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tonight on unsolved mysteries
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September 7th 1996 gunfire erupts along
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the famous Las Vegas Strip taking the
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life of rap music star Tupac Shakur
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today disturbing questions haunt the
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investigation why wish occurs trusted
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bodyguards unarmed why did the killer
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seem to target only Shakur and why was
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almost no one willing to talk
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they are snapshots have a different time
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and place
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Virginia burns always thought she was
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the baby in the pictures then Virginia
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learned about her father's secret life
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and now she needs your help to find her
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long-lost sister it is a phenomenon so
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bizarre that it defies belief
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ordinary people suddenly and
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inexplicably bursting into flame
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mainstream science says it can't happen
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but independent researchers insist that
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the evidence doesn't lie spontaneous
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human combustion is real in Ohio the
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quiet calm of a small community is
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shattered when Becky wood and her
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grandchildren are terrorized by a pair
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of vicious armed robbers now the
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intruders have been unmasked and
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authorities need your help to track them
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down
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join me for another intriguing edition
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unsolved mysteries
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do-do-do-do-do-do
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[Music]
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becky wood doesn't need this police
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photograph to remember the terror the
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choking fear of being bound assaulted
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absolutely convinced that she and her
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four grandchildren were going to die it
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happened in February of 1996 two men
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disguise and masks invaded her home
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it was 7 a.m.
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Becky's husband had just left for work
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the intruders seemed to know exactly
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what they were looking for when I first
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opened my eyes I saw a man with blood on
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the head in the eye and I thought oh my
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god I'm having this bad dream and then
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when he said it again I knew it was for
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real
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Becky's granddaughter was sleeping
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beside her and Becky thought to hide her
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with a blanket three other children were
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asleep in different bedrooms I never
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felt so helpless
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I was afraid for my grandchildren and I
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kept praying to God you know please let
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the children sleep through this don't
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want them awake the whole time he's
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screaming where's the combination
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where's the combination
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and I tried to explain to them that I
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didn't know what I didn't have it with
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me could I please call my daughter
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he kicked me in the head and he kept
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telling me that they would take the
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children I'd never see them again
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and I kept trying I swear I don't have
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the combination I swear I would open
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that I give it to you I don't have it
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sounds of ransacking came from upstairs
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where the second intruder was looting
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Becky's dresser of jewelry that's what 9
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year old Matthew wandered out of his
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room I don't really know how to explain
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what I felt like my heart just fell like
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it was just gonna be perfect
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it was pounding real hard and all
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because I didn't know what it was he
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threw Matthew on the floor and put his
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hands behind him and tied him up
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I saw the man's feet coming around in
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front of me and he took a trash bag and
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put it over my grandson's hat
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I thought they were gonna take me out in
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this rug and kill me wrong and they were
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gonna smother Matthew before you move us
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we'll be back to kill you
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Becky would heard the safe dragged
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across the floor she heard her car stone
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then silence as it was driven away one
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of the other children awoken cut Becky
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and Matthew free Becky then discovered
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if the intruders have sliced all the
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alarm and phone lines neighbors summoned
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police in addition to stealing Becky's
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car robbers have made off the twenty
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thousand dollars worth of jewelry and
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the locks safe containing the woods life
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savings another eighteen thousand in
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cash well why they stole a lot of our
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possessions that I'll never be able to
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replace I'm thankful were alive that
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afternoon police found Becky's 91
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Lincoln at a nearby car wash the safe
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turned up a week later emptied of cash
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but yielding evidence that could help
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convict the robbers once they were
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identified as police began to review the
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case the facts pointed to one conclusion
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the assailants had known exactly where
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to find the wires for the home alarm
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system they knew just where the safe was
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kept they knew just where to look for
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Becky's jewelry they had known too much
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to be total strangers I'd met back up
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again with Becky and her husband woody
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we asked him to do something that was
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kind of difficult for them we asked them
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to sit down and start thinking about
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people they knew and people that they've
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dealt with and people that have worked
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for them and put a list together for us
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it would prove to be a solid hunch on
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the jewelry showed up at pawn shops in
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Pittsburgh 100 miles away police there
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believed it had been sold by a man named
