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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you were about to see is not a news
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broadcast when an Etsy shop Hawker was a
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lonely teenager she fell in love with a
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man twice her age it was a storybook
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romance which ended in a flash of
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violence now the man of Annette's dreams
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is wanted for murder in 1964 18 year-old
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Delia Faison II of London England found
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herself trapped in a nightmare as a
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pregnant unwed teenager abandoned by her
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boyfriend she had no one to turn to
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Delia's domineering father banished her
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to a convent outside London and later
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forced Delia to give her baby girl up
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for adoption as a seven-year-old Jeff
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Fisher became one of the thousands of
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young boys whose lives have been
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enriched by big brothers of America
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today Jeff is searching for the man who
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gave him companionship and understanding
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and three weeks ago
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we profiled a young man suffering from a
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baffling case of amnesia our broadcast
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led to a dramatic reunion with his
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mother but at the same time placed him
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under a cloud of suspicion join me for
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this fascinating edition of unsolved
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mysteries
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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but most of us life turns on a series of
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small triumphs and small tragedies the
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story you're about to see deals with a
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young British girl a girl who is forced
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to give up her baby against her will the
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child is adopted by American parents and
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is now 27 years old perhaps tonight
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she'll be able to understand the agony
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her birth mother went through on a
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chilly spring evening in 1964 Delia
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Faison II sat in her favorite London pub
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waiting for her boyfriend
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even though Delia was only 18 her life
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was at a crossroads she was three months
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pregnant and felt that her boyfriend was
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the only person she could turn to love
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look great
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[Music]
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but something important I need to talk
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about you I don't but I need to talk to
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you it's important
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I can't even bring myself to say it
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I'm pregnant kidding me
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sure it's been three months
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I don't need elite if they know I
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haven't told them
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it's no fun what do you mean I won't
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have it
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it's definitely not mine it's yours what
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do you think I need Europe don't to do
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with it if you say it's mine
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would you say all my friends told me
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dealing with you what my man leg to
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stand on
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and I see it yes I was devastated
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I mean I wanted to marry him I mean I
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loved him but he just didn't want the
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responsibility of it that was just the
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way they did things then they just left
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the responsibility with the girl
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after that the first fear obviously was
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to tell my dad that I was pregnant I
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mean I thought well I'm either gonna
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tell him and he's gonna kill me on the
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spot or I don't know what's gonna happen
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Delia's father an Italian immigrant ran
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a highly successful restaurant in London
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he was a strict Roman Catholic who ruled
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his business and his family with an iron
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hand he was a sort of man it was always
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on a short fuse everybody was frightened
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of him
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and I was absolutely petrified to tell
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him
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for seven agonizing months Delia hid her
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pregnancy with corsets and loose clothes
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finally wish you could hide it no longer
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she begged a friend to break the news to
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her parents
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lots
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you are so common you disgust me
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who was it tell you you can do what you
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like but I'm not gonna tell you you've
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done the worst thing possible you will
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tell no one and you'll have nothing to
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say about this I'll take care of this
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problem can't we keep the baby we could
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raise it like it was our own solo
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daughter just like it was one of our own
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I'd rather jump off a bridge then take
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care of this baby I don't even want to
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smell it
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nothing really after that day was
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discussed with me but obviously my dad
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was discussed it with my mum
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as regards to what to do with me and
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then I think it was only a matter of
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about maybe a week couple of weeks and
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he just came home and announced that I
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was going to this place wherever it was
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we will tell our friends that you were
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going up north to the country for a few
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months to spend some time with your
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friend iris
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say goodbye tomorrow
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I know
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I wanted to keep my baby you know even
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though he was sending me off to this
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wherever I thought well maybe once I
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have the baby he's gonna feel different
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Delia's father banished her to the
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Loreto convent 30 miles north of London
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the convent served as a home for unwed
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mothers and facilitated adoptions as
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well
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when we drove up to the convent I just
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felt the I couldn't believe it they just
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he just put me there
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we've been expecting you Delia we're
