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tonight on unsolved mysteries Christy
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Martin of Houston Texas was talented
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attractive and intelligent she was just
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19 poised to take her place in the world
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then a quiet evening out with friends
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was shattered by a deadly confrontation
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tonight Christy Martin's Paris and the
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authorities in Houston need your help to
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bring her killers to justice join me for
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this intriguing new case as well as
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these fascinating mysteries
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a college athlete bounced from his bed
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and sprints through the frigid winter
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night a young woman dreams of being
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chased and crashes through her patio
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doors both are trapped in a world
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science has yet to understand the
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mysterious world of sleepwalking on the
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day Lois capozella was reunited with her
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birth father's family she was stunned to
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learn that her search was not over
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perhaps someone watching could help find
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the twin sister Lois never knew she had
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it took years of constant fighting
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before Jim and Susan Harrison finally
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called it quits eight months later Susan
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vanished now her children believed Jim
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Harrison knows exactly what happened to
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their mother in 1988 Larson fire killed
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six firefighters in Kansas City Missouri
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thanks in part to our broadcast five
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suspects are now in custody
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join for another intriguing edition
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unsolved mysteries
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[Music]
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what happens when we sleep the ancient
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Egyptians believed that dreams are a
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window to the future
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but what her dreams comfort as a mind
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worked differently when the body is
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resting what happens when a person is
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suspended between wakefulness and sleep
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this man was filmed at a university
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laboratory he is sound asleep and though
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he is hooked up to some of the most
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sophisticated monitoring devices known
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to science no one can save why is
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crawling around as though he were wide
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awake it's a world beyond dreams a
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mysterious world of sleepwalking though
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often portrayed as harmless or amusing
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sleepwalking can in reality be dangerous
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even deadly tonight two young athletes
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pushed to the edge by life-threatening
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sleep disorders first the strange and
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tragic case of Jared Allgood a talented
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football player during his waking hours
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Jared Allgood was an habitual
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sleepwalker at night from the time he
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was a young boy Jared was known to
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wander around the house slamming doors
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and occasionally bumping into walls but
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never awakening he was a major
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sleepwalker and all of my boys are and
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that scared me and I talked about it and
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I'd ask the doctors about it and they
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would just pretty much poopoo it like
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it's really nothing cuz I had asked
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quite a few times in their lives all of
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my children in their lives you know this
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is normal or they supposed to be doing
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this you know when Jared went to college
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in Iowa the episodes continued none more
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serious until the early morning hours of
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February 9th 1993
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jared was a his eyes wide open but he
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was not awake Jared ran more than a mile
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barefoot on the icy pavement witnesses
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later reported that he sprinted with the
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urgency of a runner at the finish line
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people who have these episodes
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spontaneously like Jared gets stuck in
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this state between wakefulness and sleep
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and awake enough to perform complex
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behaviors not awake enough to be aware
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of what we're doing or responsible for
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what we're doing somehow it is sleep
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Jared had managed to exit his apartment
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weave around parked cars and turned
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corners as he ran then in mid-stride
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tragedy
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Jarrid all good died instantly initially
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authorities speculated that he had
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committed suicide Jerez mother didn't
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buy it when Becky Olga talked to her
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son's Ruby he told her that jared had
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been having a recurrent dream that
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involved a man from the nearby town of
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Bertram Jared said it's a crazy dream
