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Mysteries put your hands on the ground
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bank robberies car bombs and
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murder these terrorists were eventually
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captured all but one perhaps you can
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help a young wife doesn't come home the
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night before 911 did she disappear or
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was she the victim of the Twin Towers
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attack a top selling realtor doesn't
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know his client is a killer and that he
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is the
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target an ATM Courier vanishes along
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with a half a million dollars in cash is
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she a thief or a
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victim you know you could have the one
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vital clue to help solve one of our
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cases I'm Dennis Verina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries join
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three volunteers from a church in
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carmichel California enter a local
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bank the women have come to deposit the
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collection from the weekend Services
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suddenly they're
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surrounded the for armed robbers are
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members of The Notorious SLA radicals
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who Advocate the violent overthrow of
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the government get your hands on the
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ground get your hands
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hold
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up get down nobody gets HT get down lady
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the robber with the shotgun is
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especially menacing just 10 ft away mner
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opsol stands Frozen then let get
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down she is gunned down in Cold Blood my
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mother evidently didn't move fast enough
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the bank employees pleaded with the
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robbers to come to assistance and they
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shouted more obscenities and threatened
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more injuries and wouldn't let anyone
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come to her assistance the bank robbers
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appear to be following a
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timetable every word and movement
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precise get out it was very well
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coordinated everybody had a role and at
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all times they were very conscious of
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the time ticking 50 at some point some
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of the tellers were grabbed one woman
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was kicked um so all of them actually
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had weapons and it was very very violent
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and all the time M opsol was not dead
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yet she laid on the ground and she
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literally bled to death on the
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ground all the bank robbers ran out of
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the bank to a car that was waiting for
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them the driver of the getaway car was
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20-year-old newspaper Aris Patty Hurst
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she had been kidnapped by the SLA 14
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months earlier within weeks of her
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abduction Hurst had assumed the name
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Tanya and declared herself a
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revolutionary
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the search for Patty Hirsch triggered
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one of the biggest FBI manhunts in
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history within 2 years most SLA members
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were either captured or dead but one man
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eluded authorities for nearly 30 years
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his name was Jim
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Kilgore he was born in Portland Oregon
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he was vice president of his senior
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class he participated in Varsity golf he
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was on the high school basketball team
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he was very athletic he attended the
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University of California Santa Barbara
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graduating in 1969 during that time
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period he became acquainted with Kathy
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soia it was at a drive-in theater in San
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Francisco that Jim kilgore's girlfriend
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Kathy CIA introduced him to SLA leaders
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Bill and Emily
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Harris Kilgore and CIA were welcomed
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into the group's smaller Inner
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Circle Kilgore was especially skilled at
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creating false IDs
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with the SLA on everyone's most wanted
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list he was kept plenty busy we know
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that members of this group would steal
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credit cards and driver's licenses for
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example at local gymnasiums and other
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health clubs we know that they engaged
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in special missions to steal existing
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identifications in the fall of
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1974 Thea met at a safe house in a quiet
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Sacramento
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neighborhood Bill Harris out his plans
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to escalate the sla's violent
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revolution robbing banks provided the
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Quick Cash they needed to carry out
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those
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plans in late February
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1975 SLA members held up the guild
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Savings and Loan in
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Sacramento the point Man in The Heist
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was Jim Kilgore he was a central member
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of the group he was not peripheral he
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was actively involved in the violence he
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embraced it that bank robbery was a
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violent act he was right there inside
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the
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bank two months later Emily Harris
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Michael Borton Kathy soia and Jim
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Kilgore executed the daring holdup at
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Crocker National Bank that's when they
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killed Mna Absol a mother of
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four it was Emily Harris who fired the
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Fatal
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blast the robbers stole more than
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$155,000 Bill Harris was The Mastermind
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behind the heist the SLA changed modes
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after killing M opsol they now were
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looking to place bombs in locations that
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were targeted to kill people they seemed
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to be more hungry to take other human
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lives and that's what they set out to
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do by the summer of
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1975 the operation had shifted to San
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Francisco where SLA members worked odd
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jobs painting houses and their spare
