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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast in the early 1930s to amateur
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prospectors in Wyoming chanced upon a
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baffling curiosity the mummified remains
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of a tiny ancient human being x-rays
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revealed what appeared to be a fully
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developed skeleton just 17 inches talk
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about the height of a coffee table
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because the artifact the evidence that a
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mythological race of supernatural beings
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known as the little people actually
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existed in Mississippi the tragic death
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of 18 year old Andre Jones the son of
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civil rights activists is surrounded by
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a storm of controversy in 1992 Jones was
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arrested at a routine sobriety
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checkpoint but less than 36 hours later
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he was dead
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authorities say he hung himself with a
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shoelace in the shower stall at his jail
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cell Andres parents say he was murdered
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October 2nd 1961 when 11 year old Alan
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Benson told his parents as someone had
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left a baby in their car and thought he
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was joking today that baby is a grown
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woman searching for her birth mother
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also tonight in a remarkable update a
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landlord watching unsolved mysteries is
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shocked to discover that one of his
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former tenants as wanted for murder
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joined perhaps you two may be able to
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help solve the mystery
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the American West a magical land with a
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rich and colorful past
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for many the frontier conjures up images
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of outlaws cowboys and buried treasure
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but for Native Americans this is ancient
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ground steeped in a history which defies
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conventional beliefs and logic
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for generations medicine men of the
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crows Shoshone
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and Arapaho tribes have told stories of
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a mythic race of supernatural beings
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able to perform feats of amazing
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physical strength incredibly according
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to legend these people stood less than
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two feet high for more than a century
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the story of the little people was just
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the kind of tall tale that the Pioneers
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scoffed at but all of that would change
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in 1932 when two men went prospecting in
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Wyoming she's from Maine and Frank
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Carver to amateur gold prospectors and
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they were in the Pedro Mountains which
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is along the short path find the
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reservoir about the center of the state
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at the back of the cave Cecil Maine and
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Frank are made an extraordinary
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discovery here perched on a rocky ledge
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with a small figure just six inches high
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mummified in the sitting positions
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they'd never seen anything like that
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before and would have no idea what it
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was except that they knew is probably
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worth taking out
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several days later
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Cecil Maine returned to the cave alone
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paying no heed to the notion of the cave
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was a sacred Indian burial site maine
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snatched the mysterious mummy it has
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been an object of great controversy and
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mystery ever since over the years the
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mummy has come into the possession of a
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number of different people
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unsubstantiated rumor has it that each
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of the owners died under unusual
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circumstances as far as anyone knows the
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most recent owner disappeared without a
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trace nearly twenty years ago along with
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a mummy those who believe in the legend
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of the Little People claim a curse is
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responsible others maintain us all just
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a coincidence the discovery of the mummy
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in 1932 made headlines throughout
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Wyoming the prop is speculation that it
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had been placed in the cave by one of
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the Native American tribes many Native
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American spiritual people have told me
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that they have certain ways they bury
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and in turn they're dead and this this
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mummy is in a different position than
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anything they've ever seen so they don't
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know exactly from their own viewpoints
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they don't know what it is however Cecil
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Lane did not really care what the mummy
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was he was looking to sell it and
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eventually he found a willing buyer
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in 1934 an insurance salesman named
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Homer Cheryl bought the mummy for $25
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and took it on the road one of the first
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people to hand over the price of
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admission was a curious ten year old boy
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named Eugene Vasher my dad didn't want
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me to see it what I remember most about
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that was what a hard time I had talking
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him into giving me 25 cents so I could
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see the mummy and when I went in he went
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in one door and then walked past the
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table where the money was sitting there
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was a guard there and then out another
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door and they moved you right by you
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didn't get to look at it real well it
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was about six and a half inches high
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seated and standing it would have been
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about 17 inches high
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The Mummy had bronzed skin in a
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flattened skull with wisps of gray hair
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protruding from the back of the head
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although the mummy was seen by hundreds
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of people over the next 10 years no
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serious scientific analysis was
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undertaken until 1950
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mr. Goodman
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eivin good-bye then the mummy had fallen
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into the hands of a used-car dealer
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named Ivan Goodman what he had to show
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Goodman took the relic to dr. Paul
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Martin at the Chicago Museum of Natural
