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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries an accused rapist jumps bail
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and heads right for the ski slopes of
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Switzerland this Civil War military
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building is now home to the ghosts of
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Union Soldiers or so The Story Goes
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Oliver mson never imagin that buying a
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car would make him a key witness in a
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trial and also lead to his
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disappearance and
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248 American Airborne Troopers die in a
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plane crash authorities say there was
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ice on the wings but others say there
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was something deadly in the
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cargo five compelling cases some just
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waiting to be solved and maybe you hold
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the key I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Baltimore
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Maryland yeah let me show you the Moor
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okay Oliver mson had just bought a used
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but classic doson 240Z so you like yeah
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yeah um you have the title and
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registration yeah you got my money
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yep he had no idea that the seller
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Dennis Watson was the leader of a
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sophisticated car theft rank Oliver's
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new car had been stolen just 3 months
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earlier a man out a proud owner of a
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z enjoy it here all right all
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right Watson owned the garage but it was
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actually a cover for his chop shop a
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place where stolen cars were dismantled
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and sold for parts or simply resold with
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fake
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papers authorities had been quietly
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investigating Watson for weeks then they
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finally decided to put him out of
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business
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right what the hell is this man you
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can't police discovered illegal titles
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partially dismantled autos and stolen
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vehicle ID tags everything they needed
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to make a case against Dennis Watson
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five Maryland plates
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one of the names that appeared in the
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confiscated records was Oliver mson we
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continue to check paperwork we find that
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Oliver mson has a zc car not knowing at
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that time whether or not Oliver mson had
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bought this car or if he was involved
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with Dennis Watson and as a result we
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took the car as evidence until such time
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as we could continue an investigation to
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determine what exactly was his knowledge
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of the
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car detect a Goodman
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had a conversation with Oliver muns you
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guys took my car wouldn't I have tickets
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or something no sir the car was stolen
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it's a stolen vehicle oh no no I paid
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for the car how much did you pay for the
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cars $1,200 and some trades and who did
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you buy the car
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from Dennis Watson Dennis Watson do you
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know this Dennis Watson or have you ever
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dealt with him before no I never met him
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before my feeling was at that time and
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still is that he had bought the car he
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thinking that the car was in fact a
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legitimate car so I have to go to court
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yes sir you will have to go to court and
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Testify the fact of how you got the car
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detective Goodwin said that Oliver was
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nervous about testifying but agreed
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knowing that he really had no choice
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okay a year passed before the trial
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began 3 days before Oliver was to appear
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in court he left for work as
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usual he was never never seen
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again Oliver would rarely miss school
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and on that particular Monday when he
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didn't arrive some of the staff and the
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kids started to worry that this is not a
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usual practice for Oliver and maybe
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something was you know occurring
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something was wrong with
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him Oliver's brother James was also
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worried Oliver you in here he went to
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Oliver's house to look for
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him Oliver it's me James I just thought
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maybe that he was sick and I didn't know
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if he was unconscious or whatever in the
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house I didn't
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know three days later Oliver's car was
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found just a few blocks from his home
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one tire was flat School papers in a
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sack lunch were on the front seat but
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there was no evidence to suggest what
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had happened to
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Oliver at that time I felt that there
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was something
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wrong then the decision was made here
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that we were looking at a kidnapping or
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a
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homicide Dennis Watson became a prime
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suspect and that led to another
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Discovery two witnesses scheduled to
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testify against Watson in previous
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trials had died under mysterious
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circumstances could it be that mson had
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been the next in
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line 10 years earlier a man named
