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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 19

March 09, 2017 / 42:54

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers the tragic stories of Charlie Sigman, the mysterious treasure at Victorio Peak, and the murders of interns Shandra Levy and Joyce Chang. The episode features discussions about Charlie Sigman's tumultuous marriage, the alleged treasure hidden in New Mexico, and the unresolved cases of two murdered interns in Washington D.C.

Charlie Sigman fell in love with Anne, who had two children. Their relationship took a dark turn when Charlie discovered Anne's involvement in witchcraft and her affair with Gary Gof. After a confrontation, Charlie was shot and killed, leading to questions about self-defense and the whereabouts of Anne.

The episode then shifts to the story of Doc Nas, who claimed to have found a treasure worth billions in Victorio Peak, New Mexico. Despite extensive searches and claims of hidden gold, the treasure remains elusive, with various theories about its origins.

Lastly, the episode discusses the murders of Shandra Levy and Joyce Chang, both interns in Washington D.C. The similarities between their cases raise questions about a potential serial killer. Joyce's body was found in the Anacostia River, while Shandra's murder remains officially unsolved, despite a conviction that was later overturned.

Throughout the episode, viewers are encouraged to provide any information related to these unsolved cases, highlighting the ongoing mysteries surrounding them.

TL;DR

The episode covers Charlie Sigman's murder, a hidden treasure in New Mexico, and the unresolved murders of interns Shandra Levy and Joyce Chang.

Episode

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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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[Music]
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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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[Music]
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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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[Music]
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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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[Music]
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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
00:22:55
to several
00:22:56
caverns in one he found 79 human
00:23:02
skeletons in another Jewels coins and
00:23:06
Priceless
00:23:08
artifacts he described uh three huge uh
00:23:12
oval top chests that he
00:23:16
[Music]
00:23:18
opened he brought a couple of swords and
00:23:21
knives out he brought out a crown and I
00:23:25
cleaned it up in my sink in in town
00:23:29
there was 243 diamonds and one Pigeon
00:23:32
Blood Ruby in this
00:23:35
Crown in a deeper Cavern doc stumbled
00:23:38
across what looked like a stack of
00:23:40
worthless iron
00:23:42
bars here it is babe I said well doc
00:23:46
this is yellow look at it and he looked
00:23:49
at that and he said well babe if that's
00:23:53
gold and all that other is gold like it
00:23:56
we can call John D Rock roella a
00:24:02
tra doc told babe There were as many as
00:24:05
16,000 bars of gold in the cavern but
00:24:09
how did the treasure get there there are
00:24:12
four
00:24:13
theories it could have belonged to juand
00:24:15
De onate the man who founded New Mexico
00:24:18
as a Spanish
00:24:20
colony some believe it was a secret
00:24:22
hiding place for a Catholic missionary
00:24:25
who operated nearby gold mines
00:24:29
it could have belonged to maxamillion
00:24:31
the Emperor of Mexico who tried to
00:24:33
remove wealth out of Mexico when he
00:24:35
learned of an assassination
00:24:37
plot finally it may have belonged to an
00:24:40
Apache tribe that raided stage coaches
00:24:43
filled with gold mined in
00:24:46
California doc didn't really care where
00:24:48
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
00:24:56
claim did I help you sir yeah we need
00:24:59
some information on filing a
00:25:02
claim they filed a lease with the state
00:25:06
of New Mexico for the entire section of
00:25:08
land surrounding victorial Peak they
00:25:11
then filed a treasure Trove claim which
00:25:13
has become the historic NOS Family claim
00:25:17
to the treasure in victorial
00:25:21
Peak for two years doc mined the peak
00:25:24
Witnesses say he took out more than 200
00:25:27
gold bars and then hid them from
00:25:30
everyone even his family back then it
00:25:33
was illegal to own gold that wasn't in
00:25:36
the form of jewelry they were rehidden
00:25:40
in a variety of locations all over the
00:25:42
desert some right by the county roads by
00:25:47
a certain marked telephone pole some
00:25:49
were dropped in horse tanks at the
00:25:51
nearby ranches some were just buried in
00:25:53
the sand um and Doc would put a
00:25:56
different colored rock over the top of
00:25:58
it than was natural to that
00:26:02
surrounding finally doc decided to try
00:26:05
opening a larger passageway into
00:26:08
Victorio Peak so he hired a mining
00:26:12
engineer by the name of
00:26:14
Montgomery to go with him and help him
00:26:18
Dynamite out of the way a particularly
00:26:21
huge Boulder that was just sort of
00:26:24
hanging in the lower portion of the
00:26:26
shaft take that dnam Mite place that B
00:26:28
Doc and Mont gry was arguing very
00:26:33
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
00:26:45
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
00:26:57
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
00:27:07
those few dozen or hundred or so that he
00:27:11
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
00:27:37
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
00:27:59
there it turned out to be 90 more and we
00:28:03
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
00:28:42
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
00:28:57
claim
00:28:58
next meet a man who says that he's
00:29:01
actually seen the gold that was hidden
00:29:04
inside Victorio
00:29:11
[Music]
00:29:15
Peak Victoria Peak New
00:29:18
Mexico when doc Nas was killed in
00:29:21
1949 he supposedly left behind a
00:29:24
treasure of 15,000 gold bars buried
00:29:28
inside the caverns of Victorio Peak for
00:29:32
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
00:29:46
again when the White Sands Missile Range
00:29:49
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
00:29:58
what are we all get on our clim the Army
00:30:01
then forced babe Nos and her family off
00:30:05
of their Clan my grandmother continued
00:30:07
to petition the department of the army
00:30:10
at White Sands Missile Range level and
00:30:12
Pentagon
00:30:13
[Music]
00:30:16
level she was repeatedly continually and
00:30:19
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
00:32:00
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
00:34:02
this will be the biggest thing that this
00:34:03
country's ever
00:34:04
[Music]
00:34:07
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
00:34:19
[Music]
00:34:26
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
00:42:13
[Music]
00:42:26
died
00:42:28
[Music]
00:42:39
[Music]

