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Mysteries your Marine at a party a young
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Marine finds himself surrounded by gang
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members with no way
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out in Texas two women and a young boy
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have a dangerous encounter with a
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UFO meet Josephine white she's a master
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con artist who has taken her victims for
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more than $1
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million and a rising Young basketball
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star searches for the anonymous hero who
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saved him from
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drowning these are stories that are
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guaranteed to surprise you I'm Dennis
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finina and for the next hour it's
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Koga Park California
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a flurry of gunshots from members of a
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gang a man is left for dead but not a
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rival gang member an innocent
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victim here is 20-year-old Joffrey Ramos
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handsome good-natured and a dedicated
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Marine right boys come on let's go Joff
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r and some other Marines had been
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invited to a party that was supposed to
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be innocent fun come plenty more of that
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come on hey guys you made
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it what did you bring this JY the Clean
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Cut Marines mingled easily with the
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crowd of party goers according to one of
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joffre's friends this included some gang
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members they didn't say nothing to us
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you know didn't pay no mind to us you
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know didn't start no trouble with us we
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just we did our thing and they did
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theirs you know and then without warning
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you think you were doing with
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Pablo then that's when the whole fight
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broke out just everybody was
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fighting Joff Frey and his friends
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decided not to get
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involved it was time to
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go when they reached the Jeep Joff FR
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remembered that he had left his wallet
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in the
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backyard his friend did not not see him
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turn back and they drove off without
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him jofra didn't know that he was
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heading straight for a fight some gangs
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considered destroying a marine a badge
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of
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honor yo
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Marine what's up man get nothing let's
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take this fool out homes the ring leader
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of the group was a known gang member
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named Louie
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quesada what's up you know how to kill
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yeah we can show you you're going down
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man jofre sized up the odds there was
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only one way
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out let's get him get him get him get
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him get him hurry up get
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him Joffrey never had a chance he was
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beaten and kicked over and over
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again the vicious attack lasted at a
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full 5 minutes ain't so tough huh it was
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long enough for Joffrey's friends to
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return they went inside to look for him
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meanwhile a car happened to drive up the
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street quesada assumed that it was
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filled with Marines and took
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aim by the grace of God there was nobody
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hit and we very much could have had five
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additional people laying out there dead
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believe a neighbor or somebody was
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yelling as a dead kid in the
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street so then we ran over there grab
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some ready ready 1 3 go you could say it
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was like a nightmare Ramos I don't know
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the way he looked bloody his face was
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swollen he was breathing but he looked
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like he was just dead you know this guy
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needs help
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man beding in all that commotion the
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police
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arrested the Marines we're Marines man
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we didn't our initial belief because of
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the injuries that Joffrey incurred in
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the beating was that he was going to die
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and even though he hadn't died yet we
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were handling it as if he had died cuz
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it was that
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serious it was awful just to see him
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laying there like that I remember
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looking through these glass wall that
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they had in the room and I could see him
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laying
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there his head was bandaged and it had
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tubes coming out of his head his face
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always whole face was swollen his nose
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his
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lip and uh I thought it was going to
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die one side of Joffrey's head had been
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crushed he underwent emergency brain
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surgery and spent 3 weeks in a coma
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doctors did not think he would
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survive I was
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unconscious for a long time and um when
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I came up
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I I didn't know
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anything there's some um now some things
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are coming but some are still
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gone Joffrey suffered some permanent
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brain damage it's remarkable that he's
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even alive much less functioning he
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spent 8 months learning to walk and talk
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again it's very unfair that Joffrey has
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to go to life facing all of these
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challenges that he has now while Lou
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Casada is out there having a good time
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and doesn't even
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have any idea of what he's
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done to Joffrey or any of you know or
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any of
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us Joffrey had hoped to make the
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military a career instead he had to
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accept an honorable discharge from the
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Marines I'll think about this till I get
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old and the number one question is why
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why would they why would they do
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that
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update Louie kesana has been
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captured Los Angeles police received the
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tip that quesada had fled to
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Mexico he was arrested and brought to
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the United States to stand trial quesada
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was convicted of attempted murder and
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sentenced to 21 years in
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prison
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next three people in Texas develop a
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mysterious illness within hours of their
