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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast Judge John C Fairbanks was a
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respected pillar of his community the
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residents of Newport New Hampshire
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regularly trend to win whatever they
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needed help no one had any idea that all
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the while the judge was quietly robbing
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them blind in 1988 at a lonely roadside
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service center a young woman
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courageously fought off a brutal unknown
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assailant a surprise attack carried all
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the earmarks of a serial killing now
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authorities have constructed a chilling
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psychological portrait of a man who may
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be responsible for the murders of seven
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women when suscriber was just 13 she
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learned of an astonishing family secret
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in 1942 her mother gave birth to twins
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and then gave them away perhaps you can
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help end Sue's search for her long-lost
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brother and sister heartwarming updates
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thanks to our broadcast a father and
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daughter who have never met and finally
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found each other
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join me for another edition of unsolved
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mysteries
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Claremont New Hampshire May 1984 17-year
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old Bernie scored Amash sets off for her
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boyfriend's house she has never heard
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from again this particular killer
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I feel does a lot of driving and I think
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that what he is doing is selecting sites
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that are low risk for him two months
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later 27 year-old Alan Freed a
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registered nurse also of Claremont calls
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her sister from a pay phone she too is
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never heard from again
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rather than stalking a particular victim
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I don't believe any of these women
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themselves were pre-selected as victims
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he selects sites and he goes from site
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to site 18 months later the skeletal
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remains of Helen freed were found in an
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isolated area 8 miles outside of
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Clermont Bernie's court Amash is
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decomposed body would turn up in the
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same woods one mile away then just over
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a year later the body of yet another
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young woman Barbara Agnew was found on
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an isolated hillside in Hartland Vermont
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it was becoming more and more difficult
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to ignore what seemed to be a chilling
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pattern police estimate there may be as
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many as 100 serial killers living among
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us on our streets and in our
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neighborhoods they are cool and
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calculating choosing victims
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indiscriminately with little or no
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remorse for their actions
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the overwhelming task for authorities to
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determine how the serial killer thinks
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and hopefully learn where and when he
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might strike again
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one such investigation is currently
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underway in New England
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since 1978 the bodies of seven young
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women have been discovered within a
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50-mile radius along the New Hampshire
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Vermont border police believe that six
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of the seven women were abducted and
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taken to remote wooded areas where they
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were murdered all of the victims
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suffered similar stab wounds and police
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began to suspect that the killings were
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the work of the same individual give us
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your opinion on whether or not you feel
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with no witnesses and little physical
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evidence investigators were to stand
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still as a last resort the New Hampshire
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State Police brought in criminal
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psychologist John Philbin to develop a
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profile of the killer my approach is to
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gather as much of the same information
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that the police used in the very
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beginning
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police reports of crime scene autopsy
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reports autopsy photographs every bit of
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information that would be available
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typically to the investigators that's
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what I would begin with profiling is
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something that you just as from
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law-enforcement standpoint you have a
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belief and it works it's not so
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scientific that it is absolute it's not
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going to tell you this is the individual
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but it does give you the type of
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individual that you can be looking for
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if you have a suspect it can tell you
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whether or not you're on the right
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Avenue with a right approach in the
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beginning I did make several trips out