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I'm running a race with man from bertram
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only the man is in a car and I'm on foot
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running a race as hard as I can run was
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Jared playing out his jumble dream the
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night he died
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some might dismiss it as mere
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coincidence Jared was killed as he raced
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down state highway 30 highway that leads
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to Bertram Becky Allgood became
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absolutely convinced that her son had
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not taken his own life
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the experts agreed there was not one
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shred of evidence that he had depression
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or any other reason to commit suicide
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there was no evidence of drugs or
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alcohol involved there was absolutely no
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reason the world for him that had been
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out there and the whole circumstance was
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so inappropriate that the only
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reasonable explanations is that this was
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yet just another one of his sleepwalking
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episodes in the end authorities bowed to
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the evidence Jared had apparently been
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sound asleep from the moment he got out
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of bed to the moment he was killed on
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the highway
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Jared Allgood became the first person in
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Iowa history whose death was ascribed to
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sleepwalking when I hear stories about
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Jared algid I think I possibly could
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have been me and that that scares me to
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think that
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like Jared Heidi Ruiz is a dedicated
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athlete her sleepwalking began in 1991
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she was attending college on a track and
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field scholarship and felt a crushing
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pressure to perform
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Heidi's sleepwalking invariably seemed
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rooted in a nameless faceless terror I
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wasn't running from a particular person
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or a thing I was just running because I
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felt like it was the end of the world
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the scariest part was not knowing what I
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was doing and the feeling that I had
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inside when I woke up out of the night
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terror I just I can't even explain it it
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was like a monster inside me trying to
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get out I heard a blood-curdling scream
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scream at the tidies mother witness two
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of the most violent episodes sudden bang
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two big hits where I could hear her
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coming through doors
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I have to tell you the force of her
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running through that hall I will never
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forget because of the tear that looking
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of tear on her face was so incredible
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and for a mom to not know what to do in
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order for her not to be able to hurt
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herself again who has a real scary thing
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real scary I had the biggest episode was
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in my mom's house back in August of 95
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must have gotten out of bed and took one
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step and bolted straight into the wall
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the impact tore open Heidi's forehead
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she gashed her wrist as she fell to the
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floor I decided I couldn't handle any
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more I was terrified and I said I need
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to get go seek help Heidi was tested at
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the world-renowned Stanford University
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sleep clinic in Northern California
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I had electrodes all over my head I had
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a pulse on my finger I mean I was hooked
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up like I feel like I was from Mars
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was very very uncomfortable but it was
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an extensive test and they had to see
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what was going on so we wanted to see if
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we might be able to capture a
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sleepwalking episode but that can be
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rare because it might not occur every
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night but secondly we also wanted to raw
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the possibility that it wasn't something
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else such as seizure activity a sleep
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related breathing disorder or even late
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movements that were causing the person
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to awaken and triggering off an attack
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in Heidi's case we really didn't see any
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of those triggers while dr. GU Tschida
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could find no physiological causes for
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Heidi's sleepwalking he was able to
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pinpoint circumstances likely to kick
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off an episode there's a lot of
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different triggers one of them is sleep
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deprivation that's known to definitely
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increase a chance of sleepwalking if a
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person is sleep deprived secondly stress
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can also increase a chance that the
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person might have sleepwalking both
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Heidi Ruiz and Jared all good fit that
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pattern their sleepwalking fed up under
