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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries the body of a half- new woman
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is found alongside a busy highway
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investigating her death takes one
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reporter into the shadowy world of
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truckers prostitutes and
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murder can dogs save lives with their
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astonishing sense of smell two case
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histories suggest that they can actually
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sniff out deadly
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illnesses when a woman dies in a fiery
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car crash the highway patrol calls it a
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tragic accident but her husband finds
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evidence that it was
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murdered detailed memories of the attack
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on Pearl Harbor have haunted this woman
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for years but the battle happened long
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before she was even born is this case
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evidence of
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reincarnation five cases with strange
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Clues bizarre twists and some secrets
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that you would never expect I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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Licking County
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Ohio the half nwed body of a woman was
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found behind a truck stop on Interstate
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70 she had been beaten to death all of
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her jewelry and several pieces of her
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clothing were
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missing despite a full investigation by
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local authorities the victim was never
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identified 4 years earlier the body of
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23-year-old Shirley Dean Taylor had been
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found behind a traffic barrier 100 miles
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to the north a known prostitute Shirley
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had also been beaten to death all of
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Shirley's jewelry and several pieces of
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clothing had been removed from her
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body two seemingly isolated crimes 4
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years and 100 miles apart murder cases
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are often solved when a pattern becomes
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apparent and in these Highway killings
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the pattern was just waiting to be
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discovered the man who made the
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connection wasn't actually looking for
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it reporter Michael Barons was starting
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to research a newspaper article about
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serial killers
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I had remembered a statement that an FBI
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agent had once said that prostitutes
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make the ideal serial killer Victim
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Because they're transient and often
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their disappearances aren't reported
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immediately so I started looking at
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prostitute deaths all across Ohio
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primarily using newspaper stories as the
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way to track those
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dust Barons began to cross reference
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unsolved murder cases in Ohio to his
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surprise a distinct pattern began to
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emerge eight women in eight different
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counties had been beaten or strangled to
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death each was found alongside a major
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Interstate each was a known or suspected
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prostitute all these women who were
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killed in Ohio also worked at truck
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stops or were last believe to have been
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working at a truck stop and that was the
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third major factor that started tying
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these dusts
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together Barons began looking into the
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little known subculture of Ohio's
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Interstate Truck Stops you drive by them
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and you see these these restaurants and
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these trucks but until you sit there you
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don't see what the underbelly the
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underworld of these little Min cities
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that form each night and then break
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apart each morning and come
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together see you next time sweetie yeah
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you take care Baron's discovered a
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flourishing sex for sale industry at
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truck stops throughout the state the
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prostitutes work off a CB radio and it's
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all done anonymously the The Prostitute
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will get on the radio and give her
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handle in some little catchphrase that
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she's developed as her trademark and the
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truck will answer back and say yeah this
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is the blue Peter built in Row 3 come
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meet me and she goes off to the truck
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and then usually when she gets in the
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truck she'll use the trucker CB to radio
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to her next
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customer 27-year-old Anna Marie