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glad every witness
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you know you've you Cringer taking your
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dog to the pound because you don't wanna
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leave him there and yet you just easily
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just took me there and and left me and
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that was my father
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in my eyes it was like a prison really
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you were there for a certain time and
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you couldn't go home until that time
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having completed all the expectant
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mothers were signed chores those closest
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to term are given the most strenuous
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work because the nuns believed it helped
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the girls deliver on time
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I suppose they see is there they're
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doing the job and you're there for a
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certain purpose that is to have your
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baby and then goodbye and then the next
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one comes in
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on November 2nd 1964 Delia gave birth to
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a daughter named her Michelle Delia was
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allowed to see the baby only four times
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a day and then for only half an hour
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they didn't like you to see a baby other
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than the feeding times and the change in
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times because the more you saw the baby
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the more you held it you are more likely
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to bond to the baby so when it came for
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adoption that you could just hand it
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over so they thought a zone nothing had
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happened but you do make that bond even
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though you're only seeing him for
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certain times you've still given birth
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to her so the bond is there
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automatically when Michelle was four
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weeks old
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Delia's parents visited the convent it
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was a moment Delia had been waiting for
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I was just hoping that my father was
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disabled you know okay
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you know you come back home and and you
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bring your baby up and that's fine
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that's what I wanted I know my dad was
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yearning to take a peek but didn't want
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anyone to see him doing it and I thought
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well at least he's looking
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I watched thinking that the next move
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was gonna be was gonna pick her out
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I knew as soon as he walked away from
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the pram that that was that there's no
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way that I'm gonna change his mind
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[Music]
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have a seat Delia
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it's been six weeks since Michelle was
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born here sister we found a couple for
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her I can't tell you anything about them
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except that they have your coloring and
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they're American he's in the Air Force
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pilot stationed at North Hampton you'll
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need to sign some papers for Michelle to
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be taken out of the country that won't
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be a problem will it
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no sister
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[Music]
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this is our waiting room you can sit
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here two weeks later at the Westminster
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Offices of the Catholic Children's
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Society Delia was allowed a final visit
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with Michele you'll have a nice long
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time to say your goodbyes
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such a beautiful baby
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you've been very brave
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[Music]
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when Delia was alone she slipped a note
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into Michelle's blanket the note begged
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the adoptive parents to tell Michel that
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Delia had loved her and had given her up
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unwillingly you've only got 30 minutes
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or whatever it is to say goodbye so what
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you try to do is try to look at a face
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to burn the impression into your mind
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because you you there and then you get
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that feeling that I'm gonna forget the
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face and then that's the last thing you
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want so you feel the - all and what
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maybe because it's wall but you're
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feeling her body because that was the
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last time you're gonna see her
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[Music]
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I'm sorry dude yeah it's time
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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she came over and and and she took her
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when she took her out of the room and
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locked the door behind her
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and that was it
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[Music]
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that was the last time I saw her I can't
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explain one minute I had a baby
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Knicks mini it was gone
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[Music]
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Delia and her parents never spoke of the
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adoption again
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delia eventually married twice but had
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no other children in 1977 her father
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died and she began to search for
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Michelle but Delia's mother Rosalinda
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honored her late husband's wished that
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the details of the adoption will be kept
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secret
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then in 1991 Rosalinda was hospitalized
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with a terminal illness
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a family friend Sonya Filkins urged
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Rosalinda to tell Delia everything she
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knew about Michele and the adoption the
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people who got Michele the name of the
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people you want is Walters
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I'll buy the mom let me see her picture
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[Music]
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my darling Michele people come to see me
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to ask me who that is oh-ho tell them
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it's my granddaughter
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[Music]
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two weeks later Rosalinda Pazhani died
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having at last given Delia the precious
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gift of Michelle's adopted Lea I can
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honestly say that not one day has passed
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not one solitary day where I haven't
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thought about her or thought what she
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might be doing she's there all the time
