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tonight on unsolved mysteries these
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intricate formations are known as crop
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circles they often pop up overnight in
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the middle of nowhere
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many are attributed to clever pranksters
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others have no rational explanation at
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all
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are they the work of some strange force
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on earth or something not in this world
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still lonely and heartbroken from the
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sudden death of his beloved wife Charles
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Barker was happy when a new woman
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entered his life however his happiness
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was to be as short-lived as the
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relationship Ashley pond and Miranda
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Geddes same age same height same
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features dance teammates and neighbors
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until they were snatched off the street
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near this Oregon City apartment complex
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unspeakable crimes that have left a
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small town gripped with fear and
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authorities hunting for the worst kind
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of predator a violent gang member
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reportedly wreaks havoc on the quiet
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streets of Milwaukee leaving three
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innocent people dead police are asking
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for your help and apprehending the
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suspect before more lives are lost
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one final piece of information maybe all
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this needed to solve a mystery perhaps
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someone watching can help perhaps it's
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you
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Edmonton Alberta on the western edge of
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the Canadian Prairie rusty Manuel
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Anthony Whitman have been driving home
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from the city when they were flagged
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down by one of their farmhands yeah he
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said you have a circle in your field and
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I said yes I know the darn animals
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they're always lying down and and
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flattening the green he said oh no it
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had to be an awfully big animal to make
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this circle but rusty and Feli
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discovered were seven crop circles
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pressed into thistle and barley
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comprising a formation about 190 feet
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long it was just amazing
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what made this how could it be made you
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know what's going on here the grain was
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all flattened down and it almost looked
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like a powder and like petals the way
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the Grange a moat and then the heads
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turned back in towards the center gate I
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got ahold of the city police the city
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police didn't come out
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he was totally amazed soon after the
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startling discovery was made the
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Canadian crop circle research network
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was contacted see CCRN as a group of
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volunteers dedicated to gathering
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information about the mystery of crop
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circles
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Judy aren't is a field researcher with
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the organization it looked like a place
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had been electrocuted the plants were so
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badly frazzled it was just amazing
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looked like there had been a huge force
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of some sort so it's over there
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I was very curious to see what we could
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see and look at the details of the
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formation skeptics are quick to call the
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whole affair a hoax but ribbiting the
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work too clever pranksters like those
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shown in this TV documentary well I'm
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from a farming background so I know what
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it looks like when plants are driven
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over or flattened in some way so it was
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very clear to us that it hadn't been
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flattened by somebody out there with
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planks and boards you can't do that to
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thistle
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it was very densely grown and it would
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be very difficult for anybody to get in
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without leaving tracks behind Paul
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Anderson director of the CCC RM has
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studied many similar formations in
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Western Canada well anybody can go out
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with a board and flatten down weed you
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know I could do that anyone could do
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that
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and yes something you have to take into
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account is it's not just the formation
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itself but it's the complexity of how
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it's actually constructed what's even in
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some of the ones here into scouts when
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we've seen haven't quite elaborate like
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multiple layers going in different
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directions while on top of the other and
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so on Paul believes another factor makes
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it improbable the so-called Edmonton
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circle was a hoax
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unlike england's mysterious stonehenge
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region for many crop circles have been
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sighted Western Canada holds little of
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that same mystique what would be the
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point you know usually when you hoax
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something you want to claim it after and
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make a big fuss about it and you know
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make a name for yourself as Judy art
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examined the site she carefully
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documented each of the circles within
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the formation Judy also gathered up crop
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and soil samples for scientific analysis
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each sample is numbered and there's a
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corresponding sample of the grain stocks
