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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries when Charlie Sigman met his
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bride an he thought he had finally found
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true love but he was
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wrong dead
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wrong in
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1937 docn claimed he found gold coins
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and jewels in a New Mexico mountain some
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say the2 billion treasure might still be
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there he was a well-respected judge
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until his clients found out he had
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secretly robbed them of over $10
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million Shandra Lei Joyce Chang both
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were government interns in Washington DC
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both were murdered were they the victims
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of a serial
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killer you just might have that one
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vital clue to help solve one of our
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cases I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries join
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us
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carsville
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Missouri Charlie Sigman loved children
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and when he fell in love with Anne he
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also fell in love with her two boys he
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wanted the best for his new family so he
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sold a small house and moved Anne and
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her children to a 9 Acre Farm
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he called it C and A's for Charlie and
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an they worked side by
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side those two children is what Drew he
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and an together and they were so crazy
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about Charlie and he was those
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children and I can look back now I can
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see that she was Feathering her nest she
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thought it's strange it's something I've
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never been able to put my finger on but
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she just didn't seem Charlie's type ever
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it was early one summer when Charlie
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began to suspect that there was more to
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an than met the
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eye she had disappeared one night uh had
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come back and then he woke up another
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night and she was
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gone and she wasn't in the house you saw
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a light under the door of the their
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refrigerator little [��__ ] they kept their
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vegetables and stuff in
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he went out opened the
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door and she was sitting in the floor
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and a neglige half
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naked uh she had a semicircle candles
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around
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her had a a poster of a Satan likee
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figure on the
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wall was chanting which he didn't
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understand and they had a confrontation
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they went into the house um and he
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didn't go any further than that
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I didn't
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ask 3 weeks earlier Charlie had found a
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doll in their bedroom and told him that
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she used it in her witchcraft
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rituals he said look at that needle in
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through the heart that's drawn on
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that and he said I when I woke up when I
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found that he said it was laying on my
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pillow Charlie was upset he told aun to
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move out she went to live with Gary Goff
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a truck driver who had once been a
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policeman Charlie had known Gary since
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childhood but most upsetting to him was
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that Anne took her two children with
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her Charlie was devastated he missed his
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wife and the two boys he still talked to
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Anne occasionally but according to some
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friends he had also received threatening
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phone calls from Anne's new boyfriend
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Gary gof okay let me clean up a little
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bit one night Charlie was hanging out
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with an old friend at home when he got a
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call from
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an she said that the two boys was crying
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after him she was threatening suicide
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and he said that he had to go up there
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and see what was happening he said I
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could be getting set up here are you
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sure you want to do this Charlie agreed
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to meet an at Gary's house he considered
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taking his
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handgun but ch changed his mind
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no 3:20 a.m. Charlie's been