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encounter with a
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UFO State Road 1485 near Dayton Texas on
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the outskirts of
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Houston that sure was a good dinner at
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around 900 p.m. Betty cash Vicky landram
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and Vicky's 7-year-old grandson kby were
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returning home after dinner grandma
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what's that
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like what is that like we were just
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driving along talking and all of a
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sudden we seen this bright light we
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didn't know what it
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was but we knew that there was something
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that was lighting up the sky it seems to
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be moving closer think you're right
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Vicky it is you can see through the
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trees and it started to get real close
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then I knew it wasn't a plane mama what
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is that I don't know I don't know we had
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began to feel the heat and all of a
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sudden Vicky screamed for me to stop
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stop stop and when I stopped she went
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forward and her
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handprint was embedded into the dash of
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the
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car and I thought well I've got to see
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what this is so I walked toward the
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front of the
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automobile and I stood there looking up
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to try to figure out what this object
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was it was a diamond shaped object then
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at the bottom Flames were shooting out
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the heat was tremendous it just felt
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like I was burning from the inside out I
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was actually afraid really to move Benny
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let's get out of
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here when I reached for the door handle
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the door handle was so hot I couldn't
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even began to hold on to
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it I was more than
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scared the only thing I was thinking was
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are we going to get out of here
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alive it's moving
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away just moments later a large Squadron
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of helicopters descended on in the area
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they were the large helicopters that has
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the double rotaries on them I counted
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22 and uh I knew had to belong to the
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Army for years Betty Vicki and Colby
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have battled with the government trying
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to get clear answers to what actually
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took place that night they've also
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fought against mysterious illnesses
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illnesses whose symptoms appeared just
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ours after the
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encounter
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emmae at 1:00 Kobe woke me up crying and
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he was begging me for water he had a
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fever and he had vomited all over the
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bed does your tummy
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hurt yeah the next morning Vicky and
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kobby were still suffering from nausea
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and what appeared to be severe cases of
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sunburn Betty Betty was in even worse
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shape you wake her temperature was
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dangerously high and large red welts had
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appeared on her face and
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hands hi bet over the next 4 days
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Betty's condition grew more serious
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Vicky finally convinced her to see a
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doctor in Houston Betty was immediately
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admitted to the hospital been on the
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sound a little much maybe no 3 weeks
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later she underwent treatment for acute
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radiation poisoning what I'd like to do
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is admit her to the hospital and run
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some more test Betty was in the hospital
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for 6 weeks she lost more than 50% of
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her hair and patches of skin on her face
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have somebody from admitting there's
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absolutely no doubt in my mind that
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Betty was exposed to high doses of
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radiation as to what the source was I
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can't exactly
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say after her release from the Hospital
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Betty asked for help from UFO
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investigator John schusler a former NASA
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project
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manager we had done several interviews
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with Betty and Vicki and then we went
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out to the location where this happened
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they were very very clear on where it
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happened and how it happened yes sir
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came right over those trees right there
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sir they were able to tell us exactly
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where along the road that they stopped
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because there were certain markers that
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identified the spot they were able to
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point out exactly what they saw the
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object coming down out of the sky over
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the road and hovering there they were
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able to point out a spot on the road
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that indicated that it had been heated
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to an extreme level of heating it was
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burned and it was very clear to the
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naked eye several weeks after we went to
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the spot and saw this burned area
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someone came along dug up the road and
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haul it away and replace it with new
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asphalt some of the witnesses that
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watched this happen said that people
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brought in unmarked trucks dug up the
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road put the material on the trucks
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covered it with a tarpoon and drove away
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and what did it do when it hovered over
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the trees in addition to taking Betty
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and Vicky's testimony we went to every
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individual living within 5 miles of this
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area at least 10 other people had seen
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the object and seven or eight other
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people had seen the helicopters and the
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descriptions were all very similar to to
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what Betty and Vicki
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described one eyewitness was police
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officer L Walker who was in the area on
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the night that Betty and Vicki
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encountered the
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object the wife Marie and I was
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returning back from my mother and Dad's
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and as we was coming out of some tree
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lines I saw a
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helicopter it was shining a spotlight at
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the
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ground and then I heard other noise of
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other helicopters behind it and I
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stopped the car cuz I didn't know what
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was going on the helicopters were