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and of the soil at that particular
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location so those are all numbered and
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written on a chart the samples are
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analyzed by Nancy Talbot in Cambridge
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Massachusetts
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Nancy works with a consortium of
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scientists who have studied more than
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350 crop circle
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cases from eight different countries the
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three major changes in plants in the
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real McCoy as opposed to man-made crop
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circles are no D long Gatien expulsion
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cavities at the nodes and germination
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abnormalities each of these conditions
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was present in the crop samples sent
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from Edmonton in other words both
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internal and external characteristics of
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the crops were profoundly altered in
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ways that could not be induced by humans
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using ropes and boards there is a a
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sense that you're walking into something
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special
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I have always equated it to walking
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former high-ranking British government
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official Colin engine as witnesses
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phenomenon many times there's
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preciseness the geometry is precise
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there are no tracks in or out the plants
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are not damaged they're bent over
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they're not knuckled or broken the
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plants are changed in their internal
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structure at the cellular level you
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don't find that in the hoaxes
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meanwhile the soil samples from the
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Edmonton site were sent to dr. Sampath
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Iyengar in California dr. Iyengar is an
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expert in material analysis we went
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ahead and looked at the mineralogy of
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the clays using a technique called x-ray
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powder diffraction that's the technique
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that can be used to identify the type of
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place and the type of various other
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minerals that are present in a soil the
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results showed a dramatic difference
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between the soil samples taken from
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inside the crop circle compared to those
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taken from outside the circle this has
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been seen by geologists before but this
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is in a geologic time who were several
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millions of years plus at a lot higher
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temperature than what you would expect
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in a crop circle and this has to be some
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kind of fantastic energy or some kind of
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who lays a type of thing that's causing
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this change and I don't have any idea
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what it is
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the crop circles in Western Canada
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finally provide conclusive evidence of
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unknown forces at work skeptics say no
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they blame pranksters who proudly take
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credit for making 80 percent of these
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often complex formations creations they
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call human land art but what about the
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other 20% it's a debate that's been
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raging since the mid 1970s on the wave
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of crop circles captured worldwide
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attention the most compelling question
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remains unanswered if they are not the
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work of humans than who or what created
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them and how theories range from
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geothermal and magnetic forces to some
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kind of cosmic energy we looked at
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meteorology we looked at earth energies
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with added chemical application of
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farmers and all of them led to a blank
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it just did not fit what we now know is
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we have a solid mystery this cannot be
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explained in the terms of people making
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them we have many hundreds that are
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absolutely certainly not man-made and
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that is a solid fact things like
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compasses will deviate or even spin if
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you sit them on the ground you know like
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in the center of a circle the things
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like that which to me hoaxing simply
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doesn't explain because something has to
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be affecting that compass even compasses
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and airplanes have been affected flying
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over some of these you know I had
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problems with my own camera both on the
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ground and in the plane any kind of
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electrical equipment well often a dismal
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function or go completely dead inside
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some of these perhaps most intriguing of
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all the proposed series is the one that
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claims at least some crop circles are
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the work of extraterrestrials I was
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contacted by a young couple who had been
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driving
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along in the late evening so do have to
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work next weekend
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maybe they're gonna come she was taking
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her husband to work in North Edmonton he
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looked out the window and saw some
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lights and rolled down the window to
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make sure it wasn't just reflection on
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his passenger side window and the lights
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were still there he got quite excited
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about it and asked his wife to pull over
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there were two small lights brilliant
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blueish then they said these two lights
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looked like they were playing tag with
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each other one's ever gonna believe this
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and it went on for I don't know 20 30