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shot shot Anne went to the police and
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told them that her husband had been shot
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at Gary's
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house they began an investigation at the
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crime scene the house was tore
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apart it was been a very bad struggle in
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there his blood all the door and the
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walls and a couple bullet holes in the
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walls and one in the door I mentioned
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and uh there were seven bullet wounds in
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the
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body two guns were found a 32 caliber
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revolver was lying on the floor and a 25
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caliber pistol was on top of the TV both
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had been
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fired in a waste basket in the kitchen
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the police found a bloody
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iron she was yelling for help I got in
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there Charlie was beat when questioned
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Gary gof said he fought with Charlie hit
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him with the iron and fired all seven
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shots at him he Bai her and confirmed
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the story and mentioned that she also
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handled the 25 caliber pistol did you
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give it to Gary or Gary take it from you
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um I gave it to
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Gary and claimed that Charlie came
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through the house in a drunken rage and
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demanded to be led
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in come on we got to talk he forced his
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way into the
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house and said that he began beating her
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until golf came to the rescue although G
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had a broken arm at the time he fought
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with
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Charlie then he shot him with the 32
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caliber pistol five
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times he fired two more shots with the
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25 caliber pistol Charlie finally
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collapsed
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unfortunately no blood was taken from
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Charlie's body to find out if he had
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indeed been
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drinking but if Anne and gof had both
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fired at Charlie there could be grounds
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for a charge of premeditated
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murder police conducted a powder residue
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test to see if an had also fired a gun
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that test was
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inconclusive took it all to the
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prosecutor's office he yes what I felt
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and at that time I told him I felt like
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it was probably self-defense that I
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believe that they were telling the truth
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and the only thing I could tell him was
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have to do more investigation and
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see Anne Sigman and Gary gof were
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released but the investigation
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continued apparently Anne had told a
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friend that she had reasons for wanting
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Charlie dead the sheriff's department
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convinced the friend to wear a wire
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perhaps an would say something
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incriminating again now tomorrow okay I
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just need that much time fine I will
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wait until tomorrow and then I'll call
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she had in talking with Miss Sigman had
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told her she was fixing to go to the
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police Miss Sigman ultimately told her
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not to go to the police or asked her not
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to go to the police and give her time to
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her and Mr golf time to leave
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town she incriminated herself on the
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tape authorities prepared a warrant for
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Anne and G's arrest but within hours
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Anne had van finished leaving her two
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boys
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behind Gary gof had already left town
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his truck was later found abandoned in
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Phoenix Arizona in my mind I do not see
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a murder first degree
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here and I say that because of the scene
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the disarray of the house the damage
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that was done to it the angle of the
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bullet wounds to the body the fight that
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occurred and the damage to Garrett the
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bruises on his chest and face and the
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bruises on his back and and of course
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the man had a broken arm in my opinion
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there's no probability of self fense and
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once we get into the trial we can bring
