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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 are about to see is not a news
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broadcast tonight the story of auto
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racing legend and self-made millionaire
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Mickey Thompson he and his wife were
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gunned down but police believe was a
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contract killing 50 years ago the
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mysterious George J Stein opened ten
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savings accounts across the Midwest
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disappeared his unknown heir stand to
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inherit a fortune
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Michael wave Mohan the convicted armed
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robber is a modern-day Houdini escaping
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from custody on three different
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occasions recently 12 residents near
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Pikes Peak Colorado claim to have seen
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evidence of a bizarre creature half-man
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half-ape legend of Bigfoot to be more
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than a myth cheerleader Joyce McLain was
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brutally murdered eight years ago
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friends and neighbors in her Maine
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hometown are desperate to find the
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killer
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tonight five stories each a unique and
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compelling mystery perhaps someone
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watching can help solve them perhaps
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that someone is you
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Mickey Thompson was a legend in the
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world of auto racing cars were Mickey's
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life and they propelled him to success
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beyond his greediness among his many
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innovations with the slingshot dragsters
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but in 1960 his home-built challenger
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was the first car to break for 400 miles
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per hour
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Mickey was also a pioneer in promoting
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off-road racing yeah I think a good
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description of my dad was he was flat
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out all the time and I mean he was pedal
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to the floor and he did that's the way
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he spent his life he loved to go fast
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and he loved racing
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I think the businesses were a way to
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help him continue to race
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Mickey's obsession with speed drove him
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far sometimes too far in the mid
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seventies a speedboat acts that have
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paralyzed him from the waist down
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doctors felt he would never walk again
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Mickey proved them wrong with death
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constantly at his shoulder he looked to
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the support of his wife Trudy Mickey's
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and Trudy's daily routine was just about
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twice as frantic as anybody else they
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did not work an eight-hour day they
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worked at least a 16-hour day they had a
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goal and they were trying to achieve it
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and they liked working and they enjoyed
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it and that was their whole life it was
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a fun thing to work hard and they really
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worked hard
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during the 80s Mickey developed an
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extremely profitable Stadium racing
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venture his business style was similar
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to his hard-driving racing tactics
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Mickey told family members that he had
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received death threats
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Mickey talked to me and said that he was
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tremendously concerned he said he was
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afraid that an individual was going to
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hurt his baby meaning his wife Trudy and
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I responded Oh Nick you don't really
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think so do you and he says I'm telling
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you he's absolutely absolutely capable
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of it Mickey and Trudy lived in Bradbury
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California an affluent rural community
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located near Los Angeles at 6 a.m. on
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March 16th 1988 the pastoral quiet of
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Bradbury was broken by the sound of
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gunfire
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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the shots came from Mickey Thompson's
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hole at the bottom of the driveway
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sheriff's found children lying dead
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rusting back up a few yards away near
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the garage
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Vicki Thompson was also found dead
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precision and cold-blooded nature this
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double homicide convinced investigators
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that this was no amateur killing for
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this reason Mickey Thompson's friends
