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tonight on unsolved mysteries most
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people would go to great lengths to
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avoid the fiery pain of obesity most but
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not all meet two women with multiple
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sclerosis were convinced at the venom of
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honeybees have been their salvation
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after 10 years of scandal and
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controversy the notorious preppy rape
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case ended in a hung jury now Alex Kelly
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son of wealth and privilege awaits the
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start of his retrial in a special
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demonstration we'll examine a key piece
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of evidence that apparently helped
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decide the outcome for Jamie Santos the
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benefits of exotic dancing always
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outweighed the risks then Jamie was
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found murdered in her apartment
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incredibly police believe the killer
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himself may have reported the crime in
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Nevada a forest ranger and his family
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are targeted at simmering hostilities
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over federal land use erupted into
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violence
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also they were separated as young
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children on the other side of the
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Atlantic nearly 50 years lately they've
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been reunited here in the United States
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jointly perhaps you hold the key perhaps
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you may be able to help solve a mystery
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[Music]
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there is no mistaking the sound a quiet
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thunder of bees unless you're in the
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honey business you undoubtedly avoid any
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person-to-person contact with bees
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however to some people honey bees are
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miniature flying drugstores dispensaries
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of miracle cures you're about to meet
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two women who say they've experienced
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the miracle both have multiple sclerosis
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or MS a crippling disease of the nervous
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system whose complications can be fatal
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both have reversed the course of MS
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through a controversial treatment known
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as bee venom therapy literally stinging
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themselves with honey bees
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Kelly Ames was in high school when a
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mess first crept into her life by the
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time Kelly was 22 her symptoms became
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impossible to ignore one day I was in
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work and I was walking down a flight of
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stairs they must have been like 12
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stairs where I just lost the feeling in
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my feet like all of a sudden and I fell
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down a flight of stairs and the women in
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my office were like wow you know I
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explained to them that my feet sometimes
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getting numb medical tests revealed a
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cruel truth Kelly had MS the unforgiving
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disease first robbed her of the ability
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to walk alone before long MS was
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attacking her eyes it's like it took
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over my life
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but then that week I lost the vision in
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my left eye and I had no control over my
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muscles it was just very devastating I
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hated to depend on other people but at
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times I need to have the people to help
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me Kelly's doctor put her on steroids
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these potent drugs can temporarily
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relieve the symptoms of MS but no drug
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can stop its advance having the steroid
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dripped into my arm I would sit there
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for an hour and a half looking at other
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MS people coming in in a wheelchairs and
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wondering if that's gonna be me some day
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you know in that wheelchair then Kelly
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met a woman would literally walked away
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from her wheelchair after systematically
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stinging herself with honeybees for
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Kelly Ames it was a last ray of hope
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Kelly's father brought her to a local
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beekeeper who had been helping MS
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patients for years he was happy to
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donate the honeybees the rest would be
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up to Kelly he told me that he didn't
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want to be bothered by me if I wasn't
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serious about it he says you have to do
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this for six months treat every other
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day faithfully increase it by two every
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other day until you get to 20 and he
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scared me when he said that because I
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realized that I really had to take the
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responsibility of sticking to this and I
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did Kelly and her boyfriend set up a
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morning routine he placed the bees of
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specific spots on Kelly's body spots for
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nerves running to the damaged areas are
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most accessible for Kelly's failing
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eyesight that was behind the ear these
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were also positioned on Kelly's lower
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back to treat the weakness in her legs
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the bees were left in place for as long
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as 15 minutes to allow all their venom
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to penetrate Kelly skin ms had so
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ravished Kelly's nervous system that she
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stung herself several hundred times
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before actually feeling the full wallop
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of a sting I could actually feel what a
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bee sting felt like and hit hurt it
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really hurt I was screaming I had my
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head in my pillow and I was screaming
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and I was screaming because I was happy
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because I could fail again I knew that
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this therapy was starting to work
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because within a week my eyesight
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started to slowly come back I didn't
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depend on my cane as much and right then
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and there I just knew finally this was
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kicking in and it was working for me I
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know Kelly Ames and her situation is a
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perfect example of how bee venom therapy
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helps ms she was not doing well and when
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she started her bee venom therapy it had
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a clear difference in her symptoms and