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Larry juster state computers yielded
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this photograph the information was
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relayed to Ohio Becky and her husband
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had left town to recover some peace of
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mind after the robbery
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their daughter offered to review the
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pawnshop leads for local police listen
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there's a photograph I need you to take
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a look if you would have recognized oh
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it's Gary
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Gary Nolan Gary Noble it's not Larry
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jester
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that's what the name says but that's
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Gary Noble and his brother Ted Noble
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worked for my dad a couple months ago
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Ted Noble had briefly worked for the
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wood family 8 months prior to the
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robbery when Ted and his brother Gary
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found that detectives were closing in
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they fled Ohio and are still on the run
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we were given information that they had
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made statements that they had no tension
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of being taken alive if confronted by
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law enforcement the way we entered our
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warrants is with extreme caution on the
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two of them the robbery has done
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something to us that you don't really
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understand unless you go through it
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yourself angry what they did to my
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grandchildren and I'm angry I am angry
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at the mountains
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[Music]
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coming up he was one of rap music's most
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popular and controversial stars then he
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was gunned down by an unknown assailant
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who killed Tupac Shakur
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but first Virginia burns always thought
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she was an only child then she learned
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that her father had gone to his grave
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with a secret of an ill-fated romance
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and a long-lost daughter and the
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heartwarming reunion of a young man and
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the anonymous Good Samaritan who saved
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his life
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[Music]
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August 27th 1995 began as a joyous day
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for Steve and Sharon Newton of Immokalee
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Florida that morning their first child
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Virginia was born
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Steve had come to the hospital straight
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from work at around 2 p.m. he headed
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home on his motorcycle to pick up the
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family car he had no way of knowing he
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was on a collision course with disaster
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I just remember coming straight down on
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my head as I hit I saw poof this big
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bright light and that was it then I was
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just completely out first Steve Newton
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death was just a heartbeat away then a
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gift from heaven
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a passing motorist had turned Steve over
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in the water and saved him from drowning
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she remained at the seat until Steve was
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transported to a hospital then she
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disappeared the Steve never learned her
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name if she could just see my daughter
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she'll know that she did me the greatest
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favor or gift that anybody can give and
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that's to give me back my life and I'd
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like to say thank you for that
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with the help of our viewers Steve
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Newton recently had a chance to do just
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that
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here's Keeley Shea Smith with the
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details
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Bob a woman in Florida recognized the
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story is one she had heard from a
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co-worker named Tammy Dodson after the
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broadcast Tammy's boyfriend discussed
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the case with one of his co-workers who
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happened to be Steve Newton's
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father-in-law it soon became perfectly
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clear that Steve's mysterious Good
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Samaritan was in fact Tammy Dodson On
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January 31st 1997 Steve and Tammy met
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face to face for the first time since
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the near-fatal accident as a special
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treat Steve brought along Virginia now
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one and a half years old nobody's ever
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gone that far to come to thank me and he
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kept saying that I was his angel I've
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never been called an angel before far
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from it but it just I mean it made me
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feel good inside to know that I've done
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I've done something that's helped
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somebody so much Steve and his wife
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Sharon now expecting their second child
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were finally able to express their
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gratitude to the woman who had saved
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Steve's life IOR everything you know -
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this thing
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right through here it started for the
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day was out Tammy and Steve returned to
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the scene of the accident all too aware
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that Tammy's simple act of kindness had
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changed both of them forever
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it makes me want to do more for other
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people now you know if someone's in
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trouble I would go that extra mile
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you know today that extra just to help
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that person I just wanted to hug him I
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was so glad to see that he was okay and
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the baby and everything I was just just
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thrilled that he was fine
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the images are from another place and
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another time a proud young father
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cradles his newborn daughter her gentle
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smile captured in dozens of photographs
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Virginia burns of Aurora Colorado always
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thought there were pictures of her she
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learned the truth when she was in her
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early 30s
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my father said oh no those aren't you
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and I asked my mother well who are they
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and she says oh that's just a friend's
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baby how you feel it years would pass
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before Virginia finally learned the
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entire truth in 1991 a year after
