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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries the notorious son of sand case
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six brutal murders by one serial killer
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but a reporter has convincing evidence
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that David burwitz did not act alone he
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was a young man in love just trying to
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be
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nice now he's
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dead she survived the train crash that
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killed her mother now she desperately
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wants to find her mother's
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family and a mysterious Carpenter builds
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a magical
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staircase for a chapel in New
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Mexico then he
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disappears these are five fascinating
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cases just waiting to be solved and
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maybe you hold the key I'm Dennis finina
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and this is unsolved
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Mysteries
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in
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1977 the country breathed a huge sigh of
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relief when police finally captured the
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serial killer called the Son of Sam
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David burkowitz confessed to killing six
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people in New York City and injuring
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seven others but now reporter Mori Terry
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has convincing evidence that there may
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have been others
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involved
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son of Sam's reign of terror began on
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July 29th
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1976 two young girls were hit by 44
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caliber bullets one
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died this composite sketch of the gunman
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was created from the survivors
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eyewitness
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description three months later a man
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from Queens was shot in the head with a
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44 caliber
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gun a month after that again in Queens a
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man appeared from nowhere and shot two
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girls both survived but one was left
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paralyzed and would be in a wheelchair
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for the rest of her
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life eyewitnesses help police create a
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new composite of the
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gunman
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6 months later two other women were
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killed in separate shootings again a 44
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caliber revolver was
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used eyewitnesses created these sketches
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of the killer but these sketches didn't
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look anything like the earlier
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drawings almost 9 months after the first
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murder there was a another shooting just
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three blocks from the scene of the first
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attack this time a handprinted letter
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was left by the
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killer it read I am a monster I am the
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Son of Sam I'm a little
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brat the city was paralyzed with
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fear the people in the local
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neighborhoods particularly in the Bronx
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were petrified um I remember people
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yelling to people in the street get in
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that nuts out there and this is an an
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early afternoon on Memorial Day Son of
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Sam sent another letter this one to
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columus Jimmy Breslin It Was Written in
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the same distinctive style and contained
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references to
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sanism finally in Late July Son of Sam
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struck for the last
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time Stacy MTZ was killed her date
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Robert viilante was partial
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blinded no he just he just walked up to
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them shot them 19-year-old Tommy Z
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witnessed the
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shooting that guy came over to to the
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com blew those people away in less than
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4 seconds
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like Tommy helped police with yet
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another
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composite again there were more
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differences than similarities when
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compared to the earlier
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sketches as the police were
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investigating the most recent murder
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they found that a car near the crime
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scene had been issued a parking ticket
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the Ford Galaxy was owned by a postal
