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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a convicted felon is behind
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bars for a crime he swears that he did
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not
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commit is the guilty man is identical
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twin in California authorities search
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for the arsonist who set this house on
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fire and then videotaped The Blaze
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a suspected drug dealer ambushes two
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detectives today he's still on the
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run a 20-year-old falls in love with the
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girl next door and now he's searching
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for their child who can inherit over a
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million
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do five stories they're all strange but
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they are all true I'm Dennis finina and
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this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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Greensboro North
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Carolina it's midnight at a local
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Motel don't move get down the the
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floor floor who else up in P the bo you
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money nobody make a
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move the heavily armed robbers take cash
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and jewelry from the five people in the
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room it's all over in a matter of
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minutes police arrest 22-year-old
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Frederick young based on eyewitness
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testimony from one of the victims he is
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convicted of the robbery and sentenced
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to 68 years in prison
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we've all heard the story before a
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convicted felon says that he's innocent
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a case of mistaken identity but in the
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case of Frederick young there is a
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crucial difference he says that the real
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criminal is actually Cedric young his
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identical twin
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brother we were very close closer than
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anybody you know we dressed alike all
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the time did mostly everything together
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it was a bond there you know what I'm
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saying much greater than any bond you
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know like friends or anything you know
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or any other relative in the
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family just
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close Cedric or said as he's called was
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born 4 minutes before
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Fred from the start it was almost
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impossible to tell the twins
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apart cousins aunts and uncle sisters
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Brothers nobody knows said from
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Fred if you don't see him when to do
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something you don't know who did
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what if I can't do it I know you can't
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do it cuz I'm the one that had
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them the night after the robbery luck
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was not on Fred's side everything that
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could go wrong
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did how you doing officer what's the
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problem did you know your license play
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light is out no I did not I'm sorry this
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your driver's license sure no problem
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Fred admits that he had a history of
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trouble with the law otherwise he might
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have acted differently you know what
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officer I think I left it home I don't
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live that far away what's your name
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Sedrick
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young spell it c e d r i c I gave him my
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brother's name because I didn't even
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have any driver's license you know my
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brother did keep an eye on him at the
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time it seemed seemed like a good idea
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to use Cedric's name instead of his
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own Cedric turn around put your hands
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behind your back that's problem officer
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the license is revoked license revoked
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Cedric young yes you're under arrest for
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driving under a suspended license oh
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this is ridiculous and at the same time
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he asked me could he search the my car I
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told him sure he
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could things were about to go from bad
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to
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worse he's saw searching the passenger
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side and you reached in grabbed a
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bag officer I swear to you I never seen
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that gun before in my life that same gun
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was later
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linked to the hotel
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robbery at the police station Fred came
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clean about pretending to be Cedric but
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by then it was too
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late he was charged with armor robbery
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and so was his accomplice Chris Ross who
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was a friend of the
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twins now what happened after they came
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into the
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room bust and Tina was in the bathroom
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during the trial one of the victims
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claimed that she recognized Fred during
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the holdup do you see that person here
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in this
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courtroom Fred says that until that
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moment it had never occurred to him that
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his twin Cedric might have committed the
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Rob
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with
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Ross when she pointed directly at
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me that's when I kind of figured in my
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head you know if she think it was me
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it's definitely my
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brother he says he then asked his
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attorney to subpoena Ross right there in
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the courtroom I said subpoena Chris Ross
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but it didn't happen that way he didn't
