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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you were about to see is not a news
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broadcast tonight an unsolved mysteries
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an intriguing new story in 1988
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undercover San Francisco vice cop Lester
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Garnier he was found shot to death
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inside his late-model Corvette
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eyewitnesses saw two unidentified women
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with Gagne within moments of his death
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police are still investigating what
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connection these women had to Gagne and
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his murder in Phoenix Arizona a 58 year
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old businessman named Angelo desiderio
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vanished from his home 400 miles away
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his car was found a blaze no trace of
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Angelo desert area has ever been found
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in 1934 bill puritan was forcibly
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separated from his five brothers and
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sisters by well-meaning social workers
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50 years later bill is still searching
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for his lost sister Jackie in Las Vegas
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16 year-old Cathy Hobbs disappeared
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three months later police received an
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anonymous call from a man who may have
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seen her abduction they need to find
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this missing witness the nice cases
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feature ordinary people thrust into a
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vortex of mystery heartbreak and
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intrigue each one is searching for that
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vital clue to end a story that so far
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has no ending perhaps you can help join
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me you may be able to help solve a
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mystery
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[Music]
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July 11th 1988 it was a quiet morning in
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Walnut Creek California an affluent
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suburb of San Francisco a groundskeeper
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noticed a Corvette sitting in a
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shopping-center parking lot his
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attention was drawn by the car's driver
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apparently napping behind the wheel the
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man was not asleep he was dead the cause
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of death was determined to be two bullet
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wounds this was an extremely
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cold-blooded deliberate killing the sort
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of person that would do something like
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this is extremely dangerous the victim
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was identified as Lester Gagne an
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undercover vice cop with a San Francisco
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police department who lived a nearby
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Concord after the revelation that Lester
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was an undercover cop the investigation
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took on a new dimension for this reason
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a search for Lester's killer was
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undertaken by both the Walnut Creek and
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San Francisco police departments
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there was very little evidence left at
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the crime scene that would give us much
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help in identifying the criminal we do
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have a few fingerprints that have not
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been identified but we've been unable to
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find any motive at all for the killing
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of Les Kanye
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[Music]
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Lester Garnier's death touched off a
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firestorm of controversy when the case
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became a mesh tin a local political
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skeptic but through all of this Westar
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Garnier's killer remains at large to
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those who knew him best
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Lester Garnier was a walking
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contradiction to his parents he was a
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devoted son who lived with him in the
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home that he provided to his friends
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Lester was a man who lived and loved in
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the fast lane but to his partners on the
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police force
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Lester Gagne was first and foremost a
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dedicated cop went the distance for his
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job somewhere between the lines of these
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contradictions may lie the reason why
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Lester Gagne was murdered if you wanted
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to find Lester Gagne off duty the
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chances are he would be behind the wheel
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of his prized 1984 Corvette Lester enjoy
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the good life but he was not blind of
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the responsibilities of being a good son
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Lester was a wonderful son he always was
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there for us he gave us security knowing
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that if anything happens he's always
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there for us
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but there was another side to Lester
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Gagne off duty he enjoyed a reputation
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as a ladies man according to friends
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this reputation was well-deserved lester
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used his charm on the job as well his
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beat was the Mission District once a
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quiet residential neighborhood today a
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low-income area frequented by
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prostitutes Lester had worked vice for
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four and a half years and was at home on
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the mean streets of the mission where he
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would often do prostitutes by posing as
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a customer we found that he had made
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numerous arrests for prostitution
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we certainly examined that aspect of his
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life and we weren't able to find any
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connection with our case we interviewed
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several of the prostitutes that Lester
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had arrested and found that many of them
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spoke highly of him even though he had
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arrested them he wanted to do a good job
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and the type of job that he had he had
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to make sure he made all the right moves
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[Music]
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he enjoyed his job to a certain degree
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it was a challenge for him every day
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different people different situations
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all the time
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those were the streets that we grew up
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in and he felt that he wanted to make
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the city a better place and by being a
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police officer he was doing that one of
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Lester's final assignments would throw
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the murder investigation in a turmoil in
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the fall of 1988
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Roger boys local mayoral candidate pled
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guilty to charges of having sex with
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underage prostitutes Lester had been on
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stakeout duty at one of the houses in
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this prostitution ring just prior to his
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death the local media attempted to tie
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the two events together in addition
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there were rumors that some san
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francisco police may have been involved
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in Westers death but so far these rumors
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are uncorroborated we did address those
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issues and did a very thorough
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investigation but we found no connection
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at all between Lester Garnier's death
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and the roger boas case or any other
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matter for that matter
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July 10th 1988 approximately 12 hours
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before his body would be discovered
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Lester left his Concord home to meet
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friends in San Francisco less than 20
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minutes later Lester called from his car
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phone and cancelled the evening he gave
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no explanation during this conversation
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he cancelled the meeting with his
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friends saying it was getting late after
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that we don't know what happened to him
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until his vehicle showed up in the
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parking lot
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shortly before 11:30 p.m.
