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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 9 - Full Episode

May 23, 2019 / 44:27

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers crop circles, the mysterious disappearances of two girls in Oregon City, and a violent gang in Milwaukee.

The segment on crop circles features the Edmonton formation discovered by farmers Rusty Manuel and Anthony Whitman, which was analyzed by experts from the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network. Researchers like Judy Arnt and Paul Anderson discuss the complexities of the formations and the scientific evidence suggesting they may not be human-made.

The episode then shifts to the tragic stories of Ashley Pond and Miranda Geddes, two young girls who vanished from their Oregon City neighborhood. Their mothers, Laurie Pond and Michelle Duffy, recount the panic and fear that gripped the community as authorities investigated their disappearances.

In Milwaukee, the episode highlights the violent activities of the Lopez gang, led by Arthur Lopez Jr. The narrative includes the tragic deaths of Carlos Hernandez and Vanessa Rivas, who were caught in the gang's crossfire. The police's efforts to dismantle the gang are detailed, emphasizing the ongoing threat posed by Arthur Lopez Jr., who remains at large.

The episode concludes with a call for viewers to assist in solving these mysteries, emphasizing the need for community vigilance.

TL;DR

This episode covers crop circles, two missing girls in Oregon, and gang violence in Milwaukee.

Episode

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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
00:23:11
head in her own voice lonely men
00:23:14
everywhere beware hazel head is known to
00:23:32
frequent truck stops often hitching
00:23:34
rides from town to town investigators
00:23:40
believe she easily blends into that
00:23:42
environment and never stays long in one
00:23:44
place
00:23:46
hazel head is a very street-smart woman
00:23:50
she flies below radar to track hazel
00:23:55
head is very difficult
00:23:58
she becomes almost like a ghost it's
00:24:00
like she's here and she's gone
00:24:04
but it must not be forgotten that she is
00:24:07
a dangerous person that she might have
00:24:09
killed even before mr. Barker was
00:24:12
murdered she may have killed since she
00:24:15
has a dark side to her
00:24:17
hazel head stands five feet two inches
00:24:19
tall she has a scar near her right eye
00:24:23
and a gap between her front teeth head
00:24:26
is wanted for the first-degree murder of
00:24:28
Charles Barker and should be considered
00:24:29
dangerous Oregon City Oregon is a small
00:24:41
blue-collar town of 27,000 people just
00:24:43
south of Portland a friendly place where
00:24:46
adults trust their neighbors and
00:24:48
children play without fear but suddenly
00:24:51
everything changed over a six-week
00:24:53
period two young girls vanished without
00:24:55
a trace
00:24:56
setting in motion one of the most
00:24:58
complex and unusual investigations state
00:25:00
authorities have ever encountered
00:25:03
nestled among the hills of Oregon cities
00:25:06
its Newell Creek Village Apartments the
00:25:08
complex includes 125 units and is home
00:25:11
to more than 325 residents including
00:25:14
Laurie Pond and her 12 year old daughter
00:25:16
Ashley January 9th 2002 Ashley was
00:25:24
running late as usual
00:25:25
it was a little after 8:00 a.m. and she
00:25:28
had only a few minutes to catch the bus
00:25:31
[Music]
00:25:33
the walk up the hill to the bus stop
00:25:36
took less than 10 minutes Ashley was a
00:25:38
popular student and member of both the
00:25:40
swimming and dance teams on that
00:25:43
Wednesday she was looking forward to
00:25:44
practice after class
00:25:46
Laurie Pond expected to hear from her
00:25:49
daughter by 6:15 p.m. when she didn't
00:25:52
Lauri became worried and called the
00:25:54
school high the dance coach answered she
00:25:59
said no Ashley wasn't there I said well
00:26:02
can you ask the kids maybe they saw and
00:26:05
they said no and they said they hadn't
00:26:07
even seen her in school and that's where
00:26:10
I went no this is this is wrong
00:26:12
something's wrong because Ashley would
00:26:14
not have done that and she would have
00:26:16
called me now when was actually last
00:26:18
seen Lori immediately contacted the
00:26:21
Oregon City police she told the officer
00:26:24
none of Ashley's clothes her personal
00:26:25
belongings was missing at school things
00:26:28
she was sure her daughter would have
00:26:30
taken had she run away no no no I didn't
00:26:33
sleep that night at all I just thought
00:26:36
maybe she would you know come home and
00:26:38
I'd you know knock on the door or
00:26:41
whatever but she never did
00:26:46
the police concluded there might be a
00:26:49
child abductor on the loose and opened
00:26:51
an investigation detectives first talked
00:26:54
with some of Ashley's classmates they
00:26:56
said she never got on the bus next
00:26:58
police canvassed the entire apartment
00:27:00
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
00:27:28
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
00:27:53
we talked to the school as a whole
00:27:55
[Music]
00:27:57
more dead ends and still the same
00:28:00
fundamental question remained unanswered
00:28:02
what had happened Ashley pond between
00:28:05
8:05 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. meanwhile 13
00:28:15
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
00:28:28
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
00:28:39
[Music]
00:28:40
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
00:28:56
for work as usual it was 7:30 a.m.
00:29:00
her daughter Miranda was a no hurry
00:29:03
she still had 45 minutes before the
00:29:05
school bus arrived
00:29:06
[Music]
00:29:08
police believe Miranda left her
00:29:10
apartment a little after 8:00 a.m. and
00:29:12
headed up the hill for the bus stop
00:29:14
[Music]
00:29:19
Knight is Michelle about 120 my oldest
00:29:23
daughter called me she didn't and said
00:29:26
Miranda's friends said she wasn't at
00:29:27
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
00:30:13
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
00:30:23
day Ashley came up missing all over
00:30:25
again the circumstances surrounding
00:30:29
Miranda's disappears on March 8th 2002
00:30:32
were eerily similar to those of Ashley
00:30:34
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
00:30:45
brown eyes
00:30:48
we've got a mirror image of a victim and
00:30:52
an occurrence it is almost as if the
00:30:57
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
00:33:22
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
00:33:30
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
00:34:00
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
00:34:24
[Music]
00:34:34
[Applause]
00:34:37
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
00:37:20
[Music]
00:37:27
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
00:38:00
[Music]
00:38:08
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
00:38:22
[Music]
00:38:26
the hardest part is uh family gatherings
00:38:31
seeing my sister and my mother cry
00:38:32
[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
00:43:22
[Music]
00:43:25
[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
00:43:39
[Music]
00:43:52
[Music]
00:44:14
[Applause]
00:44:15
[Music]
00:44:15
[Applause]
00:44:18
[Music]