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worker named David burkowitz
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the police traced the ticket to Burt's
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home as they approached his building
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they saw the Ford Galaxy inside they
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found a duffel bag with a rifle sticking
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out of it and a letter signed by the son
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of s man hey John look at this we got
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him the police staked out the
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area later that evening burkowitz walked
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towards his car carrying a brown paper
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bag inside the bag was a 44 caliber
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revolver as detectives moved in to
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arrest them burwitz sat quietly in his
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car what took you guys so long step out
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of the
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David burwitz confessed to all the
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killings he told the police that his
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neighbors's Barking Dog told him to
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commit the
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murders he pleaded guilty to all the
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charges and was sentenced to 25 years to
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life but to reporter Mory Terry Burt's
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confession seemed too convenient after
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the arrest of burkowitz uh just through
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fade or whatever I started poking around
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into the case uh because I had some
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suspicions that uh maybe there was more
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to it than the public was being uh being
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led to believe Mori suspected that
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burkowitz didn't act alone but that he
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was part of a gang of killers it was
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Stacy moscowitz killing that first made
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him suspicious well the very early
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reports that um on the moscowitz killing
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had me concerned David burkwitz his
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features were widely different from the
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sketches of the kill that had been done
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by the police artist started seeking out
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Witnesses found Tommy Zeno who was a key
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witness in the to the
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shooting Tommy and his girlfriend were
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parked in front of Stacy moscowitz and
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her boyfriend on the night of the
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murder was looking through the mayor at
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a car and I see I noticed somebody you
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know standing in the park what I seen is
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he had long hair and it's hard to really
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see the face but it was he was then he
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looked like like he was in pretty good
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shape he walked up to the car like as if
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he was going to get in the car then he
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went into a St and he just shot and that
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was it he turned around and
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ran I can't picture burit running like
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that that's the thing that confused me
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after they caught him if they seen him
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is either he was he you know in a week
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he can't get that fat you know that's
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all I could say he's he's you know he
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didn't look like the Tye a guy to run
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and do
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it this map shows the neighborhood where
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the last killing took place Stacy and
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her boyfriend were parked here the Ford
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Galaxy owned by burkowitz was parked
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here two blocks away when it got the
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parking
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ticket myy Terry says the events leading
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up to the shooting began here at this
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entrance to the park it was about 1
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a.m. Witnesses saw a yellow Volkswagen
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pull up two men got
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out by 1:30 a.m. Tommy xano was sitting
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in his car he noticed the lovw pass by
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more than
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once at 2:05 a.m. the parking ticket was
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put on Burt's
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Car Cecilia Davis a woman who lived in
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the neighborhood pulled up in a friend's
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car near the the Ford
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Galaxy such we were triple packed and I
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was looking in the in the back so in
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case a car comes up I saw that guy
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taking the summons off his
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windshield and keep on looking watching
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the cops as they still gave