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heavy emotional pressure and lack of
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sleep
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Heidi has now brought her sleepwalking
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under control medication and careful
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stress management unfortunately a lot of
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sleep is still mystery a big mystery in
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terms of a lot of the causes of these
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sleep disorders but you know it's
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something that we're all trying to
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really work hard on
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the phantasmagoric world of sleep and
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dreams once the domain of poets has
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become the target of mainstream research
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but after decades of testing scientists
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can still only pump the mysteries of the
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night it is important to note that while
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researchers cannot fully explain
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sleepwalking they are able to control it
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in most cases if you or someone you know
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is suffering from a serious sleep
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disorder it should not be ignored please
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consult a trained physician
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[Music]
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everyone knows that you're gonna die
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sometime in your life but you expect to
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die when your own not when you're 19
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years old I think if Christie would have
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died from sickness or in a car wreck it
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would just be a lot easier to accept
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than the fact that she was actually
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murdered because it was just senseless
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and there was no reason falling on
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[Music]
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Christy Martin an honor roll student and
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former high school cheerleader was
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gunned down two days before Christmas in
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1995 that Friday evening she and a
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friend named Wendy right double dated
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with two brothers Joe and Sally Barrera
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the four had known each other in high
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school Christmas break from college was
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a perfect time to reconnect just 15
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miles yet world's distant from the
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restaurant members of an East Houston
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Street gang were cranking up their
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Friday night on the night of the
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homicide Jose Luis Rios he's a gang name
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is Flaco and Jorge Mendes were out that
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night
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crying around drinking looking for some
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kind of problems to get into looking to
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do something wild I've dealt with Flaco
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before he's told people in the past that
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was the ultimate rush the ultimate high
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to shoot somebody
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across town the two couples finished
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their meal they headed to River Terrace
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Park a popular hangout for generations
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Christy's dad had gone there as a child
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when we were kids we fished there crab
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there we picnicked there he never had to
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worry about anybody Bhavana for any
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reason it was just a nice place to take
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your family that might be why one of the
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reasons the kids went there they felt
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safe there
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unbeknownst to Christy and her friends
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the park was no longer neutral territory
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Flacco's gang like to think it was
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theirs and theirs alone no let's go
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check it out
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hurry
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we were just sitting there talking when
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the truck drove up I couldn't see it
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because my backwards towards him so
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Barrera
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who still lives in Houston asked that we
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obscure his features for this interview
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I thought it was just somebody I was
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going to park next to us you know so
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they could you know do whatever they
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wanted to do
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[Music]
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we probably need to go okay
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[Music]
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[Music]
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they took off I just see Christine you
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know on the floor just you know laying
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there I just ran right over there
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towards her and I was talking to her
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Yellin please don't go don't leave this
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Oh God
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chris Christie she's just down breathe
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and slowly and just staring at you you
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knew she was already gonna die I mean
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she hadn't the glare nor I like she's
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trying to look at you but looking past
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you you know Wendy right in the Barrera
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brothers escaped without serious
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injuries however Christie Martin had
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taken a direct hit from a semi-automatic
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assault rifle she died at the scene when
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Christie didn't come home my concern was