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and family have put up 260 thousand
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dollars in reward money they hope this
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huge sum would inspire someone to come
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forward with the identity of the killers
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so far no one has provided any
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information
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during their crime-scene investigation
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sheriff's found few clues and he rolled
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up here with all the jewelry in the body
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they did discover that Trudy Thompson
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was wearing over $70,000 worth of
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jewelry she and her husband were
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carrying $4,000 in cash
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robbery seemed an unlikely motive it
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doesn't make any sense to us that a
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person would have passed up such obvious
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pieces of jewelry it wasn't like a ring
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or a bracelet that was hidden by gloves
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or a long blouse or something it was
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quite obvious and it just doesn't make
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sense to us why somebody wouldn't have
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taken it this just wasn't a random crime
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it was well-planned
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the only other unusual clue that was
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found at the crime scene was a stun gun
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we found a plastic stun gun and we
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cannot say that this ever belonged to
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the two victims we've talked to all
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their friends and they say they never
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owned one and we just don't believe it
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was theirs we don't really know why the
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suspects would bring it to the location
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it would only be speculation on why that
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morning the gunshots had killed Mickey
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and Trudy were heard by a witness he
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believes he saw the killer's escape well
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my wife and I were asleep in bed it was
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about 6 o'clock in the morning when we
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heard the shots we literally jumped
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straight out of the bed and I ran over
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to the window to see where the shots
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were coming from my wife got on the
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phone and dialed 911 and told the police
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that their shots coming from the
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Thompson residence there was probably
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about 15 seconds of silence and at that
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time we heard Mickey screaming please
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don't hurt my wife please don't hurt my
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wife the next thing we heard is another
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series of shots and silence again after
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the second series of shots and I saw two
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black men on ten speed bikes pedaling as
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fast as I could to get out of here
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several neighborhood residents spotted
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the men riding down a nearby road others
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recalled seeing the men in the week's
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previous to the killings these witnesses
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provided investigators with descriptions
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of the suspects two black males dressed
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in jogging suits between 20 and 30 years
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of age approximately 6 feet tall
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weighing 185 to 200 pounds
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based on our intimate knowledge of
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Mickey and Trudy's daily routine
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Mickey's sister Colleen has developed
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her own theory as to how they were
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ambushed and murdered
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you could almost set a clock by making
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Trudy's behavior they would leave around
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6 o'clock every morning it would be easy
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for somebody to know what their daily
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routine was and I'm sure the people that
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killed making knew exactly what time
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they left because they left about
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daylight every morning
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my belief is that when Trudy got in the
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van and backed it out the people that
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murdered them were waiting in the bush
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and make you just didn't have a chance
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he walked right into where they were
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it's been stated that Mickey was yelling
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just don't hurt my wife don't hurt my
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wife and I'm sure he told her to get out
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of there to run after he was hit and she
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didn't make it
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investigators found it odd that the
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killers would ride to the crime scene on
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bicycles the gunmen also failed to use