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time they planted pipe
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bombs then in late August the group
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headed for Los Angeles with an arsenal
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of deadly explosives in the back of
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their
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car Jim Kilgore Kathy CIA and Bill
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Harris planted a pipe bomb beneath an
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LAPD patrol car but the triggering
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mechanism
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malfunctioned a second bomb was found
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under the police car in another Precinct
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Harris selia and Kilgore returned to San
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Francisco but the heat was
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on FBI agents finally got a break the
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owner of several apartment buildings
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recognized his house painters as SL
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members kind of looks like one of the
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guys over on the Pacifica
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unit within hours Jim Kilgore and the
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others were under
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surveillance the next morning agents
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followed one of the Suspects to their
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safe house on pra Avenue and from
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watching the pra address they see Bill
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Harris and Emily Harris coming out of
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the
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house when the Harris has returned from
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jogging they were confronted by FBI
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agents but an hour after that having
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identified a second Safe House in San
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Francisco agents and members of the San
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Francisco Police Department raided a
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second location in San Francisco and
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during that raid they apprehended had
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Hur the high-profile arrests of Patty
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Hurst and Bill and Emily Harris made the
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headlines meanwhile the FBI closed in on
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Kathy CIA and Jim Kilgore who were
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painting a house in nearby Pacifica they
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raided that house later that afternoon
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and when they showed up the house all
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the remnants of the painting the buckets
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of paint and the paint brushes were just
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left drying in the room a radio was on
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with a all news station so Leah and
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Kilgore had fled but FBI agents located
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and searched kilgore's apartment at that
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location they found a bully manufactured
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bomb similar to the bombs that were
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placed under the police cars in Los
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Angeles and also up in San Francisco
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when they inspected that bomb they found
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his fingerprint it was a very good break
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for law enforcement because it allowed
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us to charge James gilgore with a
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serious
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offense still no charges had been filed
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in the murder of MNA opsol
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for 24 years there was no break in the
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case then Kathy Celia was arrested in an
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upscale Minnesota suburb she had been
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living there as a homemaker and
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Community activist under the Alias Sarah
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Jane
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Olsen Olsen was brought to Los Angeles
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to stand trial for planning explosives
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under a police car in
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1975 her testimony and new advances in
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forensic science led the Sacramento
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District of attorney to reexamine the
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opsol murder case the state of the
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evidence today has convinced me now is
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the time to seek Justice fora Absol SLA
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members Bill Harris Emily Harris Michael
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Borton Kathy CIA and Jim Kilgore were
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all indicted in the case all but Kilgore
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were tried for murder the four
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defendants were found guilty of second
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deegree murder and sentenced Emily
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Harris 8 years Bill Harris
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7 years Kathy Celia 6 years and Michael
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Borton only 6
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years the only missing suspect was Jim
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Kilgore
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update the 28-year hunt for Jim Kilgore
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finally ended when he was arrested in
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South
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Africa Kilgore was married had two
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children and was teaching at the
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University of Cape Town he was
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extradited to the United States and pled
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guilty to the second degree murder of
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murder opsa Kilgore was sentenced to
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only 6 years in prison he was the last
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of the SLA to be captured and
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tried next did this young doctor die at
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the World Trade Center on
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911 or did something happen to her the
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night
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before
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immediately following the September 11th
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tragedy New York City was blanketed with
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posters of missing Lov ones thousands of
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distraught family and friends were
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searching the city one was Ron
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liberman his wife snaha Phillips was a
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31-year-old phys pH who had last been
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seen in the vicinity of the World Trade
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Center the story of this pretty young
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doctor is different from the others some
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believe that she disappeared on
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September 10th 14 hours before the
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attack on the Twin
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Towers snaha may have been the victim of
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a crime or simply left her husband in
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family to start a new life I think this
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is a very difficult situation because of
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the confusion with September 11th that
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leaves every single possibility open I
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mean in our heads right now Anything is
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Possible only one year earlier Ron and
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snaha were the happy couple in this
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wedding video The Newlywed had an
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apartment in Battery Park City an
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exclusive neighborhood just four blocks
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from the World Trade Center at 11:15
