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next on Unsolved Mysteries two Army
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buddies are found dead both hung by the
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neck the Army says suicide their
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families say
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murder he's Charming intelligent Swap
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and he's left four women both
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heartbroken and
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broke at this lonely intersection in
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Nebraska a young man and woman vanish in
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the thin air what could have possibly
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happened and finally a young woman
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breaks up with her possessive boyfriend
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she ends up dead and she may not be the
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only
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victim these are stories that are
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guaranteed to surprise you I'm Dennis
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finina and for the next hour it's
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the national Summit in Little Rock
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Arkansas is the final resting place for
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hundreds of soldiers Sailors and Pilots
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two men buried here are at the center of
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a mystery that has no easy answers the
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Army says that both men kill themselves
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but their famili say that the Army is
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dead
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wrong Mike didn't have nothing to die
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for no more than Billy had to die
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for neither one of them committed suici
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that they didn't do
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it Billy Ray harrove and Mike carmichel
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LED similar lives both had planned
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careers in the military since they were
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kids both joined the army in their teens
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and both married Korean women while
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stationed in the Far East they became
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best buddies as they climbed through the
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ranks during Operation Desert Storm
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Billy and his outfit were sent to Saudi
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Arabia however the conflict ended before
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their platoon saw any
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action we're wondering when you'd
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recommend us for the Desert Storm
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decoration Billy Ray I appreciate
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everything you and the men did during
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the campaign when Billy finished Desert
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Storm he was disappointed because his
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men did not get a merit award a medal
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that he felt like they deserved and he
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set about trying to get the metal farm
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and every direction he went in he
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couldn't accomplish it sir I understand
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your point but the men were just as they
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decided to refuse the application Billy
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just could not accept the Army's
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decision and he made a questionable
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decision of his own yes sir he forged
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his Superior signature on the
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appropriate documents a short time later
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his men received their
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MS
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a few months later he arrived in Korea
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for another Tour of Duty Sergeant
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harrove yes sir I'm here to place you
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under arrest for treason Willis remove
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the Desert Storm
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accommodation sir what's this about
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Billy Ray called me January the 28th and
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told me dad I think I'm going to get out
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of the military I've had all of it I can
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stand and he said I'll probably be home
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by
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June Billy's Court Marshal was not his
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only problem his marriage was falling
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apart I had visited their house and they
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were fighting a lot and there was a lot
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of jealousy she was constantly accusing
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him of having a girlfriend and having a
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child somewhere that she didn't know
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anything about and it wasn't true at
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all hey
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hard then one morning Billy missed a
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summons to report to duty hey Billy
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where you been I just having breakfast
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oh did you not hear the siren uh no is
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we having a drill yeah and the captain's
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going ballistic but he is uh telling my
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mama why okay good deal see you later
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Billy never did report for Duty instead
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he took his dog for a
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walk 20 minutes later Billy's wife heard