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her outlook on life
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do you think your nomina in that area
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okay okay what I'm gonna do is grab the
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be part of the body today Kelly Ames
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teaches bee venom therapy to others in
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the grip of multiple sclerosis some
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doctors dismiss the therapy is little
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better than voodoo
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Kelly's remarkable recovery is hardly
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unique when I decided to do
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bee venom therapy we kind of kept it a
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little hush-hush because I didn't know
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what other people's reactions would be I
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know what they have reactions from my
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doctors were so I figured you know well
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we'll keep it a little quiet
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Maureen Norton began to experience the
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symptoms of MS shortly after the birth
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of her second child she was seized by a
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tingling pins and needles sensation in
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her legs that made walking nearly
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impossible it was very scary I just kind
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of pictured my myself in a wheelchair
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holding my little baby and my son along
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the side you know I didn't I didn't want
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that but that was right where Maureen
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was headed
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then she started be venom therapy
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I was always afraid of bees and about
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being stung but I just felt that this
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was my only answer
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a beekeeper who lived nearby agreed to
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teach Maureen the fine art of beer
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angling how to grab its bristly neck and
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coerce it to jab its stinger at
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precisely the right location I was told
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this thing I read enough happier foot
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right here okay where the time Laureen
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got started with bee stings a mess had
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numbed her feet so thoroughly she could
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hardly sense they were there to the
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touch
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Lorraine's feet were icy blue cold okay
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I think that's long enough
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within minutes my foot was warm you
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could feel the venom going through in
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the blood like you know there was life
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in my foot again it was just an
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incredible feeling I knew right from
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that moment that something good was
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happening and I felt that this was going
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to help me how much did it help
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this photograph of Maureen and her son
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was taken six weeks after she began the
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sting therapy
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Maureen has just crossed the finish line
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in a seven mile MS walkathon
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three weeks later Maureen was prancing
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across the dance floor at a party
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celebrating her spectacular recovery
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today I'm very active person I haven't
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had any attacks sometimes depending if
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the stress gets too much in my life that
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you know I'll get some pins and needles
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feelings in my hands or in my right knee
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I immediately just take my B's out and
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I'll give myself a couple of stings and
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the feelings gone should we prize bees
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for their sting as well as their honey
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mainstream science has hardly begun to
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address the question well some doctors
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believe bee venom therapy is far too
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promising to be ignored at first it may
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be easy to dismiss bee venom therapy the
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fact is it sounds a little kooky
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however in studying about bee venom
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there are certain substances which make
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sense in multiple sclerosis therapy we
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know that the immune system is involved
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and of course a neurologic system is
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involved therefore be venom which has
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components which affect both the immune
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system and neurologic system is a
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natural substance which seems to have
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some effects in MS skeptics might argue
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that improvements reported by B
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advocates are in reality the periodic
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remissions typical of MS
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but Kelly Ames has convinced her
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progress is a direct result of bee venom
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therapy I stopped doing the therapy for
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a couple of weeks and I felt myself
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sliding back I felt some symptoms coming
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on again and it scared me
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so right away I grabbed a bee I stung
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myself a couple of times and within
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seconds I could feel it go throughout my
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body and stimulate my muscles and make
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me much stronger so right then and there
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I know I'm not in remission it's time
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for physicians and the medical community
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to take a serious look at whether bee
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venom may relieve the suffering of some
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of our patients estimates are that as
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many as 10,000 MS patients are currently
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using bee venom therapy proponents also
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claim success in treating arthritis and
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chronic fatigue syndrome recently the
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multiple sclerosis Association of
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America began funding major scientific
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research on this controversial treatment
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the experts do have one warning roughly
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one person in 25 is deathly allergic to
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honey bee stings anyone considering this
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treatment should consult a physician
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coming up last November the rape trial
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of Alex Kelly ended in a hung jury now
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we put a critical defense claim to the
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test
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also when a popular exotic dancer is
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murdered the only clue is an anonymous
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call to 911 first a u.s. forest ranger
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searches for the unknown bomber who
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attacked his family
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March 31st 1995 Carson City Nevada u.s.