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Virginia's father died her mother
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confided that he had been previously
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married then she made an even more
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startling revelation something I have to
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tell you you have a sister what do you
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mean I I have a sister you know the baby
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pictures that you always thought were
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you and we told you they were the
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daughter of a friend of ours if she's
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your sister my mother admitted that she
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didn't tell me to protect me
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she had no way of knowing where my
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sister was and why tell me if there was
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no way I could meet her
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three months later Virginia's mother
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also passed away with both of her
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parents gone
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Virginia launched a search for the
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sister she had never known I was looking
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through the pictures and I I found
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written on the back of one in my
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father's handwriting and said Susan and
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I and Hugo and I had no idea where Hugo
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was so I asked my husband and he said
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well that's a little town out on the
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eastern plains of Colorado
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Hugo Colorado is where Virginia's father
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jewel coram lived in 1942 he was a
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dishwasher and busboy in a small cafe
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that's where Joe met a young woman named
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Diana
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I just wanted to know maybe Friday night
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do you want to go to the picture show
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with me oh I'd love to but I didn't
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think my mother will let me go okay how
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about a walk just for an hour
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Diana's mother Clara ran the cafe Diana
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come here I don't like you talking to
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that boy
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mother he's perfectly nice person it
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could be a nice person but honey he's a
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drifter he just came in here Clara
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didn't prove with my father because he
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was poor and he had no future he she
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didn't see what he could really you know
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go anywhere
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despite Clara's objection was a romance
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blossomed Joe and Diana decided to get
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married a year later Susan was born but
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the tensions between Joe and his
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mother-in-law apparently escalated and
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eventually drove Joe and Diana apart in
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1946 they divorced and Joe left town for
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good
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daddy's gonna miss you Diana I need
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joinings I I think it was probably one
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of those most heartbreaking things he
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ever went through I'm sorry Joe to leave
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Susan and Diana I really don't think he
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would have left unless there was just
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horrendous pressure hunting Joe coram
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apparently never saw his wife or his
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daughter again after the separation he
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moved to Greeley Colorado where he fell
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in love with Virginia's mother dolly
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they eloped and Virginia was born a year
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later Joe was happy with his new family
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but he apparently never forgot the
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daughter he had left behind now looking
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back some 40 years
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Virginia understands a poignant of one
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memorable incident from her childhood
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it was Virginia's sixth birthday four
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months she had covered it a doll in the
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window of a local store she was just
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like an unreachable dream I open that
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box and there was that doll and it was
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just like time stopped I was so excited
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to get that doll so what are you
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thinking about sweetie beautiful what's
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her name
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I don't know what do you think I should
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call her he says why don't you call her
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sweet sue about sweet sue and ideas not
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realizing that that was the name of my
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sister Jenny why don't you go inside and
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play with your dolly okay
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sweets ooh I know I know it's okay you
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must really miss her
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yeah let's clean up I know I missed her
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a lot of times when I was growing up he
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would search faces we would go out and
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there would be a lot of little girls
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around you know and he would search
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faces Virginia learned that her father
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tried to find Diana and Susan several
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times but it was never successful he
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died in 1990 without ever learning their
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fate Virginia now hopes to succeed where
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her father failed and find the sister
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whose memory lingers on in the sweet
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innocence of a young girls dog this is
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important to me for two reasons
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number one here is a little girl who has
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gone her whole life without knowing that
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she had a father who cared about her my
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sister does not know that her father
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cared about her that he looked for her
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then he wanted to find her she needs to
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know she has a father who loved her and
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secondly I have a sister out there and
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I'm more than ready to be a sister
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when we return from mainstream science
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it is too incredible to believe but some
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researchers are convinced that
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spontaneous human combustion is very
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very real and later last September
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dozens of eyewitnesses watched in horror
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as rap music star Tupac Shakur was
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gunned down on the crowded Las Vegas
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Strip six months later the killer
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remains at large
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[Music]
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good morning
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morning coffee at kn Mike Fletcher's
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hardly ranked as an unsolved mystery
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until the peculiar events of February
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11th 1996 it happened just after 9 a.m.