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to the locations where Bernice and Ellen
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were killed the first few times that I
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went was simply to to have something of
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a feel for the place when I was there
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what what could I hear what could I
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smell what was the place like what would
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it felt like to be there how could this
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this crime was very bizarre dance
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between two people how could it have
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been choreographed in this space how
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could it have happened
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when I get to the point where I'm
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beginning to develop some feel for what
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is going on in the mind of a killer I'll
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go back to the scenes using what I have
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learned and simply going through what
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might have happened just as though I I
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were him what am i hearing is that do I
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hear the noise of the river going by or
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is that blocked outta myself focused on
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the activities telling me I don't hear
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what does it tell me about this person's
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ability to perceive in terms of sound in
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terms of what I'm feeling you know in
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terms of what I'm able to see part of
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what goes on with this killer is that he
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has a very strong need to take these
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women away alive transport them to this
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site that he has pre-selected during
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which time clearly he owns them they are
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his to do with whatever he wishes and
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part of that I think is this this
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process of of scaring the daylights out
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of him
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midnight August 8 1988 Winchester New
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Hampshire a 23 year old woman named Jane
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was on her way home from a County Fair
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when she stopped for a soft drink it is
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a hot muggy evening and Jane was 7
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months pregnant
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if there was a serial killer on the
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loose this was a perfect setting for him
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to find a victim
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that pono okay if you wanna be that way
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come on okay come on
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just don't hurt me I'm pregnant come on
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what do you want you hurt my girlfriend
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real bad I didn't hurt anybody yet
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it's a Massachusetts card no it's New
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Hampshire it's New Hampshire at some
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point Jane tried to break away and The
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Killers apparent plans to abduct her
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went awry
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he had balked all the way to his vehicle
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and by this time I was rolled over to my
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belly and started getting up on my hands
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and knees and when he was driving by me
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he just looked right down at me he just
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looked at me and just kept driving
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I can feel the blood rushing out of me
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and I just I thought I was gonna die I
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kept telling myself Jane you're gonna
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die that's all I could think of and I
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just felt like I had to get to my
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friend's house to get help
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although Jane had been stabbed her
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slashed a total of 18 times she somehow
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managed to crawl back to her car and
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drive to a friend's house two miles away
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when I left the parking lot I felt like
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I was going fast I was driving fast
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I was in shock of course so I'm really
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not sure how fast I was driving but
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evidently pretty fast because before I
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knew it I was right behind him and as I
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was behind him all I could think about
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was he was gonna stop or he was gonna
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turn around and follow me he left me for
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dead I know he left me for dead no doubt
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about that
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when Jane reached her friend's house her
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attacker drove on
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right up the road
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the attacker turned back he stopped
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momentarily in front of the house then
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disappeared into the night
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miraculously none of the stab wounds hit
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vital organs for James seven month old
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fetus two months later she gave birth to
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a healthy baby girl
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if you feel more comfortable with your
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eyes closed if you choose to close your
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eyes
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Jane agreed to undergo hypnosis with
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John Filton nose and was able to provide
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a graphic eyewitness account of her
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terrifying ordeal peacefully from what
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Jane said during the hypnotic session it
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became clear to me that she was not
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stopped her decision to go to the fair
