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next on
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unsolved mysteries when a woman is
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murdered in a deserted parking lot
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her family is convinced that she was
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killed by her business partner
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butch cassidy and the sundance kid
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legend says they were gunned down in
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bolivia
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but some believe that butch escaped
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two restaurant owners compete for the
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same customers
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one of them winds up dead
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and a young boy is tortured and
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tormented
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by demonic spirits can an exorcism see
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five compelling cases some just waiting
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to be solved
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and maybe you hold the key i'm dennis
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farina
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and this is unsolved mysteries
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webster texas this much is known
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joan jeffries died alone and scared
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in a suburban parking lot
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the killer shot her twice in the head at
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close range
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then he fired two more times
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both bullets pierced her heart
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no one has ever been charged with the
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murder of joan jeffries
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but her family is sure they know exactly
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who killed her
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a former business partner named sam
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patel
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i did not kill joan i had no reason to
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kill joan
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i had no reason whatsoever hi sam
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hey joan joan was a clerk at an
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aerospace firm in houston
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sam patel also worked there as a
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software engineer
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but he had much bigger plans
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i'm talking about a new business i'm
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getting involved in the company would be
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called
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best aviation a commuter airline
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for gamblers i've got a few investors
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but i think i'll need you for public
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relations
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when sam initially offered this position
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to my mother
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she was of course flattered
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and excited because the money was very
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good
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this file i have set up for all patel
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hired joan to help
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start the company she was also on its
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board of directors
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come to it anytime you can find whatever
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though patel was married
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he and joan often met at the home of his
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girlfriend
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sam had arranged marriage um
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he had told me that he could not get a
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divorce and so
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we lived as boyfriend and girlfriend
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thank you you guys mean anything
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patel told joan that overseas investors
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would be funding
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best aviation within a few months
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meanwhile he wanted to get life
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insurance for the company's key
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employees joan herself was insured for a
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quarter
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of a million dollars the initial idea
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was presented from the investor group
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because they wanted assurances that if
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something happened to one of the
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key people in the organization that the
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company could function and that they
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would recover their investment
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basically she's a secretary and
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i can't see that as a key point person
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it just didn't
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nothing sounded right about that vettel
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agreed to pay joan a monthly salary
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but in the next seven months she
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received only one check
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and that one bounced sam i want out
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why john because there's no money sam
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kelly claims that her mother wanted to
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quit but patel convinced her to stay
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just be honest with you joan never
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approached me and said that she wanted
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to leave the business
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there was a time when she said hey look
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this isn't working out and i don't like
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it she did come up and say that
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and the compromise we'd come up with was
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fine you can continue
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to be part-time until you feel
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comfortable and we'll go out and get
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somebody else
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to work part-time also okay all right
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please all right but by then jones back
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wages totaled close to
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four thousand dollars two weeks later
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patel showed up at her apartment late at
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night
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you'll never believe what he just did he
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brought the check
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you have it well no i don't have it he
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had to take it out and get it copied but
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she said that he had to go get this
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certified check xeroxed
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which was odd to her and me
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sam hi look joe and i i drive but i just
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couldn't find a xerox machine and i
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don't have a car so i need to use your
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phone please
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patel told joan that if he couldn't get
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a ride that
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she should take him home so i can get a
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ride home uh kelly i've got to go
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when she told me that he mentioned
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getting into her car
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that i think was the firmest i have ever
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been with my mother
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saying over and over absolutely not
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do not ever let him
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in your car hold on kelly according to
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kelly
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patel showed up a third time
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oh kelly it's sam look sam it's getting
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late go away
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i'll see you at work patel says kelly is
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wrong
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i never met joan like that in the manner
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that kelly had described to the police
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never ever i
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truly believe it was a trial run and i
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think
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because i was on the phone and my mother
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continued to say
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kelly it's sam i stopped it that night
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two weeks later after a business dinner
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with sam patel
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joan jeffries was murdered
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joan told kelly that she planned to meet
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patel and his wife penny for dinner
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joan expected to get a check for her
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back wages
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she also planned to hand over the
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company's files and
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sever her ties with best aviation
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so how are you doing fine where's penny
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i thought penny was supposed to be here
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sorry she didn't show up because she had
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to work late but i'm here
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patel insists that joan was not
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planning to quit how about you um a diet
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coke i asked joan to meet with me i can
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give you the check you can give me files
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we can arrange for our meeting with the
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investor group for you to be there
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and uh that was the purpose of the
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meeting and
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guess what i have for you i've got you
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your chat
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is it good it will be in a few days
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let's see the money's being transferred
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patel and joan left the restaurant
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together
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at about 10 p.m but joan
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never made it home
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hey charlie now best i can tell a couple
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of shots of the head
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another couple to the chest by 9 a.m
