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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 about to see is not a news
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broadcast 1971 the
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Philippines Roger roas an amateur
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treasure hunter found an intricate
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system of tunnels dug by the Japanese
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during World War II
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roas claims that deep inside he
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discovered an amazing hidden treasure a
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solid gold Buddha and countless boxes of
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gold bars but roar's joy was short-lived
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he soon found himself imprisoned and
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tortured at the orders of Philippine
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president Ferdinand Marcos and as for
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the treasure possibly worth billions its
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whereabouts remain an unsolved
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mystery Caitlyn arette was a popular
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vivacious honor student who dreamed of
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becoming a doctor but in 19 1989 Caitlyn
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was brutally and senselessly gunned down
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leaving her family haunted by unanswered
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questions who killed Caitlyn and
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why 20 years ago a large caring family
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in California took in a 4-year-old girl
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whose father needed help to care for her
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now that family asks for your help to
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find the young child that they loved and
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accepted as their
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own join me for these fascinating
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stories perhaps someone somewhere has at
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one vital clue that can help solve a
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mystery perhaps that someone is watching
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perhaps it's you
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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from 1965 to 1986 Ferdinand Marcos ruled
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the Philippines first as an elected
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leader then as a virtual Dictator by the
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time Marcos was deposed his personal
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wealth was estimated at $10 billion much
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of it allegedly looted from his own
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people view Dare Challenge Marcos
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publicly but on May 5th 1971 newspapers
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in the Philippines carried a startling
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front page story a Filipino locksmith
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and part-time treasure hunter named
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Roger roas was accusing marcos's
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henchman of ransacking his house and
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stealing a rare solid gold Buddha which
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roas had found while Excavating near his
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home just days earlier Roger's brother
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had taken this photograph of Roger and
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the
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Buddha Roger was 27 years old at the
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time and in the prime of
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Life Roger Roan is Now 49 but his health
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is ruined wrecked by torture and Years
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of Living On The Run Roger's Nemesis
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Ferdinand Marcos died in Hawaii in 1989
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a fabulously wealthy man today his
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estate is a target of a number of
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lawsuits including one file by The
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Humble but unbowed locksmith Roger roas
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who dared to cross one of the most
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powerful men in Asia
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in 1970 Roger roas and his family lived
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200 mil north of Manila on the
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Philippine island of Luzan Roger worked
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in nearby bagio city on weekends he was
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part of a large group of Filipinos whose
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avocation was treasure
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hunting one of Rogers fellow treasure
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Hunters was Albert fuchigami whose
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mother was Filipino but whose father had
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been an officer in the Japanese Army
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during World War II fuchigami had
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painstakingly recreated from memory a
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map of which his father had showed him
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as a youngster the map pinpointed the
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location of a secret tunnel system where
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a fortune and gold bars had allegedly
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been left behind when the Japanese were
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driven from the
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Philippines we were friends for a long
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time before he told me that he knew of a
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hidden