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tickets then he got in the car and he
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came behind us so he couldn't pass
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because we were blocking the whole
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street and he blowed the horn at us
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I gave him a dirty look what's the big
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crushing Mill in the
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night Cecilia says the man was
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definitely David burkowitz
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15 minutes after the parking ticket was
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issued Stacy and Robert went for a
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stroll in the
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park they noticed a man standing next to
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a restroom watching them two blocks away
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Cecilia was walking her dog by her
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apartment she saw David burkowitz the
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man who had honked earlier walking
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straight towards
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her Cecilia says that about 1 minute
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later she heard the
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gunshots that killed Stacy moscowitz and
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almost blinded Robert
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violante how could burkowitz have
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traveled from this spot where Cecilia
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last Saw to this area where stac and
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Robert were shot in just 1 minute it
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takes at least 2 and 1/2 minutes to
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quickly walk the two blocks from Bay
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17th Street to the
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park just 15 seconds after the shooting
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Witnesses saw a man wearing a light
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colored wig run from the park get into a
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yellow Volkswagen and speed away up 17th
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Avenue he was in such a hurry that he
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ran a red light and almost hit another
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car
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Mor Terry believes that at least three
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people including burkowitz were involved
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in Stacy's murder he claims they were
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members of a satanic cult and were
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responsible for every one of the Son of
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Sam
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shootings David burwitz was selected to
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be the Fall Guy on the Son of Sam
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killings um he was not a willing Fall
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Guy he wanted it to be another way but
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burwitz knew that he had been involved
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in all of the shootings uh he had uh
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pulled the trigger definitely two times
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responsible for three murders he's not
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an innocent man and was on the scene of
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all the others as a lookout of Wheelman
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whatever no I didn't think it was David
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berits then and I don't think it's him
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now it's a strong opinion of mine that
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David burkowitz was not the soul killer
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and was
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aided by other
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accomplishes next David Burt's
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connection to a satanic cult is it
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possible that he did not act
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alone when David burkowitz confessed to
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the Son of Sam murders it was believed
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that he had acted alone but a very
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disturbing Theory soon emerged that
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burkowitz was a member of a satanic cult
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and it was this group that committed the
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murders
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the general perception among the public
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for years had been that David burkowitz
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was a lone gunman the facts and the
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evidence not speculation the facts and
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the evidence say
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otherwise Mor says that cryptic
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references in one of the Son of Sam
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letters supports his theory one phrase
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that raised his suspicions was quote
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John weedies rapist and suffocator of
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young girls another was wicked King
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wicker Mory views them as clues that
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help identify an accomplice of David
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burkowitz the Son of
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Sam berkowitch lived in a seventh floor
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apartment in
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Yankers down the hill was a street named
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wicker could this be king wicker
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mentioned in the Brin letter Wicker
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Street was near the home of another
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character mentioned in the letter John
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wedy