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a.m. on September 10th Ron left for his
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shift as a doctor at kby hospital snaa
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had the next 3 days off hang on second
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kissed her I told her I loved her and I
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left luckily I left my keys at home so I
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went back keys and I got to kiss her
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again and that was the last time that I
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saw
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her snaha was not at home when Ron
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returned at 11:15 that night but he was
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not
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concerned my schedule is so crazy so
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sometimes she would feel uncomfortable
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staying by herself at home and her
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brother lives very close by and her
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cousin also lives very close by so she
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would sometimes go spend the night with
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them and I thought well maybe she just
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decided to stop at her brother's
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house Ron got up early and headed to
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work for an 8:00 a.m. meeting he
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expected snaha would call him later that
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morning then disaster
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stru what happened there was an accident
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a plane hit the World Trade Center oh my
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God after the meeting I came outside and
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we saw the TVs were on and we saw the
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first plane hit so I immediately went
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and called home if you're there pick up
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the phone and there was just the message
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machine on I need you to call me and let
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me know that you're
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okay I love you and then we learned that
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the second plan hit and now everyone
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realized that this is an attack and then
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when the Billings came down everyone was
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just you know people were crying but
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still trying to work and it was a very
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very emotional time that call back again
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about 10:00 in the morning still just
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the messeng machine was on and then
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after that the phones went
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dead I was frightened for my wife
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because I couldn't get in touch with her
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I was sad with what happened devastated
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by the whole situation there's so many
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emotions everyone is in shock and where
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is my wife I I don't
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know just imagine trying to find your
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wife in the chaos of the 9/11 tragedy
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there was the devastating possibility
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that snaa was buried under tons of
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rubble still Ron liberman prayed that
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she was simply lost and that she would
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soon find her way
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home Ron's hopes were based on snaa
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having been with either her brother or
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cousin the previous night but when he
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finally got through to them both said
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they had not seen or heard from her in
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over 48 Hours realizing that no one had
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spoken to her yet I realized that this
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is a serious situation at that point I
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decided you know I'm going to try to get
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down to the apartment all roads into
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Lower Manhattan were closed only
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emergency vehicles were being permitted
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through the barricades Ron hitch the
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ride in an
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ambulance and then made his way on foot
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to their apartment the scene down there
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was just chaos it was one of the most
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scariest sites I've ever seen in my life
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asz I started approaching my apartment
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building I started seeing trucks blown
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up fire engines turned upside down
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pieces of the building or what looked
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like the building on the ground
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also Ron's apartment in Battery Park was
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chained
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shut
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SN he learned from a neighbor that snaa
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was not in the building so now at this
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point I didn't know what to do with all
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the chaos going on I thought well how am
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I going to find her right now and I went
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back to my friend's place and I spent
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the night and that was a very difficult
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night I was by myself on the couch
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wondering where my wife was frightened
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that something awful
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happened the day following the attacks
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Ron filed a missing person's Report with
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the
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NYPD you got the feeling that the police
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were just completely overwhelmed and
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that they had very little time or effort
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to be able to put forth towards this Ron
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hired a private investigator who tried
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to retrace sn's steps on the night of
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September 10th an employee at the
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couple's apartment building remembered
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seeing snaha that evening hey Tom um I
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have aack at 5:15 p.m. he saw her
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leaving alone wearing a brown dress and
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sandals by tracing credit card receipts
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Ron found out that snaa may have gone
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shopping at a department store near the
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World Trade Center at 7:18 p.m. shoes
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lry and bed linens were purchased with
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sn's credit card but was it snaa who
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used the C or an impostor who had stolen
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excuse me from what was purchased it
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sounded like it was her sheets for the
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beds and things like that so we assumed
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it was her uh without proof yet Ron
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hoped to find that proof on the
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department store surveillance video for
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about 2 weeks I sat and watched this
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tape for about 5 hours a day frame by
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frame it's one of those stop action
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photos where I actually found my wife on
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the tape shopping