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treasure he revealed to me what he knew
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about the
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tunnels I had very high hopes because
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fuig
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was the son of a Japanese
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soldier Roger roas and Albert fuchigami
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hired a crew to excavate in the first
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few minutes of digging they found a
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layer of Japanese shrapnel a few weeks
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later the crew broke through into the
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tunnels which the Japanese had
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apparently dynamited
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shut the tunnel system was elaborate
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complete with railroad tracks for the
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next few weeks roas and fuchigami
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explored the Labyrinth they found that
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one explosion had blocked all access to
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the main underground passageway
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undaunted they dug a narrow tunnel
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around the
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Rocks I was the first one who went in
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because I was concerned for my
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companions if there was a booby trap
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then they would die because I was the
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leader I was the one who went in first
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to my surprise I found several Japanese
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skeletons there must have been more than
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10 Roger had stumbled Upon A forgotten
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tomb Japanese soldiers had apparently
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been trapped Underground when their own
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retreating Army set off explosions to
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hide the tunnels
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[Music]
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[Music]
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foree
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[Music]
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the Explorers were stunned in a hidden
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cavity a Buddha which appeared to be
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made of gold stood solemn
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guard Roger knew that the Buddha was not
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native to the Philippines he assumed
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that it had been plundered from one of
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the Southeast Asian countries conquered
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by the Japan Japanese during World War
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II while their crew attempted to move
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the 2,000lb Buddha roas and fuchigami
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ventured farther inside the
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[Music]
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tunnel just as a map had predicted there
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were boxes upon boxes of solid gold bars
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roas and fuchigami hit on a plan they
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would Dynamite the tunnel Clos to
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safeguard their find then sell the
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Buddha to buy trucks and equipment to
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transport the
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gold Roger roas took the Buddha home a
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potential buyer confirmed that the
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Buddha was solid gold he offered Roger 1
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million pesos 160 ,000 as a down
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payment after the buyer left Roger and
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his brother decided to take a closer
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look at the Buddha Roger had noticed
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that the buyer paid special attention to
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the Buddha's
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neck my brother and I had a suspicion
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that there was a joint an opening inside
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the
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Buddha so what we did was we got a piece
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of wood and we hit the Buddha several
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times with this piece of
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wood Roger says there were several
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handfuls of diamonds inside the Buddha
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some were rough cut some fine Roger hid
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the diamonds in a
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closet that night Roger's brother took
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these pictures of Roger with the Buddha
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Roger thought the photographs would
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protect him but news of Discovery had
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already spread fast and far all the way
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to the president's Palace in
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Manila although the Philippines was
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still nominally a democracy Ferdinand
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Marcos along with his wife Amala ruled
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with virtual
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autonomy when Roger found the Buddha in
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1971 Marcos was in his prime and his
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primary tactic was Brute Force
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two months after Roger brought the