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Forest Service ranger guide pence was
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called to work just after dawn an
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explosion had ripped through his office
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the night before do you have any idea
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what kind of bomb this was the FBI
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initially believed the bomber had
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targeted the building not any particular
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employees guy pence suspected otherwise
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I really always thought that it was
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aimed as a direct statement to me now it
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may be aimed as a direct statement to me
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as a district Ranger or as a federal
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employee and not so much at me
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specifically why would guy pence for the
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Forest Service be a target perhaps
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because they are on the front line of a
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war most of us don't even know about
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some call it the sagebrush rebellion an
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informal alliance of people opposed to
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federal control of local public lands
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for most of this century ranchers
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loggers and miners have had permits that
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gave them access to huge tracts of that
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land in some families those permits have
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been handed down through five
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generations over a long history we've
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always had conflicts over natural
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resource management and that can be
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conflicts over grazing timber harvests
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recreation to accommodate all users and
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protect the diminishing resources the
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u.s. Forest Service began to restrict
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private use as district Ranger it was up
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to guide pens to make sure everyone
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complied with the new rules everybody on
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the district across the board is going
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to make a 20% cut
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well I reckon we've been through worse
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we'll handle this one too most people
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didn't like it but they went alone
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however son saw a guy pens himself is
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the inner you wind up with 22 extra
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tomorrow just bring it back up on your
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own and we'll just call it good I don't
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think that's the case we're running the
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whole herd through Michael we went
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through this we said 800 and you said
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you weren't gonna give me any trouble
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about it I don't think that's the case
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died making a mistake park guide pet
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says seems like this had become a
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regular part of his job similar
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conflicts all over the West what
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originally gave rise to the sagebrush
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ribbon the issue that we have here is
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these people have a right to graze
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forage they have a right to mine
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minerals they have a right to harvest
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trim timber and the bureaucrats have
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exceeded their authority in some way or
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trying to stop them one way or the other
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and we are standing up as county
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governments to protect their rights
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ironically many of the people opposed to
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the new federal rules are local elected
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leaders like commissioner carver
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however they to say they are dismayed by
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violent acts like the bombing of Pence's
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office we were devastated by it the
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first thing we did is notified our
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County Sheriff's Department to put extra
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patrol on on all the federal agency
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employees in my County we posted
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$100,000 bond we want to put a stop to
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it as bad as anybody else four months
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after the bombing any question about
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whether guy pens had been personally
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targeted was erased
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pence took a backcountry assignment he
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brought along his youngest daughter guys
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wife Linda stayed at home with her two
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older daughters it was August 4th 1995
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we had been making pickles which is a
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very hot job and lots of boiling water
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going on in the kitchen to add to the
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heat of the whole house and we were
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about finished and had rendered
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a movie and Morgan and I had got into
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the front room to get that started he
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sat down next to the windows yeah sure
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Coulter our oldest daughter was back in
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her bedroom at the back side of the
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house talking on the phone with a friend
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who's that what you didn't hear that
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what'd you hear I think I heard someone
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walking there or footsteps or something
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out there okay there's the buzzer for
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the pickles key grab them oh yeah
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when Linda looked outside she saw
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nothing unusual Thanks I went into the
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kitchen and Morgan said this is gonna
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take a few minutes I better go turn off
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the movie
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fortunately no one was hurt the homemade
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bomb had been placed directly beneath
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dye Pence's van the charred wreckage was
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an unmistakable message it's a very hard
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thought to accept that someone would try
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to kill your family there's absolutely
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no doubt in my mind that whoever did
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this knew my family wasn't home the
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windows were open the lights were on the
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TV was on my own daughter heard their
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footsteps and that they left a killing
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device and ran into the darkness I have
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a hard time comprehending how any human
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could do that like the first bombing
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there were a few solid clues and no
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suspects the FBI laboratory in
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Washington DC has advised us that these
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bombs are very similar in construction
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and most likely were manufactured by the
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same individual we're not looking for a
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sophisticated bomber in this particular
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case we're looking for someone who knows
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the basics and the basic use and
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application of explosives to make this
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bomb but if this was not a mastermind by
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any stretch of the imagination
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while the FBI continued searching for
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the person or persons responsible for
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both attacks guy Pence and his family
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have moved to another location he could
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have quit his job the guy chose to keep
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working for the Forest Service I think
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the stakes are very high those stakes
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are our natural resources those stakes
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belong to all of us 300 million
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Americans and those unborn today those
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are those resources belong to them it's
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extremely important to me that that the
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forces that support this kind of thing
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understand that this is not ever how you
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win that you only lose that's extremely
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important that this perpetrator be
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brought to justice so that everyone
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understands this is not how we solve our
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problems next a woman is reunited with
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their long-lost brother thanks to you
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our viewers
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and later a simple car seat mechanism
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plays a crucial role in the notorious
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preppy rape trial
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most of us would gladly spend a lifetime
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trying to find someone we love tonight's
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update took that and more it involves a
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search to span two continents two
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generations in almost half a century
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Plymouth England 1952 Helena Kurowski
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helped her five-year-old son prepare for
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a long journey
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Christopher was going to the United
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States with another family mr.
