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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries when a woman suddenly
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disappears her husband claims that she
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ran away but the police believe he
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killed
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her Tanya cobri wanted to break up with
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her boyfriend but he didn't like that
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idea and
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responded a murderous
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rage a little girl and her mother are
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found dead 12 M apart
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who murdered them and
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why and many people believe they have
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been cured by father solanus Casey is he
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truly a miracle
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worker sound intriguing if you better
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believe it these are unusual cases that
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you won't want to miss I'm Dennis finina
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and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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Johnston Rhode
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Island Steven Mario comes home from work
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to find that his house is oddly silent
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dorine a small suitcase is missing so is
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Dorene Steven's wife of 12
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years I started looking for the clothes
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I noticed some jeans a couple of shirts
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were missing
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blouses I checked the small safe that we
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used to have and I noticed that there's
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some money out of there there was
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probably a few hundred in there that was
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gone other than that there was the car
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was in the yard uh there were no
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notes no letters
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nothing since the day she disappeared
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there have been several unconfirmed
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sightings of Dorene marfield but beyond
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that nothing no phone calls no paper
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trail nobody Dorene just vanished the
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police are now convinced that she was
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murdered and Steven Mario has now
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discovered that when someone disappears
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The Prime Suspect is often the person
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who knew them
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best Steven and Dorene Mario had similar
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outgoing personalities and both loved
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the outdoors they seemed like the
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perfect
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match hello but 11 years into their
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marriage a crack appeared and their
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perfect world Dorene suddenly quit her
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job and said that she needed a
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change it was a surprise to her bosses
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as well as myself and her friends and
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mother you just don't quit a job and not
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go anywhere she's not the type to just
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leave for no
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reason according to Steven dorene's
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Behavior grew more and more erratic she
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seemed to be on the verge of a nervous
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breakdown do you know what time it is I
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know I know um look just go back to bed
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I'll be there in a couple of minutes
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okay from a strong independent woman she
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became very weak very unassured of
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herself uh basically a nervous wreck in
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a matter of weeks is it me is it
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something I did when I did try and push
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the issue she would get more hysterical
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can't talk about it we always could talk
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about everything before why not now she
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said it's I can at this time I will tell
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you but I can't this time and I never
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did find
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out hi is is Dorene there Steven admits
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that he did nothing for 2 days after
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Dorene vanished assuming that she needed
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some time alone to se things out finally
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he called dorene's mother she hadn't
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seen or talked to her daughter in a week
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think she went away to get a few days by
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herself to clear her head when Steve
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called me in the morning he sounded
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strange I said there's something wrong
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then he called the afternoon right away
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I knew I I told him call the police now
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don't wait
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the police questioned dorene's family
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and friends but no one knew why she may
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have left and then detectives made a
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start with the discovery I just called
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Stephen marfield back he said he had
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Dorne followed around by two private
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investigators for like 11
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months so I did hire a private
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investigator on and off for a year maybe
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a few hours a month to follow her once
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in a while cuz I don't know what was
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going on I just felt that there was
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something wrong but then never found