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Clinton Glenn had burned to death in a
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car registered to Watson Glenn was
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scheduled to testify against Watson in
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an armed robbery trial the very next day
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based on the testimony of another
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witness Watson was indicted for Glenn's
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murder however this new witness suddenly
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died of a suspicious drug overdose and
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the murder charges were
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dropped and now Oliver was missing but
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with no evidence to implicate Watson the
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investigation stalled officer you then
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police heard from a man named Hilton
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Solomon Hilton's car was stolen just
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hours before Oliver
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disappeared inside the car Hilton found
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the hat that would later be identified
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as similar to one owned by Oliver
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mson Hilton Solomon took his car home
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after it was released by Baltimore city
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and he decided to clean the car while he
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was cleaning he found several receipts
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from a video
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store on these receipts was the name
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Oliver
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mson we went down and looked at the car
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looked underneath of the seat I found a
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spent cartridge
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case red smudges were also found on one
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of the receipts and tests revealed that
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the stains were human blood type O
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positive authorities believe that Oliver
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was murdered but with no record showing
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his blood type and no other hard
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evidence the official investigation
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reached a dead
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end as it turns out Oliver's
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disappearance had no apparent effect on
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the outcome of Watson's car theft
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trial Watson pled guilty and was
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sentenced to 10 years in prison he was
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paroled after serving half his
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term however Oliver mson
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has never been
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found if you have any information about
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his disappearance please log on to our
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website at
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unsolved.com
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next a tragic plan crash kills
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248 Soldiers the government says that
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the cause was ice on the wings others
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believe the explanation is far more
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sinister
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on December 11th
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1985 a unit of the 101st Airborne
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Division left Cairo Egypt on a chartered
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plane much like this
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one they were going home to Fort
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Campbell Kentucky after a six-month
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peacekeeping mission in the Sinai after
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one stop in Germany they landed for
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refueling at Gander airport in in New
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Finland Canada just after takeoff the
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dc8 suddenly
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crashed the crew and all the soldiers
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were
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killed wreckage was strewn over nearly a
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quarter
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mile almost immediately a terrorist
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organization Islamic Jihad claimed
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responsibility but US Army officials
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quickly dismissed the possibility of
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terrorist
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involvement later a Canadian Board of
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inquiry stated that ice on the plane's
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wings had brought it
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down however four of the board's nine
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members publicly disagreed insisting
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that ice did not cause the
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crash there was certainly some kind of
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an explosion a small explosion that
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disabled the control system but what
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caused that explosion whether it was
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sabotage or whether it was the accident
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Al detonation of some kind of military
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equipment that was carried uh against
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regulations we really don't have a
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better idea than we had in
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1988 to the four descending board
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members the crash itself seemed highly
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irregular usually in a takeoff crash
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large sections of the plane remain
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intact and many passengers can survive
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but at Gander the wreckage was extremely
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fragmented and no one
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survived a normal kind of takeoff
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accident can be quite serious and can
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involve a fire but basically the
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aircraft isn't completely
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destroyed the US government strongly
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denied that either explosives or
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ammunition were carried as
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cargo however eyewitness reports from
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the Cairo Airport contradict the
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government's
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claim they say that several large wooden
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boxes were loaded onto the plane many
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believe that the boxes contained some
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type of classified
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weapons one of the rescue workers Harvey
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day said that he saw five wooden boxes
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at the gander crash Cent sir that's as
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far as you can go you have to go back