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that time period is very critical as a
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portion of our investigation naturally
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we searched for witnesses and we
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discovered that there was a carpet layer
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working in one of the stores late that
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evening as he went out to his truck he
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heard what sounded to him like
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firecrackers it was around the 4th of
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July so he discounted those sounds as
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firecrackers shortly after he looked up
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and saw two women walking across the
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parking lot
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the women entered two different vehicles
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and left the workman described one of
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the women as being in her late twenties
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about five feet six inches tall said
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that she weighed about a hundred and ten
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pounds the other was described as being
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in her mid-30s tall the slender build we
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also located one witness who was
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actually driving through the lot as he
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drove past the Corvette he saw a woman
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opened the passenger door and exit the
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vehicle
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he saw her walk around the vehicle and
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appear to look in the driver's side of
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the Corvette
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it's possible that these were just two
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separate sightings not associated with
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each other however it's also possible
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that they are somehow related under
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hypnosis the second witness helped
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police to create a composite drawing of
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the woman her appearance was similar to
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the other eyewitness description when we
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showed this to the carpet layer he felt
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that this sketch closely resembled the
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shorter of the two women that he saw
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walking across the parking lot who was a
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blonde woman seen with Lester that night
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but a casual pickup have turned into
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something deadly or was Lester killed as
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a result of his undercover life
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[Music]
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next the story of schoolgirl Cathy Hobbs
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who vanished on her way back to Las
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Vegas Supermarket anonymous tipster may
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have seen her abductors now he too has
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disappeared someone out there is walking
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the streets killing kids and they killed
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my daughter and before they could kill
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someone else's dog on a recent broadcast
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we examine the case of a Florida Widow
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when we called mrs. K she claims that
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she was romanced and then swindled by a
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man named Arthur Frankfort after a four
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week whirlwind romance
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Arthur Frankfort convinced mrs. K to let
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him move in with her never once was I
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suspicious of any move that he made as
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far as to question his character who he
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was and he was that he was a liar and a
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thief on July 29th 1988 or mrs. K was at
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work Arthur Frankfort disappeared after
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allegedly stealing jewelry worth over
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four thousand dollars as well as many
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personal items belonging to mrs. Kay's
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late husband Arthur Frankfort is wanted
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by Florida police for burglary grand
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theft auto and check forging authorities
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believe that he may have victimized over
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40 women by stealing their hearts and
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then taking their cash update within
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minutes of our broadcast two viewers
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called our 800 number to report that
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they recognized arthur frankfort the
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individual said I'd know where Arthur
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Frankfort is I'm his ex brother-in-law
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my name is Floyd meadows I asked him if
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he had ever seen this Arthur Frankfort
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do magic he said yes he did and he does
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it very well this is one of the keys
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that I never released to the press or
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any other medium that Arthur Frankford
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does magic we received another call
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about 20 minutes later from a white
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female says Arthur Frankfort lives next
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door to me and Whitley Kentucky the
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was the confirmation call that I was
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looking for at that time I knew we had
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our man
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[Music]
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two hours later Frankfurt was arrested
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at his home in Kentucky by the McCreary
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County Sheriff and Kentucky State
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Troopers he was living under the assumed
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name James Ferguson with his new wife of
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two months during a search of
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Frankfurt's house police uncovered