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seconds this sighting occurred about a
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week before the crop circle formation
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was found then a few days later
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rusty Manuel and Thule Whitman had their
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own close encounter
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we were just approaching her firm when
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we saw this light what first you thought
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it was a helicopter because it moved
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like a helicopter but still there was no
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other lights on it it was just bright
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and would just hover over the field and
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sort of move off and then come back
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again I tried to picture it as being an
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aircraft but it was too much too big
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furniture craft that's no airplane and
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it just seemed like it passed over the
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back end of the pickup and it just it
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just disappeared it just was so fast was
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there a connection between the strange
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lights in the sky and the sudden
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appearance of the Edmonton crop circles
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just days later seth shostack his senior
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astronomer at the SETI Institute an
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acronym meaning the search for
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extraterrestrial intelligence Seth and
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his colleagues explore the heavens for
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any sign of life I believe that the
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aliens are out there but I don't think
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that they're visiting here the fact that
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so many people
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feel that there may be something unusual
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going on here crop circles UFOs and so
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forth I think this speaks a
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psychological need that we all have to
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believe that there are some powers that
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we don't understand and after all it's
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much more interesting to think that this
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pattern in the weed here was graffiti
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from beings from another world than to
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think that it was students from the
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local university that's not a terribly
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interesting story but what about crop
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circles are simply defy logic formations
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that show no sign of human intervention
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that certainly seemed to be the case in
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Red Deer Alberta not far from Edmonton
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according to a stunned local farmer this
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giant star of david' formation literally
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appeared overnight in one of his fields
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it measured an incredible 422 feet
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across
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still skeptics like seth shostack
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believe it's all smoke and mirrors when
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I go to a stage show in Las Vegas and I
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see these grand illusions produced by
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these magicians I don't understand how
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they're all done in fact I don't
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understand how most of them are done and
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I could assume some unknown physical
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forces involved this would be terribly
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important if it were true about the crop
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circles but the facts are that to say
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that they are made by something other
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than humans is a radical a revolutionary
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claim and consequently I'm not going to
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be swayed by what amounts to very
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anecdotal evidence it's got to be better
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than that I don't think we need
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necessarily to be talking or trying to
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prove that it is or isn't
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extraterrestrial I don't know that
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either
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what I know is what I'm looking at that
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has arrived in our fields something
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knows what it's doing here there is
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intelligence of some sort and I know
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they're not all made by people
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over the past three decades researchers
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have compiled a database that includes
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more than 10,000 crop circle reports
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from around the world
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if 8000 of these strange formations can
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be attributed to pranksters that still
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leaves more than 2,000 are simply
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unexplained hello yeah I'd like to put
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an ad in the personals
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for a week single white female 47 August
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1998 a woman calling herself Diana Rea
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decided to place an ad in the personals
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section of a Louisiana newspaper an
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honest and hardworking and seeking a
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compatible single white male 45 to 55
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to enjoy life together diana ray was
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hardly being honest according to
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authorities diana was a drifter who
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hitchhiked around the country looking
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for her next mark a lonely man to latch
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on to and drain his bank account in fact
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her real name was not Diana at all
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it was hazel Lyoto head a man named
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Charles Barker would have been
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interested in any one of these details
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if he had only known Charles Barker had
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recently suffered through the
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devastating sudden loss of his wife of
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ten years she was killed by drunk driver
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it was a settlement out-of-court and he
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came into a lot of money but after she
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died it just seemed like he kind of fell
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apart he didn't know what to do with
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himself I think he was depressed but
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then later on he it's like he snapped
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out of it and wanted to do things go