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alone but after the department store SN
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's trail goes cold she leaves the store
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and then she just disappears there is
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not a trace of her nothing not a credit
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card transaction no money taken out of
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her account no emails no phone calls
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nothing how does that happen it's it's a
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complete
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mystery when she left the store snaa was
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carrying two large bags of merchandise
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but nothing was found at the apartment
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suggesting that she never made it back
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home
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the entire area where snail was last
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seen lay in Ruins any theory about what
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happened to her was impossible to prove
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then a new clue emerged a clerk at the
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department start recognized snaa from
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the missing person's flyer Ron and sn's
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family suddenly had renewed Hope from
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the shoe sales clerk told us that she
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remembers my wife and that she'd known
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her as somewhat of a regular customer is
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that your sister oh no she's just a
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friend of mine she remembered her there
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that day and said that she was with
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another person an Indian woman that she
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just said was her friend you too okay
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bye bye have a good day you too they
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said after she went to buy shoes that
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they were thinking about going to the
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lerie area based on this new information
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Ron reexamined the department store
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surveillance table two women are seen
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leaving the store together this could be
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snaa and her
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companion hey do you want to get
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something to eat so far all efforts to
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identify the mysterious woman have
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failed we have no idea who this person
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is and that she never existed in sn's
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past we've gone through her phone books
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we've gone through her email there is no
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like phone call even made to this person
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during that day she doesn't exist
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anywhere else it could be very possible
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the SN ran into her it could be an
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alltime friend
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it is possible that snaa stayed at the
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unidentified woman's house on the night
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of September 10th if that was the case
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snaa could have been heading home the
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next morning at the time of the World
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Trade Center attack if s was near the
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World Trade Center on the morning of
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September 11th knowing the kind of
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person she was it would just be
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instinctual with her to try to help and
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she might have gone into the building or
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she might have helped people out it
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would have just been that's the kind of
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person she is she just cares about
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people if snao was inside the World
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Trade Center she would not have survived
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but that scenario assumes that sna was
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alive the previous night and spent it
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somewhere other than with Ron her family
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and all of her known friends it's
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difficult to continue each day is a day
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that we suffer because we don't know you
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know sometimes I think she might just
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walk through the door or she might just
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call but each day doesn't happen and
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it's really
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torture
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update initially New York courts ruled
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that sn's date of death was September
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10th consequently she was not officially
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listed as a victim of the 9/11 attacks
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however almost 7 years later that
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decision was
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overturned the courts determined that
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snaha most likely died helping injured
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people at the World Trade Center just
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two blocks from her partner snaha will
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be included on the roster of those
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killed on 9/11 this is a great comfort
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to her
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family next a realtor has an appointment
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at a secluded house an appointment with
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his own
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death
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wind's top Mike and Mary Beth emert had
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it all they were inseparable soulmates
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they were also prosperous Partners in
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the competitive world of real estate
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Mike and I had a terrific relationship
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we were not only husband and wife but
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each other's best friends and we were
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always always on the phone with each
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other he was either calling me in her
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office or calling me on the cell phone
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or something just enjoyed each other's
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company we were just very
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close but their dream life together was
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about to be destroyed just going over
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some paperwork what are you doing Mary
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Beth had no way of knowing that she was
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speaking to Mike for the last
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time on the day he was murdered Mike
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wrote in his datebook that he planned to
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meet a prospective home buyer named
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Steven he planned to meet him at 11:30
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at a local mall he he told Mary Beth
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that Steven was in his 50s carried a
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cane and spoke with an East Coast accent
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you like so much yesterday so I want
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don't you to hop in and we'll get going
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all
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right Steven was interested in a house
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Mike had shown him the previous
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day well you were here yesterday so just
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you know help yourself you need
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anything St by my house at 12:30 p.m.