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several identification and credit cards
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with different aliases they also found a
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handgun that may have been stolen from
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mrs. Kay's home we got other calls from
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women that say yes I've been married to
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this man
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I've divorced him he's left me holding
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the bag and what I need is for the
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people that have been victimized by
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Arthur Frankfort to come forward it's
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time for the public to stand up and say
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hey we've had enough of Arthur Frankfort
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this man has preyed on the public long
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enough
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[Music]
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Las Vegas a glamorous capital and slot
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machines blackjack high-stakes gambler
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an adult amusement park but just one
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mile off the strip is another side of
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Las Vegas the real world that tourists
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never see an ordinary part of suburban
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America on the evening of July 23rd 1987
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16 year-old Cathy Hobbs was reading a
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romance novel in her bedroom at 11:00
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p.m. she decided to walk to the local
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supermarket to buy another book just one
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and a half blocks away she came out to
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me and she said mom I'm going down to
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the store and buy a book and she said
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give me a kiss before I go and I said
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why I'll be up when you get back and she
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says well she says I probably will stop
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and talk to the kids so you might be a
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good when I get back so I gave her a
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kiss
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and that was the last I saw of her Cathy
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had walked to the store late at night
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many times usually her friends were
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gathered at the apartment complex
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swimming pool chatting and gossiping so
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Cathy's mother wasn't concerned for her
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safety
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one of the kids would walk down to the
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store with her there was no one at the
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Stormville that night
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so instead of coming home she decided to
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go on to the store by herself
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assuming the Kathi would be with her
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friends Vivian went to sleep at 3 a.m.
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she awoke from a strange dream that at
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the time seemed innocent but would later
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come back to haunt her I woke up at her
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sound sleep I felt like I had been hit
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on the head and all of a sudden I got a
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very peaceful feeling and it was well
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it's over now and I fell back to sleep
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the next morning Vivian discovered that
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Cathy's bedroom was empty she still did
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not come home within the first day we
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had tracked down friends relatives and
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done a very extensive media campaign on
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the television with Catherine's picture
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all day long at the end of the second
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day we were pretty much convinced that
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Kathryn was probably abducted Kathy's
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disappearance was a culmination of years
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of worry for her family her as a child
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Kathy had eerie premonitions that she
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would die at nearly age she was an
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isolated introverted girl when Kathy was
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aged she began telling her friends she
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would not live to the age of 16 she did
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not have a happy childhood her father
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and I went through a divorce when she
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was 8 years old
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she and her father were extremely close
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when she was in the seventh grade a very
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good friend of hers died of a heart
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disease that affected Kathy very much
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and that's one of the main reasons we
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moved to Las Vegas was to give Kathy
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another chance to get away from that
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atmosphere and the environment that she
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grew up in at first it seemed that the
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move to Las Vegas had been the right
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decision
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even though Kathy remained withdrawn she
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did blossom and made some new friends
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however as her 16th birthday drew closer
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Kathy's old fears of dying returned
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about 2 months before her 16th birthday
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she got very teary-eyed one night and
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told me mom I don't want to get any
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older I want to be a little girl and I
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told her I said Kathy we all have to
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grow up and you know it's it's not the
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easiest thing
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the world to do what we all do it she's
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told me I'm not going to she didn't
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think she'd make her 16th birthday just