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all the information out I don't think
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that anybody else will assume that
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either I would like to see him come back
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and resolve this thing because I do not
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believe that Gary G is capable of murder
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first
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degree both Davis and Hilburn believe
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that this case will not be resolved
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until Anne Sigman and Gary gof have
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their day in
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Court
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update Gary G turned himself in and
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played guilty to second degree
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murder Goff was sentenced to 20 years
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and was released after serving 13 years
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and 5
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months from prison he begged Sigman to
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turn herself in but she
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refused there is still an outstanding
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warrant for the arrest of an Sigman for
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first-degree murder
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she may be living in Oregon or Arizona
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under the Alias Andy Hayes or Andy
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partlo if you have any information
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please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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coming up interns working for two
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different congressmen are murdered the
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similarities between the cases suggest
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there is a
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connection
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Washington
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DC The Disappearance of Capitol Hill
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intern sha Revy caught the attention of
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the entire
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country 13 months after Shandra vanished
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police were called to a remote section
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of Rock Creek Park 4 miles from her
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apartment a hiker's dog had uncovered a
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human skull halfway down a wooded
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incline far away from the well-used
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paths in the dense brush police also
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found additional bones a jogger's bra
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and a cassette
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player the search for Shandra leevy was
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over her death was ruled a homicide but
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what exactly happened to Shandra remains
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a
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mystery few people know that another
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Washington intern Joyce Chang
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disappeared 2 years before
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Shandra although there was no National
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media coverage the similarities between
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the two cases are
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disturbing the two women lived in the
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same neighborhood and had worked for the
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same government agency they were both
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young brunette and
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petite could there be a connection
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between the murders of Joyce and
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Shandra when Shandra Ley disappeared it
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certainly brought back a lot of memories
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and we wondered if there was a
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connection that question remains open
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and the question of Joy's disappearance
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remains open I strongly believe that
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these particular incidents involving
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these two women may have been committed
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by the the same
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perpetrator simply because of there's
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just too many similarities in this in
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this case to to
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ignore Joyce was the only daughter in a
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close-knit Taiwanese American family
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while in college she was an intern for
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representative Howard Burman of
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California she had a wonderful
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personality she was just very cheerful
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she'd light up a room that kind of a
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person I mean she was just
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adorable after her internship Joyce took
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a job as a lawyer at the ins she lived
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with her brother Roger in the Dupont
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Circle area of
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Washington Shandra would later move to
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the same neighborhood
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a favorite hangout for both was the
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nearby
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Starbucks it was here that Joyce was
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last
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seen I know about you guys but I ate way
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too
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much earlier that evening Joyce met up
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with some friends to see a movie and eat
