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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're about to see is not a news
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broadcast
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tonight
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join me for a special two-hour edition
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of unsolved mysteries
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some legends get better with time others
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become more and more real
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many people believe that the untamed
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forests of the pacific northwest harbor
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a mysterious creature known as bigfoot
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now a team of researchers bolstered by
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credible eyewitness accounts has set out
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to prove that the fabled beast does
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exist
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since 1984 bill and dorothy wacker
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claimed they have been targeted in a
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vicious campaign of harassment
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anonymous phone calls threatening notes
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burglaries and even violent assaults
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in this most bizarre case everyone is
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suspect even the whackers themselves
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christine reinhardt needs your help to
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find her husband
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he disappeared from a colorado motel on
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august 31 1993
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two weeks later he was apparently
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spotted on an amtrak train disheveled
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and disoriented
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christine is convinced that he is
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suffering from amnesia that he has no
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idea who he is or where he lives
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are there angels here on earth watching
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over us
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you'll see the compelling accounts of
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the two women who came face to face with
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death and miraculously survived
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join me for this very special edition of
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unsolved mysteries
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mount hood oregon april 19 1994
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the peaceful beauty of an alpine spring
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is shattered by a manhunt
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copy contact team i understand your
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latest coordinates
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25 volunteers are on the ground
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in the air is a helicopter equipped with
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a sophisticated thermal imaging system
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called fleer forward-looking infrared
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but this manhunt is different it's a
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training exercise
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even the fugitive is a volunteer a
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stand-in as it were for the elusive
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legendary creature known as bigfoot
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bigfoot
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yeti
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sasquatch
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no matter what this beast is called many
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believe that if he exists he is a
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missing link between ape and human
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ground
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the training exercise was sponsored by
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an oregon based group the bigfoot
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research project
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peter byrne noted adventure and world
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explorer heads the project
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we don't want to capture it we don't
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want to shoot it
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the ultimate find you know as far as
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we're concerned would be to do something
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like what jane goodall did in other
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words to find one
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see we can communicate have it lead us
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to others and then bring in
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the right people totally responsible
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people bring in scientists and show them
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what we've found
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and
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document the whole thing of course
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attempts to document bigfoot has so far
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been sketchy
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there are several crude home movies and
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videos purporting to show the creature
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in the wild
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and there are dozens of plaster casts
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and photographs showing large humanoid
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footprints
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yet for every person who believes
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bigfoot exists you'll find at least two
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who say that the films and the
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footprints alike are merely the
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handiwork of pranksters in fur suits
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is bigfoot real
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an elaborate ongoing hoax
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well even hoaxes are usually based on
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something
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through the years eyewitness accounts
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have consistently described a very
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human-like animal
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he walks upright with an almost comical
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gate and steers clear people unless they
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happen to invade his turf
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but even those who claim they've run
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across bigfoot say he's a harmless if
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somewhat scary-looking giant
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todd niece is a sergeant in the army
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national guard
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once a month he returns to the oregon
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coastal range where he had an unusual
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sighting but on maneuvers in 1993.
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across a ravine i could distinctly see
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three
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large black
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figures
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i would estimate the largest one to be
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between eight and nine feet
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the two that flanked it were a full head
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shorter
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i tried to
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think if they were bare or if they were
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elk
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and then when i saw them shuffling back
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and forth i could very plainly see they
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were upright on two legs and during that
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entire time they were all three of them
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were standing on two legs
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i don't think i would have ever told
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this to anybody had something very
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unusual not happen
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i was approached by another
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sergeant
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who had uh
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walked up to me and and said
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cernice
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did you see what i saw down at that
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second rock quarry
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and not to be made a fool i said well i
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don't know what you see
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he followed with
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well
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for lack of a better word what i saw
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were three large hair covered big feet
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it's one of our theories is that they
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are nocturnal and when they're seen in
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the daytime it's a result of disturbance
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of some kind in this in this case there
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was a national guard exercise with
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explosions and immediately after the
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explosion three of these things were
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seen they were seen by him seen by
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another man and um
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he gave us a description
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and a very credible story
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one month after todnese's sighting two
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women were driving on a remote country
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road 100 miles away when they had a much
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closer encounter
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the driver agreed to speak with us in
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silhouette
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we had just come around a bend in the
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road when i
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saw movement
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and i slowed down for the anticipation
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of something crossing in front of me
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and that's when it stood up
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and
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moved across the road
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without once looking at us and
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disappeared
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we couldn't
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make any sense of what we saw
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it was very close to a human but yet
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it wasn't there was no
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visible signs of of clothing shoes
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jacket hat
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there was no neck
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the arms were very long
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and swinging with the movement
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we had the opportunity of interviewing
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both of the ladies
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and we found the story very credible
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we saw some signs where something had
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crossed the road and
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about
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300 yards into the forest there was a
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dead steer and the few footprints that
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we saw were very faint we're going
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directly towards that dead stair
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possibly with the intention of eating it
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so do you guys want to come along with
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me up there
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you're going ahead okay
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perhaps the most amazing bigfoot
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sighting in recent years occurred when
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elmer frambach of seattle washington
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took his family on an outing near the
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canadian border
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elmer an electrician and part-time
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prospector set off to stake a claim
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nearby
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i had a
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four by four seater post that i was
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using to mark the claim
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and of course i had all of the normal
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things like surveyors ribbon and a
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compass and
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different items which would be used to
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lay out the claim boundaries
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as i traveled into the upper areas i was
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now about 1500 feet
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and i noticed that the trails in this
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area were somewhat isolated with trees
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being snapped off and laid over the
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trail in certain spots which looked as
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though they were strategically placed to
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block the trail off
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so i laid the cedar posts down on the
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ground and went up the hillside
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to where i could walk on the trails
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easily again
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elmer had just started to take a few
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more samples when he suddenly realized
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he was not alone
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as i walked around the hillside
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the pounding seemed to cease for a short
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period of time and then it resumed again
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and i thought maybe the boys are up here
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playing a trick on me
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all right you guys it isn't funny
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hey are you on the hill
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i thought at first i had triggered an
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avalanche of some type until
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i saw a big black hairy mass right
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behind all of those rocks and twigs
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and then i began to wonder is this a
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bear that i'm seeing
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or is it something else
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and at that time i kept thinking in my
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mind i've got to find a way to scare it
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and i fired a shot above its head and it
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turned just slightly
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and then proceeded to walk down the
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trail as though i wasn't even there
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and as it walked away from me it took
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perfect human-like strides down the
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trail only like a giant man
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at that point in time i thought the
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thing was probably gone
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but this thing had crouched down
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at the end of the trail
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and it picked up a rock the size of a
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basketball and was using it to bang
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against the other rocks they again made
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a slight sideways turn just enough to
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see me out of the corner of its eye
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i was scared and i wanted to get out of
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there i kept running down the hillside
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and the thing was in hot pursuit the
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whole way
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i was absolutely terrified
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and i had a hard time figuring out how
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that thing could cover so much area or
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if there were actually more than one of
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them
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never been more scared in my life
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the creature could have very easily have
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caught me if it would have wanted to why
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it didn't is still a mystery to me i
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still can't understand
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with something that would move that fast
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cover that much territory wyatt had such
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a hard time locating me
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i don't think it was a chase i think
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possibly it was what we call a
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demonstration charge if it truly was a
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bigfoot that he saw and it was simply
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saint and get out of here this is my
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territory
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accounts like elmer frombacks are
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invaluable to the bigfoot research
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project the project correlates all
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eyewitness data in an attempt to predict
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where and when a bigfoot will show up
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next
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based on this data special infrared
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cameras are set up in hopes of
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photographing the elusive beast
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but even credible photographs might not
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convince the skeptics
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noted anthropologist darris swindler
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wants to see tangible proof
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and i'm amazed through all the years and
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the various people that have been
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hunting sasquatch through the years have
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not really found any
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what we call bone or dental evidence of
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the creature
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that to me would be very satisfying you
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can talk to people who lived out here 50
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years never found a dead bear and never
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found a dead cougar a dead deer maybe
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but when something dies it's eaten just
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as in east africa when a eight-ton
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elephant dies in 72 hours it completely
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disappears this is nature's way
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i would still like to see some
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what we call teeth and bones i would
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think it would be only logical to
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suspect this
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that we might by this time would have
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found some more concrete evidence of
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their existence
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does the lost species roam the pacific
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northwest
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if so there are a lot of people who are
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very interested
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some like peter bernwater find a bigfoot
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alive others want a specimen dead or
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alive
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the eyewitnesses we interview hope that
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the scientific community takes notice
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before it's too late
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it's not just to validate what i saw but
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i think it's important if these
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creatures are still out there that they
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need to
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be protected in some way that they need
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to be
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understood and studied
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there was no aggression at all in the
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animal and i believe that
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it is up to us to protect it
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learn all we can about it
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and
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leave it alone
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what i saw there was a living creature
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and not some figment in my imagination
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modern science hasn't absolutely proven
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by a dead object
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that this thing exists
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but i tell you quite frankly i've seen
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one i know it exists and there is no
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doubt in my mind
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next a determined wife crisscrosses a
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country in search of her missing husband
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perhaps you can help
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imagine that you were a woman whose
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husband has gone away on a business trip
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you speak to him the night before he is
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due to come back home
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and you never see or hear from him again
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what are your choices
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do you sit at home waiting for police in
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distant cities to call you back
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or do you try to do something yourself
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christine reinhart of clintonville
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wisconsin did something
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today christine's search for her husband
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has become an all-consuming quest
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hello
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hi
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uh my name's christine and i'm out here
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searching for my husband who's been
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missing for quite some time
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his name is craig williamson i've reason
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to believe that he's suffering from
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amnesia and may have been on this
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interstate corridor and perhaps caught a
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ride with a trucker and i'd like to put
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this up in your window if that's
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possible
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someone might see it sure oh i really
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appreciate that thank you very much
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christine's quest began on september 14
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1993 in colorado springs colorado at the
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motel where craig williamson was last
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seen okay miss reinhart uh this is where
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your husband
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stayed in room 112.
