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next on Unsolved Mysteries Tijana Mexico
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Party Time turns lethal when a college
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student is found dead on a
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street a college athlete Sprints from
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his bed Through The Frigid winter night
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while he's
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asleep 60 years ago an army spy
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disappeared a mysterious phone call May
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hold the key
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a family's Dreamhouse is a living
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nightmare until a team of Ghostbusters
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arrives five cases some without endings
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our team is working on them and perhaps
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you can help I'm Dennis finina and this
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is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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Tiana one of of Mexico's most popular
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border towns for college students
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hunting for big fun at bargain rates but
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a good time here can cost you your
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life 1:30 a.m. Steven Thomas is looking
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for his brother Jason in the crowds of
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partyers they become separated while
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heading back to their car I looked to
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the right of me I turned around my
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brother wasn't there I mean it was like
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that an hour and a half after Jason
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disappears a Tiana police officer
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discovers his battered body in the
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road Jason was drinking and he was loud
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and obnoxious and maybe out of
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control that night I
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believe that Jason was murdered by the
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Tijuana
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police 20-year-old Jason artist was
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attending College in Los Angeles he
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brought his younger brother Steven out
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for a visit and a good time South of the
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Border but that good time would end in
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tragedy Saturday night the main drag was
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packed for many the loose drinking laws
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here were the biggest
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attraction
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about 900 p.m. Jason Steve and their
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friend Michael Justin started bar
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hopping hitting places that offered all
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you could drink for less than
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$5 Jason was usually friendly but he had
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a reputation as a Rowdy Drinker that
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night he was already a little buzzed and
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he didn't realize that tequila cost
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extra $6 a
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shot now you owe me $12 $12 you crazy
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Jason didn't want to give up the money
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so I just say Jason give him the money
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just just give him the money and let's
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get out of here you know what I'm saying
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this ain't the spot we need to be at me
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you the car 15 minutes I meet you car 15
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Jason and Steven left Michael at the bar
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and went back to the
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strip my strategy was to hurry up and
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find the car so we can go sit down we're
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kind of drunk you know what I'm saying
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walking around
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Tiana walking down the street and that's
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when my brother accidentally bumped into
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a female officer excuse me you just hit
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me you just hit me you just just hit me
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well I was kind of frustrated at my
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brother for the simple fact of being
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that drunk my feelings was just I'm
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ready to go home I'm ready to get back
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to Van eyes look Jason man you acting
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crazy man this ain't our country I told
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him walk behind me come on let's hurry
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up and try to find this car he's like 3
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or 4 yards behind me at
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first that's when I walked up some more
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to another block so we walked up I look
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to the right I looked behind me and my
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brother wasn't
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there my first reaction was probably
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that he's sitting down on the curb
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somewhere or sitting up against the
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building or anything like that you know
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what I'm saying because we were kind of
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intoxicated soon after Steven lost sight
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of Jason Michael claims that he spotted
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him in the back of a police
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car I looked and I said what is he doing
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in the back of a police car there were
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the last people I saw Jason with I saw
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Jason with my own eyes in the back of a
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police car like I know my
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hand Michael and Steven never saw Jason
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again Jason's family was shocked when 2
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Days Later the American counselor sent
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word that he was dead his aunt Tina
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Martin Smith went to Tijana to identify
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the
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body I remember thinking this is not
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Jason there Jason is somewhere in a jail
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in Tiana and someone has robbed him and
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they've taken his ID and this person is
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in the
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m and I look down and it was
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Jason it was
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Jason Tiana authorities told Jason's
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family that he must have gotten lost
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trying to get back to the
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Border
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they called it a tragic hit and run
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accident but Steven doubts that
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story I believe that it had something to
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do with the police I feel that for a
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fact after Michael told me that he seen
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my brother in the back of a police car
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there got to be something up
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there Tiana police deny the allegation