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Christopher
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my mother didn't really want to send him
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with somebody else but my father kept
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saying you know education education he's
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going to get a good education he's going
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to be able to start school so it was
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easier for him but my mother I guess
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being a woman it just tore at her heart
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it was only seven years after world war
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two refugees from Eastern Europe like
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Helena and her husband Apollinaire we
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desperately wanted a better life in
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America Christopher would live with
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friends until the karofsky's and their
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daughter Michelle could follow
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a few months later however the
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karofsky's changed their plans and
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decided to stay in England they wrote
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their friends in America asking them to
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send Christopher back they don't send
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the kurowsky stride every Avenue they
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could think of to have Christopher
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returned but there was nothing anyone
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could do the cows Keys never saw
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Christopher again in 1973 Apollinaire II
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died 20 years later Helena also passed
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away her last wish was that her children
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would someday be reunited I want to be
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able to tell him how much my mother left
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him how she never forgot him how - the
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day she died but she loved him after so
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many years we knew finding Michelle's
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brother might be a long shot in fact the
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story aired several times a little
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response but not long ago the right
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person was watching Keeley che Smith is
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on maternity leave
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he's Luthan Sen with the details thanks
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Bob as it turned out the critical viewer
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was Christopher's adoptive sister when
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she told him about Michelle search
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Christopher called our phone center he
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gave the operator specific details only
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Michelle's long-lost brother could have
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known a month later
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Christopher traveled from his home in
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upstate New York to Michelle's home
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outside Houston Texas it was a moment 44
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years in the making as I was waiting for
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Christopher to come and I was looking at
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the window I was wanting my mom to be
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here and wishing that she was here
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because she had dreamed of this
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long time I really can't describe how I
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felt
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it's I can't describe it it's too much
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for words all these years wandering
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hoping its body come true
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Kristopher introduced his wife Ellen
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then met Michelle's husband Derek her
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daughter Carrie and her granddaughters
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Kaley and Danielle it's just so hard to
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describe something else I've dreamt
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about God for it yeah 30 odd years and
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it's here it's yeah I still keep looking
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at him because I I can't believe it's
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actually happened Christopher and
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Michelle have a lot of catching up to do
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but they're already well on their way I
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never expected it to really happen but I
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always dreamed that maybe one day my
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turn will come
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and I would find my brother but dreams I
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guess they do come true
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coming up a beautiful young dancer is
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murdered and some believe the killer
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himself notified the police
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but first the trial of accused rapist
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Alex Kelly ended in a hung jury
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well independent testing validate the
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defense or the prosecution
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it was a trial ten years in the making
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the cases scandalizing captivated the
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national media last october alleged
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rapist Alex Kelly after nearly a decade
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on the run faced his accuser in court
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she is now a grown woman she claims it
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in February of 1986 just after her 16th
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birthday Alex Kelly raped her the trial
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ended with a jury hopelessly deadlocked
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tonight with a retrial on the horizon we
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will take a unique look at one of the
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pivotal issues in this case which may
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ultimately determine whether Alex Kelly
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could in fact be guilty as charged
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Darien Connecticut 40 miles northeast of