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detectives were at the crime scene
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trying to piece together what happened
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but then i saw this can you see that
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over there necklace jones purse and keys
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were missing
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but she was still wearing her gold and
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diamond necklace
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robbery did not seem to be the motive
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because of the multiple gunshot wounds
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to the body it would indicate that the
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offender is known to the victim or
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had a grudge or something of that nature
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could you account for your whereabouts
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right after leaving the restaurant what
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happened what were your actions
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yeah we walked out in the parking lot i
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spoke to her for 15-20 minutes in the
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parking lot i walked to a car
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she went home and i went to my
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girlfriend's house now at any time were
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you in her car
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no sir i was never in a car are you sure
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about that yes sir i'm positive i've
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never been in a car and i was not in the
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car last night
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the first interview that we had with sam
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patel he told us that he had
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not been in joan jeffrey's car later
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in a second interview he changed his
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story and said that he had in fact been
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in jones car and that
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we would find evidence of such in in her
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car
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can you account for your movements after
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leaving the restaurant
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yes i when i went to my girlfriend's
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house and rode the bicycle for a few
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minutes
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you rode the bicycle uh yeah ron called
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the sack for a few minutes
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i guess your girlfriend will back you up
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on that she sure can what's her name to
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open the door
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and sam was there with a shirt wrapped
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around
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his neck and i said you know what are
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you doing without your shirt on
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you're you know it's cold out there
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you're going to catch a cold
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and he said i've been riding my bicycle
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i was hot you know i hadn't i hadn't
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ridden a bike i've done any exercise in
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months and months
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and you know i was going into the house
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i took my shirt off and i had it over me
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and i was walking into the house and
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that shirt has never been
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found i think it's a very crucial piece
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of evidence because he would have had to
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reach
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across joan to take the keys out
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and that shirt would have had a smear of
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blood all up the arm
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there's no blood stains on it i have it
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in my closet
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and if whoever wants it if the webster
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police department would send me a real
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nice note saying please could we have
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the shirt
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i would be glad to hand over the shirt
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to them
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investigators say that patel has never
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been willing to give them
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that shirt for jones family patel's
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refusal
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is just one more sign that he pulled
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the trigger i think sam is responsible
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for the murder
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of my mother because he had a
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life insurance policy out on her life
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for 250 000
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she was ending her business relationship
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with him
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that night so he needed to do it that
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night
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while she was still an employee
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patel insists that this accusation is
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completely groundless
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the very next day after her death so the
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board of directors
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all got together and we decided that we
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would take
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the entire proceeds from the insurance
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and
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a either give it to the family be
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donated to some local charity that would
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leave a lasting memorial for june or a
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combination of both
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the case of the killing of joan jeffries
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is still
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open if you have any information
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about her murder please log on to our
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website
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at unsolved.com
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next butch cassidy and the sundance kid
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did they really die in a shootout in
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south america
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robert leroy parker and harry alonso
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longbow in the late 1800s these two men
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became the legendary outlaws known as
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butch cassidy and the sundance kid
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paul newman and robert redford starred
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in the celebrated
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film about their final days
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the movie like history tells us that
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butch and sundance
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died in the shootout in south america
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but some believe that hollywood and
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history
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may be wrong there is some evidence that
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butch cassidy returned to the united
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states
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and died of natural causes
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let's do this run we're gonna run over
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to the feed
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two years after butch and sundance were
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supposedly killed
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a man named william thaddeus phillips
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arrived in spokane he opened a
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successful machine shop
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and became a very prominent businessman
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gentlemen looking good looking good but
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oddly
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phillips was a man without a past
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the first definitive record of william
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phillips
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was his marriage certificate dated may
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14
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1988 there is no other previous record
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of william phillips
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in the 1920s about 1922
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the first reports began circulating in
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the west that butch cassidy had returned
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people began to say that butch cassidy
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was william phillips
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some see a resemblance between william
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thaddeus phillips
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and george butch cassidy but if phillips
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was
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cassidy then how did the outlaw escape
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from bolivia
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according to some historians the account
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of how butch and sundance died
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can be credited to one man percy
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seiber
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siebert had worked with the outlaws at a
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tin mine in bolivia
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and became very friendly with them percy
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was the one who identified the two men
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killed in the shootout
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as butch and sundance but siebert
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may have deliberately lied
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i believe that percy told the story of
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butch cassidy and the sundance kid's
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death in bolivia
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to pay back what he felt was a debt of
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loyalty and friendship
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to allow these outlaws to begin a life
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under amnesty
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without a past larry poynter is
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convinced that butch cassidy took on the
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identity
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of william phillips as phillips he
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returned to the wyoming mountains where
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butch and his outlaw gang
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had once roamed we know of a man who
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went with phillips to wyoming in 1933.