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the dog
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barking what's wrong with you huh
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where's Bill huh where's
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Bill she found Billy hanging inches from
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the ground by an elastic parachute
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string a suicide note was found in his
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pant's pocket it read in part my life is
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really screwed up now and I just don't
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know how to fix it I've been thinking a
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lot about taking my life for a long time
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now I looked at the riding and I did not
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believe it was his writing it did not
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look to me like his writing
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the Army acknowledged that the suicide
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note might not have been in Billy's
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handwriting even so they ruled his death
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a suicide They concluded that he had
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been depressed about his upcoming Court
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Marshal and his
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divorce he was not the type person to
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commit suicide no matter what especially
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putting a rope around his neck I I just
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could not believe it and I still don't
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believe it something happened to him but
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he did not commit
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suicide the autopsy report also
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contained evidence that it might not be
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suicide Billy had cuts and abrasions on
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his face hands and
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Knuckles that would indicate to me that
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someone had been in a fight but the
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military in their report
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didn't question anyone or ask where the
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scratches come from they just ignored
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him when Billy Ray Hargrove was laid to
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rest one of the MERS at his funeral was
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his friend Mike
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carich I do know that there was one part
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of the scure when I finally did meet
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Mike it was at Billy's funeral when he
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brought Billy's body back
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home and he told me he said har said
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we'll give him hail we're going to make
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them pay the sobs pay for what they done
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after the service Mike returned to the
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hargroves house with Billy's family he
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looked at me and he promised and he told
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me that if it was the last thing he ever
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did he was going to find out what
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happened to Billy R don't do anything
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until you hear from
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me but 6 weeks later Mike would also be
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dead Mike's Uncle Oscar served in the
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Marines for 20 years he is now suffering
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from INF AA but in our interview said
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that Mike believed there was a larger
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conspiracy
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involved there had been three other Army
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personnel there in Korea that had
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supposedly committed
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suicide and my nephew told his
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birthmother says don't be surprised if
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I'm not
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next Mike carmichel returned to Korea
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and began his own investigation he and
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his wife son he visited at Billy Ray's
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Widow and collected his personal
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papers included was a letter Billy wrote
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to his father a few days before the
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hanging but that letter never made it
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home for some reason he was supposed to
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have written me a letter in February I
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don't know when but he was supposed to
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have written me a letter and I'm sure if
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I could find that letter it would
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explain
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everything Mike continued to collect
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Billy's papers and store them with his
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own papers in a metal box Mike told his
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uncle Oscar that if anything happened to
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him Oscar should immediately open the
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box but Mike never said what was in
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it all right then on Mike car Michael's
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38th birthday he received an unexpected
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phone call ordering him back to the base
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by the next morning Mike had still not
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returned
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home
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on Sunday morning I called the army base
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to find out where my husband was I