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silencers on their weapons
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detective Griggs believes one
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explanation might be that the killers
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plan to abduct Mickey and Trudy before
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killing them
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intending to make their escape in the
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Thompson's van possibly they planned
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because of the stun gun and no silencers
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to maybe bring them back in the house or
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take them somewhere away from the
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location where they could do it and the
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lack of silencers wouldn't make any
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difference almost a year has passed as a
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double homicide
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Mickey's son and sister want to know not
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only who killed Mickey and Trudy but who
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may have ordered it done I want to see
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this person or persons brought to
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justice in the very very worst way and
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I'm gonna do anything I can with
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whatever it takes there is something
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inside of you that says yes I do want
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those people punished it was just a very
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cowardly thing to do after 13 years of
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investigation police arrested Thompson's
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former business partner Michael Goodwin
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we do believe that mr. Goodwin
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orchestrated the murders we believe he
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planned the murders and we believe that
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his motive was based on a personal
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vendetta along with financial gain there
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is simply no evidence nor has there ever
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been that implicates Mike Goodwin of the
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murders that the key innuendo or motive
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has always been the alleged civil
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dispute between Mike Goodwin and Mickey
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Thompson Mike negotiated a settlement
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with Mickey Thompson there are
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third-party witnesses that confirm that
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there was no motive to kill Mickey
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Thompson
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sheriff's investigators claimed that an
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eyewitness recently came forward and
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identified Michael Goodwin as a man seen
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sitting in a station wagon in the
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Thompsons neighborhood spying on them
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with binoculars several days before the
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murders we've taken his exact
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description of where he says he saw the
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vehicle and mr. Goodwin and we've
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basically re-enacted it it's almost
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hilarious he would not be able to see
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Mickey and Trudy Thompson's home from
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their that the charges against Mike
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Goodwin are entirely meritless there's
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there's no evidence and that's just not
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my viewpoint no charges were filed for
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13 years in this case and there's a
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reason for that the district attorney
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didn't file charges because there was no
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evidence against Michael Goodwin
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when we return the case of Michael Wade
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Mohan a man that prisons cannot hold
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after three successful escapes he is
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still on the run he's at a very definite
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threat to anybody you know any citizen
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anywhere New Year's Eve 1983 Fountain
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Valley California after being called to
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the scene of a reported burglary police
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became involved in a high-speed chase
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with the suspects the chase ended in the
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parking lot of a condominium Carlton
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Officer Kevin Arnold took off after one
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of the two suspects I've been involved
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in in other vehicle new pursuits and
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other foot pursuits I've arrested
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burglary suspects before work
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yeah just everything is supposed to go a
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certain way to chase him and tell him to
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get down on the ground and gets on the
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ground and we handcuff him and that's
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the end of the problem this one all of a
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sudden he wasn't obeying my commands
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we're struggling over the gun and I
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realized that he's trying to kill me in
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order to avoid being shot
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Arnold tried to empty his revolver into
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the air five out of six shots were fired