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fishing and travel he bought a Winnebago
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a boat I guess that's when the
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loneliness set in you know he didn't
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like doing them by herself
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the riverboat casinos operating on the
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red river in Bossier City Louisiana
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became Charles Barker's latest diversion
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although he probably believed he and
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Diana became acquainted by chance given
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her track record she undoubtedly
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orchestrated the meeting Charles Parker
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carried pretty large amounts of cash
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with him hazel would have almost
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certainly noticed that because she'd be
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looking for those kinds of things and so
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he would have become a target for her I
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might ask you to help me because I'm not
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doing too
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good here well your hand looks pretty
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good right now let's see
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they shared a whirlwind romance and less
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than a year after the death of his wife
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and within days of their initial meeting
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hazel had moved in with Charles Barker
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dad told me he'd met a woman in a casino
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you know didn't think anything of it you
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know I just hope he's happy and I don't
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want to see him alone you know I thought
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maybe she would be a good companion for
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him and evidently he was happy with her
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for a while because he would call me and
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say if he liked her he needed someone
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some companionship he didn't like to be
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alone one weekend Jennifer made the
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nine-hour drive from her Austin Texas
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home to meet her father's new girlfriend
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and I want you to meet my daughter
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Jennifer when I first met her she was in
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the casino with my dad she was a very
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you know a real presentable woman you
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know there's no class she looked like a
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a barfly you know I was suspicious ever
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I knew she wasn't right for him daddy
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what's going on you do not a short time
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later even Charles apparently began to
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share that opinion one big ol messy
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situation here according to his daughter
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Cindy Charles admitted he was troubled
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in a fully conversation but declined to
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reveal what his problems were I can help
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you with this please sweetheart listen
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to me trust me here when my dad called
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me he just sounded so different and he
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started crying and I've never you know
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heard my
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cry or anything and but he told me he
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called me into three days everything
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would be okay and let me know what was
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going on but that explanation never came
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shortly afterward Jennifer tried calling
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her father to arrange another visit I'd
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been trying to phone him for the whole
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week and no answer and I finally called
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my aunt and she said we'll go by there
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and check on him Charles Barker's sister
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julienne and her husband drove over to
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see if there was a problem June stringer
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and her husband noticed that the front
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door of the residence is open so they
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proceeded further the husband looks in
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and sees mr. Barker slumped over the bar
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Charles Barker had been dead for five
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days killed by a single gunshot to the
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head as investigators combed the crime
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scene several observations were made our
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detectives found no sign of a struggle
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they did not find a house that had been
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ransacked mr. Barker had a 25 caliber
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raven arms pistol that he kept in his
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residence there were no prints found on
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the gun but the ballistics evidence
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indicates that that was the weapon that
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was used mr. Barker had a safe that he
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kept in his bedroom the safe was opened
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when investigators arrived except for
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Charles Barker's personal papers it was
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empty
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I know for a fact that my dad always
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kept money in there and at that time I
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believe he probably had $45,000 at least
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and that safe
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also missing was Charles Barker's
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Lincoln Towncar
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and his girlfriend mr. Barker's vehicle
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was found the next day after his body
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was discovered it was found near the
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airport inside the car were pieces of
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clothing that belonged to hazel also
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found in the car was DNA evidence
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physical evidence that we believe
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definitely links her to the car we
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believe she is the one that took the car
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from his residence and drove it to that
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spot near the airport a background check
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on hazel had revealed that she'd been
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married as many as ten times and was
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known to use more than a dozen aliases
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there was also an outstanding warrant
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for her arrest in Lincoln Nebraska
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hazel head had allegedly burned down her
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boyfriend's mobile home then fled before
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standing trial did hazel had murdered
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Charles Barker and escaped with an
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unknown amount of cash had this been her