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you just you just can't can't rest you
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can't leave it alone I've got to find
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her
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two photographs for all the Delia had to
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remember Michel and she never stopped
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trying to locate her
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finally after 15 years of frustrated
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research
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Delia's efforts began to pay off last
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July Edina learned that her daughter had
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been renamed Laura and adoptions
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official agree to send a letter to Laura
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that Delia had written in the brief note
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Delia said that she would soon appear in
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unsolved mysteries and asked her
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daughter to view the broadcast 1964 in
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New York Mills New York on the evening
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our program was aired Delia's daughter
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Laura Frankland experienced firsthand
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the heartbreaking events leading up to
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her adoption when I found out my birth
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mother was searching for me that was
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pretty touching to know that she had
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looked that far to try to find me
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[Music]
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after the broadcast Laura contacted art
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Ellison and asked to be put in touch
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with her birth mother against nearly
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impossible odds Delia had at last found
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her daughter a continent away amidst a
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population of millions on September 19th
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1992
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Laura her husband their two children and
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Laura's closest friends assembled a
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Syracuse International Airport the
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separation of birth mother and daughter
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that had lasted more than a quarter of a
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century was about to end it was a lot of
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anticipation a lot of what's she gonna
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think when she sees me and what is she
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going through right now
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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she was everything and more that I'd
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expected absolutely everything she's a
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she's beautiful girl proud of her
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before Laura's adoptive mother died in
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1989 she had shared all she knew of
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Laura's background Delia and Laura could
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now fill in the remaining gaps in nearly
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30 years of family history
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fighting my birthmother now I don't
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think has really changed my life as much
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as it has probably enhanced it because
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now I can find out some about my past
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and my history and things that I never
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thought that I would ever find out about
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I can't replace her mother but I'd like
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to think that I could be pretty close
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the September reunion is only a
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beginning at Christmas Laura and her
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family plan to travel to England where
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they will spend time with Delia and the
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many relatives looking forward to
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meeting them for the first time next a
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baffling case of amnesia his son thanks
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to our viewers On January 28th 1991 a
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young man is rushed to a hospital in
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Nevada he had been found dehydrated and
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disoriented in the desert outside Las
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Vegas he carried no identification and
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was suffering from complete and total
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amnesia the hospital staff named him
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Tyler all efforts to jog Tyler's memory
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failed authorities found no one reported
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missing who matched his description his
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fingerprints were not found on file with
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the FBI and the CIA or the Department of
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Defense for more than eight months Tyler
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remained a man without a past and
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possibly without a future and really
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kind of a difficult point in my life
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right now I can't do anything really I'm
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almost like an illegal alien here I I
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have no identification of any of any
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form now I can't go to work because I
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I'm not eligible for a Social Security
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number I can't drive a car because I
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don't have a social security number or a
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date of birth and I'm starting to feel
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more frustrated as the days go by
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because I really feel this needs to come
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to an
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do need to find out who I am a County
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psychiatrist diagnosed titres a genuine
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victim of amnesia last month is case
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took on added urgency when the state
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funding which provided his job an
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apartment was abruptly cut off then on
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the night of our broadcast
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Tyler searched for his identity came to
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a poignant but unsettling conclusion
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within minutes
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Tyler was reunited with his mother by
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phone but as more details emerged some
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began to believe that title may not have
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lost his memory at all that evening
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Tyler gathered with friends to watch the
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show before his segment even aired in
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Las Vegas a man from Boise Idaho called
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our telecenter and identified Tyler as
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his son unsolved mysteries immediately
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contacted Tyler looking to
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cross-reference and we have located your
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family for you you have I have located
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your dad and your mother and your wife
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who you've been separated from since
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February of 1990 and she they've
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informed me that you also have two
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children and your wife lives in Iowa
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okay that his real name is arthur paul
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beal but he goes by paul he is 23 years
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old before he was stricken with amnesia
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he lived in Boise Idaho a few minutes
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later a nervous Paul Beal called the
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mother and stepfather he could not
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remember hello may I speak with mrs.