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do
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anything not long after the trial Fred's
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attorney would have is license to
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practice law suspended for a number of
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violations including neglecting his
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client's
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cases he never called Fred he never
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wrote Fred alant as a matter of fact he
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never even accepted a call coming in
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from Fred since the trial Ross has
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freely admitted that he did put the
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shotgun in the car without Fred's
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knowledge what my shotgun and I put up
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under the car seat I didn't come forward
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with my information for the trial CA
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nobody try to contact me to give my side
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of the story about him being charged
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with something he did not
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do Ross plea bargain and received a
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20year
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sentence Fred however refused to plea
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bargain insisting that he was
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innocent Fred was found guilty of six
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counts of armed robbery and given a
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separate sentence for each conviction
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total time in
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prison 68
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years they picked up the wrong one Fred
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wasn't with me it was said it was with
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me reason why they picked up Fred cuz he
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got caught with my gun so they figured
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he was the one to use the way my client
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was sentenced even if he were guilty of
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something we think the sentence is out
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of whack but it makes it even worse
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worse when he's not guilty to get that
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kind of sentence I'm willing to take any
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polygraph test anything whatever it has
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to take to prove that I'm innocent you
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know I'm willing to to go along with it
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he never said I'm innocent it was my
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brother you want not me he waited until
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it went to trial trial didn't go as he
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hoped it would I think and this became a
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desperate effort on his part to throw
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the blame
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elsewhere I had no idea you know that my
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twin brother committed these robberies
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until the lady pointed directly at me
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that's when I come to conclusion I know
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it was my
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brother at some point in time did a year
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after the verdict Fred got another
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chance the court of appeals agreed to
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consider new evidence Chris Ross took
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the stand did the two of you in fact
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commit these six armed
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robberies yeah the but his testimony
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failed to persuade the Judge Fred was
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denied a new trial finally the most
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important witness came forward Fred's
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twin brother
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Cedric on a national talk show with
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Millions watching the question was put
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to
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S are you the guilty
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party no I'm not to be in his shoes I'll
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be saying the same thing exact same
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thing uh why you won't lie man we
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brother man
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Dam don't do me like that man let make
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me suffer for something you done
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man if I was a rich man if I had money I
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would spend all of my money to get my
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brother out of jail I I'll spend all my
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money I was spent all my money to get a
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high paying lawyer to get my brother out
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of jail because I miss
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him
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Fred served his time and was
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released as far as the courts are
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concerned this case is
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closed but if the twin's mother was the
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judge the verdict would be very
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different I'm hoping that something will
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come out of this that I'm dealing with
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now that Fred is released and he can go
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on with his
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life and say it is punished cuz he has
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done a great hurt to me and
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everybody was it Cedric or Frederick if
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you have any information about this case
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please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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next a deranged arsonist videotapes his
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fire and adds disturbing commentary
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you're about to go inside the mind of an
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arsonist who is so coldblooded that he
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set a fire and then stayed around to
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videotape it this case begins with the
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discovery of his
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jacket Stockton
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California it was a scorching hot summer
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day after overheating A car pulled off
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the road the owner was a man will call
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Joseph
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via he and his son went looking for the
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nearest
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phone on the way they noticed a
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camouflage jacket on the ground inside a
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pocket they found an unlabeled videotape
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they decided to take the videotape home
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and to watch it
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this is the actual
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video the family turned it over to the
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police who are convinced that the person
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holding the