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they claim they never even had Jason in
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custody we check and double check uh
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almost the whole month of August and
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there is no retention with that
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name sometimes it happens that they Mis
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write the name in our computer so we run
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it with the three names we found
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nothing Jason's family obtained a copy
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of the autopsy report through the
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American culate and had it translated
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into
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English nothing was adding up first of
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all they stated that Jason was hit by a
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car and we had these conflicting
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things we had the photos of him with no
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injuries to his lower extremities with
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these
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unexplained 5 in marks all over his body
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and chest area and in his
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face we asked three forensic
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Pathologists to to review the report one
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agreed with the hit-and Run finding the
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other two however questioned the
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official
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results I would be very skeptical of one
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the autopsy findings and the assertion
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that that this was simply a hitandrun
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accident one has to apply High degree of
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skepticism to the entire oopsy in my
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view for instance the Tiana coroner
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claimed the car hit Jason so hard in the
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chest that it ruptured his heart in
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order for a blunt blow to get through
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the sternum and and and rupture the
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heart it would have to virtually crush
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the chest and it's quite evident from
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from the autopsy that chest is not is
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not badly mashed there are no bruises on
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it there AR no big hematomas so that
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becomes incredible uh the autopsy report
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becomes
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incredible another Point Jason's head
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wounds were similar to those caused by a
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beating certainly the lesions around the
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head and the skull which was severe uh
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certainly consistent with the butt of a
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rifle or or or any other uh uh sharp or
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even blunt object that that that could
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be used on an individual I believe that
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he was
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beaten and after he was beaten perhaps
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in an attempt to destroy the evidence
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that they perhaps ran over and or drug
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him and I believe that when he was run
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over that he was already
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dead Tijana authorities have closed the
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case they believe Jason's family may be
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overreacting we have had responses from
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the families in conflict with the saying
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of the hopsy and the statement from our
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department uh even in sometimes uh uh
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where there there are witnesses of an
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accident and there is a driver resp
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responsible for the accident uh there
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have been some families stating that uh
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they they are not accepting that was an
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accident maybe should have gone to jail
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for the night but he didn't nobody
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nobody deserves to die that
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we Jason's family hopes that anyone with
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information about his death will log on
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to our website at unsolved.com
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coming up mysterious cases of
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sleepwalking that result in injury and
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even
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death The Mysterious World of
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sleepwalking it's often portrayed as
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harmless or even amusing but in reality
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it can be dangerous and sometimes
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deadly
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Iowa City Iowa Jared Al good was a
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talented football player during his
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waking hours but was a habitual
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Sleepwalker at night it all began when
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he was a young boy he was a a major
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Sleepwalker and all of my boys are and
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that scared me and I talk about it and
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I'd ask the doctors about it and they
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would just pretty much poo poo it like
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it's really nothing CU I I had
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asked when Jared went to college his
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sleepwalking continued nothing serious
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happened until one early winter
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morning Jared was up his eyes wide open
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but he was not
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awake he ran more than a mile Barefoot
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on the icy pavement Witnesses later
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reported that he sprinted with the
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intensity of a runner at the Finish
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Line people who have these episodes
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spontaneously like Jared get stuck in
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this state between wakefulness and sleep
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awake enough to perform complex
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behaviors not awake enough to be aware
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of what we're doing or responsible for
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what we're
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doing somehow in his sleep Jared managed
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to exit his apartment weave around Park
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cars and turned Corners as he ran then
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in mid stride
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tragedy Jared all good died instantly
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initially authorities speculated that he
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committed suicide Jared's mother didn't
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buy it she talked to her son's roommate
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and learned that Jared was having a
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reoccurring dream about running in a
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race Jared said it's a crazy dream I'm
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running a race with the man from Bertram