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what's in the boxes I decided to walk
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down to see what was in this area is
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that from the plane sir I I can't answer
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that but I stopped and looked and I saw
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what people are beginning to say didn't
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exist I saw five large wooden boxes they
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were black bit burnt from the far I saw
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things like missiles and little metal
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boxes they look like ammunition boxes
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and it was all piled up very neatly into
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this cord area military business if
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don't leave I'll have you removed by
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force from the premises just the one all
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right da says that he also saw an
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unusual pile of wreckage burning out of
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control two firefighters were trying to
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put it out with water what's going on
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hey
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keep flaring up going have to keep
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pouring water on it that
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bad the minute he took the water away he
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just flared back up again and he said
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we've got to do this he said till he
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said it burns out he said it cools down
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to to the point we can remove what's
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there within weeks Harvey and several
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other rescue workers began to complain
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of health problems the symptoms sounded
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suspiciously like radiation poisoning I
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think we had over 30 who described some
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type of malady or sickness as a result
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of the crash they ranged from liver
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problems to uh what people thought were
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heart attacks and just general illnesses
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and this this is what was checked out
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and uh it it got to be rather scary when
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the reports came in his receptionist
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called me and I went to him and I'll
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never forget
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this he said Harvey how much do you
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drink so pardon me how much you drink I
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said I don't drink I've never drinked
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why you got a livery set is equivalent
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to somebody's drinking excessively for
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20 years or more I couldn't believe what
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he
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said according to one unnamed Source the
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US government sealed its records of the
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crash for 70 years however several
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government agencies including the
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Department of Defense and the national
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Transportation safety board deny that
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any such records ever
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existed the files on the gander incident
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would not be sealed for 70 years if it
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were simply ice we know that there had
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to be
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something very very politically
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embarrassing that could have been very
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harmful to the Reagan
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Administration that had to be covered up
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as one family member put it she wants to
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know if her family member died
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protecting this country or if he died
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because our government was protecting
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itself US Government investigators did
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appear to behave strangely for one thing
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the crash site was bulldozed within 3
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months a highly unusual
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practice the United States Army says
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that it was done simply to discourage
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souvenir Hunters as a rule down
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airplanes are reassembled in order to
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stay the crash but in a highly unusual
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move authorities quickly buried the
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wreckage from the gander site in a
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dump Dr Douglas Phillips and his wife
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Zona were troubled by the official
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reports their son had died in the crash
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and they formed an organization called
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families for truth about Gander they
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requested several pieces of the
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wreckage they were surprised when the
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government actually actually sent them
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an expert hired to analyze the scraps
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claimed that the edges were bent
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outwards showing that a blast had
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occurred inside the
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plane I think the airplane exploded in
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midair and then went down and hit the
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ground with a gigantic Fireball ensuing
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upon hitting when the fuel ignited but
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there's no doubt in my mind that there
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was a fire or an explosion while the
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plane was still in Flight Dr Phillips
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turned up one final and chilling
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fact autopsies revealed that many of the
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dead soldiers had a significant amount
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of carbon monoxide in their bodies the
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toxicology report showed that the
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victims had indeed breathed in carbon
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monoxide prior to the plane hitting the
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ground and exploding this had to be from
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a
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detonation a fire or explosion on board
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the
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craft in 1990 Congress convened a
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hearing on the gander disaster the
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committee faulted the government's
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investigation but did not insist on a