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Beal this is your son how are you you
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smell great I've waited so long to hear
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you
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I'm scared I bet you are remember you I
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don't remember you I'll help you Paul
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the emotional phone call lasted nearly
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20 minutes okay short time later the
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case of Paul Beale aka Tyler doe took a
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stunning and unexpected twist North Las
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Vegas police arrived and placed Paul
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under arrest for grand larceny he was
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wanted by Boise police in connection
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with a stolen shipment of frozen food
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I've come to get my son
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the next night Paul's mother Lynn Beale
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arrived from Iowa to post bail for him
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Oh
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[Music]
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the reunion was both emotional and
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awkward
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Paul Beale still did not recognize his
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own mother it's strange being with Paul
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and has not remembering anything about
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me not knowing who I am
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I just I want to push everything into
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his head we can remember everything I
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want to make sure I can do things to
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help him I'm scared I don't want to do
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something to push it back farther I want
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to reinforce happy thoughts good
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memories no I just want and I'm relieved
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that he's safe he's alive
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the reunion was tempered not only by
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Paul's amnesia but by the criminal
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charge against him
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in Boise Paul was a salesman for a food
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supply company January 5th 1991 he left
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for Las Vegas to sell a shipment of
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frozen food he never returned to Boise
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on January 25th
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Paul surfaced with the empty truck in
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Boulder City Nevada where he was
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questioned but not arrested by local
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police at that particular time my
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impression of mr. Beal was that he was
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very intelligent very well-versed very
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possibly well educated very clean-cut
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and extremely talkative
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it just wasn't Paul that isn't something
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he would do
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he's done silly stupid things like
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anybody else has made mistakes but
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nothing to the degree that this was
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where he was actually breaking the law I
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told him when he left Isis boys are
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gonna get a warrant for you you know
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they're gonna do it it's gonna be grand
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larceny felony so it's just a matter of
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time you better get up there go back up
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there he said yeah I'm going back now
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I'm going right back up there and take
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care of the situation it'll be fine