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this man died recently but we have
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interviewed him
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he was there all summer with phillips
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and he
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met all the old-timers that phillips met
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and in
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almost every case these old-timers uh
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accepted phillips's cassidy
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but old-timer stories are always the
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most interesting
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and the least reliable author
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dan buck has researched the life and
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death of butch cassidy
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and is convinced that william phillips
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was
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an imposter the william phillips story
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is
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chock full of old-timer tales people had
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claimed they were good friends with
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cassidy and new phillips was cassidy
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and usually it's when asked by someone
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when prompted by someone
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well you were a good friend of butch
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cassidy's weren't you and of course the
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answer is yes
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who wants to say no in wyoming
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phillips met a woman named mary boyd
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rhodes
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in 1934 mary and her sixteen-year-old
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granddaughter
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ione wrote out to phillips campsite
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the man that my grandmother met that day
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was going by the name of william
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phillips and she knew him by the name of
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leroy george parker who is
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known as butch cassidy
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he recognized curry immediately and she
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recognized him
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george parker i sensed that they had a
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relationship that i had
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never known much about so my grandmother
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had finally told me that he was her
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childhood sweetheart three years later
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phillips mailed this ring to mary it was
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engraved
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george c to mary b
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william phillips died soon afterwards
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i believe william phillips pretended to
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be butch cassidy because he was having
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fun
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he traveled out to the west he met some
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people
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he probably got some free beers uh he
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certainly got a lot of adventures out of
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it
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but several other clues do suggest that
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butch and phillips
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were one and the same phillips wrote a
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manuscript
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called the bandit invincible the story
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of butch cassidy
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it specific details about
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butch's adventures there's material in
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that
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manuscript that no one else knew that
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had never been published
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that either the man who wrote it had to
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have
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intimate knowledge of cassidy or uh he
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was cassidy
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phillips owned this six-shot coat
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revolver
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carved into the pistol grip is a unique
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brand
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that brand was the reverse e box e
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that was butch cassidy's brand in the
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1890s
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the passing of a century has turned
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these two outlaws
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into legends if not heroes
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and we don't like our heroes to die
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there seems to be at least some evidence
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that butch cassidy may have survived the
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shootout
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but it was almost certainly the end of
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the road for the sundance kid
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next a feud between two restaurant
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owners
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ends in murder
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tk hardy's saloon was a popular bar and
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restaurant that attracted the university
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crowd in athens georgia
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the saloon's owner was tk hardy he
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rented space in a large complex
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of restaurants and shops t.k hardy was
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an obnoxious yankee when you first met
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him he came on really strong
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and when he came to town it took me a
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little while to get used to him
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so that i would even want to have him as
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a tenant how are you doing
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pretty good when you got to know tk he
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was just a real teddy bear
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just a really nice guy he was
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enthusiastic
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about the complex and doing it right
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hardy's rival was a man named john
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mooney
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who also leased space in the same