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I learned that the John wedy rapist and
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suffocator Alias of the killer in the
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Bren letter was not really an alias at
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all but it was the name of a real person
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that person was John Carr who was the
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real life Son of Sam Carr John Carr's
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nickname was weedies and I learned this
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within a day of the arrest this is John
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Carr and these are two composite
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drawings of the 44 caliber Killers myy
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Terry believes that there is a
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resemblance between these two and John
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Carr
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Mor Tracked Down John Carr to North
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Dakota where he worked as a mechanic at
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a local Air Force Base this is where he
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lived during the mid-70s but he often
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visited New York during the time of the
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Son of Sam attacks from my experience
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John Carr was a mixed up drug addict
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many many months before burwitz was ever
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arrested he had talked about his friend
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berky to his friends out in Min not
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North Dakota John Carr was a friend
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of a confidant of and an associate of
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David burkowitz just 6 months after
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burkowitz was arrested John K was found
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dead in his girlfriend's apartment when
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I first walked in the room it was a
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ghastly sight my first interview with
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his live-in girlfriend at the time she
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told me that he must have just taken his
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own life the next
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day same person new interview whole new
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story
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John Carr had to have been murdered he
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was wanted by the police in New York for
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the Son of Sam killings he was afraid
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for his
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life and I fully believe that John Carr
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was murdered through interviews with uh
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car's friends and the police officials
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in North Dakota uh the picture emerged
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of John Carr being heavily involved in
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satanic cult activity both in Minot
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North Dakota and in Westchester County
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New York where he spent part of his time
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uh it involved blood drinking urine
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drinking the ritualistic sacrifice of
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animals specifically German
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Shepherds the satanic symbol that was
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found on the letter sent to Brin was
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also found written on Carr's phone
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book one of Carr's acquaintances was a
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man named Phil Falon Falcon claimed he
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accidentally walked in on car and a
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friend performing a SAT
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ritual Phil Falcon told us that he
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walked into his own house one night in
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North Dakota and found John Carr and
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another friend of Carrs part of the
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circle in the act of ritualistically
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sacrificing an animal right into
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Falcon's house sry we out
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here and Phil Falcon also told us that
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John Carr belonged to a very very
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violent satanic cult in Westchester
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County Prison sources who knew burkowitz
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told myy Terry that burkowitz had been
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introduced to the cult by John Carr's
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brother Michael in the
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70s Michael Carr ended up inviting
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burwitz to attend what he call a
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floating coven party and uh burkwitz
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came in and attended the party and
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symbolically not literally but
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symbolically the 44 was put into his
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hand that night that's how he got in to
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the into the cult
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scene over 2 years after burwitz was
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arrested Michael Carr was killed in a
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car accident on a New York
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Highway he died just 18 months after his
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brother how many members of this
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devilish C burwitz admitted during two
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different Court depositions that he knew
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both John and Michael Carr and that they