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talked to a security guard I was told
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that he did not see my husband so I
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asked him to try to knock on the door of
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his Barrack's room he said that there
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was no response and the door was
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locked an hour later son he found Mike
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Carmichael's body in his Barrack's
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office he was hanging by a parachute
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cord and leaning oddly positioned
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against his Lo Lo
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ER like Billy he had abrasions on his
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face and a gash on his forehead he had
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been dead for several
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hours the Army's investigation concluded
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that Mike carmichel had taken his own
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life because he was depressed over
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financial matters and Billy's death
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there was no way that Mike would take
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his life and and take the chicken way
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out
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he was happier than I had seen him in a
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long time due to the fact that him and
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Son e had just gotten married in July
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they was just like a couple of overgrown
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kids really and he had his determin to
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look forward to I think he was angry and
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I think he was going to direct his anger
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towards finding out the reason why or
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who caused his friend or killed his
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friend the carmichel and harrove
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families absolutely refused to believe
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the deaths were
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suicides they launched a letter writing
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campaign asking for the official reports
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from the military unsatisfied with the
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Army's response they contacted the
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office of us Congressman J dicki even
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the reports that I could get were were
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lacking in in uh the the photos of the
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crime scene other things were W withheld
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or Whited out for certain reasons and uh
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after looking at it I don't think that
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they took into account all the different
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aspects of of the case and they maybe
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kind of just closed the door uh without
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a thorough investigation I think the
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signs are there that there is a cover up
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of some sort and I I don't want to uh
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accuse anything or anybody at this time
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of that but uh the reason why there
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would be a cover up I don't know I that
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that's one of the things we want to find
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out I happen to think that if we open
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this thing up that we will find an
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answer the two families are especially
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troubled by the many similarities of the
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two deaths both Billy and Mike died just
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after they were summoned to the Army
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Barracks both were tied with parachute
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cord both had cuts and abrasions on
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their faces and hands and both men were
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found hanging just inches from the
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ground the question marks that come up
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about Sergeant Carmichael start with the
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fact that he's in a sitting position
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some 3 in from the floor even the
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Natural Instincts of a person would have
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your hands falling down or pushing
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against it there's not any way that we
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our our rights our self
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self-preservation rights are such that
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we'll do something like that this is the
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official crime scene sketch from the US
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military investigation noted in the
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drawing was the metal box that contained
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Mike and Billy's personal papers it was
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sitting on a desk across the room from
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Mike's body the box of letters later
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disappeared no one knows what happened
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to it and military personnel deny its
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existence the men's families suspect a
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cover up I believe in Billy Ray's case
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and in Mike's case too something had to
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be going on that wasn't right something
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that they found out about or knew about
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or maybe was going to
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expose and they were gotten rid of a
