty Cavo is
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currently incarcerated at Vacaville
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prison where he is serving his sentence
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of 27 years to
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Life Next the hunt for evidence of a
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legendary sea
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monster in Scotland it's the lock Nest
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monster in New York's Lake Champlain
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it's
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champ there's Ogo Pogo in British
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Columbia and finally in cadboro Bay
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Canada it's the
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legendary
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caddy the thing I noticed most about it
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was its eyes that they were big and they
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were serpent-like
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the odor from it was just incredible it
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permeated it made you want to vomit it
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went down and a hump came up and then it
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went down and another hump came up and
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it was like it was
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moving cadborosaurus caddy for short is
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the sea monster of cadb bay many people
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believe that this is the carcass of just
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such a creature computer enhancement
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gives us an idea of what it might have
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looked like before it was eaten by a
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whale and 1937 there was a whaling
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station in the north part of British
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Columbia and one of the whaleboats
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harpooned this big sperm whale about 6
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hours run from the Wailing station towed
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back and the fers got to it fairly
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quickly fencers are the workers who
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butcher the whales once they're brought
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to the shore inside the stomach of this
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one they made an astonishing
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find they came across this incredible
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snake like thing none of them had ever
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seen it before in years of wailing and
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fansing they knew it was something
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different James Wakeland then a
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24-year-old blacksmith saw the creature
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with his own
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eyes I don't know I got no idea what it
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is I going to never send anything like
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it and I guess somebody thought well
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that's a queer looking Affair there we
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better get the vager and he got it
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brought down and he took the
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pictures the creature was about 12 ft
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long it had a head shaped like a horse
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or a camel and a thin snake-like body
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approximately 16 in around it has a pair
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of hind flippers that were webbed
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together with the tail to form this
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whike fluke which undoubtedly provided
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the main driving force for this
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animal the Whalers sent part of the
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specimen to a
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museum there the director Francis kerm
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dismissed it as the fetus of a baline
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whale and tossed it
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out but even to untrained eyes a baline
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whale fetus looks unlike the carcass
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that they found in the whale if he just