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were part of a satanic cult and he said
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the brothers were killed to keep them
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from
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talking my Terry believes the deaths of
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the car Brothers may have been organized
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by the quote 22 Disciples of hell that
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were mentioned in the brein letter he
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also says this satanic group performed
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the rituals in a local park just one
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mile from Burt's
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apartment I got a call from a young boy
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in yers wanted to know if I knew that
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there was a satanic cult that was
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meeting uh in antoy park in Yonkers and
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killing
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dogs and so I met him down
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there showed me where the cult was
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meeting we saw all the satanic rafiti
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saw the remains of probably two or three
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German Shepherds was a very significant
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development in the
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case was a satanic group responsible for
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the Son of Sam attacks burkowitz himself
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seems to support the theory he ended one
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of his letters to the media by stating
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there are other Sons out there God help
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the
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next a beautiful young con artist goes
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on a crazy spending spree the problem is
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be careful it's not her
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money
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Las Vegas
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Nevada Liza Montgomery shopped all
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weekend always paying with cashiers
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checks she made a big impression and
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started to raise big
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suspicions it began at the home of a man
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named Mark Husby who was selling a mink
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coat and a Two karat diamond ring
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Montgomery who was dressed to the nins
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said that she was responding to his
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newspaper
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r hi Ela how are you come on in oh thank
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you the license personality was like
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that of a excited school girl me here is
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your cashier's check my god there it is
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and there's the ring I told you to bring
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cash I know but the bank was closing and
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anyway that's just as good I mean don't
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worry about it I me it's a good check
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well can I see your ID please oh sure I
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asked to see her identification cuz I
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had told her when she came to the home
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here that I did want cash but uh I
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settled with the cashier check well let
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me walk you to the car oh all right
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thank you as I was saying goodbye to Lia
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uh and I walked her out to her car uh it
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seemed very unusual to me that she how
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she treated the main coat she just uh
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literally shoved it in the car as if it
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meant nothing to
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her Montgomery shopping Marathon was
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just
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beginning that same night she bought two
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rings with a cashier's check for
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$39,000 that's great your cash check and
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here are your rings Liza had been coming
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to us for about 3 months she was always
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well-dressed so we never had a problem
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believing whether or not she could
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actually afford anything she wanted
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to here's your cashier's check great the
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next day Mont gory continued her
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shopping spree she was wearing her new
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mink coat and she was driving an old
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beat up moving van she bought
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$223,000 worth of furniture that she
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called a surprise gift for her
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husband Montgomery shopped all weekend
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always paying with cashier checks she
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made a big impression and started to
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raise
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suspicions shortly after selling
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Montgomery the Mt coat and the ring Mark
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Husby began to wonder whether her check
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was
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good he drove to an exclusive gated