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congressional hearing upheld the Army's
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finding of suicide they found that Mike
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had choked himself with a rope while
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sitting on the ground Billy's mother
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says the hearing was just a formality
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put on for show she insists the two
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buddies were
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murdered if you have any information
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please log on to our website at
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next a con man uses investment schemes
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of phony identity and the Art of
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Seduction to trap his female
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victims you're about to meet a
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successful highly intelligent
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businesswoman who never imagined that
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she could have been duped by a con man
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but guess what she was in fact she
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turned over her entire life savings to
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him and and she was not the only one the
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woman who we'll call Catherine was at a
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singles party when she was approached by
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A well-dressed man who spoke with a
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German accent he introduced himself as
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Eric Kesler no I was born in Hamburg oh
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Germany the night I first met Eric
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Kesler he presented himself as a
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businessman who was in town on business
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and would be staying for probably a year
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some business associates have asked me
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to look at some property here I was
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impressed on his dress his mannerism I
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never got an impression that he was even
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attempting to make a pass and what do
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you do here you work yes Eric encouraged
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Catherine to reveal intimate personal
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details about her life she told him she
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was divorced that she operated a hair
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salon and that she was worried about
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being able to put her children through
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college it's such a coincidence that we
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should meet I'm talking with some
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friends of mine from Western Europe Eric
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just happened to have a solution he told
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her about an invention which would
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revolutionize Catherine's industry well
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I'd like to hear about that what what
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area of the business is well it's very
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complex and very technical he arranged
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for her the C the image system known as
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the video
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makeover it was cuttingedge technology
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that let clients see how they would look
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with different hairstyles and
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colors I thought that the concept was
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fantastic you could charge a large
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amount of money for it Kesler convinced
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Catherine that he could place the system
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in a major Midwest department store
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chain but they needed money to get
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started it's called a video makeover she
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got a $50,000 loan from a wealthy friend
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Eric said he would repay the loan 4
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months later can do that she did not ask
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a lot of questions because she believed
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in me she wrote a check for
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$50,000 you're terrific thank you Kesler
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insisted that a business account be
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established in Catherine's name only she
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can make deposits and
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withdrawals a few days later he moved
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into Catherine's basement so they could
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work more closely
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together we brought in another telephone
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line which was uh strictly a business
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line at one point in time my son took
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the message from the Department Store
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saying they wanted to set up a meeting
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with Eric
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Kesler he was very convincing before
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long Eric began to romance his new
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partner when Eric Kesler came into my
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life it never occurred to me that the
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man was a con artist because I certainly
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assumed that I would recognize
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that I have dealt with people who have
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attempted to con me or take me in
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business
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matters the fact that Eric also made me