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military and they was all flying fairly
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low to the ground and all of them had
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search beams on I thought maybe there
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was an airplane down but uh they didn't
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hesitate they just kept on in the same
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direction they was going which would
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probably intersect the area where Vicki
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said at her encounter
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was convinced that the military was
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somehow involved Betty and Vicki
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appealed to their Senators see ladies
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the Air Force agreed to a meeting at
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burkstrom Air Force for
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space as they entered the room Vicky
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noticed a large map the exact spot where
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the encounter
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occurred was clearly
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marked well sir we were coming home from
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dinner and as we were going down this
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road we saw this large object according
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to Betty and Vicki they were questioned
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for more than 2 hours the interview was
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recorded by a military stenographer then
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what happened well as I got in the car
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then the helicopter started approaching
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what helicopters the military
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helicopters you say military yes how do
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you know they were military in the end
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the two men denied that any military or
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government operation had been conducted
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at that time and at that place the women
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were told that they were entitled to
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file a claim and that the Air Force
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would review their case get them to your
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lawyers and get them back to
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us four weeks later Betty and Vicky's
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claims for medical damages were denied
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come on Co
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what did Betty cash and Vicky and Kobe
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Landrum see in the Texas sky on that
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winter night there are two possible
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explanations in this case one is it was
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an experimental craft of some kind by
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probably our
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government the other it was a un
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unidentified flying object possibly
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extraterrestrial I don't believe in the
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little green men and
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uh it had to be an object
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it could have been a spacecraft that the
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government was carrying but our
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government was carrying
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it Betty Vicky and Kobe continue to
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battle illnesses that doctors say could
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be the result of massive radiation
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exposure Betty has been diagnosed with
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several types of cancer she Vicki and
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Kobe all have white blood cell counts
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that are far below
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normal their immune systems now have
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difficulty fighting off even minor
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infections is's having visual problems
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and there are lots of suggestions that
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that may be related to radiation as well
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but depends on the kind of exposure and
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someone needs to tell us what the
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exposure was so we can figure it out if
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it's a top secret object that's protect
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in the United States then I could say I
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could I could forgive them for
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that but at least they owe us to tell us
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exactly why we were burned and what type
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of radiation that we were exposed to and
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how
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much
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update after the UFO incident Betty cash
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was hospitalized for Cancer Treatments
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at least once every
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year she died 18 years later at the age
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of
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69 the Air Force declined to be
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interviewed for this
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their official position is that no
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military or government
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operation had taken place if you have
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any information about the incident at
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Dayton Texas please log on to our
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website at unsolved.com
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next a young woman is murdered and three
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eyewitnesses come forward each with a
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different
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story
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Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania the unclothed body of a
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young woman is found by children playing
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in a vacant
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lot three massive blows to the Head have
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crushed her
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skull every parent hears of these
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stories it's your worst nightmare it's
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worse than that the person that hurt Amy
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and took Amy has no idea what they've
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done I mean uh she was such an integral
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vital part of life it's very hard very
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very
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hard I guess the biggest question in
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anybody's mind is why did the person
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choose
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Amy the victim was Amy Willard home from
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school for the
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summer
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number 20 Amy
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will at school she was a star athlete
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Amy had been ranked among the top 25
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female lacrosse players in the United
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States Patriots number aim always said
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whether they won or lost she had a good
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day she felt good it didn't matter what
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the outcome was they didn't have to win
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all the time as long as everybody
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enjoyed what they were doing as much as
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she
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did Amy had no enemies no secret habits
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or taste for danger there was no
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apparent reason for her to
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Die the police focused on Amy's
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movements the night that she was killed
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they eventually heard from three
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different men claiming to have been at
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the scene of the crime each one had a
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different story to tell and each one
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would become a
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suspect on the night she was killed Amy
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met friends at Smokey Joe's Tavern
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a well-known College hangout she stayed
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for about 3 hours are you seeing anyone
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yeah I've got on a couple of dates
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lately her friends say that she drank
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less than one beer and left the bar
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somewhere between 130 and 140 a.m.