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History for an analysis some serious
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efforts were made in the early 1950s to
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get this little mummy documented and it
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was done rather well I think for the
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times there were photographs taken good
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photographs that we can still look out
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there were x-rays taken really a
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surprising amount of very effective
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documentation was made the x-rays
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revealed that the object had a complete
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skeletal structure as well as a full set
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of teeth initially it did appear to be
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the mummified remains of a fully
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developed human being which happened to
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be 17 inches tall
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but after reviewing all of the material
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dr. Martin reached an altogether
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different conclusion in his opinion the
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mummy was not a mature adult but an
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infant who had suffered from a medical
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abnormality known as anencephaly this is
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a condition in which infants are born
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without a brain and lack a complete
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skull as a result they may often take on
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the physical appearance of an adult
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however Eugene Bosch or claims that
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other experts believe the malformed
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skull could have been the result of a
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severe blow to the head
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some of the people I've interviewed were
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experts doctors radiologists said there
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are pieces of skull in the scalp that's
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hanging down like it was beaten down and
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it's a result of trauma injury
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Eugene Bosch or further states that the
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scientists he spoke with believed the
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mummy had other adult characteristics it
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also has a full set of teeth quite
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prominent teeth and infants would show
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two sets of undeveloped teeth still up
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from the jaws these are descended in
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there's no other teeth above them like a
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maybe you're a young person would have
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dr. George Gill still disagrees
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yeah all the physicians and physical
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anthropologists that I know I've ever
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looked at that I've been able to verify
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to actually talk to them have said that
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it's some type of infant and it looks to
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them to be an anencephalic human infant
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oh I certainly am going to do everything
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I can to prove that in October of
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nineteen fifty I even Goodman loan to
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find a doctor Leonard water generator of
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a New York bluesy sound of that
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I'm gonna trust him with you doc you
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take good care oh don't worry he's in
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good hands
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you take care sir I shall Goodman felt
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there was a fortune to be made if water
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could prove that the mummy was a North
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American relative of the pygmies a race
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of people in Africa and Asia who stand
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four to five feet in height
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unfortunately Ivan Goodland died of a
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sudden stroke before the theory was
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proven and wanderer' kept the mummy
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what was the mysterious artifact
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uncovered in the remote mountains of
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Wyoming more than 60 years ago was it
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proof of the existence of a mythological
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race known as the little people or was
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it the tragedy of an anencephalic
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infants born in primitive times so much
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more could be done today in the way of
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analysis on this small DNA analysis
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could be done we have methods now that
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could allow dating to be done without
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being that destructive so it's really
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important that the scientific community
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take another look at it the controversy
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exists that continues it could be
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settled if we had the mummy
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at this point in time we don't know and
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that's the mystery
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dr. Leonard Wadler was last stoned to be
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living in Florida however no one has
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seen the doctor or the mummy since 1975
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not a scientific community would like to
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find the mummy for analysis
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Native Americans hope the relic will be
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recovered for spiritual value in their
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view a sacred burial site was disturbed
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and ultimately they would like to return
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the artifact to an appropriate resting
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place next a series of mysterious
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hanging deaths and jails across
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Mississippi sparks a federal
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investigation tonight there's a scandal
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brewing in Mississippi a scandal which
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has prompted Attorney General Janet Reno
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to order an investigation by the Justice
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Department over the past five years no
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fewer than 48 inmates of Mississippi
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jails half of them black half of them
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white have died under mysterious
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circumstances every single death was a
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hanging every single death was ruled a
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suicide this is a story of one
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Mississippi hanging
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in the summer of 1992 Andre Jones was 18
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years old about to start his freshman
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year of college
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his mother Esther was president of the
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Jackson Mississippi branch at the
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n-double-a-cp his stepfather Charles ex
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Quinn a Nation of Islam Minister 1:00
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a.m. Saturday August 22nd Brandon
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Mississippi Andre Jones and his
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girlfriend Tanisha love we stopped at a
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routine sobriety check Andre was driving
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a friend's pickup truck 1:30 a.m.
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Jackson Mississippi 20 miles from
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Brandon
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Andres Parris were awakened when the
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phone rang hello I'm sorry to call you
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but Andres has been arrested what yeah
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mom it's me 2:00 a.m.