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only the man is in a car and I'm on foot
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running a race as hard as I can
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run some may dismiss this as just a
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coincidence
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but Jared was killed as he was running
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down a road that leads to the town of
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Bertram Becky elgood was absolutely
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convinced that her son had not taken his
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own life and experts agreed there was
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not one shred of evidence that he had
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depression or any other reason to commit
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suicide there was no evidence of drugs
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or alcohol involved the only reasonable
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explanations is that this was yet just
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another one of his sleepwalking episodes
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in the end authorities agreed Jared
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Algood became the first person in Iowa
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history whose death was attributed to
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sleepwalking when I hear stories about
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Jared algod I think that possibly could
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have been me and that that scares me to
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think that like Jared Heidi Ruiz is a
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dedicated athlete and a sleepwalker she
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was attending in college on a track and
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field scholarship and felt a tremendous
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pressure to
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perform I wasn't running from a
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particular person or a thing I was just
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running because I felt like it was the
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end of the world it was like a monster
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inside me trying to get out I heard a
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blood curdling scream
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Heidi's mother witnessed two of the most
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violent episodes bang two big hits where
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I could hear her coming through
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doors help
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me I have to tell you the force of her
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running through that Hall I will never
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forget because of the tear of the
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looking of tear on her face was so
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incredible and for a mom to not know
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what to do in order for her not to be a
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to hurt herself again was um a real
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scary thing real
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scary the biggest episode was in my
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mom's house back in August of
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95 must have gotten out of bed and took
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one step and bolted straight into the
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wall the impact tore open Heidi's
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forehead she gasped her wrist as she
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fell to the floor honey okay let me see
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I decided I couldn't handle anymore I
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was terrified and I said I need to get
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go seek
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help Heidi was tested at the
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world-renowned Sleep Clinic in Northern
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California a different look completely
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here I had electroids all over my head I
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had a pulse on my finger I mean I was
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hooked up like I felt like I was from
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Mars was very very
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uncomfortable but it was an extend test
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and they had to see what was going on
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through a testing process here in a
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moment or so we wanted to see if we
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might be able to capture a sleepwalking
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episode but that can be rare because it
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might not occur every night uh but
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secondly we also wanted to Ru out the
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possibility that it um wasn't something
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else such as seizure activity a sleep
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related breathing disorder or even leg
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movements that were causing the person
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to wake and and triggering off an
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attack Dr kashida could find no
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physiological cause for Heidi
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sleepwalking but he was able to pinpoint
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what is likely to trigger an episode
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there's a lot of different triggers one
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of them is sleep deprivation secondly
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stress can also increase a chance that
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the person might have um
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sleepwalking both Heidi Ruiz and Jared
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Algood fit that pattern their
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sleepwalking flared up under heavy
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emotional pressure and lack of sleep
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Heidi now has her sleepwalking condition
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under under control through medication
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and careful Stress Management
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unfortunately a lot of sleep is still a
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mystery a big mystery in terms of a lot
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of the causes of these Sleep Disorders
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but you know it's something that we're
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all trying to really work hard
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on the world of sleep and dreams has
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been the subject of extensive research
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but after Decades of testing scientists
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are still left with more questions than
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answers if you or someone you know is
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suffering from a serious sleep disorder
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it should not be ignored please consult
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the
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doctor next a missing person's
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investigator searches for her own father
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who disappeared more than 60 years
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ago September of 1945 World War II is
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over the heroes are finally coming
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home Arlington
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Virginia Lieutenant Ray hickingbotham
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settled down with his wife Dorothy and
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three-year-old daughter Carol a
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decorated war hero Ray was assigned to
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Army
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intelligence my memory was one of a kind
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of magical summer it was the first time
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I had a dad at home and my mom there
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there was just a lot of fun a lot of
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time for the family to be