Badges

This episode stands out for the following:

  • 90
    Most heartbreaking
  • 80
    Most shocking
  • 75
    Most intense
  • 70
    Most emotional

Episode Highlights

  • The Mystery of Crop Circles
    Crop circles appear overnight, leaving many to wonder if they are man-made or something more.
    “Are they the work of some strange force on earth or something not in this world?”
    @ 00m 21s
    May 23, 2019
  • Charles Barker's Tragic Story
    After losing his wife, Charles Barker finds companionship but meets a tragic end.
    “He just sounded so different and he started crying.”
    @ 19m 12s
    May 23, 2019
  • The Disappearance of Two Young Girls
    In a small Oregon town, two girls vanish without a trace, sparking a complex investigation.
    “Everything changed over a six-week period.”
    @ 24m 51s
    May 23, 2019
  • The Disappearance of Ashley Pond
    Ashley Pond goes missing after school, sparking a frantic search.
    “Something's wrong because Ashley would not have done that.”
    @ 26m 10s
    May 23, 2019
  • Miranda Gattis Goes Missing
    Miranda Gattis, a neighbor and friend of Ashley, also disappears under similar circumstances.
    “Oh my god, something's wrong!”
    @ 29m 39s
    May 23, 2019
  • Tragic Discoveries
    The remains of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gattis are found, leading to a suspect's arrest.
    “The gruesome discovery was made.”
    @ 34m 00s
    May 23, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • Maybe all this needed to solve a mystery is you.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 9 - Full Episode
  • It looked like a place had been electrocuted.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 9 - Full Episode
  • There is intelligence of some sort and I know they're not all made by people.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 9 - Full Episode
  • Miranda, I love you and your family loves you.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 9 - Full Episode
  • I can't wait for the day that I can wrap my arms around Ashley again.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 9 - Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Crop Circles00:10
  • Heartbreak and Loss00:28
  • Murder Investigation24:28
  • Frantic Search25:49
  • Police Investigation26:46
  • Community Vigil27:22
  • Eerie Similarities30:32
  • Tragic Outcome33:36

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