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Andre called his parents from the
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Brandon police station he said he did
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not know what he had been charged with 4
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a.m. Andre telephoned again this time to
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say he had been transferred to the
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Simpson County Jail 40 miles south of
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Jackson according to his parents he
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still did not know what the charges
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against him were we were told that they
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could not tell us anything at that time
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and Simpson County just refused to to
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even talk to us and they told us that we
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could not come to that jail have you
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heard anything
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the Quinn say that they spoke with Andre
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at least 5 different times on Saturday
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how can they keep me any an extra day
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and they haven't even charged me he was
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very much concerned about his charges
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and we could not tell him anything he
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was very much concerned about getting
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out immediately and so that he could
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attend school the very next day about
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midnight that night he I heard a knock
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on the door
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it was a Jackson police officer ok
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have a message here from mrs. Esther
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Jones Quinn my husband I could take it
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sir I really need to deliver this to her
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in person
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Charles what is it this officer has a
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message for you
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Esther Jones Quinn yes he gave me the
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piece of paper which only had a phone
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number for the Simpson County Jail there
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was not a note there was not a message
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it was only a number yes hello yes my
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name is Esther Jones Quinn yes I was
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informed that Andre had committed
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suicide
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that I was casually informed that he had
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committed suicide as if they could have
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been talking to someone that didn't even
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know who he was
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according to Andres parents he had never
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shown suicidal tendencies he had never
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even suffered from depression Andre had
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no previous arrest record
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so when Esther and Charles Quinn started
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to look into his death they naturally
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began with the circumstances of his
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arrest Andre and Tanisha had stopped by
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the Quinns house in Jackson around 11:45
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Friday night they left and drove east
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toward Brandon where Tanisha lived there
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the Brandon city limits they came upon
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the checkpoint
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according to the Quinns lawyer the
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police say that Andre Jones stopped just
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short of the checkpoint they say Andre
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tossed an object out of the window of
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the truck please identify the object as
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a 38 caliber handgun inside the truck
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they say there was an open can of beer
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and finally the truck which Andre had
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borrowed and driven for more than a week
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turned out to be stored I'm not sure if
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he knew or not if the truck was stolen
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it would appear to me that if he knew
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the truck was stolen he would be
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skeptical in driving it so openly I
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didn't know nothing about the truck but
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I know there was a no beer in the truck
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and he did not throw a gun out the truck
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because there was no gun in the truck
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Tanisha loves version of the events is
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very different from the reported police
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version
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don't have you don't have a license with
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you what's your name
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hundred Tanisha claims that as soon as
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the officers heard Andres name the R
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attitude immediately changed after the
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estimates night and they all went to low
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I say like a little hoodie night
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football huddle neighbors I don't know
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what they was talking about cuz I was
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talking low and after that that's when
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they came to the truck and X and under
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again did he have his license he said no
