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tonight on unsolved mysteries Socorro
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New Mexico 1964 it began as a routine
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police pursuit just a wild teenager
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tooling through town and ended with one
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of the most remarkable UFO episodes in
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history a Close Encounters still
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impossible to ignore welcome to Valley
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Hill Kentucky where thousands of people
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from these teenage girls to skeptical
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adults say they have witnessed
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miraculous visions a case of mass
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hallucination or as Valley Hill truly
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touched by God in Dallas Texas an
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attorney named David Mara Fields
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schedules a pre breakfast meeting with a
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mysterious new client an hour later two
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women make the horrifying discovery
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who murdered David Marathi and you'll
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see how your calls reunited a family
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with a guardian angels who rescued them
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after a terrifying accident
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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we didn't
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April 24th 1964 the little town of
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Socorro New Mexico was quiet police
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officer Lonnie Zamora was not surprised
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during the five years he'd been on the
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force Sakura had almost always been
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quiet Milani spotted local teenagers
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speeding through town he figured writing
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him up might be the biggest excitement
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of the day
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the juice proceeded to the edge of town
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and beyond out into the desert Lonnie
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Zamora had no warning he was about to
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leave a safe secure world and enter the
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realm of the unexplained
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Roswell Gulf Breeze area 51 to anyone
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with even a passing knowledge of UFO
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history these names instantly conjure
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images of bizarre lights spaceships and
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strange visitors from another world on
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that day in 1964 Lonnie Zamora had no
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idea that Sakura was about to become
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another landmark the location of what
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some believe is one of the most
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significant UFO sightings ever made
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Lonnie had no idea what was waiting for
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him just down the road Sakura Sakura
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well going up to halfway so I could see
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a white object to my left there I
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thought it was a turnover car when I got
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up on top of the Miss out there I looked
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down and I seen this big white object on
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the ground
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I thought I could see something around
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the crafter I could see some figures
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look like they were walking around the
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craft
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Sakura - Sakura according to Lani
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he saw red markings on the hull a
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vertical arrow with a horizontal line
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beneath it and the crescent-shaped line
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above it
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Lani made several attempts to contact
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police headquarters he was never able to
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break through the heavy static after he
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heard two metallic sounds like doors
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clanging shut he realized the small
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figures had vanished
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so this flame come out from underneath
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it and I ran back behind the car and it
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went up to 2030 feet up in the air
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till you just stayed there for a while
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and then finally just took off slowly to
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the west
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yes ma'am
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at first you know what after I got to my
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senses I said did I see it or didn't I
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you know Oh what happened you know and
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that's it Lonnie radio to an old friend
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sergeant Sam Chavez of the New Mexico
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State Police
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he told Sam to come fast and to come
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alone estas haciendo Blair are you okay
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what happened out here I saw I saw it I
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mean you know I could tell the Lonnie
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was excited and probably scared I lost
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my glasses that's where they are I'll
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get him for you okay relax take a deep
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breath Lonnie Zamora
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he's a very dependable honest type of
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person he's not one to create or make
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stories or or build things up the to
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make exciting anything like that he he's
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he's a very well liked type of a person
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I saw two of them two of them what
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people the little ones that were in and