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camera also set the
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fire it was assumed the disturbing voice
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on the tapable belonged to the
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arsonist look at the
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fire
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beautiful look at
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that do you see what I could do later
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down
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do what I know I've never run across
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anything as Eerie as this tape
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frightened me as a matter of fact uh I
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thought about it that night when I went
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to
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bed investigators studied the tape in
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order to pinpoint the location of the
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fire it Omar okay look at it Omar look
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at it Omar look at it Omar when we
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listen to the tape it was hard to
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understand uh certain words that this
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person was saying so we sat down and we
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actually went through this tape I mean
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hundreds of times and came up with a
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script look at
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itar this is what I've been doing on
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your week's
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vacation I sat all done I sat
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all he says I told you I'd do it
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Omar um is Omar the property owner it's
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a it's a Revenge Type burn is Omar the
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construction person that maybe hired
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this person and fired him and made that
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a Revenge motive for the fire don't
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really don't know we don't we really
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don't know who Omar is okay is this the
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jacket yes that's okay did you see
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anything else a county arson
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investigator accompanied Joseph via's
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brother to the spot where the tape was
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found amazing amly the jacket was still
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there in it they found a wooden pesel
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the kind sometimes used to grind herbs
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for Satanic
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rituals nearby they also found a glove
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that matched the
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jacket and a ceramic
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skull the skull like the pestle
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suggested
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Satanism as did the words of the
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arsonist
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I call it
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home my hell the whole sky is black with
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smoke
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the that I will too
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hard
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so
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ancient of
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evil those are basically the clues all
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we have on the video
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and that's why we need to find out where
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this went down where is this
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home look at it the fire department's
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trying to put it out what a
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laugh as we viewed the tape we realized
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that there was fire suppression
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equipment uh that had responded to the
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incident and we thought if we can
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enhance the tape bring those shots in a
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little bit closer to us we may be able
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to get a door Mark or a house number or
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maybe even a fire department Insignia on
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the
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door a frame by frame analysis did not
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reveal any new details investigators
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were still unable to match the tape with
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any reported fires in the state of
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California the tape was found here just
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a few yards from Interstate 205 near
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Stockton the 205 feeds into several
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major highways authorities believe
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believe that the fire could have
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happened anywhere in the US and that the
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arsonist might have only been traveling
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through
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California I think the person who made
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this videotape and is responsible for
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the fire will without a doubt in my mind
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continue to set fires and the person
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needs to be apprehended and stopped
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before his fires become more destructive
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and then there's a few of these type of
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Serial arsonists that will move into
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another criminal area uh you may recall
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called the uh the Son of Sam back East
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who had killed six people with a 44
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magnum uh he was responsible for about
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2,000 fires in the city of New
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York and then he stopped setting fires
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and started killing people look at the
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fls listen to the cow
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yell
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lone good night ladies and
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gentlemen h
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the house appears to be a one-story
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ranch with two chimneys there is another
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house on the left side of the picture
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partly hidden by a white trailer the
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trailer indicates that the burning house
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was possibly under
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construction because fire engines arrive
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at the scene it seems certain that a
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report of this fire would be file
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somewhere
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update within minutes of our broadcast
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several viewers called and identifi the
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house seen burning on the video
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table it was located in Redwood City
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California 80 Mi west of
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Stockton as we were sitting here and we
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looked at the film on the TV we realized