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dinner
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bye at about 8:15 my sister was with uh
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her friend Kathy Joyce asked to make one
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quick stop at the Starbucks uh to grab a
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cup of tea
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I Joyce told her friend that she was
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going to walk
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home she never made it back to her
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apartment when Joyce failed to return
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home her brother called the police I
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like the report a missing person because
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Joyce was a federal employee the FBI
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became involved it's spelled c h i at
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first the investigation turned up
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nothing then a couple came forward with
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the first clue in the
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case Joyce disappeared on January 9th on
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January 10th a couple was walking
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through Anacostia Park and had found a
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bill fold with Joyce's government credit
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card and had turned that into the Park
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police but the credit card remained in
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lost and found for 4 days until the
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couple saw Joyce's picture in a news
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broadcast they contacted the
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FBI a 50 seven memb search and rescue
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team comb the area where the cow was
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found they discovered Joyce's Apartment
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keys her video and grocery store cards
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her gloves got a jacket over here and
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the jacket she had been
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wearing there was a clean rip running
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down the back of
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it her coat torn down the back her cards
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scattered every place we're just
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terrified we know she's dead you know
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you don't want to confronted but you
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know something horrible has happened to
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her the police searched the river but
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found nothing then 3 months later and 8
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mil Downstream a canoe spotted a body
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that had washed the
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shore after 3 months underwater DNA
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tests were needed to identify the
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body it was Joyce
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Chen that's when all hope just dashed
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that um that Joy was alive and I quickly
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called my mother one of the most
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difficult phone calls I've ever had to
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make to
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tell my mother that her daughter was
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dead and that's a moment that I'll never
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forget the condition of her body made it
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impossible to determine how Joyce died
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the cause of death was listed as
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undetermined without evidence of Foul
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Play investigators felt there was
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nothing more to be done the case was
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closed then 2 years later sha rivi was
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murdered the similarities between the
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two women were
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chilling however police dismissed them
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for the first time they suggested that
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Joyce may have committed
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suicide this is a woman without a
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history of depression this is a woman
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who worked very hard in life and had
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everything to live for and the and it's
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just not a theory that makes sense if
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Joyce did commit suicide why was her
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jacket ripped why were her belongings
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left on the bank of the river and how
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did she get to the riverbank almost 5
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miles from where she was last seen she
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didn't have a
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car and no public transportation goes
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there and on a extremely freezing cold
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day in
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January commit suicide by waiting into
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the anacosta river and putting her head
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under the water that is patently absurd
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on its
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face there is another clue that adds to
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the mystery surrounding Joyce Chang just
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3 days after she was last seen at the
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coffee shop a bizarre message appeared
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on a nearby wall it read good day JC may
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I never miss the thrill of being near
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you just the initials JC which are the
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same initials as my sister's name and
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the content of the message may I never