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this is the washroom here
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all the stuff
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was in here and he had a book here on
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the sink
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okay this is the room he stayed in over
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there on the chair was his luggage
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was unpacked and open
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the bed was made
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looked like it was not slept in
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had there been any um like signs of
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struggle in the room no sign of struggle
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at all it looked like uh
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someone just left and walked out
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it is now my pleasure
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as an ordained minister
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and by the power vested in me by the
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state of nevada craig williamson was
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nearly 46 and christine reinhardt 41
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when they married at lake tahoe
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it was a second marriage for both
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craig and christine had known each other
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for only a month but it was definitely a
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love match
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christine still speaks of their marriage
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in the present tense
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being married to craig is
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it may be a cliche to say it's like a
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honeymoon but it really is because
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he's the most sincere caring loving
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person
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i think the thing about craig that is
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most endearing is his
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caring and
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nurturing attitude toward me he's just
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wonderfully supportive
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and very loving
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craig and christine bought a farm in
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wisconsin christine's home state and
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undertook an immediate renovation
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they added onto the barn install large
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tanks and began to raise an exotic and
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tasty african fish called tilapia
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craig specially rigged an old school bus
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to transport the fish
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on august 28 1993 craig williamson
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loaded up and set off for colorado
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even though he was still experiencing
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headaches and blurred vision due to a
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concussion he had suffered four weeks
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earlier
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if i tried to rub his head
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he said honey don't do that it hurts and
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so i know he was still suffering from it
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because he would still um i'd say do you
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have a headache and he'd say yes you
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know but he wouldn't admit it but i'd
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catch him taking aspirin all the time
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in colorado springs craig rented a car
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to use for business appointments
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at 9 00 pm on august 30th the night
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before he was to return home he and
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christine spoke for the last time
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craig was a thousand miles away from the
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farm in wisconsin when he disappeared in
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colorado springs
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the next day his credit cards were
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discovered at a market in el paso texas
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675 miles south
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two weeks later in juarez mexico just
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across the border from el paso craig's
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rental car was found abandoned once
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again there were no signs of foul play
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detective robert johnson headed the
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investigation in colorado this is the
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area where we found bus still park when
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we come out the day of the search and
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what i wanted to show you is some of the
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things that we found
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when we got here the bus that craig had
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driven down here was still parked
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kind of along this line here about three
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or four feet from the dumpster okay i
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truly believe that craig walked up to
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his rental car and that someone came up
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behind him and hit him on the head
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and
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this
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is completely in keeping in character
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with craig is that
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he'd get up and wouldn't go in and say
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i'm hurt help me he'd think i have to
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get on with things i you know i have to
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be doing something i'm supposed to go
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somewhere i have to get back and he
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would wander toward the bright lights of
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the
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parking lot and then the interchange and
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he wandered off from there
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over the past week williamson's wife
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christine television stations in
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wisconsin and colorado covered
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christine's story
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within days a retired nurse from montana
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came forward
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when i saw him on tv you know i
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recognized him
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and i said that man was on the train
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that i was on
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and my son said are you sure about that
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i said yeah i recognize him judy inman
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believes she saw craig williamson
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looking dazed and disheveled two weeks
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after he disappeared
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judy was on a train traveling from
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montana through washington state where
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craig and christine had first met
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when he first got on the train these two
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drunks they just kept harassing him
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i was just wishing they'd all three shut
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up you know so we could get some sleep
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well when he walked up the aisle he
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didn't say anything
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but there was something that he wanted
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i gotta get back to the fish
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he kept talking about this fish that he
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had to go pick up
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and uh
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he was talking about this big building
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that had these big huge tanks in it
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where they kept the fish
00:22:10
how are you gonna catch this fish these
00:22:12
two drunk guys asked him well where do
00:22:14
you have to go to catch that fish you
00:22:16
know he said well you wouldn't find a
00:22:18
fish like that around here
00:22:20
he said in fact you wouldn't find a fish
00:22:22
like that in the united states
00:22:24
hey it's my jacket
00:22:29
[Music]
00:22:32
i gotta get back to the fish that man
00:22:35
definitely had something wrong with him
00:22:40
he was absolutely not drunk
00:22:43
and i knew he was not mentally [ __ ]
00:22:47
there's a difference between someone
00:22:50
that's mentally [ __ ] and someone
00:22:51
that's drunk
00:22:53
and someone that has a head injury
00:22:56
and i knew that he definitely had some
00:22:58
type of a head injury
00:23:00
because i've taken care of patients like
00:23:02
that
00:23:04
i knew that that was craig i knew it and
00:23:08
the fact that it was on amtrak and it
00:23:10
was heading toward the pacific northwest
00:23:12
i mean i knew that that was craig there
00:23:14
was no way
00:23:16
anyone could make up the type of things
00:23:18
that judy hinman said craig
00:23:20
was talking about
00:23:23
i packed up everything that i would need
00:23:26
packed up a suitcase for craig
00:23:29
in the outside chance i would find him
00:23:31
and
00:23:32
went to look for him
00:23:35
christine set off on a six-week odyssey
00:23:37
paralleling judy inman's train route
00:23:39
from whitefish montana to portland
00:23:41
oregon
00:23:43
she photographed every train station
00:23:45
along the way
00:23:48
on december 26 1993 christine met judy
00:23:52
inman in person for the first time and
00:23:54
showed her the photographs
00:23:56
this is another one of the train yard
00:23:58
there's really nothing much around there
00:23:59
it's pretty empty
00:24:01
then there's this one there you think
00:24:03
this is the one that's the one where he
00:24:05
got off because it was a small building
00:24:07
yeah it was small and it was this color
00:24:10
this is the one where he got off
00:24:13
judy had identified wish from washington
00:24:16
near the oregon border christine
00:24:18
believes craig might have mistaken
00:24:20
wishroom for washougal a town where he
00:24:22
had lived in the 1980s
00:24:25
craig's son plastered the area with this
00:24:27
poster but no new clues surfaced
00:24:30
[Music]
00:24:35
it was absolutely terrible to drive back
00:24:38
here after
00:24:40
looking for craig
00:24:41
for the six weeks that i did
00:24:44
this place was so cold and empty
00:24:48
and everywhere i look
00:24:52
there
00:24:53
things remind me of craig all the time
00:24:57
[Music]
00:25:01
today christine reinhart has no choice
00:25:03
but to sit at home and wait
00:25:07
the farm is closed
00:25:08
the fish tanks are empty
00:25:10
but christine will never abandon her
00:25:12
quest
00:25:15
i can't give up i will never give up
00:25:18
i will just
00:25:20
constantly look for him until
00:25:24
i die or he's found i mean those are the
00:25:26
only two options
00:25:30
i know he's alive
00:25:32
and i know someday i'll find him the
00:25:34
trouble is i don't know when and i just
00:25:36
have to keep hanging on the hardest part
00:25:39
is hanging on
00:25:42
craig williamson is 49 years old 5 feet
00:25:45
10 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds he
00:25:49
has gray hair and blue eyes
00:25:52
this is television footage shot in
00:25:53
wisconsin in february of 1993.