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together I got
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you the base housed the top secret radio
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operation Ray may have been part of a
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select group of expert code
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Breakers his assignment monitoring radio
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communications from behind the Iron
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Curtain the Cold War had begun it's a
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good ulcer job you're sitting at a desk
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you're not mobile you can't get up I've
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seen them scream sometimes and and just
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physical frustration you know just and
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it's just you know trying to ventilate
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their frustration while they continue
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plotting away with this boring but
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potentially incredibly fascinating job I
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think I've got something in less than a
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year Ray and his group would be absorbed
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into the newly created Central
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Intelligence Agency
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where
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daddy sweetie Ray was working long hours
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and spending little time with his
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family be back pick me up at
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three in the summer of
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1947 Ray was transferred to another top
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secet group he did not tell Dorothy
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about the new
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assignment things and watch what I can
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do my mother was worried because he
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seemed so tired and so uptight he became
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very tense and it became worse it just
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got worse and worse late that summer
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Dorothy took Carol to Long Island for a
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twoe visit with her
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grandparents when Dorothy tried the
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phone ray she was given the surprising
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news that he had gone on
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leave then she learned that the military
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had without explanation hired a moving
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crew to clean out their
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apartment 2 weeks later a moving van
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showed up at Dorothy's parents home in
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the boxes and Trunks there was not one
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single item belonging to Ray no pictures
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no letters no writing nothing it was as
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though he had been purged from our lives
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as though he was completely gone and
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wiped
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out and my mother just didn't know what
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to make of
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it a month went back and then a man
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claiming to be from the Army visited
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Dorothy with shocking news this is all I
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know on October 14th 1947 he was listed
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as awall 30 days later he was dropped
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from the military roles and classified
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as a
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deserter as a result Dorothy and Carol
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lost all of their military
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benefits Dorothy later tried to get in
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touch with the mysterious visitor the
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Army said they had never heard of him
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my mother was alone she was frightened
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and uh she was afraid something terrible
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had happened to my father perhaps he'
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gone overseas him and killed in line of
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duty she could not comprehend that he
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would just disappear she really thought
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the government was withholding
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information from her it is absolutely
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not total paranoia to to wonder if the
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CIA or another intelligence Branch had
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something to do with his disappearance I
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can think of a half dozen cases where
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people you know there were weird things
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like that happened where the family was
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not told the truth and the loved one did
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disappear or or died and they weren't
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told how they died Ry was labeled a
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deserter and was
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disgraced Carol and her mother struggled
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to make ends meet Carol grew up married
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and moved to
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Oklahoma she became a private
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investigator special izing and reuniting
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families but she never gave up the
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search for her own
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father as I look through the material
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that I received I began to get a picture
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of someone very special someone very
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highly trained someone who had performed
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to the at the top level and I came to
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believe that this was a man who would
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not just
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disappear after years of budding heads
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with government government bureaucracy
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Carol finally went to the
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media an article about her missing
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father appeared in the local Arlington
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newspaper 3 hours later she received the
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phone
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call hello the caller identified himself
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by a code name Archangel he was using a
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mobile phone and would not reveal his
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exact location he said that my AR had
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really rattled cages at the CIA and that
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it had really shook people up those were
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his words now listen carefully I've got
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to give you some background there had
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been sensitive leaks in the atomic
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energy area and your dad was
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investigating those leaks in August of
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47 an attempt was made on his life his
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Superior decided to bury your father it
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was easier to drop out 20 years ago
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things were different the man told Carol
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that her father was not a deserter Ray's
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life had been in danger so a paper trail
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was created to cover his disappearance