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Patterson was the sixth known victim in
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Ohio in reviewing the investigation of
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her murder Baron's uncovered several
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possible Clues to the Killer's
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identity hey there guys this is uh
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Sleeping Beauty if you're looking for a
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Good Time come back anamarie had been
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working at a truck stop in Austin town
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just south of Cleveland Witnesses said
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her last call was from a driver of a
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black or dark blue Peterbuilt truck the
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man used the CB handle Dr no how you
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doing sleeping beauty turn up come on up
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how you doing tonight great my God it's
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freezing out
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there 25 Days Later Anam Marie's body
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was found alongside Interstate 71 north
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of
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Cincinnati anamarie was found about 250
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mi from where she was last seen uh in a
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field in a drainage uh ditch in about uh
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4 to 6 Ines of
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water her head had been bashed in and
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she was brutally beaten she wasn't just
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killed she was mutilated in
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essence Anam Marie's autopsy revealed
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that she had been killed within 48 Hours
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of her disappearance the condition of
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her body clearly indicated that the
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killer had kept it refrigerated for
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nearly a
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month there has been some speculation
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that some of these victims have been
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driven many more miles than the actual
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distance from last seen to found there
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may be an indication that the Killer is
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doing something with the these victims
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after
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death according to Barons The Killing
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Spree began 9 years earlier with the
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murder of a woman who has never been
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identified since then the bodies of
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seven other victims have been found
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along interstates in different counties
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each woman had been viciously beaten or
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strangled to death each had jewelry and
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clothing removed from her body a
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newspaper in Columbus Ohio ran Michael
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Baron's shocking story with its
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compelling evidence that the murders of
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the eight women were the work of one
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killer 10 days later the Ohio attorney
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general and the Buckeye state Sheriff's
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Association formed a special task force
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we were finding that uh what was
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happening in one County was not
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necessarily being told to another County
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and a clue in one County that may have
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meant nothing uh may have meant a great
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deal in just the adjacent
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County one of the clues in this case
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suggests a disturbing possibility about
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the Killer's
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identity this killer scatters these
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bodies and that's the big question why
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there's even been speculation that the
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killer could be a security guard or even
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a former police officer who knows enough
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about police investigative techniques to
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do
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that at least two of the victims were
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last seen getting in to a black or dark
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blue Peterbilt tractor possibly pulling
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a refrigerated trailer the driver may
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use the CB handles Dr No Stargazer or
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Dragon I'd like to be able to say that
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we know now whether it's one person and
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whether it's a Serial murder the truth
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is that we don't uh and while that is uh
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certainly a plausible Theory at this
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point it's nothing more than
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that if you have any information about
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this case please log on to our website
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it at
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unsolved.com
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next under hypnosis a woman has detailed
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memories of a World War II battle even
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though it was fought before she was
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born Pearl Harbor
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Hawaii for those who Sur surviv that the
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surprise attack was a horrific battle
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forever seared into memory but is it
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possible that someone who wasn't there
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can also remember the day of
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infamy
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smoke I don't want