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was a last-minute decision she had no
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sense of anyone following her either
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going to the fair while she was at the
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fair and leaving the fair she was able
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to supply very specific details of this
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man getting out of the car and coming up
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on the other side making some remark
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about the telephone this man is very
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deliberate very methodical very calm we
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know especially from the graphic
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description of Jane provided for us but
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he doesn't get rattled that he's very
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much in control I'm very patient about
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what it is he's doing
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you hurt my girlfriend real bad I didn't
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hurt anybody he seemed so calm so let's
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go about everything cause the only thing
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I mean he never got mad
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he never showed nervousness he just was
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so calm and everything was just as if it
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didn't bother him what Jane described
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was a tremendous struggle a tremendous
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amount of resistance on her part the
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desire to protect her baby but that at
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some point during the assault it was as
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though she had done everything that she
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could do and she couldn't do anymore
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and she stopped struggling and it was at
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that point that the assault stopped it
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seemed as though the greater her
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resistance the more determined he was
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that as soon as her resistance began to
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wane the attack end
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as you begin to drive south on the
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highway - what do you see I'm coming up
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behind another car and it's um
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there is that's him that's him
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the license plate to focus here on the
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license plate
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it's it's dirty i-66 too it's too dirty
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I I can't see it that's a picture that
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you can hold you can hold that picture
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after getting the description one of the
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things that we decided to do was see if
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we could identify this cheap in order to
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do that we olicity elicited the health
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of the state of Vermont the state of New
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Hampshire obviously and the state of
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Massachusetts we generated a computer
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printout of all jeep wagoneer registered
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at that time in those three states
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matching the description that Jayne had
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given us chain describes it as between
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being 75 to an 85 police narrowed the
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search to thirteen hundred and fifty
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jeeps throughout New England
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unfortunately none of the leads
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pinpointed a suspect
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once again the investigation was stalled
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but with one crucial difference the
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police still do not know who the killer
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is but thanks to Jane's eyewitness
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description they do believe they know
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what he looks like and how he thinks I
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think he is a loner type of person
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prefers his his own thoughts his own
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fantasies doesn't like to intrusion
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I think his view of women is extremely
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negative to the point of hostility to
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the point of viewing them as arrogant
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intrusive types of people so that I
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could see him making an adjustment that
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we might call within the realm of the
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normal but it would require I I think is
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a very limited exposure to groups of
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people I just feel really fortunate to
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be alive but
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I just I just wish he could be found
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so what happened to somebody else
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maybe they won't be so fortunate like I
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was to live
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next an opponent update a grown woman
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meets her father for the first time
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but the power vested in me I now
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pronounce you man and wife you may kiss
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the bride on November 11th 1958 17-year
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old Patsy Somers married her high school
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sweetheart in El Paso Texas at the time
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only Patsy and her husband knew that she
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was pregnant seven months later
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Patsy's daughter Jean he was born from a
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very early age I felt very different and
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separated from my family and no one
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intentionally made me feel that way I
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don't think that it was just a knowledge
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I had that was I guess in my
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subconscious after her mother's death in
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1983 Jeanie learned of a shocking secret
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a passage and Patsy's diary revealed
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that the man Jeannie had known as her