00:25:57
fish
00:25:58
some of these will be filleted out in
00:25:59
our processing plants some will be
00:26:01
delivered to the east coast as live
00:26:03
whole fish to the oriental market
00:26:14
[Music]
00:26:26
when we return
00:26:27
a fugitive is captured thanks to your
00:26:29
calls
00:26:30
and the bizarre case of a couple
00:26:32
targeted for terror by an unknown
00:26:34
assailant
00:26:37
[Music]
00:26:45
this is 36 year old david vieira he is
00:26:48
charged with a murder of his wife
00:26:51
on april 16 1994 vieira was arrested in
00:26:54
montreal canada the 108th fugitive
00:26:57
captured thanks to your calls
00:27:00
his long troubling odyssey began some 20
00:27:02
years ago on a small island in the
00:27:04
atlantic ocean
00:27:08
david vieira grew up on saint michael
00:27:10
one of a group of irons west of portugal
00:27:12
known as the azores
00:27:14
[Music]
00:27:16
it was there in 1974 that vieira married
00:27:19
his 17-year-old cousin alice who lived
00:27:21
in new bedford massachusetts
00:27:23
[Music]
00:27:26
david and alice eventually settled in
00:27:27
new bedford within a year alice was
00:27:33
dream mavic pregnant off pretty good
00:27:34
like maybe i'd say about the first
00:27:36
couple of months
00:27:37
and then uh you know already he was
00:27:39
already starting with her you know she
00:27:40
couldn't wear makeup
00:27:42
she couldn't do anything you know he was
00:27:44
very jealous very possessed of my sister
00:27:47
by 1981 alice and david had three
00:27:49
children
00:27:51
as the years went by david reportedly
00:27:53
became abusive to the point of violence
00:27:58
they used to always say uh there's no
00:28:00
other woman in my you know for my life
00:28:03
like you are
00:28:04
and he always had threatened her that if
00:28:06
she ever decided to leave him for
00:28:07
anybody that he would kill her but we
00:28:09
never took it seriously
00:28:11
you know
00:28:14
alice and david finally separated in the
00:28:16
summer of 1988
00:28:17
alice enrolled in nursing school and
00:28:19
began to see another man
00:28:21
but david vieira would not let her go
00:28:27
he allegedly began to stalk alice at
00:28:29
work and at home
00:28:30
night and day
00:28:34
on july 25th 1988 alice was at home with
00:28:37
her boyfriend when david apparently
00:28:39
snapped
00:28:41
[Music]
00:28:45
by the time police arrived at the scene
00:28:47
alice was dead
00:28:48
bludgeoned and stabbed 24 times with a
00:28:51
butcher knife
00:28:54
david vieira had vanished and for nearly
00:28:56
six years he could not be found
00:28:59
until the night of our broadcast
00:29:03
our particular segment on that show
00:29:05
aired our time here in new bedford
00:29:07
massachusetts at approximately 8 50 p.m
00:29:12
by 9 03 pm i was receiving telephone
00:29:15
calls from canada right here into my
00:29:17
office
00:29:18
with very good leads as to his
00:29:20
whereabouts
00:29:21
the first phone call that i received
00:29:23
saying that they knew where he was
00:29:25
i just jumped up with joy and told my
00:29:27
husband i think we got him you know and
00:29:29
i couldn't believe it took less than 48
00:29:30
hours to apprehend him
00:29:34
vieira had lived in montreal for at
00:29:36
least two years and was well known in
00:29:38
the portuguese community he belonged to
00:29:41
a neighborhood soccer team and was
00:29:42
employed at a local fish market
00:29:45
vieira's co-workers were stunned to
00:29:47
learn about his secret past
00:29:49
for me it's a dream i don't believe the
00:29:51
guy do that i don't believe
00:29:52
you know
00:29:54
that guy is so nice too because we see
00:29:56
the picture yeah if we don't see the
00:29:58
picture it's exactly the
00:30:00
man if we don't see
00:30:02
we never trust
00:30:05
i've seen them apprehended and with
00:30:07
handcuffs and to me that was a sign of
00:30:09
saying thank god i can rest and my
00:30:11
sister can also be at peace now that
00:30:13
he's caught
00:30:26
[Music]
00:30:40
dorothy and bill wacker have lived in a
00:30:42
small town in ohio for most of their 48
00:30:44
years together
00:30:46
what time's kathy coming over
00:30:52
the wackers are quiet unassuming people
00:30:54
who tend to mind their own business yeah
00:30:56
hardly the type to draw the wrath of an
00:30:59
unseen enemy
00:31:02
oh my not again
00:31:06
all right
00:31:07
that's it i've had enough i'm calling
00:31:09
the sheriff
00:31:11
on january 16 1985 the wacker's home was
00:31:15
ransacked it was a third incident in a
00:31:18
campaign of terror that began in 1984
00:31:21
and continues unabated to this day
00:31:24
the sheriff's department
00:31:27
after nearly 10 years dorothy and bill
00:31:29
wacker still wonder who and why
00:31:35
well as far as all this harassment is
00:31:37
going on which to me it looks like it's
00:31:39
trying to force us to move
00:31:42
why should i move why should we move why
00:31:45
should we be forced out
00:31:47
by a kook
00:31:48
to me that's what it is is a kook
00:31:52
uh
00:31:53
i'll not do it
00:31:55
i'll stay there protect our own
00:31:58
[Music]
00:32:01
july of 1985 after six months of peace
00:32:05
another incident
00:32:07
dorothy was home by herself recovering
00:32:09
from heart surgery
00:32:12
yeah i'm really sorry to bother you
00:32:14
ma'am uh my car broke down and i just
00:32:16
wonder if i could use your phone well
00:32:18
where's your car oh it's just down the
00:32:19
street here i i would really appreciate
00:32:21
it
00:32:22
well okay i guess it'll be all right
00:32:24
come on did anybody come to the door we
00:32:26
didn't believe the worst of them so we
00:32:28
did what we had to do if they wanted to
00:32:31
help or anything well we always helped
00:32:32
them right here nice please chef here
00:32:34
you need me i'll be uh in the kitchen
00:32:36
thanks a lot
00:32:37
really appreciate it
00:32:39
he was very polite
00:32:41
so i had no
00:32:43
qualms about leaving him in yeah i need
00:32:44
to get a tow truck
00:32:47
right
00:32:48
uh right off south theory
00:32:51
he was talking on the phone but i like i
00:32:53
say i didn't pay no attention to him i
00:32:55
don't listen to people's conversations
00:32:56
when they use the phone thanks
00:33:02
and he said thanks very much and thanks
00:33:04
that's the reason i thought he'd left
00:33:06
you're welcome
00:33:07
[Music]
00:33:24
the next thing i remember i woke up on
00:33:25
the floor
00:33:26
tied up
00:33:29
you know it hit me in the head and he
00:33:30
hit me alongside the jaw
00:33:35
and finally wagged
00:33:37
got over towards the kitchen wind in
00:33:39
there and it was open and i got the
00:33:40
neighbors to
00:33:42
hear me over there and they come over
00:33:44
[Applause]
00:33:47
bill returned home to find his house
00:33:50
swarming with police
00:33:52
fortunately dorothy was not seriously
00:33:54
injured
00:33:57
bill did discover that some personal
00:33:59
possessions were missing
00:34:01
a 22-caliber revolver an antique watch a
00:34:04
movie camera and a radio scanner
00:34:08
in the dining room the assailant had
00:34:10
left a cryptic message scrawled in
00:34:12
crayon
00:34:16
the words were cheaper
00:34:17
but will do
00:34:20
there's no connotation there's no
00:34:21
rational
00:34:22
rationale behind that message that we
00:34:24
can understand
00:34:26
[Music]
00:34:28
this sketch drawn from dorothy's
00:34:30
description was widely distributed after
00:34:32
the attack
00:34:33
the suspect never surfaced but
00:34:35
inexplicably most of the whacker's
00:34:37
missing possessions did
00:34:42
[Music]
00:34:45
bill says it about four months after
00:34:47
dorothy was assaulted the revolver
00:34:49
turned up on the front porch
00:34:53
one by one the other items also
00:34:55
reappeared
00:34:58
i couldn't figure it out i still can't
00:35:00
figure it out why it was brought back if
00:35:02
somebody was
00:35:04
stealing something normally they're
00:35:05
going to if they don't have any use for
00:35:07
it they're going to sell it to somebody
00:35:09
else
00:35:10
and it just looked like this stuff was
00:35:13
laid around till it was brought back
00:35:16
this is extremely unusual if not very
00:35:18
rare
00:35:19
in all my years in in law enforcement i
00:35:21
have never known of a gun being returned
00:35:23
after it was stolen
00:35:28
meanwhile the unseen tormentor had
00:35:30
launched a new pattern of harassment
00:35:33
hello
00:35:34
sometimes he wouldn't say anything he'd
00:35:36
just breathe real deep
00:35:39
and then the next time i he says i'll
00:35:41
knock you in the head and lay out and do
00:35:44
this to you and do that to you
00:35:47
i was angry and i was scared
00:35:52
they've changed their telephone number
00:35:54
several times and whoever this is that's
00:35:57
harassing them has come up with the
00:35:58
number how they found it i have no idea
00:36:05
according to bill and dorothy the phone
00:36:07
calls never let up and the mysterious
00:36:09
assailant soon escalated his campaign
00:36:12
i would be sitting here watching tv or
00:36:14
reading or whatever and always after
00:36:16
dark
00:36:18
you know in the driveway side of the
00:36:20
house is where it first started they
00:36:22
would bang five six times real hard
00:36:27
what's that
00:36:28
i don't know what i'm done you're gonna
00:36:30
find out phil what about all this guy go
00:36:32
to dog i don't want you going out there
00:36:34
bill bill
00:36:36
god rush outside
00:36:38
ever see a thing never hear a thing
00:36:42
never hear a car
00:36:45
never hear a noise whatsoever
00:36:51
we got to the point that we figured that
00:36:55
we needed some kind of security light
00:36:57
outside in the front
00:37:00
which we put up
00:37:05
it wasn't too long after that
00:37:08
that we had a note
00:37:10
on the front porch it says your lights
00:37:12
are a laugh
00:37:17
periodically other notes have shown up
00:37:19
on the wacker's front porch
00:37:22
some are crudely threatening
00:37:24
others simply mocking
00:37:27
it was a disturbing onslaught but at
00:37:30
least the wackers had tangible evidence
00:37:32
to present to the authorities
00:37:34
bill
00:37:36
would appear that the person that wrote
00:37:39
these notes may have been using the
00:37:40
opposite hand from what they're normally
00:37:42
used to writing with
00:37:43
uh whoever printed them
00:37:46
went to some paints to try to conceal
00:37:48
their normal handwriting or printing
00:37:49
techniques
00:37:53
to date we have found no latent
00:37:55
fingerprints or any other form material
00:37:56
on the evidence that's been submitted
00:38:03
with the investigation stalled dorothy
00:38:05
and bill were seemingly at the mercy of
00:38:07
their unknown enemy
00:38:10
he struck again on october 27 1993
00:38:14
[Music]
00:38:26
this time dorothy was raced to the
00:38:27
hospital with skull lacerations
00:38:30
desperate for a witness police once
00:38:32
again canvassed the neighborhood
00:38:34
have you had anybody around your
00:38:35
residence prowling around your wrestling
00:38:37
looking in the windows in the last few
00:38:38
months sir
00:38:41
do you have any idea who may be crawling
00:38:43
around the wacker residence we've
00:38:44
interviewed the neighbors on numerous
00:38:46
occasions
00:38:47
and none of the neighbors have yet been
00:38:49
able to provide us with any information
00:38:51
which would lead us to believe that
00:38:53
there was a person there
00:38:55
nobody has ever seen anybody
00:38:58
which is
00:38:59
that's very frustrating to us in our
00:39:00
efforts
00:39:05
with no suspects and no clues the lead
00:39:08
detective presented dorothy with an
00:39:10
unthinkable scenario
00:39:13