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to those aren't our
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planes you're F us they just keep
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coming got to get a
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gun I'm got to get a
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Gun there's no
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ammunition we don't have any
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ammunition they're just bombing
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everybody the voice you just heard came
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from a woman under hypnosis she was born
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in
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1952 11 years after the attack on Pearl
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Harbor and yet she remembers the attack
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in startling
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detail can a living person have the
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memories of someone who's been dead for
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more than a decade it may seem
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impossible but that is exactly what this
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case seems to
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suggest the waight the subject of this
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story has asked to remain anonymous
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we'll call her Sharon little
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apprehensive she first visited
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hypnotherapist Frank baronowski because
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she wanted help losing weight ever been
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hypnotized before no do you know
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anything about it at all no not really
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under hypnosis Sharon experienced a
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terrifying scene of smoke and fire years
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a recurring nightmare that had plagued
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her since
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childhood water's on
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fire water's
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burning
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all right Shar all right all right relax
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relax deeper relax
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now uh the dreams started when I was
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very small I always remember having the
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dreams about fires and
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explosions through hypnosis Sharon did
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lose 30 lb but the nightmares remained
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unexplained 6 months later she visited
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Hawaii for the first time on a group
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tour with Frank baronowski and some of
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his friends
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it was strange when I was there because
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there were places that I I went to when
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I was there that it was like I've been
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here before I've seen this I knew where
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things were that I couldn't have known
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about Sharon's visit to the Battleship
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Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor
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triggered the same anxiety as her
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reoccurring nightmare she returned to
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her hotel room and asked baronowski to
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hypnotize her during the session Sharon
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began to speak as never before and a new
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identity emerged his name was John gpie
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Brea very deep I said when I reach the
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count of 12 you'll be in the 12th season
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of your life and suddenly when she's
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there uh she's talking like a
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12-year-old what's your name John John
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gby I'm a junior oh where you at on the
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farm what farm I says where you at she
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what this is
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Omaha Omaha yeah W omo
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Nebraska
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toing as the session continued Sharon
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related a chilling account of the attack
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on Pearl
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Harbor there bombs dropping everywhere
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they're everywhere playing Super wild
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bers with
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it Sharon mentioned specific names and
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ranks Captain scandin paym Cooper and
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insen Robert tosac don't worry about me
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take him forward take him for Ste the
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main gun tosac was especially prominent
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in Sharon's account because he was so
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badly
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injured a few minutes later Sharon's
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story came to a sudden
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end she realized that John Gillespie had
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been
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killed de relax for me up to that point
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I had not had a past life regret ression
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I wanted to know more about what had
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happened and and who the person was that
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I felt I was in this traumatic
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experience I just had how about your
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grandfather what's his name over the
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next few months Sharon underwent
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regressive hypnosis 20 more times
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barowski recorded the details of each
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session Sharon speaking as John
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Gillespie listed the names of nine men
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serving on his ship the USS Nevada
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as well as Gillespie's serial number