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the whole time he was a few miles from
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our Archangel revealed the astonishing
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news that for nearly a year Ry had lived
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only 3 mil away from Carol and her
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mother he had been hidden by the
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government in the suburbs of Washington
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DC where is he now your father is still
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alive his name is Nelson he lives in a
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NATO country country where there were
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high mountains Crystal Clear lakes and a
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longtime
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democracy that's all I can
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say when I hung up the phone I felt very
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drained maybe he was a jokester or a con
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artist maybe he was going to call back
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and want money I just didn't know what
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to believe but there was a part of me
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that kept saying my dad's alive there's
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a
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chance Carol never heard from the
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mysterious caller again but she and her
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son Ian have never stopped trying to
00:24:31
decipher archangel's Clues it's Crystal
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Clear
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leges it is possible that my father
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chose to follow his career and that that
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was what he wanted Above All Else
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including myself and our
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family and that's very
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painful I have compassion for a young
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man who may have made a wrong choice we
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all make wrong choices and I want my
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father to know that we love him and that
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it's it's it's forgotten we just want
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the pain of not having him to
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end Carol hopes to someday reunite with
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her father or at least clear him of the
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charge that he's a deserter if you have
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next the incredible story of a
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supernatural force that is terrorizing
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ing an entire
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family for most of us haunted houses are
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the places we visit on Halloween we
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scream we jump we laugh and then we go
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home but in Ohio a family has to deal
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with the horrifying fact that for them
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home is A Haunted
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House
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okay got it yeah you first a newly
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married couple we'll call them Joe and
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Mary Smith thought they were moving into
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their dream
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home but when Mary was pregnant with
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their first
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child they got a warning that something
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was
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wrong it really worried me because it
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sounded much more than a mous or a
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raccoon or something so like grading
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noises and uh things being dragged so to
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speak Mary called her father a police
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detective careful dad he approached the
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addict expecting a
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burglar sweetheart
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take a look at this the attic was a
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disaster Zone blankets pulled out boxes
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of Christmas ornaments dumped childhood
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trinkets broken yet there was no sign of
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an intruder the attic had been sealed
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tight at that point I just shivered kind
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of like with fear
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because something was there that I
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didn't know about and I didn't
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particularly care for that feeling at
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all darn turned on their own and the
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strange noises continued Mary soon
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learned that the house had a disturbing
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past now we've had a nice walk no no no
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we hold hands till we get back the
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previous owners had reportedly adopted a
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little boy one day he just mysteriously
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vanished and to this day no one knows
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what happened to him Mary suspected that
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that boy might be linked to the
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hauntings one night when her own son was
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almost the same age as the missing child
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Mary says that he let out a blood
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curdling
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scream it just was a very tormented type
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of a cry that's what I heard in his
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voice was that horrible
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fear what do you see
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honey Mary had no idea what upset her
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son until he happened to visit his
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grandmother a few weeks
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later
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Grandma are you
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hurt no I want to go home well why and I
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thought what happened he says Grandma I
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want to go home I'm not never coming
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back here again I says why what why why
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aren't you coming back he says no no Dev
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de I what is he talking about what a g
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what are you saying a devil devil the
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child was pointing at a religious
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painting of St Michael the Archangel
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trampling Satan underf foot the little
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boy later told his mother it was the
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same devil he had seen in his
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bedroom Mary and her husband considered
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moving many times but they had too much
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invested in house finally Mary
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discovered what she now believes is the
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key to the disturbing
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events now we've had a nice walk no no
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no we hold hands till we get back the
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little boy who once lived there had
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apparently died under mysterious
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circumstances in the
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kit and he was buried somewhere on the
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property it just was