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plan from the very beginning our
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investigators theorized that mr. Barker
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was probably at the bar reading the
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newspaper hazel came out of the bedroom
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with the gun the 25 caliber he didn't
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realize that she was behind it
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we believe that mr. Barker probably
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never knew what hit him
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but was hazel head plotting yet another
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scam even while she was still living
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with Charles Barker Louisiana
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authorities subsequently recovered a
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recording of a personals ad she plays
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shortly before his murder this is hazel
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head in her own voice lonely men
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everywhere beware hazel head is known to
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frequent truck stops often hitching
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rides from town to town investigators
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believe she easily blends into that
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environment and never stays long in one
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place
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hazel head is a very street-smart woman
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she flies below radar to track hazel
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head is very difficult
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she becomes almost like a ghost it's
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like she's here and she's gone
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but it must not be forgotten that she is
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a dangerous person that she might have
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killed even before mr. Barker was
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murdered she may have killed since she
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has a dark side to her
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hazel head stands five feet two inches
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tall she has a scar near her right eye
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and a gap between her front teeth head
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is wanted for the first-degree murder of
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Charles Barker and should be considered
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dangerous Oregon City Oregon is a small
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blue-collar town of 27,000 people just
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south of Portland a friendly place where
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adults trust their neighbors and
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children play without fear but suddenly
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everything changed over a six-week
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period two young girls vanished without
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a trace
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setting in motion one of the most
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complex and unusual investigations state
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authorities have ever encountered
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nestled among the hills of Oregon cities
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its Newell Creek Village Apartments the
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complex includes 125 units and is home
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to more than 325 residents including
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Laurie Pond and her 12 year old daughter
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Ashley January 9th 2002 Ashley was
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running late as usual
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it was a little after 8:00 a.m. and she
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had only a few minutes to catch the bus
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the walk up the hill to the bus stop
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took less than 10 minutes Ashley was a
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popular student and member of both the
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swimming and dance teams on that
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Wednesday she was looking forward to
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practice after class
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Laurie Pond expected to hear from her
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daughter by 6:15 p.m. when she didn't
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Lauri became worried and called the
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school high the dance coach answered she
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said no Ashley wasn't there I said well
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can you ask the kids maybe they saw and
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they said no and they said they hadn't
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even seen her in school and that's where
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I went no this is this is wrong
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something's wrong because Ashley would
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not have done that and she would have
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called me now when was actually last
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seen Lori immediately contacted the
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Oregon City police she told the officer
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none of Ashley's clothes her personal
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belongings was missing at school things
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she was sure her daughter would have
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taken had she run away no no no I didn't
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sleep that night at all I just thought
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maybe she would you know come home and
00:26:38
I'd you know knock on the door or
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whatever but she never did
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the police concluded there might be a
00:26:49
child abductor on the loose and opened
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an investigation detectives first talked
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with some of Ashley's classmates they
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said she never got on the bus next
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police canvassed the entire apartment
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complex looking for leads or possible
00:27:03
suspects they found neither the
00:27:06
investigators have been able to search
00:27:08
every apartment within that complex
00:27:10
including crawl spaces and attic spaces
00:27:13
and are confident that there was nothing
00:27:17
there to see the search expanded
00:27:22
hundreds of volunteers combed the
00:27:24
surrounding area while detectives
00:27:26
questioned Ashley's father looking at
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Ashley's Internet activity and check dot
00:27:30
lists of known sex offenders again no
00:27:33
clues no suspects and no sign of Ashley
00:27:37
detectives then contacted the FBI we
00:27:41
moved to the larger community around the
00:27:44
apartment complex we've been through the
00:27:47
school we've talked to individual
00:27:49
students who are associates with talk to
00:27:51
teachers we've talked to administrators
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we talked to the school as a whole
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more dead ends and still the same
00:28:00
fundamental question remained unanswered
00:28:02
what had happened Ashley pond between
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8:05 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. meanwhile 13
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year-old Miranda Gattis Ashley's
00:28:17
neighbor and dance teammate found
00:28:19
herself in the middle of an intense
00:28:20
investigation could you tell me how long
00:28:25
you actually know Ashley since about
00:28:27
third grade
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the FBI talked to Miranda a lot about
00:28:31
Ashley because they've known each other
00:28:32
so long stay wordfriends and I'm sure
00:28:36
that they knew pretty much the same
00:28:38
people
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days turned to weeks still no sign of
00:28:43
Ashley pond and life at the apartment
00:28:47
complex became somewhat normal again
00:28:51
March 8 2002 Michelle Duffy packed up
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for work as usual it was 7:30 a.m.