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New York City is one of the country's
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most affluent and exclusive communities
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Alex Kelly was one of darienne's
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brightest young men or the wealthy
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devoted family and a promising future in
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high school Kelly was a gifted wrestler
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with a trademark move the guillotine
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Alex Kelly was 18 years old when his
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perfect world came crashing down on
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February 10th 1986 he met the alleged
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victim during a party at this house at
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around 11:30 p.m. Kelly offered to take
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her home in his girlfriend's Jeep
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Wagoneer but according to the young
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woman Alex Kelly did not drive her home
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instead she claimed he pulled into this
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secluded cul-de-sac and proceeded to
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rape her four days later this time at
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the nearby stamford country club another
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party another young woman another
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accusation against Alex Kelly Kelly was
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arrested for both alleged rapes he
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denied the charges claiming at both
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incidents of an acts of consensual sex
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he was released on $200,000 bond pending
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the start of his trial
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but when jury selection commenced Alex
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Kelly was nowhere to be found over the
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next eight years he continually eluded
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the authorities then in July of 1994
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police and FBI agents raided the Kelly
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home in Connecticut and learned the
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surprising truth about Alex Kelly's
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years on the run Alex Kelly was leading
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the good life overseas he traveled all
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over his passport was stamped with you
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know just dozens of countries in and out
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of Greece and Sweden and France and all
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over the globe
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he spent a lot of his time at ski
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resorts living the highlife and you know
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he would write letters home talking
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about his hang gliding and his
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parasailing and and it went in one
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letter he even said I could live like
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this forever and he wasn't exactly
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suffering photographs in the kelley home
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showed Alex's parents visiting him while
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he was in hiding investigators also
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found a nun mail letter which revealed
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Kelly's address in Sweden so Alex knows
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that law enforcement closing in on him
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now tom Puccio is hired by the family as
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Alex's lawyer Puccio met with Alex in
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Europe to negotiate the terms of his
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surrender and it was shortly thereafter
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in January of 1995 that he's surrendered
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to Swiss authorities in May of 1995
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Kelly was extradited to the US he was
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arraigned on charges of sexual assault
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and kidnapping he was released on 1
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million dollars bond
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the trial for the first alleged rape
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commenced in October 1996 most days Alex
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Kelly arrived at court hand-in-hand with
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his old high-school girlfriend Amy
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Molitor the star witness was Kelly's
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alleged victim in riveting details she
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outlined the terror she said she had
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experienced at one point she said that
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his hand was on her neck the entire time
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before he pushed her into the back seat
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of the of the Jeep and at the moat at
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that time it just seemed like that this
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was her description of what happened and
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it didn't seem like this was any more
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piece of evidence than anything else and
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that this wasn't gonna mean anything
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more than anything else she was saying
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but it turned out quite differently
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defense attorney Thomas Puccio left to
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the attack if out is Kelly's hand had
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never left the victims throat it would
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have been impossible for him to both
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release and lower the backseat with his
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one free hand the case ended in a
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mistrial after the six-person jury
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deadlocked at 4:00 to convict and to to
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acquit later some of the jurors stated
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that the testimony about the seat latch
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had played a major role in the
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deliberations apparently leading some to
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believe a rape had never occurred the
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victim stated that he reached over and
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grabbed her by the throat he immediately