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community looking for the address
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printed on her ID hi do you have a li
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Montgomery living here at 2901 raler
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Drive no sir that address doesn't even
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exist Mark drove home immediately and
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called the police I explained to him
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that unless or until the bank received
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that check and officially notified him
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that it was counterfeit or somehow
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forged there was really nothing we could
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do at that point even if we were able to
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find her we'd have no authority to
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detain her simply because the address on
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a cashier's check was somehow an error
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be careful with that meanwhile at the
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furniture store Montgomery was having
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trouble squeezing everything she bought
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into the van I don't care what you have
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to do just get it in there just just get
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it in okay the store owner didn't like
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Montgomery's attitude so once the van
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was
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loaded he decided to follow just to see
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where she would
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go before leaving he gave his wife a
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walkie-talkie and he took one for
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himself she's turning away from Rancho
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Bair I knew she was lying call the
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police I'm going to keep following her
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okay we learned from dispatch that the
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check had already been passed at the
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furniture store and that it was in the
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name of Liza Montgomery which was the
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exact same name that Mark Husby had
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given us based on that information we
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felt that there was enough corroboration
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now since there were two checks floating
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around that she needed to at least be
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stopped and identified the store owner
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followed Montgomery's van to a
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residential neighborhood 5 miles
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away she just pulled over on a
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residential street and met up with a man
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standing next to a red
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convertible now he's getting into the
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truck she's getting into the
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car okay my husband says that the woman
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made contact the store owner's wife
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tried to keep authorities informed of
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her husband's location A store owner to
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try and keep up with the vehicle if he
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can and we'll be there momentarily
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within 2 3
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minutes he continued to follow the van
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and read
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convertible when the vehicles got to an
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intersection outside of town the van
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made an illegal right turn and sped away
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she stopped her car well I better get
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out of
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here the store owner was afraid that
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Montgomery might be armed so he took off
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She chased after
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him after 3 miles he pulled over to the
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side of the road Montgomery whizzed by
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and
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disappeared the police were just minutes
00:24:05
behind but it was too
00:24:08
late in summary she hit at least 12
00:24:12
places that we're aware of and uh the
00:24:15
amount of loss to all of those in total
00:24:17
was over
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$150,000 the last of the places she hit
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uh was a gaming supply store at which
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time she bought three slot machines
00:24:28
almost as if she wanted to take a
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souvenir of Las Vegas with her out of
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town eventually the van and convertible
00:24:35
were found Montgomery had rented both
00:24:37
vehicles at local agencies and persuaded
00:24:40
the rental agent to accept a $500 cash
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deposit instead of a credit card usually
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we only find this type of skill amongst
00:24:50
people who are going to uh get involved
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in a scam that's worth thousands upon
00:24:54
thousands of dollars if they're going to
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get away with it they're going to have
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to be very good and lies was one of the
00:24:58
best but even the best make mistakes
00:25:02
when Montgomery rent at the van she left
00:25:04
behind this ID card and there was her
00:25:08
picture for all to
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see
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update thanks to a viewer tip
00:25:15
authorities identified Liza Montgomery
00:25:17