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creepy I perhaps thought there might be
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a connection in fact it wasn't a might
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be I was very concerned that there
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probably was a connection when most
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people think of a haunted house they
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think of spirits of the dead but uh in
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most cases houses that are haunted
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genuinely appear to be haunted by some
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type of an energy
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force at our request Dr Nichols and two
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colleagues investigated Mary's
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home we conducted a series of uh of
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energy field scans throughout the house
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to try to establish a baseline energy
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field reading uh electromagnetic
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Electric magnetic fields microwave
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fields to try to determine if there are
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any unusual energy Fields present in the
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house in one of the bedrooms they found
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a strong electromagnetic field that
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surrounded a dresser left behind by
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previous
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owners one of the suggestions that I
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made to the family was that they remove
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the dresser at least from the bedroom
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and preferably from the house
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temporarily and see if it has an effect
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on The Haunting phenomena that they're
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experiencing the Paras pychology found
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even stronger readings in the basement
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where an abandoned well ran deep down to
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an underground
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Lake we find many houses uh that are
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haunted are located over sources of
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underground water and so there does seem
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to be a
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correlation this may conduct some form
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of psychic energy it may conduct some
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form of natural earth-based uh magnetic
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fields that stimulates a person's
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psychic
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abilities people ask us frequently do we
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believe in ghosts and the answer is yes
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there's no question that people
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experience ghosts but what are they are
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they actually spirits of the Dead are
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they some type of entities From Another
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Dimension or are they some strange
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artifact of the human psyche
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unfortunately those are questions which
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for now remain an unsolved
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mystery next a young boy whose mother
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was murdered is the key to catching her
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killer it was a summer day in Vancouver
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Washington let me zip your coat
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up you going to have fun with daddy this
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weekend mhm 5-year-old Dustin Johnson
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was waiting for his father to pick him
00:32:26
up for a custody visit
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Dustin didn't know it but he was saying
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goodbye to his mother for the last
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time give me a kiss I love you love you
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here's your back remember my mom getting
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me ready to go with my
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dad she gave me a hug and a kiss goodbye
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and told my she'd see me when I come
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back but then I come back and Mom wasn't
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there that same weekend Patricia Johnson
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was murdered 9 days later later her
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naked decomposing body was
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found 2 weeks later Patricia's own
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brother Dennis Keith Smith confessed to
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the crime he was sentenced to life in
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prison on a charge of second degree
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murder Dustin moved in with his mother's
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parents when Dennis Smith was paroled 10
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years later he came to live in the same
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house every day Dustin Johnson had to
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face the man who killed his mother and
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then another Local woman mysteriously
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disappeared Dustin became convinced that
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his uncle was somehow
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involved your lunch is made thanks H Dan
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and Carolyn kbby lived just 3 miles from
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Dustin they were planning an evening
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out we don't have the kids tonight so
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why don't we just get together and have
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dinner spend some time together okay all
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right it promised to be a romantic
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evening just the two of them but before
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Dan left work his brother called and
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invited him to stop by we ended up going
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down to uh a Tavern down the street we
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we had a beer and we started shooting
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some
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pool turned out there was a Blazer game
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on we started watching that we had a
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couple more beers and uh I had decided
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just to uh stay behind at his place and
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chose not to drive home
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home Dan didn't call home until 1
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a.m. hi
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Carolyn it's me listen I'm going to stay
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at Dave's tonight I had a few beers so
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you know I better just stay here I will
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see you in the
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morning Sunday morning Dan returned to
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an empty house his message was still on
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the
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machine Carolyn
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he assumed that Carolyn was angry with
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him for not showing up but by Sunday
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night he began to
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worry hello Susan yeah this is Dan Dan
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called everyone in his wife's phonebook
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from A to Z no one could account for
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Carolyn Carolyn still hadn't sh up by
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6:00 a.m. Monday when she was due at
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work Dan and his brother Cruis the