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bye at 2:03 a.m. Amy's car was
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discovered by off-duty
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paramedics it was pull over on the
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shoulder of a highway transition Road
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engine running headlights on and the car
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radio was playing Amy however was
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gone and there were fresh blood stains
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on the
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pavement within an hour State Police
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were scouring the area for
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Clues they found some blood along the
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right side of the car on the guard rail
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they found a pal print on the car and
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the next morning about 10:00 a.m. at the
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top of the ramp they found uh her
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underwear and her tennis
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shoes with daylight the search expanded
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to include helicopters K9 teams and
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hundreds of
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volunteers around noon a guy showed up
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at the ramp and told him he had been on
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the ramp the night before and had seen a
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car did you see anyone near the car no I
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just saw the car they took his name and
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address and said they'd get back in
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touch with him and in the interim they
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checked him out and found out that he
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used to work in the area of 16th and
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Indian an where Amy's body was
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found Amy's body was dumped 20 mil from
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her car and just five blocks from where
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the young man had once
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worked the investigation quickly focused
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on this self-proclaimed
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iwitness at first he seemed
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Cooperative police searched his car and
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they found handcuffs they found a
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flashlight that is the type used by
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police and when they searched his house
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they found some police paraphernalia and
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they also found a magazine that you
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could be used to order police
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equipment before the search
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investigators learned that the man had
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once been charged with impersonating a
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police officer and then without warning
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he suddenly stopped cooperating and
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hired a
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lawyer he says through his lawyer he
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didn't do it but he also denies coming
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to the ramp that day and police are
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steadfast saying he did come to the ramp
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no just the eyewitness remained a PO
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poal suspect but police were unable to
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find any evidence to link him directly
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to the
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murder meanwhile a second witness came
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forward to say that he too drove by
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Amy's car the night she was killed
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help the second witness an off-duty