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[Music]
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Mike the fletcher's say that smoke
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suddenly began to billow from Kay's body
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[Music]
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I had Michael take a look at my back I
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said take a look at my back so I'm
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thinking do I have blisters or what and
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he says no it's just red we really were
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frantically looking through the clothing
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you know I was like arm and back and
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just looking it over very carefully and
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we found absolutely no discoloration we
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found no sight of any kind of fire
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damage yeah I mean it was actually
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coming off of her skin but there was no
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flame the smoke was so thick that we did
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have to turn on the fan and open the
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window just to get the smoke out of
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there now earlier in my life I had
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worked at a Crematory and it the smell
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was that of burnt flesh I there was no
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mistake of that because I you know it's
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it's an unmistakable smell but Kay and
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Mike Fletcher it was frightening Lee
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real yet at the same time almost
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impossible to believe only later did
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they learn the such mysterious episodes
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have been reported for well over 500
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years students of the paranormal called
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a spontaneous human combustion her shc
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on a perfectly normal person burst into
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flame without warning and without a pair
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cause mainstream scientists dismissed
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such accounts still the reports of
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persisted since a 15th century and show
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no signs of letting up now at the dawn
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of the 21st if there is indeed such a
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thing as s HC K Fletcher is one of the
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few who lived to tell about it most of
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the others aren't so lucky March 26 1986
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Kendall Mott was worried his father
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George a retired fireman had serious
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lung problems an air pump and facemask
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helped keep him breathing but on that
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day George hadn't answered repeated
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phone calls
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a quick look around convinced Kendall
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that something was wrong the windows
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were all brown and I noticed that the
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door handle was born when I grabbed it
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yeah it was real dark inside the house
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and this Mulligan member yeah Kendall
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was confronted by a ghastly sight fire
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had reduced his father to a scattering
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of ashes a few splinters of bone and a
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fragment of skull
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it's scary to find somebody like that to
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walk in and find something that she
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loved you know all burnt like that it
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with no explanation as to why or what
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happened the case of George Mott in the
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spring of 1986 has all the hallmarks of
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classic spontaneous human combustion
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there is incredible localized damage
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done to the body
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George Mont was incinerated to an extent
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that we have been told by forensic
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experts could only be replicated inside
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a crematorium operating at 3,000 degrees
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Fahrenheit or more for 12 long hours the
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searing heat had melted a television in
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the room yet curiously it had left much
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of the bedding unscathed
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in addition scarcely two feet away a box
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of wooden matches had failed to ignite
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and air was still pumping through
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George's facemask
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skeptics however insist that behind the
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bizarre scene why as a rational
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explanation
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now do I know exactly what happened
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I don't but let me reconstruct a little
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bit we're told that mr. Mont was a
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former a drinker and a former smoker but
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that he had reformed he was supposed to
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be depressed just suppose that he said
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what the heck I think I'm a cigarette
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this would explain him taking off the
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oxygen mask while the unit would still
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be left running and it would explain why
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the matches were there now if that's the
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case then this is just another case of
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smoking in bed and is not mysterious and
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as a rather mundane case but not even
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skeptics use a word mundane to describe
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what Don Gosnell found in December of
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1966 a gas company meter man encounter
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sport Pennsylvania Gosnell called on
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Irving Bentley a 92 year old retired
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physician that day dr. Bentley was
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apparently away from home Gosnell let
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himself into the basement
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well I got to the bottom of the steps
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there was a pile of ashes on the floor
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and there was an odor something I'd
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never encountered before is kind of a
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sickening sweet odor
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and then I looked up and here there was
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a hole birthed through the floor right
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above me and I stood there and I looked
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at that hole and there was little red
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embers all around the hole yet and all I
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could think was
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they got dr. Bentley out of here but why
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didn't somebody call the fire company
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and get this taken care of so I went
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running upstairs and it went in to the
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bathroom and that's when I found her
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remains of dr. Bentley and what was left
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all there was was part of one leg and
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was so discolored I couldn't tell it was
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a human being or a mannequin till I got
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right down close and looked at it and
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when I got the picture I left right then
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what is so amazing and so profoundly
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perplexing to mainstream science about
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the scene that dr. Bentley left behind
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is the incredibly intense fire that
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consumed his body quite literally to
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powder leaving behind only his head a
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knee bone and a lower left leg as mute
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testimony this had once been a human
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being the rest of his body was ash in
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the basement below we believe that dr.