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put spread his legs over her body was
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choking her
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Connie Williams was one of the six
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jurors although he ultimately voted to
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convict he has lingering doubts as to
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how the crime might have been committed
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throat he reached around and at some
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point she heard a clicking noise the
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clicking noise was the lever being pull
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the lever is a spring-loaded device
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designed to be lifted and held up while
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a seat is pushed down as you can see
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there's no way that I can put this lever
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forward let's put in my hand forward
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and pulling in levers for it with both
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hand in the seat there was no way I can
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do it with one hand unsolved mysteries
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decided to put the defense claim to the
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test
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we asked failure analysis Associates an
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engineering consulting firm to conduct
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an impartial demonstration it's the case
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that you'll start the firm procured a
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1983 Jeep Wagoneer and hired two actors
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of physical characteristics similar to
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Alex Kelly and the young woman regarding
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the use of the seat match the actor
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portraying Kelly was simply told where
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the latch was and that it needed to be
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lifted to release the seat
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he was then told to simulate an attack
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and simultaneously lower the back seat
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using only one hand the test was
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repeated three times in each instance
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the actor successfully lowered the seat
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without difficulty quite surprising to
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me that he could physically move the
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latch so quickly and move the seat back
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so fast given the impression I had about
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the latch mechanism when I first
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observed the car what we're seeing in
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this car is because of the condition of
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this particular vehicle that it is
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possible to lift this latch and get it
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stuck on a exposed nut and bolt the test
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did however contain a built-in flaw in
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1986 the Wagoneer was just three years
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old the vehicle in the test was 13 years
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old the scientists believe a decade of
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wear may have weakened the latch so that
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it could be moved laterally
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to approximate the amount of wear on the
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latch at the time of the alleged
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incident failure analysis next brought
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in a 1990 Wagoneer one of the last years
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a model was manufactured the test was
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repeated with a simulated attack on four
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occasions the actor attempted to
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manipulate the latch and lower the seat
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with one hand only once on his second
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attempt and with a fair amount of
00:34:25
difficulty was he successful a simple
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conclusion that it's possible or not
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possible doesn't seem to be in the works
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but nevertheless we could probably say
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that with a with a vehicle that's in
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relatively new condition it's very hard
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to do with one hand although our our
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actor was managed to do it at one time
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so even there it's this event really
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surprised me I think that he could do
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that whether that seat could have been
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operated in the way the alleged victim
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described he's really dependent on the
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condition of the seat and the age of the
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vehicle and that's a primary factor in
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figuring out whether it could have
00:35:02
happened and that's something we'll
00:35:04
never know about the subject vehicle is
00:35:06
the condition of the seat in that
00:35:08
vehicle
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it should be noted that the subject
00:35:12
vehicle was not available for either the
00:35:14
court case or our demonstration it was
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reported stolen approximately three
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years after Alex Kelly was arrested
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when we return she was a beautiful and
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popular exotic dancer now the
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investigation into her murder hinges on
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a single question who called the police
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a Good Samaritan or the killer himself
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you are about to hear an actual 911 it
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was recorded by an emergency operator in
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Wheeling Illinois just north of Chicago
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the caller spoke from a payphone and
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refused to give his name
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police believe that he alone holds the
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key to solving a murder the anonymous
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caller was right 47 year-old Jamie