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the owner of house Gail Garland returned
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from her job to spend her lunch hour at
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home she entered through the garage and
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was surprised to find the front door a
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jar then she heard the sound of water
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running
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upstairs a trail of blood still wet LED
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toward the
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bathroom Mike emmer was dead he had been
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stabbed 19
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times murder took place in this room and
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once the victim was incapacitated he was
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obviously dragged down the hallway into
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the bathroom where he was placed
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investigators believe that Steven the
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supposed home buyer committed the brutal
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murder they also think Steven shows this
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house because it is isolated from most
00:23:46
other homes in the
00:23:48
neighborhood it appears that he may have
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reconnoitered and actually singled out
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this home as the best place to assault
00:23:56
night now that suggests some
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sophisticated criminal thinking going on
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police suspect the murder was the work
00:24:02
of a professional Hitman and that the
00:24:05
cane was just the roost I think it's
00:24:08
possible that the weapon was this cane
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and the cane might have been one of
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these sword canes or a cane with a knife
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in it so maybe the initial Blitz assault
00:24:17
the stun mik was striking Mike with the
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cane from
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behind the knife portion of the can was
00:24:25
used to kill
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Mike Mike was nearly 6 ft tall weigh 187
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lb I think we have an offender here that
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was able to overcome a man of Mike
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stature and then drag his body perhaps
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about 18 ft from one room to where he
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came to
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rest the water in the shower was turned
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on and the two Faucets in the in the
00:24:47
vanity sinks were found running that to
00:24:50
me speaks of an attempt to get rid of
00:24:52
any trace evidence hair fibers things
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like that have been washed down the
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drain he's cleaning his hands off and
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sink cleaning the weapon off in the sink
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this was probably not this individual's
00:25:02
first murder or certainly not his first
00:25:04
violent
00:25:06
assault but if Steven was a professional
00:25:09
Hitman who would have a motive to kill
00:25:12
Mike
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emert investigators considered Mike's
00:25:15
wife Maryanne and as business rivals as
00:25:18
possible suspects all were eliminated
00:25:22
they checked Mike's background to see if
00:25:24
he had any enemies who might want him
00:25:26
dead walk condu ing hundreds of
00:25:29
interviews on people we have not
00:25:32
interviewed anybody that can establish
00:25:34
why somebody would want to have Mike
00:25:36
Emer killed he was a great friend he was
00:25:39
a great husband the effects of losing
00:25:42
Mike have just left a huge hole in my
00:25:46
heart I've thought over and over and
00:25:49
over again wrecked my brain trying to
00:25:52
come up with some reason why somebody
00:25:54
would want to harm Mike and there is
00:25:57
nothing
00:25:58
that I can come up with that
00:26:01
would have this make any sense there
00:26:05
must be a reason for someone to want M
00:26:08
eliminated but to this day the case
00:26:10
remains
00:26:12
unsolved if you have any information
00:26:15
about the murder of Mike emert please
00:26:17
log on to our website at unsolved.com
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next a man says he hit the lottery
00:26:28
jackpot with help from his son who died
00:26:31
years
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[Music]
00:26:45
ago Sam zelon a yoner businessman had
00:26:49
had a tough life born in laia he was the
00:26:52
only one of his family to survive the
00:26:55
Holocaust and now this
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[Applause]
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call for an ambulance here Gary no one
00:27:10
who witnessed the car accident would
00:27:12
have imagined that Sam could survive but
00:27:15
he did survive and Sam reported that
00:27:18
during his recuperation something
00:27:20
strange
00:27:22