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complex
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his restaurant was called somebody's
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pizza
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mooney and tk hardy never really got
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along
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because both men were trying to attract
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the same customers john mooney came to
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town
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he was the preppy out of college
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cool guy and that uh lasted until he got
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the lease sign and got the place
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then john kind of got greedy hey come
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see us next door nickel beer
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somebody's pizza come to somebody's
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pizza right next door
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good deal on beer john started wanting
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to infringe on everybody else's business
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his idea was to go up to tk's pass out
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flyers on the deck for nickel beer
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and draw tk's crowd down his place
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what do you think you're doing here hey
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what does it look like that just
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went all over tk i mean he couldn't
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stand that that was the last straw
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i'll tell you what this is this is
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private property
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i want you out of here right now right
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john mooney and t.k hardy
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despised each other they really had
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gotten to the point that there was no
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reconciliation between the two people
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after three years of feuding t.k hardy
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finally got the upper hand
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he was able to lease the entire complex
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and evict john mooney from his
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restaurant
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after that their feud escalated into a
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full-scale
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war
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this is your eviction notice eviction
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notice this is your eviction notice
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you're out of here
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ten days later tk arrived home in the
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early morning hours
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after closing up his saloon for the
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night
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someone was hiding in the shadows of his
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kitchen
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watching him when t.k went into a study
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the man followed
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then he shot tk once in the head tk
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died instantly
00:21:10
four hours after tk's body was found
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police picked up mooney
00:21:14
for questioning john dude you know why
00:21:16
you're here tonight
00:21:18
well i i guess it's about the shooting
00:21:21
of t.k hardy
00:21:23
yeah how did you know about the shooting
00:21:26
i told him that we had not released that
00:21:29
information
00:21:30
and that nobody knew that except the
00:21:32
police department
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and the people that were investigating
00:21:34
this murder that he had been killed
00:21:37
or how he had been killed at that time
00:21:40
he did become nervous
00:21:42
he said i think i need to talk to my
00:21:44
lawyer alrighty thanks
00:21:47
bye hold on just a second sit down
00:21:51
when he hung up the phone he said my
00:21:53
lawyer said for me to get up and walk
00:21:55
out if i wasn't under arrest
00:21:57
i'm going to allow you to leave i want
00:21:59
to tell you something before you go
00:22:01
though at the time police did not have
00:22:03
enough evidence to arrest mooney
00:22:08
after three weeks they were still at a
00:22:11
dead
00:22:12
end and then
00:22:15
the police got a lucky break another
00:22:18
restaurant manager called
00:22:20
with a bizarre story he said he was
00:22:22
cleaning up behind the bar one night
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when an atlanta electrician named elmo
00:22:28
florence offered him his services as a
00:22:31
hitman
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you're a what i'm a head man you don't
00:22:36
need to call new jersey if you want
00:22:37
somebody good
00:22:38
give me a call elmo was bragging to me
00:22:42
about the fact that he was a hitman and
00:22:44
that his services were for hire
00:22:46
at first i thought he was kidding me
00:22:48
that he had murdered tk hardy
00:22:50
[Applause]
00:22:51
and then we started to go on and you
00:22:54
know
00:22:54
i said all right how'd you get in the
00:22:56
house piece of cake
00:22:58
busted out the glass
00:23:02
elmo fox began to describe the inside of
00:23:05
the house
00:23:06
where the murder took place he began to
00:23:09
tell the point of
00:23:10
entry what type of weapon was used to
00:23:12
kill
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ted hardy he told where the bullet
00:23:15
entered the head and where it exited
00:23:18
basically in the statement that we
00:23:20
received from the manager
00:23:22
of the restaurant there were 21
00:23:23
different points
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that we had not released to the public
00:23:30
we knew at that time that we had a very
00:23:33
hot suspect here
00:23:35
mr florence yeah telmo florence that's
00:23:38
right
00:23:38
you're under arrest florence had told
00:23:41
the restaurant manager that john mooney
00:23:43
hired florence
00:23:44
to kill tk but when the police went to
00:23:48
rest money
00:23:49
they couldn't find him because he left
00:23:52
the country
00:23:55
a few weeks later police were tipped off
00:23:57
that mooney had returned to the states
00:23:59
and was staying at a friend's apartment
00:24:02
they went there
00:24:03
and approached two men who were drinking
00:24:06
in the parking lot
00:24:07
when i saw the two individuals drinking
00:24:09
beer this gave me a perfect out
00:24:12
i figured to approach them from this
00:24:14
angle
00:24:15
tell you all these cans here kind of
00:24:17
upsets me always literally officer moss
00:24:19
recognized one of the men as john mooney
00:24:22
i'll tell you what to put your hands on
00:24:25
the car
00:24:27
mooney was arrested and charged with
00:24:29
murder among his belongings police
00:24:32
found several incriminating notes that
00:24:34
he chatted
00:24:35
to himself see elmo
00:24:39
offer to him if worst comes to worst to
00:24:41
take the whole rap and say
00:24:42
robbery was the motive we have agreement
00:24:44
for me to take care of his wife and
00:24:46
family
00:24:48
elmo florence's trial lasted only one
00:24:51
week
00:24:51
he was sentenced to life at a maximum
00:24:54
security prison
00:24:55
in georgia john mooney was also
00:24:58
sentenced to life
00:25:00
but he ended up in a minimum security
00:25:02
facility
00:25:04
after six months prison officials gave
00:25:07
mooney the job of
00:25:08
kitchen clerk now he had access to areas
00:25:12
that most prisoners
00:25:13
did not how's the count today pretty
00:25:15
good 245 245.