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new one so the families of the soldiers
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who were killed at Gander are left to
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wonder why and how their loved ones
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really died
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next have ghosts from the Civil War made
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this Military Museum their
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home the first shots of the Civil War
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were fired in South Carolina during
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April of
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1861 over the next 4 years the battle
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raged along a,m front although most of
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the fighting took place in the South it
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eventually spread across the country all
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the way to
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Wilmington
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California in 1862 a military Outpost
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was built near the Los Angeles Harbor it
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was called the drum barracks and was a
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key Center for training and processing
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troops today All That Remains is a
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single building
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which is now a museum with some very
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unlikely tour guides I don't call them
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ghost or I don't call them hauntings
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usually uh what I do believe in is we
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call them Spirits you can lock the rooms
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at night I do I I make a check in fact
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uh very religiously I check all the
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rooms they're locked the lights are off
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the shades are down and you come here at
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8:00 in the morning and the light in the
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Parlor Jolly will might be on and then
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again it might not but the shades may be
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up Marge O'Brien was hired to restore
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the rundown building after it was
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declared an Historic
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Landmark it was very dark very sad
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feeling as you walk through and it was
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just kind of a building just kind of
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standing here saying Help
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Me Marge a team of Craftsmen and
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volunteers worked for months overhauling
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the mus
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Museum the old building slowly came back
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to life in more ways than
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one I'm sitting in my office and
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something will take my attention either
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a window will rattle uh the Roses will
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hit against the window something the
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wind possibly but something attracts me
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to the fact that I should be checking
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something I will walk over to the Parlor
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nine chances out of 10 when I have this
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feeling and I open the door more likely
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than not the lights on the table are
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on most times I will walk up the stairs
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and check the Gun Room very often that
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too has the lights on and the window
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blinds open even though they have been
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closed and down because the rule here is
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that after every tour you pull the
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shades down turn off the light and lock
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the
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door Yasmin one of the volunteers also
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began to believe believe that the
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building was indeed haunted we were up
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there in The Gun Room cleaning
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dusting I put down the blinds turned off
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the light and locked the room and
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left came downstairs and left a building
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there were nobody around 10:3 the silver
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needs polishing okay we'll do that when
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I looked up I saw the blind went up
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really slow did you just see that
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what blind went up by itself it gave me
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the impression as if someone was holding
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it you know someone was doing
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it to me a ghost was like uh Casper the
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Friendly Ghost or some movie or
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something you know I guess you know one
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don't believe it until they actually are
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really
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convinced Fred Duran an exterminator for
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the city of Los Angeles became a
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Believer during one of his regular stops
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at the
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Museum as I got into the kitchen that
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morning I heard some footsteps behind me
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and I thought it was the
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caretaker I need to get some water yeah
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and I didn't pay any attention to it
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have you seen Maria no no I haven't seen
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her as I turned around there was this
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guy there I thought it was kind of odd
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because he was in a civil war outfit so
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as I was going out you know I saw the
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the caretaker there and the work and the
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workmen also and I just asked them I
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said you know hey the guy that lives
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here takes his job seriously and they
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said you saw the captain's
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ghost if Fred said he saw it he saw it I
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have no doubts in that Fred's a very
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honest man my reaction is I wonder why
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at this point what the reason was at
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this point in time why he had to to come
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now and why
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Fred was talking Marge asked psychic
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Barbara Connor to search the museum for
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ghosts oh this is the par she says we
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seem to have some creaks and groans and