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there the uniforms white let's go take a
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look huh no no no I'm not going down
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there come on you don't have to be
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afraid of anything come on hoppy I'll be
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right behind you
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what the hell is this
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we found some indentation on the ground
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where this thing had landed and the the
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marks into the ground were 9 inches deep
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8 inches long and 9 inches wide that's
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where the blaster [ __ ] it locked me
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right over the car I started looking for
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tracks human track it's the only thing I
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found was impressions on the ground they
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were made by a perfect circle but I
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found no human tracks no shoe prints
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within 90 minutes US army officials at
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nearby White Sands Missile Range said
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Captain Richard T holder to investigate
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this is the first time holder has ever
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talked publicly about what he saw well
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my first impression was that it was
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something from the range that needed
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possible health you know first aid
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attention are at best security the more
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I got into it the less convinced I was
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that that was a case holder also noticed
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the unusual impressions left in the sand
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on the edge of the landing area he found
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a bush burned to a crisp on only one
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side as those seared by a blowtorch
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gentlemen this area is now officially
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designated sensitive its entire area
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needs to be quadrant on back officers
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please take charge of these folks
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we need to secure this gentleman's
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camera state trooper Ted Jordan was
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taking pictures his camera and film were
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confiscated on the spot I do recall that
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they told me that they would develop
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them and send me copies of them it never
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occurred and when I asked later about it
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they told me that the film was no good
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it had been ruined by radiation
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gentlemen what we're looking for is
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anything metallic metallic could be
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shiny could be dulled object will do a
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magnetic scan later we looked around to
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try to find out if we could see any
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evidence of anything it would make us
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think it was a hoax we found nothing
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everything we saw seemed to support the
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story that officers are moral recounting
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my impression of talking to him was that
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he was mystified he wanted an
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explanation nothing that I heard of
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later gave me the slightest hint that he
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did this as a hoax or cooked it up for
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fame or fortune
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whatever loan he saw he apparently was
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not the only one just a few minutes
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after Lonnie drove into the Arroyo a
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motorist who has never been identified
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pulled into a gas station on the north
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side of Socorro we were south the town
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headed north something flew right across
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the hood of the car doing about 150
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miles an hour a white oval shaped object
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scared to death
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Jimmy grindr was only 13 but he
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remembers the incident vividly do folks
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call the police no there was a cop
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looked like he was chasing it going the
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same way the craft was headed west when
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his lights on his siren and everything I
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believe Lonnie saw something same as the
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tourists saw something that they have
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never seen or encountered before you
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know it did not meet a helicopter type
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scenario definitely wasn't an airplane
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type scenario and so you drool those two
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things out in 1964 what do you have it
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definitely wasn't a weather balloon
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by the next morning newspapers and wire
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services all over the country had picked
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up the story around Sakura rumors ran
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rampant wild stories of flying saucers
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and funny little people
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everyone wanted details they stopped me
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all over town and wanted to know this
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too wanted to know that and then I got
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phone calls from all over the world and
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I was getting you know disgusted with it
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then the air force followed up the army