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anything basically what you have is you
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have a man who has a personality who has
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his wife followed around for 11 months
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for no reason at all and this same man
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later on down the road his wife
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disappears she's missing for 2 days and
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you don't think anything unusual you
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don't you don't make any phone calls or
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call the
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police it's not
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consistent 2 and 1/2 months after Dorene
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disappeared police got their first break
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in the case when they received two
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anonymous letters in one the author
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accused Dorene of cheating on her
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husband it said although on the outside
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she personifies class Beauty and
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professionalism in reality she is
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nothing more than a cheap
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Harlot her promotions were achieved by
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her sexual prowess rather than
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management or leadership
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abilities we talked to co-workers there
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was absolutely no inclination of Doren
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having to affil with anyone her
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cooworker says that was totally out of
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her character uh she had mentioned just
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a normal conversation with her
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co-workers that that's something she
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would never be involved in or tolerate
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was any type of marital Affairs even
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long before she
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disappeared however according to her
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sister darene had considered leaving
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Steven for another man early in their
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marriage she was having an affair and
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the guy that she was having the affair
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with was leaving or wanted to have her
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leave with him to wherever he was
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going she was pretty worried and very
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upset about what she should do and she
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came to me and eventually to my husband
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to talk about it and we all decided that
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probably the best thing she should do
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was not not do what she was thinking of
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doing the second letter was even more
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disturbing than the first it gave a
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chilling account of how Steven Mario had
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allegedly murdered his
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wife Steven got hot under the collar he
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made for couch and strangled
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dorine on a narrow dirt road he stopped
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and deposited wife's body in reeds in a
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pond police sent the letters to an
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expert on psycholinguistics for
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evaluation well it's got to be of
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someone who knew durine quite well close
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to uh the family the
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maros and then one says uh that the
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easiest and simplest account of this was
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it was designed to deceive the
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authorities in his report Dr myON
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concluded that Mario probably wrote both
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letters and was quote The Logical
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suspect in the murder of his
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wife I did not type any letters they're
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police they can say whatever they want
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and they do and they get away with it
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but I'm really getting tired of the
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accusations and the
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allegations in your windows
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if you have something bring It
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Forward the police seized several
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typewriters which Steven could have used
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to type the letters a comparison of type
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Styles revealed that the first letter
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had been written on a typewriter
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belonging to one of Steven's close
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relatives establishes for the first time
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a linkage between the document the
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instrument and a suspect so it was a
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major importance to us and I mean it's
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it's like a fingerprint as far as
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identification everybody calls me an
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optimist and everybody says oh Steve
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killer but I don't believe that at all
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uh none of his friends do as well the
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ones that I know that I've talked to uh
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I myself don't the police do but there
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is no
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evidence today Steven Mario lives in the
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same house that he and Dorene shared for
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12 years the police stood still believed
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Dorene didn't leave voluntarily partly
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because she left
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$50,000 in a joint savings account
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untouched but without a body it is
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difficult to prove that a crime has ever