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  • 65
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  • 60
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Episode Highlights

  • Charlie Sigman's Tragic Love Story
    Charlie Sigman's life took a dark turn after his wife Anne's suspicious behavior.
    “He was crazy about Charlie and he was crazy about those two children.”
    @ 02m 16s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Mysterious Death of Joyce Chang
    Joyce Chang, a bright intern, vanished under mysterious circumstances, leading to a tragic discovery.
    “That’s when all hope just dashed.”
    @ 15m 26s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Search for Treasure at Victorio Peak
    A hidden treasure worth billions lies beneath Victorio Peak, discovered by Doc Nas in 1937.
    “Doc was my grandfather and I’ve heard incredible stories about him all of my life.”
    @ 22m 32s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Tragic End of Doc
    Doc's life took a dark turn after a cave-in left him with only a few gold bars.
    “Instead of having thousands of gold bars, he only had those few dozen.”
    @ 27m 03s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Mysterious Treasure of Victorio Peak
    After Doc's death, treasure hunters sought the legendary gold buried in Victorio Peak.
    “The saga of the treasure at Victorio Peak did not die with Doc.”
    @ 28m 45s
    March 09, 2017
  • Judge Fairbanks' Betrayal
    Judge John Fairbanks, once trusted, stole over $10 million from his community.
    “He was a man of great integrity respected by the community.”
    @ 41m 30s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • She just didn’t seem Charlie’s type ever.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 19
  • That’s a moment that I’ll never forget.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 19
  • If a serial killer is responsible for these murders...
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 19
  • Doc had shut himself out of his own mind forever.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 19
  • The fate of the treasure is still literally a billion dollar question.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 19
  • He had a double life, one of great integrity and the other very shady.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 19

Key Moments

  • Love and Betrayal02:19
  • Murder Investigation05:11
  • Hidden Treasure21:27
  • Cave-in Catastrophe26:51
  • Military Secrets30:28
  • Treasure Hunt32:10
  • Judge's Downfall39:56
  • Tragic End41:56

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