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I thought right away mentally I thought
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to myself oh it's an old house it's just
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settling often when I come in the light
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is on according to Barbara the drum
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Barracks was full of ghosts and she
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claimed to have met several of them in
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the officer's Lounge two were playing
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cards another stood by the window
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looking through the curtain but one
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Phantom seemed more aggressive than the
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rest he looked at me and he says I want
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this chair closer to the fireplace cuz
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I'm cold I said this gentleman that's
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sitting in this chair here has a foot
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that is his boot is too tight for him
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what was interesting is my research
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showed that Colonel Curtis who was the
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commander here the longest had
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frostbitten his left foot when he was
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fighting Indians up in Washington
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right around the ankle above where the
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nerve endings were was a great deal of
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pain which he suffered much of his life
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he would wear a boot that was a size
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smaller so that he could have more
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control of that foot and he dragged
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it there is no way Barbara could have
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known that when she walked into the room
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I had just started to uncover This
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research Barbara says that she continued
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to have visions upstairs which seemed to
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explain some of the strange noises Co
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there's a little boy sitting here I told
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Mar I said there's a little boy here and
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he's throwing the ball up against the
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wall she says well we've heard this
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Thump Thump Thump and we couldn't figure
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out what it is and uh I said if you want
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him to stop just tell him to stop and
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he'll
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stop now I'd like to take you into the
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storage room I don't the end of the tour
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Barbara said she saw the ghosts of
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Colonel Curtis and his officers in a
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planning session the uh colonel was
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standing there at the table and when we
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came in he left what he was doing and
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went over and started digging in this
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box and he turned to me and mentally
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projected he wants his award he wants
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the award he's trying to find an award
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and I said what award and he says I have
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an award I want my award and I want it
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on that
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wall well I had never heard of a plaque
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before and I don't remember anything
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ever hanging in that storage room but I
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discovered later that when he left
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Washington that Colonel Curtis did
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receive an award for his work with the
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Indians and possibly that could have
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been the
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pl Commander Curtis gentlemen it's time
00:24:09
to go home lights out if you want to
00:24:12
back on that's fine with
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[Music]
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me do the long dead spirits of the Civil
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War still roam the drum Barracks at the
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long abandoned military base well for
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those who have experienced those
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hauntings they believe that the museum
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is alive with
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history coming up the conviction of an
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accused rapist rests on a single piece
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of evidence a latch on the backseat of a
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[Music]
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car Daren
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Connecticut 40 mi from New York City
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it's one of the country's most exclusive
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communities at 18 Alex Kelly was one of
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daran's brightest young men he came from
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a wealthy devoted family and had a
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promising
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future on a winter night he met a young
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woman at a party at this house just
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before midnight he offered to take her
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home in his girlfriend's Jeep
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but according to the young woman kelly
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didn't drive her
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home instead he pulled into the secluded
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KAC and raped
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her 4 days later this time at a nearby
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Country Club another party another young
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woman and Alex Kelly faced yet another
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accusation of
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rape Alex Kelly was arrested for both
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attacks he denied the charges claiming
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that the sexual encounters were
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consensual Kelly was released on a
00:26:05
$200,000 bail but when the jury
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selection began Alex Kelly left town he
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would remain a fugitive for the next 8
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years in the summer of
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1994 finally authorities raided Kelly
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home and learn the surprising truth
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about Alex's years on the Run
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Alex Kelly was leading the good life
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overseas he traveled all over his
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passport was stamped with you know just
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dozens of countries in and out of Greece
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and Sweden and France and he spent a lot
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of his time at ski resorts living the