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been
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committed I had nothing to do with my
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wife's disappearance nor do I know where
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she is I would like to think that she's
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still
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alive but I I do feel that it's possible
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it could go the other way too but I want
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to know that she is
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alive
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Update 9 years after darene disappeared
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this case took another unexpected turn
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Steven Mario fatally shot an
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ex-girlfriend wounded her boyfriend and
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then committed suicide he left a suicide
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note stating that ever since his wife's
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disappearance he had been quote just the
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shell of a man faking that I'm okay okay
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shortly after maro's death police
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searched his property for daren's body
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but they found nothing investigators
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believe that Dorene Mario is dead but
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her family is still searching for
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answers if you have any information
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about this case please contact us at
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next one of Pharmacy student is kicked
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out of school he snaps and turns his
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rage on the woman who once loved
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him Kansas City Missouri on a fall
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evening police respond to reports of a
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shooting it is immediately clear that
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the female victim is
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dead soon investigators learn her
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identity
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Tanya cpri had immigrated from
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Yugoslavia to study medicine in the
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United States she was determined to beat
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the odds to build a career and a life in
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a new
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country and by the age of 34 Tanya had
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achieved her goal she was a doctor at a
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Kansas City Hospital she had also found
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someone to share her successful life
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with Richard bage seemed like the
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perfect guy at
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first Richard was a pharmacy student at
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the University of Missouri he was young
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and dynamic and quite attentive to Tanya
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soon after they met he moved into her
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apartment 6 months later Richard
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proposed an Tanya accepted but her
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friends weren't so sure it was the
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perfect
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match I did not really like him because
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he used using her financially and
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morally she was using her for lot of
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things like using her Master charge card
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and was kind of using car and using
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everything Richard spent more and more
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time with Tanya and less time in class
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he was on his way to flunking
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out hungry he was not real
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motivated he wanted it he wanted to be a
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pharmacist but you have to want it bad
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enough to
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devote many many hours to the academic
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study end of
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it University officials notified Richard
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that he had been expelled Richard begged
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Tanya to use her connections to get him
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readmitted Tanya look you got to help me
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do this you must help yourself help
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myself how am I going to do that if I'm
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I'm not in school I won't do it come on
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I was thinking maybe he's there under
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drugs or alcohol because his behavior
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was
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changing he was kind of wild person I
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can't find my electric razor I don't
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after a few weeks of Richard's
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increasingly erratic and sometimes
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violent Behavior Tanya broke off their
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engagement and kicked them out of her
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apartment 2 weeks later Richard returned
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to class pretending that he had not
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flunked out but University officials
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refused to accept him back a Richard I
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need to talk to you for a minute sure
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could we go out in the
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hallway take up with the admissions I
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know last quarter I had a little trouble
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but I'm trying now I have anything to do
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with your grade to Richard there's a
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there's a proper procedure
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okay Richard wrote to the admissions
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office office begging school officials
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to reconsider his
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case his appeal was denied and a
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secretary was ordered to call him with
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the
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news at 3:45 right after Richard got the
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call denying his request two professors