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father was not her father at all the
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diary detail how Patsy had gone to a
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local park after an argument with her
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fiance
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there she met a young enlisted man
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stationed at nearby Fort Bliss
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his name was Duncan Patsy was
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immediately smitten by the handsome
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young soldier they soon began dating she
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never told Duncan about her fiance or
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her fiance about Duncan my mother she
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thought of Duncan as a very kind person
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and even stated that of all the people
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that she had known that he was the
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kindest person she had ever met
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six months later patsy summers was
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pregnant she was sure that Duncan was a
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father but fearing her family's reaction
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decided to marry her fiance as planned
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let's see what is it Patsy told Duncan
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that she never wanted to see him again
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he never knew that he was the father of
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her child my firm belief is that secrets
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only cause people harm and caused a lot
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of suffering and that's why for me the
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truth has to come out and I have to know
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who Duncan is the night the genies story
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aired a woman named Suzanne Gilmore was
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watching our broadcast at her home in
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Lake Wylie South Carolina at the time
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Susan's husband Duncan was fast asleep
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Jeannie's mother had written in her
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diary that he was the sweetest kindest
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person that she had ever met I just said
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that's my Duncan I knew that it was my
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Duncan and the next thing I know my wife
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woke me up and she said were you ever
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stationed in El Paso Texas at Fort Bliss
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when you were in the army and I said
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yeah she said were you there in 1958 and
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I said yeah is there in 1958 and she
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said did you ever know Patsy Somers and
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I said yeah I know
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I knew Patsy Somers did you sleep with
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her and he said what what what he just
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kind of came awake and I said it's very
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important did you sleep with her and he
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said oh yeah
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she said congratulations you have a
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daughter and she's looking for you and
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he just came awake like it shot it was
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like she's looking for me and I said yes
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as soon as I heard some of the details I
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knew immediately she was my daughter and
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then I don't want to say it was
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matter-of-fact but I just knew that she
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was my daughter and that we had to be
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together and we had to see her and I had
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to respond
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nine days and dozens of phone calls
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later Duncan Gilmore and his wife
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Suzanne arrived in Houston Texas
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on May 3rd 1991 father and daughter met
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for the first time in their lives when I
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hiked my dad it was a combination of
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being really really happy but also there
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was a little sadness there that so many
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years have gone by and that we've missed
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out on each other's lives
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I will always remember Jeanie coming to
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the door and for the first time seeing
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my daughter and I'm holding her the day
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was made even more special when Duncan
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met his only grandchildren Joshua and
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Justin for the first time when I saw my
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boys playing catch with their grandpa it
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it just felt right
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they needed a grandpa and I can't think
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of a better grandpa for them to have
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never could I have hoped in a million
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years or prayed a thousand prayers for
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this to turn out as well as it has
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and he's turned out to be everything
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that I thought it was going to be no you
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did tomorrow and the day after
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I'll now have a dad who loves me and
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wants to be a part of my life
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when we returned a respected judge has
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been accused of stealing more than 10
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million dollars from his friends and
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neighbors
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Laporte New Hampshire populations 7,000
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reflects the values that America was
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built upon a small town where successive
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generations are born and grow over where
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everyone knows everyone else or
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relationships are founded on honesty and
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trust but on a quiet morning in May of
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1989 a crack appeared in that Foundation
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Judge John Fairbanks a lifelong resident