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Pennsylvania state trooper claimed that
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he saw Amy's car and spoke to a uniform
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policeman sitting in a squad car that
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was parked behind
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it the trooper would later resign
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the police are very adamant that this
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Trooper was elsewhere when he said he
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was on the ramp but the trooper is just
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as adamant that he saw what he saw and
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he has always stood by his story that he
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saw this cop car behind Amy and then a
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third witness came
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forward it was a local policeman he
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claimed to have driven by Amy's car you
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okay here yeah already called the local
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PD they're on their way he also reported
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that he had talked to the ambulance
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crew the Poli police reinterviewed the
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ambulance crew and they said that
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absolutely they had not talked to this
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officer that night he agreed to resign
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from the force and cooperate fully with
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them and in exchange he would not be
00:23:38
prosecuted for lying to them one alleged
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police impersonator and two
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officers each had thrust himself into
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the Limelight with an eyewitness account
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and each in turn was viewed as a
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potential suspect there a lot of
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coincidences here um the first suspect
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worked in the area of where Amy's body
00:24:02
was
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found the trooper lived around the
00:24:05
corner very near where Amy lived with
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her
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mom the officer used to take his drunk
00:24:11
drivers for blood test to the hospital
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where Amy's mom
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works are they coincidences or are they
00:24:18
all linked I mean that's for the police
00:24:20
to find
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out a woman like Amy would not have
00:24:25
stopped for just anyone it's nearly 2:00
00:24:28
a.m. in the morning she's in a car she's
00:24:30
alone so a police impersonator or a
00:24:32
police officer seems to be the most
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likely reason she would have pulled
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over take a step out of the car
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please I don't understand what the take
00:24:50
a step over
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[Music]
00:24:52
here I don't understand what the problem
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is listen we been on the road
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[Music]
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I think Amy realized she was in trouble
00:25:01
and was going to run and took off and
00:25:03
that she was moving they hit her and aim
00:25:05
was
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gone that's what I would like to think
00:25:12
happened that she only had fear for a
00:25:15
couple seconds and that she didn't know
00:25:16
anything else that happened to
00:25:18
her we loved Amy we loved her more than
00:25:21
anything in this world and we are
00:25:23
thankful to God for giving her to us and
00:25:26
the way that he chose to enter life
00:25:28
that's something that we try to deal
00:25:30
with but we're not going to dwell on our
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job is making sure that Amy is
00:25:34
remembered for the wonderful person that
00:25:36
she was instead of the way that her life
00:25:37
was ended that's for the police to
00:25:43
handle update Amy willage murder has
00:25:48
been solved and none of the three
00:25:50
original suspects were
00:25:52
involved almost a year after Amy died a