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saw him driving towards the Dean's
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office they immediately headed in the
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opposite
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direction hey excuse me have you seen
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Professor Strickland sorry haven't
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Richard Ro the hallways searching for
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the dean of admissions under his arm he
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carried a large Mano of
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fer some witnesses thought that had HD a
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weapon the dean in no he's not when will
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he be back I'm not sure he's coming back
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today I'll just wait for him okay
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okay 3 hours later Tanya returned to her
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apartment after
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work
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by the time police and paramedics
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arrived Tanya cpri was dead she had been
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shot three times in the head with a 45
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caliber
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automatic I came out and then I heard
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the first gun shot and I turned there
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was a witness at the scene and she saw
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this man walk up to the side of the
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doctor's car and shoot her three times
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in the face she recognized him as being
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the man that dated Dr cop Richard
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bachl later during the investigation we
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found out that Mr bage had purchased a
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45 caliber handgun
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himself
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6 days later Royal Canadian Mounted
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Police found Bach's car Richard was seen
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by two people in the area he then
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dropped from
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sight I personally think he's back in
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the United
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States I think he would have gotten
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tired of being that Far North with no
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family and that's that's that's not his
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style his style was a little bit faster
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a little flashier a little looser and
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that might have been okay for a year too
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but I think he's
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back 2 months after Tanya was murdered
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her parents in Yugoslavia notified
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police that they had received an
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unsigned letter postmarked 2 days before
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the
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murder the envelope was addressed in
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Richard Bach's
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handwriting dear coick family
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your daughter Tanya cick has been
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executed in Kansas City
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Missouri she has caused so much grief
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anguish and turmoil to so many Americans
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that this act was necessary her
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execution was
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inevitable Richard bage is wanted for
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capital murder authorities believe he
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may be living in Canada he is 6 ft tall
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and weighs 170 lb he has vertical star
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under each armpit where he had sweat
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plans
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removed if you have any information
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about Richard bage please contact us at
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next when a young girl is murdered her
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mother is considered a suspect until she
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too is found
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dead
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Booneville
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Missouri I'll see you tomorrow make sure
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she takes her it had been a routine
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Monday at riverdell Care
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Center 43-year-old nurse's aid Janice
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Owen a widow and mother of two finishes
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her shift and then heads for home just a
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half a block
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away it's just after 2:
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p.m. about an hour later Janice's
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8-year-old daughter Alyssa is on her way
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home she is riding alone her older
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brother had been dropped off earlier at
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the babysitter's
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house she's a cute little smiling
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girl I just noticed her when she got off
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the bus and walked in front of my bus to
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get on her
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property I watched her angle toward the
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front door of this residence and then I
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was on my way
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later on Monday Janice's mother stopped
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by to say hello Janice I tried the door
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and it was unlocked Janice
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hello she didn't answer me so I walked
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on through the house and she wasn't
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anywhere to be found in
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there alysa's coat is on the couch her
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backpack on the floor but Francis finds
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no sign of her daughter or granddaughter
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it is now 5:00
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p.m. so I wrote a note that I'd been
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there and I thought it was funny that