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maybe she had a car accident I never
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dreamed in a million years it would be
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something such as a drive-by shooting
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because I guess I just assumed that only
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happened to other people that it didn't
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happen to somebody that was a good
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person and that wasn't involved in gangs
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you know any way at all
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six days after the shooting Jose Rios
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alias Flaco was formally charged with
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killing Christie Martin he and Jorge
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Mendes who reportedly drove the getaway
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truck had previous run-ins with the law
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Mendez was also charged with murder
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for weeks before the attack Mendez
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illegally purchased the assault rifle
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allegedly used by Flaco in the killing
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it's hard to swallow that these kids are
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able to get out there and buy assault
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type of weapons and then to come back
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and just the firearm it willit anybody
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they want well the type of gun that this
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man bought I don't even call him a man
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if animal bought is sold to kill people
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brag to some of his gang members that he
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was gonna kill somebody with it he
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bought this gun to kill somebody just so
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happened it was our daughter
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Flaco has now been linked to a second
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killing in March of 1996 al uncle of
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Jorge Mendes was gunned down at an
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intersection the alcohol had told Jorge
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along with Flaco that if they didn't
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turn themselves in that he would call
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the police on him himself
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and within two days of that reported
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medium between him he ends up being shot
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the information we're picking up off the
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street is that Jose Luis Rios Flaco is
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also taking credit for that homicide
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while [ __ ] runs free Brian and Judy
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Martin are already starting to dread the
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one-year anniversary of their daughter's
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field Christmas Eve Christmas will be
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really hard for nellen it just will
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never be the same it's really a sad time
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and I know Christmas should be a happy
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time but I can't imagine it being any
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sadder than Christmas Eve will be this
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year without Christine losing your
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mother or a brother I mean that's rough
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I've lost them both my dad both my
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parents have died and my brother has
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died all I have left is my family my
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immediate family and when you lose a
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child it takes a big hunk out of your
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heart jose-luis reels also known as
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Flaco is a lien 5 7 130 he has numerous
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tattoos to teardrops under his left eye
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a knife sticking into a skull on his
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right forearm and on his left middle
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finger the outline of a cross
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[Music]
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next a joyous family reunion gives rise
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to an intriguing unsolved mystery does
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this woman have an identical twin sister
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also an active arson leave six
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firefighters dead eight years later the
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hunt for suspects comes to a close
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[Music]
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you may recall these dramatic scenes
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from a previous broadcast firefighters
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in Kansas City Missouri volunteered to
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help us recreate an unsolved crime that
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left six of their comrades dead
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on November 29th 1988 pumpers 30 and 41
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were called to a construction site for a
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trader had been torched by arsonists
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there were explosives at the scene but a
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survey of the area suggested they had
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been secured in storage sheds known as
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bunkers just the fact that the bunker
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was there in fact there was two bunkers
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there led that captain to believe that's
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what the explosives was in this trailer
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was just a regular normal construction
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trailer with tools and equipment in it
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and therefore there was no danger
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however when the department supervisor
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arrived he learned that there were in
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fact large quantities of explosives
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inside the trailer
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[Music]
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number 41 or number 30 answer
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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30 sunrise confirmed but Kansas City had
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been dreaded six of their firefighters
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were dead
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[Music]
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I guess I feel like if I knew who did it