he says i'm going to ask you a question
00:39:15
but he said i don't want you to take it
00:39:17
the wrong way he says do you think your
00:39:19
husband could have done this and i said
00:39:21
no way
00:39:23
i said he wouldn't do something like
00:39:24
that
00:39:27
he says we've got to explore all
00:39:28
possibilities
00:39:31
she says no
00:39:33
which
00:39:34
why should i do something like that
00:39:36
after being married 48 years you know
00:39:41
in any type of criminal activity usually
00:39:43
you can identify pretty much up front
00:39:44
what the motive is it's pretty simple
00:39:47
uh
00:39:50
the problem with this is
00:39:51
you cannot identify the motive you can't
00:39:54
identify the reasons behind the activity
00:39:56
that's going on out there
00:39:58
there seems to be there seems to be a
00:39:59
pattern of activity yes
00:40:01
but what is the underlying reason that
00:40:03
this activity is taking place the other
00:40:05
thing is it's sporadic it's not constant
00:40:08
you'll have months go by with absolutely
00:40:10
nothing happen and then you'll have a
00:40:12
flurry of activity for maybe a period of
00:40:14
a month and then it become it becomes
00:40:16
dormant again
00:40:18
this has thrown us into a quandary
00:40:20
because we can't figure out exactly
00:40:22
what's going on we know what's going on
00:40:25
they're filing the complaints and
00:40:26
they're filing reports we're going out
00:40:28
there but yet we can find nothing
00:40:31
[Music]
00:40:33
in november of 1993 bill and dorothy
00:40:36
took matters into their own hands
00:40:39
with the help of family members the
00:40:41
wackers staked out their own house
00:40:45
bill was holed up in a trailer parked in
00:40:47
the driveway
00:40:49
across the street his sons-in-law dan
00:40:51
and clay watched from a van
00:40:55
clay's wife kathy stayed with dorothy in
00:40:57
the house the family was linked by
00:41:00
walkie-talkie
00:41:02
yeah it's all quiet in here
00:41:06
for almost four hours they waited
00:41:09
around 10 30 p.m they decided to call it
00:41:11
a night
00:41:14
and uh all of a sudden i we heard bum
00:41:16
bum bum bump
00:41:18
[Music]
00:41:19
i said there's something on the front
00:41:20
porch no i can't see anything
00:41:23
[Music]
00:41:24
inevitably perhaps even predictably the
00:41:27
intruder had found a blind spot in the
00:41:29
wackers steakhouse
00:41:32
i never saw it come from anywhere the
00:41:34
scroll was all too familiar the note
00:41:36
read simply
00:41:38
get the message oh my
00:41:39
[Music]
00:41:41
yeah
00:41:42
ah come on let's go in a house
00:41:47
violent assaults
00:41:49
threatening notes
00:41:51
unnerving calls
00:41:52
nearly 10 years of harassment
00:41:55
who is behind the plague on the wacker
00:41:57
household
00:42:01
could it be an embittered neighbor a
00:42:03
family member
00:42:04
a total stranger
00:42:06
the wackers remain as mystified today as
00:42:09
when their troubles first began
00:42:13
the sooner he's caught the better off
00:42:18
a lot of people are going to be
00:42:22
because if he's not harassing us
00:42:25
or threatening us
00:42:27
he'll probably be doing it to somebody
00:42:29
else to get his kicks
00:42:31
i think that's what it boils down to he
00:42:33
gets a heck of a big kick out of it
00:42:36
[Music]
00:42:38
next
00:42:39
authorities need your help to find a
00:42:41
deadly arsonist
00:42:42
[Music]
00:42:55
september 29 1988 arson investigators
00:42:59
sift through the ashes of a burned-out
00:43:01
home in south oakcliff a section of
00:43:03
dallas texas
00:43:09
five children had died as a result of
00:43:11
the fire and the authorities wanted to
00:43:13
know why
00:43:14
[Music]
00:43:17
the house belonged to a woman named
00:43:18
molly jordan
00:43:20
the victims were her great-granddaughter
00:43:22
two-year-old jasmine and four of her
00:43:24
grandchildren jamal 6 erica 9 bernard 16
00:43:28
and 18 year old demetra jasmine's mother
00:43:36
september 28 seemed at first like any
00:43:38
other day in the jordan household
00:43:40
by 3 30 that afternoon the kids were all
00:43:43
home from school
00:43:44
their grandmother molly jordan was about
00:43:46
to leave
00:43:48
molly worked back-to-back eight-hour
00:43:49
shifts as a nurse to support the six
00:43:51
children
00:43:54
molly's jobs would keep her away for
00:43:56
some 16 hours until seven the next
00:43:58
morning but she carried a beeper so the
00:44:00
kids could reach her directly at any
00:44:02
time
00:44:08
around 3 a.m kettering jordan then 10
00:44:10
years old awakened to the sound of his
00:44:12
brother bernard talking to someone
00:44:15
bernard had apparently become deeply
00:44:17
involved with a local drug dealer
00:44:22
i was walking to the refrigerator
00:44:25
and i saw him i saw the drug deal and
00:44:27
bernard talking about
00:44:30
where's my money and bernard said i
00:44:32
don't know what you're talking about
00:44:35
[Music]
00:44:47
the brief exchange left catrick shaken
00:44:49
afraid to go back to his own bedroom
00:44:54
so i went into my sister's room
00:44:56
and i went to bed
00:45:00
it seemed like i didn't sleep that long
00:45:03
but seemed like about five minutes later
00:45:05
he came he was he busted into the door
00:45:08
until my the house was on fire
00:45:12
the house is on fire the house is on
00:45:13
fire everybody got get up the house is
00:45:15
on fire
00:45:18
[Music]
00:45:19
[Applause]
00:45:22
he told me to start busting out windows
00:45:25
and
00:45:25
stuff to try to you know get air coming
00:45:27
through the house because we couldn't go
00:45:29
through the front door
00:45:35
the only hope of escape was through the
00:45:36
windows but the safety releases for the
00:45:39
burglar bars inexplicably jammed and
00:45:41
refused to budge
00:45:43
i saw my sister
00:45:45
erica laying on the bed crying
00:45:48
and i tried to savor it so she can get
00:45:49
air but she was in such a panic
00:45:52
and
00:45:54
then my sister she was busting all the
00:45:56
windows and she cut herself real bad and
00:45:59
she got into a panic
00:46:01
and i looked i looked over to my little
00:46:03
brother jamal
00:46:04
and he was already
00:46:06
dead and i looked over to my
00:46:08
my niece jazz she was already
00:46:12
dead by the time firemen arrived flames
00:46:15
had engulfed much of the house all six
00:46:18
children were trapped
00:46:22
repeated attempts to break down the
00:46:24
front door failed inside a couch had
00:46:26
been propped against the door holding it
00:46:28
closed
00:46:30
[Music]
00:46:36
the burglar bars doomed any chance of a
00:46:38
quick rescue and precious menace
00:46:40
dribbled away as firefighters fought
00:46:42
their way through the iron
00:46:50
ten minutes later the bars gave way
00:46:52
firemen didn't know if anyone was still
00:46:54
alive inside while parts of the house
00:46:57
continued to burn they began searching
00:46:59
for survivors they found kentrick jordan
00:47:01
first
00:47:05
katric was burned over more than 75
00:47:07
percent of his body demetra jordan was
00:47:10
also pulled out alive but she would die
00:47:12
the next day at the hospital
00:47:14
the bodies of the other four children
00:47:16
were found huddled together lifeless at
00:47:19
the foot of the barred window
00:47:25
at that very moment molly jordan was
00:47:27
rushing home from the hospital she had
00:47:29
been called by a relative who said only
00:47:31
the children are all gone
00:47:35
when i got
00:47:36
about a mile or something from the house
00:47:39
one amulet's passed me and they were
00:47:40
just screaming and going
00:47:42
then i started feeling sick in the
00:47:43
stomach then i was thinking well it
00:47:45
didn't have to come from my house
00:47:46
there's a lot of houses up but when i
00:47:48
got within a few blocks it was another
00:47:51
one passed me screaming hollering and i
00:47:53
just got real sick of the stomach
00:47:55
heart with the beating fast and all this
00:47:58
it seemed like i couldn't breathe i
00:48:00
couldn't walk i couldn't stop
00:48:02
i couldn't talk
00:48:04
just everything left my body singing
00:48:09
once the flames were extinguished arson
00:48:11
investigators easily determined that the
00:48:13
deadly fire had been deliberately set
00:48:17
in the main living room we found a
00:48:20
gasoline can that had been there during
00:48:22
the fire and later on during the
00:48:24
investigation we actually did find
00:48:26
samples of flammable liquids that had
00:48:28
been poured on the floor and set on fire
00:48:33
investigators soon pieced together what
00:48:35
they believe are the events that led up
00:48:37
to the fire
00:48:41
the drug people had come to seek payment
00:48:43
from menard want him to come outside
00:48:46
he did not come outside
00:48:49
they set the house on fire to get him to
00:48:51
come outside but unfortunately the whole
00:48:53
family got caught in the burger bars and
00:48:55
didn't come out so we have an act of
00:48:57
arson that resulted in five murders and
00:48:59
one severe injury
00:49:03
police now believe bernard piled up
00:49:04
furniture in a desperate attempt to keep
00:49:06
the assailants out of the house
00:49:08
instead both the couch jammed against
00:49:11
the front door and a love seat wedged
00:49:13
behind the hallway door trapped the
00:49:15
children in the house
00:49:17
the arsonist probably entered through
00:49:19
this window one of two not equipped with
00:49:21
bars
00:49:24
we worked quite hard to try to find who
00:49:26
was responsible for the fire we did come
00:49:30
up with one name
00:49:31
one of the individuals that was
00:49:32
supplying the drugs to
00:49:34
menard his name was curly the nickname
00:49:37
curly
00:49:38
he was a black male about 5 10 in height
00:49:41
made about 160 pounds we never have
00:49:44
found curly or any of his friends but
00:49:46
curly is known to have bragged about
00:49:48
setting the fire
00:49:54
three days after the tragedy some two
00:49:56
thousand people gathered at carver
00:49:58
heights baptist church to mourn the loss
00:50:01
of the five jordan children
00:50:04
in the five years since kentrick jordan
00:50:07
the lone survivor has endured a dozen
00:50:09
operations including the amputation of
00:50:12
both legs
00:50:15
ketrick is now 16
00:50:17
prosthetic limbs have allowed him to
00:50:18
walk again
00:50:20
after the fire an outpouring of
00:50:22
contributions from the community enabled
00:50:24
ketrik and his grandmother to move to a
00:50:26
new home in a different part of dallas
00:50:39
[Music]
00:50:48
do you believe in angels
00:50:50
hear the incredible stories of two women
00:50:52
who believe celestial intervention saved
00:50:54
them from certain death
00:50:57
in california police are searching for
00:50:59
an unknown witness who may have vital
00:51:01
information about the murder of a deputy
00:51:04
sheriff
00:51:06
and two poignant stories of lost love
00:51:08
in one a woman battling a fatal illness
00:51:11
hopes to find her long-lost sister
00:51:14
in the other brenda abby's search for
00:51:16
her birth parents has taken her into the
00:51:18
unfamiliar world of the traveling
00:51:20
carnival
00:51:23
[Music]
00:51:30
do angels dwell among us
00:51:33
more than a thousand years ago saint
00:51:35
augustine wrote that every visible thing
00:51:37
in this world is put in the charge of an
00:51:39
angel
00:51:40
even today most of us hope those words
00:51:43
are true
00:51:46
you're about to meet two women
00:51:48
both of whom are certain that they were
00:51:50
placed in the charge of a guardian angel
00:51:52
just when they needed it most
00:51:54
consider first the case of janie shamow
00:51:57
her story begins in 1976.