happened just 5 years before the car
00:27:25
accident his only son Barry died of
00:27:28
cancer a week before his 27th birthday
00:27:32
he was wonderful he loved the family he
00:27:35
was protective and you love this very
00:27:38
much and you love him very much my
00:27:41
brother was the good sheep the spirit of
00:27:44
my family my brother was always trying
00:27:47
to make everybody
00:27:49
happy Barry's family held his memory
00:27:52
close to their hearts then came the day
00:27:55
of Sam's
00:27:57
accident surprisingly Sam came through
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with only a sprained neck two broken
00:28:02
ribs and a single cut on his forehead
00:28:05
after 2 weeks in the hospital he was
00:28:08
ready to go home I was laying in bed and
00:28:11
saying my prayer quietly but this time I
00:28:15
felt like an arm touched me and I
00:28:18
stunned at the
00:28:20
moment and as I looked I saw a sh of my
00:28:24
son Parry my
00:28:26
boy Parry
00:28:28
I couldn't believe it I thought he came
00:28:31
back to me I thought God give him a a
00:28:35
new
00:28:37
life Sam just stared taking in the
00:28:40
vision of his dead son the spell was
00:28:44
only broken when another patient began
00:28:46
to talk to Sam about the state lottery
00:28:49
Sam look what day it is today it's it's
00:28:51
the 90 million day look it's what they
00:28:54
call the super lot should it's $90
00:28:57
million today said when Barett
00:29:00
disappeared I thought there was a sign
00:29:03
and I had to play the
00:29:05
ladder
00:29:07
because he moved me towards
00:29:10
it he told me to play in a certain B I
00:29:17
want that afternoon Sam came home from
00:29:20
the hospital his wife and daughters
00:29:22
tried to keep him calm but all Sam cared
00:29:25
about was buying his lottery tickets
00:29:28
when my dad came home from the hospital
00:29:30
he was really insistent that we play the
00:29:31
lotto he had this feeling that my
00:29:33
brother was pushing him to buy a lotto
00:29:35
ticket and he kept telling us you know
00:29:37
let's play Lotto we have to play Lotto
00:29:39
Barry was there this was a sign from
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Heaven that we need to play
00:29:44
lot the zelix bought 16 tickets at a
00:29:48
dollar a piece 16 different combinations
00:29:51
of six numbers for a chance to win $90
00:29:55
million Sam's family began to wonder
00:29:59
when we went to buy the lotto tickets
00:30:02
there was a feeling of buying it to
00:30:04
please my father then there was this
00:30:07
other feeling that well maybe something
00:30:10
might come so you never know anything in
00:30:14
life can
00:30:15
happen nobody knows that better than Sam
00:30:19
zelon that evening he made sure his
00:30:22
entire family was gathered around for
00:30:24
the drawing of the winning numbers now
00:30:27
tonight's winning Super Lotto numbers
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the first winning number is 46
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1946 it was the year that Sam left the
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refugee camp after World War II
00:30:39
coincidence tonight's second winning
00:30:41
number is 50 1950 the Year Sam came to
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America the third winning
00:30:48
number is
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35 35 the number of years Sam and Janice
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had been married tonight's fourth
00:30:56
winning number is
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five five the number of children in a
00:31:02
zixen family the fifth winning number
00:31:04
for tonight is 30 Sam's daughter Denise
00:31:09
was 30 and the sixth winning Super Lotto
00:31:11
number to winner share $90
00:31:13
million is
00:31:15
15 Barry's birthday July
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[Applause]
00:31:21
15th when we won my dad smiled like an
00:31:25
angel it was as if he knew know that he
00:31:28
really did see my brother he was so
00:31:31
happy and I've never seen him glow like
00:31:33
that it it was just an inner glow my son
00:31:36
Barry definitely was responsible for
00:31:40
winning the
00:31:41
ladder Barry wanted his father his
00:31:44
mother and his sisters should have a
00:31:47
happy life and to help other people they
00:31:51
cannot be helped because he was that
00:31:53
kind of person
00:31:54
there the odds of Sam's special numbers
00:31:57
winning the lottery worth 13 million to
00:32:00
one eight other people also hit the
00:32:03
jackpot that night each ticket was worth
00:32:06
$10
00:32:08
[Music]
00:32:11
million Sam and his family bought a new
00:32:14
home and they receive payments of
00:32:18
$475,000 each year they've donated a
00:32:21
significant portion of the winnings to
00:32:23
charity to honor the memory of their son
00:32:26
Barry
00:32:29
next her job was to fill ATMs with cash
00:32:32
but one night they were empti and she
00:32:35
disappeared was she the thief or the
00:32:38
victim and later an allout search for a
00:32:42
popular television news Anor who
00:32:44
mysteriously
00:32:56
disappeared Peru
00:32:58
Indiana Cynthia whis Miller's day begins
00:33:01
at 4 a.m. already a grandmother at age
00:33:05
42 Cynthia cares for an extended family
00:33:09
we drank coffee and talked for a while
00:33:12
and she kissed me goodby said she loved
00:33:14
me and she'd see me
00:33:16
later that
00:33:19
was probably the worst day of my life
00:33:22
bye baby Cynthia is a courier for an
00:33:25
armored vehicle service her job is to
00:33:28
replenish ATMs with
00:33:32
cash at 5:50 a.m. cynia begins making
00:33:37
her rounds later that morning she
00:33:39
mysteriously disappears along with a
00:33:42
quarter of a million doll in cash to the
00:33:46
police it seemed like a simple case of
00:33:48
theft by a trusted employee yet it was
00:33:52
possible Cynthia was threatened by