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stopped and thought would these men send
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down a fetal baline whale they dissected
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hundreds of these things out of dead
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whale uteruses every week they they knew
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what a fetal bailine whale so that was
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really not complimentary to these
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professional
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Whalers Skeptics claim the photo may be
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a hoax but that hardly explains the
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people who insist they've seen
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caddy William hageland was sailing in a
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remote Cove when he and his sons caught
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what he now believes was a baby
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caddy looked like a little gter snake
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about 16 in long maybe the thickness of
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my thumb but it had a little shoulders
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with little flippers on its
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shoulders and uh a bit of a neck not
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much but and a head on it with two
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bright brown eyes looking at
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us heglin sketched the animal in detail
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he wanted to take it to the nearest
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biology station but he was at least a
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day
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away through the evening I could hear
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this little thing making quite a fuss in
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the bucket that we' put it into you
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could see that he was quite terrified
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and quite put out with all of this so I
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felt that maybe if we try to H him over
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night that he might perish I just uh
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after a great deal of soul searching
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decided to put it back in the water and
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leave it
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be for the second time what was thought
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to be a caddy was thrown back in the
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bay with the help of a paleontologist we
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applied computer animation to the
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photographs of
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cadborosaurus a caddy 7 m long would
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probably have at least 360 vertebrae
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that would give it enough flexibility to
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form the Hoops so often seen by
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eyewitnesses but unlike a snake which
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can only Wiggle from side to side a
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cadborosaurus could move itself forward
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using its tail flute and steering with
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its for Fins like a sea
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lion at least six times a year there are
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sightings of this exact creature I was
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walking my dog lady and as we were
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coming down the path to the beach uh she
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was struggling to get away from me she
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just didn't want to go to the
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beach finally I pulled her and pulled
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her and she got closer and as I turned
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to look down I saw this face looking at
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me and it was shaped like a horse face
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and there were eyes that were like a
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snake and as I I looked at it it looked
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at me and then it dropped his head below
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the cliff I sort of took my breath away
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when I saw it heard a sound thought it
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was probably a whale or something looked
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out didn't see much and heard it again