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night she didn't call me but there was
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nothing messed up or anything that would
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have given me any idea anything was
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wrong 5:45 p.m. a neighbor returning
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home from work sees some unusual
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activity outside Janice's
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home there was cars parked on the street
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that usually I I mean I've just never
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noticed
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before there was a woman on the porch
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and there was a younger guy he was
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wearing the red baseball cap they were
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both facing the street and they both
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stared at me as they drove
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by 15 minutes later the neighbor notices
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more strange activity outside of
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Janice's
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home there was a white four-door car in
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front of her house but on the wrong side
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of the street and I saw a different guy
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facing me looking down towards my end of
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the
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street my intuition was telling me
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there's something
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wrong the next morning the start of a
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routine
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workday on the outskirts of fet Missouri
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just 12 miles from Booneville three
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employees of a local Sawmill noticed
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something on the side of the road
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oh stop at first they thought it was a
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mannequin it turned out to be the
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lifeless body of a young
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child minutes later the Howard County
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Sheriff arrived on the
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scene there wasn't no signs of any
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trauma or anything so we called the
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coroner and he arrived and and could
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determine that she'd probably been you
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know at least dead 6 to8 hours well
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Sheriff Paulson Howard County Sheriff's
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Department with no reports of any
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missing children in their area Sheriff
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pson contacted Booneville police in
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neighboring Cooper County yeah I'll
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check it out and I'll call you back as
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soon as I know anything okay detective
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Bob williver made calls to several
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schools and soon had an answer Alyssa
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Owen had been absent that day it was her
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body discarded at the side of the
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road 12:15 p.m. detective Welliver drove
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over to deliver the terrible news to
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alysa's
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Mother no answer suspicious he went
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inside hello anybody home there was no
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sign of Janice
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Owen I didn't see anything out of the
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ordinary that would give me any
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suspicions that there was a struggle no
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signs of any blood no signs of any kind
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of uh uh any trauma
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or anything we did not see anything out
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of the ordinary at the
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house an autopsy revealed Alyssa had
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been suffocated now her mother was not
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only missing but she was also the prime
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suspect in the murder of her daughter
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but police had no motive according to
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friends Janice adored her daughter
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Boonville Police Department detectives
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canvased the area for Clues a neighbor
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reported seeing an older model dark
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colored pickup truck parked near
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Janice's home Monday afternoon then an
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employee with a local waste disposal
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company said he saw a similar pickup
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truck on the same road where Alysa was
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found just minutes before The Sawmill
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workers discovered her
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body and went by he was going slow and I
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looked at him he was looking at me so I
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waved and he didn't turn his head away
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or wave or nothing just stared and just
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right on
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going and the guy was wearing a red ball
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cap the witness couldn't see into the
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bed of the pickup truck but he thinks he
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knows what was there the body of Alysa
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Owen Jeff was certain she had not been
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lying on the side of the road when he
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drove by minutes
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earlier they ever done through there had
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to have done it after 8:30 because I was
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through there not you know there's no
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way SP she was laying it out of missing
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her was the man behind the wheel the
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same one seen at Janice's home on Monday
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and was the dark green pickup truck
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parked near her home that afternoon the