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her daughter Miranda was a no hurry
00:29:03
she still had 45 minutes before the
00:29:05
school bus arrived
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police believe Miranda left her
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apartment a little after 8:00 a.m. and
00:29:12
headed up the hill for the bus stop
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[Music]
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Knight is Michelle about 120 my oldest
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daughter called me she didn't and said
00:29:26
Miranda's friends said she wasn't at
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school so of course I called home no one
00:29:31
answered and then I called the school
00:29:32
and the school said oh yeah she's absent
00:29:36
and then I got very upset oh my god
00:29:39
something's wrong thank you no no thank
00:29:42
you and I went to the police station and
00:29:44
they took a report and started right
00:29:49
then on the case everybody's reaction
00:29:51
was the same of you know oh my god not
00:29:55
again minutes later police raced to the
00:29:58
apartment complex hoping I guess hope
00:30:00
Miranda goddess would show up
00:30:02
she didn't they notified the FBI and
00:30:07
immediately ratchet up just a full-scale
00:30:10
investigation in search well when I
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heard Miranda had came up missing also
00:30:16
my heart dropped into my stomach and I
00:30:18
cried because I was like reliving the
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day Ashley came up missing all over
00:30:25
again the circumstances surrounding
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Miranda's disappears on March 8th 2002
00:30:32
were eerily similar to those of Ashley
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pond two months earlier even more
00:30:39
ominous was a striking resemblance
00:30:41
between the two girls they're about the
00:30:43
same height and weight and both have
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brown eyes
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we've got a mirror image of a victim and
00:30:52
an occurrence it is almost as if the
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same child disappeared twice and it was
00:30:59
just to repeat like Ashley Miranda
00:31:03
usually took the road up the hill to
00:31:05
catch the bus had she been snatched by a
00:31:08
stranger on the way had actually met a
00:31:10
similar fate it's feasible that if we're
00:31:15
dealing with a stranger abduction that
00:31:17
Ashley's disappearance was a it was a
00:31:20
crime of opportunity at that one moment
00:31:22
in time and that the offender having
00:31:25
been successful came back to the same
00:31:30
area to do it again a crime of
00:31:33
opportunity committed by a stranger it
00:31:36
was certainly plausible but the mothers
00:31:39
of the two girls found it highly
00:31:40
unlikely they both would have put up a
00:31:43
stink if somebody tried to take them
00:31:45
like that they didn't know if someone
00:31:47
grabbed Miranda she would have thought
00:31:50
and there would have been something
00:31:52
laying in the road
00:31:54
without an apparent crime scene police
00:31:57
began to focus on another perhaps more
00:31:59
likely theory there's nothing to
00:32:03
indicate there was a struggle or any
00:32:05
resistance
00:32:06
no blood no articles of clothing
00:32:08
anything of that nature so so we also
00:32:11
the possibility we're dealing with
00:32:12
somebody that that both of them knew
00:32:17
since the disappears of Ashley pond and
00:32:20
Miranda Geddes school bus now picks up
00:32:22
students right outside their doors
00:32:24
however residents of Newell Creek
00:32:27
Village Apartments indeed all of Oregon
00:32:29
City remain on edge terrified that a
00:32:33
child abductor walks among them
00:32:36
this is the type of offender that
00:32:38
doesn't stop on their own volition this
00:32:40
type of multiple sexual predator is
00:32:44
someone that at least in the general
00:32:47
experience dictates that they will
00:32:50
continue until they're stopped
00:32:52
investigators have processed over 3500
00:32:55
tips still they have no suspects however
00:32:59
the search continues for any lead that
00:33:01
might help crack these puzzling cases
00:33:04
meanwhile two hard-working single
00:33:06
mothers suffer through every parent's
00:33:08
nightmare and try their best to remain
00:33:10
hopeful Miranda I love you and your
00:33:15
family loves you your friends love you
00:33:16
and everyone misses you and we want you
00:33:18
home and whoever has you we're never
00:33:21
gonna give up we're gonna be here
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forever I can't wait for the day that I
00:33:25
can wrap my arms around Ashley again and
00:33:27
tell her I love her
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update on August 27th 2002 the desperate
00:33:36
search for Ashley pond and Miranda
00:33:37
Gattis ended tragically at a neighbor's
00:33:40
house just a few hundred yards from
00:33:41
where the girls were last seen the
00:33:44
remains of Miranda Gatos were found in a
00:33:46
shed in the backyard award weavers right
00:33:48
at home two days later in the same
00:33:51
backyard investigators broke up a
00:33:54
concrete slab to unearth the body of
00:33:57
Ashley pond
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and the gruesome discovery was made the
00:34:03
39 year old Weaver was in custody
00:34:05
charged with raping his son's girlfriend
00:34:07
he is being held on a 1 million dollar
00:34:10
bond Weaver is expected to be charged in
00:34:13
the deaths of the two girls
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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the southside of Milwaukee's honker
00:34:40
hunters of law-abiding blue-collar
00:34:41
families not long ago this peaceful
00:34:45
neighborhood was invaded by a vicious
00:34:46
gang of drug dealers known as a Lopez
00:34:48
family allegedly the gangs principal
00:34:51
enforcer is 20-year old Arthur Lopez jr.