00:24:02
and saw like a strange head out of the
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water about 50 60 ft
00:24:08
away it had the definite snout with a
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big uh large head um really Rocky
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looking really greeny black color almost
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like a garbage bag
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color it was a very odd looking uh
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looking thing it had two itical Hoops uh
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as we are on approach we could uh see
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that it was moving very quickly through
00:24:33
the water and I would estimate to be
00:24:35
about 40 mph and we could actually see
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through the two Hoops we could see uh
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you know what was on the other side of
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the hoop so that was very
00:24:47
strange it was the uh most unique thing
00:24:50
I've ever seen in the waters around here
00:24:52
I've seen uh know lots of different
00:24:54
things uh but I've never seen something
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like that
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it's just a question of time until
00:25:02
somebody viewing one of the six or eight
00:25:05
people who see it every year is going to
00:25:07
luck in with either a still camera or a
00:25:11
video but it's it's it's such a rare
00:25:13
occasion that at the moment we can only
00:25:16
say the animal is rare but it's
00:25:21
there Skeptics claim caddy eyewitnesses
00:25:24
are mistaken they believe they're
00:25:27
probably seeing humpback whales elephant
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seals basking sharks or maybe a herd of
00:25:33
sea
00:25:34
lions hopefully the next person to get a
00:25:37
hold of the Caddy will resist the urge
00:25:40
to dump it back in the bay maybe then
00:25:43
this unol mystery will finally be
00:25:51
soled next a successful stock analyst
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sets out on a journey of self-discovery
00:25:58
and
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disappears many believe the desert that
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stretches across Arizona and New Mexico
00:26:14
is a source of mystical
00:26:20
power here in this beautiful but
00:26:22
unforgiving Wilderness a strange and
00:26:25
intriguing mystery began one Halloween
00:26:32
Dawn local farmer Larry Rivers speaks
00:26:36
with an unusual young man The Stranger
00:26:39
claims to be searching for the
00:26:43
Beast it was pretty cold that morning I
00:26:45
come driving out my road and this guy is
00:26:47
walking down here in a short sleeve
00:26:49
shirt a pair of shorts on carrying a
00:26:51
stick in his
00:26:52
hand hello you lost no I'm not lost what
00:26:56
are you doing out here yeah I'm looking
00:26:58
for the
00:27:00
Beast I told him he wasn't going to find
00:27:02
the Beast out here and he told me he'd
00:27:04
find him well I'm I'm going to keep
00:27:07
looking was weird
00:27:10
no The Stranger was 29-year-old David
00:27:13
Stone and Larry Rivers was the last
00:27:16
person to ever see
00:27:19
him David Stone was a highly successful
00:27:22
stock broker then he decided to change
00:27:25
his life and became involved with a New
00:27:27
Age movement his obsession with
00:27:30
spirituality may have sent him on a
00:27:32
journey from which there was no
00:27:36
return well I think he could best be
00:27:38
described as um overachiever in just
00:27:42
about every way you've never met a
00:27:45
Kinder gentler young man than him but
00:27:48
then on the other hand you put him in a
00:27:51
football uniform and he was like a
00:27:53
proverbial
00:27:56
Commando for years David struggled with
00:27:58
his dual
00:28:02
nature one day he temporarily lost
00:28:04
control during a party at his own
00:28:07
apartment what going on David started
00:28:11
hitting him he said he might have hit
00:28:13
him all 20 25 times and he didn't really
00:28:16
hurt him but felt he had to do
00:28:23
that hey Dave yeah uh where you going
00:28:28
the next morning David told John that he
00:28:30
needed to get away he said that he would
00:28:32
be back in just a few
00:28:38
days David's abandoned car was
00:28:40
discovered many days later on New
00:28:42
Mexico's desolate Highway
00:28:49
80 police interviewed local residents
00:28:52
and several said they had seen
00:28:54
David we had left our home in coton city
00:28:56
and we're driving up to the ranch as we
00:28:59
went by we saw this young man and we
00:29:02
thought perhaps he'd had car trouble so
00:29:04
we
00:29:05
stopped trouble no I'm okay and so we
00:29:09
just went
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on I heard this voice and I seen this
00:29:18
man walking across the way there are
00:29:22
thought it was uh unusual that he'd be
00:29:24
going out across the desert at that time
00:29:26
of the year in
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[Music]
00:29:32
shorts David's car was found near the
00:29:35
pyramid mountain range pyramids are a
00:29:38
key part of New Age
00:29:40
philosophy each year many Believers come
00:29:43
here to experience what is known as
00:29:45
Vision Quest a journey to find one's
00:29:47
inner self it is believed that through