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artal then reached for his second
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service revolver he fired five shots at
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his adversary the man survived his name
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was Michael Wade Mohan when they checked
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their records police discovered that
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Mohan had five pages of previous
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convictions he was known as a master of
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disguises and often used them to escape
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capture right after his arrest in Orange
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County on New Year's Eve 1983 Mohan
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remained in police custody for a year
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while he awaited trial he underwent
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physical therapy at a local hospital
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outside of jail for the six bullet
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wounds sustained during his struggle
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with officer Arnold well one day when he
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was going to therapy there was a nurse
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that was talking to someone else and she
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made a mistake by saying out loud that
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he was gonna be coming again on a
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certain day and of course Mohana is a
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type of person that would file that away
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for future use On January 17th 1985 the
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date the nurse had mentioned Mohan
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arrived at the hospital
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as they got to the back door of the
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therapy building Michael started to walk
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in and as he walked in he stumbled and
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fell forward don't move or I'll shoot
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about handcuff yourself when he came up
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he had a gun and of course he got the
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drop on deputy fighting once he had the
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deputy handcuff himself he took his
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second set of cuffs moved him down the
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hall and used that set of cuffs to cuff
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him to a firefight ulis yeah
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as Mohan was leaving the building he
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told the deputy to stay there and not to
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make any noise it was his lucky day and
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at that point he backed out of the door
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we ran to a waiting pickup truck for his
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wife here and was waiting in the parking
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lot
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jumped in the truck and they drove when
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be good escape during the course of the
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follow-up investigation it was our
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conclusion that it was Shirin Mohan that
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had been driving the truck we also felt
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that she was the one that planted the
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gun and when we took her into custody a
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couple of days later we arrested her for
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aiding and abetting he and she
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eventually pled guilty
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Sharon Shah Mohan was sentenced to three
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years in jail for her involvement in the
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escape she has since been paroled and
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authorities believe she has rejoined her
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husband one week after his daring escape
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Mohan surfaced in Mesa Arizona and again
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became involved in a high-speed chase
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with police
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[Music]
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at speeds sometimes exceeded 100 miles
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per hour
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Mohan led police on a two-hour chase
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humans were in pursuit and still Mohan
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kept ahead of them
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a helicopter joined in the hut police
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believe that Mohan deliberately
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prolonged the dangerous chase hoping the
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helicopter would run out of fuel he
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didn't count on a second chopper taking
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over from the first
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the chaise covered so many miles that
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eight different police departments were
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involved finally a barricade was set up
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the chase came to an end
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[Applause]
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once again Mohan was under arrest as he
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was taken into custody police were
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surprised how friendly he seemed unusual
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behavior for a man who is facing a
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serious charge during his interrogation
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Mohan maintained a false identity
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enhancement class but made little effort
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to hide the fact that he was lying first
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of all I don't really know you what's
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your name
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Claude banks tilman banks a family name