as Ellen Christine Hua they tracked her
00:25:21
to Hollywood California where she was
00:25:24
arrested Ellen Hua later pleaded guilty
00:25:26
to burglary and theft char chares she
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served time in the Nevada State
00:25:31
Penitentiary and has since been
00:25:36
released coming up love turns deadly
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when a young man gets involved with a
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[Music]
00:25:52
killer Chicago
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Illinois a fire blazes in a bacon lot at
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the edge of the city smoldering deep in
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the Flames is the burnt body of
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22-year-old Oscar
00:26:08
vasqu at the county morg Oscar's parents
00:26:11
are faced with the most difficult task
00:26:13
of their lives identifying the remains
00:26:17
of their oldest
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son I never thought we would find him
00:26:23
there he was a good kid he never got
00:26:26
into trouble he didn't drink he didn't
00:26:30
smoke he was different from the other
00:26:32
kids in the
00:26:34
neighborhood Oscar had managed to avoid
00:26:36
the local gangs and held a steady job as
00:26:39
a truck driver he had just started
00:26:41
dating an attractive 18-year-old named
00:26:43
Regina D
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Francisco this is D Francisco would you
00:26:48
have a seat please and your two days
00:26:50
after Oscar's body was found Regina's
00:26:52
mother and sister went to the police
00:26:55
they reported that Regina was missing
00:27:00
she's been gone for two days so this is
00:27:03
the first time the same detectives that
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were investigating Oscar's murder
00:27:08
visited Regina's
00:27:12
house while searching for Clues they
00:27:14
discovered a key piece of evidence
00:27:16
linking Regina to
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Oscar
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detective lo and behold to our surprise
00:27:25
there was the matching pillowcases to
00:27:28
the
00:27:28
sheet that was used to wrap Oscar's body
00:27:31
up
00:27:32
in and that's when our focus of our
00:27:36
investigation switched to Regina
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herself hey
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Oscar oh hey what up how you doing
00:27:46
everyone agreed that Oscar's life took a
00:27:48
bad turn when he met Regina you look
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beautiful too thank
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you a in the short period of time
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approximately 3 weeks they only had had
00:27:58
maybe three or four dates and I think
00:28:02
Oscar was blinded by Regina's good
00:28:06
looks but behind those good looks lurked
00:28:08
a dangerous
00:28:10
woman Regina apparently had another
00:28:13
boyfriend a gang member nicknamed locco
00:28:17
and she needed $1,000 to bail him out of
00:28:20
jail Regina decided to get the money
00:28:23
from Oscar and she asked her sister
00:28:25
Margaret for
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help
00:28:30
detectives believe that Margaret told
00:28:32
Oscar that it was Regina who was in jail
00:28:35
and needed to be bailed out can you get
00:28:37
us the money I got $1,000 is that enough
00:28:40
Oscar being the loyal and true boyfriend
00:28:44
that he thought he was I'll get it back
00:28:46
to you I promise didn't hesitate at
00:28:51
all Oscar gives Margaret the
00:28:55
$1,000 Margaret tells Oscar as soon as
00:28:58
she bails Regina out of jail that Regina
00:29:00
will call
00:29:02
him Regina did call Oscar and the two
00:29:05
went out on another date thank you so
00:29:08
much baby for helping me it's all right
00:29:11
you know I love you you do do anything
00:29:14
for you apparently Oscar asked Regina
00:29:16
when she was going to pay him back and
00:29:18
that's when she came up with the idea to
00:29:21
kill him mayy I don't have the money
00:29:24
right now I just got out of jail Regina
00:29:26
says hey you know I'm sorry I'm willing
00:29:30
to pay you back give you a little extra
00:29:33
um Margaret really likes you too you
00:29:36
know how about coming over and I'll give
00:29:38
you your money and uh the three of us
00:29:41
will have a little fun are you
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serious
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and that's when uh Regina offered the
00:29:50
the threesome the sexual
00:29:52
encounter and Oscar was pretty willing
00:29:56
to turn around and oblige
00:30:01
Witnesses say Oscar arrived at Regina's
00:30:03
home at around 8:00 p.m. Margaret
00:30:06
greeted him at the
00:30:08
door hey hi what are you doing here um I
00:30:12
don't I'm I don't know Regina's
00:30:14
downstairs waiting for
00:30:17
you A friend of the D Francisco sisters
00:30:20
was also at the
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[Music]
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house come down here baby I'm in the
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basement Oscar went ahead of
00:30:32
Margaret walked down the steps and when
00:30:35
he made it to the last step in the
00:30:39
basement Margaret took the
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semi-automatic shot him one time in the
00:30:47
back of the
00:30:48
head come on let's
00:30:51
go investigators believe that the girls
00:30:53
took Oscar's necklace car keys and six
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$100 in
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cash next they wrapped his body in a bed
00:31:02
sheet and a
00:31:04
[Music]
00:31:06
tarp the sisters then cleaned up the
00:31:08
crime scene and dragged Oscar's body up
00:31:11
the basement stairs and dumped it into
00:31:14
the trunk of his
00:31:16
car then they drive around i' say for
00:31:19
approximately 40 minutes looking for a
00:31:22
spot to dump the body until they
00:31:24
happened upon this vacant
00:31:26
lot okay pour it on in
00:31:29
there one of the girls take a large
00:31:32
bottle of nail polish
00:31:34
remover they ignite the the
00:31:38
body get
00:31:40
back and drive
00:31:44
away 2 Days Later police discovered
00:31:47
Oscar's Camaro near where his body was
00:31:50
found it also had been
00:31:53
torched the case broke wide
00:31:56
open
00:31:58
Margaret and Regina's friend came
00:32:00
forward and gave police a detailed
00:32:04
account of what she witnessed on the
00:32:06
night of Oscar's murder come on let's go
00:32:09
arrest warrants were issued for Regina
00:32:11
and Margaret D Francisco but by now both
00:32:14
had
00:32:16
disappeared
00:32:18
update almost 2 years after Oscar's
00:32:21
murder authorities received the tip
00:32:23
saying that Margaret was living with a
00:32:25
relative in Illinois she was arrested
00:32:28
and charged with first-degree murder
00:32:31
armed robbery and concealing a
00:32:35
homicide 7 months after her sister was
00:32:38
arrested Regina D Francisco was captured
00:32:40
in Dallas and charged with murder the
00:32:44
police were called after Regina was
00:32:46
accused of stealing a car from a
00:32:48
friend both sisters were convicted of
00:32:51
murder Regina was sentenced to 35 years
00:32:54