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three days after he was detained Paul
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Beale who came to be known as Tyler was
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found wandering in the desert detective
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Bowman raises the obvious and disturbing
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question is Paul Beale faking amnesia is
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easy I don't know who are you I don't
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know where are you from I don't know do
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you know anything I don't know that's
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just easy and we guy like him he's
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convincing is this the four of you this
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still isn't my son in in the fact that
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this isn't how he would react to me we
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were very close I could tell by his eyes
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when I first saw him tonight that he
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really didn't recognize me he was he
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wanted to I could see it in his face he
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wanted to if he was faking it there was
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no way he could have faked that I am NOT
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and have not throughout this entire
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ordeal faked anything this is probably
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the most horrifying nightmare that
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anybody could go through losing an
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identity losing every ounce and fiber of
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a person's life having it pulled away
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and then nine months later I haven't
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given back to you I have it presented to
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you but you still don't don't have it
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and I give anything in the world to
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remember right now when we return a
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nightmare of love gone wrong and murder
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when a net shot Bakker was 16 her family
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moved from Cincinnati Ohio to Manatee
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County Florida a net was on the shy side
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and had trouble adjusting to a new high
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school net discovered that it was very
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hard to fit in with the clique of
00:29:12
friends and she missed that terribly
00:29:15
because she was so much a part of high
00:29:17
school in Ohio so she ended up dropping
00:29:20
out of high school and got a job as a
00:29:22
checkout girl at one of our local
00:29:24
grocery stores here Annette finally made
00:29:31
a friend
00:29:31
the butcher Jim Burnside 28 years her
00:29:34
senior thank you listen I just wanted to
00:29:41
ask it's a little restaurant down
00:29:42
working my boat and there's wonder if
00:29:44
she might join me for dinner tomorrow
00:29:45
night at that time she was only 17 and
00:29:48
this man was almost as old as her dad
00:29:51
thank you about eight o'clock tomorrow
00:29:52
night we really hoped that she would
00:29:56
meet somebody more her age but she was
00:29:59
so much in love with him that we finally
00:30:01
agreed to meet him but I didn't like him
00:30:05
from the first time I met him I just
00:30:07
there was just something about him that
00:30:09
I really don't know how to put into
00:30:13
words I just did not feel comfortable
00:30:15
with him at all but in that was really
00:30:19
very much in love with him in 1981
00:30:23
Annette shot Bakker and Jim Burnside
00:30:25
were married the bride was just 18 the
00:30:29
groom 46 it was a beginning of six years
00:30:32
of torment for Annette
00:30:36
the sobering fact is that here in the
00:30:39
United States
00:30:40
wife-beating accounts are more
00:30:41
significant injuries and rape auto
00:30:43
accidents and muggings combined and at
00:30:47
Burnside like millions of women entered
00:30:49
the private tear of a home which is a
00:30:50
living hell of physical and emotional
00:30:52
abuse like so many others and it became
00:30:55
trapped in a desperate charade
00:30:57
maintaining the facade of a happy
00:30:59
marriage to cover up an escalating cycle
00:31:02
of violence within a month of his
00:31:06
marriage to Annette Jim Burnside began
00:31:09
to drink and to reveal a frightening
00:31:11
sight of himself that his young wife had
00:31:13
never seen she became afraid of him