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Buddha home soldiers swarmed his house
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the red ribbons on their rifles
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indicated that they were members of
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President marcos's Elite Palace guard in
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effect his personal
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Army out of nowhere the buyer
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appeared Roger had been double
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crossed with the buyer was another
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civilian who seemed to be in charge
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he ordered the soldiers to ransack the
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house I took everything even the piggy
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banks of my
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children even the picture album whatever
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my wife inherited all her jewelry all
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the diamonds in the closet they took all
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of
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it what would have happened if we had
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fought back they would just have killed
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us the next day Roger and his brothers
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reported the incident to the local
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police then he went to visit judge po
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Marcos a family friend for whom Roger
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had once worked as a
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chef I told him judge why did you let
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them confiscate my treasure we're
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friends he said Roger there is nothing I
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can do I said why he said because the
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prince asked for
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it I said who's the prince and he said
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the prince president
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[Music]
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Marcos
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[Music]
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for in June of 1971 on the Philippine
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island of Luzan members of President
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Ferdinand marcos's Elite Palace guard
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seized a Golden Buddha from the home of
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Roger roas the next day a judge warned
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Roger that there was a price on his head
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Roger and his family fled to an isolated
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jungle
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Village while Roger remained secluded
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Filipino reporters had already gotten
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hold of the story maros did allow the
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press to view the Buddha but his
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political opponents felt that Marcos had
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substituted a fake one opposition
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Cabinet member hoping to embarrass the
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president convinced Roger to come to
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Manila to identify
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spee spe
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spee
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for Marcos and his minions were outraged
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once again Roger fled Manila but 2 weeks
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later he says he was tracked down by the
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palace guard
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three men approached me and pointed
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their guns at me they knew me they told
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me Roger come with us in the car we will
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bring you to
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Manila I could not Escape I knew they
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were soldiers they had
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guns they were so happy
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they were drinking whiskey saying so
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finally we got him the famous the famed
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Roger
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roas they called The Palace and they
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were speaking English I knew that it was
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Marcos that they were talking to because
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they addressed him as Mr President
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Marcos must have asked them are you sure
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it is Roger roas that you captured and
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they said yes we're sure thank you Mr
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President the boss is is really happy to
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hear we have you in our
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[Music]
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custody the soldiers demanded that Roger
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sign a confession authenticating the
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Buddha and saying that he had been paid
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off by the opposition
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party Roger says that when he refused a
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palace thugs brought in a crude
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electroshock machine fashion from
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automobile batteries
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[Music]
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then they showed me a picture and they
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said Roger do you know who this is in
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the picture and I said yes that's my