00:29:49
isolation and meditation a person can
00:29:52
experience a vision that reveals their
00:29:55
true identity
00:29:58
I am convinced once he arrived at that
00:30:01
location that he felt like this would be
00:30:04
the perfect starting point for whatever
00:30:06
Vision Quest he personally felt that he
00:30:09
had to embark
00:30:11
on in that process you have to face what
00:30:15
they term as being the Beast this Beast
00:30:18
is that evil or negativism which is in
00:30:24
you 4 days after David's abandoned car
00:30:27
was found a fullscale Manhunt was
00:30:30
launched for 3 Days planes and trackers
00:30:34
scoured the
00:30:35
desert David's Trail headed Northwest
00:30:39
from his car in the direction of Granite
00:30:42
Peak we thought was interesting because
00:30:44
that mountain from the south looks kind
00:30:45
of pyramid shaped it has an interesting
00:30:48
look to it that might have meant
00:30:49
something to his religion it might not
00:30:51
have just 1 half mile from the highway
00:30:54
Searchers discovered the first in a
00:30:56
series of biz B clues that David Left
00:31:00
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00:31:02
Behind that's when they found a large
00:31:04
pyramid up in that wash it had been made
00:31:06
out of sand mounded up and rocks on the
00:31:08
corner that was the first thing we
00:31:11
found after I got further down the
00:31:14
canyon it seemed like the tracks were
00:31:16
real fresh I had a a real strange
00:31:19
feeling the hair stood up on my arms and
00:31:22
I had an intense feeling that he was
00:31:23
sitting watching me come here
00:31:28
trackers discovered another puzzling
00:31:30
clue on the second day once again David
00:31:34
had built a small pyramid this time he
00:31:37
left behind his gold Rolex watch and two
00:31:40
quarters I don't know what that means
00:31:43
must be something to do with this
00:31:44
religion the coins and David's watch
00:31:47
were found here about 1/4 Mile from the
00:31:50
first pyramid approximately 3 m to the
00:31:53
north another clue was
00:31:56
discovered
00:31:58
Searchers Came Upon a strange sequence
00:32:00
of numbers written in the sand these
00:32:03
numbers called the Fibonacci series are
00:32:06
used by stock market analysts the last
00:32:09
number in the sequence should have been
00:32:11
21 oddly David wrote
00:32:15
18 he knew better than that so it's one
00:32:18
of the Mysteries is why would he write
00:32:20
18 instead of
00:32:22
21 David's family believes the number 18
00:32:25
may have been David's way of telling
00:32:27
them that he was in
00:32:29
trouble in fact his car was found at
00:32:32
mile marker 18 and during his senior
00:32:35
year in college 18 was David's uniform
00:32:40
number on the final day of the search
00:32:43
blood hounds tracked David sent over the
00:32:45
rocky desert back to Highway 80 at the
00:32:49
intersection of Highway 80 and
00:32:51
Interstate 10 David's Trail suddenly
00:32:55
ended this was about 13 Mi north of
00:32:58
where's car had been found we took it to
00:33:01
be a hopeful sign that he had hitchhiked
00:33:04
out or that somebody given him a ride
00:33:05
and that was the only thing we could
00:33:07
understand that would mean why the scent
00:33:09
disappeared like it
00:33:12
did well I just kept feeling that
00:33:15
everything was there to let us know what
00:33:18
had happened but we just weren't seeing
00:33:24
it what could they have been missing
00:33:27
Carol and Harry Stone went through the
00:33:29
items David left in his car one of the
00:33:32
things they found was a very strange
00:33:35
note the note said they think the word
00:33:39
is in the safe six knives in Rob's room
00:33:44
you buys your tea and you takes your
00:33:46
chances
00:33:49
Halloween and that was the day he
00:33:50
disappeared which was October 31st
00:33:55
Halloween
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what was the meaning behind the strange
00:33:59
clues that David left across the desert
00:34:03
and what became of him after he reached
00:34:05
the intersection of Highway 80 and
00:34:07
Interstate
00:34:15
10
00:34:18
update 4 years after David Stone
00:34:21
disappeared two Hunters found his
00:34:23
remains in the granite Gap area of New
00:34:26
Mexico
00:34:27
there were no signs of Foul
00:34:29
Play an autopsy could not determine the
00:34:32
cause or exact time of death to this day
00:34:36
what happened to David remains a
00:34:39
baffling
00:34:40
mystery if you should have any
00:34:42
information about the death of David
00:34:44
Stone please log on to our website at
00:34:48
unsolved.com
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00:34:53
coming up a search for the outlaw but
00:34:56
biker behind a million dooll meth
00:35:12
laap on a previous program We examined
00:35:16
the case of a Florida Widow we called
00:35:17
Mrs K she claimed that she was romanced
00:35:21
and then swindled by a man named Arthur
00:35:25
Frankford after a 4-we courtship
00:35:28
Frankfurt convinced Mrs K to let him
00:35:30
move
00:35:32
in never once was I suspicious of any
00:35:35
move that he made as far as to question
00:35:37
his character who he was and he was that
00:35:41
he was a liar and a
00:35:42
thief but one day while Mrs K was at
00:35:46
work Frankford disappeared and allegedly
00:35:49
stole jewelry worth over
00:35:52
$4,000 as well as many personal items
00:35:55
belonging to Mrs K's late
00:35:58
husband Arthur Frankford was wanted by
00:36:01
Florida police for burglary Grand Theft
00:36:04
Auto and check forgery authorities
00:36:07
believed that he may have victimized
00:36:09