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we'd know why they did it and I don't
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think they were trying to kill six
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firemen but somebody was trying to do
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something to somebody and six men are
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gone the shocking crime triggered the
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biggest manhunt in the city's history
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but after nearly eight years those
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responsible were still running free then
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Kansas City firemen pushed aside painful
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memories to help us get this story on
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the air Healy che Smith has more
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Bob the efforts of the Kansas City Fire
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Department paid off in a big way more
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than six hundred calls poured into our
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phone center and two hotlines set up by
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local authorities the infusion of new
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leads led directly to the indictment of
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five suspects when the long-awaited news
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was announced at a press conference last
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June the excitement was tempered by
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lingering emotions even though is very
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difficult for many of us who
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participated in that recreation that
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event
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it came at a time with many of our
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spirits were down needs including both
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who needed them it and we got a lift all
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five suspects are now facing a federal
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arson charge George Frank Shepherd his
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brother Earl their nephew Brian Shepard
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Frank Shepards girlfriend Darlene
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Edwards and Richard W Brown citing the
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pending trial authorities declined to
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speculate on motive if convicted the
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suspects could spend the rest of their
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lives in prison
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[Music]
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[Music]
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tonight is November 8 1996 and somewhere
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a young woman is likely celebrating her
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33rd birthday she has no idea that she
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has an entire clan of loving relatives
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eager to meet her with your help she may
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find out tonight July 21st 1995 Altadena
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California it was a day of homecoming a
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day Margaery Kim and long lost
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granddaughter Louis Kappas oh no you'll
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never forget we all felt just a click
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the minute we met
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it's hard to explain how total strangers
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who know nothing about each other can
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just click and bond in a matter of
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moments within one hug it was like an
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answer to a prayer that I had prayed for
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32 years knowing that she was out there
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42 years Louis and Margaery had waited
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to meet each other but it was hardly the
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end of the search in fact it was just
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the beginning of a new quest the quest
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neither had imagined possible
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Louis capozella was born in November of
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1963 adopted almost immediately her
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birth father was Marjorie Kim's son John
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a policeman who died in 1979 years
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before when John was only 17 he learned
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that his high school sweetheart Judy was
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pregnant the news through both
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households into turmoil by the time
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Louis was born the families were barely
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on speaking terms
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Marjorie had wanted to adopt the baby
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but Judy's parents would not permit it
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Judy's sister came by on the slide to
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give Marjorie word of the birth oh hi
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penny
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hi honey no I can't I've got to get back
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home
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look I just wanted to tell you that Judy
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gave birth today oh gosh a boy or a girl
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twins girls wonderful but one of them
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died poor Judy how's she doing she's
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doing all right
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what can I come see her no I don't think
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that would be a good idea
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look I've got to get going I'll give her
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my best and thanks for coming
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it was not a happy time and that date
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always stuck in my mind
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over the years she'll be - she'll be
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three should be four she'll be five on
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through the years those painful thoughts
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continued until the day of the reunion
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the introductions are barely over when
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Marjorie and Lois realized that the past
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still held a perplexing mystery it's
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good to see you too grandma you should
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have come back what do you mean honey
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you should have come back I never been
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to her house before so to have someone
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tell me why didn't I come back I was
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very confused and I said I don't