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asked his court clerk to find a
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replacement for him and left town at the
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time no one imagined that Luke port
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would never be the same again
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judge Jhansi Fairbanks was a respected
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jurist a successful attorney whose
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family had lived in the Newport New
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Hampshire area for three generations On
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June 6 1989 residents were astonished by
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the news that Fairbanks had resigned his
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judgeship and abandoned his law practice
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a few days later they're shocked turned
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to outrage this pillar of the community
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was apparently the worst kind of thief
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a man who's stolen more than 10 million
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dollars from his friends and neighbors
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you understand that you have a right to
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present evidence in your behalf for 33
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years
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judge Fairbanks presided over the
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district court of Newport because
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Newport is a small community
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Fairbanks Court duties were limited and
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he was able to maintain a lucrative law
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practice specializing in probate law
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John was a nice guy everybody in the
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community liked him
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nobody had a bad word for him you would
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just loved his family I love this
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children his grandchildren just a great
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guy Fairbanks was honest I mean that was
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his reputation you might knock him for
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other things but the one thing everybody
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always said about John Fairbanks was he
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was honest so these people had complete
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faith and trust and confidence in him
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when a client died judge Fairbanks would
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visit his widow not just to offer
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condolences but to relieve her of her
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financial worries
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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my husband grew up with judge Fairbanks
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here in town the families were very
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friendly and through the years anything
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pertaining to law he would go to judge
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Fairbanks John Fairbanks was certainly
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my uncle's estate and then of course I
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had the estate and I hadn't income tax
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to doing it
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I knew him so I went back to him for the
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income taxes and I went to him every
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year for doing my income tax
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Patricia Sawyer had been coming to the
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judge for advice since 1958 in August of
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1987 she agreed to turn over her stock
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certificates to Fairbanks so he could
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inventory her holdings he called me on
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the phone and asked about my getting
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could I get the stocks that day
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judge Fairbanks and I had talked about
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doing an estate plan and changing my
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will so many people had died when we got
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to judge Fairbanks office he said he
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would inventory them and he would let me
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know how much they were worth and we
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would get together and make well what we
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have is this everything Patricia says
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everything you're sure yes your uncle
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didn't have any deposits in any other
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banks no but he never got back to me and
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I listened I prodded John a few times
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but he was awful busy and he hadn't got
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to it and then we'll be able to plan the
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estate Patricia you don't have any idea
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how much this is worth I have no idea
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October 12th 1987 Black Monday on Wall
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Street the repercussions were felt
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worldwide even in judge Fairbanks
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courtroom how fast were you going 60 how
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do you know you were going 60 well I
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almost never good we'll take a brief
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recess all rise please the stock market
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crash I remember very very well it was
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the judges 65th birthday he made a
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couple comments about turning 65 is just
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wonderful stock market crashes on your
00:28:02
65th birthday
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the secret of a stock market crash is
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not to panic hello Anna now what's the
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problem he said I'm panicked that he
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would lose over three million dollars in
00:28:19
crash the other accounts but that he
00:28:21
wasn't going to panic he made it through
00:28:23
court real quick and left the building
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but I was real concerned about him his
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his mannerisms were different he was
00:28:32
very very withdrawn that day John when
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am I going to be getting some dividends
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the effects of the crash had trickled
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down to Patricia Sawyer I asked him why
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I wasn't getting dividend checks and he
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said that dough to the stock market