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before her 16th birthday
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Kathy became despondent again she spent
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all her time in her room and would not
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leave the house on the morning of her
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birthday though Kathy was surprised and
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relieved to find she was still alive and
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she came out of her bedroom and she said
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mom I did it I did it I made it and I
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said what she said I made 16 I didn't
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think I'd live to be 16 now Kathy had a
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new enthusiasm for life and began making
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plans for her future she began to go out
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again wanted to continue her education
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and started to wear makeup she plan to
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train as a hair stylist and open her own
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beauty shop called cats cuts she was
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ecstatic she came out guys I made it mom
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I mean it I'm 16 is it it arrived after
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Kathy vanished the authorities assumed
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that she had been abducted and issued
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photos to the entire police department
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the local media were encouraged to
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publicize Kathy's disappearance and
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volunteer organizations were mobilized
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to search for the missing girl
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eventually one crucial clue surfaced a
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clerk remembered seeing Kathy in the
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supermarket that night she vanished
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store receipts confirm that someone did
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purchase a paperback novel at 11:17 that
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night apparently Kathy had made it to
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the store on Desert Inn Road and
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Maryland Parkway but she never made it
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home it was late at night but Las Vegas
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as you all know is a 24-hour town and
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people are coming and going to work
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constantly in this town this
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intersection is a large intersection
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widely traveled and the store is a
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24-hour major store and to have people
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coming and going from the store and
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nobody's seeing anything was very very
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surprising
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nine days after Cathy vanished hiker
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Rick pakad was searching for unusual
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rock crystals out in the desert near
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Lake Mead
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about an hour from Las Vegas was walking
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back to the car and was probably 150
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feet 200 feet from the road and was
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stopped by a very strong odor decided to
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see where it was coming from or what it
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was and that's when I found Catherine's
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body it was the most horrible thing I'd
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ever seen in my life I had to sit down
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and gather my thoughts and make sure
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that what I was looking at was real when
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I realized that it was a human body went
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back to the car back to Colville Bay
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ranger station and got the Rangers and
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brought them back out to the site
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[Music]
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within probably 20 minutes of our
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arrival we knew it was Catherine there
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was no doubt in our own minds that it
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was going to be Catherine and it does
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get very quiet and you you can't help
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but look at it and see your own children
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and say for the grace of God there goes
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one of mine
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your immediate feeling at the time is to
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want to run home grab your daughter by
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the arm and bring her to the scene and
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say this is why I say no you can't go
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out late at night the investigators
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found tire imprints at the scene showing
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where a vehicle had pulled in turned
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around and left
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they also found two rocks spattered with
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blood near Kathy's body tests
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established that the stains matched
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Kathy's blood type the coroner concluded
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that Cathy Hobbs had died from repeated
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blows to the head she was 16 years three
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months and three days old when she was
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killed
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so she made it 16 but after that but she
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was right you know she did have a
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premonition um that she wasn't going to
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live to be an adult after Kathy's death
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letters were found in her room addressed
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to each member of the family the letters
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were dated one month before Kathy 16th
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birthday dear mother an event of my
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death you shall get this letter I hope
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you live happily and I don't want you or
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anybody else to dwell on my death I love
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you all very dearly you were good to me
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and nobody else could have been a better