00:31:16
almost immediately because he was
00:31:19
jealous of her and when he was drinking
00:31:21
he was violent and and made remarks to
00:31:25
her all the time that she would never
00:31:28
ever leave him that hey well he started
00:31:32
telling her right from the beginning
00:31:33
that he would kill her if she ever tried
00:31:35
to leave him
00:31:40
hello Annette
00:31:43
where are you just before her first
00:31:50
wedding anniversary Annette took refuge
00:31:52
in a local shelter for battered women
00:31:56
with you he told her over and over again
00:32:02
if he couldn't find her she would suffer
00:32:06
heal your family she would absolutely
00:32:08
suffer because he would kill her family
00:32:10
and Annette felt like she didn't have
00:32:13
any choice right I told her don't stay
00:32:18
with him because of us
00:32:20
if Jim if he does anything to us then I
00:32:26
I don't know I just suppose that it's
00:32:28
God's will that things happen the way
00:32:30
they do but don't live with him the way
00:32:33
you have to live with him I would rather
00:32:36
that I would rather be dead than to have
00:32:39
you live a life like this
00:32:43
good thing you're here I have something
00:32:46
for you
00:32:47
[Music]
00:32:49
welcome home against her parents wishes
00:32:52
Annette went back to Jim she acted out
00:32:55
her happy homecoming with a sinking
00:32:57
heart
00:33:00
over the next few years Annette and Jim
00:33:02
had two daughters for a while it seemed
00:33:05
that things were improving Annette
00:33:07
wanted to take a job as a receptionist
00:33:09
at a local car dealership and Jim said
00:33:12
yes Jim had lost his job and he agreed
00:33:18
to let a network which amazed everybody
00:33:21
because he'd been so possessive and so
00:33:24
jealous of her we just never dreamt that
00:33:26
he would let her get a job and that was
00:33:28
absolutely thrilled with this job she
00:33:31
was so happy and she did so well they
00:33:34
all really liked Annette one of
00:33:37
Annette's co-workers was a salesman who
00:33:39
we will call Dave and that actually
00:33:43
asked my advice and said what would you
00:33:45
think about an automobile I want to buy
00:33:47
a car kind of told me that she just
00:33:49
wanted a little bit more freedom because
00:33:51
he always dropped her off and picked her
00:33:53
up and so she really had very little
00:33:55
freedom other than work she took the car
00:34:00
home and that more than gosh I don't
00:34:02
know three days a week he tried to wreck
00:34:07
it
00:34:21
we're just gonna get you back to bed
00:34:23
okay it's alright we're just
00:34:27
now let's see you tried me can't you get
00:34:30
it through your head she said if you
00:34:33
ever try to leave me I'll kill you
00:34:35
I will kill this whole family and Stacey
00:34:38
was only five years old at the time and
00:34:41
she looked up in him and she said daddy
00:34:43
you wouldn't kill me and he looked her
00:34:46
right in the face and said yes I would
00:34:48
kill you and it's just upsetting that so
00:34:51
bad she would would tell me you know the
00:34:55
way she was being treated and all
00:34:59
mothers you know you if your kids happy
00:35:03
you're happy and if they're sad you're
00:35:05
sad and it was just tearing me up to see
00:35:09
what she was going through the next day
00:35:15
with Jim at work and that called the
00:35:17
police to escort her and her daughters
00:35:19
to safety
00:35:20
[Applause]
00:35:25
she said that she'd made up her mind
00:35:27
that this is it she's not gonna stay
00:35:30
with him another day if he kills her
00:35:32
then he's gonna have to kill her because
00:35:33
she could not live this way anymore by
00:35:37
the time Jim came home Annette would be
00:35:39
on a plane to Ohio taking her daughter's
00:35:42
to stay with relatives five days later
00:35:45
she would secretly return to Florida and
00:35:48
to her job he had no idea where she was
00:35:52
but in the meantime Jim was calling us
00:35:55
with these threats and telling us that
00:35:58
this divorce was never going to be final
00:36:00
it would never see its final day
00:36:04
eventually Jim discovered that Annette
00:36:06
was back in town he began to spy on her
00:36:09
and was often spotted near the
00:36:11
dealership
00:36:13
could not get any help from anybody even
00:36:16
the Sheriff's Department when we went
00:36:19
there it was like Jim has to do
00:36:22
something we just cannot arrest the man
00:36:24
he's got to do something before we can
00:36:26
do anything with him unless you have
00:36:28
somebody guarding you 24 hours a day the
00:36:32
chances of somebody getting into it
00:36:34
stalking and they're gonna get you and
00:36:37
that's what he did he stalked her
00:36:39
[Music]
00:36:41
February 17 1988 three days before
00:36:45
Annette was scheduled to appear in court
00:36:46
for a divorce hearing at noon a net
00:36:49
matter co-worker Dave for lunch she was
00:36:56
smiling and happy and all of a sudden
00:36:59
your smile turned to his hole and fear
00:37:05
I got out of the automobile cuz I knew
00:37:09
if I didn't do something this could be
00:37:11
the end front end he looked at me like
00:37:14
he was just about to enjoy a large steak
00:37:17
I watched the fire come out of the gun
00:37:22
and it was like slow motion you could