00:34:55
police believe Arthur's behind a bloody
00:34:57
wave of terror that has left three
00:34:59
people dead and countless lives
00:35:01
destroyed
00:35:02
hopefully someone watching can help
00:35:05
authorities find Arthur Lopez jr. the
00:35:11
Lopez family reportedly bought seven
00:35:13
houses in a two block radius to oversee
00:35:15
their drug empire when a rival gang
00:35:23
called the Latin Kings tried to move
00:35:25
into their area authorities believe the
00:35:27
Lopez's did not hesitate to act
00:35:40
anyone who gets in their way reportedly
00:35:43
has to face this man Arthur jr. the
00:35:46
alleged hitman for the Lopez family
00:35:50
carlos hernandez was once a member of
00:35:52
the Latin Kings but according to his
00:35:55
family Carlos had recently left the gang
00:35:57
and turned his life around
00:35:59
he just seen drive-bys and he started to
00:36:03
see how very rarely do they hit their
00:36:05
intended target they they'll hit
00:36:06
innocent bystanders kids playing on her
00:36:08
bikes in front of their houses he knew
00:36:12
it was a possibility that could happen
00:36:14
to anybody and he felt best that he'd
00:36:17
get out the gang and and turn it around
00:36:20
and and really try to help the
00:36:22
neighborhood come back to what it was
00:36:24
once was before Carlos Hernandez
00:36:28
organized a youth basketball league and
00:36:30
took a job with a city organization that
00:36:32
helps kids stay out of gangs
00:36:35
a major part of his job was to try and
00:36:40
mediate problems between the gangs in
00:36:42
that particular area so what do you
00:36:44
think Bob before thinking allured
00:36:46
business the Lopez family had come to
00:36:50
mr. Hernandez with a problem with the
00:36:52
Latin Kings over territory
00:36:55
police believe that Hernandez failed to
00:36:58
resolve the Lopez's turf dispute with a
00:37:00
Latin Kings
00:37:02
Arthur Lopez jr. was allegedly given the
00:37:05
order to take care of Hernandez
00:37:10
according to witnesses
00:37:11
Arthur Lopez jr. as several family
00:37:14
members surrounded the building where
00:37:16
Carlos Hernandez worked
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[Music]
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there was a predetermined code that they
00:37:30
were going to broadcast on the radio
00:37:32
when mr. Hernandez was spotted the code
00:37:34
was it's a beautiful day in the
00:37:36
neighborhood and that code was put out
00:37:38
when mr. Hernandez left from his
00:37:40
business to his vehicle at 4:30 p.m.
00:37:48
authorities believe Arthur Lopez jr.