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brother keep me alive in your heart and
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don't ever forget me love always Cathy
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[Applause]
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but she was a very good friend as well
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it's paid by doctor for the most direct
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route to where she was found would be
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straight down Desert Inn on October 24th
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exactly three months after Kathy
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vanished an answering machine at the Las
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Vegas police department recorded a
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startling call from a man who may have
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been a witness to Kathy's abduction the
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theory that we have is that she was
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abducted between the store and her
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apartment by one or more suspects we
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think she was driven to the lake that
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night I believe that she was abducted
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and killed that evening the caller
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reported the license plate number of a
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car he saw a girl being forced into but
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he did not leave his name or phone
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number the police checked the license
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number and discovered it did not exist
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the crucial tip came over a year ago and
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despite repeated Appeals the witness
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still hasn't called back and we need to
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find out if he possesses any more
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information and if he doesn't wish to
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give a name that's fine but we do need
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to talk to him someone out there is
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walking the streets killing kids and
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they killed my daughter and before they
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can kill someone else's daughter I want
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the car
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when he was 8 years old
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bill Pierson was separated from his five
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brothers and sisters today Villa 62 has
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found all but one of his siblings now he
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wants to find his lost sister Jackie
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[Music]
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last December we brought you a story
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that began over 40 years ago war-torn
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Eastern Europe 1945 is Hitler's Third
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Reich crumbled refugees choked the
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highways and rural roads Carl dente and
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his family fled their home in Budapest
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Hungary across the border into Austria
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as winter found on the weather turned
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bitter cold the daddies were forced to
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live in a boxcar life was particularly
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hard for Carl's five-year-old daughter
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Vegeta a few days before Christmas all
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had changed in an American soldier known
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only as Philip past the daddies if he
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could take Brigitte to a Christmas party
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given for the refugee children by the
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Americans yes yes yes the over forty
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years have passed since that night
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Vegeta remembers it as if it were
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yesterday
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girl it made me feel very very special
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instead of making me feel safe and happy
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he made me feel like a big girl but I
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felt like a princess
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it's like someone opened a magic door
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I felt like I was in a dream I never
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wanted to dream to end
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over the next few months a deep and
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caring friendship grew between Philip
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and the den tease
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then one day Philip came to the camp of
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bad news his unit had been recalled back
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to the United States and we'd be leaving
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immediately
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he gave Carl a photograph to remember
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him by
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though the daddy's never saw Philip
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again they will never forget the warmth
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and kindness he brought their family on
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that Christmas Day so long ago he
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brought the big change in our life
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little happiness you know give us me a
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cleric confidence of the human race
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after 11 years of struggle and hardship
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the daddy's finally made it to America
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for 30 years Carl and Brigitte our
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search for Philip their only clue was
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the photograph he left them 43 years ago
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within an hour of our broadcast mrs.
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Pauline Dottie of Augusta Maine called
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our 800 number to say that the man named
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Philip and our story is her cousin
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Philip Pelletier he's a retired postal
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worker lives in Hammond Indiana we
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immediately called Carl and Brigitte
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identity helped to arrange a real on
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Wednesday December 28th 1988
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Conn and Vegeta's 30 years search for
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Philip came to an emotional end really
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pretty hard to tell you just how I feel