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feel that he was in love with me also
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put me off
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guard 3 weeks later Eric's Conquest was
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complete he surprised Catherine with a
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special
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gift Eric I have a gift for you what in
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the world have you done one day when I
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came home from work there was a
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king-size bed in my bedroom and he had
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made the decision that it would be much
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easier if he could have the office
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downstairs and didn't have to use it
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also as a bedroom and his way of doing
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that was to bring in a king-size bed do
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you like it
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I love it good thank
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you Kesler started controlling every
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part of Katherine's
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life for you it makes you feel good yes
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make you feel
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confident decisions about wardrobe
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makeup jewelry they were all made by
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Kesler and we are confident people I did
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get to the point that I I was not
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confident I mean I wouldn't B a pair of
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earrings at that point because I didn't
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think that I was capable of doing it
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anymore on a 24mon closed in lease
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agreement Eric even convinced Catherine
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to lease a high-priced Cadillac with all
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of the
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options Erica I don't think this is a
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good
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idea I don't think we have $500 a month
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to spend on this my dear this is a
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taxable
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deduction why can't you make an
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intelligent business
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decision then Kesler started asking
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Catherine for large cash advances we
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have accountants we have business
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managers we have lawyers we have Tax
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Consultants he claims some of their
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suppliers would not accept
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checks thank you when the loan money ran
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out Eric convinced Catherine to put
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$20,000 more of her own money into the
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business and that's when the truth
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finally began to Dawn on Catherine I
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didn't know who I was more angry with
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myself or Eric all we had done is spent
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money it had not been spent wisely here
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I am as a businesswoman and I have blown
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it I mentioned to him that I thought
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that he was a conman and I had thought
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about going to the police he said what
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good would it do you you got the money
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you signed all of the checks you agreed
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to all of the decision decisions that
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were
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made there is nothing that ties me in it
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is your word against
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mine we have to talk Eric moved out of
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Catherine's apartment the day he was
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supposed to repay the loan she met him
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at a bar to ask for the money there's no
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money in the account I have a check
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coming by special Courier tomorrow
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morning at 9:00 a.m. for
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$50,000 and if they don't come what then
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it will be here and you will right to Al
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I was exhausted I wanted to believe that
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I was going to get money down deep I
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didn't believe it but I had that was the
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only thing I had left I had to hope that
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the check was going to be
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there I met my benefactor that night I
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wrote the check I was very hesitant if
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it all was going to come
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through hello I've got to talk to Eric
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Kesler where is he
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I don't know who is this this is Andy
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down at irishman's Pub he bounced a
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check in here last night for ,000 I want
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to know where when the bartender called
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me the next morning I knew right then
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and there it was all
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over Catherine lost more than
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$75,000 she was unable to pay back her
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benefactor and she was forced into
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bankruptcy