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not some money name that's a good name
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as we began the interview here it got to
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the point where we kind of realized
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between the two of us that he he wasn't
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who he really said he was and he had
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kind of a smirky attitude with him that
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my name is Claude Tillman until you find
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out differently the following morning as
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Detective Ryan was leaping through some
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newly arrived wanted posters he came
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across one identifying Michel Mohan he
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realized that this was the face of the
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man they knew as Claude Tillman's
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sure do you put these in here today yeah
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this is the guy this is Tillman the guy
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had talked about yeah at that moment
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unbeknownst to the authorities there
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Corey was shackled to seven other
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convicts two of them women on his way to
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the Tempe courthouse after Mulhouse
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preliminary hearing I drove the inmates
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over to the Tempe Justice Court
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I had one inmate that had to go in there
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for a preliminary hearing I parked in
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front of the court secured the van took
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the prisoner inside I was inside
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approximately ten minutes during those
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ten minutes mohan under the compass
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kicked out a window in the front of the
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van
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an escape by running towards the crowded
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campus of Arizona State University well
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apparently our investigators in talking
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to the people in fan that at state the
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two young ladies related that Mohan and
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his accomplice had planned on jumping me
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taking my gun and killing me
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thereby giving them a gun an ammunition
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to effect their escape but the young
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ladies have been given a release that
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day they're due to be released that
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evening and they pleaded with Mohan to
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attempt to kick out the licks on glass
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as opposed to kill me and fortunately he
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tried that and did work for him
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Mohan and his accomplice Jeffrey lesli
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stone a truck from an auto mechanic and
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drove away to freedom update Mobile
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Alabama within minutes after the story
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first aired the local FBI office
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received a call from a viewer who
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reported that she recognized Michael and
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Sharon Mohan the tipster that called in
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indicated that she had seen Mohan and
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his wife in Mobile
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and that they were using an assumed name
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of Steve and Mary Bostwick at first I
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didn't think it was him and then I
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noticed her immediately there was no
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doubt then when they shot back on his
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photographs
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I knew went beyond a doubt the caller
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told authorities that Mohan and his wife
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are living in a trailer located behind a
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house just outside of mobile the FBI
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staked out the trailer now in April the
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19th two individuals a man and a woman
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who fit the description and Michael
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Mohan and Sharon on the part of that
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area and proceeded to the community of
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Prichard Alabama and they
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went to the auto parts store and after
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mr. Mohan came out of the auto parts
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store he was arrested along with his
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wife Sharon Mohan
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on July 7th Michael weight Mohan was
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returned to Orange County California and
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is currently in custody awaiting trial
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Sharon Mohan has returned to a northern
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California Correctional Facility for
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violating her parole
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[Music]
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coming up next in the mountains of
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Colorado 12 reliable witnesses claimed
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we've seen evidence of a mysterious
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creature the indians call sasquatch
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which the world knows as Bigfoot
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[Music]
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Pikes Peak Colorado 100,000 acres of