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sorry I don't have my license and they
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accent step out the truck that's when I
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handcuffed him it's two days check out
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his feet and they had him handcuffed at
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the same time I understand what was
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going on State Public Safety
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Commissioner Jimmy these hundred Jones
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was not shackled in fact Ingram
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disagrees with Tanisha's entire account
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there was no confrontation whatsoever
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with young Andre Jones in fact the
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officers were very amazed how
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cooperative he was this is two for one
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according to commissioner Ingram Andre
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was so cooperative at the Brandon Police
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Department that he admitted being in a
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gang and even showed the police gang
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hand signals which they photographed and
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he posed for photographs with different
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signs signals indicating how gangs make
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statements by signs it was a very
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cooperative attitude on both sides they
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the officers have indicated that they
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really were impressed with this young
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man fine town was very independent in a
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very intelligent young man was grown
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aspirations and he had no need or no
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desire to become involved within the
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gang
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despite repeated requests copies of the
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alleged photos of Andre illustrating
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gang signals have not been made
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available to one solve mysteries or to
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Andres family Andre was charged on four
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counts driving a truck whose vehicle
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identification number had been altered
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carrying a concealed weapon possession
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of stolen license plate tags and driving
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with an open container of alcohol
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commissioner Ingram remains adamant that
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the arrest was non-confrontational
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Charles Quinn however says that an
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inmate in Brandon claims the police use
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racial epithets to intimidate Andre one
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of the inmates who were transferred with
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Andre said that the officer said do you
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know what happened to [Â __Â ] for
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stealing a white man's truck and of
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course other statements were said to put
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fear in Andre
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at approximately 4 a.m. on Saturday
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Andre was transferred from Brendan to
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the Simpson County Jail 35 miles away
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the Simpson County facility had a
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reputation as a dangerous jail this is a
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rough diagram of the cell into which
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Andre Jones was transferred 12 other
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inmates were being held in the narrow
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l-shaped space a dimly lit quarter next
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to the cell led to a toilet the shower
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stall where Andre's body was found one
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of the inmates came forward and said hey
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this guy sure been in the shower for a
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long time one of the men walked back and
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said they found a young man hanging by a
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shoelace in the shower still running and
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that's when they called for the guards
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and immediately the unlocked assailed
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and took him down
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authorities state that Andre Jones had
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hung himself with his own shoelace
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they say Andre tie the shoelace to an
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iron grate above the showerhead when
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Charles Quinn was allowed to visit the
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cell he estimated the grate was
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approximately eight feet above the floor
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he would need someone to have held him
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up to do that and he would have needed
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some type of stool to stand on it's
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incorrect the point of attachment of the
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doctor Stephen hey the state-approved
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paths are ours to perform the autopsy
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said investigators had demonstrated that
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it was possible for Andre to have hung
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himself unaided that position was easily
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reached by a member of the Sheriff's
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Office
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who was acting as the decedent Andres
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parents also feel it is impossible that