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Bentley answered a call of nature to be
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polite or standing in front of the
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toilet suddenly spontaneously he became
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a human fireball
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the nature of the fire and we kind of
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use fire in quotes here failed to
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produce enough thermal energy to melt
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aluminum Walker failed to produce enough
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heat to blister paint on the bathtub
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inches away and it was quite capable of
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directing its energy downward through
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the oak beams through the flooring and
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into the sub floor beneath into the
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basement the case of someone like dr.
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Bentley is very understandable in the
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sense of him being infirm he had a
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history of setting his clothes on fire
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from his pipe his clothing was
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pockmarked with burns from his pipe dr.
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Bentley also had a habit of keeping
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matches in his bathrobe pockets Joe
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Nickell believes that burning ashes from
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Bentley's pipe dropped near them and
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they ignited and there was plenty of
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fuel to feed the flames in many of the
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cases the person's own body fat can
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contribute to the fire if we imagine dr.
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Bentley with his body on fire he falls
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to the floor there is linoleum on that
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floor and linoleum once it catches fire
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is a very powerful of flammable material
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the flooring burned the subflooring
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burned and beams there's beams
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underneath there's a tremendous amount
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of wood underneath his body to act as a
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funeral pyre mysterious not really not
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scientifically mysterious unusual yes
00:29:13
the debunkers of spontaneous human
00:29:15
combustion could conduct a very simple
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experiment take a cadaver put it on a
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tar base linoleum flooring put an
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aluminum Walker over top of it and drop
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a cigarette on it if it burns to powder
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we're going to be real impressed and
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that person deserves a Nobel Prize in
00:29:26
Physics but I'll wager your money that
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experiments going to fail
00:29:31
Larry Arnold theorizes to some cases of
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spontaneous human combustion maybe an
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explosive aberration of the electrical
00:29:39
current flows naturally present in the
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body we have the potential of hundreds
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of thousands of volts of electricity
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coursing through the body
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instantaneously if the amperage is
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sufficiently high then the body would
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literally become its own electrocution