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dense wilderness around this majestic
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mountain for centuries this forest has
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been a sanctuary for Bobcat black bear
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and mountain lion but recently there
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have been reports of a different kind of
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animal roaming the woods basically
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looked like a big man or a big shape
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coming toward us and we turn around and
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start running it had long hair hanging
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off its arms and his legs
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it had a small tour sole but long legs
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and long arms whatever these creatures
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are I believe they're more human than
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ape I believe that possibly there may be
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a group of anywhere between 7 and
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possibly 10 a small band of these
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creatures living here in the Pikes Peak
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region for hundreds of years strange
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ape-like creatures of a scene across the
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western United States the Indians call
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them sasquatch today they are known by
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the name Bigfoot until recently many
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share the prevailing belief that these
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sightings are either hoaxes in the
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misidentification of common animals but
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today in Colorado new physical evidence
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seems to substantiate the numerous
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eyewitness reports suggesting that
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perhaps just perhaps there really is a
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Bigfoot
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on the morning of March 27th 1987 local
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resident Dan messiahs son discovered a
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set of mysterious tracks in the newly
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fallen snow though Dan has spent much of
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his life in the outdoors he didn't
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recognize the tracks on examination of
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the footprints I determined that it was
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something very strange and related to
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the past foot footprints we had seen
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around our Holly the next night on a
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hunch my son and I stayed up late
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downstairs we watched television and
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every 15 or 20 minutes I kept going to
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my window at quarter of twelve I went to
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my window a few seconds later I could
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see two large creatures running down the
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road one of them was a small one which
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was about five foot five six five foot
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seven and the other creature was about
00:25:18
six foot maybe six foot two and other
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than the hair which appeared to be
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covered they're covering their body they
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looked just like human beings
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the next day dan took pictures of the
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tracks these are the actual photographs
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the large set is almost a foot long and
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the smaller set is eight inches in
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length animal physiologist Vaughn
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Langham pleased that this plaster
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replica fits the foot that made the
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Colorado tracks that might be North
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American there's no way for us to
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identify a foot like this the print
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itself does not fall into any of the
00:26:05
normal grizzly bear bear North American
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species classifications the the foot the
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way it is is now been presented is is a
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primate foot if there is an unknown
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bipedal hominid like creature living in
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the Pikes Peak region it would be the
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discovery of the century Dan messiahs
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nocturnal sighting was featured in a
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number of local papers he was contacted
00:26:35
by 12 other witnesses Wood had a similar
00:26:37
encounter
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one summer afternoon in 1978 Jeremy
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Swisher and five companions came face to
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face with an extraordinary creature
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while hiking near the Pikes Peak area we
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came around the base of this big rock
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and we saw this it looked like an
00:26:56
individual it had turned around and it
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was coming toward us he started to chase
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us it looked like a fairly good-sized
00:27:03
man it was around 6 foot tall that's the
00:27:06
shape of it the arms might have been a
00:27:08
little bit longer than normal the run
00:27:12
was more or less like that of a an
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athlete a man of some sort he was right
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across the road from us and that scared
00:27:19
us enough to take take off the rest of
00:27:21
the way home
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for years eyewitnesses have claimed
00:27:27
who's seen a creature like Bigfoot
00:27:28