00:52:00
janie had just turned 14 when her
00:52:02
brother and sister-in-law took her on a
00:52:04
western vacation
00:52:08
they traveled in a camper with another
00:52:10
family and visited all the usual tourist
00:52:13
attractions
00:52:15
however one stop stands out
00:52:17
in the painted desert something amazing
00:52:19
happened
00:52:20
something jamie who is now 31 will never
00:52:23
forget
00:52:24
[Music]
00:52:26
i had gotten a new camera for the trip
00:52:29
and i was curious to get some good
00:52:32
photographs and
00:52:35
i can remember
00:52:36
leaning up against the guardrail
00:52:38
focusing the camera
00:52:40
and thinking you know if i just got
00:52:42
another side of this guardrail down
00:52:43
there a little bit it would be a much
00:52:45
better photograph
00:52:47
[Music]
00:52:49
as nearly as anyone can figure just at
00:52:51
that same moment janie's mother shirley
00:52:54
who had stayed home in michigan was
00:52:56
sitting down to read her bible as she
00:52:58
did every day
00:53:00
i really felt that i was led by the holy
00:53:03
spirit to read
00:53:04
psalm 91
00:53:08
and i began sobbing just
00:53:10
sobbing because i knew
00:53:12
janie was gonna die
00:53:14
i didn't know why
00:53:16
or how
00:53:18
but i knew she was going to die
00:53:26
she's gone over the edge where where did
00:53:28
she go right over the railing i can't
00:53:30
see her anymore
00:53:31
[Music]
00:53:36
suddenly i just stopped i just stopped
00:53:39
and i can remember thinking
00:53:42
i'm so glad i stopped and
00:53:44
thinking what stopped me
00:53:49
i was afraid i was scared that there was
00:53:51
no way i was going to get back up to the
00:53:53
top
00:53:54
i could not see the top i couldn't hear
00:53:58
my family yelling for me
00:54:02
i knew i had to be very careful or i
00:54:03
would
00:54:05
start falling again
00:54:07
[Music]
00:54:12
as soon as i
00:54:14
uh had this feeling that janey was going
00:54:16
to die i began pleading with the lord
00:54:20
to
00:54:21
please don't let her die
00:54:24
and there will be more than what i could
00:54:26
bear
00:54:28
i
00:54:28
continued to read psalm
00:54:31
91
00:54:32
it said
00:54:34
and he shall give his angels charge over
00:54:36
thee
00:54:37
to keep thee in all thy ways
00:54:40
and they shall bear thee up in their
00:54:42
hands
00:54:43
lest your foot dash against a stone
00:54:47
and then a peace just came over me
00:54:51
because i
00:54:52
believed it
00:54:54
[Music]
00:54:58
janie
00:54:59
alfred it's janie she's bad look jamie
00:55:03
you're all right
00:55:06
oh janie what happened i don't know
00:55:09
i fell a long ways i don't even remember
00:55:10
coming back up oh well at least you're
00:55:12
all right oh no i was afraid i was gonna
00:55:14
have to call i know i did not
00:55:16
climb
00:55:17
up myself
00:55:20
something strange had happened but i
00:55:22
just kind of
00:55:24
was glad i was back up there and
00:55:27
we had talked among ourselves about
00:55:30
calling her mother
00:55:31
and we decided that
00:55:33
she could call her mother but not to say
00:55:36
anything about her fall
00:55:38
mainly because we didn't want to upset
00:55:40
shirley and we were so far away from
00:55:42
home
00:55:44
tell me all about your trip mommy should
00:55:46
have been there and seen all these
00:55:47
things but inevitably once janey was
00:55:49
back home in michigan with her mother
00:55:51
the truth came out
00:55:53
and here's what that looked like and
00:55:54
here's where i stepped over the guard
00:55:56
rail and i fell down the slope you what
00:55:59
well i just wanted to get a better
00:56:00
pitcher so i climbed over the rail and i
00:56:02
slept and i
00:56:04
said what are you talking about
00:56:08
and she said
00:56:10
oh
00:56:11
uh
00:56:12
she wasn't supposed to tell
00:56:14
well when did this happen
00:56:17
when we were in arizona you remember
00:56:19
that night i called to tell you
00:56:20
everything was okay
00:56:22
well it happened that morning
00:56:24
when janie was telling her story
00:56:27
i really realized the whole magnitude
00:56:31
of what had happened
00:56:33
to me
00:56:35
then i knew
00:56:37
that
00:56:38
verses 11 and 12 that the angels should
00:56:41
bear thee up in their hands
00:56:44
lest your foot dash against the stone
00:56:48
that they were the ones that brought her
00:56:50
back to the top
00:56:53
when i heard my mother's story of what
00:56:55
had happened that day and her feelings
00:56:57
that i was going to die
00:56:59
i realized then that it was her prayers
00:57:01
that had sent the angels
00:57:03
that had made me stop and had brought me
00:57:06
to the top of the canyon
00:57:10
how do you explain what happened to
00:57:11
janie shamble
00:57:13
even though janie neither saw nor heard
00:57:15
anything to confirm it she is thoroughly
00:57:17
convinced that she was rescued by an
00:57:19
angel
00:57:21
estella vera riverside california
00:57:23
reports an even more dramatic experience
00:57:26
estella believes not only that an angel
00:57:28
saved her but that she actually saw him
00:57:31
do it
00:57:34
on saturday march 30th 1991 estella and
00:57:37
her two grown children were on their way
00:57:39
home when they spotted an ice cream
00:57:41
truck being robbed
00:57:43
estella's daughter ran to call the
00:57:45
police while her son rushed to help the
00:57:47
ice cream truck owner
00:57:50
he and another man were already
00:57:51
grappling with a large muscle-bound
00:57:59
[Music]
00:58:03
i knew there was absolutely nothing i
00:58:04
could do and i saw my mother in the path
00:58:06
of his van
00:58:13
i knew she was in between the two
00:58:15
so
00:58:17
i think instantly i thought she was
00:58:20
dead estella's left leg had been severed
00:58:23
below the knee and she had suffered
00:58:25
cardiac arrest
00:58:27
at the hospital bingo and his father
00:58:29
kept vigil what did the doctor say
00:58:32
the first time i saw my mother
00:58:35
after the incident i could not recognize
00:58:37
her
00:58:38
her face was
00:58:39
completely swollen
00:58:41
and we were just waiting for any word
00:58:44
whether or not she would even survive
00:58:48
the stellar drifted in and out of
00:58:49
consciousness for the next several days
00:58:52
finally she awoke
00:58:54
he's okay he's right here it's good to
00:58:56
hear your voice mama
00:58:58
did you see the men by the truck
00:59:00
don't worry mama he's in jail
00:59:03
no
00:59:04
the other man
00:59:06
surrounded by light
00:59:08
in front of the truck
00:59:10
was this some dreamer there
00:59:12
no
00:59:14
he was standing by the truck
00:59:17
my father and i looked at each other
00:59:19
kind of puzzled
00:59:21
and possibly looking at her
00:59:23
as if she may have dreamt something
00:59:25
within the time of she was in the
00:59:27
hospital
00:59:30
but estella insisted she had not been
00:59:32
dreaming
00:59:33
the story she tells is truly astonishing
00:59:36
[Music]
00:59:43
all i remember is looking at a truck
00:59:45
coming so fast
00:59:48
and
00:59:51
just with all my heart i say to god god
00:59:55
please don't let me die
00:59:57
and then i started reciting songs that i
01:00:00
know i said the angel of the lord
01:00:04
takes care of those that loves him
01:00:07
then i look again
01:00:09
and the truck is right in front of me
01:00:12
and i could see the robber's face
01:00:16
he looked so angry
01:00:18
you could see those eyes he was
01:00:21
desperate
01:00:22
i look again
01:00:24
and
01:00:25
now
01:00:26
in front of the truck
01:00:28
there is this beautiful person
01:00:33
he looks so peaceful so beautiful he has
01:00:36
the most beautiful smile
01:00:40
you could see him like in slow motion
01:00:46
immediately i forgot about the ice cream
01:00:49
truck i forgot about everything that was
01:00:52
happening
01:00:53
all i remember was this beautiful face
01:00:57
and then i grabbed his hand
01:01:01
i put my face over his hand and i would
01:01:04
go like this
01:01:06
and i remember a couple of times i
01:01:08
opened my eyes to look at his face to be
01:01:11
sure that he was there and i could see
01:01:14
him right over here looking at me with a
01:01:16
big smile
01:01:18
i believed her she was very sincere very
01:01:20
excited
01:01:22
very sure of the fact that she the angel
01:01:24
was there
01:01:28
i felt
01:01:29
possibly a little
01:01:31
doubtful myself
01:01:33
because nobody else saw anything
01:01:36
but
01:01:37
you can see it in her eyes that it was
01:01:39
true
01:01:41
i cannot
01:01:43
really explain this beautiful experience
01:01:46
i have no doubt in my heart that god
01:01:48
sent an angel to save me
01:01:51
i asked everyone if they saw this
01:01:53
beautiful person
01:01:55
pulling me to the side and helping me
01:01:57
nobody knew what i was talking about
01:02:02
but i knew that it was true
01:02:04
that god sent an angel to save me
01:02:06
[Music]
01:02:07
[Applause]
01:02:14
remarkably estellavera feels no
01:02:16
bitterness about the accident and with
01:02:18
the aid of a prosthesis estella has
01:02:20
already been able to walk again
01:02:23
are there angels among us
01:02:25
no matter what anyone else may think
01:02:27
estela vera firmly believes she is alive
01:02:30
today
01:02:30
because she was visited by a guardian
01:02:32
angel
01:02:36
when we return
01:02:38
a woman fighting a deadly disease needs
01:02:40
your help to find her long-lost sister
01:02:43
and police believe a mystery witness
01:02:45
holds the key to identifying a
01:02:47
cold-blooded killer
01:02:51
[Music]
01:03:00
for diane handline of block crescent of
01:03:02