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update after the broadcast a viewer
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called us to report that Eric Kessler's
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real name was Edward C Maynard and that
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he was staying at a motel in Houston
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Texas the FBI closed in and arrested
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Maynard on charges of forgery and theft
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by fraud but mayard posted bail and then
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skipped his court
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hearing when we reran the story a viewer
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in Michigan recognized mayard she
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contacted the police and he was arrested
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again this time Edward C mayard ended up
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serving 5 years in
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prison next a man stalks then kills his
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exgirlfriend police believe he's killed
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before and could kill
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again
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Elgen Illinois Michael Alfonso has
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reached a breaking point he's
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desperate his girlfriend a single mother
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Josephina Gonzalez is leaving him he
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asks for one last chance but she won't
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relent and he can't handle it no
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no Alonso stabs her and tries to escape
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with josephina's 2-year-old child
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although severely wounded Josephina
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Fights
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Back Michael alanso drops the child and
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runs into the
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night Josephina Gonzalez and her son
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recovered from that attack Michael
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Alfonso was arrested and served four
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years in prison but then Alfonso was
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released and he began looking for
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another
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relationship when Hanah vquez separated
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from her husband she worked hard to
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support her young daughter Michael
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Alonso was a coworker at one of her jobs
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SMS good you scared me I came in here
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just to ask you out to dinner tonight
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yeah tonight okay Hanna was not
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interested in a serious relationship she
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had enough to deal with she didn't talk
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about any relationship with him but she
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always said I'm alive right now I got to
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do what I can right now and she also
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wanted a good future for for her and for
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her her daughter Hannah's second job was
00:24:02
at a local fast food restaurant she had
00:24:05
told the co-worker that she was having a
00:24:07
hard time working things out with her
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former husband Hanna was having marriage
00:24:12
problems I said you just got to
00:24:14
communicate with each other and then
00:24:17
about a few days later H starts getting
00:24:20
these phone calls at work H for you
00:24:24
thanks
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hello yeah we're busy now and man starts
00:24:29
calling like every other day there yeah
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okay then I asked her I says who is this
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man calling you at work and she would
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not answer
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Mees she would not tell me sure yeah
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we're just friends everything's fine she
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said I know what I'm doing I know what
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I'm doing I say okay then
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fine apparently Alonso had become more
00:24:50
than just a
00:24:54
coworker but Renee Anderson was right to
00:24:56
be worried my husband and I are getting
00:24:59
back together me and my husband we are
00:25:01
what does that mean that mean you're
00:25:02
leaving me no you're not eventually
00:25:04
Hannah decided to go back to her husband
00:25:06
Michael Alfonso is an aggressive violent
00:25:08
man when he doesn't get his way he gets
00:25:10
angry many of his friends tell us that
00:25:12
they're scared of him that they don't
00:25:13
know which way he's going to turn
00:25:15
because he's so
00:25:16
unpredictable and I'm talking to you
00:25:18
want to hear did you hear me you want to
00:25:20
listen to me okay that's nothing you're
00:25:22
not going anywhere you don't break up
00:25:24
with me or I hurt you and your
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family
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Hannah was so scared that she notified
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authorities she did not want to pursue
00:25:35
any criminal charges at the time because
00:25:37
she was deathly afraid of retaliation by
00:25:40
Michael Alfonso no you can't talk to him
00:25:42
then I know he's going to do
00:25:45
something one day Alonso showed up at
00:25:48
the restaurant where Hannah worked you
00:25:49
don't let me talk to you I told you it's
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over between us I told you according to
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what One customer told me some man comes
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up to her and they start arguing and it
00:25:59
was a very heated argument from what the
00:26:01
customer told me hna's husband who
00:26:04
worked at the same restaurant was taking
00:26:06
a break in his car on the other side of
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the building he had no idea his wife was
00:26:12
in danger back me you're not leaving me
00:26:15
you regret
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this one of the witnesses was in an
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automobile waiting in the drive-through
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line for food Michael directly at her
00:26:28
vehicle and walked between her car and