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investigation with its own team after a
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cursory once-over the air force agreed
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that Alani saw something they insisted
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however that it must have been a secret
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military test device are you getting
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anything
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of course not yeah they never were able
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to find any such evidence that any such
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thing was being tested at the time and
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in fact even today not an iota of
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evidence has emerged to support that
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claim nonetheless the Air Force lying on
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the case is that this is a credible
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witness he clearly saw some kind of
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structured flying vehicle and that it
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must have been something that we built
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even if we can't find it anywhere while
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the military investigated the UFO fever
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continued unabated since the 1950s the
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Air Force had been criticized by
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Congress for his handling of UFO reports
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the Sakura sighting threatened to add
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more pressure
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finally Air Force officials summon dr. J
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Allen Hynek a respected astronomer dr.
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Hynek was a most prestigious consultant
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on project Bluebook the official Air
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Force study of the UFO phenomenon dr.
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Hynek went to Socorro he talked to
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Lonnie studied the landing site and
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examined the photographs he found the
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physical evidence extremely compelling
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but the most persuasive argument for a
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genuine UFO sighting with Lonnie Zamora
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himself ok Lonnie now these depressions
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you said we're actually from the
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outriggers they held up the craft
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dr. Hynek was enormous ly impressed by
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Lonnie Zamora he thought there was
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virtually no possibility of hoaxes and
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on May 20th he wrote a private
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memorandum which he kept in his files in
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which I discovered years after his death
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in which he expressed huge disdain for
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the Blue Book handling of the report and
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he said that it was clear that the story
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that Bluebook had cooked up about this
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possibly being some kind of experimental
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aircraft was a story that even Bluebook
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knew to be untrue but which was invented
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to keep Congress from harassing the Air
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Force
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today some 30 years later the question
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remains how do we explain what Lonnie
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Zamora saw no matter what others believe
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Lonnie has no doubt that what he
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witnessed was not of this earth I still
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think that something not from here if I
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could find that part it actually was
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okay I'm satisfied I just didn't want to
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go through it again you know if they
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want to believe me good if they don't
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believe me all right - I believe Lonnie
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Zamora was a good policeman and an
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honest man who reported as he felt
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proper something well beyond his
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experience was that something
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terrestrial of extraterrestrial I have
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no idea
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coming up a grateful family is reunited
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with the unknown good Samaritans who
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save their lives
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[Music]
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[Music]
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recently your phone calls brought about
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one of our most unusual and gratifying
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reunions ever the people involved were
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not related had never been formally
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introduced and in fact only learned each
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other's names on the night of our
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broadcast it began in December 1983 the
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Dover family of Atlanta Georgia was
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traveling to Mexico to celebrate the
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holidays with relatives on the second
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day out just after crossing the border
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the weather suddenly changed and the
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Dover's found themselves caught in a
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freak snowstorm we're trying to be
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extremely cautious because the road
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conditions were really getting pretty
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bad and my father had just told me to
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even be extremely careful and just
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moments after he had told me that
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suddenly lost control
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tragically all four people in the other
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car were killed but miraculously the six