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their son's body it could have been
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supported simply by Elise for his
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running shoes but dr. Haines says the
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laces were tested by the manufacturer
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and their tensile strength was found
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sufficient less than a week after Andres
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death his parents hired an independent
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pathologist dr. James Bryant to examine
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the remains and review the case
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I think it's so highly probable that he
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was strangled someone did this to him in
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the usual case of a suicide by by
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hanging the the ligature mark is along
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the side of the neck and doesn't go all
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the way around it's in this fashion
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whereas in the case of Andre Jones the
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the ligature marking went along the side
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of the neck and all the way into the
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back and Criss crossed in this fashion
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this suggests to me that that that there
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was that someone had to come from behind
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and and wrapped the ligature around his
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neck and then furthermore there's
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there's no not mark the knot imprint
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area would be in the hairline and the
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hairline would act as a buffer no longer
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allowing for that imprint to be a
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present on the upper back surface of the
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neck no Andre Jones's hair was cut short
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and the the crisscross marking was not
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in the hairline and the were no knot
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marks anywhere else
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dr. Haynes autopsy report listed no
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evidence of bruising on Andres neck or
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anywhere else on his body dr. Bryce
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observations were different he had some
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bruising under one of his eyes and also
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had some bruising on the shoulder of the
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same side the bruising could have been
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right at the time that he died or it
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could have been sometime during the day
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but but but apparently he was he
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suffered some kind of blunt trauma
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sometime during that during the time he
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was in the jail we were informed by one
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of the inmates that Andre was taken off
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that cellblock and out of that jail and
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when he was brought back in he was
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brought back in in a wheelchair and that
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he was laid on the shower floor and the
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hanging scene was staged my findings
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based upon the evidence both at the
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scene as well as from the post-mortem
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examination has been reviewed by many
00:24:33
other authorities including the Armed
00:24:35
Forces Institute of Pathology the
00:24:37
Department of Justice the US Attorney's
00:24:39
Office as well as the Federal Bureau of
00:24:41
Investigation and by the Attorney
00:24:44
General's Office of the state of
00:24:45
Mississippi and they're in concurrence
00:24:47
with the findings that I made in March
00:24:53
of 1993 a coalition of civil rights
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groups conducted hearings in Jackson
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Mississippi those testifying included
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the families of both black and white
00:25:06
jail inmates who had died under
00:25:08
questionable circumstances after two
00:25:13
days of testimony the u.s. Commission on
00:25:16
civil rights recommended at the Justice
00:25:18
Department open an investigation
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five months later dr. Emily Ward a
00:25:25
specialist in forensic pathology was
00:25:28
named Mississippi state medical examiner
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dr. Ward went over the autopsy report of
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Andre Jones as well as the autopsies of
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several other men who have died by
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hanging in Mississippi jails I think
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that it's extremely unlikely that any of
00:25:44
these deaths are anything other than
00:25:46
suicide all of the deaths have been
00:25:48
investigated but not just one agency but
00:25:50
one or two or sometimes three and I
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think that although sometimes there may
00:25:55
be questions that need to be answered
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related to the death I don't think that
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in any way affects whether or not the
00:26:02
death is suicide or homicide I would
00:26:05
never believe that under a committed
00:26:07
suicide I know my son was murdered
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and the fact that his life was taken so
00:26:16
cool and so abruptly makes me even more
00:26:20
determined to see that he is vindicated
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when we return a man wanted for the
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murder of his girlfriend is captured
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thanks to an alert viewer
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in July of 1986 22 year-old Paula
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Passaic and her boyfriend Jerry curva
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Sony arrived in Kissimmee Florida from
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New Jersey to visit Paula's mother they
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stayed there about one week
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paula was as happy as a lark the two of