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the drive-thru and she looked at his
00:26:32
face and noticed that he had a smirk on
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his
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face there was a person that noticed a
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black Firebird type of a vehicle drive
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away at a high rate of
00:26:43
speed we know from records that Michael
00:26:45
Alfonso owns a 1994 black colored
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Pontiac Firebird
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oh I'm holding Hano and I said to her
00:26:54
hold on Hano hold on everything's going
00:26:56
to be okay he 28-year-old henna vquez
00:27:01
was pronounced dead shortly after being
00:27:03
taken to a
00:27:05
hospital an all points bulletin went out
00:27:07
for the arrest of Michael Alonso police
00:27:10
would soon learn that they were now
00:27:12
looking for a career criminal before
00:27:16
alonso's four-year prison term for the
00:27:18
attack on Josephina Gonzalez he had
00:27:20
served time for rape authorities also
00:27:23
suspected Alonso and The Disappearance
00:27:26
of suire
00:27:28
yangang she vanished after telling
00:27:31
Alonso that she wanted to go back to her
00:27:35
husband two months later suir Yang's
00:27:38
body was discovered in a remote
00:27:42
area she had been shot once in the head
00:27:46
a pretty clear pattern of Michael
00:27:47
alonso's Behavior has emerged here it
00:27:50
seems as though when he begins to date a
00:27:52
woman and the relationship goes sour he
00:27:56
gets angry at the woman and does not not
00:27:57
want them to leave and what he does is
00:27:59
he reacts with
00:28:03
violence any woman that he gets involved
00:28:06
in a relationship with is in grave
00:28:08
danger unless they assed to all his
00:28:10
demands and remain his loyal servant
00:28:13
they are in danger of being raped or
00:28:19
killed update over 2,000 mil from Elgen
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Illinois in Veracruz Mexico Michael
00:28:28
Alonso was arrested after 3 years on the
00:28:31
Run he was deported to the United States
00:28:34
to avoid the death penalty Alfonso
00:28:37
pleaded guilty to the murders of both
00:28:38
Hanna Velasquez and suir
00:28:42
yang he was sentenced to three life
00:28:44
terms without the possibility of
00:28:50
parole next an explosion Blast the
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church into Smither how did the church
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choir managed to escape a fiery
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death beatric Nebraska
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1950 this is an area where people take
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their religion very seriously if you
00:29:22
wanted to sing in the choir of the West
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End Baptist Church you showed up no
00:29:26
later than 7:25 p.m. choir director
00:29:30
Martha Paul made sure of
00:29:33
it no one was ever really late uh there
00:29:36
might have been very very few
00:29:37
circumstances but most often everyone
00:29:40
was there all the time I really can't
00:29:42
think of a time that anyone came
00:29:44
late very nice see you Sunday and next
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week at 7:15
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doing that rehearsal would be their last
00:29:57
in the West End Church on March 1st at
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7:27 p.m. exactly 2 minutes after the
00:30:04
choir was to meet something happened
00:30:07
that nobody can explain that is of
00:30:10
course unless you believe in
00:30:15
miracles the afternoon of March 1st
00:30:18
turned bitter
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cold the church's Pastor stop by at 4:30
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to light the furnace so the church would
00:30:25
be warm in time for the evening choir
00:30:29
practice the Reverend and his wife
00:30:32
always brought their 18-month-old
00:30:33
daughter with them to choir practice but
00:30:36
that night the baby stained her dress
00:30:38
and Mrs clle had to iron another one it
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was
00:30:42
7:15 and they were running
00:30:47
late at about that same time Martha
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Paul's teenage daughter Marilyn was
00:30:53
sound asleep I was very tired and I
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wanted to rest for a very short period
00:30:58
of time before going to the church to
00:31:01
practice so I decided that maybe a
00:31:04
little 15-minute nap wouldn't hurt and
00:31:06
it ended up being a little bit longer
00:31:08
probably about a half an
00:31:10
hour a few blocks away Herbert Kip was
00:31:14
working on Church business I know I I
00:31:16
just need to finish this by tonight okay
00:31:19
that night I was writing a letter to our
00:31:20
denominational headquarters and it
00:31:22
seemed very important for me to get it
00:31:24
into the mail that evening my mother was
00:31:27
pounding me to get going because the
00:31:29
time was late already but I felt it was
00:31:31
more important to get it in the mail and
00:31:34
drop it on the way to
00:31:37
church 18-year-old Lucille Jones let
00:31:40
herself get hooked on a radio show that
00:31:42
night Lucille was supposed to pick up
00:31:45
another choir member but tonight she
00:31:48
didn't
00:31:49
care I turned on the radio to listen to
00:31:52
this is your
00:31:54
life I don't know how I turned it on
00:31:56
that night but but I turned it on they
00:31:58
said this was going to be Edgar Bergen's
00:32:00
life and I just decided I was going to
00:32:02
listen to
00:32:03
it at
00:32:05
723 Ladonna Vandergrift was struggling
00:32:08
with geometry she was determined to find
00:32:11
the answer before leaving but the
00:32:14
problem was difficult and Ladonna was
00:32:16
running
00:32:17
late 2 miles away Rowena eses couldn't
00:32:21
start her car she was picking up another
00:32:24
choir member so they were both way
00:32:29
Joyce black who lived across the street
00:32:31
from the church was ready for choir
00:32:33
practice but just couldn't seem to get
00:32:36
moving I was just plain lazy and I just
00:32:40
didn't want to get out in the cold and
00:32:42
so I kept putting off going out the door
00:32:46
at last I couldn't put it off any longer
00:32:48
so I put my coat on and when I opened up
00:32:50
the door and stepped out our church just
00:32:56
disintegrated
00:32:58
the lights went out all over town
00:33:09
uhoh what really impressed me was our
00:33:12
sheet music and our song books flying
00:33:15
through the air we had a lot of those
00:33:17
things it was really something to
00:33:20
see a real nice choir book fell right
00:33:24
near me and it was in pretty good
00:33:27
condition so I picked it up I didn't
00:33:29
think anybody care cuz I wanted to keep
00:33:33
it minutes after the explosion the choir
00:33:37
members began to arrive come on there
00:33:40
might be more people in there
00:33:42
frantically they search the rubble for
00:33:44
survivors then one by one all of them
00:33:48
straggled and each of them late for his
00:33:51
or her own
00:33:52
reason when we found out that everyone
00:33:55
was safe and that no one was in the
00:33:57
explosion we were standing there holding
00:33:59
each other's hands and one of the
00:34:01
members said let's give thanks to God
00:34:03
and we offered a prayer of Thanksgiving
00:34:06
that we were indeed spared and that no