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miss the thrill of being near you it was
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all just a little too weird a little
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peculiar if a serial killer is
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responsible for these murders there are
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those who believe that he has taken not
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two but three
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lives 5 months before Joyce disappeared
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28-year-old Christine Mion was raped and
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murdered while she was walking home from
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a barbecue she had been an intern and
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she fit the same description all three
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women lived in the DuPont area all three
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women had dark hair all three women were
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about the same height and uh they were
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all here uh as interns at one point in
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their careers there were no similarities
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in those three cases period that case is
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currently in a closed status somebody
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knows something and then maybe they'll
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see this and realize that there are
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still people who care and still want to
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know what happened to her and maybe they
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will come forward and and tell us we
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haven't completely gone on with our
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lives and forgotten about
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Choice
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update there are new developments in
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this case here's one of our staff with
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details the investigations into the Mur
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of Shandra leevy and Joyce Chang have
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been closed and it turns out they were
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unrelated assisted by a tip from a
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jailhouse informant police charged a
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27-year-old illegal immigrant ingmar
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guandi with shandra's murder based
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substantially on his cellmates testimony
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Guan was convicted and sentenced to 60
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years however in an unexpected twist
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Federal prosecutors reversed course
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saying they can no longer prove a case
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against ingar Guan because of quote
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recent unforeseen developments end
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quote it has been alleged that
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recordings of the jail house informant
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demonstrate that he had lied leaving
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prosecutors unable to prove Guan DK
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guilty Beyond A Reasonable Doubt guandi
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will be released to US immigration where
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he faces deportation
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proceedings in the case of Joyce Chang
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the case was closed because police have
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identified her Killers as two DC area
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males who abducted Joyce and took her to
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the Anacostia River where they intended
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to rob
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her police believe that Joyce attempted
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to run from her captors but slipped on
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the ice fell into the river and
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drowned one of the two men is currently
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in federal prison serving a life
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sentence the other is believed to be in
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Guana which has no extradition treaty
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with the United
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States next some believe that there is a
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treasure buried in New Mexico's
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victorial Peak worth nearly $2
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billion but Uncle Sam won't allow anyone
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to look for
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it White Sands New Mexico one 100,000
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acres of desert home only to
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rattlesnakes and Sagebrush vulture and
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mule deer in 1937 a man named doc Nas
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was deer hunting
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here he hiked to the top of a hill known
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as Victorio
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Peak as thirst and fatigue set in he
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looked for water from one of the
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mountains many
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Springs instead he discovered a
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mysterious hole in the ground the hidden
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entrance to a
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tunnel there was a ladder in the opening
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and Doc climbed
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inside a maze of tunnels led to a large
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Cavern he found an old chest on it an
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Old English inscription that read sealed
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silver the chest was only a small part
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of the treasure that
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claim that he found very deep deep in
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that Cavern was gold silver jewels and