00:25:16
john moody was what you call an ideal
00:25:18
inmate he didn't complain about the
00:25:20
rules and regulations he just
00:25:22
worked hard and he gained the confidence
00:25:25
of the staff
00:25:26
and myself now we see he was a gun
00:25:29
artist
00:25:30
and he was gun and assault after serving
00:25:33
only 19 months of his life sentence
00:25:36
john mooney engineered his escape when
00:25:39
the prisoners went back inside and the
00:25:41
guard
00:25:42
locked the gate and walked away mooney
00:25:44
made his break
00:25:50
a getaway car was waiting as mooney ran
00:25:53
to it he threw off his uniform
00:25:56
piece by piece
00:26:00
two hours later prison officials
00:26:02
realized that mooney was missing
00:26:04
but by then it was too late mooney had
00:26:06
made his escape
00:26:08
without the actions of mooney and
00:26:10
actually hiring somebody to take another
00:26:12
person's life
00:26:13
t.k hardy would be here today unless
00:26:16
john henry mooney is captured
00:26:18
he got away with murder
00:26:21
update within just minutes of our
00:26:25
broadcast
00:26:26
two viewers reported that john mooney
00:26:29
was living
00:26:30
in this house in scottsdale arizona
00:26:32
under the name
00:26:33
robert j kelly
00:26:37
he was immediately arrested moni had
00:26:40
been enrolled at
00:26:40
arizona state university and was working
00:26:43
as an accountant
00:26:45
he was married and had a one-year-old
00:26:47
son
00:26:49
john mooney was returned to prison in
00:26:51
georgia
00:26:52
he served his time and has been released
00:26:58
next a young boy says that his house is
00:27:02
haunted
00:27:02
even after an exorcism the ghosts
00:27:16
manchester connecticut
00:27:20
the jones family says the haunting
00:27:22
started without
00:27:23
any warning
00:27:28
i ran upstairs michael i thought maybe
00:27:31
he had cut himself i really didn't know
00:27:36
michael and there was michael just
00:27:39
curled up
00:27:40
like it was a fetus i mean he was just
00:27:43
frightened and shaking
00:27:44
and crying hysterically something i've
00:27:46
never seen him do
00:27:48
michael jones told his mother denise
00:27:50
that he had seen a man
00:27:52
in his room but it was not
00:27:55
an ordinary man he was standing in front
00:27:58
of me
00:27:58
and he reached out to me and he was
00:28:00
smiling and then he just disappeared
00:28:04
he touched my shoulder he was white like
00:28:07
the korean color white
00:28:08
he said he was a ghost i thought maybe
00:28:11
something was wrong with michael
00:28:13
i can't say i didn't believe in ghosts i
00:28:15
just never
00:28:16
experienced something so i never
00:28:20
thought it would happen to us
00:28:23
soon after michael saw the ghost in his
00:28:25
room he was with his family visiting
00:28:28
his grandmother i was in the kitchen
00:28:31
talking with my parents when michael
00:28:33
started screaming again
00:28:36
he says that's the man that's the man i
00:28:38
said michael what is the man
00:28:40
he says that man up on the wall in the
00:28:43
picture that's the man i see
00:28:45
i saw the picture and i got scared
00:28:49
because that was the man
00:28:51
that i saw the man in the picture
00:28:54
michael was pointing to was my
00:28:55
grandfather
00:28:56
who had passed away when i was 10 years
00:28:58
old michael had never met him
00:29:00
it was the first time that michael had
00:29:03
ever seen a picture of his great
00:29:05
grandfather i felt safer that it wasn't
00:29:09
like a bad person that was going to hurt
00:29:10
me my mom said not to be afraid of him
00:29:13
because he was a good man and she said
00:29:15
not to be afraid of ghosts
00:29:17
because they can't harm me denise had no
00:29:20
idea what to do
00:29:22
her son kept saying that he was being
00:29:24
visited
00:29:25
by her grandfather's ghost and to make
00:29:28
matters worse
00:29:29
michael now said that evil spirits
00:29:32
were also invading their home
00:29:35
and i asked him what these things wanted
00:29:38
from him and i told him to talk to
00:29:40
grandpa
00:29:41
grandpa will protect him grandpa said
00:29:43
that some of the bad people want me on
00:29:45
their side
00:29:46
when i talked to my grandpa he just said
00:29:48