00:34:08
one lost their
00:34:10
life if this had been a busload of
00:34:13
people stopped by a flat tire or any
00:34:15
such occurrence it might be considered a
00:34:17
coincidence but where you have 12 15
00:34:20
people scattered throughout the entire
00:34:22
city and each of them detained by some
00:34:25
trivial little thing it can't
00:34:29
be I believe that night and no one will
00:34:32
convince me otherwise that God didn't
00:34:34
want us there we were
00:34:37
spared and I'm very
00:34:41
grateful it turned out the explosion was
00:34:44
caused by a gas leak from an underground
00:34:47
pipeline people still debate what it was
00:34:50
that kept each choir member safely away
00:34:52
from the
00:34:54
church to some it was just just a
00:34:59
coincidence but to the people of beatric
00:35:01
Nebraska it was the act of a higher
00:35:12
power next two friends take an afternoon
00:35:16
drive by midnight they have disappeared
00:35:19
Without a Trace even their car has
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vanished
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our next story is about two young people
00:35:34
who simply vanished in the Great Plains
00:35:37
of Nebraska it was supposed to be a
00:35:40
short trip and nothing seemed out of the
00:35:42
ordinary nothing at all and yet these
00:35:45
two young people and their car
00:35:47
completely disappeared whatever happened
00:35:51
to Bill Rundle and Tracy
00:35:55
Kenley on the day Bill and Tracy
00:35:58
vanished they paid a visit to Tracy's
00:36:00
parents 38 Mi southeast of
00:36:05
Hastings hey hi you guys hi
00:36:09
Mom this is Bill get to meet you this is
00:36:12
my mom Sharon we had never met bill
00:36:14
before this so we don't know anything
00:36:15
about him but we you know it's like her
00:36:18
dad said any friend of Tracy's is a
00:36:20
friend of ours so what do you do Bill we
00:36:22
never talked about where they were going
00:36:24
when they left or what they were going
00:36:26
to do I guess we felt that she'd make it
00:36:28
home
00:36:30
safe but they didn't go home Tracy call
00:36:33
her boyfriend Doug and made plans to
00:36:35
meet him at a local bar at 12:30
00:36:38
a.m. I'm just leaving my parents house
00:36:41
with Bill what are you going to do after
00:36:43
work Tracy and Bill were never heard
00:36:46
from
00:36:50
again hey
00:36:53
Bill the following day Bill rundo didn't
00:36:56
show up for work I was concerned if he
00:36:59
would have not just not showed up for
00:37:00
work absolutely not he would have
00:37:03
called one way or the other he would
00:37:05
have let somebody know that he wasn't
00:37:06
going to be there
00:37:08
Tracy Tracy didn't show up at her job
00:37:12
either I knew it was pretty serious
00:37:14
because Tracy if she wasn't going to go
00:37:15
to work first thing she'd do would be to
00:37:17
call him to work and let him know that
00:37:19
she was sick or whatever the first thing
00:37:21
I did was just hop up and head out the
00:37:22
door and start looking I didn't know
00:37:24
what to think I didn't know what to
00:37:26
think think at
00:37:28
all when Tracy didn't answer her phone
00:37:31
her parents reported her missing police
00:37:34
pinpointed Tracy's location at the time
00:37:36
of the call through cell phone records
00:37:39
it was a junction in the Road 16 m east
00:37:42
of
00:37:46
Hastings they organized the search of
00:37:48
the 30 square miles around the
00:37:50
intersection there was no sign of Bill
00:37:53
Tracy or the
00:37:55
Jeep a lot of dedicated individuals came
00:37:58
out and searched for two solid days some
00:38:01
areas were searched two and three
00:38:04
times I believe in a 30 m circumference
00:38:07
we've done a very thorough job of
00:38:09
searching not finding anything with as
00:38:11
many searches is we've had
00:38:14
um you know you would think you'd find
00:38:17
something there's there's just
00:38:19
nothing
00:38:24
nothing police began to wonder if Bill
00:38:27
and Tracy had run off
00:38:29
together at the time that he disappeared
00:38:32
bill was he was really lonely from what
00:38:35
I know of Tracy she was a really sweet
00:38:37
person and I think that bill was
00:38:39
probably really attracted to that as a
00:38:41
friend and that at that point he did
00:38:43
need a friend and U I think maybe they
00:38:47
needed each
00:38:49
other trac's a very responsible person
00:38:52
there's no way that she would run away
00:38:54
from her responsibilities she was was
00:38:56
very close to her parents she was close
00:38:58
to me I mean if she didn't want to call
00:39:00
me if she ran off or something the first
00:39:02
P first people she would call would be
00:39:03
her parents they didn't run away I I
00:39:06
feel that in my heart because neither
00:39:08
one of them took their toothbrush
00:39:10
neither one took their uh any change of
00:39:12
clothing there has been no evidence uh
00:39:16
as far as their credit cards ATMs phones
00:39:18
have ever been powered up from the day
00:39:20
they disappeared no evidence has led us
00:39:22
in that direction that they're still out
00:39:25
there
00:39:27
one full week after Bill and Tracy
00:39:29
disappeared a strange piece of evidence
00:39:32
turns up at the intersection where Tracy
00:39:35
made her final phone
00:39:38
call we had a farmer come to us who had
00:39:41
recovered a hat and the hat was sent
00:39:43
into the lab just in case through lab
00:39:46
analysis it was found that the Hat was
00:39:49
Bill
00:39:50
rundles where about was that
00:39:52
to that was laying right down here we do
00:39:55
not believe believe that bill was
00:39:57
wearing the Hat when Bill and Tracy
00:40:00
disappeared there had been 3 in of rain
00:40:03
uh in two nights after they had
00:40:05
disappeared and the hat was clean and
00:40:08
did not appear to be out in the weather
00:40:10
plus most of our search teams went
00:40:13
directly by that area and we believe our
00:40:17
search teams would have seen it if it
00:40:19
would have been there if Bill wasn't
00:40:22
wearing the hat and there was no trace
00:40:24
of it during the search how did it get
00:40:26
to this remote location police were
00:40:29
convinced the Hat was planted but by
00:40:31
whom and
00:40:35
why Bill and Tracy knew that they didn't
00:40:38
have to meet Doug for at least an hour
00:40:42
it would have been very normal for for
00:40:44
Bill to find a place to pull
00:40:46
over maybe pulled into a shaded area and
00:40:50
just opened up a few beers and
00:40:55
talked another theory is Foul Play
00:40:59
Nebraska is an area where you travel
00:41:01
through to get from the east or the West
00:41:03
there's always a possibility of somebody
00:41:07
coming through the area that may have
00:41:09
been a a more severe criminal than we're
00:41:11
normally used
00:41:13
to but how could a killer dispose of two
00:41:16
bodies and a car without leaving a trace
00:41:20
and why would a killer plant Bill's hat
00:41:22
one week later there were no answers
00:41:28
I'll never stop
00:41:30
looking we need some kind of clue we
00:41:32
have no clue there has been nothing it's
00:41:35
just like they just
00:41:38
disappeared update 2 years after Tracy
00:41:42
Kenley and Bill Rundle vanished drought
00:41:45
conditions lowered the level of a pond
00:41:47
near the road where the two had been
00:41:49
driving a farm worker noticed the
00:41:52
outline of a car in the pond and
00:41:54
contacted police they theorized that
00:41:57
because Tracy and Bill didn't know the
00:41:59
area they drove down the narrow private
00:42:02
road by mistake when they tried to turn
00:42:05
around the car went into the
00:42:09
pond investigators have ruled out Foul
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