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wife and my
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kids they said Roger if you love your
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family cooperate with us show us where
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you found the Golden
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Buddha Roger says he endured hours of
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torture which permanently damaged the
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nerves around his left
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eye I made a promise to Mr Fuigi his
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name is Albert I told him Albert even if
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they try to kill me I will not tell them
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where the tunnel
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is so they had to persecute
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me and while I was conscious I really
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tried not to tell them where the
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location of the tunnel was that was my
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promise to Mr
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[Music]
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chami Roger says he was held captive at
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a hotel in Manila and tortured almost
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daily for several
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weeks finally he agreed to sign a
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document stating that he had been paid
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off by the opposition
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party son was a courthouse
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[Music]
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Roger's captors allowed the worst of his
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wounds to heal then they took him to a
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courtroom in bagio city and ordered him
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to point at marcos's
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Buddha he was photographed several times
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giving this tasset sign of approval
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[Music]
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I went to my wife first and my kids my
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wife was crying she was surprised she
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said what is happening to you you know
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they might kill
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you and I said just
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[Music]
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pray I stayed with my family for about
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10 minutes and then the soldiers took me
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again Roger was sarily reimprisonment
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been
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tortured I knew they were going to kill
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me but you know I'm a locksmith I know
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how to open
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locks so I went to the restroom there
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was a small window with a small
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[Music]
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lock Roger roas went into hiding and
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never again saw the Golden Buddha the
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strain of living underground tore his
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family apart and eventually led to a
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divorce Roger who has remarried
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continues to make his home at an
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undisclosed location in the
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Philippines when Ferdinand Marcos died
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in 1989 his personal assets exceeded the
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entire Philippine national
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treasury Roger roas is convinced that
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the source of that wealth was a
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countless boxes of gold bars
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as for the Buddha no one knows exactly
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where it is in 1975 at least two
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witnesses claimed to have seen it at one
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of marcos's Summer palaces rumor has it
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that the Buddha is still somewhere in
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the Philippines hidden by a member of
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the Marcos
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[Music]
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family of course it's very painful I
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worked very hard for it I spent so much
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time about 7 months that we really
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labored hard and then in 1 hour they
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take it all
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away it's very very
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painful through a corporation Roger Ro
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has formed with a friend in the United
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States a suit has been filed against the
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Marcos estate the case is currently on
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the docket in
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Honolulu Roger established a foundation
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to assure that a large portion of any
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settlement money he may receive will go
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to provide education Medical Aid food
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and job training in the Philippines
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next a young woman is gunned down in her
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car was she the victim of a random
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shooting or the target of a hired