that there's a
00:29:49
there's a lot of ghosts in our house
00:29:51
that are after me
00:29:53
and there's a lot of bad ones and good
00:29:54
ones and they're all fighting with each
00:29:56
other
00:29:58
denise says that she took michael for
00:30:00
dozens of medical tests
00:30:02
hoping to get some answers they all
00:30:06
say it's not medical they realize it's
00:30:08
very bizarre
00:30:09
that michael is a ghost boy he sees
00:30:12
ghosts
00:30:13
and there's nothing medically they can
00:30:16
do
00:30:17
feeling desperate denise asked a
00:30:20
paranormal specialist
00:30:21
to examine both michael and her home
00:30:25
it's very important to be able to go in
00:30:26
and determine that it is something
00:30:28
supernatural that is occurring in the
00:30:30
home
00:30:31
john saphis has been a paranormal
00:30:33
investigator for 26 years
00:30:36
and he has studied dozens of similar
00:30:38
cases
00:30:39
he spent many many hours with michael
00:30:42
researching michael's sightings first
00:30:45
hand
00:30:46
we usually have to go through all types
00:30:49
of different evaluations psychological
00:30:52
physical i really would like it
00:30:54
documented and known
00:30:56
that there isn't anything physically or
00:30:57
mentally wrong with these people
00:30:59
that are going through this michael's
00:31:02
psychological profile also
00:31:04
showed nothing unusual but his drawings
00:31:07
of a ghost he calls the black shadow man
00:31:11
told another story every day
00:31:14
i see him it's not really the same
00:31:17
shadow man
00:31:18
it's just like a bunch of different ones
00:31:20
i don't know why
00:31:21
i see ghost alice is happening to me
00:31:25
zaphos learned that when michael was
00:31:26
born his heart stopped
00:31:29
26 times my explanation is that he had
00:31:33
near-death experiences
00:31:34
i believe since birth he's had that
00:31:37
ability
00:31:38
where that door has been open for the
00:31:40
spirit to be able to communicate
00:31:42
back and forth with him and i think
00:31:45
it is at the point where it is trying
00:31:48
very very hard to be able to totally
00:31:51
take michael over
00:31:53
denise was concerned that the bad
00:31:55
spirits might be winning
00:31:58
one time me and my husband were
00:32:00
downstairs when all of a sudden
00:32:02
we were listening to banging upstairs we
00:32:05
heard him scream
00:32:06
and we heard a thumping so we ran
00:32:09
upstairs
00:32:11
and michael was on his bed like a little
00:32:13
boy scared his bed was shaking
00:32:15
up and down bed started shaking a lot
00:32:18
and it lifted up
00:32:19
like three inches and i just yelled
00:32:22
my mom
00:32:27
and then dropped and stopped shaking we
00:32:30
all ran out of the house
00:32:32
because we needed to get a break from
00:32:34
the house because it's very scary in
00:32:36
there
00:32:37
michael now said that the evil spirits
00:32:40
were physically
00:32:41
tormenting him everything started
00:32:44
getting worse
00:32:45
and then started hitting me and
00:32:46
scratching me poking me and it hurt
00:32:50
usually when there's a physical
00:32:51
manifestation scratches
00:32:53
bite marks this is definitely a sign
00:32:56
that something
00:32:57
is either attached to that individual or
00:32:59
it has some way
00:33:01
gained access and at that point
00:33:04
is where it could be very very
00:33:06
vulnerable where that person could go
00:33:07
completely under possession to protect
00:33:11
her son from the intruders
00:33:13
denise sold their home and moved a
00:33:15
family across
00:33:16
town but the new house
00:33:20
was no better i was on the phone with my
00:33:23
mother
00:33:23
michael was sitting right next to me
00:33:25
watching tv
00:33:27
when all of a sudden he started
00:33:28
screaming ah
00:33:30
what we just looked at my brother and he
00:33:32
just felt like a
00:33:33
scrape going all the way up his arm and
00:33:36
like it was drawing bl
00:33:37
blood michael i felt a sharp pain like a
00:33:41
knife
00:33:42
but it hurt really bad after this
00:33:46
incident we needed someone who dealt
00:33:48
with this and
00:33:49
i was able to find the bishop who agreed
00:33:52
to give the exorcism
00:33:54
denise felt that an exorcism was the