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with utter shock that it was the house
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behind us that was on TV and our family
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was scared to say the least cuz we
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didn't realize that the film even
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existed and we called in it Unsolved
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Mysteries and gave only
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information surprisingly on the night of
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the plays Woodside fire Captain John
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dingis also videotape the fire while I
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was setting up the command post
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directing companies in to extinguish the
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fire I had set up my video camera to
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film The Fire for training investigation
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purposes by compar ing Captain Del's
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tape with the video shot by the arsonist
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investigators were able to confirm that
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this was definitely the fire's
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location some of the calls received led
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us to a 17-year-old Woodside
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youth we interviewed that youth through
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that interview it led us to a
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19-year-old Redwood City youth he was
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arrested and interviewed and
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subsequently admitted burning the house
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taking the video and was the one who
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talked on the video
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tape both suspects were underage when
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they set the fire and were tried as
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miners one served time at juvenile hall
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the other was committed to a state
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mental
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hospital next a suspected drug dealer
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faces a long stretch in prison after he
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ambushes police
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Oakland
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California all right he's he's got
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something he's giving it to the guy okay
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the deal's going down acting on a tip
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detectives stake out a liquor store
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parking lot all right R is backing out R
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is out a suspected drug dealer Roberto
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Ramirez has set up a
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sale Ramirez is no ordinary
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dealer he distributes cocaine from
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Oakland to La the word is that Ramirez
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will do absolutely anything for
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money he would often deal out of his
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house he'd often have his children two
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small children uh grammar school age uh
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carry the cocaine in backpacks and uh
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bring it to the buyers that
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way after obtaining a search warrant
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police police Converge on the Ramirez
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home Oakland and Fairfield officers are
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in on the
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raid no one knows what to expect from
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Ramirez my assignment was to pry the
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iron grade on the front door the safest
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entry that we make is a quick entry it
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gives the people inside less time to
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prepare and normally we catch them in in
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that surprise
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mode my position was to cross in front
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of the house and I would cover the
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window um and the side of the house for
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anybody trying to flee or or any attack
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coming from outside the window through
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the front
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window 1:42
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a.m. show
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that police officers search War open the
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door police officer search War open the
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door Ramirez's silence is a challenge
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loud and clear come and get
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me suddenly he appears at a side
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window two officers
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fall detective Smith is severely injured
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and is dragged from the line of fire
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officer brell takes Refuge under R's
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window hold your fire I'm coming
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out I took a physical check on myself my
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legs worked um I was clear thinking my
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left arm didn't work uh my shoulder was
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numb go get him out get him out but the
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other officer isn't so
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lucky Detective Smith is bleeding
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profusely and must be quickly evacuated
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through a neighbor's house to a waiting
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ambulance Ramirez still won't budge
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reinforcements arrived from eight other
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police departments and now 30 Heavenly
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armed officers surround the
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house he's coming out okay he's coming
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out after a 2-hour standoff Ramirez
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finally comes out however he is hiding
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behind his wife who is 8 months pregnant
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and their children ages 10 and
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six when Ramirez came outside there was
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a lot of
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tension he had shot two of our police
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officers
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and he had a lot of time to think about
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what he had
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done anything can happen uh you don't
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know what's going through their mind at
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that
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point Ramirez was arrested on two counts
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of attempted murder and a laundry list
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of drug and assault
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charges Ramirez was released after
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posting bail of a million
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6 months later just before his trial he
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and his wife packed up their children
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and
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disappeared they are still on the
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run I was shot through the upper left