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members of the Dover party were still
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alive if only barely by some incredible
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stroke of fortune an American couple one
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of whom was a doctor happened upon the
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crash scene thanks largely to their
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efforts the Dover's were pulled from the
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wreckage and received urgent medical
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care
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Linda Dover credits the two good
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Samaritans was saving the lives of her
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entire family I feel like it is a
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miracle many times it's an accident and
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you know we just drive by an accident
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but and they could have done that that
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day but they didn't they stopped and
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through their staffing they saved the
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lives of our family and we just wanna
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say thank you other night we are this
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story the Dover's waited nervously back
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in Georgia to hear whether the case
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would be solved let's go to cutie Shea
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Smith for more Bob one of our viewers in
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Houston Texas saw the story and realized
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that she heard that very same story from
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her friends dr. Nancy Neff Hannon and
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her husband John later that night the
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Hannan's called us here at our phone
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center and provided agents with a
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detailed description of the rescue it
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was clear from the start that the
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Hannan's were in fact the Dover's
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guardian angels later that evening the
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Hanan spoke to van Stover who
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immediately passed on the exciting news
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to the rest of his family Vance said
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well we found them that was it
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we found them they've called and so it's
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like you know you could hear a pin drop
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on the floor it's like you know we can
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believe it after 11 years we've we found
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that these angels were real human beings
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a few weeks later some 30 members of the
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Dover family gathered to meet the
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Hannan's and compare memories of that
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fateful Christmas Eve there there was a
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lady in the front seat which had turned
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sideways so had to lift her up because
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the front seat had broken off its
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pedestal sort of supported that kind of
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wedged myself in there supported that
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with my shoulder as I tried to get him
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get David out I remember the pain of
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somebody pulling me out because I guess
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it may be as for i woked up my leg hurt
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really bad I guess as a physician that
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was one of the most helpless feelings
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I've ever had I mean to have the
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knowledge and everything but not the
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tools to do anything it was just really
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frustrating coming to us you were like
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an angel from God both of you that you
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would right there at the time and had
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you not been there the whole family you
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know could have possibly died and you
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were so instrumental and so we just want
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to say thank you for the Dover's the
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gathering was a chance to finally close
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this dramatic chapter of their lives
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thank you
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every Christmas from now on when the
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Dover's make their annual pilgrimage to
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Mexico they plan to stop in Houston to
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visit with their new lifelong friends
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their guardian angels the heavens
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when we return incredible claims of
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miraculous visions on a hillside in
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Kentucky hundreds of pilgrims believed
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to you
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in the past unsolved mysteries has taken
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you around the world to visit sacred
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locales said to have been graced with
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miraculous visions of the Virgin Mary
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Lourdes France Fatima Portugal medgie
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gorya in what is now Bosnia tonight we
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feature what may be another such holy
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spot much closer to home twice a month
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on the second and twenty-third people
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flocked to a small hillside in Kentucky
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where visions of the Blessed Mother have
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been reported we asked newscaster Jackie
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Hayes from our NBC affiliate wav TV and
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Louisville to investigate this
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phenomenon
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this is Springfield Kentucky route 55
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about an hour's drive southwest of
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Louisville a sign proudly proclaims that