00:33:57
only way
00:33:58
to save michael they started performing
00:34:02
exorcism
00:34:03
in latin okra
00:34:06
i could tell there was something wrong
00:34:08
with michael he kept looking to
00:34:10
one side of the church
00:34:15
and i saw the shadow man in the
00:34:18
front left corner of the room of the
00:34:20
church i could see his whole body and
00:34:22
his feet
00:34:23
and he was just standing and he was all
00:34:25
black
00:34:26
and my stomach started burning and i
00:34:29
told the priest
00:34:30
and he gave me holy water i said drink
00:34:32
this
00:34:36
i was praying to god that it was going
00:34:38
to work and help
00:34:39
and that michael b might be granted some
00:34:41
relief
00:34:42
although we were told it might not be
00:34:44
the end-all it might have to be repeated
00:34:46
there may need to be a house exorcism
00:34:48
and
00:34:50
they were right because about three
00:34:51
weeks later it all began again
00:34:54
over the next few years michael
00:34:57
underwent
00:34:57
four exorcisms and his family moved
00:35:00
eight times but the improvement was
00:35:04
always temporary we just live
00:35:07
one day at a time it hurts when i see my
00:35:10
son
00:35:11
going through this i don't know what to
00:35:14
do
00:35:16
i see a brighter future from michael and
00:35:18
the family
00:35:19
absolutely there's many of families that
00:35:21
go through this
00:35:22
and it's very difficult and it's like
00:35:24
the old saying goes it's always the
00:35:26
darkest before the dawn
00:35:28
pretty much everything's been hard for
00:35:30
me
00:35:31
so everything that's happened has been
00:35:33
hard
00:35:35
now i'm getting used to it
00:35:40
next a hired farmhand turns out to be
00:35:44
a killer
00:35:52
it's the same height same build he's a
00:35:54
big guy he's a hot tempered guy
00:35:56
this is the guy man i'm telling you this
00:35:58
is the guy this call to our phone center
00:36:00
led to the arrest of an accused killer
00:36:03
he'd been on the run for more than a
00:36:05
year
00:36:05
hiding behind half a dozen aliases
00:36:09
you may remember him as david freeman
00:36:14
freeman was hired as a handyman by a
00:36:16
pennsylvania farmer named
00:36:18
tim goode freeman considered himself
00:36:22
something of a preacher and he used his
00:36:24
sermons to slowly gain
00:36:26
control over tim good
00:36:29
say tim i was wondering yeah man
00:36:32
i'm gonna be leading a bible study up at
00:36:33
the house later this evening i thought
00:36:35
you might like to come up and check it
00:36:36
out
00:36:37
by what time tim became a believer
00:36:40
when he sold his farm for a million
00:36:42
dollar profit and moved to west virginia
00:36:46
freeman followed hey tim how about when
00:36:49
you're done with that clearance some
00:36:50
more that land over by the fence
00:36:52
within a few years the role reversal
00:36:55
was complete why don't you get some of
00:36:57
that wood over there for kindling
00:36:58
freeman gave the orders
00:37:00
tim obeyed them let it clear as much as
00:37:02
you can
00:37:03
you know the lord says the man that
00:37:05
doesn't work doesn't eat
00:37:07
please bless this food tim became a
00:37:09
prisoner in his
00:37:10
own home he lived in a basement cell
00:37:14
while freeman and his family lived
00:37:16
comfortably upstairs
00:37:18
he indicated what chores timothy good
00:37:20
was to perform that day
00:37:22
he even indicated what timothy good was
00:37:23
to eat that day if he was allowed to eat
00:37:25
that day
00:37:27
every aspect of timothy good's life was
00:37:30
controlled by dave friedman
00:37:32
i'm studying man like you told me to do
00:37:34
is that what i told you to do is there
00:37:36
anything else i told you
00:37:36
jinxing police believe that freeman
00:37:39
eventually strangled him
00:37:41
and left his body in the basement
00:37:48
yesterday
00:37:50
investigators discovered the badly
00:37:52
decomposed body
00:37:54
months later
00:37:56
[Music]
00:37:58
by then tim's million dollar bank
00:38:00
account had been reduced to two dollars
00:38:03
and
00:38:04
freeman was long gone
00:38:08
update i'll take you right to the guy
00:38:12
the guy
00:38:12
ripped me off in the first place he got
00:38:14