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Santos wasn't breathing she had been
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smothered with a pillow and nothing
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would ever revive her Jamie had lived
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just down the road from her family calls
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and visits were frequent holidays were
00:37:10
spent together she was just like a burst
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of energy when she walked in you knew
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she was there her presence just just
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radiates I think ultimately she just
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wanted to get married and have a family
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success was important to her I don't
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think she really had a handle on what
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she wanted to be successful at but
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ultimately it was children and family
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Jamie's aspirations may have been
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unremarkable Etape but you would never
00:37:40
have guessed it if you met her on the
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job
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[Applause]
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Jamie had parlayed her natural good
00:37:51
looks into a steady income
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she pulled in better than a thousand
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dollars a week dancing for exclusive
00:37:57
private parties in and around Chicago
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when Jamie first told us this year was
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going into dancing entertainment it was
00:38:07
a little difficult to handle but when
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she explained to us how how it was going
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to to work we feel a little bit more
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comfortable because I main concern
00:38:17
really wasn't the the type of work she
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was doing those for her safety
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once she reassured us that you'd have
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somebody accompanying her at all times
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the driver bodyguard we feel a little
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bit more comfortable I just like to make
00:38:34
a little extra money
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I don't think so
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[Applause]
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if she went into a place in the
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atmosphere wasn't right either because
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the the people who had been drinking too
00:38:48
much or something they just float up and
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leave on Sunday October 27th 1991 Jamie
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didn't feel she canceled her bookings
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she rented a couple of videotapes she
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called a friend that is what we know
00:39:05
about the last night Jamie Santos was
00:39:07
alive a call for help came the next
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morning roughly 11:30 a.m. no time send
00:39:17
em once to 1765 Stonehedge court in
00:39:20
Wheeling immediately as a young woman
00:39:22
she's not breathing she's turning blue
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paramedics found Jamie in her bedroom
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there are obvious signs of a struggle
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yet Jamie's head was carefully propped
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on a pillow she had not been raped
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with no eyewitnesses no fingerprints
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nothing that would yield a DNA profile
00:39:42
the only lead was a male voice on the
00:39:45
911 no one in Jamie's family could
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identify the caller investigators could
00:39:54
not even determine whether he was the
00:39:56
killer or simply a passerby there's a
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possibility the 911 caller could be an
00:40:02
innocent bystander that stumbled upon
00:40:04
this there's evidence of a struggle
00:40:06
possibly somebody could have heard a
00:40:08
struggle possibly somebody could have
00:40:10
seen somebody running from the area and
00:40:12
seen an open door
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hello
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911 caller could be afraid to come
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forward thinking that they'll be accused
00:40:27
of being the killer when in fact you
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know they were bystander
00:40:32
[Applause]
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however in this perplexing case police
00:40:36
can just as easily envision a scenario
00:40:38
where the 9-1-1 call was made by the
00:40:41
killer himself we don't have evidence
00:40:52
that there was forced entry
00:40:54
so there's a good chance person was an
00:40:56
invited guest
00:41:06
could be a crime of passion it could
00:41:09
have been something that started out
00:41:10
innocently and turned bad it could have
00:41:12
been the domestic type arguments I'm
00:41:17
gonna have to ask you to leave watch
00:41:18
this now don't start with things went
00:41:25
too far and when the person realized
00:41:29
that he had hurt Amy
00:41:31
he had remorse and in that he tried to
00:41:34
in several ways get her help you know he
00:41:37
put a pillow under her head he he made
00:41:39
an honest effort to get a medical help
00:41:41
for further bolstering the theory that
00:41:48
the killer knew Jayme was a certainty
00:41:50
when providing Jamie's address to the
00:41:52
operator send somebody ambling to police
00:41:55
- 1765 stonehedge court and reeling
00:41:58
immediately 1765 stonehenge stone heads
00:42:02
well i like the bush he's familiarity
00:42:05
with the area means that he had been
00:42:07
there either several times before or had
00:42:09
a specific reason to have the knowledge
00:42:12
he did of the address as far as the
00:42:15
numbers in the street and the
00:42:17
pronunciation of the street authorities
00:42:22
believe that if the killer did know
00:42:24
Jamie Sanders there is a strong
00:42:26
likelihood he had set his sights on her
00:42:28
within the world of exotic dancing sexy
00:42:35
perhaps one of Jamie's clients couldn't
00:42:37
take no for an answer perhaps one of her
00:42:40
drivers of the nursing a secret passion
00:42:42
that flared out of control but every
00:42:45
question leads to the same brick wall
00:42:48
nine one one tape is a very important
00:42:51
clue we feel that with the
00:42:52
identification of the voice and this
00:42:54
tape we can resolve this matter I'm
00:42:58
always trying to figure out if I know
00:43:00
the voice if I know who that person is
00:43:05
I'm gonna hear the urgency in his voice
00:43:07
and it just brings up all the emotions I
00:43:10
know what he's seen and I know that I
00:43:14
can't help her I feel that this person
00:43:17
could give us some answer
00:43:19
on this and I can understand why he
00:43:20
doesn't come forward and help us to
00:43:23
relieve some of the pain of Jamie's
00:43:25
death here again is the actual 9-1-1
00:43:30
recording made in October of 1991 if you
00:43:34
recognize the voice contact the leading
00:43:36
Illinois Police Department please listen
00:43:39
closely join me again next time for
00:44:13
another intriguing edition unsolved
00:44:16
mysteries
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