particularly in the Pacific Northwest
00:27:31
the recent sightings in Colorado have
00:27:33
all occurred in the newly populated area
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close to the boundaries of the pike
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National Forest some of these witnesses
00:27:39
prefer to remain anonymous
00:27:45
I'm positive and I saw some type of
00:27:48
creature what's the strangest thing I've
00:27:52
ever seen in my life it wasn't a bear it
00:27:54
wasn't like anything I've ever seen
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before
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I had a fear in me I got out of the
00:28:03
truck and it passed me I said I got
00:28:05
behind a been clear enough distance
00:28:07
because I wasn't about to go tackle it
00:28:10
or anything but it was it seemed to have
00:28:15
the figure of a human being except it
00:28:17
had hair everywhere on spot I didn't see
00:28:19
the face at all that had had hair
00:28:21
covering its body in early August 1988 a
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cabin was broken into by a large animal
00:28:34
when the owner rushed to the back porch
00:28:36
the intruder had vanished but the cabin
00:28:38
door had sustained considerable damage
00:28:44
the next morning two boys found that
00:28:47
whatever had broken in and left Tufts of
00:28:49
hair snagged in the screen door we sent
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this hair to a diagnostic laboratory at
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the University of California at San
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Francisco this laboratory is one of the
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world's leading centers for analysis of
00:29:00
this type I've tested these hairs for
00:29:03
all the major groups of mammals that
00:29:05
have large specimens like you know deer
00:29:08
bear and so forth and it only reacts
00:29:10
with the primates and of the primates it
00:29:13
only reacts with hominoids and there are
00:29:16
only five hominoids human chimpanzee
00:29:18
gorilla orangutan and Gibbon and I've
00:29:21
eliminated all of those except human and
00:29:23
chimpanzee so it's some large animal
00:29:26
closely related to human and chimpanzee
00:29:29
are one of those and it's hard to see
00:29:31
how that could have escaped detection
00:29:32
over thousands of years
00:29:36
biological artist Carol miracle was able
00:29:39
to create a composite from four
00:29:40
eyewitnesses he showed a huge hairy
00:29:43
humanoid creature that closely resembled
00:29:46
other descriptions of Bigfoot is it
00:29:49
possible that this legendary creature
00:29:51
might exist for centuries people have
00:29:55
reported encounters with Bigfoot it
00:29:57
could be that these reports are hoaxes
00:29:59
the products of overeager imaginations
00:30:01
but there is a remote chance that a
00:30:03
handful of these creatures do exist
00:30:05
hidden away in the vast unexplored
00:30:07
wilderness of Colorado in the Pacific
00:30:09
Northwest
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until hard physical evidence appears
00:30:12
skeptics will continue to doubt the
00:30:14
validity of these sightings but skeptics
00:30:16
have occasionally been wrong
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November 12 1936 and a bank located in
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Ripon Wisconsin a man named George J
00:30:33
Stein opened up a savings account for
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120 dollars Stein left no social
00:30:41
security numbers on fire and no home
00:30:43
address between 1936 and 1952 George J
00:30:49
Stein opened dozens of bank accounts
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primarily in savings and loans
00:30:53
throughout the Midwest but Stein never
00:30:59
returned to reclaim his fortune today it
00:31:02
totals in excess of one hundred and
00:31:04
thirty thousand dollars why would a man
00:31:08
deposit thousands of dollars and never
00:31:10
come back there are many similar
00:31:12
unclaimed bank accounts around the
00:31:14
country but fewer as large and as
00:31:15
mysterious as those opened by one George
00:31:17
J Stein two investigators have developed
00:31:20
theories as to who Stein was one
00:31:23
believes he was a traveling salesman the
00:31:25
other notorious bank robber if someone
00:31:28
can unravel this mystery and prove that
00:31:30
they are related to George J Stein they
00:31:32
would inherit over 130,000 dollars
00:31:37
Stein's deposits were scattered across a
00:31:39
Midwest there were three accounts in the
00:31:42
states of Minnesota and Indiana and at
00:31:44
least one in each of the states of Iowa
00:31:46
and Illinois and five in Wisconsin there
00:31:50
is also a possibility of a Stein account
00:31:52
in Texas investigator Tom Becker became
00:31:56
interested in one small deposit made in
00:31:58
Indianapolis
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but finally in desperation I thought
00:32:07
well let's check this little diddly
00:32:09
hundred $85 cow maybe we'll come up with
00:32:11
something also this was the only one
00:32:14
that I could find where he gave an
00:32:16
address other than general delivery or
00:32:19
YMCA or on the account of might say
00:32:22
address unknown
00:32:23
he gave an address of 505 Washington
00:32:26
Street Indianapolis this address turned
00:32:30
out to be inland jobbers a company that
00:32:32
made men's hats gloves and other
00:32:34
accessories earlier Tom had found a
00:32:37
physical description of the elusive
00:32:39
Stein and he was able to match it with
00:32:41
descriptions of a traveling salesman
00:32:42
named Ralph Barnett Barnett sales
00:32:47
territories overlapped the towns from
00:32:49
which many of Stein's deposits were
00:32:51
mayor in short how much you want for him
00:32:53
$40 good so as he acquired more money
00:32:59
than he needed for living expenses my
00:33:01
theory is he would yell it to one of
00:33:03
these savings of laws and checking the
00:33:06
records I can't find any case where he
00:33:08
dealt with true savings and loans at the
00:33:11
same time and I think this had to do
00:33:13
with the $5,000 insured limit he didn't
00:33:17
want too much in any one Savings and
00:33:18
Loan my own theory on this is that
00:33:23
Barnett or whoever George J Stein was I
00:33:26
could say eventually met an unfortunate
00:33:29
and maybe a heart attack baby was
00:33:31
murdered who knows and as he disappeared
00:33:35
very suddenly he'd never been to
00:33:36
withdraw on any of these accounts so
00:33:38
obviously when he stopped it was a
00:33:40
sudden end because nobody deposits money
00:33:43
without the intention of ever
00:33:45
withdrawing it genealogist Frances Cole
00:33:49
has a different theory when she combed
00:33:51
through all of Stein's deposit records
00:33:53
she discovered a return address written
00:33:54
on one of his deposit envelopes the name
00:33:58
was EDA and one day while checking
00:34:01
through some newspapers from 1903 she
00:34:03
discovered just who ed PHA may have been
00:34:06
a man named EDA had robbed a post office
00:34:12
with his
00:34:13
and it was post office up in superior
00:34:16
Wisconsin in October of 1903 in superior
00:34:22
Edie Fay masterminded a daring post
00:34:25
office robbery absconded with over
00:34:27
fifteen thousand dollars in spam and
00:34:29
cash ed Fay was clever but not clever
00:34:54
enough shortly after the post office
00:34:56
robbery he was arrested he had a
00:35:01
reputation for being very very slick and
00:35:04
well-educated and could get away with
00:35:07
almost anything and he boasted that
00:35:09
there was no jail that could hold him no
00:35:19