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woman reported that her her car was
00:25:58
intentionally bumped by a driver who
00:26:00
tried to get her to pull
00:26:02
over she gave the man's license plate to
00:26:05
the
00:26:06
police the car was traced to Arthur
00:26:09
Jerome bmer Jr who was on Parole after
00:26:13
killing a man over a parking
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spot DNA test showed a match between
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buar and a sample found on Amy's body I
00:26:22
ain't done nothing Arthur Drome balar Jr
00:26:25
was convicted of rape murder
00:26:28
and kidnapping he was sentenced to death
00:26:31
by a lethal
00:26:34
injection next the police track a female
00:26:38
con artist a criminal with a thousand
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faces Norwood
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Massachusetts an El woman who will call
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Barbara is approached by an excited and
00:27:01
nervous stranger right by that newspaper
00:27:04
I found this bag let me show you what I
00:27:07
found I found this I think there's about
00:27:11
$70,000 in there what what do you think
00:27:14
we should
00:27:15
do I says you better go to police to
00:27:18
find
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out oh she says no I don't go to police
00:27:23
maybe they take money and I don't want
00:27:26
that inside I found this note and look
00:27:30
look this is all it says it says dear
00:27:32
brother we've done it again this time at
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the RAC track I've enclosed the money
00:27:37
and sent this way to avoid paying income
00:27:39
tax and then it signed Jose excuse me
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ladies but is is that something wrong
00:27:44
may I be of any help to you Barbara is
00:27:47
retired and living on a small
00:27:49
tension she is about to fall victim to a
00:27:52
well-rehearsed scam known as the pigeon
00:27:55
drop the water of money she has been
00:27:58
shown is
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worthless wae the woman is a con artist
00:28:02
and the man is her accomplice it is a
00:28:05
good idea come on it's a great idea let
00:28:08
just go go Barbara is the perfect Target
00:28:11
for con artist Josephine white a master
00:28:15
of the pigeon drop white has allegedly
00:28:17
scanned nearly a million dollars from
00:28:20
her innocent victims all of them living
00:28:22
on small fixed
00:28:26
incomes once I pinned down that the
00:28:28
person I was looking for was Josephine
00:28:30
white I was surprised to see how many
00:28:32
different appearances that she had she
00:28:34
changes like a chameleon she puts on
00:28:36
weight she loses weight she was
00:28:38
described in a number of different
00:28:39
Fashions and in addition to her own
00:28:41
appearance changing she'll use wigs
00:28:43
sunglasses quite a bit of jewelry and
00:28:46
very often this will grab a woman's
00:28:47
attention away from the actual physical
00:28:50
appearance you know my my boss is like
00:28:53
he's like a tax specialist I mean he's a
00:28:55
wizard with finances why don't we just
00:28:57
talk White and her accomplice are about
00:29:00
to begin phase two of the pigeon drop
00:29:03
they persuade Barbara to go with them to
00:29:05
get advice from Josephine's
00:29:08
boss and then my wife oh God God bless
00:29:11
us well well she's got a cancer in a
00:29:13
stomach or something to lure Barbara
00:29:15
further into their trap the accomplice
00:29:17
tells a hard luck story emphasizing how
00:29:20
desperately he needs the
00:29:23
money they arrive at an office building
00:29:26
where Joseph claims her boss Works don't
00:29:30
worry everything's going to be fine are
00:29:32
you sure
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yes I don't know U maybe we should tell
00:29:39
police ma'am don't worry about it please
00:29:41
the older woman actually wants to do the
00:29:43
right thing even though the victim may
00:29:45
make mention of backing out of the
00:29:46
situation the third party puts the
00:29:48
pressure on them so she has a motion
00:29:50
playing on one side and pressure of the
00:29:52
money being given to her on the other
00:29:54
side she's really caught in a
00:29:56
vice
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white tells them that her boss says that
00:30:00
they can legally keep the money
00:30:03
$222,000 each but she claims that a
00:30:07
$55,000 goodfaith deposit for income tax
00:30:11
purposes is required do you have a
00:30:13
credit card on
00:30:15
you phase three of the scam now begins
00:30:19
convince Barbara to put up the
00:30:22
$5,000 oh no I don't use credit card
00:30:26
well do you have $5,000 the bank oh
00:30:28
maybe maybe I have 5,000 let's get going
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let's go right Remember by the end of
00:30:34
the day you'll have the $5,000 back in
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the bank plus