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mechanism it would pry itself out from
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the inside
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electrically this is crack pottery of a
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very high order there is not a single
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reasonable theory for spontaneous human
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combustion
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there is no convincing scientific
00:30:16
evidence of it and so the mystery
00:30:18
mongers ought to shut up and get a life
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Larry Arnold is unfazed by such
00:30:26
criticism he claims to have researched
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over 400 cases of spontaneous human
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combustion some dating back to the 1400s
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and many documented by photographs
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the naysayers the PhDs who are phenomena
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hating debunkers choose not to face the
00:30:44
facts this is a mystery that's crying
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out for study that's crying out for
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recognition this is a mystery that is to
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this day unsolved next the poetic music
00:31:01
of rap star Tupac Shakur glorified gang
00:31:03
coach and seemed to predict his own
00:31:05
violent demise now the investigation at
00:31:09
a Shakur's murder has become a tangle of
00:31:11
chilling speculation and conflicting
00:31:13
theories
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tupac shakur one of rap music's most
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popular and enigmatic artists his
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autobiographical songs reflected a dark
00:31:40
treacherous world he knew all too well
00:31:43
ultimately described as a street thug
00:31:45
and a charismatic poet - park won the
00:31:48
adoration of millions by the age of 25
00:31:51
he had cut four platinum albums and
00:31:53
starred in five feature films I thought
00:31:57
he was a brilliant man thought he had a
00:31:59
lot of vision without a foresight he may
00:32:02
he was very creative he was an artist
00:32:05
you know and at the same time he was a
00:32:07
revolutionist he was a great person he's
00:32:09
extremely charismatic he was very
00:32:11
intelligent very business smart very
00:32:14
funny very warm intelligent caring that
00:32:18
was the Tupac that I knew despite his
00:32:22
success to puck could never resist the
00:32:24
lure of the streets between 1991 and
00:32:28
1995 he was arrested eight times in 1994
00:32:33
he was shot five times and left for dead
00:32:35
in the lobby of a New York City
00:32:36
recording studio in 1995 he served eight
00:32:41
months in prison for rape within a year
00:32:45
of his release two pucks explosive past
00:32:48
finally caught up with him he was cut
00:32:50
down in a hail of gunfire just off the
00:32:52
Las Vegas Strip his killer is still
00:32:55
unidentified still at large
00:32:59
a coating of those who knew him best
00:33:02
tupac shakur never expected to reach his
00:33:04
twenty-fifth birthday he was wrong but
00:33:07
only by three months Shakur's untimely
00:33:11
death has raised a host of questions and
00:33:13
given rise to three distinct theories
00:33:15
about his murder a murder that occurred
00:33:17
as Tupac Shakur relaxed with friends in
00:33:19
America's playground Las Vegas Nevada
00:33:25
it was September 7th 1996 Las Vegas was
00:33:29
operating at full capacity thousands had
00:33:32
gathered for the heavyweight boxing
00:33:34
match between Mike Tyson and Bruce
00:33:36
Seldon held at the world-famous MGM
00:33:38
Grand Hotel Tupac Shakur was one of the
00:33:42
many celebrities who attended the fight
00:33:45
he is accompanied by Marion Suge Knight
00:33:48
CEO of Death Row Records Shakur's
00:33:50
recording company this photograph of
00:33:54
Tupac and Suge was taken after the fight
00:33:56
at around 1055 p.m. they were headed for
00:34:00
shug's dance club followed by an
00:34:03
entourage of musicians and bodyguards
00:34:07
Tupac who normally was known to pack a
00:34:12
weapon as was should and and many people
00:34:15
in the entourage they weren't armed that
00:34:18
night and everybody said they felt safe
00:34:21
reporter Kathy Scott is writing a book
00:34:24
about the murder so it was a very
00:34:27
festive mood they were obviously they're
00:34:30
paying that playing the music loud so
00:34:31