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Frank contacted the office of
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congressman John rhods for help Bob
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scanlin Senior Aid to the congressman
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was assigned the case have a chair thank
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you when he first asked for our help and
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brief me on the problem I was pretty
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skeptical I thought you know we get a
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lot of strange requests and this has to
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be one of the strangest I know it's
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rather incredible but she gives me names
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dates and places of people I have no way
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checking here when I heard the story and
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listened to the tapes I figured that our
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office in Washington certainly should be
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able to get into Naval archives and
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either prove or disprove what this young
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lady had
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said using Congressional privileges
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scanland obtained the ship's roster of
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officers from the National
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Archives amazingly eight of the nine men
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Sharon mentioned were
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listed I remember when I received that
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and first read it
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I told my secretary that I don't know
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whether to point with pride or view with
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alarm this was a a strange result that I
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really didn't
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expect the one missing name was Robert
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tosac the man whose injury was so vivid
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in Sharon's story Navy records showed
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him to be in Long Beach California on
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the day of the attack go go go but when
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we contacted toic he confirmed that he
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was on board the USS Nevada that day in
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fact he had to have his leg amputated as
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a result of his injuries however the
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name John Gillespie does not appear on
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any of the ship's rosters there may be a
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practical reason for that
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Omission the Navy admits the only
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records that They Carried were the pay
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Master's records on board that ship the
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fires raged incessantly for two days all
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of that was
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destroyed another fire ended any attempt
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to verify the serial number of John GL
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in
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1973 Flames ravaged the naval Warehouse
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in St Louis destroying the service
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records of thousands of seamen from
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World War II uh how about your
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grandmother Sharon's past life memory
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also included information about John
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glp's personal life under hypnosis she
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stated that he was born in 1921 in Omaha
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Nebraska he was the son of John
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Gillespie senior the grandson of Harry
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Gillespie in Census records from
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1899 Frank found what he believes is
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proof that John Gillespie did exist when
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we came across this Frame we found it
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Harry
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Gillespie wife ID son Benjamin son John
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and that John was John Gillespie's
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father and he would have been 24 years
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old when John was born exactly the right
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age how valid are Sharon's so-called
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past life experiences
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at least one expert feels that this is
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not a case of past life
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memories well the information about
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tosic is easily available to anyone who
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looks for it in a book that tells a
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story the events at Pearl Harbor have
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probably been as written
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about as any incident in this
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Century no she never did any reading
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about Pearl Harbor it was one of those
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things that she just didn't care for
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when somebody would mention she would
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just shut her own and just walk away
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does he have another name as head read
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mm he asks leading questions of his
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subjects he seems to take control of the
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progression rather than
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allowing the person involved to be in
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control and to
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volunteer
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information to refute this suggestion
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that they had secretly rehearsed their
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story both Frank and Sharon took line
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detector tests Glenn Whiteside a board
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certified polygraph examiner for 20
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years analyzed the results in my opinion