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$222,000 more and you're sure you want
00:30:43
to take it all 1 2 $5,000 is nearly all
00:30:48
of Barbara's
00:30:52
savings white returns to the same office
00:30:56
building I'll go give him this she tells
00:30:59
Barbara that she'll show the $55,000 to
00:31:02
her
00:31:03
boss a few minutes later white returns
00:31:06
and triggers the final phase of the
00:31:09
pigeon drop you can go in and get your
00:31:11
money now room 204 Barbara is instructed
00:31:14
to meet the boss herself we'll be right
00:31:18
here waiting for
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you
00:31:30
there was nobody there then I come back
00:31:34
again to the place where they was
00:31:38
parked Barbara finds the parking lot
00:31:43
empty Josephine white the car the man
00:31:47
and Barbara's
00:31:49
$5,000 have
00:31:51
vanished the scam has taken less than 2
00:31:55
hours at this point the victim is
00:31:58
devastated the victim doesn't know what
00:32:00
to do their trust has been betrayed they
00:32:03
mull it over in their mind jeez if I
00:32:05
tell my family they're going to think
00:32:07
I'm a stupid old woman if I tell my son
00:32:09
he may put me in a nursing home and all
00:32:12
these terrible thoughts go through their
00:32:13
mind in conjunction with the
00:32:15
embarrassment and the problems of losing
00:32:17
large sums of
00:32:20
money Josephine white is said to have
00:32:22
victimized more than 100 elderly men and
00:32:26
women just like
00:32:30
barara
00:32:32
update Josephine white was arrested as
00:32:35
she was running one of her
00:32:38
scams she pleaded guilty to three larsy
00:32:41
charges and was sentenced to 15 years in
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00:32:49
prison coming up a young man's second
00:32:52
chance at life and his search for the
00:32:55
mystery woman who's safe
00:33:06
him we recently told you about a con man
00:33:09
named Edward Chase mayard he prayed on
00:33:12
middle-aged women stealing their hearts
00:33:15
and then their
00:33:16
money I meaning business one of
00:33:18
Maynard's alleged victims was a woman
00:33:21
from Michigan she claims that he
00:33:23
romanced her and then he made off with
00:33:25
her money more than one
00:33:28
$100,000 he's got to be stopped he
00:33:31
cannot manipulate other women like he
00:33:33
did
00:33:34
me authorities were certain that mayor
00:33:37
was somewhere in the US stalking his
00:33:40
next
00:33:42
victim
00:33:44
update the night of our broadcast
00:33:47
viewers called to report that mayor had
00:33:49
recently been in Naples Florida using
00:33:52
the Alias Eric Kelly he had been
00:33:56
romantically involved with a woman will
00:33:58
call Anne and had persuaded her to lend
00:34:01
him
00:34:03
$115,000 he then disappeared with the
00:34:06
money a few months later mayor showed up
00:34:09
in San Antonio Texas using the same
00:34:13
Alias he began whining and dining yet
00:34:17
another
00:34:18
woman he kept talking about how that he
00:34:21
could really do a lot for me but of
00:34:23
course it would take a lot of money and
00:34:26
he started asking me if I had money how
00:34:28
much I had and so I started feeling very
00:34:32
strongly that something was wrong I've
00:34:35
asked you for a simple favor a loan of
00:34:39
$300 until tomorrow morning M he said I
00:34:42
need you to loan me some money and I
00:34:43
indicated that I didn't want to and at
00:34:45
that point he got very loud a violent
00:34:48
temper but I need $300 and I need it now
00:34:51
do you understand and to be very honest
00:34:54
he frightened me so I gave him the money
00:34:56
and and I did not see him again after
00:34:58
that
00:35:00
evening Barbara notified the local
00:35:02
sheriff's department about her runin
00:35:04
with Eric
00:35:06
Kelly Wednesday evening I got a phone
00:35:09
call from someone in the sheriff's
00:35:10
department he had said hey are you
00:35:12
watching Unsolved Mysteries on TV our
00:35:15
boy was just on there I said Eric Kelly
00:35:18
he said yes bigger than life I'm getting
00:35:20
ready to call the FBI and give them all
00:35:22
the information that I
00:35:24
have 4 days later another viewer tip
00:35:27
plac mayard in Houston Texas he was
00:35:30
registered in this Motel using the same
00:35:33
Alias the FBI closed in we immediately
00:35:37
dispatched a number of Agents out there
00:35:40
in fact there was up to eight agents
00:35:41
that were on the scene and within 45
00:35:43
minutes he was
00:35:45
apprehended while waiting to be brought
00:35:48
back to Wisconsin to face charges manard
00:35:51
was released on bail and promptly
00:35:53
fled when we aired the story again 3
00:35:56
years years later mayard was recaptured
00:35:59
this time in Toledo Ohio he was
00:36:02
eventually convicted of theft and was
00:36:05
sentenced to 7 and 1/2 years in
00:36:13
prison Philip Macker was a high school
00:36:16
basketball star whose life was turned
00:36:18
upside down in a split second it all
00:36:21
happened during an ordinary trip to the
00:36:25
beach
00:36:28
Virginia Beach
00:36:31
Virginia you we went to the beach a day
00:36:35
before the softball tournament try to