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understand what you're asking me and she
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was we you've been here before
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yes you were honey about 15 years ago
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hon Derrick Lois's cousin Derrick stayin
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remembered vividly and I was in the
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front and I was riding my bike and a car
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pulled out
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hi can I help you I'm looking for a Judy
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Kim does she live here
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well this is the Kim residence but I'm
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sorry there's no duty here there is it
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no well do you know any Judy Kim I'm
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sorry
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is this something I could help you no no
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it's okay
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I'm sorry to bother you Thanks
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there's that girl look so familiar
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I know her from somewhere it was Derek
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who made the connection she sure looks
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like uncle John
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and then it hit me and to myself I said
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there God I let her leave it was
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Johnny's daughter and not let her leave
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she said she looked just like your
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father she looked like you you know I
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don't understand if you haven't been
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here who was it my twin but she dived
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what if she didn't it's like a little
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thing in your stomach just kind of
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clenches up and you're just thinking oh
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my god you know she didn't die she's
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alive and she's you know walking around
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there somewhere searching just as I did
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adoption agencies often tried to keep
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twins together Louis and the Kim's now
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suspect someone who claimed that one
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twin died in order to make it easier to
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place the babies Louis looked for a
00:29:09
death certificate for her twin but
00:29:11
despite a thorough search she found
00:29:13
nothing I think the lack of any of that
00:29:16
information proves to me that she is
00:29:19
live and that that girl who came the
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door was my twin sister I'm looking for
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a Judy Kim does she live here well this
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is the cameras incredibly when Louis
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contacted her birth mother's family they
00:29:34
told an almost identical story a
00:29:36
mysterious young girl had shown up at
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their home at around the same time is
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this somewhere I could help you I am
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sure in my heart that the girl that came
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to my house 15 16 years ago was my son
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John's daughter the twin I would love
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with all my heart to see her to be able
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to see her like God answered my prayer
00:30:02
was with Louis sit on the chili
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/ Louis finding her father's family has
00:30:10
been a wonderfully rich and rewarding
00:30:12
experience an experience she hopes to
00:30:14
soon share with her twin sister she has
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a family who loves her who'd like to get
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to know her you may have missed first 30
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years or so of our life but we have many
00:30:29
more to get to know each other and I'd
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like to meet her and have her be a part
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of my life
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Louis his twin sister was born a saint
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as maternity hospital in Los Angeles the
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date on the birth certificate would be
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either November 8 through November 13th
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1963 Lois's twin would have been 16 or
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17 when she visited the Kim's in the
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late seventies today she is 33 years old
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would no doubt look very much like Louis
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capozella in a moment
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two brothers search for answers in the
00:31:04
baffling disappearance of their mother
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you're about to meet two young men on a
00:31:20
desperate quest to find out what
00:31:22
happened to their mother she disappeared
00:31:24
more than two years ago the police are
00:31:27
convinced that she is dead the victim of
00:31:28
foul play and her sons are convinced
00:31:31
that their stepfathers and one person
00:31:33
who may know what happened
00:31:38
August 5th 1994 in the late afternoon
00:31:42
nineteen-year-old Nicholls Lee arrived
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at his mother's house and Ruxton
00:31:46
Maryland they had planned to spend the
00:31:48
evening together the door was ajar she
00:31:52
was nowhere to be found her car was gone
00:31:59
and a set of keys lay on the kitchen
00:32:01
table
00:32:02
Nick waited until 2:00 a.m. then went
00:32:05
home for the night when I woke up that
00:32:08
morning I was really concerned called
00:32:12
her house and and she didn't answer and
00:32:14
at that moment I realized that something
00:32:17
was really really wrong and I felt like
00:32:20
at that point she was probably dead
00:32:22
because it was so unlike her and so out
00:32:24
of character and basically I haven't
00:32:26
felt anything different since that
00:32:28
moment we had a memorial service but we
00:32:32
never had a funeral and that kills me
00:32:34
the fact that she's out there somewhere
00:32:37
this wonderful amazing woman who did so
00:32:40
much for so many people and we can't
00:32:43
give her that final tribute and do
00:32:46
what's right
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Susan Hurley Harrison grew up in a
00:32:50
wealthy close-knit Massachusetts family
00:32:52
in 1967 she married one of her brothers
00:32:56
roommates at Harvard their sons John and
00:32:59
Nick were born five years apart
00:33:02
but in 1984 Susan left her husband and
00:33:06
became involved with a man named Jim
00:33:07
Harrison four years later they were
00:33:10
married from the start the relationship
00:33:13
was reportedly marked by heavy drinking
00:33:15
frequent fights and mutual abuse
00:33:17
problems was Jim Harrison attributes to
00:33:20
Susan's alleged manic depression but
00:33:24
Susan when she was not manic-depressive
00:33:27
was just a wonderful woman and a
00:33:32
wonderful wife and when the
00:33:34
manic-depressive aspect came on
00:33:36
periodically that was bad she would
00:33:39
start screaming and yelling and she
00:33:43
would start destroying things in or