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them were I mean they were very together
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they were they were just happy-go-lucky
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Poehler and Jerry had arrived on a
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Wednesday on Sunday night they said
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their goodbyes
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they told Barbara they would be leaving
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early the next day to visit another part
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of Florida got up the next morning and I
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thought I heard them up and I didn't
00:28:07
know whether they were not so I didn't
00:28:09
bother to say goodbye
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maybe if I had you know things would
00:28:19
have been different in the days that
00:28:24
followed an odd smell would
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intermittently wife through Barbara's
00:28:28
home she searched everywhere looking for
00:28:30
his source finally checking her own
00:28:33
bedroom
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hidden under the bed wrapped in a bamboo
00:28:39
curtain was her daughter's body
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Paula paisie AK had been strangled to
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death and left under the bed for nearly
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a week the prime suspect was jerry rivas
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oniy but he had dropped from sight he
00:28:55
successfully eluded authorities for more
00:28:58
than seven years until the night of our
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broadcast update British Columbia Canada
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on October 21st 1993 jerry rivas Oni was
00:29:12
arrested in a small community of salt
00:29:14
springs Island where he had been living
00:29:16
under the assumed name Gordon McIntyre
00:29:19
when our program aired in Canada there
00:29:22
by Sony's former landlord recognized him
00:29:24
and immediately called authorities I
00:29:26
come home and sit down to dinner about
00:29:29
nine thirty quarter to 10:00 and I'm
00:29:32
gonna flip on the TV and there was a
00:29:34
black-and-white photo of Gordon McIntyre
00:29:37
my tenon once in custody
00:29:41
the suspect violently insisted that he
00:29:43
truly was Gordon McIntyre
00:29:45
but fingerprints soon confirmed that he
00:29:47
was in fact Gerald curva Sony
00:29:52
at the local airport irva Sony tried to
00:29:56
avoid photographers as he was hustled
00:29:58
onto a leading airplane
00:29:59
he was then flown to a deportation
00:30:01
hearing in Victoria Canada your vaso
00:30:04
knee will be held there pending
00:30:06
extradition to Florida where you'll face
00:30:08
charges in the murder of Paula Paisley
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act
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on the evening of October 2nd 1961 mr.
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and mrs. Earl Boettcher and the youngest
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son Alan were leaving Baptist Hospital
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in Jacksonville Florida
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the Becher's have been visiting one of
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their other sons and could never have
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imagined a surprise that awaited them
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there's a baby in the back of our car
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I'm serious there's a baby in the car :
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[Music]
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did you see anybody around no okay all
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right
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I'm pleased so I the Becher's had found
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a healthy baby girl no more than 72
00:31:29
hours old weighing eight and a half
00:31:31
pounds local papers dubbed the foundling
00:31:35
baby girl ex she lived in foster homes
00:31:38
for five and a half months before she
00:31:40
was adopted by Mary Lou and William
00:31:42
Christie of Tallahassee the Christy's
00:31:45
named their new daughter Terris teri for
00:31:48
short Terri grew up happily doted upon
00:31:52
by her parents and her older brother and
00:31:54
sister teri always knew she was adopted
00:31:57
but not until she was a teenager did she
00:32:00
begin to ask the difficult questions who
00:32:03
was her birth mother why has she given
00:32:06
her up I kind of rebuilt and wanted to
00:32:11
know yes when we went to the library
00:32:16
looked it up and then I got excited I
00:32:18
was proud you know when she pressured me
00:32:23
about her parents I had the big a big
00:32:30
problem about whether to tell her the
00:32:32
truth as I knew it or whether to say I
00:32:36
didn't know anything and I really
00:32:40
wrestled with it and then I came out
00:32:43
with that I'd be safe to be truthful at
00:32:51
the local library
00:32:52
Terry and Mary Lou tracked down all the
00:32:54
newspaper articles about baby girl X
00:32:56
Terri was surprised to learn that she
00:32:59
had been left in the backseat of a car
00:33:01
nevertheless she trusted her birth
00:33:04
mother had her best interests at heart
00:33:06
she might have been a 15 16 year old
00:33:10
scared girl that had a baby and ran away
00:33:13
from home the picture I believe she had
00:33:16
a heart she put me somewhere safe where
00:33:19
I was gonna be well taken care of and I
00:33:21
appreciate that
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just probably watching them when the
00:33:26
little boy came and found me in the car
00:33:28
she's probably standing there watching
00:33:29
it it bothers me not knowing exactly
00:33:34
what day I was born the time you know
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where I was born I don't even know if I
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was born in a hospital midwife in the
00:33:45
car you know I have no idea I just I
00:33:47
would like to find that out today Terry
00:33:53
is 32 years old the mother of a young
00:33:55
son and daughter she wants her children
00:33:58
to have a heritage to know their roots I
00:34:02
would like to find a beginning I just
00:34:06
want to meet her and see how she is I
00:34:08
don't know getting older and I look at
00:34:10
my kids and see how they're growing and
00:34:14
I look in the mirror every day and I
00:34:17
wonder
00:34:20
thanks to our broadcast Terry Christie
00:34:23
Derby now knows the answers to all of
00:34:24
her questions
00:34:25
sadly Terry's birth mother Edith
00:34:28
Campbell died on August 17th 1993 just a
00:34:31
few months before our segment aired but
00:34:34
out of this sadness a happy ending did
00:34:36
emerge terry was delighted to learn that
00:34:38
she had a sister and three brothers they
00:34:41
were delighted as well none of them had
00:34:44
ever known that Terry existed on July
00:34:49
8th 1994 Terry went to a hotel in Miami
00:34:53
Florida to meet three of her siblings
00:34:55
Phillip Paul and Cecilia face to face
00:34:58
for the first time it was the neatest
00:35:08
experience my life walked in and there
00:35:11
was everybody I wanted to see next to me
00:35:17
giving birth to my own kids this is the
00:35:21
best thing that's ever happened to me
00:35:22
best thing my experience is that there's
00:35:27
more of them just a biological thing in
00:35:29
a family there's also a karmic a sense