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crash my stocks had gone down and he was
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turning the dividends back him to bring
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the stocks up to where they were before
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the crash before the the drop in the
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stock market and I believe that I called
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Fairbanks in the spring of 88 because I
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had not been receiving accountings and
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it was at that time that he told me that
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he had been spending my brother's
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principal John tiny had engaged
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Fairbanks as legal guardian for his
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brother Richard after their mother died
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Richard Tweedy is a schizophrenic who
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has been institutionalized in a New
00:29:23
Hampshire hospital for more than 40
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years
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in November of 1988 John Tweedy insisted
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that Farrah banks meet him face to face
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to discuss concerns about his brothers
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holdings I had certain questions to ask
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him about the estate I mean there was
00:29:49
rhetoric in his response but he didn't
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answer the questions don't worry about
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that John yeah I want you to take a look
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at this I will maybe you can ask you
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something else
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one of my brother's estate going to the
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Red John I haven't got all those figures
00:30:06
up here in my head but you come back to
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my office later in the week and I'll lay
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it all out for you he was at that time I
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found out 75% of my brother's money was
00:30:15
gone on estate why didn't you inform me
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when is the state when to the Red John I
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tried to but you're a hard man to find
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now look I've got another appointment
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you come in later in the week and we'll
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take care of everything
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see you later John okay John take care
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if my brother's estate was in the red
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and he drew my brother's equity in the
00:30:36
real estate if he was going to really
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take care of my brother's affairs he
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would have notified me at that time and
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said we have to sell some land but he
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didn't
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why didn't he well of course I was to
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find out why I didn't
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John Tweedy refused to accept the judges
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explanations about his brothers estate
00:30:58
and began his own investigation I found
00:31:03
that the p8 sole stalked and he had
00:31:05
under reported what he had gotten from
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the stock he had under reported what he
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gotten for dividends and after a couple
00:31:12
of weeks of this I came up with $20,000
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that was missing it turned out that was
00:31:18
only a part of what was missing but that
00:31:19
was all I could determine from public
00:31:21
records and it was at that point I
00:31:23
realized that well he was embezzling and
00:31:26
I've been raised to believe that when
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you see a crime committed you call a
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cops and so I called the cops we drove
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over to look at Fairbanks his house here
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in Newport and we saw the house and we
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thought gee that's gotta be $500,000 we
00:31:45
were aware they had a home in a gunk
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would mean which is a pretty expensive
00:31:50
area to live right on the ocean it was
00:31:53
worth six or seven hundred thousand
00:31:55
dollars and we looked at each other and
00:31:56
said disguise a thief judge Fairbanks
00:32:01
house of cards was tumbling down on June
00:32:03
6 1989 he resigned from the bench and
00:32:06
retreated to his summer home in Maine
00:32:08
when John Tweedy's charges were made
00:32:11
public other disgruntled clients began
00:32:13
to come forward with their suspicions
00:32:16
I had no idea that he was doing anything
00:32:20
underhandedly
00:32:21
until all this came out that morning
00:32:24
that Judge Fairbanks had taken several
00:32:28
other people and not only my account but
00:32:31
others in town I wasn't the only one he
00:32:36
put these stocks into this stock
00:32:38
brokerage firm as my agent and I had
00:32:41
never signed any papers giving him any
00:32:43
authority
00:32:44
I had never signed my name on the
00:32:46
certificates he had done that illegally
00:32:50
Fairbanks said in my opinion have been
00:32:53
doing this for so long that he had sort
00:32:55
of milk dry most of the accounts that he
00:32:59
had been stealing from and along came
00:33:03
Patricia Soria who had almost a million
00:33:05
dollars and assets that he got in his
00:33:09
hands and there was like a gold mine and
00:33:12
he pounced on it
00:33:16
authorities now suspected over a 20-year
00:33:18
period
00:33:19
Fairbanks may have stolen more than ten
00:33:21
million dollars as the investigation
00:33:24
reached his climax judge Fairbanks spoke
00:33:26
with Tom Hanigan from his home in Maine
00:33:28
I told him that all I want to do is to
00:33:33
have him produce documents which would
00:33:36
show that his accounting was true and
00:33:42
correct let's keep this as quiet as
00:33:45
possible I don't want this to become a
00:33:47
big
00:33:47
we agreed to a meeting and then he
00:33:51
called me maybe a week before the
00:33:53
meeting had said that he had a
00:33:54
postponement and I said okay and he we
00:33:57
set another date and then when the next
00:34:00
state came up I came over to Newport in
00:34:03
Hampshire to interview Fairbanks and he
00:34:08
wasn't there finally in December 28th
00:34:11
1989 the judge was indicted on four
00:34:14
counts of theft the indictments listed
00:34:17
more than 100 checks written by
00:34:19
Fairbanks which transferred money from
00:34:21
client accounts to Fairbanks personal
00:34:23
accounts the next day Fairbanks pickup
00:34:29
truck was found abandoned near his house
00:34:30
in Maine the judge had disappeared and
00:34:35
has not been seen since
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this has affected my life - the fact
00:34:42
that I wonder what I'm going to do and
00:34:45
I'm going to have to sell land maybe
00:34:47
sell the farm and the farm has been in
00:34:49
my family since the original settlers
00:34:51
came from Nationals it's apparatus teams
00:34:54
when I was in total shock still don't
00:34:58
think I've come out of it I just can't
00:35:01
believe it anyone could do such a thing
00:35:03
he had a double life he had two totally
00:35:06
separated lives and one of them was fine
00:35:09
you know when I was a man of great
00:35:12
integrity I respected by the community
00:35:13
and the other the other one was well
00:35:18
classical you know it was into all sorts
00:35:20