over 40 women by stealing their hearts
00:36:12
and then taking their
00:36:15
cash
00:36:17
update within minutes of our broadcast
00:36:20
two viewers called to report that they
00:36:22
recognized Arthur
00:36:24
Frankford the individual said I know
00:36:27
where Arthur Frankfurt is I'm his ex-
00:36:29
brother-in-law we received another call
00:36:32
about 20 minutes later from a white
00:36:33
female says Arthur Frankford lives next
00:36:36
door to me in Whitley Kentucky this was
00:36:39
the confirmation call that I was looking
00:36:41
for at that time uh I knew we had our
00:36:46
man just 2 hours later Frankfurt was
00:36:49
arrested at his home in Kentucky he was
00:36:52
living under the assumed name James
00:36:54
Ferguson with his brand new wife of two
00:36:57
months during his search at frankfurt's
00:37:00
home police found identification and
00:37:02
credit cards with different names they
00:37:05
also found a handgun that may have been
00:37:07
stolen from Mrs K's Home Police
00:37:11
ultimately determined that Arthur
00:37:12
frankfurt's real name was Harry Fielding
00:37:16
Donaldson he was tried and found guilty
00:37:19
of
00:37:25
fraud war on drugs is often a battle
00:37:27
against small illicit Labs drug dealers
00:37:31
use common chemicals to make highly
00:37:33
addictive meth crank or
00:37:37
Crystal one of the most notorious of
00:37:40
these meth Cooks was Jonathan John
00:37:43
Brown also known as
00:37:47
Thumper according to investigators he
00:37:50
operated meth labs across the
00:37:53
country there normal mode of operation
00:37:57
would be to have any one of his cronies
00:37:59
set up the lab for him just basically
00:38:01
have all the chemicals and U all the
00:38:03
Necessities on hand so when he shows up
00:38:05
he would not have to do any manual labor
00:38:07
type operations he just gets right to
00:38:09
the Cook gets it done and gets out of
00:38:10
the area and takes his rewards with
00:38:13
him Thumper was a charter member of a
00:38:16
motorcycle gang known as the hessin he
00:38:19
was a federal fugitive with outstanding
00:38:22
warrants in California Tennessee and
00:38:25
Oregon
00:38:29
Thumper managed to elude detection but
00:38:33
after a long Stakeout he was tracked to
00:38:35
a lab near Lancaster
00:38:38
California we observed Jonathan John
00:38:40
Brown carrying 6 five gallon containers
00:38:43
of acetone he had about 30 gallons of
00:38:45
acetone which is quite a sizable amount
00:38:48
and by the fact that he had such a
00:38:50
sizable quantity would indicate to us
00:38:52
that this was a uh sizable meth lab
00:38:57
as Brown pulled away in his truck the
00:39:00
police closed in out the car hands to
00:39:03
the roof Thumper was
00:39:07
arrested he was charged with possession
00:39:09
of meth and cited for outstanding
00:39:12
traffic
00:39:16
citations police later discovered that
00:39:18
Thumper had a large secret drug lab but
00:39:22
by then Thumper was free on Bond and
00:39:25
vanished methamphetamine on a street
00:39:28
coming directly from a lab would sell
00:39:31
for approximately $10,000 a
00:39:35
pound for photographs let's start with
00:39:37
overall police estimated that this crude
00:39:40
lab could have manufactured and
00:39:42
fetamines with a street value of more
00:39:44
than $1
00:39:49
million a few months later an informant
00:39:51
told investigators that Thumper was
00:39:54
hiding out at a remote drug lab
00:39:56
in Medford
00:39:59
Oregon forcing the door open with the
00:40:01
the door Ram the enter team received
00:40:04
gunfire from
00:40:06
[Applause]
00:40:09
inside two police officers were wounded
00:40:12
and one gang member was
00:40:14
killed we're about to introduce chemical
00:40:17
weapons into the house come out slowly
00:40:19
the gun that will end it when police
00:40:20
used tear gas and the people in the
00:40:23
house finally
00:40:25
surrender
00:40:27
when officers searched the property they
00:40:29
found a crude lab but no Thumper Thumper
00:40:33
was a regor on the premises that stayed
00:40:36
there quite often and uh normally for
00:40:38
long periods of time and was there as
00:40:40
early as one day prior to the raid and
00:40:42
if the raid would have been done one day
00:40:43
earlier we'd have captured him
00:40:46
too
00:40:48
update minutes after our broadcast the
00:40:51
FBI received a call from a viewer who
00:40:53
reported seeing Thumper at a casino 40
00:40:56
miles south of Las Vegas part of the tip
00:40:59
was that brown was in the company of a
00:41:01
woman driving a
00:41:04
1990 uh Camaro vehicle with no license
00:41:09
plate FBI agents track Thumper companion
00:41:13
to a casino located at the California
00:41:15
Nevada border they staked out the
00:41:18
location and within minutes spotted the
00:41:20
woman leaving with
00:41:22
Thumper Brown was seen getting into the
00:41:25
vehicle follow that vehicle from Cactus
00:41:27
katees casino to Whiskey
00:41:30
pets he pulled up uh in that white
00:41:33
camaro with a female
00:41:35
driving at which time our agents were
00:41:38
able to jockey our cars in position so
00:41:40
that when he did eventually get out of
00:41:41
the vehicle he took one step was placed
00:41:44
under arrest he hit the pavement and
00:41:47
said that he was relieved that it was
00:41:49
all
00:41:50
over Jonathan John Brown was found
00:41:53
guilty of conspiracy to manufacture and
00:41:55
distribute
00:41:57
methamphetamines his sentence 30 years
00:42:01
he served his time and has been
00:42:23
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00:42:25
released
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