00:24:11
same one spotted near the crime scene
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Tuesday Morning detectives searched for
00:24:16
answers but came up
00:24:19
empty over the next month they chased
00:24:22
hundreds of other leads then 6 weeks
00:24:26
after Alyssa's death J 's body was
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discovered in a creek bed about 12 mi
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from where her daughter had been
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found she'd been in the water quite a
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while but there were no really serious
00:24:40
signs of trauma that we could
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tell everything she had on from work
00:24:46
were still there her rings and necklaces
00:24:48
and earrings and even her eyeglasses
00:24:50
were still on her head the corner
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determined that mother and daughter had
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both died of suffocation within hours of
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one
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another more
00:25:04
questions why was Alyssa's body left in
00:25:07
plain sight while her mother's body was
00:25:10
dumped in a remote Creek bed 12 mil away
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and who knew the Maze of back roads that
00:25:16
Criss crossed Howard County Police have
00:25:19
plenty of theories but still no suspects
00:25:23
yeah I'll check it out I would love to
00:25:25
say I have it or that I have any clue
00:25:28
I am a law enforcement officer I I am a
00:25:31
detective my job is to leave the options
00:25:32
open until I can prove the facts and
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quite frankly I don't
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know
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update the man and woman seen outside
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the Owens home the day of The
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Disappearance have been identified as
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25-year-old Angela mice and her
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18-year-old husband Eric Angela mice had
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worked at the Care Center where Janice
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Owen was a nurses aid she went to the
00:26:03
police after she and her husband had a
00:26:05
fight and told them that he had killed
00:26:08
both Alyssa and her mother police
00:26:11
learned that the couple had kidnapped
00:26:12
Alyssa used her for sexual gratification
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and then killed her Alyssa's mother was
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murdered because she was quote in the
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way Eric and Angela mice were charged
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with two counts of first-degree murder
00:26:29
they avoided the death penalty by
00:26:31
pleading guilty and were sentenced to
00:26:33
life in prison with no possibility of
00:26:40
parole next some say father salonus
00:26:43
Casey was a miracle worker in life as
00:26:46
well as in death does he really have the
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power to
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heal
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Detroit
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Michigan for more than 50 years father
00:27:07
solonus was a church receptionist and
00:27:09
doorman one of the lowest ranking
00:27:12
priests in the Catholic
00:27:14
hierarchy father solanus was a man who
00:27:17
really cared for
00:27:19
people and when people came to him with
00:27:22
their worries and fears and pains he had
00:27:26
a way of Simply
00:27:29
giving them courage to live their life
00:27:31
the way it
00:27:33
was those whose lives were touched by
00:27:36
father solonus claimed that he was a
00:27:38
miracle worker even today some people
00:27:41
still turn to Father solonus for help
00:27:44
when facing a medical
00:27:47
crisis I do believe my prayer to father
00:27:49
solanus was
00:27:52
answered it's the first time my prayers
00:27:54
have really been answered like that in
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such a dramatic
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way I'm still in awe of what had
00:28:00
happened I I have no other explanation
00:28:03
for it the mamogram was positive when
00:28:07
David Whit cop's wife Joanne developed a
00:28:09
lump in her breast they immediately went
00:28:11
to see a surgeon I'd like to set it up
00:28:13
as soon as possible we were concerned
00:28:16
whether uh this density could be a
00:28:19
cancer we weren't sure what we were
00:28:21
dealing with so medically you have to do
00:28:24
a biopsy to see is it benign or
00:28:26
malignant
00:28:29
David and Joanne arrived at the hospital
00:28:30
and noticed a small prayer
00:28:33
room inside hung a portrait of father
00:28:38
salonus I was very desperate uh and I
00:28:42
just prayed to father solonus that there
00:28:45
would be no more surgery and uh I just
00:28:48
wanted Joanne not not to have this this
00:28:50
kind of operation at all
00:28:54
anymore Joanne was wheeled into surgery
00:28:57
and David prepared for a long anxious
00:29:00
wait David Joanne I looked up and it was
00:29:04
Joanne out in the hallway there going
00:29:07
home I thought well maybe they're taking
00:29:09
her down for surgery now hello Mr whop
00:29:12
hello doctor we did another series of
00:29:13
x-rays on your wife there's no sign of a
00:29:16
mass what does that mean it's over David
00:29:19
prayed to God that I wouldn't have
00:29:22
surgery and his prayers were
00:29:25
answered even though
00:29:28
a half hour before it looked
00:29:31
hopeless and I believe that solanus and
00:29:35
God saw fit to have a healing that
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00:29:40
day the medical term spontaneous
00:29:43
remission describes sudden recoveries
00:29:46
like Joanne wit cops but some see her
00:29:48
recovery as just one more example of the
00:29:52
miraculous healing powers of Father
00:29:54
salonus
00:29:56
Casey
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Bernard Casey was born in 1870 one of 16
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brothers and
00:30:04
sisters at the age of 21 he decided to
00:30:08
dedicate his life to the church for
00:30:11
Bernard who had not even graduated high
00:30:13
school it was a struggle from the start
00:30:16
his classes were taught in German and
00:30:19
Latin
00:30:21
F yeah
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Professor good father solanus was one of
00:30:26
these people who had difficulty
00:30:29
remembering the question and answers and
00:30:32
Theology and so on and as a
00:30:35
result he never really passed all the
00:30:38
tests in the Seminary
00:30:43
days solonus almost flunked out but a
00:30:46
few of his superiors recognized his
00:30:49
spiritual character and proposed a
00:30:52
compromise salonus was ordained but he
00:30:55
was not allowed to hear confession Prof
00:30:57
preach a sermon or teach the doctrine
00:31:01
all the most cherished duties of a
00:31:05
priest this was a rather humiliating
00:31:08
thing but I think he accepted it as
00:31:11
God's
00:31:12
Will and that act of humility then uh
00:31:16
made him more pleasing in God's sight
00:31:18
and so God could work great things
00:31:21
through
00:31:23
him after his ordination in 1904 father
00:31:27
solonus was sent to New York every day
00:31:30
he would greet worshippers at a church
00:31:32
in yers soon it was father solonus that
00:31:36
people came to
00:31:37
see father solonus was later transferred
00:31:40
to St bon aventures in Detroit your
00:31:43
parishioners lined up to see him and
00:31:45
father solonus was now regarded as a
00:31:48
Divine
00:31:49
healer oh do thank goodness you're here
00:31:51
good morning where's the boy right
00:31:54
upstairs the story of 12-year-old
00:31:56
Charles Rogers is one of the most
00:31:59
amazing his sister Helen was 8 years old
00:32:02
at the time and remembers every
00:32:05
detail in 1935 we had the polio epidemic
00:32:09
in Detroit and at that time my brother
00:32:12
came down with a severe headache and
00:32:14