00:37:51
donned a mask hopped on a bike and
00:37:53
coasted toward the unsuspecting
00:37:55
Hernandez
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[Music]
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carlos hernandez was hit by eight
00:38:10
bullets and died instantly
00:38:15
there was a nightmare
00:38:17
maybe we missed some we wish it had
00:38:21
never happened
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[Music]
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the hardest part is uh family gatherings
00:38:31
seeing my sister and my mother cry
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[Music]
00:38:34
because he's not her although Arthur
00:38:40
Lopez jr. was a suspect in Hernandez's
00:38:42
homicide police had little evidence
00:38:45
against him or his family then Arthur
00:38:48
made a seemingly harmless mistake
00:38:52
Arthur Lopez was arrested for driving
00:38:55
without a license while he was being
00:38:57
processed police received an unexpected
00:39:00
visitor Arthur's father Arturo senior
00:39:05
cuz I can in command of the Lopez family
00:39:12
Arturo Lopez senior demanded the release
00:39:16
of his son and threatened to return with
00:39:19
a firearm and to kill all the police
00:39:21
officers who were involved in Arthur
00:39:23
Lopez Jr's arrest
00:39:28
Arthur Lopez jr. could not be held on
00:39:31
the misdemeanor traffic charge and was
00:39:33
released but our torah senior was
00:39:35
convicted of threatening a police
00:39:37
officer and sentenced to 18 months in
00:39:39
jail his incarceration gave the
00:39:42
authorities the opportunity they'd been
00:39:44
looking for while Arturo Lopez senior
00:39:49
was in prison he made daily phone calls
00:39:53
to his son and other members of the
00:39:55
Lopez family basically directing the
00:39:58
continued narcotics distribution
00:40:00
activities of the Lopez gang it's gonna
00:40:05
give you a bucket
00:40:07
I want you to drop it off at Gino's pad
00:40:09
all of these phone calls that were made
00:40:11
by Arturo Lopez senior were recorded by
00:40:15
the prison phone system so there are
00:40:19
recorded copies of all the conversations
00:40:21
from both ends of the telephone as
00:40:23
authorities continue to build their case
00:40:26
against the Lopezes that was yet another
00:40:28
violent outburst
00:40:29
once again according to witnesses arthur
00:40:32
lopez jr. played a principal role it's
00:40:37
clear man is clear come on on August
00:40:40
11th Maximiliano Castillo a known member
00:40:43
of the Latin Kings and his girlfriend
00:40:45
Vanessa Rivas returned home after a
00:40:49
quick trip to the grocery store a car
00:40:53
was shadowing the couple I am gone
00:40:55
police believed that the driver was
00:40:57
arthur lopez jr. and that his passenger
00:41:00
was another lopez gang member named luis
00:41:03
Acevedo
00:41:06
[Music]
00:41:10
max
00:41:13
if I saw homes if my soul bro I got a
00:41:16
message for my friend bro yeah so what's
00:41:18
up you a dead man pump
00:41:24
Vanessa Rivas a completely innocent
00:41:27
bystander who had just celebrated her
00:41:29
15th birthday was unable to escape the
00:41:32
rain of bullets
00:41:36
we know that Vanessa Revis was hit once
00:41:40
in the side
00:41:45
bullet did a lot of damage and she
00:41:47
basically bled to death mr. Castillo was
00:41:50
struck a number of times at least three
00:41:52
times by the bullets fired by mr.
00:41:54
Acevedo and he also died from his
00:41:56
injuries in the ensuing months
00:42:02
authorities use Arturo seniors tape
00:42:04
phone calls and eyewitness testimony to
00:42:07
secure arrest warrants against Arthur
00:42:09
Lopez Jr and the rest of his family on
00:42:12
December 15th a multi-jurisdictional
00:42:14
task force moved to put the Lopez gang
00:42:17
out of business for good
00:42:27
large stashes of guns drugs and money
00:42:30
were seized eight individuals were
00:42:38
arrested destroying the gangs ability to
00:42:40
terrorize a community only one Lopez
00:42:46
family member managed to escape the
00:42:48
citywide dragnet our third Lopez jr. he
00:42:52
has now avoided arrest for nearly two
00:42:54
years
00:42:57
he's gotta pay he's done so much hurt
00:43:00
too many people families and and he's a
00:43:06
coward he's he's hiding we need we need
00:43:08
we need to get him get him off the
00:43:11
streets
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[Music]
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[Applause]
00:43:30
for every mystery there is someone
00:43:32
somewhere who holds the key join me for
00:43:36
the next edition of unsolved mysteries
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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