00:37:25
feel each one to win just like a hot
00:37:27
poker
00:37:32
[Music]
00:37:42
by the time devar gained consciousness
00:37:44
and that was dead
00:37:46
Gemma stabbed her 15 times of the 10
00:37:48
inch butcher knife an autopsy would
00:37:53
reveal that a net probably died before
00:37:55
most of the wounds were inflicted
00:38:00
amazingly Jim Burnside had escaped on
00:38:02
foot in broad daylight after the murder
00:38:05
he purchased a bicycle and army
00:38:07
camouflage fatigues at a sporting goods
00:38:09
store he then withdrew $500 from an
00:38:12
automated teller machine and disappeared
00:38:17
Annette Burnside was laid to rest in a
00:38:20
manatee County Cemetery two and a half
00:38:23
years later a stranger appeared at her
00:38:25
grave when our groundskeeper approached
00:38:30
him a man quickly turned and walked away
00:38:32
without a word the groundskeeper later
00:38:36
identified the visitor as Jim Burnside
00:38:40
and what I'd like to see is James
00:38:43
Burnside off the streets
00:38:44
not because of what he has done to me
00:38:48
don't see what he has done to us his own
00:38:51
children his wife this is why he has to
00:38:57
be taken off the streets because he's
00:38:59
gonna do it again you know the world
00:39:02
will never get over in that death and
00:39:05
there's a person that had so much to
00:39:08
give she knew in her heart she was not
00:39:12
gonna make it I knew in my heart she was
00:39:14
not gonna make it and I just hope and
00:39:17
pray that somebody spots him we never
00:39:21
will feel safe until we know Jim has
00:39:24
been caught it's bad enough knowing that
00:39:28
a net had to die but to know that he is
00:39:31
still out there it is horrible we just
00:39:35
want him caught we want to be able to
00:39:39
close it out and go on with our life
00:39:44
update the night 2 story air to viewers
00:39:47
contacted our telecenter to report the
00:39:50
Jim Burnside was living in Shelby County
00:39:52
Alabama under the assumed name L Wilson
00:39:56
when I saw his actual picture I just
00:39:59
looked at my husband and I just started
00:40:01
pointing and I'm going you know tell me
00:40:03
my eyes aren't deceiving me you know
00:40:06
that is al and he goes yes that's al
00:40:09
first thing I thought to say well they
00:40:12
you know let's call up the authorities
00:40:15
and get this guy off the street
00:40:18
Burnside was employed as a carpenter at
00:40:20
the 280 flea market just outside of
00:40:22
Chelsea Alabama we hadn't received a
00:40:26
call from that they our office in
00:40:28
Birmingham stating that they felt pretty
00:40:32
sure that James Burnside would be at
00:40:34
this flea market on highway 280 located
00:40:37
in Shelby County the morning after our
00:40:40
broadcast FBI agents and sheriff's
00:40:43
deputies checked out the flea market
00:40:48
right there on the roof and apparently
00:40:51
Burnside saw them and went towards his
00:40:55
truck the fugitive drew a 357 magnum and
00:41:04
pointed it at the officers
00:41:08
[Music]
00:41:16
Burnside was struck by two bullets he
00:41:18
was placed under arrest and taken to a
00:41:20
birmingham hospital but what we've been
00:41:24
able to determine and again talking to
00:41:26
his co-workers he hadn't made a
00:41:28
statement on Thursday morning that he
00:41:30
had anticipated having problems that day
00:41:33
so apparently he had viewed the unsolved
00:41:36
mysteries himself wins tonight
00:41:38
[Music]
00:41:51
next a young man's poignant search with
00:41:54
a big brother who changed his life
00:41:56
[Music]
00:42:08
yeah in 1969 when Jeff Fisher was 5
00:42:15
years old his father left home
00:42:18
forcing Jeff's mother to raise her young
00:42:19
son and daughter alone shouldn't make
00:42:29
any difference I'm not a guy I know
00:42:36
you'd like to be in there with Daddy ok
00:42:38
but daddy's gonna be gone for a little
00:42:40
while it was very hard on Jeff after his
00:42:44
dad left because he had been very close
00:42:46
to him and suddenly he was gone and Jeff
00:42:50
went through the feelings that that a
00:42:52
lot of children have that maybe this was
00:42:55
my fault maybe I said something maybe I
00:42:57
did something that made my dad leave
00:43:00
Jeff was a very sensitive shy little boy
00:43:03
so things like that bothered him a lot I
00:43:06
would always ask my mom you know where's
00:43:09
daddy you know where's daddy and she'd
00:43:10
say oh you know he's gone away and you
00:43:13
know I don't know when he's gonna be
00:43:14
back and you know it was just the fact
00:43:16
that he just wasn't there anymore and I
00:43:18
just felt a real loss you know cuz I had
00:43:21
been so close to him and now he just
00:43:23
wasn't there anymore two years after his
00:43:27
father left Jeff Fisher met a man who
00:43:29
profoundly changed his life a man he's
00:43:32
not seen or heard from in more than 20
00:43:34
years Jeff is one of the thousands of
00:43:36
boys whose lives have been enriched by
00:43:38
big brothers of America an organization
00:43:41
that provides young boys with strong
00:43:42
adult male role models
00:43:46
[Music]
00:43:49
in 1971 Big Brothers of America opened a
00:43:53
chapter in Jeff's hometown of Elkhart
00:43:55
Indiana Jeff was a first little brother
00:43:58
so what kind of sports deal act his big