california every day is a race against
01:03:04
time
01:03:07
the rare and often fatal blood disease
01:03:09
she has been fighting since 1986 has
01:03:11
finally reached the crisis point
01:03:15
hello diane how are you doing hi doc
01:03:18
this procedure is going to take about
01:03:20
five or ten minutes you may be a little
01:03:22
uncomfortable uh before the biopsy is
01:03:24
done
01:03:25
how uncomfortable
01:03:27
it's going to hurt but it won't take
01:03:28
long
01:03:29
diane has a relatively unusual blood
01:03:32
disorder normally
01:03:34
considered to be an incurable illness
01:03:36
now potentially
01:03:38
could be cured
01:03:40
by the utilization of a bone marrow
01:03:42
transplantation
01:03:44
fraught with a lot of dangers though a
01:03:45
lot of potential complications so not
01:03:48
not something to be taken lightly
01:03:52
in all the world this woman diane's
01:03:54
younger sister marilyn is the only
01:03:56
potential bone marrow donor who offers
01:03:59
any chance of success
01:04:01
but diane has no idea where marilyn is
01:04:03
today
01:04:04
she hasn't even talked to her sister in
01:04:06
more than 20 years
01:04:09
i feel i'm asking a lot of my sister to
01:04:11
do this bone marrow for me but even if
01:04:14
she doesn't agree to a transplant if she
01:04:17
doesn't says i don't want to do this i
01:04:19
would still like to make peace with her
01:04:22
she's my sister
01:04:27
diane is three years older than maryland
01:04:30
they grew up in los angeles during the
01:04:32
1940s
01:04:35
we were post-war babies and we came from
01:04:37
a lot of property there wasn't any money
01:04:40
and our mother and father had to work
01:04:41
you know a lot of long hours
01:04:44
we were like most children we fought and
01:04:46
bickered and
01:04:48
didn't want to do the housework
01:04:50
you know you do that no you do that and
01:04:52
i don't think it hurt us but i think
01:04:54
that it she resented that
01:04:58
all right
01:05:00
come on baby let's go okay
01:05:02
diane and marilyn's parents separated in
01:05:04
1954
01:05:06
yeah ready i'm ready
01:05:09
ultimately marilyn went to live with her
01:05:11
father
01:05:12
bye bye
01:05:14
[Music]
01:05:18
girl after my sister moved in with my
01:05:20
dad i saw my sister maybe like once a
01:05:23
month
01:05:25
but as time went on it became more
01:05:26
infrequent
01:05:28
and
01:05:29
i just think because she went with dad
01:05:31
and i went with mom that we
01:05:33
we separated i mean we just lost our we
01:05:36
didn't do our activities or anything
01:05:37
together anymore
01:05:43
years passed with little contact
01:05:46
in 1965 diane visited her sister at the
01:05:49
restaurant where she worked place never
01:05:51
stops
01:05:52
tits are okay though so how you doing
01:05:55
well
01:05:56
met a new guy yeah
01:05:58
marilyn said she was in love she planned
01:06:01
to marry a man who had several children
01:06:03
from a previous marriage
01:06:05
yeah
01:06:06
crazy about him
01:06:11
neither sister realized the brief visit
01:06:14
would be the last time they would see
01:06:15
each other face to face
01:06:18
eight years later they did speak briefly
01:06:20
on the phone michael marilyn told diane
01:06:23
that she had a little boy named billy
01:06:25
joe
01:06:25
billy joe
01:06:27
it's good
01:06:28
the sisters talked about getting
01:06:30
together but time drifted by and they
01:06:32
never spoke again
01:06:35
bye-bye
01:06:41
in january of 1994 diane hired private
01:06:44
investigator marilyn gannell to find her
01:06:46
sister
01:06:48
well it's like a needle in a haystack
01:06:50
because without a name you have nothing
01:06:52
to pin your investigation on
01:06:55
we have tried certain things with the
01:06:58
use of her maiden name and her first
01:07:00
married name
01:07:02
and of course her maiden name is jones
01:07:04
which makes it extremely difficult
01:07:06
there's no paucity of jones available
01:07:10
hello how are you fine how are you
01:07:12
doctor pretty good with every passing
01:07:14
day diane's treatments become less and
01:07:16
less effective
01:07:18
yes
01:07:19
her search more and more vital in the
01:07:22
morning
01:07:23
any bleeding easy bruising
01:07:26
i'm having more bruising now
01:07:28
diane is a an unusual person she has a
01:07:31
very strong will
01:07:33
she's very optimistic
01:07:35
she's really
01:07:36
so to speak already beaten the odds by
01:07:38
getting this far
01:07:40
i think i'm still here
01:07:42
after all these years is because i don't
01:07:45
think that my life should be over with
01:07:47
yet you know i have a i had a daughter
01:07:49
to finish raising
01:07:50
to go to college
01:07:52
and i'd like to see her get married and
01:07:54
have babies and i just don't feel like
01:07:56
checking out of here yet but i think i'm
01:07:57
going to pretty soon if i don't do
01:07:59
something fast
01:08:02
when we broadcast diane's story a
01:08:04
private investigator from denver
01:08:06
colorado robin lee was watching
01:08:08
she was touched by diane's plight but
01:08:10
assumed we would get the clues we needed
01:08:12
we didn't
01:08:14
as luck would have it robin was also
01:08:15
watching when the segment re-ran in june
01:08:18
this time she decided to volunteer her
01:08:20
help in tracking marilyn down
01:08:22
the result was one of our most unusual
01:08:25
solves ever
01:08:26
i contacted the show
01:08:28
got a little more information
01:08:31
started out with the sister's name
01:08:33
marilyn jones was her maiden name
01:08:35
started with that and a date of birth
01:08:37
and went on from there
01:08:40
and it took me about three days to find
01:08:42
her three working days if you don't
01:08:43
count the fourth of july holiday
01:08:45
in between
01:08:47
and i think it's great that they're back
01:08:49
together
01:08:49
[Music]
01:08:51
on august 13 1994 marilyn and diane met
01:08:55
face to face for the first time in 30
01:08:57
years
01:08:58
[Music]
01:09:01
it's so good to see you
01:09:04
once we hugged it was like it hadn't
01:09:07
been 30 years it had been
01:09:09
you know just a short time
01:09:12
i
01:09:14
i guess maybe that's why i feel
01:09:15
comfortable is because
01:09:16
i can feel the love
01:09:19
and when you feel that love you feel
01:09:20
comfortable get over you haven't changed
01:09:22
a bit oh no
01:09:23
[Laughter]
01:09:25
no i'm just i get cuter with ages
01:09:28
yes you do i think i'm still in shock
01:09:31
you know it's still like i you know i'm
01:09:32
not here yet it's just it's just a dream
01:09:35
you know but it's it's a great dream and
01:09:38
we have a lot of catching up to do and i
01:09:40
will be together forever now
01:09:42
we're gonna have a lot of fun together
01:09:44
enjoy the time we have
01:09:48
that beautiful
01:09:50
coincidentally the day of the reunion
01:09:52
was diane's 53rd birthday
01:09:54
and marilyn had not forgotten
01:09:58
is my name is spelled right
01:10:05
this is the best gift i've ever had in
01:10:07
my whole life this is the best gift ever
01:10:10
is to have my sister and to have my
01:10:12
family
01:10:13
for my birthday
01:10:15
it'll be the best birthday i've ever had
01:10:16
my whole life
01:10:19
we drive 60 miles to go on the day of
01:10:22
the reunion marilla's fondest wish was
01:10:24
to prove a compatible bone marrow donor
01:10:27
for her sister
01:10:28
drive to go to the movies out to the
01:10:30
movies we have to go all the way to
01:10:31
canada
01:10:32
[Laughter]
01:10:35
i want more than anything to have this
01:10:37
work with diane
01:10:40
but even if it doesn't we're going to
01:10:43
take full advantage of
01:10:45
however long
01:10:47
we do have together
01:10:49
we can make a week seem like an eternity
01:10:53
[Music]
01:10:59
as it turned out a series of tests
01:11:00
showed maryland's bone marrow would not
01:11:02
work for diane
01:11:03
but there is a ray of hope
01:11:05
doctors are now moving on to a new
01:11:07
experimental therapy for diane's blood
01:11:09
disorder
01:11:10
in the meantime she and marilyn are
01:11:12
making the most of their precious newly
01:11:14
kindled relationship
01:11:16
[Music]
01:11:29
january 24 1987 a deputy sheriff named
01:11:33
charlie anderson was gunned down on his
01:11:34
burbank california home
01:11:37
the next day an anonymous witness phoned
01:11:39
the burbank police claiming to know the
01:11:41
identity of the killer
01:11:42
but the caller obviously nervous hung up
01:11:45
before revealing any information he
01:11:47
never called back
01:11:49
authorities hope that tonight seven
01:11:51
years later this mystery witness will
01:11:53
finally come forward and solve the
01:11:55
murder of charlie anderson
01:12:00
charlie anderson was a 14-year veteran
01:12:02
of the los angeles county sheriff's
01:12:04
department
01:12:08
he distinguished himself as a highly
01:12:10
skilled driver teaching hundreds of
01:12:12
officers how to handle themselves and
01:12:14
their vehicles in dangerous situations
01:12:17
[Applause]
01:12:18
charlie was probably one of the most
01:12:21
talented drivers that i've ever met
01:12:24
it was a natural town for him
01:12:28
charlie was able to get along with
01:12:29
everybody
01:12:30
he um
01:12:31
was serious on the job made a good sense
01:12:33
of humor when he was around
01:12:35
the rest of the staff
01:12:39
by all accounts charlie anderson was
01:12:41
also a dedicated father never too busy
01:12:44
to spend evenings and weekends with his
01:12:46
two sons
01:12:47
charlie didn't seem to have an enemy in
01:12:49
the world
01:12:50
until the early hours of january 24th
01:12:53
1987.