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the site is now dedicated to Our Lady of
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Valley Hill during the past year
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thousands of people from teenagers to
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senior citizens have crossed this creek
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bed headed up valley Hill some of them
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have come here hoping to be healed of
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serious illnesses and others have sought
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spiritual healing all of them have come
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here hoping to witness a miracle to date
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no fewer than a thousand people claim to
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have had visions from random bursts of
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color to showers of golden flakes the
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visions first appeared to this woman I
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own a write who owns the land on which
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Valley Hill is located I've been seeing
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this vision for years and years long
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time just seem just seeing as if I was
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looking at a movie on the day we filmed
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at Valley Hill I was one of three
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hundred visitors I saw nothing unusual
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however at least a third of those
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present 100 people claimed that they
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indeed had visions inspired by God
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see there's like a little rosary right
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there and then there's a gateway to
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heaven there is a gold on the I'm the
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old man down there and they're looking
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at the concern his whole face is going
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with me that you don't say I do now had
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you been looking at this we thought that
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might be what was causing it those
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tricks on your eyes but what we saw is
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away from I would never look at the Sun
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when it started just pulsating turning
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colors there everything is ending after
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a while see colors around different
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colors primarily read many of the
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eyewitnesses say that the visions have
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had a profound effect upon their lives
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perhaps the most dramatic episode
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involved a Sunday school teacher and
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eight young girls who came to Valley
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Hill on April 6th 1995 the first girl to
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notice something unusual was Mandy
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Mattingly I said look y'all the Sun it's
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moving it had like a little disc around
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it like green good luck to the Sun
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there's like three rings around the
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stars like shape in his bench like the
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outer part would change colors and the
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inner would change these different
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colors
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what's happening and why is this
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happening test I turned around to take a
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picture right of the Sun because the
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girl said look at the Sun the Sun is
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pulsating and I took my polaroid and
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took pictures
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did you see the Sun pulsating oh yes yes
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I saw it too and then when I turned
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around well everybody was saying oh look
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at the gold look at the gold on you look
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at here I was like oh my gosh
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look at me it's like sports good all
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over me and then she snapped a picture
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and that's like like that and then I
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looked at the picture and there was like
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angels on each side of me like the
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angel's wings just take another picture
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of the Sun it's like coming out like no
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stars like according to the girls the
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Virgin Mary appears on the left wearing
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a veil they believe that the blurred
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image on the right is Jesus another
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Polaroid was perhaps more unusual and
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one of them had had a tombstone it looks
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like in a head my cousin's name on it
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tape out when she she died when she was
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born and we haven't found any
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explanation for it but I think it was
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her name they were hugging each other
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they were hugging me there were tears
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they were crying to see that experience
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I knew that these girls were deeply
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affected it was a profound experience we
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asked paranormal investigator Joe
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Nickell to comment on the photographs
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these angel wings are flame effects are
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due to light leakage into the cartridge
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when you put the cartridge into the
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camera if your thumb cracks that open
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just a little bit and lets light leak in
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now what about this picture we don't
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have angel wings but we have some shape