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Sharon and Frank absolutely are not
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conducting a hoax they did not get their
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information out of Records
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books
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they are not
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um using mind conditioning or hypnotic
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suggestion they are not perpetrating a
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hoax in any
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way there is one additional shred of
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evidence in this case under hypnosis
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Sharon revealed that John Gillespie had
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a Hawaiian girlfriend named sugar this
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composite was made from Sharon's
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description if you have any information
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about John Gillespie Jr from Omaha
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Nebraska or his girlfriend sugar from
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Hawaii please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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next a Grizzly traffic accident may
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prove to be arson and a cover up for a
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coldblooded
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murder Lon Oak
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Oklahoma a farmer working his Fields
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noticed smoke rising from a nearby
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Road he called the authorities and 20
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minutes later the Oklahoma Highway
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Patrol arrived at the
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scene they found a burning car embedded
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in a deserted Bridge the heat was so
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intense that the car had actually melted
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into the metal car
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rail when the highway patol arrived a
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body was inside the car at the time but
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it was funeral exercise whatsoever to
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try to get to the occupant in the car
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due to the car had already burned so
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bad the body behind the wheel was burned
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beyond recognition skid marks indicated
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that the car speed at impact was 50 to
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60 mph to the highway patrol it seemed
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like just another senseless
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accident
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100t a computer check revealed the car
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belonged to Pat Conway who lived with
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his family in lton 15 mil from the crash
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site the next day the victim was
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identified as aen Conway Pat's wife of
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33
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years authorities reported alien
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Conway's death as an accident but soon
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Pat noticed a number of conflicting
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facts which led him to doubt the
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official version he concluded that his
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wife had been
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murdered there's no doubt in my mind it
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was
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murder and if I live to be 100 years old
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I'll still be pushing to try to find the
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individual or possibly two individuals
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whoever was
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involved pat first became suspicious
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when he returned home a few hours after
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after his wife's
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death he found the patio door wide
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open aileen's purse which she always
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carried with her have been left behind
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her driver's license and her glasses
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were
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inside an ironing board was set up and
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the iron left
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on water from a garden hose was running
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into the backyard swimming
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pool in the master bathroom the tub was
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still full of water and the phone was
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off the hook the uh thing that really
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got my attention was the phone being off
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the hook as though she' attempted to
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make a phone call possibly the police
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department we have no way knowing who
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between me and the kids one would see
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one thing and one another and we start
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putting it together and and right away
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we find out well that was no accident at
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all there was another disturbing detail
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that nagged that Pat what was aen doing
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out on that lonely Country Road neither
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of them had ever been in the area
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nothing about his wife's death made
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sense Pat contacted Ray Anderson of the
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District Attorney's
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Office the first impression that I had
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when I met with Mr Conway was that of a
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spouse that was left alone and behind uh
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not expecting the tragedy that happened
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and looking for an excuse or looking for
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some reason why this happened other than
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than just being an accident however when