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assassin
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[Music]
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on June 14th 1989 18-year-old Caitlyn
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arette graduated from Highland High
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School in Albuquerque New Mexico Kate
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was an outgoing popular honor student
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who'd been accepted at the University of
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New Mexico she planned one day to attend
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Medical
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School shortly before graduation Kate
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moved into an apartment with her
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boyfriend using money she had received
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from an insurance settlement he um we're
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almost finished honey let me take you
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out to dinner tonight as far as we could
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tell Kate and her boyfriend did get
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along very well I can call a couple
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friends over well I was just kind of
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hoping it could be just the two of us he
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was 8 years older than she but we didn't
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know it because they lied to us uh she
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knew we wouldn't let her date someone
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that much older uh we thought he was
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only four years older he seemed like a
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nice guy he was around the house a lot
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we liked
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him 6 weeks later on the afternoon of
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Sunday July 16th Kate admitted to her
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mother that she and her boyfriend had
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been having serious problems almost from
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the moment they moved in together mother
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all you have to do is tell them you
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don't know where I am and you don't know
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when I'll be back it's a lie it's not
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fair he's going to be worried about you
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mother
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please you don't understand she told us
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she'd had a big fight with her boyfriend
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she was breaking up with him and she was
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going to a girlfriend's house for dinner
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and she would either spend the night
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there or come back and spend it at our
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house she was not going to go back to
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the
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apartment Kate visited her girlfriend
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from 9:30 to 10:45 p.m she then headed
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east along lus Road toward her mother's
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house
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[Music]
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a little bit before midnight the phone
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rang it was phone call from the
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emergency room of the hospital they said
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Kate is there that she's been injured
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and I said what's happened and they said
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they wouldn't tell me they said we can't
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tell you in the phone so my husband and
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I drove to the hospital and had been
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shot twice in the head she was in a
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coma 5 hours later the police arrived at
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Kate's apartment her boyfriend was Home
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Alone seemingly unaware that his
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girlfriend had been shot and was near
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death we with the aloc Creek police
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department just like to come in and talk
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to you a minute sure what's this about
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just want to ask you a couple of
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questions look around you mind no just
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tell me what's going on on just like to
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know where you were tonight I was at
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with the Caitlin's boyfriend told me
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that he had been out with a couple of
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friends uh they had eaten they had
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played pool and they had a couple of
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drinks what's going on while I was there
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myself and the other detectives we
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discovered a note on top of the kitchen
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table and the note read something to the
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affect uh hun I'll be home at a certain
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time that sort of thing uh it was my
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belief that he indicated to me that the
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note came from Caitlyn it must have come
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from Caitlyn because he was not home and
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when he got home he found the note there
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yes you did I think you should sit down
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Caitlyn's boyfriend uh stated that he