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of a form at the bottom the girls say
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they see the Virgin Mary and Jesus it's
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possible to see faces and pictures in
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the clouds it's a well-known phenomenon
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the human the human mind wants to make
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pictures out of random patterns and so
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we can
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we see pictures all the time what would
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about in fact well again this cartridge
00:26:02
has been mishandled and this this part
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of the film you can actually see is not
00:26:06
in focus you can see it's blurred this
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last picture seemed to be words here a
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couple of the girls were saying it rang
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a bell that there was a family member's
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name in that picture and maybe this was
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a sign what do you see right when we put
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a film pack in it automatically horrors
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and ejects this card which is meant to
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keep the light away from the picture and
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when I turned it over I really had to
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laugh because here is the chart with the
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wording on it only it's backwards and so
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the light has gone in there and bounced
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off of that white card and left a
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reverse imprint as a sort of technically
00:26:44
a double exposure rational explanations
00:26:48
may satisfy some people but not the
00:26:50
mothers of two of the girls who came to
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Valley Hill to see for themselves I was
00:26:55
skeptical at first I thought you know
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maybe maybe this did happen but I was
00:27:01
kind of scared and then about that time
00:27:03
when I started looking at the tree with
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words shows how to say the wrong switch
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tree where's this right over in behind
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the grotto okay and I looked behind
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there and then I started seeing spots
00:27:16
they were just they kept flickering like
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they were flickering on that one place I
00:27:21
yelled out at wreaths treats my god
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you've got gold all over you it was like
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go dust just you would sit on her feet
00:27:29
and this plate was just going up her
00:27:31
body and then just leaving and here
00:27:32
would come lower up her body and Lee had
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you been looking at the Sun for a long
00:27:36
now I never even looked at the Sun I
00:27:39
thought if you look at the sound long
00:27:40
enough it could you know do something to
00:27:43
your ass so you did not look at the side
00:27:45
of the Sun but you saw I saw the throat
00:27:48
spots how does that make you feel when
00:27:50
others are really singing is that sort
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of confirmed to you all that what you
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saw was real
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yeah it was real well we know it was
00:27:58
whether or not anybody else sees it yeah
00:28:01
we've seen it and that's all that counts
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is Valley Hill a sacred spot destined to
00:28:08
join Lourdes and Fatima as a holy shrine
00:28:10
only time will tell but for now there is
00:28:14
no denying that this remote Kentucky
00:28:16
hillside has become a house of worship a
00:28:19
church in the woods for the faithful are
00:28:23
the miraculous visions and Kentucky real
00:28:27
those who've experienced the sightings
00:28:29
are convinced to their authenticity our
00:28:32
vid is interesting to note that the
00:28:33
local Catholic Church is declined to
00:28:35
recognize Valley Hill as anything out of
00:28:37
the ordinary the rest of us will have to
00:28:40
decide for ourselves
00:28:43
next what a loving family is split apart
00:28:47
a young girl embarks on a 20-year search
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our orphaned or abandoned children
00:29:03
foster homes are often the temporary
00:29:05
salvation sometimes unfortunately they
00:29:08
turn out to be impersonal places that
00:29:10
only a bureaucrat could call home to the
00:29:13
four children in our next story however
00:29:15
a foster home became the first chance to
00:29:18
be part of a real family in December
00:29:27
1968 Dorothea and Robert Reese of Napa
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California welcome to five-year-olds
00:29:32
into their home as foster children mark
00:29:39
and Tammy Gardner were fraternal twins
00:29:40
who'd been severely abused emotionally
00:29:43
and physically
00:29:44
both were developmentally disabled Tammy
00:29:47
had trouble walking and talking normally
00:29:52
for the Reese's five-year-old daughter
00:29:54
Debra none of that mattered she had a
00:29:57
new brother and sister when they came to
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us
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I remember feeling wonderful that there
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was someone my age I can finally have
00:30:08
someone that I can relate to
00:30:12
there were people too little people like
00:30:16
me and I thought it was fabulous you
00:30:19
will find Tammy and Mark that mom makes
00:30:23
the best fried chicken you've ever had
00:30:25
and Tammy was very very scared
00:30:28
had a very frightful look and Mark was
00:30:31
the total opposite in fact he spoke for
00:30:33
Tammy every time my parents would ask
00:30:35
her a question she aptana me if you want
00:30:41
some butter for your card you're gonna
00:30:42
have to ask for it so what did you like
00:30:43
some butter for your corn
00:30:44
he's like the best you can do
00:30:50
in the supportive atmosphere of the
00:30:52
Reese home Tammy and Mark began to heal
00:30:55
a year later the family grew to include
00:30:58
two more foster children six-year-old
00:31:00
kelly clay and his four year old sister
00:31:02
teri before long it seemed as if none of
00:31:05
them had ever known another home theirs
00:31:08
was a kinship far beyond blood we were
00:31:13
our best friends most of the time it was
00:31:16
the five of us kids swimming or the five
00:31:18
of us kids picking apples or the five of
00:31:21
us kids getting into trouble because of
00:31:26
the abuse Tammy and Marquette
00:31:27
experienced they were placed in special
00:31:29
education classes that made them a
00:31:32
frequent target for cruel teasing as the
00:31:35
oldest Debra was a natural leader at
00:31:39
school she often confronted the bullies
00:31:42
who tormented Marc and Tammy Tammy I
00:31:48
think thrived on the fact that she had
00:31:50
brothers and sisters that would really
00:31:52
stick up for her no matter what accepted
00:31:55
her for who she was by 1974 the Reese
00:32:04
clan had been together for six years
00:32:06
Dorothy and Robert plan to adopt all
00:32:09
four foster children then the Reese's
00:32:12
got into a nasty dispute with the
00:32:13
adoption agency as a result the children
00:32:16
would have to leave doctor last week to
00:32:19
ease the blow Robert Reese blamed the
00:32:21
bad news on his heart condition did your
00:32:24