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after so many years and trying to
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recollect everything that we went
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through together you know it's very hard
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it's very exciting it's almost
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unbelievable it's something like a
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Christmas miracle because when he left I
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was thinking about it I ever see him
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again
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and here we go after 43 years be back
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together again it's just like a dream
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came too hard to believe it sometimes I
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had a feeling I gonna wake up the minute
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that I saw him I could see the warmth
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and happy look on his face smiling like
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we really never had lost touch in a way
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caryl Brigitte and Philip spent the
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afternoon looking through photographs
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that brought back memories of that
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special time they spent together we're
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gonna stay with touch we're gonna try to
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visit each other as much as possible
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we're gonna bring you the friendship
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what we had before you know it's it's a
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friendship forever bill puritan a 62
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year old retired New Hampshire
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businessman was separated from his
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family in 1934 when he was 8 years old
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back then his last name was Harrington
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and his family was struggling to survive
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the depression bill was one of six
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children who stayed at home while his
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parents were away working on August the
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3rd 1934 the Harrington children were
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preparing a birthday party for Bill and
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his little sister Jackie the children
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were unaware that four of them would
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soon be torn from their family in the
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space of a few moments all of their
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lives would change forever
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the Harrington family lived in the small
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upstate town of Hartford New York
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the neighbors felt that the four
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youngest children were being neglected
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they reported the herring goes to the
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
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Children the society took action on the
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very day a Bill and Jackie's birthday
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celebration
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the social workers arrived when both
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parents are out working
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despite the parents absence the
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Harrington children's modest birthday
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celebration was already in progress as
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soon as a party was finished the social
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workers took the four youngest children
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away
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bill any years of age was the oldest of
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the four I didn't know who they were and
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they told me that I was going to take a
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trip and I was excited I was gonna go on
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a train I was gonna go on my car I was
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gonna see things that I hadn't seen
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before and it was exciting until I
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realized that I wasn't going home and I
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became angry
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I was upset and that's when I realized
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that I was not gonna see my family again
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[Music]
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bill and his three younger siblings were
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put up for adoption
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they went to four different families in
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the state of New York they would not see
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one another again for nearly 50 years in
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1948 when bill was 22 and just out of
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the army he began the search for his
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lost brothers and sisters he made no
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headway at all until 1976 when he wrote
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to the records clerk in hartwig New York
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just as the clerk was replying to Bill's
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letter a chess visitor dropped by bill
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immediately wrote to the San Francisco
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address and received a cautious reply
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from Wanda his older sister Wanda just
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said I'm Wanda Harrington and if you
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want any information about the family
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just call me and she gave me a phone
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number and I called her and she answered
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the phone and I said hiya Wanda and she
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said yes are you red or you bill
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and I said I'm bill and she started to
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cry by 1976 bill to track down all of
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his brothers and sisters except to
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Jackie the sister would shared his
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birthday an end his baby brother
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the feeling of knowing that you have a
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brother or a sister somewhere that you
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can't locate is the driving force it
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just makes you want to keep on looking
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you don't give up in 1980 Bill's search
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got another unexpected boost Ellen