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you start looking at the extenuating and
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surrounding circumstances the way that
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she left her house then it leads you to
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believe that there is a possibility that
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there could be foul
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play a few days later Pat and Ray
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Anderson went to the crash site looking
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for
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Clues Pat could you come over here a
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minute Ray found the church bulletin in
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the grass a considerable distance from
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the bridge yeah this is the Buon out of
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our car from the previous Sunday and it
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was on the dash of the
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car aen always drove with the windows
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rolled up and the air conditioning
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turned on the bulletin could not have
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flown out of a moving car the car would
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have to be
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stopped someone else may have been with
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her opened the door set the accelerator
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and slammed it into drive hoping to run
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Mrs Conway off into the creek and make
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it appear as it was an accident
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as a result of Anderson's investigation
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the lton district attorney changed the
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official cause of death from accidental
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to
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unexplained the da then asked the
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Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
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and the State Fire Marshal to evaluate
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the possibility of
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arson what made me suspicious at first
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was looking at the photographs and
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seeing how much burn that was in the
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vehicle this thing was complet
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burnt destroyed the burn was similar to
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that where gasoline or something that
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like that was used in it and another
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thing that brought my curiosity up was
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the fact that the gas cap was missing
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and most arson cases and this is
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documented of a vehicle the gas cap is
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removed um and that was the case
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here informal burn tests on dashboard an
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a poolery samples from a car similar to
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Al suggest the inside of her car may
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have been DED with gasoline we took the
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material and we applied a blowtorch to
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it set the material on fire then removed
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the blowtorch and the fire went out
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which is consistent with a flame
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[ __ ] type material and then we took
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some gasoline and soak material and then
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of course the thing was completely
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destroyed and the point being without
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some type of an exellant like gasoline
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the fire would not burn that
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bad
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if aen Conway was murdered on that
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bridge that day that raises two
00:25:34
questions who killed her and why we
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don't really have an answer for what put
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her out there a lot of theories floating
00:25:42
around perhaps she interrupted a
00:25:44
burglary we backtracked a little bit
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into the neighborhood and apparently
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there had been uh reports of burglaries
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in the weeks and months preceding uh
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this situation so the possibility of an
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interrupted burglary is
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there
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even though you're discouraged you you
00:26:05
keep pushing it every day it's on your
00:26:07
mind all time but somehow it needs to be
00:26:11
solved I'll never quit as far as trying
00:26:14
to solve
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case a reward has been offered in this
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next can a dog really diagnose a deadly
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illness simply by using its
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nose dogs have been domesticated for
00:26:49
thousands of years and many breeds are
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prized for their Keen sense of smell
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whether finding someone who's lost track
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a fugitive or sniffing out explosives
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the strength and accuracy of a dog's
00:27:03
nose is
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legendary if you were to take a gigantic
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football stadium that NFL teams play in
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and fill the entire stadium with yellow
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tennis balls and had one white tennis
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ball they can smell the one white tennis
00:27:17
ball in an entire
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Stadium using this powerful sense of
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smell is it possible that a dog can
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actually diagnose life-threatening
00:27:32
illness you're about to meet two very
00:27:34
unusual pets it may seem hard to believe
00:27:38
but their owners say that they have
00:27:40
persuasive evidence that dogs can save
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lives in mysterious
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ways Garberville