mom would be all alone and so the folks
00:32:28
from Child Protective Services are going
00:32:30
to us are gonna have to just split us up
00:32:34
where are we gonna go they will probably
00:32:37
put you with another foster fair or
00:32:40
family we have to stay together that's
00:32:42
right I just figured they'd never leave
00:32:44
they're my brothers and sisters forever
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00:32:49
few weeks later the reality hit when
00:32:53
they weren't around there was a big
00:32:56
empty house and there wasn't mark and
00:33:03
Kelly talking and my mom saying quiet
00:33:07
boys go to sleep and there wasn't me
00:33:11
yackin with Tami and Terry and it was
00:33:14
just silence a year passed
00:33:20
Deborah didn't see her foster sisters or
00:33:23
brothers at all she began to think she
00:33:25
would never see them again
00:33:28
then out of the blue mark surprised
00:33:31
Deborah at the stable where she boarded
00:33:33
her horse seeing him we were overwhelmed
00:33:41
with each other we cried but what he had
00:33:46
to tell me I hurt terribly a shaken mark
00:33:52
made some disturbing allegations my
00:33:57
mother and father did try to find out
00:33:59
what was going on but they ran into
00:34:02
people who told them never mind it's
00:34:05
none of your business they're not your
00:34:06
children that day in 1975 was the last
00:34:13
time Deborah saw mark ever since her
00:34:20
heart is eight for the loss of mark
00:34:22
Tammy Kelly and Terry I felt like
00:34:28
someone came in the middle of the night
00:34:30
and stole them out of my room my four
00:34:34
best friends they stole out of my room
00:34:37
and they
00:34:41
and I don't know what happened to him as
00:34:46
soon as she was old enough deborah
00:34:48
started searching 20 years went by but
00:34:51
she never gave up finally
00:34:55
just last September she walked into the
00:34:57
open arms of teri and Kelly clay
00:35:01
reunited at last but Deborah's quest is
00:35:07
not over unfortunately she has yet to
00:35:10
find any trace of Tammy or mark but we
00:35:26
returned in Dallas respected attorney
00:35:29
has gunned down in his office building
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00:35:46
Dallas Texas Thursday February 9th 1995
00:35:50
at 7:00 a.m.
00:35:52
attorney Clint Blackmon arrived at his
00:35:54
office building he bypassed the
00:35:56
notoriously slow elevator and took the
00:35:58
stairs to the third floor at 7:30 a.m.
00:36:02
juanita Lackey arrived Roxann Lederman a
00:36:05
secretary
00:36:06
let Juanita into the building Oxana knew
00:36:16
Anita were about to receive the shock of
00:36:18
their lives
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00:36:32
I heard a lot of screaming and hollering
00:36:39
it was Roxanne Juanita Juanita said that
00:36:43
she were thought that there was a man in
00:36:45
the elevator but all they'd really seen
00:36:47
was legs and and weren't really sure
00:36:49
what was there so I told her okay I will
00:36:52
go down and check this out
00:37:04
it's David
00:37:08
Stephen Muirfield David Muirfield was
00:37:11
gonna Clint Black Miss colleagues and
00:37:13
the law firm of Smith's mirror field and
00:37:15
Richards he had been shot in the back of
00:37:17
the head execution-style he left behind
00:37:20
two children than a new bride of only
00:37:23
three months the murder of David Mara
00:37:28
field as a cannabis our case at every
00:37:30
cop dreads there was no obvious motive a
00:37:33
42 year old attorney specialized in real
00:37:35
estate law over the years he had been a
00:37:38
profitable but prosaic practice his
00:37:40
clients were not at all the criminal
00:37:42
type David Mara Fields seemed to be the
00:37:45
last person anyone would water murder
00:37:48
ladies what time did you get to work the
00:37:52
most likely scenario was robbery but
00:37:54
Dallas police quickly ruled that out
00:37:57
mr. Murphy's wallet was recovered a few
00:38:00
miles from the crime location and in the
00:38:03
wallet was still a small amount of money
00:38:04
and all of his credit cards so I believe
00:38:06
had robbery been a motive that stuff
00:38:07
would not have been recovered police
00:38:11
next turned their attention to David
00:38:13
Muirfield himself piecing together the
00:38:15
details of his last hours the day before
00:38:18
he was murdered
00:38:19
David received four phone calls from a
00:38:22
mysterious stranger who identified
00:38:24
himself as Sam Jones
00:38:31
he's on the other line right now can't
00:38:33
take a message he asked if he could hold
00:38:35
on he told me his name was Sam Jones but
00:38:39
he wouldn't tell me who he was with or
00:38:41
what it was concerning and so I took
00:38:43
that to be kind of a solicitation type
00:38:46
call because that's usually what
00:38:47
solicitors would say mr. Sam Jones on
00:38:51
the other line he's very insistent he
00:38:53
wants to talk to you right now David hi
00:39:00
mr. Jones David spoke to him for I guess
00:39:03
a little under ten minutes I went up and
00:39:07
kind of joked with Dave and I said what
00:39:08
was he trying to sell you in Davis says
00:39:10
well he's not trying to sell me anything
00:39:12
yet he says he says he wants to do
00:39:15
something for me David Murphy we
00:39:18
discovered during the investigation had
00:39:19
a notepad on his desk which had a
00:39:22
calendar on and on February night he had
00:39:24
a marking there for a name and an
00:39:27
appointment that he had at 6:30 a.m.
00:39:28
with Sam Jones due to the common nature
00:39:33
the name it's my guess is possibly a
00:39:34
fictitious name
00:39:36
police also keyed in on the unusual hour
00:39:39
set for the appointment by own accounts
00:39:42
David would never have suggested such an
00:39:44
early meeting yeah I had known David and
00:39:48
worked with him for years and no David's
00:39:51
habit and that was he never liked to get
00:39:53
to work early in fact to see him at work
00:39:56
before 9:00 was just unusually he was he
00:39:58
was not an early riser you like to work
00:40:00
later for him to make a meeting that
00:40:03
early in the morning I mean he would do
00:40:05
it for someone if someone really needed
00:40:06
it I've since heard that apparently the
00:40:09
guy's told him he was leaving on a fly
00:40:11
and absolutely had to see him David
00:40:13
would do it in a case like that if it
00:40:15
was something he felt was really
00:40:16
important so but otherwise it was not
00:40:20
like David to be anywhere at 6:30 in the
00:40:22
morning except asleep
00:40:24
police theorized that the killer
00:40:26
insisted on an early meeting in order to
00:40:29
get David alone finally mention that's
00:40:36
good get a cup of coffee and look over
00:40:39
the papers we think that mr. Mehra
00:40:41
filled the intern elevator with another
00:40:43
person whoever Sam Jones is it's obvious
00:40:46
from our investigations lured him to
00:40:48
this location to do exactly what he did
00:40:50
to take his life on the elevator
00:40:56
no one ever heard from this man again
00:40:59
the Sam Jones we all kind of felt like
00:41:04
if the man had really come to try to
00:41:06
meet David then he would have probably
00:41:09
found him would have called later to say
00:41:12
we I wasn't able to get in the building
00:41:14
and mr. Romero field never showed up I
00:41:16
mean this man just disappeared what we
00:41:18
need in this case is a independent
00:41:20
witness to come forward if that person
00:41:22
has heard any person boasting about
00:41:25
being involved in this crime if that
00:41:26
person happened to be in in this look at
00:41:29
this location or near this location on
00:41:30
the morning of the crime and might have
00:41:32
seen suspicious activity that's the type
00:41:34
of information we need we need to know
00:41:36
who Sound Jones is I think the thing
00:41:39
that's most disturbing to me is the loss
00:41:41
of David Murphy
00:41:42
he was a very fine attorney and everyone
00:41:47
here liked and enjoyed working with him
00:41:49
so that's probably the most upsetting
00:41:51
thing it's also very upsetting that
00:41:54
there is a criminal out there who knows
00:41:58
he's out there he or she and knows that
00:42:02
they committed this crime and has not
00:42:04
been brought to justice
00:42:15
join me next time for another
00:42:17
fascinating edition unsolved mysteries
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