00:33:45
around the house and she would run
00:33:50
around the house and use bad language it
00:33:55
was it was really sad and really tough
00:33:58
it's a it's another excuse that he tries
00:34:01
to use tries to take the blame from
00:34:03
himself for what even now even still
00:34:06
even when she's not around to say okay
00:34:08
maybe it was my fault well I think the
00:34:10
first time that I recognized that there
00:34:11
was abuse in the relationship was when I
00:34:13
actually saw abuse myself when I was
00:34:16
about 12 years old
00:34:18
Susan and her ex-husband shared custody
00:34:20
of Nick and John on the night Nick
00:34:23
claims he witnessed abuse John was off
00:34:25
visiting prospective colleges Nick was
00:34:28
staying with his mother and Jim Harrison
00:34:30
I remember waking up around 2:00 in the
00:34:41
morning 1 or 2 in the morning and I'm
00:34:43
hearing voices and some screaming what's
00:34:50
going on out there
00:34:51
she said Jim has been hurting me he
00:34:54
won't leave me alone
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leave me alone are you okay and I said
00:34:59
well I gotta get out of here and so I
00:35:00
called my brother's girlfriend at the
00:35:02
time and talked with her and she said
00:35:05
you should get out of there I'll come
00:35:06
pick you up go outside stay in the
00:35:08
driveway and and then I'll come get you
00:35:12
nick says it while he waited a battle
00:35:15
moved outside I see my mother as a
00:35:37
victim of domestic violence and a victim
00:35:40
of abuse and I think that she was caught
00:35:43
up in a vicious cycle that a lot of
00:35:45
women who are in the same situations are
00:35:48
caught up in and that it's just very
00:35:50
difficult for them to leave the only
00:35:52
thing I've ever done is defended myself
00:35:55
when she attacked me and to some degree
00:35:58
that involved my simply leaving the
00:36:01
house for a day or so and other times
00:36:05
putting myself into the bedroom and
00:36:07
closing the drawer and just trying not
00:36:10
to let her abuse me but I've never
00:36:14
abused her never our uniformed police
00:36:19
officers had been called their home on a
00:36:21
number of occasions for cause of
00:36:23
domestic violence and when they
00:36:26
responded to the home they found on
00:36:28
occasion Susan had some injuries that
00:36:31
were questionable there had been some
00:36:33
drinking on both parties and it was
00:36:35
usually a very confused situation for
00:36:37
the officer to determine exactly what
00:36:39
had happened finally in January of 1994
00:36:44
Susan left Jim Harrison rented a house
00:36:47
and launched her own business selling
00:36:48
handcrafted lampshades
00:36:52
she felt very good about it she called
00:36:54
me a couple of times and said you know
00:36:56
so this is what you've been talking
00:36:57
about all these years and she just said
00:37:00
what a wonderful feeling it was to know
00:37:01
that she could go out there and do
00:37:03
something on her own she said at the end
00:37:06
of the day she felt so good having
00:37:07
worked all day at this and so there was
00:37:10
a lot we thought that she was finally
00:37:13
getting herself together however that
00:37:16
wasn't the case Susan was still seeing
00:37:18
Jim Harrison on occasion by all accounts
00:37:21
the fighting continued unabated
00:37:24
I found out she told me that she had
00:37:26
seen him a couple of times and obviously
00:37:31
that made me angry made me feel sick to
00:37:33
my stomach all of a sudden I saw the
00:37:35
slippery slope and I saw it her sliding
00:37:39
back into all the things that she'd
00:37:40
worked so hard to get out of and and
00:37:42
that worried me Nick Ghazi shared his
00:37:46
brothers concerns Nick says it in early
00:37:49
August of 1994 he confronted his mother
00:37:51
and delivered an ultimatum mark I want
00:37:54
his dad now see the Jim Ross family
00:37:56
members say that the next morning Susan
00:37:58
decided to leave Jim for good but just
00:38:03
two days later Susan Harrison
00:38:05
disappeared and police went to speak
00:38:07
with Jim Harrison he told them Miss
00:38:10
Susan had visited him on three separate
00:38:12
occasions a previous day the third time
00:38:17
she arrived about 7:00 and she attacked
00:38:21
me verbally and it was very discouraging
00:38:26
and she asked for glasses of wine and
00:38:32
like I gave her what she asked for then
00:38:35
she went to sleep and woke up and she
00:38:39
entirely changed and she was delightful
00:38:41
and good and it was very loving and
00:38:44
wonderful you could decorate this room
00:38:46
just the way you always wanted according
00:38:49
to Jim Harrison he and Susan drank wine
00:38:51
and talked for about two hours it'll be
00:38:53
around 9 p.m. Susan took another nap and
00:38:59
when she woke up it would gone bad again
00:39:01
I was just wondering if maybe it was a
00:39:03
dream that she had caused her to go bed
00:39:07
instead of staying good what did you
00:39:12
change the locks now Susan we went
00:39:15
through this an hour ago so tell me
00:39:16
again I didn't change the locks in the
00:39:19
house I changed the locks in the family
00:39:21
room it's my house did you change the
00:39:23
locks yes it is yours
00:39:26
calm down what is that problems with the
00:39:29
power Jim Harrison claims a susan's
00:39:31
movie turned uglier by the minute
00:39:38
don't walk away from me don't walk away
00:39:41
from me talk to me
00:39:43
Chozen you're being bad again I left the
00:39:47
family room and upstairs town bedroom
00:39:49
and she followed me to the bottom of the
00:39:52
steps and she stayed there and yelled at
00:39:54
me at the steps for a short period and
00:39:57
then left left the house and started a
00:40:02
car and drove out police found no flaws
00:40:07
in Jim Harrison's account then three
00:40:10
weeks later Susan's car 1992 green Saab
00:40:14
convertible was discovered at national
00:40:16
airport in Washington DC some 50 miles
00:40:19
from Volta me records show that the car
00:40:23
entered the parking lot around 6:00 a.m.
00:40:25
on August 6 1994 the day Susan
00:40:28
disappeared the keys were in the
00:40:31
ignition the gas tank was full raising
00:40:34
the possibility that Susan had simply
00:40:36
walked away from her life well in any
00:40:40
missing person investigation
00:40:41
you know we approached it in a several
00:40:43
prong manner could they be missing on
00:40:45
their own accord and that don't want to
00:40:47
be found
00:40:48
or is there foul play and we haven't
00:40:50
uncovered any information that would
00:40:52
lead credence to her trying to disappear
00:40:56
in any fashion whatsoever in November of
00:41:01
1994 Jim Harrison agreed to take a
00:41:03
polygraph
00:41:04
yes publicly admitted that he failed the
00:41:07
test the claims of tests was not
00:41:09
administered properly today Jim Harrison
00:41:12
maintains he had nothing to do with his
00:41:14
wife's disappearance
00:41:16
I'd love Susan and I really do pray to
00:41:21
God that she's alive and well and I pray
00:41:25
to God that you all can help find her
00:41:27
and
00:41:28
please do your best to help find her
00:41:29
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00:41:31
there's no indications of what we may
00:41:34
consider a stranger type of killer so we
00:41:37
feel that what happened this susan was
00:41:39
committed by someone close to her that
00:41:41
there had been some type of a dispute
00:41:43
and someone lost control when
00:41:46
circumstances um took a tragic twist I
00:41:52
have dreams of walking down the street
00:41:56
with her or just running into her
00:41:57
somewhere and all this time she's she's
00:42:00
been gone finally getting a chance to be
00:42:02
with her again and I know it's just a
00:42:04
dream I know that there's not a chance
00:42:06
that she's ever going to come back but
00:42:07
but I just I miss her so much and I at
00:42:12
least get to see her you know in these
00:42:14
dreams and you can get to be with her
00:42:15
but but there's no doubt in my mind that
00:42:17
she'll never ever be able to be with me
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on our next unsolved mysteries what
00:42:54
happens when we die for a man named
00:42:57
Howard storm a medical emergency took
00:42:59
him to the brink of death and on a
00:43:01
personal journey into the very depths of
00:43:03
hell that place was more full of torment
00:43:08
and despair than anything you could ever
00:43:13
imagine in this world it was a place
00:43:17
where you wouldn't want to send your
00:43:19
worst enemy
00:43:22
join me again next run solve mysteries
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you
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