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arm um it was basically in and out um it
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severed the nerves in my left arm and
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left me with no feeling although I have
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a must uh um strength and muscle uh
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flexibility in the arm I just don't have
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any feeling in
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it
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I remember muzzle flashes and then my
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next memory it felt like I had been pit
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with a baseball bat in the
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stomach I can't pronounce most of the
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things that had damaged but it was most
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of the internal organs in my
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abdomen I'm always going to have the
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scars and and the pain and and uh and
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all from it but it would give me some
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satisfaction if he was cotton and was in
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jail serving his time and pain for what
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he's
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done
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Roberto Ramirez is 5' 6 in tall and
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weighs 210 lb he is considered to be
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armed and dangerous detectives have
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searched for him throughout California
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and Mexico if you have any information
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please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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next the Queen Mary once a luxury ocean
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liner it is now said to be
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[Music]
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haunted Long Beach
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California this is the famous Queen
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Mary now permanently
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docked on her decks and in her corridors
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people have seen ghostly figures and
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heard mysterious
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sounds that they just can't explain i'
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been here about 14 years when IID first
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had the first experience with actually
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seeing what I thought to be a
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ghost I was in the work area and there
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was a lady sitting
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there she appeared to be in a late
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afternoon cocktail type dress from the'
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40s no makeup on she seemed to be very
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pale but I never saw a movement I left
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the table turned around cuz I wanted to
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take another
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look and there was nothing
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there I am probably the last person that
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should have had these experiences
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because I'm such a
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skeptic one day I was standing on the
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stairs of the pool and I saw a
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woman probably in her 60s or 70s in
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black and
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white so I went down the stairs and
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around the pillar expecting to find her
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standing
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there and she wasn't anywhere to be
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found it was only a matter of seconds
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she couldn't have gone
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anywhere it is said that one way or
00:27:14
another all places are haunted and that
00:27:17
they hold on to memories of past events
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perhaps that explains the ghostly
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apparitions and unexplained sounds that
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haunt the queen
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the Queen Mary took her maiden voyage in
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1936 during the 5-day trip across the
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Atlantic she was a floating party a
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symbol of luxury travel in a Gilded Age
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one of the first people to work on board
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was a marine engineer John
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Smith part of my duties was to check and
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learn this ship thoroughly and so I
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explored it in the evenings on my
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regular day's work was done several
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times over a two-month period John heard
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something unusual in the ship's bow
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where there should have been only
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silence the sounds of metal tearing
00:28:19
water rushing and then men
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screaming it's sounded like there had
00:28:28
been a rupture of the ship's hole it was
00:28:30
frightful I went up to the extreme bow
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section of the ship the sound was here
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but there was no water and nothing to
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cause
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it I don't believe in Supernatural
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things but in all my experiences as a
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marine engineer I've never seen anything
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like
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this years later John read about a
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tragedy dating from World War
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II after being converted into a troop
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ship the Queen Mary accidentally
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collided with a British Cruiser called
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the
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kirawa over 300 men were killed the
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Queen Mary's bow sliced to curasawa in
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half after I read that article I was so
00:29:18
shook up and so
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overwhelmed the very area I heard that
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mysterious water rushing was this exact
00:29:27
same area that was damaged when the ship
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hit the kiraan I said this is what it
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would have sounded and felt like if I
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had been in that compartment at the
00:29:39
time but I know it couldn't be that was
00:29:42
30 years earlier it couldn't be
00:29:50
anything dozens of other sightings have
00:29:52
been reported late one night in the pool
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area a maintenance supervisor ER Kathy
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love and her coworker heard mysterious
00:30:01
sounds
00:30:02
after we came into the pool and I heard
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giggling uh sound of a little girl or a
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child playing in the
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area and at that point I noticed there
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was
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splashing the splashing stopped the
00:30:23
giggling continued and we
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observed the footprints of a small child
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walking across into the locker