00:36:38
get a nice tan and Che out the babes on
00:36:40
the beach and I dove into the water with
00:36:45
my hands out forward breaking the
00:36:48
wave that was the last movement I had
00:36:52
because when I drove into the wave I uh
00:36:54
broke my neck instantly and couldn't
00:36:57
feel anything I opened up my eyes under
00:37:00
water and it was real dark and black and
00:37:03
all I heard was the ocean
00:37:07
going I didn't I didn't know why I
00:37:10
wasn't moving you know in my mind I felt
00:37:13
like I was moving my arms and swimming
00:37:16
but I wasn't getting nowhere and I just
00:37:18
kept remembering
00:37:20
that I was going to go way out into the
00:37:23
ocean I was going to be eaten by sharks
00:37:26
my life was going to be over my
00:37:28
basketball career was going to be over
00:37:31
cuz that's all I love to do is play
00:37:35
basketball the previous season Philip
00:37:37
MRE had led his high school team into
00:37:40
the state playoffs he seemed destined to
00:37:42
win a college basketball scholarship and
00:37:45
Philip's most glorious moment came
00:37:47
during a matchup with his team's arch
00:37:49
rvel with the score tied and only
00:37:52
seconds remaining Phillip stole the ball
00:37:56
by three 5 Seconds Philip for cour with
00:37:59
three dribbles to the hoop castle liard
00:38:02
at the buer it's
00:38:03
[Applause]
00:38:06
over but 8 months after that Victory
00:38:09
Philip wasn't even able to move his arms
00:38:11
or legs he was buffeted by waves not
00:38:15
knowing whether he would live or
00:38:17
die I do remember when I was underwater
00:38:21
I was saying help somebody help me help
00:38:24
I was screaming
00:38:27
from out of
00:38:29
nowhere Phillip got the help he
00:38:34
needed I saw some lady pulling Philip
00:38:37
out of the water but the only reason I
00:38:39
knew it was him was from his swimming
00:38:42
trunks that he had been wearing and when
00:38:45
I saw the swimming trunks I just
00:38:47
ran what happened
00:38:50
here step back can you your toes move
00:38:54
something I heard my sister saying
00:38:56
philli philli move something move your
00:38:58
arms move your legs and I was gasping
00:39:01
for air and I responded by
00:39:04
saying I can't I can't move
00:39:08
anything and that was
00:39:11
it what's wrong with him with everyone's
00:39:14
attention on Phillip the quiet rescuer
00:39:17
was all but forgotten she slipped away
00:39:19
before anyone could ask her
00:39:22
name I've often thought about the woman
00:39:25
that saved Phillip now I regret that I
00:39:27
didn't thank her at that time but my
00:39:30
mind and my my thoughts were just all
00:39:33
for
00:39:37
Phillip years have passed since the
00:39:39
mysterious stranger gave Phillip a
00:39:41
second shot at life his injuries have
00:39:44
forced him to redefine his goals but he
00:39:47
pursues them with the same determination
00:39:50
that he once brought to the basketball
00:39:54
court when I was in the hospital and
00:39:56
Virginia I had like three or four goals
00:40:00
first goal was to uh get off the
00:40:02
respirator my second goal was to get in
00:40:06
a wheelchair and don't be so depressed
00:40:09
knowing that you know it's all right to
00:40:10
be in a wheelchair and my last goal was
00:40:13
to go to college and get a degree and
00:40:16
get a
00:40:17
job this is Phil McCree coming from the
00:40:19
campus of Westminster College and here
00:40:21
are today's sports headlines Chicago
00:40:24
Bears of can Philip was able to return
00:40:26
to the sport that he loves this time as
00:40:29
a play-by-play
00:40:30
announcer he has made the most of his
00:40:32
gift of life but still has one very
00:40:35
important goal he would like to
00:40:38
personally thank the woman who saved
00:40:42
him it's very important to find this
00:40:45
lady who pulled me out of the water
00:40:47
because I wouldn't be able to fulfill my
00:40:49
goals of being a sports
00:40:51
broadcaster I wouldn't be able to be
00:40:54
here with my family today I wouldn't be
00:40:56
able to do the things that I always
00:40:59
wanted to do in life if she wouldn't
00:41:01
have save my
00:41:04
life
00:41:07
update on the night of our broadcast
00:41:10
43-year-old Linda Potts called us to say
00:41:13
that she was Philip's rescuer Linda
00:41:16
lives in Ohio just 60 mi from Philip's
00:41:18
home in
00:41:20
Pennsylvania she had been vacationing in
00:41:23
Virginia Beach on the weekend of the
00:41:25
accident
00:41:27
philli was overjoyed to learn that he
00:41:29
would finally get his chance to say
00:41:31
thank you hi
00:41:34
Phillip how are you fine how are
00:41:38
you thank you very much oh you're
00:41:41
welcome thank you
00:41:43
welome it's just gave me tingling all
00:41:46
through my body and made me feel real
00:41:48
good to know that I could thank her for
00:41:51
saving my
00:41:52
life I felt
00:41:54
like I found a a member of my family a
00:41:58
lost member of my family that I hadn't
00:42:00
seen in five
00:42:03
years Philip Macker and Linda pots two
00:42:09
strangers joined by a twist of
00:42:25
fate
00:42:27
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