01:12:57
charlie's wife beth told police that
01:12:59
around midnight she charlie and their
01:13:01
two young sons return home from a visit
01:13:04
to her parents
01:13:05
[Music]
01:13:08
oh yeah well i'll go ahead and bring him
01:13:10
upstairs and then i'll come back for you
01:13:11
and maybe okay thanks
01:13:14
they arrived home
01:13:15
and because mrs anderson was suffering
01:13:17
from a back injury
01:13:19
her husband offered to go inside the
01:13:21
house with her oldest boy first
01:13:24
he asked her to wait in the car
01:13:26
and she did so
01:13:28
charlie anderson went in the house
01:13:31
with the oldest son
01:13:33
and we believe took him upstairs
01:13:37
a few moments later mrs anderson heard
01:13:39
what sounded like backfires from where
01:13:42
she was parked in the driveway she was
01:13:43
still seated in the car
01:13:47
because the sound was unusual she walked
01:13:49
to the house and called in to see if
01:13:50
there was anything wrong
01:13:52
[Music]
01:13:58
charlie
01:14:00
[Music]
01:14:04
charlie
01:14:07
[Music]
01:14:09
honey are you up here
01:14:14
charlie
01:14:16
honey
01:14:17
charlie can you hear me
01:14:18
[Music]
01:14:23
she ran downstairs
01:14:25
picked up her younger son
01:14:27
and random next door neighbor's house
01:14:28
[Music]
01:14:38
initially the detectives believe that it
01:14:40
was the house was being burglarized and
01:14:42
that mr anderson had interrupted the
01:14:44
burglary and it confronted the suspects
01:14:49
one of the things that was not
01:14:50
consistent with the burglary was the
01:14:52
suspect had very carefully moved items
01:14:55
normally in a burglary these suspects or
01:14:58
the burglars are working very quickly
01:15:00
they'll pull out a drawer and dump the
01:15:01
entire drawer just to examine all the
01:15:03
contents at once
01:15:04
what
01:15:05
the investigators found was that
01:15:08
the drawers had been either pulled out
01:15:10
partially or carefully pulled out and
01:15:12
maybe one item removed
01:15:14
and when they felt that that was
01:15:16
inconsistent with most burglary scenes
01:15:18
that they had seen
01:15:22
there were other telltale signs that the
01:15:24
burglary had been staged
01:15:26
[Music]
01:15:29
while they had selected certain items
01:15:31
and placed them together to be taken
01:15:33
from the house
01:15:34
they had overlooked other items that
01:15:36
were much more valuable that were in
01:15:37
plain sight
01:15:39
this led to a second theory that this
01:15:41
might have been someone that
01:15:43
perhaps knew deputy anderson that
01:15:45
confronted him shot him
01:15:49
charlie's sister trish believes that is
01:15:51
exactly what happened
01:15:52
she was at the scene that night called
01:15:54
by a neighbor
01:15:56
but what really surprised me was the
01:15:58
look on his face
01:16:00
he had to look
01:16:01
a wide-eyed look as if he'd been shocked
01:16:05
or betrayed
01:16:07
it's something that
01:16:08
lingers with me today
01:16:12
was charlie anderson ambushed by someone
01:16:14
he knew
01:16:15
someone who dressed up a cold-blooded
01:16:17
murder to look like a random burglary
01:16:19
gone wrong
01:16:21
in the end evidence that the crime scene
01:16:23
was ambiguous
01:16:25
the only identifiable fingerprints were
01:16:27
all from members of the family
01:16:30
police were left with a murder victim
01:16:32
and virtually no leads
01:16:33
until the mysterious phone call one day
01:16:36
later
01:16:37
what you were about to hear is a
01:16:38
reenactment of that conversation taken
01:16:41
directly from police transcripts
01:16:44
burbank police department may help you
01:16:46
uh yes may i speak to the officer in
01:16:48
charge please uh sure we're regarding
01:16:51
what type of incident
01:16:52
this is some
01:16:54
information that might lead to the
01:16:56
killer that uh shot the deputy sheriff
01:17:00
okay wait a minute hang on just a second
01:17:03
at that time the investigator handling
01:17:06
the case was in the station
01:17:08
and he was called to the dispatch area
01:17:11
so he could speak with the person that
01:17:12
had called in
01:17:13
i know who did the shooting okay the
01:17:16
watch commander's on his way down here
01:17:18
to answer the phone okay i can't wait
01:17:20
too long
01:17:21
okay here's the detective handling the
01:17:23
case right now hang on just a second
01:17:26
hi there
01:17:27
what can i do for you is this being
01:17:28
recorded yes it is i i can't speak to
01:17:32
you if this is recorded okay why don't i
01:17:34
give you the number of my office where
01:17:36
it is not recorded i'm not gonna lie to
01:17:38
you okay i don't like recordings the man
01:17:40
on the line was very very nervous he was
01:17:42
very concerned about his voice being
01:17:43
taped about him being the call being
01:17:46
traced or in any way
01:17:48
the police identifying who he was
01:17:50
i'm not playing around
01:17:52
the call could not be routed to an
01:17:54
unrecorded line
01:17:55
the detective had to ask the witness to
01:17:57
hang up and call again okay well as i
01:18:00
said you're gonna have to give me about
01:18:01
two minutes to get back to my office all
01:18:03
right okay the man readily agreed
01:18:06
but the phone call never came
01:18:13
on january 31st 1987 charlie anderson
01:18:17
was laid to rest with a full honors
01:18:19
reserve for officers killed in the line
01:18:21
of duty
01:18:22
since then lack of evidence has dragged
01:18:24
the investigation to a standstill
01:18:28
seven years after the murder of charlie
01:18:30
anderson authorities are still searching
01:18:32
for the unidentified caller
01:18:39
we feel it's very very important to
01:18:40
locate this caller
01:18:42
because he was concerned enough to call
01:18:44
us right at the beginning of the
01:18:45
investigation he has never been
01:18:47
identified and we're very very
01:18:49
interested in speaking to him to find
01:18:51
out what he does know about this case
01:18:53
[Music]
01:19:07
next a woman's search for her birth
01:19:09
parents draws her into the exotic world
01:19:11
of the traveling carnival
01:19:13
[Music]
01:19:23
for most of us a night at the carnival
01:19:26
offers thrills chills and an
01:19:28
old-fashioned good time
01:19:29
[Music]
01:19:32
but for brenda abbey a 45 year old
01:19:34
mother of three from chester virginia
01:19:36
this frenzied magic promises much more
01:19:39
the solution to her own personal
01:19:42
unsolved mystery
01:19:45
brenda was adopted as an infant she
01:19:47
knows little about her biological
01:19:49
parents except their names and that they
01:19:51
worked for the settlement and wilson
01:19:53
traveling carnival almost 50 years ago
01:19:57
every time i hear over the news that
01:19:59
there's a carnival
01:20:00
i will go
01:20:02
and i go up to every booth
01:20:05
every concession
01:20:07
i go up to every person that's employed
01:20:09
by that carnival and i look
01:20:12
at them just to see if i can find
01:20:13
somebody that looks like me
01:20:16
in april of 1949 brenda was adopted by
01:20:20
sulein and thelma ziemer of petersburg
01:20:22
virginia
01:20:24
when she was 16 brenda found out that
01:20:26
her birth parents had been with a
01:20:28
settlement and wilson carnival
01:20:31
in 1983 brenda developed a serious
01:20:34
health problem
01:20:35
because of her acute need for a family
01:20:37
medical history virginia officials
01:20:39
released a copy of brenda's birth
01:20:41
certificate
01:20:42
[Music]
01:20:44
her biological parents were elizabeth
01:20:46
hansen and walter dean perry
01:20:49
brenda was stunned to learn she had two
01:20:51
siblings
01:20:52
but for brenda's search the most
01:20:54
important clue was her birth father's
01:20:56
occupation
01:20:58
my father was a representative of the
01:21:00
[ __ ] review
01:21:02
[Music]
01:21:04
possibly my father was a barker where he
01:21:07
goes out there and he tries to get
01:21:08
people to come in to see the
01:21:10
midgets in their show tonight you're
01:21:12
gonna regret it tomorrow this show
01:21:14
starts the pieces of the puzzle were
01:21:15
falling into place
01:21:18
brenda set out to find everything she
01:21:19
could on the settlin at wilson carnival
01:21:24
i looked in the newspapers
01:21:26
back in 1948
01:21:29
and i did come across the announcements
01:21:31
of setlin and wilson
01:21:33
and i found a group of midgets that were
01:21:36
called singers midgets
01:21:38
and i know the whole library heard me
01:21:40
because i said i found them i found them
01:21:43
[Music]
01:21:45
finally brenda abbey had a tangible clue
01:21:48
that led straight to the carnival
01:21:50
circuit
01:21:51
last month we joined brenda in virginia
01:21:53
to experience her search hand
01:21:56
the excitement of each promising lead
01:21:58
and the heartache of near misses and
01:22:00
dead ends
01:22:03
how long have you been he went to
01:22:04
carnival
01:22:06
[Music]
01:22:07
brenda visits every carnival that passes
01:22:09
within 200 miles of her hometown
01:22:12
are they with the carnival nope no
01:22:15
nobody is but me i'm the black sheep
01:22:18
old-timers like joe stevenson a 60-year
01:22:21
veteran of the carnival offer rare
01:22:23
glimpses into a strange and exotic world
01:22:25
that's right uh do you have to remember
01:22:28
if this woman had been pregnant at the
01:22:29
time we made a language
01:22:32
like just vowels switched around
01:22:35
like you got here light lives light
01:22:38
kia zambra camera joe g.o g zone
01:22:43
i could say leo zuki is that d is that
01:22:45
me as ann you don't know what i'm
01:22:47
speaking i said look at that man
01:22:49
we're speaking what is known as connie
01:22:52
well i worked as uh sometimes as the
01:22:55
alligator girl i worked as the world's
01:22:57
strangest mother
01:23:00
and i had to go up on a stage and talk
01:23:02
to the public
01:23:04