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room I know that I saw what I saw I'm
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not sure exactly why I saw
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it but I know it was
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there several other encounters have
00:30:45
occurred in shaft
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alley deep within the ship near the
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engine
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room here during a routine fire drill a
00:30:56
man named John pet was crushed to death
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by a watertight
00:31:03
dog some believe pet still haunts the
00:31:09
area I was working in the capacity of a
00:31:11
lead guide which meant my job was to
00:31:13
close down the tour route and make sure
00:31:15
that there weren't any stragglers behind
00:31:18
and I don't know why I turned
00:31:22
around standing right behind me on the
00:31:25
step was a man he had blue overalls they
00:31:28
were dirty when I stepped aside to let
00:31:31
him go by he wasn't there he was
00:31:37
gone I don't necessarily believe any
00:31:40
other ghost stories that other people
00:31:42
have come up with I only know what I saw
00:31:44
and I only believe what I saw with my
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own
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eyes there's nothing like actually
00:31:50
seeing a ghost to turn a skeptic into a
00:31:54
Believer and judging from the reoccur
00:31:57
heing stories if you do want to become a
00:31:59
Believer just jump aboard the Queen
00:32:06
Mary next a man searches for his child
00:32:10
who he met only once and who is the heir
00:32:12
to his estate worth over a million
00:32:26
do Mona
00:32:29
California stay away from
00:32:32
her for most parents holding their baby
00:32:35
for the first time fills them with joy
00:32:38
it's our baby Mac but for this young
00:32:41
father it was a moment of sheer Panic
00:32:44
that drove him away from the girl he
00:32:46
loved and his newborn
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child
00:32:53
Max don't go don't
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operation the Hydraulics the water
00:32:59
system and the fire system all the young
00:33:02
man was WB Mack McDonald now a wealthy
00:33:06
businessman with a sizable estate but no
00:33:09
one to give it
00:33:12
to M McDonald knows that he made a
00:33:15
terrible mistake when he ran away from
00:33:17
his newborn baby for decades he has
00:33:20
tried to find his child McDonald's Story
00:33:23
begins when he was 20 and he fell in
00:33:26
love with a girl next door her name was
00:33:28
Mary Helen Carr and she was just
00:33:34
16 the first time that I I noticed my
00:33:37
neighbor she was in a swing on her front
00:33:41
porch there was uh definite attraction
00:33:45
both
00:33:54
ways nice bike yeah the romance began
00:33:58
slowly and discreetly back Mar Helen
00:34:01
nice to meet you I've seen you
00:34:05
before uh I'm just cleaning my bike uh
00:34:09
you like to go for a ride sometime my
00:34:12
mother would forbid me to ride that
00:34:14
especially with you is your mother
00:34:16
always
00:34:21
here Mary Helen's mother didn't trust
00:34:23
Mac but the two young lovers saw each
00:34:26
other every every chance they could
00:34:28
until Mary Helen's mother caught them
00:34:33
together her mother blew her stack
00:34:37
you're lying to me now it was very
00:34:39
hostile lying to me if she had have been
00:34:41
a man I think it would have been a
00:34:42
physical conflict on the spot I felt
00:34:46
that the world had just
00:34:50
collapsed it upset me you know because I
00:34:55
was in love with a girl at that time and
00:34:58
we were planning on a future together
00:35:02
and here were these uh tremendous
00:35:05
stumbling blocks being thrown out into
00:35:07
the
00:35:09
path Mac felt that he had no choice but
00:35:12
to pack up his bags and leave his
00:35:15
destination the oil fields of
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Texas we both agreed that this was the
00:35:24
best thing to do but it didn't didn't
00:35:27
make it any
00:35:29
easier 3 weeks later Mack found himself
00:35:32
in
00:35:40
Houston soon afterwards Mary Helen ran
00:35:43
away from home to join
00:35:47
him Mary Helen called me from the uh bus
00:35:49
station there in Houston and I tore the
00:35:52
tore the streets up getting down to the
00:35:54
bus station it was a very happy
00:35:59
reunion posing as husband and wife Mack
00:36:03
and Mary Helen found a place to liveb
00:36:05
but their world would soon collapse
00:36:11
again hello just a
00:36:15
minute Mac was tipped off by a friend
00:36:18
that the police were on their
00:36:20
way I can't believe this is happening
00:36:23
okay right now Mary Helen's mother was
00:36:26
charging him with statutory rape and
00:36:29
illegally living with a man something
00:36:32
it's okay it's I know that's that's fine
00:36:35
I'll call
00:36:37
you mack made his escape with only
00:36:40
seconds to
00:36:47
spare I left Texas and it was in the
00:36:50
afternoon and I didn't stop till I was
00:36:53
out of the state of
00:36:55
Texas
00:36:57
I was devastated they jerked her back to
00:37:01
California and I had no way of
00:37:03
contacting her
00:37:11
again A year had passed and Mac returned
00:37:14
to California for a new job one evening
00:37:17
he and a friend stopped off at a
00:37:19
drive-in in Long Beach
00:37:23
Mac Mary where she got it oh almost fell
00:37:27
out of the car the waitress the car hop
00:37:30
that came to wait on us was Mary
00:37:33
Helen Los Angeles is a big city it was a
00:37:36
big city then and the possibilities of
00:37:39
driving into a restaurant and having her
00:37:42
the waitress was like hitting a Keno
00:37:45
ticket here in
00:37:46
Reno well listen I can't really talk to
00:37:49
you but I get off work at 9 you want to
00:37:51
come by my apartment
00:37:55
yeah here's my my
00:37:58
dress
00:38:00
great you can see our
00:38:04
baby I have a baby no I almost had heart
00:38:07
pure I took my breath away cuz I had no
00:38:10
idea she was pregnant there was a
00:38:12
possibility
00:38:15
though so I told her I'll be right
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00:38:25
over come her mother opened the
00:38:28
door stay away from her with this baby
00:38:32
in her
00:38:33
arms I can press charges on
00:38:35
you well I thought with the police
00:38:38
department is probably on premises you
00:38:41
know this is just a matter of time till
00:38:43
I'm going to be Shackled and in jail
00:38:45
over this see you I was so distraught
00:38:49
when her mother opened the door hold
00:38:52
that I overlooked the fact that she was
00:38:54
about half civilized the first time she
00:38:56
had ever spoke to me civil beautiful I
00:38:59
was in such a traumatic state of fear
00:39:03
the benefit of being able to hold hold
00:39:05
your baby for the first time I I missed
00:39:08
that Mack was terrified that Mary
00:39:11
Helen's mother still had a warrant out
00:39:13
for his arrest you in California
00:39:16
statutory rape was punishable by up to
00:39:19
30 years in prison Max stayed for less
00:39:22
than 5
00:39:23
minutes don't go he never even learned
00:39:26
if the baby was a boy or a
00:39:30
girl I feel that I made the greatest
00:39:33
mistake of my life by not staying
00:39:36
there and riding it
00:39:39
out 40 years that's what it's cost me I
00:39:44
feel that the youngster is entitled to
00:39:47
my estate I'm not entitled to uh be its
00:39:50
father probably but I'd want that
00:39:54
youngster to know that even with a m
00:39:56
Stakes that I love
00:39:58
them and I want them to have the
00:40:03
best
00:40:05
update on the night of our broadcast
00:40:08
Mack learned that he had a daughter her
00:40:11
name was Sher the news came from Mary
00:40:14
Helen Carr
00:40:16
herself one week after our broadcast Mac
00:40:20
arrived at Cherry's home in Denver
00:40:22
Colorado for what would be a Bittersweet
00:40:25
reunion a especially for Sherry who had
00:40:28
been raised by a caring
00:40:31
stepfather no
00:40:33
hi come on in right
00:40:36
place yes hi
00:40:40
Mac it's hard to
00:40:42
describe the feeling that I had for my
00:40:45
daughter when I opened the door and she
00:40:46
was there and I was able to hold
00:40:49
her sitting on I want to sit down I want
00:40:52
to hold
00:40:54
you I just try to
00:40:57
come to the realization that it really
00:40:59
was my father standing there I don't
00:41:01
know what to say I'm still in a State of
00:41:03
Shock this at this point in my life to
00:41:05
find that there is someone who is my
00:41:07
father and who wants to establish a
00:41:08
relationship with me is just emotionally
00:41:11
very
00:41:12
traumatic apparently he wants to be part
00:41:14
of her
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00:41:18
life and if that's the case it's
00:41:21
okay I hope since he's gone to this much
00:41:24
effort to find her that he doesn't bring
00:41:27
any sorrow to
00:41:28
her the fact that I didn't stay and
00:41:32
fight the battle it's most unfortunate I
00:41:36
don't believe I would do it that way
00:41:38
again
00:41:40
however yesterday unfortunately can't be
00:41:47
redone I'd like
00:41:51
to no matter how you look at it he left
00:41:54
my mother with a with a tiny baby you
00:41:56
know and I have to deal with that um I
00:41:59
have to deal with the fact that I have a
00:42:01
father who loves for me who's raised me
00:42:04
who's cared for me but I believe there's
00:42:07
enough room in this family for everyone
00:42:10
and I sincerely mean
00:42:25
that
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