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high life and you know he would write
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letters home talking about his
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hangliding and his Paris selling and one
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in one letter he even said I could live
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like this forever and he wasn't exactly
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suffering photographs even showed
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Kelly's parents visiting him while he
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was in Heidi and investigators also
00:27:04
found an unmailed letter which revealed
00:27:06
Kelly's address in Sweden so Alex knows
00:27:11
that law enforcement's closing in on him
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now Tom poio is hired by the family as
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Alex's lawyer poio met with Alex in
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Europe to negotiate the terms of his
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surrender a short time later Kelly
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surrendered and was extradited to the US
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where he was charged with sexual assault
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and kidnapping he was released again on
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a $1 million
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Bond the trial for the first rape began
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a year and a half later most days Kelly
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arrived that Court hand in hand with his
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old high school
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girlfriend the star witness was Kelly's
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first victim she described her
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experience in harrowing
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detail at one point she said that his
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hand was on her neck the entire time
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before he pushed her into the back seat
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of the of the Jeep after the victim's
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testimony the case would revolve around
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one clue the latch on a car seat defense
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attorney Thomas pooo argued that if
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Kelly's hand was always on the victim's
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throat it would have been impossible for
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him to both unlatch and lower the back
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seat with his one free
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freand first order of of business is to
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thank the jury the case ended in a
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mistra after the six-person jury
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deadlocked people have a way of doing
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that but I later some of the jurors said
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that the testimony about the seat latch
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played a major role in their
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deliberations some even concluded that
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rape never
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happened the victim stated that he
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reached overa
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and grabbed her by the
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throat he immediately put spread his
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legs over her body was choking her
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Connie Williams was one of the jurors at
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the
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mistr he reached around and at some
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point she heard a clicking noise the
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clicking noise was The Leverage being
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pulled he doubts Kelly could have pulled
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the latch and lowered the back seat with
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only one
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hand there was no way I can do it with
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one hand
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we decided to test the back seat latch
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that was key to Kelly's defense we asked
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an engineering consulting firm to
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conduct an impartial
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demonstration our Consultants found the
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jeep with the same kind of back seat
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latch all right that that's always like
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that the actor playing Kelly was simply
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told where the latch was and that it
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needed to be lifted to release the seat
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he was then told to simulate and attack
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and at the same time okay lower the back
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seat using only one
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hand the actor was able to operate the
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latch just once in four tries the seat
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latch evidence had undermined the
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prosecution's case during their first
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trial of Alex
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Kelly prosecutors had a different
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strategy at Kelly's
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retrial this time they relied on the
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victim statements made just after the
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attacks when her memory was fresh she
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had reported that Kelly took his hand
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off her throat in order to lower the
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back seat this time the jury convicted
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Kelly of rape Kelly pleaded no contest
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to the second rape
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charge he was sentenced to 16 years in
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prison and was paroled 10 years later at
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the age of
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40 well I wish there was some way I
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could explain to you how sorry I am for
00:31:07
what I've done you know but sorry isn't
00:31:09
something I can just tell you you know
00:31:11
it's only something I can show you
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through my actions and I fully
00:31:15
understand that no matter what I feel or
00:31:17
what I do it'll never take away the pain
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that I've caused Alex Kelly will be
00:31:20
registered as a sex offender for the
00:31:23
rest of his
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life coming up a young mother serving a
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life sentence for murdering her infant
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son is proven innocent thanks to
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Unsolved
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Mysteries St Louis
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Missouri Patty Stallings rushes her
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3-month-old son Ryan to the hospital
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he has suffered from chronic gastric
00:32:00
distress since birth but this day the
00:32:03
diagnosis is
00:32:05
shocking Ryan has apparently been
00:32:07
poisoned with ethylene glycol a
00:32:10
substance found in
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antifreeze just have to ask you a few
00:32:14
questions if you could come in for a
00:32:15
moment police were called to the
00:32:17
hospital to question Ryan's parents
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Patty and David