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and Caitlyn did argue and they did have
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their disagreements but he was not aware
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of her uh at any time wanting him to
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leave the apartment or move out or
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anything that
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severe to
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re when the police left the apartment
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Kate's boyfriend went straight to the
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hospital and joined her family in a
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bedside
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[Music]
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vigil less than 24 hours later Caitlyn
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darket was de head her boyfriend had
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remained by her side until the very
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end 6 months after cait linar cat's
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murder the Albuquerque Police Department
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announced that she'd been the victim of
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a quote random act of violence Caitlyn's
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mother Lois Duncan refuses to accept
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their ruling following her daughter's
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death she began to uncover the first
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dark hints that Kate is somehow gotten
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mixed up with a major criminal
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organization to this day the police
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continue to pursue the random om victim
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Theory but Lois Duncan is convinced that
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her daughter was executed by a hired
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[Music]
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assassin we're all set no questions
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asked 2 and a half months before she was
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killed Caitlyn and her boyfriend took a
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trip to Southern California it was at
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that time that Kate apparently became
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involved in a lucrative car insurance
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scam one of our daughters told me that
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that March
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a couple of months before the boyfriend
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had staged an accident a fake accident
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in a car that Kate had rented for him
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with our credit card
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the scheme was allegedly orchestrated by
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an organization comprised of powerful
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members of Southern California's
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Vietnamese Community everyone in the
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accident complained of soft tissue
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injuries to the neck and lower back
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which were later treated by a doctor who
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was part of the
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organization ultimately a pargal working
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out of an Orange County California law
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office handled the insurance claim Kate
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and her boyfriend were given $1,500 as
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their share of the settlement which they
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used to to rent the apartment everything
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went well it was evidently a major
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multi-million dollar insurance scam and
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Kate had found out about
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it at the time we didn't know how we
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could fit this in with with her shooting
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but all of a sudden there was another
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element there something that suggested a
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possible motive because if Kate was
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breaking up with her boyfriend at that
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time then maybe maybe she was a danger
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to the people who had arranged this
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a few weeks after Kate's death Lois is
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putting her daughter's Affairs in order
00:27:33
when she made a disturbing Discovery
00:27:36
three phone calls had been made from
00:27:38
Kate's apartment at virtually the same
00:27:40
moment she
00:27:43
died in fact they were made just minutes
00:27:45
after she was pronounced dead when her
00:27:47
boyfriend was with us at the hospital
00:27:50
and the apartment should have been
00:27:53
unoccupied the number turned out to
00:27:55
belong to a Vietnamese pargal in Orange
00:27:59
County uh a pargal who lived in Santa
00:28:02
Ana but worked in a law office in Garden
00:28:04
Grove and it was the same pargal who set
00:28:08
up the car
00:28:10
wrecks Lois wanted uh me to look into
00:28:15
Caitlyn's uh relationship with a
00:28:18
boyfriend uh she felt that Lois felt
00:28:21
that not everything was right there uh
00:28:24
that there had been uh some real
00:28:26
problems and that the police had failed
00:28:28
to to take a look at it what was going
00:28:31
on Mike Gallagher first met with Kate's
00:28:33
former landlord mostly with her
00:28:34
boyfriend's friends they didn't treat I
00:28:36
had the impression from
00:28:38
Neighbors that Caitlyn was more afraid
00:28:42
of uh her boyfriend's friends rather
00:28:46
than her
00:28:49
boyfriend she would get Disturbed when
00:28:51
they only spoke Vietnamese around her uh
00:28:54
the the friends uh her boy boyfriend's
00:28:57
friends tended to uh make fun of her
00:29:03
uh and cause friction between her and a
00:29:05
boyfriend and she did not like his
00:29:08
friends uh I think the feeling from what