00:44:01
brother was John Novotny a local
00:44:03
salesman and father of a two-year-old
00:44:05
daughter it is he's a big guy he was
00:44:09
over six feet jet-black hair last time
00:44:12
just a really solidly built guy a very
00:44:15
commanding type of guy but really easy
00:44:20
to get along with you ever put a pin out
00:44:23
before yeah you're about to learn over
00:44:27
the next 10 months Jeff and John spent
00:44:29
many weekends together okay
00:44:33
John gave me the companionship that I
00:44:35
really needed at that time he would take
00:44:38
me out and do things you know that you
00:44:40
know mom wasn't able to either afford to
00:44:42
take us to do or just didn't have the
00:44:44
time because she was working so much
00:44:46
just the fact that this was you know an
00:44:49
older guy that I could hang around with
00:44:51
and not you know not having told me to
00:44:53
go away and you know come back later and
00:44:55
stuff something you know a guy that
00:44:57
wanted to spend some time with me you
00:44:59
know made me feel it really good I was
00:45:03
pretty good I think it's ready to light
00:45:05
okay give it a spin after Jeff and John
00:45:10
started seeing each other
00:45:11
I noticed that Jeff had a lot more
00:45:14
confidence in himself and he was very
00:45:17
proud of the fact that he had a big
00:45:19
brother and he would tell the other kids
00:45:21
well well John and I are going to go do
00:45:24
this or my big brother and I are
00:45:26
because he was very proud of the fact
00:45:28
that that he had a million in his life
00:45:30
that was just his that just belong to
00:45:34
Jeff a year and a half after they met
00:45:39
John's company transferred him to
00:45:41
another state Jeff and John were no
00:45:44
longer able to spend time together but
00:45:46
they did stay in touch in September of
00:45:51
1972 Jeff underwent open-heart surgery
00:45:55
to correct a congenital defect it is a
00:45:58
terrifying experience but a phone call
00:46:00
from John who himself suffered heart
00:46:02
problems helped to ease Jeff's fears
00:46:04
yeah
00:46:09
it's real me I got this bed it moves up
00:46:11
and down sideways I think it helped Jeff
00:46:14
to see that that John was this big
00:46:18
strong guy and and he had a bad heart
00:46:20
and so if if John can be big and strong
00:46:24
then maybe this heart condition is at
00:46:26
the end of the world and I think that
00:46:29
was a big help to Jeff Jeff never heard
00:46:33
from John again but feels a John's
00:46:36
support and understanding were a key to
00:46:38
his complete recovery
00:46:40
Jeff won all to graduate from high
00:46:42
school he now works in the construction
00:46:45
field and has a family of his own tell
00:46:51
me a story he just introduced me to a
00:46:53
world that I had never seen before that
00:46:56
was really beautiful and really just so
00:47:00
different from what I was used to if I
00:47:03
finally see him again I just want to
00:47:05
thank him this what say God yeah thank
00:47:07
you cuz you just you know I still think
00:47:10
about you he made a lasting impression
00:47:13
it's been 20 years and he's still a
00:47:16
really vivid part of my memory
00:47:20
[Music]
00:47:27
thanks to our viewers Jeff Fisher search
00:47:30
for his Big Brother ended the night of
00:47:32
our broadcast nine days later Jeff and
00:47:35
his mother traveled at John novotny's
00:47:36
home in Tacoma Washington for an
00:47:38
emotional reunion it's unbelievable I
00:48:01
was absolutely stunned I had absolutely
00:48:04
no idea that Jeff was looking for me and
00:48:08
then as the show aired people from
00:48:12
Elkhart and from Michigan started
00:48:14
calling me on the phone telling me that
00:48:16
I was on television and Jeff Fisher was
00:48:20
looking for me and we must have got 35
00:48:22
calls that night and at least that many
00:48:24
the next night you know I wanted to say
00:48:27
thanks to this guy for 18 years and you
00:48:30
know whatever it took to come out and
00:48:32
say that you know I was willing to do
00:48:35
this is one we were dialects in Kentucky
00:48:37
for a John Mellencamp show
00:48:40
when I first started being a big brother
00:48:43
the question was would I really have
00:48:45
enough time to do it right and then 20
00:48:48
years later to find out that I really
00:48:51
did make a difference I mean it brings
00:48:53
the whole thing to reality
00:48:59
[Music]
00:49:13
on our next turn saw mysteries in the
00:49:17
spirit of Halloween we will explore the
00:49:19
st. James hotel in New Mexico 100 years
00:49:22
ago the st. James was a way station for
00:49:25
such legendary guests as Bat Masterson
00:49:27
Wyatt Earp and Jesse James today the old
00:49:30
hotel is no less for his guests than for
00:49:33
his ghosts in 1975 John Hardin was
00:49:38
brutally murdered in his own backyard 16
00:49:41
years later the current residence of
00:49:43
Hardin's old house are convinced it is
00:49:45
haunted by his spirit seeking justice
00:49:47
and incredibly the haunting is spurred
00:49:50
authorities to reopen the murder
00:49:52
investigation
00:49:53
[Music]
00:49:55
join me for this intriguing Halloween
00:49:58
edition unsolved mysteries
00:50:00
[Music]
00:50:30
[Applause]
00:50:34
[Music]
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