in prison and Margaret 46
00:33:01
years next a tragic accident claims the
00:33:05
life of a young
00:33:07
mother now her grown daughter wants to
00:33:09
find her mother's
00:33:21
family Dallas
00:33:26
Texas
00:33:29
a train rumbles out of town headed
00:33:34
west ready 200 M down the line in
00:33:38
abalene Darlene alfano and a friend
00:33:40
gather up their children for a trip into
00:33:44
town the train and the Alano car reach
00:33:47
aene at the same time no one knows why
00:33:51
but the car suddenly stops on the tracks
00:33:54
at the railroad
00:33:56
crossing
00:34:09
the accident killed three of the
00:34:11
children and one of the
00:34:13
[Music]
00:34:16
mothers US Army Sergeant Fred Alano lost
00:34:19
his wife and two of his
00:34:22
daughters his third child Ladon suffered
00:34:25
massive head injuries happened to
00:34:32
Mommy over the years Ladonna underwent a
00:34:35
number of operations that gradually
00:34:38
restored her face but of course nothing
00:34:41
could bring back her sisters or her
00:34:43
mother
00:34:44
Darlene I have no memories of my mother
00:34:47
at all I look at pictures of her and I
00:34:49
try to remember something and it's like
00:34:51
looking at a a magazine article of a
00:34:54
woman my father has told me stories
00:34:56
about us as children children with my
00:34:58
mom and it doesn't bring back any
00:35:00
memories
00:35:01
whatsoever none
00:35:03
whatsoever this photo of Lana's Aunt
00:35:06
Patricia Heins was her only hope for
00:35:09
finding her mother's
00:35:10
[Music]
00:35:11
family
00:35:13
update as a result of our broadcast
00:35:16
ladonna's search came to an emotional
00:35:18
end she found her aunt
00:35:23
Patricia a few weeks later ladana was
00:35:26
pulling up to her aunt Pat's house house
00:35:28
in soue Falls
00:35:31
hello hi hello
00:35:35
hi
00:35:36
hi oh it's been good oh you're just
00:35:39
cranking don't cry I'm I'm thank you so
00:35:43
do you it's totally changed my life do
00:35:46
you believe it yeah I believe it it's
00:35:48
just finding them then they're great
00:35:49
people
00:35:51
and they're beautiful I just I'm I just
00:35:54
feel totally my that hole that empty
00:35:56
hole is totally filled
00:35:58
she lost her mother I lost my sister and
00:36:02
it's just
00:36:03
like she found a another mother and I
00:36:07
found a new sister and I just feel like
00:36:09
I just feel like we're just connected I
00:36:11
really
00:36:12
do I can't believe Lana's first visit
00:36:15
with her grandparents in more than 30
00:36:17
years made the reunion complete this is
00:36:21
your mother I present that to you oh
00:36:23
thank you so much I'm your mother she
00:36:26
made this I can't even express it I just
00:36:28
really cannot express how I feel there's
00:36:31
just too many emotions going on here and
00:36:33
it's just a wonderful wonderful feeling
00:36:35
it's just it's great I just feel like
00:36:37
I'm I just feel really like I'm at home
00:36:39
it's really
00:36:40
[Music]
00:36:46
great more than a century ago a
00:36:49
mysterious Carpenter arrived at a tiny
00:36:52
Chapel in Santa Fe New Mexico what he
00:36:55
left behind became legendary
00:36:58
was he just a talented Craftsman or
00:37:01
someone
00:37:02
infinitely more
00:37:05
special Santa Fe New
00:37:10
Mexico in
00:37:12
1852 this was the last outpost along the
00:37:15
Santa Fe Trail a Haven for outlaws
00:37:18
gamblers Mavericks and
00:37:22
renegades the sisters of Loretto a
00:37:25
religious order in Kentucky sent 7 the
00:37:27
nuns to bring religion and order to the
00:37:30
town this isn't a once they arrived the
00:37:35
sister's first job was to build a school
00:37:37
and a chapel they call it the Chapel of
00:37:40
Our Lady of Light and it still stands
00:37:43
today wouldn't it be Lov the sisters
00:37:45
were thrilled with their new church
00:37:47
except for one small
00:37:50
detail there was no staircase leading up
00:37:52
to the choir
00:37:53
loft many of The Lofts of churches early
00:37:57
churches in New Mexico had no staircases
00:38:00
they simply leaned a ladder up and
00:38:03
climbed the ladder and sang but the
00:38:05
sisters couldn't climb a ladder in their
00:38:07
long robes so they they needed a
00:38:11
staircase some Carpenters had come in
00:38:14
and looked the situation over but shook
00:38:18
their heads in dismay and said there was
00:38:20
just no
00:38:21
way and so they decided they would not
00:38:24
do anything until they made an noena to
00:38:26
St Joseph the patron of
00:38:29
Carpenters a novena is 9 days of
00:38:32
meditation and regular
00:38:34
prayer in
00:38:36
heaven for eight days the sisters
00:38:39
prayed nothing
00:38:43
happened but on the ninth and final day
00:38:45
of the Novena a stranger arrived at the
00:38:49
chapel come in sir Mother
00:38:53
Superior I'm seeking work and what is
00:38:56
your trade sir I'm a
00:38:58
carpenter we do have need of a Stairway
00:39:01
to be built in our
00:39:03
Chapel Legend says the carpenter Only
00:39:05
Had a Hammer a saw and a t-square with
00:39:14
them when he was finished he called the
00:39:16
nuns together and said you have your
00:39:19
staircase the sisters gazed with Wonder
00:39:22
at what he had
00:39:23
built the carpenter obviously had to be
00:39:26
a very fine Carpenter he had to be a
00:39:28
master Carpenter because you see there's
00:39:30
no Center support it rests by its own
00:39:34
geometric balance and design it's very
00:39:37
steep 22 ft there's a certain
00:39:41
springiness when you walk up it and you
00:39:43
realize you're climbing a very very
00:39:46
special
00:39:48
staircase the sisters planned A Feast
00:39:50
for the carpenter when he didn't show up
00:39:53
they searched the town the mysterious
00:39:56
stranger was gone around nobody had seen
00:40:00
him thank you nobody knew where he slept
00:40:04
nobody ever fed
00:40:07
him they made an arena to St Joseph the
00:40:10
patron of
00:40:11
Carpenters so it's understandable that
00:40:14
they would believe St Joseph did
00:40:22
it the chapel is now a tourist
00:40:26
attraction
00:40:28
through the years the mystery
00:40:29
surrounding the staircase has
00:40:31
continued in 1965 Oscar hadwiger a third
00:40:36
generation Master Carpenter visited the
00:40:40
chapel he went in and he saw the
00:40:43
staircase and of course he was
00:40:44
overwhelmed being a builder any Builder
00:40:47
is overwhelmed when they see This
00:40:50
Magnificent piece of
00:40:51
carpentry and he remembered a story in
00:40:55
the family that his Grand father had
00:40:58
come to this country and and had built a
00:41:01
staircase Oscar's grandfather Johan
00:41:04
hadwiger was a famous European Carpenter
00:41:07
and he had worked in the Santa Fe area
00:41:10
when the staircase was
00:41:12
built Oscar told the sisters that he
00:41:15
thought his grandfather had built the
00:41:17
staircase but they were
00:41:19
skeptical they have nothing except they
00:41:23
word of mou that he did it I don't buy
00:41:26
it
00:41:30
Oscar finally found what he said was
00:41:33
proof in a storage room he came across
00:41:36
his father's
00:41:40
toolbox inside was a faded sketch of a
00:41:43
spiral
00:41:46
staircase the drawing was an overhead
00:41:49
view with 33 steps all that exists today
00:41:53
is this photo
00:41:56
copy
00:41:58
who was the stranger who answered the
00:42:00
sister's prayer was it Johan hadwiger
00:42:03
the European Builder or as the sisters
00:42:06
of Loretto believe was it St Joseph
00:42:12
[Music]
00:42:26
himself
00:42:28
[Music]
00:42:39
[Music]