00:35:33
of underlying destiny that lies
00:35:36
underneath the whole thing and this you
00:35:38
know Mia meets somebody that I meet
00:35:40
Terry it's like she is my sister I knew
00:35:43
it right away
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you know there's no doubt at the Reunion
00:35:47
Terry and her adoptive mother finally
00:35:49
saw a picture of Terry's biological
00:35:52
mother
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Edith Campbell according to a family
00:35:55
member Edith a given Terry up only
00:35:58
because of extreme financial desperation
00:36:01
knowing what a what a loving person she
00:36:04
was she cared about nothing but her
00:36:07
children her whole life and I can only
00:36:11
imagine the anguish that that she went
00:36:15
through when she decided to do this
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they make me feel wanted they make me
00:36:23
feel like I'm not an outcast like kind
00:36:26
of felt like I wasn't even passed but I
00:36:30
can feel their own vibes love whatever
00:36:33
you know the next day
00:36:42
Terry met her other brother Chris who
00:36:44
had been called out of town on business
00:36:45
on the day of the reunion at last the
00:36:52
family circle is complete in the fall of
00:37:06
1993 the entire country was touched when
00:37:09
12 year old Polly Klass was abducted
00:37:11
from her home in Northern California and
00:37:13
savagely murdered thousands of copies of
00:37:17
this composite sketch were distributed
00:37:19
by police in the end it's stunning
00:37:22
accuracy helped confirm the identity of
00:37:24
the prime suspect Richard Allen Davis
00:37:27
Davis is now in jail charged with a
00:37:30
kidnap and murder of Polly Klass law
00:37:35
enforcement secret weapon in the class
00:37:37
case was this woman suspect graphic
00:37:40
artist Jeannie Boylan these days the FBI
00:37:43
and numerous local jurisdictions compete
00:37:45
for her time
00:37:46
Jeannie borne has come a long way from
00:37:48
her first job in law enforcement in the
00:37:54
mid 1970s Jeannie worked at the
00:37:56
Sheriff's Department in Multnomah County
00:37:58
Oregon the job gave her a close up look
00:38:01
at how suspect sketches were made in
00:38:04
many cases Jeannie didn't like what she
00:38:06
saw I would hear the way that
00:38:12
investigators would question witnesses
00:38:15
or victims and I could I could hear that
00:38:18
they weren't allowing them to answer
00:38:19
they would cut the answers off it was
00:38:21
kind of just the facts and I that would
00:38:24
that seemed to me to be wrong
00:38:26
and then I would see the drawings that
00:38:28
would be produced either through an
00:38:29
identikit or through an artist and I
00:38:31
knew that they weren't right there was
00:38:33
something in terms of something in terms
00:38:35
of the heart really that was sort of
00:38:36
missing in those pictures what do you
00:38:39
put any other shape around the eyes
00:38:40
Jeannie was convinced that she could do
00:38:43
better and in 1980 she got her chance a
00:38:46
supervisor gave Jeannie one of his most
00:38:48
difficult cases an unsolved rape that
00:38:51
had languished for months with virtually
00:38:53
no leads it's okay I was trying a lot of
00:38:59
different interview techniques and I
00:39:01
found that if I used it as sort of a
00:39:02
diversionary system of interviewing
00:39:04
where we would kind of circumvent the
00:39:05
the events of the crime and scenario of
00:39:07
the crime and talk about other topics
00:39:09
and I could relax them then periodically
00:39:12
this information would surface you know
00:39:15
I just remembered something he had a
00:39:19
scar and it started on his forehead and
00:39:22
it lived back into his hair it's like
00:39:25
the tip of the tongue syndrome where you
00:39:27
have somebody's name that's right there
00:39:28
and you're trying to remember it you
00:39:30
can't bring it up and maybe two or three
00:39:31
hours later you stop trying and it just
00:39:33
pops into your mind I just remembered
00:39:36
something else too he had a white face I
00:39:40
knew that the drawing that had been done
00:39:42
on that case prior to the one that I was
00:39:43
doing was was wrong so what we came up
00:39:46
with was so radically different that
00:39:47
that was sort of fresh hope for that
00:39:49
case Jeannie was right as a direct
00:39:52
result of her composite the suspect was
00:39:54
arrested and later convicted more cases
00:39:57
followed and Jeannie's reputation group
00:40:02
I've seen a lot of the work Jean Boylan
00:40:04
is done and very impressed it's the best
00:40:06
artists conceptions I've ever seen and
00:40:09
if there we ever have a chance of
00:40:12
catching the person we're looking for
00:40:14
through an artist conception I think
00:40:16
Jean Boylan is gonna give us that chance
00:40:20
most recently the FBI turned to Jeannie
00:40:23
Boylan in the troubling case of 16 year
00:40:25
old Jonathan Francia of Albuquerque New
00:40:28
Mexico on January 12th 1994 Jonathan was
00:40:33
in his car behind this restaurant in
00:40:35
Albuquerque when two strangers abducted
00:40:38
him
00:40:40
five days later a body believed to be
00:40:43
Jonathan's was found charred almost
00:40:45
beyond recognition in the trunk of his
00:40:47
burned-out car one of the killer's known
00:40:50
only as Jason is still at large
00:40:55
investigators asked Jeannie to meet with
00:40:57
a key witness Scott Johnson he had
00:41:04
innocently spent several hours with the
00:41:06
killers at his home in a Winslow Arizona
00:41:07
trailer park Jeannie instinctively began
00:41:15
to assess Scott's potential as an
00:41:16
eyewitness scott is he's a very
00:41:20
interesting man um visual things are
00:41:22
very important to him you can tell in
00:41:24
the way that he dresses and he combs his
00:41:25
hair and you know he takes he takes some
00:41:27
care in the way that he looks which was
00:41:29
the first cue to me that I would be able
00:41:31
to work in a visual context with him so
00:41:34
one thing that I did was I got out some
00:41:36
play-doh something to anchor him in the
00:41:39
present and gave it to him for him to
00:41:40
actually work on or to play with and
00:41:43
sort of feel to keep him in the moment a
00:41:45
bit more and the longer as Scott told
00:41:49
his story
00:41:50
Jeanne began to sketch the fugitive
00:41:52
killer named Jason Scott had met Jason
00:41:56
on January 13 1994 that day a friend of
00:42:00
Scott's named Trina Richardson was
00:42:02
staying at the trailer along with her
00:42:03
three children they were awaiting the
00:42:06
arrival of Trina's husband Paul with
00:42:08
gone to Alabama he pulled in at around
00:42:11
6:00 a.m. accompanied by a stranger
00:42:20
it's Jason my first impression of Jason
00:42:26
was oh boy this guy dresses like a
00:42:29
cowboy
00:42:30
you know the long slender kind of
00:42:33
attracted the girls would be attracted
00:42:35
to him he had the velvet had the long
00:42:41
hair and the jack and the you know the
00:42:43
jeans and kind of like worn-out tinny's
00:42:47
scott noticed something else about jason
00:42:50
something he would not truly understand
00:42:52
until much later
00:42:55
I looked down and I noticed his hand was
00:42:57
kind of like red kind of play type I
00:43:00
thought I was just you know dirt but
00:43:02
apparently it was blood soon after he
00:43:07
arrived Jason took a shower
00:43:09
the only time Scott saw him without a
00:43:11
hat a shrink
00:43:14
tell me a little bit about how you would
00:43:16
put the placement of the hair I had no
00:43:22
idea that anything was go wrong like any
00:43:24
crime has been committed
00:43:26
I was just going along just like my
00:43:32
everyday you know normal routine and
00:43:34
they were too scott told jeannie that he
00:43:38
and Trina were out to run errands around
00:43:40
9:00 a.m.