a lot of them had to live in wagons
01:23:06
underneath wagons and things like that
01:23:08
in the old days
01:23:10
they don't do that today but they used
01:23:12
to have to do it
01:23:14
because they didn't make enough
01:23:16
hopefully i'm going to ring a bell one
01:23:18
day with one of these people and they're
01:23:20
going to know my parents
01:23:23
simply by
01:23:24
what i tell them about the
01:23:26
[ __ ] review they might remember
01:23:29
somebody
01:23:30
but this is what i do i keep hoping that
01:23:32
somebody in the carnival that's old
01:23:34
enough to remember will remember
01:23:38
they're the original singer midgets yeah
01:23:40
before chess calls yeah i remember him
01:23:43
he was the tuba player in the band
01:23:46
they had the smallest [ __ ] in the
01:23:48
world what was her name remember
01:23:50
they never bought out on the front they
01:23:52
paid that extra yeah
01:23:53
she's right there that was margie mom
01:23:55
got margie
01:23:57
that's you
01:23:58
this is the group i'll tell you about
01:24:00
that had to cook uh-huh and she
01:24:02
remembered the lady's name like i do but
01:24:04
the only thing we know for a brief
01:24:06
instant brenda thought joe and the
01:24:08
others had actually known her birth
01:24:10
mother
01:24:12
well
01:24:13
was she
01:24:14
20
01:24:15
four no more she's a young second woman
01:24:17
then wasn't she
01:24:19
she was just old lady he doesn't feel
01:24:21
that she could have been my mother
01:24:23
because her age would have made her he
01:24:24
said he was just joking said two
01:24:26
thousand years old by now so it
01:24:28
definitely could not have been my mother
01:24:29
my mother was supposedly 24
01:24:32
when she had me
01:24:34
so
01:24:35
but joe said that
01:24:37
quite possibly it might be
01:24:39
mamalee's daughter
01:24:42
but there again who knows when it's
01:24:44
another avenue i'll have to travel
01:24:49
it was a singer's
01:24:51
first what year were you born that would
01:24:53
have been
01:24:55
okay 1949
01:24:58
brenda did uncover one exciting lead
01:25:01
the phone number for a man named ward
01:25:03
hall a prominent booking agent for east
01:25:06
coast carnival side shows
01:25:08
we were there when brenda called him
01:25:12
ward hall knew carnival people going
01:25:15
back some 50 years
01:25:16
but he had never heard of brenda's birth
01:25:18
parents
01:25:21
i really thought he was my answer i
01:25:23
really did i had a lot of faith in that
01:25:25
phone call
01:25:27
and i'm a little disappointed
01:25:29
i really am not because he couldn't give
01:25:31
me the answer i wanted
01:25:33
but just because he didn't have it
01:25:36
we're going over to the department of
01:25:38
social services uh
01:25:41
in richmond
01:25:42
and over there they have uh
01:25:46
identifying information
01:25:48
the
01:25:49
just before we traveled to virginia a
01:25:51
judge had granted brenda access to her
01:25:54
sealed adoption papers
01:25:57
we were not allowed to film in the
01:25:59
archives but our cameras were on hand
01:26:01
when brenda emerged
01:26:03
the documents finally revealed where her
01:26:05
birth parents had gone after the
01:26:07
adoption
01:26:08
i got it
01:26:10
alaska
01:26:12
and it's all the identifying information
01:26:14
building
01:26:15
everything
01:26:19
and there's two different names
01:26:21
[Music]
01:26:23
i've got a w.l parry then i have a wd
01:26:26
pairing
01:26:27
they said it could be a typographical
01:26:29
era but maybe not
01:26:31
they're just not sure
01:26:35
[Music]
01:26:39
despite the information in the adoption
01:26:41
records it turns out that the settlement
01:26:43
and wilson carnival never once traveled
01:26:45
to alaska
01:26:47
nor has brenda found any evidence that
01:26:49
her biological parents moved to alaska
01:26:52
on their own
01:26:54
perhaps the next carnival will yield the
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clue that finally leads brenda to her
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birth parents
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i want to find my parents and my
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siblings
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more than anything in the world
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i want to tell my mother before she dies
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i don't think she did anything wrong
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i think she did what she had to do
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and i really can understand it
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i have a heart big enough to understand
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that
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update during a search has spanned 30
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years brenda talked with countless
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old-timers are they with the carnival
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nope no
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each had a story to tell and some even
01:27:41
offered suggestions but not one claimed
01:27:44
to know elizabeth hansen or walter perry
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inevitably as each carnival was packing
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up and hitting the road brenda abbey was
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left behind no closer to finding her
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birth parents
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it seems she might finally be out of
01:28:00
options until the night of our broadcast
01:28:04
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the response was far greater than even
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brenda had hoped for
01:28:11
not only did her birth mother call our
01:28:13
phone center but so did a sister and a
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brother then another sister
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additional calls were logged in from
01:28:20
friends of still more siblings
01:28:25
brenda abbey was saddened to learn that
01:28:26
her birth father had died in 1959
01:28:30
but she was thrilled to discover a total
01:28:31
of 11 brothers and sisters
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one of them martha oak of saint claire
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shores michigan hosted a reunion in
01:28:38
august of 1994.
01:28:40
although brenda's birth mother was
01:28:42
unable to attend brenda finally met four
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of her long-lost brothers and sisters
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face to face
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as hostess for the celebration martha
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was the first to welcome brenda
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hi brandon
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a brother thomas chillock flew in from
01:29:06
louisiana 1 000 miles away
01:29:13
another sister susan donner came in from
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port clinton ohio
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brenda's brother frank smith grew up in
01:29:26
greenwood mississippi like brenda he
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never imagined he had so many siblings
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i did my own search
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and kept running into dead ends and
01:29:39
finally gave up and uh
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when i found out about this it was
01:29:43
incredible
01:29:45
it's amazing it's unbelievable
01:29:47
totally unbelievable
01:29:49
it's funny to actually walk up to people
01:29:51
and
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touch their skin and know that they're
01:29:55
related
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the get-together in michigan promises to
01:29:59
be just the first of many and and
01:30:06
plans are already underway for the next
01:30:08
reunion
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these are my flesh and blood and it's
01:30:12
something nobody can take away from me
01:30:14
that's right
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and it's such a great feeling
01:30:19
it was worth
01:30:20
the 30 years
01:30:22
that it took me to do this
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01:30:48
in just a few weeks an exciting new
01:30:50
season of unsolved mysteries will begin
01:30:53
here's a sampling
01:30:56
in the late 1960s thousands of curiosity
01:30:59
seekers flocked to see the iceman was it
01:31:02
a hoax or perhaps a prehistoric cousin
01:31:05
of man
01:31:07
novelist agatha christie was a queen of
01:31:09
mystery but how many of us know that in
01:31:12
1926 agatha took center stage in her own
01:31:16
real-life mystery
01:31:19
twenty-one-year-old tommy burkett died
01:31:21
in 1991 an apparent suicide
01:31:24
now his parents have pieced together a
01:31:26
shocking scenario of murder and intrigue
01:31:30
from the realm of the unexplained
01:31:32
a bold of lightning sends a young man on
01:31:35
an incredible journey to the brink of
01:31:37
death and back
01:31:40
and follow a team of real-life
01:31:41
ghostbusters as they track down an
01:31:43
elusive spirit at a haunted hotel in
01:31:46
santa fe new mexico
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01:31:49
join me starting later in september for
01:31:52
four special sunday broadcasts
01:31:54
and then in october during our new time
01:31:57
period fridays at 8.
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