Ginny did home with an accomplice fan
00:35:22
Janu his escape
00:35:24
then vanished to this day nobody knows
00:35:28
where he went well that was in 1904
00:35:32
and he was 28 or 29 in the 1939 s and
00:35:37
40s he would have been about in his 60s
00:35:40
early 60s my theory is that he may have
00:35:44
decided he needed the money
00:35:46
he couldn't spend it as it was and he
00:35:49
may have been known as Eddie Faye in
00:35:51
that area where he mailed it from and
00:35:53
the only way to do was to change his
00:35:55
identity so that no one would ask where
00:35:58
had faked out all that money and then
00:36:01
become somebody else and also have his
00:36:05
bank accounts all in somebody else's
00:36:06
names was George J Stein the notorious
00:36:10
gentleman robber Edie Faye or was he a
00:36:12
mild-mannered haberdashery salesman
00:36:15
named Ralph Barnett regardless of his
00:36:17
identity any legitimate heirs could
00:36:20
collect over 130,000 dollars but they
00:36:23
would first have to prove they were
00:36:24
related to Stein and provide a signature
00:36:27
matching Stein's handwriting that was
00:36:29
written during the period of time when
00:36:31
Stein made his many deposits so far
00:36:34
there have been five applicants but no
00:36:36
successful claims
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eight years ago the milk town of East
00:36:46
Millinocket Maine was safe and secure
00:36:48
the last place you'd expect a brutal
00:36:51
murder to occur children played outside
00:36:54
with no fear it was a peaceful small
00:36:57
town and a close-knit community at 2600
00:37:00
Souls the sense of security was
00:37:03
shattered on August the 8th 1980 on that
00:37:07
day Joyce McLain a spirited and
00:37:09
promising 16 year old was brutally
00:37:12
murdered in the woods behind the high
00:37:13
school soccer field her murder has not
00:37:17
been solved and the town will never be
00:37:19
the same again it's just something in a
00:37:23
little town like this that you don't
00:37:25
forget it's there all the time I mean
00:37:27
here we are eight years later and and
00:37:29
people in the community there's not a
00:37:31
day that goes by that her name isn't
00:37:33
mentioned mainly because she was such a
00:37:35
bright beautiful young girl so talented
00:37:38
she made such a mark on this town the
00:37:41
population of East Millinocket is only
00:37:42
2600 yet over 6,000 signatures were
00:37:46
collected on this petition that was sent
00:37:47
to us argent Lee requesting that we tell
00:37:49
Joyce's story the town's people feel
00:37:52
that unsolved mysteries is their last
00:37:54
chance to find Joyce's killer they know
00:37:56
that nothing can bring her back but they
00:37:58
refused to accept the intrusion of
00:38:00
senseless violence into their town and
00:38:02
into their lives Joyce McLain was a kind
00:38:07
of teenager that would make any family
00:38:08
or any hometown proud
00:38:11
she was born in East Millinocket 1963
00:38:15
and 19 months later her little sister
00:38:17
Wendy came along
00:38:20
Joyce displayed extraordinary musical
00:38:22
talent at an early age and later on
00:38:25
played in the school orchestra and
00:38:26
composed music of her own Joyce was an
00:38:31
honor student a cheerleader and an
00:38:33
officer of the student body she was
00:38:36
popular and well-loved
00:38:38
Joyce's mind was filled with thoughts of
00:38:42
what kind of a future she was going to
00:38:45
have she was heading into her new step
00:38:47
in life she was getting her driver's
00:38:49
license she was gonna turn 17 years old
00:38:51
she had a big party planned at the beach
00:38:54
with a big band and lots of friends and
00:38:57
family was going to be there I believe
00:39:02
that it was a growing up time
00:39:04
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on Friday August the 8th 1980 Joyce went
00:39:11
jogging at 7:30 you leave me that Friday
00:39:15
was the last time Joyce was seen alive
00:39:19
Joyce had a route that took her out
00:39:21
around the town and behind skank high
00:39:24
school and the last time she was seen is
00:39:26
turning the corner going down to the
00:39:28
softball field in the soccer field where
00:39:30
she usually did a number laps we have
00:39:34
witnesses that say this happened roughly
00:39:36
between quarter of 8 and 8 o'clock in
00:39:38
the evening
00:39:40
two days later Peter larlie one of the
00:39:43
volunteers searching for Joyce found her
00:39:45
body in the woods behind the high school
00:39:48
I saw a Joyce she wasn't moving her body
00:39:52
would look like it had been beaten I
00:39:56
knew that she wasn't alive I started
00:39:59
screaming her name and after that I
00:40:02
turned around home and called the police
00:40:04
her know it to be a big part in my life
00:40:09
feel it that's really heartening
00:40:13
I never expected what happened at all no
00:40:21
one knows exactly what events led up to
00:40:23
the death of Joyce McLain the last time
00:40:25
she was seen Joyce was jogging towards a
00:40:28
soccer field that particular Friday
00:40:31
night there were groups of kids out
00:40:32
there padding there was also a softball
00:40:34
tournament in town which brought another
00:40:36
three to five hundred people behind that
00:40:39
field wish she would have been jogging
00:40:41
and they would be playing softball right
00:40:43
up until dusk that evening
00:40:49
the field was a popular hangout and one
00:40:52
theory is that local boys were drinking
00:40:54
there it is possible that when they saw
00:40:59
Joyce approaching they began harassing
00:41:01
her people close to the case feel that
00:41:04
Joyce might have been led into the woods
00:41:06
against her will and that some of the
00:41:08
boys in the group that tormented Joyce
00:41:10
tied her up intending to attack her
00:41:11
sexually instead they murdered her a
00:41:16
second theory is that Joyce's attackers
00:41:19
might have been day laborers at the
00:41:20
local paper mill the mill had just taken
00:41:23
on 300 workers who were not local
00:41:25
residents eight years after Joyce was
00:41:30
murdered her case remains unsolved her
00:41:32
death was a devastating blow to her
00:41:34
family and of the town of East
00:41:36
Millinocket
00:41:39
before she was murdered all of us kids
00:41:42
would all go out walking around like six
00:41:45
o'clock we're all out on the street and
00:41:47
after she was martyred it all changed
00:41:51
the parents were real you know where are
00:41:54
you going what time you gonna be home
00:41:56
and people never even lock their doors
00:41:59
around here people started locking up
00:42:01
their houses and I mean everybody was
00:42:02
just in a panic it was like it's
00:42:05
something you least expect around here
00:42:07
can you imagine living in a town where
00:42:10
people are aware that these killers have
00:42:13
never been found they may very well be
00:42:16
still walking our streets the town is
00:42:20
it's been like a pressure cooker just
00:42:22
ready to explode
00:42:27
I'll lead your anniversary of Joyce's
00:42:30
death the town held a candlelight
00:42:32
memorial ceremony they want to keep
00:42:35
Joyce's memory alive and they want to
00:42:38
keep alive the hope that her murderer
00:42:40
will one day be found
00:42:42
I believe that Joyce's murder is
00:42:49
solvable and I believe out there someone
00:42:53
has just the tiniest bit of information
00:42:56
they may not even know it they could
00:43:00
come forward and it could be solved
00:43:06
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00:43:19
for every mystery there is someone
00:43:21
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
00:43:24
that someone was watching perhaps
00:43:26
[Music]
00:43:53
[Applause]
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