of things which are very shaky very
00:35:23
shady and quite Amaro and very few if
00:35:27
anybody knew the two existed
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next the search for a set of twins who
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were separated from their family just
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after they were born
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growing up in the 50s in Red Hill
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Alabama life was slow and easy every day
00:36:13
seemed pretty much like another but what
00:36:15
a suit Scribner the fifth of ten
00:36:17
children was thirteen years old
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one day held an extraordinary surprise
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I'll never forget the day I came home
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from church it was January 1957 my
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mother was alone in the house which was
00:36:35
unusual because he kids usually were all
00:36:38
around she had written two names all
00:36:47
over the newspaper so I asked her about
00:36:49
that she just said she'd sing the night
00:36:54
since she was writing it when I asked
00:37:02
her why she had been crying she told me
00:37:06
about having a boy and a girl twin that
00:37:08
had been adopted it's time I told Tommy
00:37:11
I was really surprised because I was 13
00:37:16
and and it's a shock to find out that
00:37:19
you have a brother and sister that you
00:37:20
didn't know about especially when you
00:37:22
already have so many brothers and
00:37:25
sisters two years before you were born
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I can't premature birth to twins boy and
00:37:35
a girl
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Sue's mother Calista began to unburden
00:37:38
herself it had all begun in Winter
00:37:41
Garden Florida at Orange County General
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Hospital in January 1942
00:37:49
Kalista went into labor nearly two
00:37:51
months early she and Sue's father slim
00:37:55
Scribner were frantic when they arrived
00:37:57
at the emergency room doctors named dr.
00:38:03
hardy dr. Hart orderly we need a
00:38:05
wheelchair here right away please take
00:38:07
her to the delivery let me call dr.
00:38:08
harder the twins were born a short time
00:38:11
later
00:38:12
Kalista and slim named them Paul and
00:38:14
Paula after their doctor Paul harder not
00:38:17
but they're so small the premature who
00:38:21
have some serious health problems we
00:38:24
have a heart condition and a blood
00:38:26
disorder are they gonna be okay doctor
00:38:29
well we think so
00:38:32
but they will require a great deal of
00:38:35
medical attention I asked my mother why
00:38:39
they were adopted and she said that they
00:38:43
needed some sort of surgery for a
00:38:45
congenital heart disease or a heart
00:38:48
problem and that they couldn't afford
00:38:53
that I know it's a difficult decision
00:38:56
but it's the best choice for everyone
00:38:59
she said that dr. Hart or knew someone
00:39:04
perfect to adopt the twins and that they
00:39:10
would be able to pay for the medical
00:39:12
expenses
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the twins been adopted it just stayed
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with her forever she never got over it
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before Calista Scribner left the
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hospital she made a solemn promise to
00:39:35
dr. Hajra that she would never search
00:39:37
for the twins in 1944 she and slim were
00:39:40
divorced
00:39:41
Kalista remarried with a new husband
00:39:43
eventually raised ten children after
00:39:46
Callistus death in 1979 her daughter sue
00:39:49
enlisted the entire family to look for
00:39:51
the twins but the search went nowhere
00:39:53
both dr. harder and Sue's father were
00:39:56
dead the hospital records sealed then a
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rusty trunk in an attic finally yielded
00:40:02
a clue in 1987 one of Sue's cousins
00:40:09
found a letter which Calista Scribner
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had written to her mother a short time
00:40:13
after the twins were born Sue's cousin
00:40:16
was surprised that the letter never
00:40:17
mentioned adoption in fact it seemed the
00:40:20
Kalista had every intention of bringing
00:40:22
the twins home the babies are still
00:40:26
improving the first time they weighed
00:40:28
them at the Orange general Paula wait
00:40:30
two or three four pounds and Paul two
00:40:32
and a half pounds they told us to be a
00:40:35
before yesterday that they weighed three
00:40:37
pounds 14 ounces and three pounds 11
00:40:39
ounces so they're gaining right along
00:40:42
and also said they might be able to
00:40:44
bring him home by the 1st of next week
00:40:48
when I read the letter that mother wrote
00:40:51
it was almost exactly like she had told
00:40:54
me in 1957 the only thing that the
00:40:59
letter didn't clear up was find that
00:41:03
twins were adopted because she from the
00:41:07
letter you can tell that she did not
00:41:09
intend for them to be adopted the
00:41:12
discovery of Callistus letter sparked
00:41:14
new interest in the twins several
00:41:17
newspaper articles followed and one of
00:41:19
them paid off hello in May of 1990 one
00:41:27
of Sue's nieces who lives in Mobile
00:41:29
Alabama
00:41:30
received an anonymous phone call
00:41:32
okay I know the family they don't know
00:41:39
they were adopted the connor seemed
00:41:42
elderly and very emotional she said she
00:41:44
knew where Paul and Paula were the
00:41:47
caller refused to divulge a relationship
00:41:49
with the twins but did say that she
00:41:51
planned to tell them they were adopted
00:41:53
on Mother's Day I'm gonna try and tell
00:41:57
them the truth you'll be hearing from me
00:42:00
in a couple of weeks or else the Twins
00:42:03
will contact you directly oh I called
00:42:08
everybody in the family and this is that
00:42:10
we found the twins you know we're gonna
00:42:12
hear from them or you know whoever they
00:42:14
look the lady was that called and
00:42:17
counting the days and when the day came
00:42:19
Sunday counting the hour when and I
00:42:22
would not leave home but nothing ever
00:42:26
happened
00:42:28
as a last resort sue wrote an open
00:42:31
letter to the twins which was published
00:42:33
both in Florida and in Louisiana
00:42:35
newspapers and so elusive twins are
00:42:40
still search our write letters I stare
00:42:43
at strangers with hazel eyes and fair
00:42:45
skin yet should my effort send an
00:42:48
emptiness my voice in Oblivion I must
00:42:51
tell you this I have not felt so
00:42:55
completely for I've already found you
00:42:57
once years ago chasm din that deep
00:43:00
indelible well that safe place our
00:43:04
mother's heart
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ten days after we featured the story sue
00:43:11
Scribner received an anonymous call from
00:43:13
one of our viewers who told her that the
00:43:15
twins were living in Orlando Florida sue
00:43:18
immediately contacted her brother and
00:43:19
sister whose names are Bruce and Barbara
00:43:22
the twins had no idea that they had been
00:43:24
adopted and were shocked to learn about
00:43:26
a sight of their family they never knew
00:43:28
existed
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on March 15 1992 sue Scribner met her
00:43:36
brother and sister the first time in her
00:43:39
life
00:43:43
the joyous reunion brought together six
00:43:46
of the scribbler children and their
00:43:48
families the very first time I met them
00:43:52
I think all of our knees were shaking it
00:43:56
is emotional but I think we've all cried
00:44:00
enough tears and we didn't need a lot
00:44:01
today so I think that my newfound family
00:44:04
is wonderful I think they're absolutely
00:44:06
adorable it's like we've known each
00:44:09
other all of our lives even though we
00:44:12
haven't been around each other for five
00:44:13
hours I can't wait to get to know them
00:44:24
family very excited about it
00:44:26
mm-hmm you have all these questions in
00:44:29
your mind Jim what did I miss out on all
00:44:32
these years what would they really like
00:44:34
is kids I think everybody's gonna get to
00:44:40
know each other and both sides
00:44:43
that for a country bumpkin like we are
00:44:45
it's like a blessing doesn't really
00:44:49
matter now what kind of life any of us
00:44:53
have because it's it's what's left that
00:44:55
counts we know where all of the children
00:44:58
are now
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