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Steinman the New York Children's Aid
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Society found a phone number for Edie
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on a Christmas Eve bill spoke to his
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brother
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Edie for the first time in 47 years when
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I got the call from my brother and I
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just couldn't believe that it actually
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happened thank you and it's been just
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been a great experience to have all of a
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sudden with one phone call
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I have 42 new relatives and being at
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Christmas time I was a greatest
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Christmas gift like again finally two
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months ago the Harrington family
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reunited for the first time all five
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have been together for more than 50
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years
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Ed's wife played photographer and the
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brothers and sisters posed for their
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first family pictures since 1933 the
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Harrington children treasure the reborn
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family but their joy is tempered their
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sister Jackie remains missing when we
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find Jackie and it'll be a completed
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circle everything will be in its place
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everybody will be where they belong I've
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been looking for my sister for the last
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40 years and I intend to find her and
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I'm not gonna stop until I do
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one Sunday afternoon in Phoenix Arizona
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a businessman named Angelo desiderio
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paired a solitary lunch before he could
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sit down to enjoy it he vanished 30
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hours later and 400 miles away his
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burned-out car was discovered no other
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trace of Angelo desert areas ever been
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found on the afternoon of June the 5th
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1988 a prosperous businessman named
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Angelo desert dari banished from his
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Phoenix home nobody knows why or to
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where he disappeared his friends and
00:36:36
family believed he met with foul play
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some investigators think Angelo wanted
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to disappear there is no conclusive
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evidence either way only questions fifty
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seven-year-old Angelo desiderio was a
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devout Catholic who had once studied for
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the priesthood he lived a quiet routine
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existence with his parents and a Phoenix
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suburb and there was a very ordered neat
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individual very very meticulous and very
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very neat individual a perfectionist in
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its true sense of the word of
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perfectionist angelo killed a small
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fortune out of hard work he had several
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close friends but never married
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Angelo loved the finer things in life
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and he supported this affluent lifestyle
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by owning a shopping center and an
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import store on the morning of Monday
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June 6th a neighboring shop owner
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discovered that Angelo store was closed
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and no one was inside
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one of Angelo's friends drove out to his
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home to see if anything was wrong after
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seeing certain things that disturbed me
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like the alarm that was not on and other
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things of that nature he went next door
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and made the decision the phone 9-1-1
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and get out of the house
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inside Angela was nowhere to be found
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the house was undisturbed apparently he
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had been interrupted while preparing
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lunch on the kitchen table Angelo had
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laid out piles of bills as if preparing
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to pay them
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in the living room two new pairs of
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pants were found near a shopping bag a
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receipt inside the bag showed Angelo had
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bought the pants at 12:47 the previous
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afternoon
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when my brother disappeared on that
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Sunday afternoon he left the house with
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absolutely nothing didn't take a
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toothbrush pair of slippers nothing
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absolutely nothing the only thing that
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we discovered that was missing was his
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attache case some jewelry and money was
00:39:21
missing from the home but as far as any
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other personal items everything was left
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behind if we could find out why he left
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in that hurry it might to give us a clue
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as to where Angelo is in the garage
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investigators discovered a telling clue
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Angelo's car cover lay crumpled on the
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floor Angelo was compulsively neat and
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always folded the cover after removing
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it a neighbor fueled police suspicion
00:39:51
when he said he had seen Angelo's
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Cadillac speed off the Sunday he
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disappeared it was very difficult to see