me for like over a thousand more than
00:38:15
what he told me was going to get and
00:38:16
then he got all upset because i got
00:38:18
upset because the viewer who called said
00:38:20
that he knew freeman as
00:38:21
george jokes an auto mechanic when i
00:38:24
realized that it was a valid tip
00:38:26
i was pretty excited i've been chasing
00:38:28
this subject for a year and a half and
00:38:30
once i finally knew that i
00:38:31
he was within grasp it was almost too
00:38:34
good to be true
00:38:36
within hours police staked out joke's
00:38:39
apartment
00:38:41
when he came out of the house we could
00:38:43
tell that this was a suspect he matched
00:38:45
the description
00:38:48
four children were in the apartment so
00:38:50
police waited for jelks to leave
00:38:52
and then they made their move
00:38:56
after he was arrested police discovered
00:38:59
that joke's real name
00:39:01
was william david cooper he pleaded
00:39:04
guilty to
00:39:05
voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced
00:39:07
to 10 years
00:39:09
in prison
00:39:14
we recently told you about a vicious
00:39:16
armed robber who left his victim
00:39:19
severely disabled but thanks to a
00:39:21
viewer's tip
00:39:23
this robber is now in custody
00:39:28
richmond virginia
00:39:32
shortly after midnight at a mcdonald's
00:39:34
restaurant
00:39:35
assistant manager mark clavoon and
00:39:38
truck driver perry duncan were unloading
00:39:41
supplies
00:39:42
mark had recently moved to the area with
00:39:45
his wife
00:39:46
and three children all right you guys
00:39:48
got uh
00:39:49
two more after this
00:39:53
four other employees were in the
00:39:55
basement store
00:39:57
[Music]
00:39:59
hey now we're going to go inside
00:40:03
and open up the safe don't
00:40:06
shoot hey since more napkins down you're
00:40:09
lighter
00:40:14
hey parker you're right
00:40:20
no no
00:40:26
mark clavoon was shot once in the
00:40:28
forehead at
00:40:29
point-blank range he didn't die
00:40:33
but he will never be the same
00:40:37
he suffered some severe brain damage and
00:40:39
paralysis on the left side
00:40:41
he has regained use partial use of his
00:40:44
left leg
00:40:45
but he has no use of his left arm at all
00:40:47
and
00:40:48
no matter what happens as far as
00:40:49
apprehending these two individuals
00:40:52
it cannot outweigh the suffering that
00:40:53
this family is going to go through for
00:40:55
the rest of their lives
00:40:58
police learned that the gunman had fled
00:41:00
on foot and that later they tried to
00:41:02
steal a car from a woman
00:41:04
in a nearby residential area
00:41:05
[Music]
00:41:07
she had just arrived home and they
00:41:09
attempted to accost her and take her
00:41:11
keys away from her
00:41:13
they were identified by her as wearing
00:41:15
the same type of clothing
00:41:16
as the situation at the restaurant she
00:41:19
was able to get away from them
00:41:21
and run into the house the next morning
00:41:24
police made a surprising discovery
00:41:26
only a few yards from the woman's house
00:41:30
the robbers had left behind their ski
00:41:32
masks and gloves
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as well as a 357 revolver
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the weapon was traced to a convicted
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murderer named michael
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anthony starr who had been paroled from
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a virginia prison
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only the year before
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update thanks to a viewer tip
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police arrested michael anthony starr
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he was convicted of attempted robbery
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and two weapons violations
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he was sentenced to 45 years
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in prison he served his time and has
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been released
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