00:43:41
leaving Paul and Jason at the trailer we
00:43:45
came back pulled up and that's when they
00:43:47
were washing the car so as we pulled out
00:43:50
this sauce and they shut the trunk and
00:43:55
they bags like you they don't want us to
00:43:56
see what was in it at the time Scott had
00:44:01
no idea that the body of Jonathan
00:44:03
Francia was in the trunk
00:44:09
so my next-door got the gas can came
00:44:12
back and that's when Trina Paul and
00:44:14
Jason we're outside talking an hour
00:44:19
later Trina and Paul said they were
00:44:21
leaving to escort Jason to the main
00:44:23
highway that was the last time I saw
00:44:26
Jason I thought that he went back to
00:44:28
where he was you know maybe to Dallas or
00:44:31
maybe somewhere else where he is you
00:44:32
know he told me I was from four days
00:44:36
later local police followed an
00:44:38
eyewitness report to a remote corner of
00:44:40
the desert some 30 miles muscat
00:44:42
straighter there they found the
00:44:45
burned-out automobile and the charred
00:44:47
remains believed to be Jonathan Francia
00:44:53
Paul Richardson was arrested just over
00:44:56
two weeks later under questioning by the
00:44:58
FBI
00:44:59
Paul admitted that he and Jason had
00:45:01
abducted and then murdered jonathan
00:45:03
Francia kid in a car behind a restaurant
00:45:07
we took two days after his confession
00:45:12
Paul Richardson committed suicide by
00:45:15
hanging himself in his jail cell finding
00:45:18
the remaining killer is now up to
00:45:20
Jeannie Boylan would you create a
00:45:24
division between the brows would you
00:45:26
have it connected authorities are
00:45:29
counting on Jeannie's unique
00:45:31
interviewing skills an artistic talent
00:45:33
to help them flush out the mysterious
00:45:35
drifter Jason when I first Chanukah
00:45:41
pause it um look pretty much like the
00:45:45
same person I've seen in the the trailer
00:45:49
pretty pretty close I was amazed at how
00:45:54
well it you know turned out I know that
00:45:57
I can remember that
00:45:59
that's him okay okay is there anything
00:46:04
else you'd add to it
00:46:05
I believe that miss Boylan has a
00:46:08
magician's touch in dealing with
00:46:11
witnesses who and has a way of just
00:46:16
extracting a photo from their mind if
00:46:20
you will
00:46:22
these are genie sketches of Jason based
00:46:25
on Scott Johnston's description when I
00:46:29
first saw the composite drawing I felt a
00:46:32
lot of anger because all this time
00:46:35
there's not really been a picture and
00:46:38
now there's a face and there's a real
00:46:43
person out there who killed my son and
00:46:46
who might kill somebody else's it would
00:46:50
set our hearts little that give us a
00:46:53
little ease in our art but to the fact
00:46:56
that can't bring our son back but it'll
00:47:01
put him where he belongs and that's what
00:47:03
we need I think you know if there's some
00:47:10
way that this contribution can help
00:47:12
bring some peace to them then and I
00:47:15
would I would be delighted you know you
00:47:20
just want to do whatever you can do and
00:47:21
this is all I can do
00:47:25
in all Jeannie drew three portraits of
00:47:27
the man known as Jason authorities
00:47:30
believe he has relatives in Pine top or
00:47:32
Payson Arizona and Dallas Texas
00:47:35
Jason is described as 510 mid-twenties
00:47:38
medium build he smoked chews tobacco and
00:47:41
wears western style clothes including a
00:47:44
horse hair belt the man calling himself
00:47:48
Jason has also used other first names he
00:47:51
supposedly frequents Las Vegas and
00:47:53
homeless shelters and Laughlin Nevada
00:47:55
Jason should be regarded as extremely
00:47:57
dangerous
00:48:05
uh none extensive mysteries in Chicago a
00:48:10
mysterious young woman has charmed
00:48:12
eligible bachelors bewitched cab drivers
00:48:15
and haunted taverns and dance halls for
00:48:17
decades but there is something very
00:48:19
different about this pale alluring
00:48:21
beauty can you guess what it is
00:48:24
also one of our most poignant updates
00:48:26
years ago to strangers rescued a young
00:48:30
mother from a fiery car crash your calls
00:48:32
led to the heartwarming reunion join me
00:48:37
next time for another our fascinating
00:48:39
and intriguing mysteries
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[Applause]
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