00:29:10
I could gather was Mutual how come you
00:29:12
let them treat me so lousy they do not
00:29:14
treat you that way they do they make fun
00:29:16
of evidently things were much more
00:29:19
stormy than we had ever guessed and it
00:29:22
wasn't just a little lover spat there
00:29:24
was something very major happening in
00:29:26
Kate's life after she moved in with her
00:29:30
boyfriend and she told us she was very
00:29:33
sorry that she had ever let him move in
00:29:35
with her it had been a big mistake she
00:29:38
wanted him to move out so her girlfriend
00:29:39
could move in
00:29:42
instead Mike Gallagher was able to
00:29:44
obtain a copy of the note which Kate
00:29:46
allegedly left for her boyfriend on the
00:29:48
day of the shooting he compared it with
00:29:50
another sample of her
00:29:54
handwriting it was obvious just by
00:29:56
comparing the handwritings of the not
00:29:58
note with uh Caitlyn's writing that she
00:30:01
did not write that note and that led me
00:30:04
to believe that within hours of her
00:30:06
shooting um her boyfriend was already
00:30:09
lying to
00:30:11
police the landlord also told Gallagher
00:30:14
that on the night Caitlyn died three of
00:30:16
her boyfriend's Associates were in her
00:30:18
apartment drinking Kate's mother is
00:30:20
convinced that one of them made the
00:30:22
phone calls to Santa
00:30:25
Anna I don't think that the Vietnamese
00:30:27
connection
00:30:29
uh is related to this case uh thus far I
00:30:32
have not received any information and to
00:30:35
indicate uh positively that the
00:30:37
Vietnamese is involved in this
00:30:41
homicide was Caitlyn arette executed
00:30:43
because she had learned too much about
00:30:45
the auto insurance scam while Kate's
00:30:48
family and Mike Gallagher were pursuing
00:30:50
their investigation the police were
00:30:52
going in a completely different
00:30:55
direction I'm trying to cooperate with
00:30:57
you guys I'm telling you the truth I
00:30:59
don't remember what 6 months after the
00:31:01
murder an informant led the Albuquerque
00:31:03
Police to a young man named Robert
00:31:05
Garcia in this AR killing Garcia was
00:31:07
interrogated for two hours finally he
00:31:10
admitted that on July 16th 1989 he was
00:31:13
out with three friends when one of them
00:31:15
shot a woman in her car on a
00:31:21
dare based on Garcia's statement police
00:31:24
arrested Dennis Martinez henal oscoo and
00:31:27
Miguel Garcia who is not related to
00:31:29
Robert according to Robert Garcia it was
00:31:32
Miguel who did the actual
00:31:37
shooting on the same day that Robert
00:31:39
Garcia was interrogated the police
00:31:42
discovered that es ccoo had recently
00:31:44
sold his car a brown Chevrolet Camaro
00:31:47
suddenly an eyewitness report that they
00:31:49
had initially disregarded took on a new
00:31:52
significance on the night of the murder
00:31:55
a truck driver said he saw Brown Camaro
00:31:57
chasing a young woman in a car similar
00:31:59
to Caitlyn's in the area where she'd be
00:32:01
gunned down an hour
00:32:13
later the police believed that the men
00:32:15
in the Camaro had been out joy riding
00:32:17
and Kate became their random
00:32:22
victim it was later learned that Robert
00:32:25
Garcia had in fact been in jail on the
00:32:27
night cait was shot ultimately all
00:32:30
charges against the three suspects were
00:32:32
dropped for lack of sufficient evidence
00:32:34
well talk to you guys later we certainly
00:32:37
appreciate you coming in and talking to
00:32:39
us again and all your cooperation got a
00:32:42
few questions finally under pressure
00:32:43
from Kate's family the police questioned
00:32:45
her boyfriend once again of this time he
00:32:48
admitted that he and a friend from
00:32:50
Albuquerque had taken part in the auto
00:32:52
insurance scan our relationship was
00:32:53
going great we had our arguments but
00:32:56
nevertheless charges have never been
00:32:57
pressed against him or any of his
00:32:59
friends in connection with that scam in
00:33:02
addition Caitlyn's boyfriend is not
00:33:04
considered a suspect in her murder you
00:33:06
or anytime in the past been involved in
00:33:08
a Vietnamese gang I I think it's
00:33:10
important for the police to remember and
00:33:14
anybody who looks at this case to
00:33:16
remember that Caitlyn's boyfriend's
00:33:20
friends were involved with large scale
00:33:24
organized criminal activity in Los
00:33:26
Angeles and multi-million dollar
00:33:29
insurance frauds I don't think the
00:33:32
police ever took that
00:33:37
seriously Caitlyn Arquette was killed in
00:33:40
July of
00:33:41
1989 in this most bizarre case there
00:33:44
seemed to be two viable theories leaving
00:33:46
Kate's family to wonder who in fact was
00:33:48
responsible and why did they target
00:33:52
Kate our family doesn't have any real
00:33:55
idea who pulled the trigger on Kate the
00:33:58
one thing we feel very strong about is
00:34:01
that she was not shot randomly as just
00:34:04
people out on a spree having fun
00:34:06
shooting a pretty girl in a red car we
00:34:08
believe Kate was killed because she was
00:34:10
going to talk was going to expose
00:34:13
illegal activities involving her
00:34:15
boyfriend and his
00:34:17
companions uh it might have been that
00:34:20
she was shot by the Vietnamese it might
00:34:23
have been that they hired someone else
00:34:24
to shoot her the one thing we're
00:34:26
absolutely sure of in in our own minds
00:34:29
is that this was not a random shooting
00:34:31
Kate was
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assassinated next a family's poignant
00:34:50
search for the young girl they raised as
00:34:52
their own
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on August 4th 1990 24-year-old Shannon
00:35:06
Tim Payne was married in San Francisco
00:35:08
California surrounded by all eight of
00:35:11
her brothers and sisters but one very
00:35:13
important person was not there to share
00:35:16
the joy of that special
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00:35:20
day 20 years earlier when Shannon was
00:35:23
still just a toddler a 4-year-old girl
00:35:25
named Terry ly Smith had come to lived
00:35:27
temporarily with the Tim payes in Orange
00:35:30
California she stayed for 6 years and in
00:35:33
every way became a member of the
00:35:38
family it seems that some families no
00:35:41
matter how large have more than enough
00:35:43
love to go around the Tayes have not
00:35:45
seen Terry Smith for more than a decade
00:35:48
and they feel that without her their
00:35:49
family will never be complete perhaps
00:35:52
someone watching tonight can help bring
00:35:54
Terry ly Smith back to the ones who
00:35:56
still love her as their own
00:36:01
John and Jerry Tim pay met in
00:36:03
1945 he was an intern specializing in
00:36:06
obstetrics she was a
00:36:08
nurse between 1953 and 1965 John and
00:36:13
Jerry had nine children six boys and
00:36:15
three
00:36:18
girls the tempay household was
00:36:20
boisterous and bustling the entire
00:36:22
family loved animals and enjoyed an
00:36:24
active outdoor life
00:36:28
in the summer of 1967 at the ranch where
00:36:31
they boarded their two horses the Tim
00:36:33
pays came to know the manager of the
00:36:35
ranch herb Smith I tell you what why
00:36:37
don't you go get this big guy some