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of course I couldn't see any facial
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characteristics and it just appeared to
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be a person taller than Angelo it wasn't
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like Angelo to pull out without
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acknowledging me he'd returned from out
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of town just a few days before I'd given
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him his mail and we spoke briefly Friday
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night which was prior to this was on a
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Sunday and it just all kinds of
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questions you wonder why there is a
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missing link and I wish I knew what it
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was and I'm sure a lot of other people
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do too
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[Music]
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at 6:30 - on Monday evening only 30
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hours after Angela disappeared
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400 miles for Phoenix a 1985 Cadillac
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was found a place in a San Diego parking
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lot an accelerant had been used to set
00:40:48
the fire investigators traced the old
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it was registered to Angelo desi dairy
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when San Diego authorities examine the
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car there were no personal belongings
00:41:03
inside they found no signs of forcible
00:41:06
entry the ignition was untampered with
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there were no signs or indications of
00:41:11
any hot-wiring of any types the vehicle
00:41:14
was very very meticulously cleaned no
00:41:16
bugs no dirt anywhere on the front of
00:41:18
the vehicle as if it had just come from
00:41:20
a long journey from another state
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washing a car and then burning it is
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something that is a first for me in my
00:41:25
career I cannot conceive that he would
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burn the car
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it just seems incredible that this is
00:41:32
possible of my brother he's just it just
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doesn't seem possible to me I just can't
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I can't comprehend something like this
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we looked in the trunk and found
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absolutely nothing in that trunk that
00:41:44
would have been there other than the
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jack no carpet no padding no spare tire
00:41:48
we processed that vehicle there were no
00:41:51
fibers there were no hairs there was
00:41:52
nothing in that trunk or anything that
00:41:54
we could discover that had been in that
00:41:56
trunk basically this tells us that there
00:41:58
could have been something in the vehicle
00:42:00
that was transported in a vehicle and
00:42:02
when it was taken out they took the
00:42:04
carpet in the padding and wrapped it all
00:42:05
in one unit and took everything out of
00:42:06
the vehicle including the spare tire
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[Music]
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Phoenix Police retraced the drive to San
00:42:13
Diego stopping at gas stations along the
00:42:15
way nobody matching Angelo's description
00:42:19
had been seen and none of his credit
00:42:21
cards had been used in San Diego car
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washes were checked on the slim chance
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that someone would remember having seen
00:42:29
Angela or no one had but authorities did
00:42:34
find two witnesses who had seen the car
00:42:36
minutes before was torched
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one saw a man resembling Angelo in front
00:42:42
of the Cadillac at the same time a woman
00:42:45
passing by also saw the man however
00:42:48
neither witness could conclusively
00:42:50
identify him as Angela we can narrow
00:42:55
that down to about five minutes prior to
00:42:58
the fire the results of our case rest on
00:43:02
who that person was it could possibly
00:43:07
close our case if it was Angelo standing
00:43:10
by that car in the disappearance of
00:43:13
Angelo desi Derry there are still many
00:43:15
perplexing questions
00:43:16
why would Angelo leave his home in such
00:43:19
a hurry without a visible struggle who
00:43:22
was it standing next to Angelo's car in
00:43:24
San Diego and why was his set on fire
00:43:27
and perhaps most importantly what was
00:43:30
the motive for his disappearance there
00:43:33
is no way knowing this man like I did
00:43:37
that I can even remotely tie him into
00:43:42
any illegal activity with any underworld
00:43:45
or anything criminal and he being
00:43:48
involved anything of this nature they
00:43:50
would cause him they have to possibly
00:43:52
leave or disappear no way at all there's
00:43:58
another life or there's another
00:43:59
dimension - Angelo that we've never been
00:44:03
able to find we have a gentleman who
00:44:05
would go out of his way for people
00:44:07
someone who was devoted to his family
00:44:09
and yet we have this whole case and all
00:44:15
do all the pieces they just don't fit
00:44:19
there's a piece missing somewhere and I
00:44:22
think that if if I could ever find that
00:44:25
piece I'd find Angela for over eight
00:44:29
months investigators and friends were
00:44:31
baffled as to the moody for Angelo's
00:44:33
disappearance
00:44:37
update on March 16th Phoenix police
00:44:40
charged a local resident Joe Camel with
00:44:42
conspiracy to commit armed robbery and
00:44:44
burglary on Angelo desiderio they
00:44:48
learned that Keller was a friend and
00:44:50
business associate of Angela and had
00:44:52
detailed information concerning his
00:44:54
disappearance joe callow told us that
00:44:58
all the information he had was told to
00:45:01
him by James majors James majors have
00:45:05
worked with Calhoun construction he is
00:45:07
currently in a California jail facing
00:45:09
several counts of murder
00:45:11
during the interview of of Joe gallo
00:45:14
he stated that majors went to the house
00:45:19
got into the house by ringing the
00:45:21
doorbell and asking for a glass of water
00:45:24
then took Angelo at gunpoint and robbed
00:45:29
the house he was taken out of the house
00:45:34
at that time by majors and driven out
00:45:37
into the desert
00:45:41
callow claims it's somewhere between
00:45:43
Phoenix and San Diego majors murdered
00:45:45
Angela and then placed the body in the
00:45:48
trunk of the Cadillac and continued on
00:45:50
toward San Diego the following morning
00:45:56
majors goes to a hardware store we're
00:46:01
not sure where we believe it's in some
00:46:03
small town between here in California
00:46:07
where he purchased a pick and a shovel
00:46:09
[Music]
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Cannell claims that after buying a tools
00:46:16
majors told him that he had driven down
00:46:18
a desert back road to an area adjacent
00:46:20
to a rundown house he then buried Angelo
00:46:24
near a large tree
00:46:27
according to kal-el majors did a real
00:46:30
unique thing and that is as he's leaving
00:46:35
the gravesite he stopped and gave the
00:46:40
shoveling in the pit to the poor people
00:46:43
that lived and then that Shack the exit
00:46:48
the highway and drove him to California
00:46:52
[Music]
00:46:54
Joe Cala also told investigators that
00:46:57
majors had a storage locker
00:46:59
police searched the locker and recovered
00:47:01
property belonging to Angelo these items
00:47:04
were traced back to the desiderio
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[Music]
00:47:13
[Applause]
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[Music]
00:47:30
join me next time perhaps you hold the
00:47:34
key perhaps you can help solve a mystery
00:47:38
[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