00:33:54
someone unseen someone who then murdered
00:33:59
her the police called it the yet even
00:34:03
they had to admit that Cynthia did not
00:34:05
fit the profile of a criminal her family
00:34:08
never had any doubts they were afraid
00:34:11
that Cynthia was the victim of Foul
00:34:14
Play my mother has taught me that it's
00:34:17
very good to be good you can't take more
00:34:19
than you give she instilled that into us
00:34:21
very early for there even to be
00:34:24
speculation that she would have done
00:34:25
something like this or done anything to
00:34:27
to attempt to take the easy way out it's
00:34:29
just ludicrous there's no way no way in
00:34:32
hell it would have
00:34:33
happened whatever did happened probably
00:34:36
began 3 days before the robbery come on
00:34:40
in Cynthia have a seat Cynthia's
00:34:42
supervisor told her that the security
00:34:44
company had been bought by the Brinks
00:34:46
armored car service Cynthia was to have
00:34:49
a new position there'll be some changes
00:34:52
and I'll fill you in on that next week
00:34:54
but because of time constraints right
00:34:55
now I just want to cover one thing with
00:34:56
you mhm the following workday Cynthia
00:34:59
was to postpone her early morning duties
00:35:02
until 900 a.m. at that time she was to
00:35:05
meet a replacement and acquaint him with
00:35:07
her rout show him your routine etc etc
00:35:10
yeah sure I can do that um so then am I
00:35:13
giving up my job do I have a job as long
00:35:17
as I still have a job you still have a
00:35:20
job the next morning Cynthia got up
00:35:23
early just as she always had she never
00:35:26
mentioned to her boyfriend Billy that
00:35:28
her work schedule had been
00:35:30
changed investigators say that between
00:35:33
5:50 and 7:15 a.m. Cynthia made stops at
00:35:37
each of the eight ATMs on her
00:35:40
route she began 3 hours earlier than she
00:35:43
had been instructed and without her
00:35:46
trainee each of the machines was
00:35:48
completely emptied of cash the ATMs had
00:35:52
video cameras on them out of the 8 ATMs
00:35:56
we only found actual film footage of
00:35:58
Cynthia wismiller on on one of the tapes
00:36:02
and throughout the entire time she was
00:36:03
in that building she was alone it didn't
00:36:05
appear that she was under any type of
00:36:07
duress or force of any kind most of the
00:36:10
ATMs that she serviced were exterior
00:36:13
buildings they were not actually in the
00:36:15
bank branch and she could get into the
00:36:18
back of the ATMs without being seen on
00:36:20
the video camera okay baby John you take
00:36:23
him down to room one please detectives
00:36:25
began their investigation by questioning
00:36:27
Cynthia's family and her boyfriend Billy
00:36:31
Hawkins Billy was adamant that Cynthia
00:36:34
was abducted and he also is adamant that
00:36:37
someone has forced her to do this Billy
00:36:39
told me that there's no way she would
00:36:41
have done this on her own if someone was
00:36:43
holding a gun on her or uh had
00:36:46
threatened her family or something she
00:36:48
would do something like this to protect
00:36:50
her family or to protect her own life
00:36:52
possibly there's nothing else on this
00:36:54
Earth that would make her do something
00:36:55
like this without being coarsed into it
00:36:58
the family held firm to their belief
00:37:00
that she had been forced to steal an
00:37:03
eyewitness supported that idea the
00:37:06
witness said that he saw Cynthia with
00:37:08
another person he saw Cynthia and this
00:37:11
other person unloading bags and putting
00:37:14
them into another vehicle he said this
00:37:16
person had a sock hat pulled down to the
00:37:19
lower part of their face so he could not
00:37:21
tell if this person was white black or
00:37:23
male or female according to the witness
00:37:26
Cynthia did not appear to be helping the
00:37:28
unidentified stranger against her will
00:37:32
if Cynthia was an unwilling accomplice
00:37:35
she could have sent a secret warning to
00:37:37
her company to open an ATM couriers must
00:37:40
enter a code that changes daily a
00:37:43
distress signal is sent by simply
00:37:45
changing one of the digits but Cynthia
00:37:49
did not enter the distress code at any
00:37:51
of her
00:37:54
machines and as the investigation of
00:37:57
Cynthia wismiller went on an audit
00:37:59
revealed an additional
00:38:02
$200,000 was
00:38:03
missing cash that Cynthia was supposed
00:38:06
to have placed in her ATMs more than a
00:38:08
week before the robbery I think she was
00:38:11
dipping in the till a little bit to help
00:38:13
her family out when she was informed
00:38:16
that Brink security was taking over the
00:38:18
company she knew she was going to be
00:38:19
caught when they did the Audits and I
00:38:21
think she just took as much money as she
00:38:23
could and fled the area we as a police
00:38:26
department want to find her because she
00:38:29
stole the money but we also want to find
00:38:30
her to make sure she's safe we don't
00:38:32
believe for a minute she did anything
00:38:33
wrong she just wasn't that kind of
00:38:35
person just wasn't
00:38:38
her
00:38:40
update after 6 years CIA wismiller was
00:38:44
located and arrested investigators
00:38:47
traced phone calls made from family
00:38:49
members to an address nearly 800 M away
00:38:52
in Pon Deon Florida when whis Miller
00:38:56
learned local police were on her Trail
00:38:58
she drove to Indiana and turned herself
00:39:00
into the cooko police department she
00:39:03
repaid almost
00:39:04
$200,000 of the money she had taken she
00:39:08
served only a short
00:39:15
sentence I'm John Shine from kimt
00:39:18
television Mason City Iowa we need your
00:39:21
help one of our news anchors is missing
00:39:23
her name is jod henr jod is 5' 3 in tall
00:39:27
and weighs 120 lb she has blonde hair
00:39:30
and was last heard from around 4:00 a.m.