00:36:39
carrots Terry help Shannon with the
00:36:41
carrots wait please was that your little
00:36:43
girl herb herb was divorced his daughter
00:36:46
Terry and Son Mark lived with him in a
00:36:48
small trailer but herb felt that the
00:36:51
ranch was no place for a young girl he
00:36:53
believed that Terry needed a real family
00:36:57
hey there you are I think the first time
00:36:59
I saw her I thought she was rather for
00:37:01
laor here was this little girl on this
00:37:05
large Ranch and while she loved horses
00:37:07
there were no children for her to play
00:37:09
with they were mostly
00:37:13
Cowboys I was drawn to her because she
00:37:15
was so sweet and she came she was so
00:37:17
happy to come and talk to me and uh I
00:37:21
just decided to talk to my husband about
00:37:23
it and see if it would be feasible for
00:37:24
us to take another one we always had an
00:37:26
extra bed in the the house for
00:37:30
somebody herb Smith took Jerry Tim pay
00:37:33
up on her generous offer in return herb
00:37:36
insisted that the Tim pays allow him to
00:37:38
take care of their horses free of charge
00:37:41
they promised herb that they would bring
00:37:42
Terry to visit him whenever he
00:37:45
wanted in August of 1967 Terry Smith
00:37:49
moved into the already overflowing Tim
00:37:51
pay home hi Herb hi is she okay about
00:37:54
stay I think in the beginning uh she was
00:37:57
little girl that was staying with us but
00:37:59
as she as the time grew longer and
00:38:01
longer she stayed with us as a sister
00:38:05
and she was included in everything in
00:38:07
the family so she therefore became part
00:38:09
of the
00:38:11
family all the Tim pay children grew to
00:38:13
love Terry but for Shannon the youngest
00:38:16
Terry's arrival was a dream come
00:38:20
true there was a succession of boys in
00:38:23
my family and I was you know the
00:38:24
youngest little girl and I couldn't
00:38:26
really hang out with them because they
00:38:27
didn't want me
00:38:29
to I think Terry and I were especially
00:38:33
close because we were so close in age
00:38:35
and things seem to happen to us at the
00:38:37
same time we we both learned to swim
00:38:41
around the same time and you know she
00:38:43
basically taught me how to ride and we
00:38:45
got the chickenpox at the same
00:38:49
time kind of scary for
00:38:54
you I think Terry loved being part of
00:38:57
the family family she'd call them her
00:38:58
brothers she'd call them her sisters and
00:39:02
I think she enjoyed it very
00:39:05
much years passed the temporary
00:39:08
Arrangement had in effect become
00:39:10
permanent none of the Tim pays could
00:39:12
remember life without
00:39:15
Terry she shared in all the family's
00:39:17
Joys and in all their
00:39:20
sorrows on May 2nd 1972 the family was
00:39:24
scarred by tragedy 46-year-old John Tim
00:39:27
pay succumbed to
00:39:33
cancer Jerry Tim Payne was forced to go
00:39:36
back to work as a nurse because she had
00:39:38
teenage children who could take care of
00:39:40
the younger ones at night Jerry worked
00:39:42
the graveyard shift that way she could
00:39:44
be at home every afternoon when the
00:39:46
children returned from school and every
00:39:48
morning to see them
00:39:51
off of course it was tough but there was
00:39:54
nobody else to do it and I decided I had
00:39:57
to do it there was that was going to be
00:39:59
my future and I had nine children or 10
00:40:02
children to raise hi everybody so I did
00:40:04
was work oh it's fine I'm just a little
00:40:07
tired is everybody up Shannon and Terry
00:40:10
are still sleeping I think Brendan is
00:40:12
too it's okay money became a very big
00:40:16
concern and my mom was not around as
00:40:18
much anymore because she was now the um
00:40:21
primary supporter in our family so that
00:40:25
also changed because she used to to be
00:40:27
there all the time come on girls it's
00:40:30
time to get up come on even though the
00:40:33
Tim pay family managed to cope having
00:40:35
one more mouth to feed was now a problem
00:40:38
come on with a heavy heart Jerry Tim pay
00:40:40
realized that she would have to send
00:40:42
Terry back to her father right awake
00:40:44
don't bother sitting down go brush your
00:40:45
teeth and when I told the kids they said
00:40:48
no they didn't want me to send her back
00:40:51
and I said but it has to be and I don't
00:40:53
want to do it but it's one of those
00:40:55
things that happens and she has her
00:40:58
father and she's going to go with
00:41:02
him in the summer of 1974 herb Smith
00:41:05
came to take his daughter home Terry had
00:41:08
lived with the Tim pays for more than 6
00:41:10
years Terry come over on Saturday she
00:41:13
was very sad she didn't want to leave um
00:41:16
we were her family she'd grown attached
00:41:18
to
00:41:21
us goodbye everyone bye bye on the other
00:41:25
hand I think Terry was really excited to
00:41:27
go home and and live with her father
00:41:29
again she loved her father a great deal
00:41:32
and um when she went to visit him on the
00:41:34
weekends it was always a real special
00:41:38
thing and she came home with many
00:41:39
stories of what they did and where they
00:41:41
went and if it was summertime she would
00:41:43
come and spend a week with us and she
00:41:46
loved coming back she loved having in
00:41:48
the swimming pool there she loved having
00:41:51
uh the friends that she had made and the
00:41:53
family around her and unfortunately uh
00:41:57
these started to get less and less
00:41:58
because they had moved to a different
00:42:00
part of the state and it was difficult
00:42:02
to get her
00:42:05
here in 1980 when Terry was 16 she
00:42:08
surprised the Tim pays with one final
00:42:11
visit well it was great seeing you Terry
00:42:13
you should come by more often the
00:42:15
reunion was bittersweet Terry was no
00:42:17
longer living with her father and though
00:42:19
she had brought her boyfriend with her
00:42:20
to meet the Tim pays she seemed uneasy
00:42:23
and uncertain about her future by by
00:42:26
Shannon
00:42:27
got a sense of feeling that she was not
00:42:29
as happy as she could be we talked more
00:42:32
and then she her friend said that it was
00:42:35
time to go and they left and that was
00:42:37
the last time I saw
00:42:41
her I didn't realize that would be the
00:42:43
last time I saw Terry because if I would
00:42:45
have known that I would have stopped her
00:42:47
there would be no way I would have let
00:42:48
her
00:42:49
go it was very confusing and um we were
00:42:53
trying to get her to stay and we never
00:42:55
asked where she was going cuz we were
00:42:56
trying so hard to get her to stay and we
00:42:59
lost
00:43:04
touch I don't think that we ever forgot
00:43:07
Terry everyone has a special place in
00:43:11
their hearts for Terry they have their
00:43:13
own special relationship and they they
00:43:15
would not forget that and they they want
00:43:18
to make sure that she's safe and
00:43:20
secure they miss her a lot everybody
00:43:22
talks about her all the time you know
00:43:25
when we reminisce we reminisce and
00:43:27
everything always includes Terry you
00:43:30
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00:43:50
know join me next time perhaps you may
00:43:54
be able to help solve a mystery
00:44:00
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