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gold bars that today would be worth
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1.7 billion
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do it's a lot of
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money docn first made a living as a
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traveling medicine showman then he
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married OA Beck with nickname babe and
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open a Foot Clinic in Hot Springs New
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Mexico
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doc was my grandfather and I've heard
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incredible stories about him all of my
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life he loved adventure and um was
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fascinated with history there it
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is yeah after doc discovered the
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treasure at Victorio Peak he and babe
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spent every free moment exploring the
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tunnels that led deep deep inside the
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mountain you be careful Dan in DC found
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that the passageways in the mountain led
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to several
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caverns in one he found 79 human
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skeletons in another Jewels coins and
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Priceless
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artifacts he described uh three huge uh
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oval top chests that he
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opened he brought a couple of swords and
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knives out he brought out a crown and I
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cleaned it up in my sink in in town
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there was 243 diamonds and one Pigeon
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Blood Ruby in this
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Crown in a deeper Cavern doc stumbled
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across what looked like a stack of
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worthless iron
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bars here it is babe I said well doc
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this is yellow look at it and he looked
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at that and he said well babe if that's
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gold and all that other is gold like it
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we can call John D Rock roella a
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tra doc told babe There were as many as
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16,000 bars of gold in the cavern but
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how did the treasure get there there are
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four
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theories it could have belonged to juand
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De onate the man who founded New Mexico
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as a Spanish
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colony some believe it was a secret
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hiding place for a Catholic missionary
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who operated nearby gold mines
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it could have belonged to maxamillion
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the Emperor of Mexico who tried to
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remove wealth out of Mexico when he
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learned of an assassination
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plot finally it may have belonged to an
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Apache tribe that raided stage coaches
00:24:43
filled with gold mined in
00:24:46
California doc didn't really care where
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it came from 6 months after his
00:24:51
Discovery he and babe went to Santa Fe
00:24:53
to establish legal ownership of their
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claim did I help you sir yeah we need
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some information on filing a
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claim they filed a lease with the state
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of New Mexico for the entire section of
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land surrounding victorial Peak they
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then filed a treasure Trove claim which
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has become the historic NOS Family claim
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to the treasure in victorial
00:25:21
Peak for two years doc mined the peak
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Witnesses say he took out more than 200
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gold bars and then hid them from
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everyone even his family back then it
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was illegal to own gold that wasn't in
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the form of jewelry they were rehidden
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in a variety of locations all over the
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desert some right by the county roads by
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a certain marked telephone pole some
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were dropped in horse tanks at the
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nearby ranches some were just buried in
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the sand um and Doc would put a
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different colored rock over the top of
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it than was natural to that
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surrounding finally doc decided to try
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opening a larger passageway into
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Victorio Peak so he hired a mining
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engineer by the name of
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Montgomery to go with him and help him
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Dynamite out of the way a particularly
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huge Boulder that was just sort of
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hanging in the lower portion of the
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shaft take that dnam Mite place that B
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Doc and Mont gry was arguing very
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viciously about the charge to be put in
00:26:36
there doc said that the mountain was
00:26:38
rotten and that it wouldn't take a
00:26:40
charge like that and this Montgomery
00:26:42
kept yelling it would by the way you got