00:39:33
Tuesday June the
00:39:35
27th jod hen Tru was the anchor of a
00:39:38
Morning News show in Mason City Iowa she
00:39:41
was a local favorite a lovely woman with
00:39:43
many friends and known known enemies on
00:39:46
the day she vanished jod was scheduled
00:39:48
to work a regular ship on
00:39:51
air when she hadn't arrived producer Amy
00:39:54
kons called her
00:39:56
apartment everything sounded normal just
00:39:58
like I had just woken her up what time
00:40:00
is it she asked the question so I told
00:40:01
her Jo it's about 10: to 400 he need to
00:40:03
come in to work how much time is left to
00:40:05
produce on the show I mean she was
00:40:06
obviously thinking she was aware she
00:40:08
just knew she had overslept and she had
00:40:10
to get into work I didn't hear anything
00:40:12
out of the ordinary nothing Jody didn't
00:40:15
show up by airtime so Amy anchored the
00:40:18
6:00 a.m. newscast she then sent the
00:40:21
first available person to check on Jody
00:40:24
I was halfway mad because I had to do
00:40:26
all of this stuff all by myself myself
00:40:28
halfway worried because I thought gez
00:40:29
what if she's laying in her apartment
00:40:30
bleeding cuz she fell down hit her head
00:40:32
on the tub you know things like that but
00:40:34
never once did I think somebody nabbed
00:40:36
her outside of her apartment never once
00:40:38
did that cross my mind the offer
00:40:40
arriving at the scene observed several
00:40:43
J's personal items strung about the
00:40:44
ground around her car a quick check was
00:40:47
done in and around the apartment complex
00:40:49
for Jodie but we were unable to find her
00:40:51
her personal items which appear to be
00:40:53
things that she was bringing with her to
00:40:55
work in preparation for that morning
00:40:57
newscast were scattered about her car
00:41:00
kind of trailing off away from the
00:41:01
vehicle which to all involved is a good
00:41:03
indicator that she was taken
00:41:05
forcely by that afternoon the Mason City
00:41:08
police launched a massive search rescue
00:41:12
teams scoured the countryside divers and
00:41:15
police dogs covered the Winnebago River
00:41:17
and its banks but there was no trace of
00:41:21
Jody in fact the only possible clue was
00:41:24
a white Ford Econoline van much like
00:41:27
this one it was seen in the parking lot
00:41:30
of Jody's apartment building about the
00:41:32
time she
00:41:33
disappeared we spent a lot of time and a
00:41:36
lot of effort talking to the people who
00:41:37
knew jod and spent time with Jody we
00:41:39
located nothing in her private life that
00:41:42
would have put her at risk at all no
00:41:44
Dark Side to jod she was as real and
00:41:47
All-American as she appeared uh to those
00:41:49
who knew her and and to her viewers I
00:41:52
think there's still hope I really feel
00:41:54
that we might find her yet um there's
00:41:57
you can't give up hope that's what gets
00:41:59
you up in the morning if you have any
00:42:01
information about jod who in Tru or any
00:42:04
of the other cases profile tonight
00:42:06
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00:42:08
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