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California hey got your latte working
00:27:53
right now Nancy best seemed to have it
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all she was the mother of three healthy
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children and owned a successful coffee
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shop called the Java joint in fact
00:28:04
business was going so well that she had
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recently opened a second
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store and coffee despite ny's hectic
00:28:13
lifestyle her yellow lab Mia was always
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nearby Nancy had gotten Mia as a puppy
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Mia was the first dog that ran up to me
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at the time I didn't know if I wanted a
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boy or a girl um until she came up to me
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and I fell in love with her instantly
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yes and you were such a good dog nany's
00:28:32
mornings were spent running the coffee
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house you helped mommy oh thank you no
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Mom's tired me but about 1:00 each
00:28:39
afternoon Nancy set aside time just for
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herself and Mia I would drive home and
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lay on the couch and take a nap before
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I'd have to pick up my daughter from
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school um so I can recharge my batteries
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for the rest of the
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day and then one afternoon out of the
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blue Mia began to act
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strangely she came up and started
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sniffing and licking at my breast and um
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because she was 8 months pregnant I
00:29:06
thought maybe she was kind of wigging
00:29:07
out um so I didn't pay any attention to
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it I just went and told her to lay down
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what do you want
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down but Mia was persistent the
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following evening as Nancy was
00:29:19
struggling to fall asleep Mia began
00:29:21
tugging at the bed covers she started
00:29:24
biting my shirt away like a dog bites
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fleas little tiny nibbles and was trying
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to pull my shirt away from my from my
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body enough
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enough I was starting to get upset with
00:29:35
it ouch desperate for her much needed
00:29:38
sleep Nancy banished Mia to the
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backyard the following day during nany's
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afternoon break Mia did the same thing
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Mia jumped up on my lap while I was
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sitting up and dove with her nose into
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my chest and the force of the pressure
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of her nose made rub it because it hurt
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and when I rubbed it is when I felt the
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lump Nancy was stunned to discover a
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lump in one of her breasts I had had a
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negative breast exam by a physician just
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four months prior there was no cancer in
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my family I was 39 not old enough for a
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routine mamogram so I was thinking this
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couldn't be cancer but the the lump felt
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very odd it was quite large medical
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tests showed that Nancy had a cancerous
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tumor in her breast go Al lumpectomy
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confirmed the worst she had a stage 2
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invasive ductile carcinoma a very
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aggressive form of breast cancer when I
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first heard about Nancy best case I
00:30:41
talked to an oncologist at the Mayo
00:30:42
Clinic about that and one of the things
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that we surmised there was that there
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was a certain smell that was being
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secreted the type of tumor that she had
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in her breast may have had a certain
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kind of an odor you have to remember
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this kind of breed of dog is actually
00:30:54
used for hunting you know they have a
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very sensitive nose
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Nancy had a partial mastectomy months of
00:31:02
chemotherapy and radiation therapy
00:31:04
followed she has been cancer free ever
00:31:08
since the doctor believes that had this
00:31:10
cancer not been detected at this time
00:31:12
within 6 months it could have entered my
00:31:14
lymph nodes and I would have
00:31:17
died if it's possible for a dog to sniff
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out cancer are there even more profound
00:31:23
life-saving powers that a pet can offer
00:31:27
Darlene worm of Spokane Washington says
00:31:31
yes she believes that her dog shadow is
00:31:34
a prime
00:31:36
example he was the best medicine that I
00:31:41
could have ever taken if it was in a
00:31:43
pill form he'd be a miracle
00:31:46
drug after Darlene was diagnosed with
00:31:50
diabetes she had a series of medical
00:31:53
setbacks while recovering from open
00:31:55
heart surgery she suffered a stroke
00:31:58
for a while she lost her ability to
00:32:02
speak after several years of therapy
00:32:05
Darlene recovered Her speech but had a
00:32:07
problem with stuttering at a family
00:32:10
reunion the anxiety of being in a crowd
00:32:13
made the stutter even worse I was so
00:32:17
nervous I couldn't talk again and this
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little snower named Maggie came up to me
00:32:24
and started licking my hand I started
00:32:27
petting her she got in my lap
00:32:30
oh and I noticed as long as I sat and
00:32:33
started petting her I could
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talk so much
00:32:39
easier it was
00:32:42
phenomenal so phenomenal that as soon as
00:32:44
she returned home Darlene had to tell
00:32:47
her
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neurologist he's like yeah I I know
00:32:52
about dogs I know how they can help
00:32:55
there's been lots of studies done
00:32:58
so he wrote a written prescription for a
00:33:04
dog so on doctor's orders Darlene
00:33:07
adopted a snower of her
00:33:09
own come on come on boy the bond between
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Darlene and Shadow quickly grew and
00:33:17
Darlene's speech
00:33:19
improved we don't fully understand why
00:33:22
dogs um have such an effect on people