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eight bars for doing
00:26:51
it the blast caused a massive cave-in
00:26:54
that collapsed the shaft doc had shut
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himself out of out of his own mind
00:27:00
forever now instead of having thousands
00:27:03
of gold bars to draw from he only had
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those few dozen or hundred or so that he
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had brought to the surface and he became
00:27:13
very protective of those
00:27:16
bars for nine years doc tried to sell
00:27:19
his gold bars on the black market and
00:27:22
then he met a man named Charlie Ryan and
00:27:25
struck a deal to sell him 51 of the bars
00:27:29
take me a couple days to get my cash
00:27:31
together but uh how about a week from
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today later doc worried that Charlie
00:27:40
Ryan would double cross him at the last
00:27:44
minute doc asked his friend Tony Jolly
00:27:47
to help him move the gold to a new
00:27:49
hiding place we went out cross the
00:27:52
desert quite a long ways we started
00:27:54
digging and we dug 20 bars of gold out
00:27:57
of the ground right
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there it turned out to be 90 more and we
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reburied those bars of gold I handled
00:28:06
and I saw 110 bars of
00:28:10
gold the next day Doc and Ryan got into
00:28:13
an argument Ryan pulled a gun on dock
00:28:17
Ryan accosted him and said if you don't
00:28:19
tell me where the bars are you won't
00:28:21
leave this room alive you're just trying
00:28:23
to jack up the price on me just a
00:28:25
comment Char he's going for God is in
00:28:28
his truck shoot
00:28:33
him old doc died
00:28:37
instantly this photograph of the scene
00:28:40
was taken by
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police The Saga of the treasure at
00:28:45
victorial Peak did not die with Doc
00:28:48
NS as the legend grew other treasure
00:28:51
Hunters tried to cash in on Doc and
00:28:53
bab's
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claim
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next meet a man who says that he's
00:29:01
actually seen the gold that was hidden
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inside Victorio
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Peak Victoria Peak New
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Mexico when doc Nas was killed in
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1949 he supposedly left behind a
00:29:24
treasure of 15,000 gold bars buried
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inside the caverns of Victorio Peak for
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three years Doc's wife babe tried to
00:29:34
clear a passageway to the treasure she
00:29:37
was less than 12 yard from the opening
00:29:39
to the central Cavern when
00:29:42
disappointment struck
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again when the White Sands Missile Range
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was expanded the state of New Mexico was
00:29:51
forced to give Victoria Peak and the
00:29:54
land surrounding it to the United States
00:29:57
Army
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what are we all get on our clim the Army
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then forced babe Nos and her family off
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of their Clan my grandmother continued
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to petition the department of the army
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at White Sands Missile Range level and
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Pentagon
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level she was repeatedly continually and
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consistently denied access to the peak
00:30:23
victorial Peak was now off limits to
00:30:25
everyone by order of the military
00:30:28
however that didn't stop a group of
00:30:30
off-duty soldiers from clearing the
00:30:33
blocked entrance and exploring the
00:30:36
caverns it wasn't long before they found
00:30:40
what babe NOS was after what is it two
00:30:44
stacks of material and they were bars of
00:30:48
something and as we scratched it we knew
00:30:51
right away that it was actually
00:30:56
gold we marked and identified one of the
00:31:00
bricks inside with my initials on it and
00:31:03
we stood it on end on the large
00:31:07
piles when the soldiers left Victorio
00:31:10
Peak they did not take any of the
00:31:12
treasure with them we were in the middle
00:31:15
of a top secret Missile Range that was
00:31:19
forbidden to everybody to be in the last
00:31:22
thing in the world we wanted to do was
00:31:24
to jeopardize our position in our find
00:31:27
by removing something
00:31:30
prematurely the following weekend we
00:31:33
returned to the entrance and we
00:31:35
dynamited it in four different places
00:31:37
and blasted the whole thing shut the
00:31:40
Army began a top secret classified
00:31:42
operation at Victorio Peak they
00:31:45
petitioned the state of New Mexico for
00:31:47
mineral rights but the request was
00:31:51
denied even so aerial surveillance
00:31:54
photos shows that extensive work had
00:31:57
already taken Tak
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Place finally the Army succumbed to
00:32:03
pressure and allowed private claimants
00:32:05
including babe Nos and former military
00:32:08
personnel to undertake a highly
00:32:10
publicized 10day Expedition at Victorio
00:32:15
Peak it's sort of the Department of army
00:32:17
policy that there's been a lot of
00:32:19
searching up here and we found nothing
00:32:21
yet they' found nothing yet so I don't
00:32:23
really expect any particular goal
00:32:28
treasure to be found but I might be
00:32:30
quoted incorrectly too if they find
00:32:32
something no question that gold like
00:32:35
bars came out of this mountain no
00:32:37
question about it the excavation was an
00:32:40
extensive large scale operation but
00:32:43
after 10 days no treasure not a single
00:32:46
silver coin had been found one scientist
00:32:49
who worked on the Dig thinks the
00:32:51
treasure may have actually been there
00:32:53
but just out of their reach I noticed on
00:32:56
the radar screens some um Echoes quite
00:32:59
frequently at a very great depth 300 400
00:33:02
ft deep and that led me to the
00:33:04
conclusion that there was indeed a large
00:33:05
Cavern at the base of the mountain about
00:33:08
where doc NS had said there would was a
00:33:12
cavern deep in the heart of Victorio
00:33:14
Peak there may still be Jewels artifacts
00:33:18
and piles of gold worth a billion
00:33:23
dollars Tony Jolly the man who helped
00:33:25
hide some of the gold went back years
00:33:28
later and retrieved 10
00:33:30
bars but doc airs have recovered
00:33:36
nothing for them the fate of the
00:33:38
treasure is still literally a billion
00:33:42
doll question and we have decided that
00:33:45
we will finish the work that docos
00:33:47
started we will eventually get Victorio
00:33:50
Peak opened so that the mystery of
00:33:52
what's inside the peak can be solved if
00:33:57
the mountain has has not been penetrated
00:33:59
and materials removed from this mountain
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this will be the biggest thing that this
00:34:03
country's ever
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seen next when citizens of Newport New
00:34:10
Hampshire needed Financial advice they
00:34:13
turned to judge
00:34:15
Fairbanks huge
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mistake Newport New