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streets of Vancouver looking for any
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sign of Carolyn finally they found her
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car in a nightclub parking
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lot this is her
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car the morning bar maid was the G that
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worked there Saturday night and she said
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yeah I saw your wife she was in Saturday
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night that's the last time I saw
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her so at that point you
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know Panic set
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in the car was there and my wife was
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nowhere to be
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found
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when Dustin Johnson read about Carolyn
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kbby in the local newspaper one fact
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jumped
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out I found a name by the name of Dennis
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in the newspaper and I continued to read
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that the lady was missing and I had this
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feeling that that person by the name of
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Dennis might be my uncle this might be a
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weird conversation Dustin found Dan KB's
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number and call
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yeah I just was reading through there
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and found the name of Dennis do you know
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what Dennis's last name is he called me
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and said he'd saw the article and if
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this Dennis that was mentioned in the
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article was in fact Dennis Keith
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Smith that that was his uncle and he
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wanted to let me know that he had
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murdered his mother authorities had not
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yet released the last name of the man
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seen with Carol Dan asked detectives to
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check out Dustin's hunch he said that uh
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he thinks that the man Dennis that
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you're looking for his name is Dennis
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Smith and he said that this guy is a
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murderer is that
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true there was a long pause from the
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detectives and I knew right then it was
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the
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person at that point in
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time I think uh right then and there I I
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knew my wife had been
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killed
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right
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there the nightclub bartender helped
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police reconstruct what probably
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happened to Carolyn
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kbby you can tell it on her face she's
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been
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crying she was alone she didn't want to
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be with anybody she's
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upset if she would had one more drink
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she would have been passed out probably
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going to the hospital she's really bad
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off she's trouble her oh yeah Dennis
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Smith was a regular at the club
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according to the bartender Smith had
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been watching Carolyn All Night Long at
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about 11:30 he made his move it's just
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the way he walked up to her is as if
00:38:16
there old friends but she didn't know
00:38:18
who she is
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with he spoke to her for a few
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seconds she lifted her head up he had
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one arm around around his neck and had a
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hold of it and walked out with
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her detectives decided that it was time
00:38:41
to have a little talk with Dennis Smith
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who was it you talked to it was the
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bouncer okay you said the waitress or
00:38:49
bartender which is it it can't probably
00:38:51
isn't both of them at this point right
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so he would laugh at times for no real
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apparent reason reason I was which is
00:38:59
very indicative of someone that's trying
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to be
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deceitful you were in your truck for 45
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minutes
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yeah what happened what come
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on come on Dennis we're all adults
00:39:12
what's going on what happens she
00:39:15
attacked me so you know I'm winded and
00:39:17
I'm pretty tired after that and we you
00:39:19
know what mean she attacked you and then
00:39:21
I see this guy and he's got like the
00:39:22
stick in his hand Smith went on to claim
00:39:24
that the stranger threatened him and
00:39:26
then took Carolyn away a stick what was
00:39:29
it detectives had a hard time believing
00:39:32
that
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story especially when they inspected
00:39:36
Smith's pickup
00:39:38
truck oh man that's more than a
00:39:40
cigarette Burn yeah it looks like he
00:39:42
took a torch to it it wasn't just the
00:39:44
gaping hole in the seat that aroused
00:39:46
suspicion the seat cover had been
00:39:49
removed and every inch of carpeting had
00:39:52
been stripped off the floor and at that
00:39:55
that point basically I knew that Dennis
00:39:57
was hiding something from us maybe any
00:40:01
evidence that Carolyn was in his truck
00:40:04
or that something bad happened to her in
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the
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truck but there was no proof that
00:40:10
Carolyn was actually dead and suspicions
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alone weren't enough to keep Dennis
00:40:14
Smith in custody by the time police
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collected enough evidence Smith left
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town a warrant was put out for his
00:40:25
arrest update
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on the night of our broadcast Tracy
00:40:31
hodman and John Cummings were watching
00:40:33
the program with their new neighbor Dave
00:40:38
sandborn he kind of started getting
00:40:40
nervous and um they started describing
00:40:42
the color of his tattoos that were on
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his arm and I said I looked over and I
00:40:46
said you have those color tattoos you
00:40:48
know and he asked me is there anything
00:40:51
else on he didn't want to watch the show
00:40:53
and I said no I like the show I'll watch
00:40:54
it and he you know got up and went in
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the kitchen he started pacing around
00:41:00
Dave Sanborn of course turned out to be
00:41:03
Dennis Keith
00:41:05
Smith he stole his neighbor's car but
00:41:07
police caught up with Smith 2 days later
00:41:10
at this intersection he turned and
00:41:12
charged the officers and a fight ensued
00:41:15
uh during the course of that fight he
00:41:18
attempted to remove the firearm from one
00:41:20
of the
00:41:21
officers uh was beginning to
00:41:25
successfully remove that firearm when
00:41:26
the second an officer fired a single
00:41:28
shot uh striking Mr Smith in the neck
00:41:32
Smith was also shot in the wrist during
00:41:34
the struggle after 2 weeks in a hospital
00:41:36
he recovered enough to appear in a
00:41:38
Florida courtroom Smith was exed to
00:41:41
Washington and tried on a charge of
00:41:44
first-degree murder he was found guilty
00:41:47
and sentenced to 70 years behind bars he
00:41:51
also received an additional 99 years for
00:41:55
violating parole but the story of Dennis
00:41:58
Keith Smith does not end here while in
00:42:02
prison Smith hanged himself with a bed
00:42:04
sheet attached to an air vent he was 42
00:42:07
years
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old
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