stiffness of the neck that went down
00:32:16
into his arms and
00:32:19
legs and eventually he ended up with
00:32:21
spasms he would shake his body would
00:32:25
Shake Dr Ronald ay was one of Detroit's
00:32:28
top polio Specialists it didn't take him
00:32:31
long to make the
00:32:33
diagnosis what can we
00:32:37
do
00:32:43
nothing father
00:32:44
salonus one of Mr Rogers employees heard
00:32:48
about Charles symptoms and went straight
00:32:50
to father
00:32:52
salonus will you pray for him father
00:32:54
please don't worry he he will be better
00:33:03
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00:33:05
tomorrow Helen gleon says that her
00:33:07
brother underwent a miraculous
00:33:09
transformation that very
00:33:12
night
00:33:14
Dad
00:33:15
Mom Charles Charles is that you
00:33:19
according to Helen Charles recovered
00:33:21
fully within a month he lived to be 64
00:33:24
years old and was never again troubled
00:33:26
by any symptoms of
00:33:31
polio father salonus Casey retired in
00:33:34
1956 at the age of 85 and died the
00:33:38
following year the streets around St Bon
00:33:40
aventur filled with 10,000 MERS it was
00:33:44
one of the largest funerals in the
00:33:46
city's
00:33:49
history 10 years later father solanus
00:33:52
was proposed as a candidate for
00:33:55
sainthood his body was was exume to
00:33:57
allow Church officials to look for the
00:33:59
signs of exceptional preservation that
00:34:02
might validate
00:34:05
canonization while his hands and his
00:34:07
face were somewhat darkened the rest of
00:34:09
his body was very natural
00:34:11
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00:34:13
looking following the ritual examination
00:34:16
the body of father salonus was placed in
00:34:18
a special Sanctuary within St p
00:34:22
aventures as he did in life father
00:34:25
solonus continued to Inspire Believers
00:34:28
from around the
00:34:31
world to me a lot of times just myself
00:34:33
praying to God I need
00:34:35
[Music]
00:34:37
help or I might need an interpreter if I
00:34:39
can put it that way and uh uh I I think
00:34:45
he does help people do
00:34:48
that reverence for father salonus
00:34:51
continues to grow if he is canonized he
00:34:54
will be the first American born male
00:34:58
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00:35:05
Saint next a family torn apart by
00:35:08
violence is finally
00:35:21
reunited chilicothe
00:35:23
Missouri Lori magnan had just been
00:35:26
adopted
00:35:27
when she happened to see her new father
00:35:29
cleaning a handgun Lori was deeply upset
00:35:33
by the scene the first hint of a dark
00:35:36
secret that had ripped apart her birth
00:35:40
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00:35:41
family and I saw that and I just said
00:35:46
that's what the policeman had when they
00:35:49
come to get my
00:35:52
daddy at the age of four Lori couldn't
00:35:55
make any sense of the dim memory
00:35:57
that included her birth father a
00:35:59
policeman and a gun it wasn't until she
00:36:02
was an adult with a family of her own
00:36:04
that Lori magnan would fully understand
00:36:07
the horror of her
00:36:10
childhood at the age of three Lori had
00:36:13
been adopted by Charles and retha delor
00:36:16
the court sealed Lor's records and only
00:36:19
told her adoptive parents that she
00:36:21
needed a stable
00:36:23
home but even within the safety of her
00:36:26
new family Lori began having nightmares
00:36:30
she appeared distant and
00:36:34
distracted Lori was probably about um 6
00:36:38
or 7 and she was eating at the table one
00:36:42
day and she couldn't close her mouth she
00:36:45
would just leave her mouth open and it
00:36:48
really scared mother so she made an
00:36:50
appointment with a therapist in another
00:36:53
town and took her there and they said
00:36:56
that she had had um a serious
00:36:59
trauma and that it happened when she was
00:37:02
fairly
00:37:03
young L's adoptive mother had no idea
00:37:06
what was wrong with her little girl as
00:37:08
Lori Grew Older she was haunted by a
00:37:11
troubling sense that something awful had
00:37:14
happened in her past eventually Lori
00:37:17
asked her mother for any paperwork
00:37:20
concerning her
00:37:22
adoption I turned 16 and she brought the
00:37:25
adoption papers out she kept every
00:37:27
letter and this is I'm going to give
00:37:30
this to you Now's the Time and so I took
00:37:34
them and went over to Rene's house I can
00:37:36
wait till she got there cuz we we always
00:37:38
had this dream we were going to find her
00:37:40
mom and so when she came we got up on
00:37:43
the bunk bed and she opened up the
00:37:46
papers and that's when we found out that
00:37:48
her mom was already
00:37:50
dead the adoption papers did not give a
00:37:53
cause of death or mention any other
00:37:55
siblings
00:37:57
and we was like oh my goodness and Renee
00:38:01
we was like well we're just go try to
00:38:03
find somebody here and it didn't uh we
00:38:08
know where to go we were too
00:38:10
young Lori moved on with her life she
00:38:13
grew up married and had three children
00:38:15
of her own but the vague memories of a
00:38:18
past trauma persisted Lori needed to
00:38:21
know the
00:38:25
truth
00:38:27
finally Lori her husband Donald and
00:38:30
their son searched a microfish copy of
00:38:32
the Kansas City Star for November 27th
00:38:36
1956 the day Lor's mother had died we go
00:38:41
SL down down okay I was getting through
00:38:44
the the old papers and I came across
00:38:46
this
00:38:47
picture four girls and a and a boy and
00:38:51
one of them was about Lor's age would
00:38:53
have been Lor's age and uh I said Lori
00:38:56
could this possibly be your family I
00:38:58
said this looks awful lot like you the
00:38:59
next the youngest
00:39:01
one and she looked at the picture and
00:39:03
she said yeah that's me in the photo
00:39:07
14-month-old Lori sat next to her
00:39:09
brother and three sisters who ranged an
00:39:12
age from 3 months to 9
00:39:15
years that's when I first time saw the
00:39:17
picture of me and my brother and my
00:39:19
sisters first time my first baby picture
00:39:21
I ever
00:39:23
seen Lori then started reading the
00:39:25
article next to the
00:39:27
photo Lori delore magnan had finally
00:39:30
come face to face with a horrifying
00:39:32
truth of her
00:39:40
past my beautiful when Lor's father
00:39:43
Alexander camarina arrived home drunk
00:39:46
Lor's mother was waiting for him
00:39:49
Alexander had made two purchases earlier
00:39:51
in the evening a box of
00:39:54
chocolates and a 38 caliber
00:39:57
handgun can you money on a gun they
00:40:01
fought about the gun Alexander claimed
00:40:03
that it was broken and demonstrated by
00:40:06
pointing the weapon at his wife's
00:40:11
head I don't care if he say he sorry and
00:40:15
all that uh you just don't point a gun
00:40:17
in someone's Temple I don't care and
00:40:20
that was my mom and I W never see her
00:40:24
again Lori made a copy of the photo and
00:40:27
took it home with
00:40:28
her I just went to the bedroom took that
00:40:31
picture with me I just stared at it I
00:40:34
just just couldn't believe it you know
00:40:35
me me my brother my sisters and we all
00:40:39
looked alike while the dark hair in that
00:40:43
and the oldest girl she's like looking
00:40:46
off in a direction she just looks so sad
00:40:49
cuz she was old enough to
00:40:53
remember Lor's mother is buried under
00:40:56
her her maiden name in a Kansas City
00:40:58
Cemetery her father was convicted of
00:41:01
second degree murder and sent to prison
00:41:04
he is now deceased just for
00:41:07
you my brother and my sisters we lost
00:41:11
both our parents now and uh I think they
00:41:15
need me like I need
00:41:17
them and know they may have their own
00:41:19
families now like I
00:41:21
do but like I feel they must want to see
00:41:25
me if they think about me I don't know
00:41:28
if they tried to find
00:41:29
me but I'm
00:41:35
trying
00:41:37
update as the result of our broadcast
00:41:40
Lor's cousin Ruth crook contacted us a
00:41:44
friend had seen the show and told Ruth
00:41:46
that her long lost cousin was looking
00:41:48
for her birth
00:41:50
family it was um a happy shock and very
00:41:54
exciting to know that she had been
00:41:57
found several weeks later the family met
00:42:00
for a long awaited reunion with her
00:42:03
growing circle of family members Lori
00:42:05
Magnum is increasingly able to put her
00:42:08
past losses to
00:42:25
rest
00:42:30
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