00:34:29
Hampshire a small town where everyone
00:34:32
knows each other and where relationships
00:34:34
are based on honesty and
00:34:38
trust Judge John Fairbanks was a
00:34:40
lifelong resident on a quiet morning in
00:34:43
may he asked his clerk to find a
00:34:45
replacement for him and then he left
00:34:49
town John Fairbanks was both a respected
00:34:52
judge and a successful attorney so when
00:34:55
he resigned from the bench and abandoned
00:34:57
his life law practice people were
00:34:59
shocked but a few days later their shock
00:35:02
turned to outrage when they discovered
00:35:05
the judge had stolen more than $10
00:35:08
million from his friends and
00:35:12
neighbors you understand that you have a
00:35:15
right to present evidence in your behalf
00:35:17
for 33 years judge Fairbanks presided
00:35:20
over the District Court of Newport I'll
00:35:23
get to that later he also had a
00:35:25
successful law practice specialized ing
00:35:28
in wills and probate
00:35:30
law John was a nice guy everybody in the
00:35:34
community liked him uh nobody had a bad
00:35:37
word for him he just loved his family uh
00:35:41
I loved his children his
00:35:43
grandchildren uh just a great
00:35:46
guy Fairbanks was honest I mean that was
00:35:50
his reputation you might knock him for
00:35:52
other things but the one thing everybody
00:35:55
always said about John Fairbanks was he
00:35:58
was
00:35:59
honest when a client died judge
00:36:02
Fairbanks would visit his widow to help
00:36:05
her out with her financial plannings
00:36:07
nice of you to see John Fairbanks was
00:36:10
settling my uncle's estate and then of
00:36:13
course I had the estate and I had income
00:36:15
tax to do and I knew him so I went back
00:36:17
to him for income taxes and I went to
00:36:19
him every year for doing my income
00:36:22
tax Patricia Sawyer gave her stock
00:36:25
certificates to Fairbanks so that he
00:36:27
could help inventory her Holdings he
00:36:31
called me on the phone and asked about
00:36:33
my getting could I get the stocks that
00:36:36
day judge Fairbanks and I had talked
00:36:38
about doing an estate plan and changing
00:36:41
my will is this everything patri this is
00:36:44
everything you're sure
00:36:48
yes October the 12th Black Monday on
00:36:51
Wall Street the drop in the stock market
00:36:54
was felt
00:36:55
worldwide including
00:36:58
judge Fairbanks courtroom take a brief
00:37:00
recess All Rise please the stock market
00:37:03
crash I remember very very well it was
00:37:05
the judge's 65th
00:37:07
birthday he made a couple comments about
00:37:11
turning 65 is just wonderful stock
00:37:13
market crashes on your 65th birthday he
00:37:16
said if he panicked hello that he would
00:37:19
lose over $3 million in the crash but
00:37:22
that he wasn't going to panic John when
00:37:25
am I going to be getting some dividends
00:37:28
the effects of the crash soon trickled
00:37:29
down to Patricia I asked him why I
00:37:32
wasn't getting dividend checks and he
00:37:34
said that due to the stock market crash
00:37:37
my stocks had gone down and he was
00:37:39
turning the dividends back in to bring
00:37:41
the stocks up to where they were before
00:37:43
the crash before the the drop in the
00:37:45
stock market and I believe that I called
00:37:50
Fairbanks in the spring of 88 because I
00:37:52
had not been receiving accountings and
00:37:54
it was at that time that he told me that
00:37:57
uh he had been spending my brother's
00:38:00
principal John Tweety had hired
00:38:03
Fairbanks to be the legal guardian for
00:38:05
his brother Richard who had been
00:38:08
institutionalized for more than 40
00:38:12
years John insisted that Fairbanks meet
00:38:15
him face to face to discuss concerns
00:38:19
about his brother's
00:38:21
Holdings John how are you how are you
00:38:24
John good to see like you wanted I
00:38:25
brought the account I had certain
00:38:27
question questions to ask him about the
00:38:28
estate I mean there was rhetoric in his
00:38:30
response but he didn't answer the
00:38:32
questions when of my brother's estate
00:38:34
going to the
00:38:36
red well John I haven't got all those
00:38:38
figures up here in my head but you come
00:38:41
back to my office later in the week and
00:38:42
I'll lay it all out for you well I sure
00:38:44
it was at that time I found out that uh
00:38:47
75% of my brother's money was gone why
00:38:50
didn't you inform me when is the state
00:38:52
went to the red well John I tried to but
00:38:54
you're a hard man to
00:38:56
find John refused to accept the judge's
00:39:00
excuses and began his own
00:39:03
investigation I found it he had sold
00:39:06
stock and he had under reported what he
00:39:08
hadd gotten for the stock uh he had
00:39:10
under reported what he had gotten for
00:39:12
dividends so I came up with $20,000 that
00:39:15
was missing turned out that was only a
00:39:17
part of what was missing and it was at
00:39:19
that point I realized that uh well he
00:39:21
was embezzling and uh I've been raised
00:39:23
to believe that when you see a crime
00:39:25
committed you call the cops so I uh call
00:39:28
the cops we drove over to look at Fair
00:39:31
Banks's house here in
00:39:33
Newport and uh we saw the house and we
00:39:36
felt GE that's got to be
00:39:38
$500,000 we were aware that he had a
00:39:41
home in a gunit main which is a pretty
00:39:45
expensive area to live right on the
00:39:47
ocean that was worth $6 or $700,000 and
00:39:50
we looked at each other and said
00:39:51
disguise a
00:39:52
thief Fairbanks resigned his judgeship
00:39:56
and retreated to his summer home in
00:39:58
Maine when John Tweety's charges were
00:40:01
made public other unhappy clients came
00:40:04
forward with their
00:40:06
suspicions he put these stocks into this
00:40:09
stock brokerage firm as my agent and I
00:40:13
had never signed any papers given him
00:40:15
any Authority I had never signed my name
00:40:18
on the
00:40:19
certificates he had done that
00:40:22
illegally Fairbanks had in my opinion
00:40:24
had been doing this for so long that he
00:40:26
had sort of milk
00:40:28
dry most of the accounts that he had
00:40:31
been stealing
00:40:33
from authorities suspect that over the
00:40:35
course of 20 years Fairbank stole more
00:40:38
than $10
00:40:41
million judge Fairbanks was indicted on
00:40:44
four counts of theft the investigation
00:40:47
revealed that Fairbanks wrote more than
00:40:49
100 checks to transfer money from his
00:40:53
client's accounts into his own account
00:40:56
the next day Fairbanks pickup truck was
00:40:59
found abandoned near his home in Maine
00:41:02
the judge had
00:41:05
disappeared this has affected my life to
00:41:08
the fact that I wonder what I'm going to
00:41:10
do and I'm going to have to sell land
00:41:13
maybe sell the farm and the farm has
00:41:15
been in my family since the original
00:41:17
settlers came from massetts with the
00:41:19
rock steams he had a double life he had
00:41:23
two totally separated lives and uh one
00:41:26
of them was fine you know one of them
00:41:27
was a man of great integrity respected
00:41:30
by the community and the other
00:41:33
uh the other one was well classical you
00:41:37
know he was into all sorts of things
00:41:38
which are very shaky very shady and
00:41:41
quite immoral and very few if anybody
00:41:45
knew the two
00:41:50
existed
00:41:52
update 5 years after his disappearance
00:41:56
Judge John Fairbanks was found dead in a
00:41:58
Las Vegas hotel room he committed
00:42:03
suicide authorities do not expect to
00:42:05
locate any of the money that he
00:42:07
stole they believe he spent it all
00:42:11
before he
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died
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