00:33:26
but in Darlene's case uh she felt very
00:33:30
calmed by the dog perhaps you know
00:33:33
paying attention to the animal petting
00:33:35
and the sensory effects of that could be
00:33:38
actually just putting her more into a
00:33:40
meditative
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trance soon after adopting Shadow
00:33:46
Darlene learned what an extraordinary
00:33:48
animal he really
00:33:50
was one afternoon Darlene lay down for a
00:33:54
nap and quickly dozed off but Shadow was
00:33:57
alarmed by something and would not allow
00:33:59
her to
00:34:02
sleep he starts pwing at me he wouldn't
00:34:05
leave me alone I sat up in the room just
00:34:11
spun uncertain why Shadow was so upset
00:34:15
Darlene checked the glucose level of her
00:34:17
blood it was dangerously low if a
00:34:20
diabetic's blood sugar level drops too
00:34:22
far it can trigger unconsciousness or
00:34:26
even a coma Shadow has helped Darlene in
00:34:30
in many different ways not only in her
00:34:33
safety as far as being able to detect
00:34:35
the low blood sugar but also just in her
00:34:38
General Life Darlene now is able to walk
00:34:40
without a cane she's able to function
00:34:43
and do the things that she wants to do
00:34:45
on a daily basis Darlene worm and Nancy
00:34:49
best have no doubt that they are alive
00:34:52
because of the mysterious Powers that's
00:34:54
right of their dogs you helped mommy oh
00:34:57
the ability of these dogs to detect a
00:34:59
seizure or detect cancer it's probably
00:35:01
equal parts their incredible sense of
00:35:04
smell their incredible ability to read
00:35:06
body language and then kind of what I
00:35:09
call not just a six sense but a six
00:35:11
sense and that's that ability to know
00:35:13
when something's just not qu quite right
00:35:16
and then the ability to draw near to
00:35:17
help them we shouldn't be so amazed that
00:35:21
pets are able to do this we should be
00:35:23
amazed on the amount that we don't know
00:35:25
that they're able to do
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next Carla Downing needs your help to
00:35:33
find a woman she has met only once in
00:35:35
her
00:35:36
life her
00:35:38
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00:35:46
mother Alexandria
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Virginia shortly after their mother died
00:35:53
16-year-old Carla Downing and her
00:35:55
younger brother went to live with her
00:35:58
grandparents their father was in the
00:36:00
Army stationed
00:36:02
overseas shortly after my mother's
00:36:04
funeral a woman came to uh my
00:36:06
grandmother's house where I was
00:36:08
living yeah at that time I was 16 I had
00:36:11
a little bit of money in my pocket my
00:36:12
grandmother was going to turn me loose
00:36:14
that day to go do some
00:36:16
shopping
00:36:17
$20 I want you to get me a quart of milk
00:36:19
and you can use the rest for a dress or
00:36:21
anything else you thank you you're
00:36:23
welcome Carla oh Carla this is Mary Mary
00:36:26
was a friend of your mom's in high
00:36:28
school
00:36:29
hi you look very familiar I saw you when
00:36:33
you were just a little
00:36:35
baby and I do remember thinking well
00:36:38
gosh this woman needs to sit down you
00:36:40
know she just look kind of I know shook
00:36:42
up or something and you know I just kind
00:36:44
of assumed that it was over my mother's
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00:36:50
death Carla didn't know that she was
00:36:52
adopted so she had no way of knowing
00:36:55
that she had just been face to face with
00:36:57
her own birth
00:37:01
mother the whole time I was growing up I
00:37:03
always knew that you know there was just
00:37:05
something not right mainly because of
00:37:07
the difference between my brother and
00:37:09
I he had blue eyes and blonde hair and
00:37:13
it was Curly and you know I had straight
00:37:16
dark hair dark eyes Olive complexion and
00:37:19
it was just obvious to me even that we
00:37:22
just weren't
00:37:24
alike Carla's family didn't reveal The
00:37:27
Secret of her birth even after her
00:37:30
mother's death oh bye-bye it wasn't
00:37:34
until her father died that Carla would
00:37:36
get the first clues about her true
00:37:39
origin now
00:37:42
Carla this belonged to your dad and he
00:37:45
wanted you to have it all his military
00:37:48
papers are in here and a few more when I
00:37:51
got the briefcase I just wanted to go
00:37:54
over each and every paper you know and
00:37:57
remember all of the different places
00:37:58
that we live together and that sort of
00:38:00
thing and in the back of my mind I knew
00:38:02
there was something I was looking for I
00:38:04
just knew there was something in
00:38:06
there Carla's suspicions about being
00:38:09
different were finally explained her
00:38:12
mother Mildred had suffered a series of
00:38:15
miscarriages and then she met a woman
00:38:18
named Mary who was pregnant and
00:38:20
unmarried an immigrant who barely knew
00:38:23
any English Mary decided that she
00:38:26
couldn't keep her baby
00:38:28
she agreed to give the infant to Mildred
00:38:31
the two women made a plan to switch
00:38:33
identities at the hospital her name is
00:38:36
mild Graham okay she doesn't speak any
00:38:40
English the plan worked and Mild was
00:38:43
listed on the birth certificate as
00:38:46
Carla's mother the rest of the family
00:38:49
was sworn to
00:38:51
secrecy she's
00:38:54
beautiful beautiful may I hold her
00:38:59
it's my
00:39:00
thinking that this must have really been
00:39:02
hard on Mary cuz you know if that time
00:39:04
she felt like she could not have a child
00:39:07
for whatever reason I mean she was
00:39:09
concerned enough that she went to this
00:39:12
extreme with my mother to see that I was
00:39:15
in a good
00:39:19
family I just have this need to find
00:39:21
Mary I want to be in the same room with
00:39:23
someone I
00:39:24
resemble uh I I want my mother about
00:39:27
this I want somebody that I've been
00:39:29
looking for for a long
00:39:32
time and I just hope she's still here I
00:39:35
hope she's got a TV and she's still
00:39:38
alive oh Carla this is Mary Mary was a
00:39:41
friend of your mom's in high school
00:39:44
hi you look very
00:39:46
familiar you know I can remember what
00:39:48
she wore where she sat what I was doing
00:39:51
at the time what I had on and I really
00:39:55
wished I would have paid more attention
00:39:57
at that
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moment
00:40:04
update on the night of our broadcast
00:40:06
Carla's long wait came to an end her
00:40:09
natural mother Mary Maxwell was alive
00:40:11
and very anxious to see her Carla was
00:40:14
also Overjoyed to discover that she had
00:40:17
two half
00:40:21
sisters Carla traveled from her home in
00:40:24
Tennessee to Maryland where she was
00:40:26
finally re United with her
00:40:31
mother you know I see her come I knew it
00:40:35
was hurt I couldn't believe it and all I
00:40:39
could say was call oh
00:40:41
call and I ran out to door and she ran
00:40:44
almost fell out the car I think and
00:40:47
uh we couldn't do nothing else but hold
00:40:50
each other and
00:40:54
cry when I saw her for the first time I
00:40:57
just can't describe that feeling it's uh
00:41:00
home at last uh I can breathe
00:41:03
again just the happiest moment in my
00:41:06
whole life you know
00:41:08
uh just the happiest moment in my whole
00:41:12
life this is your grandfather and your
00:41:15
grandmother and this is your grandfather
00:41:17
and grandmother when they got married
00:41:20
it's like a miracle I couldn't believe
00:41:22
it I could I couldn't believe it for the
00:41:24
longest time I say this this is not
00:41:26
happening to us it only happens to other
00:41:28
people that they find somebody they're
00:41:30
looking for not us but yet it happened
00:41:32
to
00:41:33
us when I found out that my mom was
00:41:36
alive and healthy and okay that was just
00:41:41
the best news in the world but then the
00:41:44
extra bonus was I have two sisters and a
00:41:48
nephew so it's uh it's a happy ending
00:41:52
it's a fairy tale come
00:41:56
true
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