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Stallings we were split up and talked to
00:32:24
by detectives they were saying that they
00:32:27
knew that that baby had been poisoned by
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either me or my husband I was devastated
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I was blown
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away I just could not believe that they
00:32:36
could even think I mean Ryan was my
00:32:39
world while the investigation was going
00:32:42
on Patty and David were only allowed to
00:32:44
visit Ryan 1 hour each
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week Patty was left alone with Ryan for
00:32:50
a short time on the sixth
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visit 3 Days Later Ryan suffered from
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another severe attack of vomiting the
00:33:00
diagnosis again was poisoning and Ryan
00:33:04
died 72 hours
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later Patty Stallings was charged with
00:33:11
first-degree murder and held without
00:33:13
bail she was not allowed to attend
00:33:16
Ryan's Funeral at the time Patty didn't
00:33:20
know that she was pregnant
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again her second son DJ was born while
00:33:28
Patty was in jail waiting trial for the
00:33:30
murder of her first son when DJ was 2
00:33:34
weeks old he began to have symptoms
00:33:37
identical to Ryan's but this time the
00:33:40
illness was diagnosed as a rare genetic
00:33:43
disorder methyl malonic acidemia or
00:33:47
MMA its symptoms are often confused with
00:33:51
ethylene glycol
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poisoning despite DJ's diagnosis Patty
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was convicted and sentenced to life in
00:34:00
prison for the murder of her son Ryan DJ
00:34:04
was placed in the custody of the
00:34:07
state I've lost one child to
00:34:12
MMA my second child is stricken with MMA
00:34:16
and may not
00:34:17
live He's a year old now and there was
00:34:22
still not sure how to treat
00:34:24
him I lost my
00:34:26
freedom
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I've lost
00:34:35
everything
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update immediately after this story
00:34:39
aired we received calls from doctors
00:34:42
from all over the country who said that
00:34:44
they were familiar with
00:34:46
MMA Patty's new attorneys petitioned the
00:34:50
court to Grant her another trial based
00:34:52
on the fact that she had previously
00:34:54
received ineffectual counsel after
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during almost 2 years Patty was granted
00:35:00
a new trial and was released from
00:35:04
prison after the Unsolved Mysteries
00:35:07
aired people were writing and calling
00:35:09
and just want to know how can we help
00:35:12
and I can't thank those people enough
00:35:14
because I mean through all of that
00:35:18
Wheels started turning and everything
00:35:20
just started pushing forward really fast
00:35:23
along with Ryan's a short time later a
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Press Conference was held in St Lewis
00:35:28
and Dr Pierro Ronaldo of Yale University
00:35:32
revealed that independent blood test
00:35:34
showed Ryan had definitely died of
00:35:38
MMA unfortunately we can't undo the
00:35:41
suffering that the Stallings have
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endured during this entire
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ordeal and I apologize to them both
00:35:48
personally and for the state of Missouri
00:35:50
all charges against Patty Stallings were
00:35:55
dropped a few days later just over 2
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years after his brother's death DJ came
00:36:01
home for the first time just want to
00:36:05
make up for the year and a half that we
00:36:07
didn't have him and it's hard to make up
00:36:10
that much time but I'm doing the best I
00:36:15
can his condition is very scary but
00:36:19
we've tackled so many hard things that
00:36:22
you know we've just kind of said we
00:36:24
we'll beat this too and with that
00:36:26
attitude I know that DJ will do all
00:36:28
right and that we'll do okay he is a
00:36:31
miracle child and we're lucky to have DJ
00:36:35
and we have our whole life back it's
00:36:37
like we're starting
00:36:38
over it's
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indescribably
00:36:49
wonderful they were a young couple
00:36:51
living the dream but then they cross
00:36:54
paths with a neighbor who police
00:36:56
described as a ticking Time Bomb hey
00:37:00
let's make a pit stop with the Grand
00:37:01
Canyon as they started out for their new
00:37:03
life in Denver Colorado de loelle and
00:37:06
her fiance Jason horley were excited
00:37:09
about living in the big city for the
00:37:11
first time you going to get your own
00:37:13
house girl what do you
00:37:17
think they bought a house in one of
00:37:19
Denver's inner city neighborhoods and
00:37:21
soon fell in love with their new
00:37:25
surroundings everything was going well
00:37:28
until 1 afternoon when Deborah had a
00:37:30
strange encounter with her neighbor
00:37:33
hello what's going on wrong with your
00:37:36
dog your dog's crazy I saw you harassing
00:37:38
her anybody harassing that dog we're
00:37:40
going to be neighbors so let's get along
00:37:42
she learned that her angry neighbor was
00:37:44
Malica Griffin a woman who rented a room
00:37:48
in the house next
00:37:54
door the couple was determined to make
00:37:57
the best of a bad situation they poured
00:38:00
time and money into transforming a
00:38:03
former crack house into their new
00:38:06
home they put the incident with their
00:38:08
neighbor behind them but then hey it
00:38:12
happened again hey you need to move your
00:38:15
truck what I'm in a normal spot there's
00:38:16
no other parking places although she
00:38:18
didn't even own a car Griffin didn't
00:38:21
want anyone parking in the public space
00:38:24
in front of the
00:38:25
house you can't live even fear in your
00:38:28
own house and it wasn't anything about
00:38:30
the neighborhood I mean it was just this
00:38:32
one woman you know I never felt
00:38:33
threatened in my neighborhood a couple
00:38:35
of days later Jason was confronted again
00:38:39
what's the problem you got your letter
00:38:41
on my property he couldn't see the evil
00:38:45
he just he didn't understand the evil
00:38:48
his philosophy was you get to know me
00:38:50
you won't hate me and I tried and tried
00:38:53
to explain to him some people don't want
00:38:55
to know you
00:38:58
even though their confrontations were
00:38:59
getting nastier Jason still believed
00:39:02
that he would win over Griffin you know
00:39:05
what I want to get some of my tools out
00:39:06
of my truck when we got home I said
00:39:08
don't go out there don't go and he said
00:39:11
no I'm going to clean my truck so I went
00:39:13
out back to water the
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[Music]
00:39:26
flowers
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Jason what happened oh my god there was
00:39:31
no doubt in Deborah's mind who was
00:39:34
responsible he been shot shot a neighbor
00:39:37
drove Jason to the hospital the bullet
00:39:40
had caused extensive internal
00:39:47
injuries while emergency room doctors
00:39:50
struggled to save Jason's life Deborah
00:39:52
was questioned by the police we just got
00:39:55
work from the
00:39:56
hospital Jason didn't make it I'm
00:40:04
sorry hey investigators later learned
00:40:07
that right after the shooting Griffin
00:40:09
stole a car from a friend who lived only
00:40:11
blocks from the murder
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[Music]
00:40:16
scene Denver Police searched Griffin's
00:40:19
home for Clues to her background we
00:40:22
found books and paperwork on how to make
00:40:26
bombs and booby traps we also found
00:40:28
dummy hang grenades the fuse was intact
00:40:31
but the cores had been
00:40:33
removed they found the Anarchist
00:40:36
Cookbook and the poor man's James Bond
00:40:39
both favorite manuals of
00:40:42
terrorists they also discovered
00:40:44
notebooks filled with Griffin's
00:40:46
ramblings supporting a coming race War
00:40:48
and the killing of white people
00:40:51
authorities now believe that a racially
00:40:53
motivated killer was on the
00:40:56
loose
00:40:58
she eluded our drag net the next time we
00:41:02
found that car was approximately 2 and 1
00:41:03
half days later in Iowa city where the
00:41:05
car had broken down she befriended a man
00:41:08
in Iowa City he took her to a bus
00:41:11
station put her on a bus for
00:41:14
Chicago after Chicago Griffin's Trail
00:41:18
grew
00:41:22
cold I had future plans with Jason you
00:41:25
know he was an extremely positive person
00:41:27
so I try
00:41:30
to live my life the way he
00:41:33
would he would never hurt
00:41:36
anybody and I don't believe I'll meet
00:41:39
someone like him
00:41:43
again
00:41:46
update the FBI arrested Mica Griffin in
00:41:49
elcone California after a coworker
00:41:52
realized that she was a fugitive Griffin
00:41:56
was working at a biotech technology firm
00:41:58
under an assumed name she was charged
00:42:01
and convicted of murder robbery and
00:42:04
vehicle death she was sentenced to life
00:42:06
in prison without the possibility of
00:42:10
[Music]
00:42:26
parole
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