they were in a partying mood they were
00:34:33
flirting with women at 11:10 Tupac and
00:34:37
Suge pulled up to an intersection I
00:34:39
spoke with two unidentified women the
00:34:46
two were looking at the girls in talking
00:34:47
to them that's what the witnesses have
00:34:49
told police and that's when a white
00:34:52
Cadillac drove up on the passenger side
00:34:54
next to Tupac and opened fire
00:35:01
Tupac tried to climb into the backseat
00:35:06
and didn't make it as the attackers sped
00:35:11
away Suge Knight took off in the
00:35:13
opposite direction he finally stopped in
00:35:16
front of a casino one mile away Tupac
00:35:21
Shakur was in critical condition shot in
00:35:24
the chest in the hip and in the hand
00:35:26
Suge Knight had escaped with a slight
00:35:28
bullet graze in the temple despite the
00:35:33
presence of thousands of potential
00:35:34
witnesses police say only one person
00:35:37
offered a glimmer of hope
00:35:42
ER fool fool one of two parks backup
00:35:46
singers was riding in the car directly
00:35:48
behind Suge and Tupac he told police at
00:35:54
night that he could do a photo lineup
00:35:58
pick out the gunmen from a photo lineup
00:36:01
police interviewed him briefly
00:36:04
apparently not extensively took his
00:36:07
number and he went on his way for six
00:36:13
long days fans gathered outside the Las
00:36:15
Vegas hospital where to park clung to
00:36:18
life it was a losing battle on the
00:36:21
afternoon of September 13th 1996 Tupac
00:36:24
Shakur took his last breath and died
00:36:28
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initially conventional wisdom headed
00:36:33
that Tupac fell victim to a spontaneous
00:36:35
burst of gang violence supporting that
00:36:38
scenario was this videotape recorded by
00:36:40
a security camera at the MGM Grand
00:36:43
just three hours before the shooting
00:36:46
members of tooth park's entourage can be
00:36:49
seen in the lobby engaged in a brutal
00:36:51
scuffle both Suge Knight and Tupac were
00:36:54
present moments later Tupac followed by
00:37:00
shook can be seen hurrying through the
00:37:01
casino the target of the assault was 22
00:37:07
year-old Orlando Anderson an alleged
00:37:10
member of a Los Angeles Street gang the
00:37:11
South Side Crips
00:37:13
it has long been rumored that Suge
00:37:15
Knight is affiliated with a rival gang
00:37:17
the Compton Bloods was this
00:37:20
confrontation the spark that led to
00:37:22
Tupac's murder any time someone as
00:37:27
popular as Tupac Shakur can be killed in
00:37:30
front of thousands of people after one
00:37:33
of the biggest events in the world and
00:37:35
one of the most popular cities of Las
00:37:37
Vegas in the world there is something
00:37:41
more to it than just some random
00:37:42
shooting by some idiot who decided to
00:37:44
pick up a gun and point at Tupac Shakur
00:37:48
it has to be some organization or some
00:37:53
movement behind that killing some say
00:37:59
this music video by Tupac
00:38:01
offers a clue to a second scenario in
00:38:05
the months preceding his death Tupac was
00:38:07
at the center of a heated dispute
00:38:09
between East Coast and West Coast rap
00:38:11
music factions
00:38:15
there was a rivalry that started between
00:38:17
Tupac Shakur and artist Biggie Smalls
00:38:21
and puffy combs who is the CEO of Bad
00:38:24
Boy Entertainment that rivalry between
00:38:27
them existed because when Tupac was shot
00:38:29
at quad Studios he felt not that big E
00:38:33
and puffy set him up but that they knew
00:38:35
that it was coming and didn't warn him
00:38:39
in a dramatized portion of the video
00:38:42
Tupac publicly blamed puffy combs and
00:38:45
Biggie Smalls for the attack that nearly
00:38:46
killed him in 1994 no one has ever been
00:38:53
arrested in that shooting Ikon kid who
00:38:57
was all boys why speak once we all boys
00:38:59
we always all boys just weeks before his
00:39:03
death Tupac appeared on radio station
00:39:06
KMEL in San Francisco and candidly
00:39:09
discussed his feelings towards his East
00:39:11
Coast rivals
00:39:13
[Music]
00:39:32
just last weekend biggie smalls aka a
00:39:36
notorious b.i.g was himself gunned down
00:39:39
shortly after leaving a party in Los
00:39:41
Angeles at this time there is no known
00:39:44
connection between his murder and
00:39:46
Shakur's in addition there is no proof
00:39:50
that the East Coast West Coast rivalry
00:39:51
had anything to do with Tupac's death
00:39:54
leading to intense speculation about a
00:39:57
third possibility
00:39:58
perhaps the murder was an inside job
00:40:01
orchestrated by someone close to Tupac
00:40:04
Shakur this scenario was populated by
00:40:07
unanswered questions
00:40:10
in the midst of the jam-packed Vegas
00:40:12
strip how did the gunman know where to
00:40:15
park would be why did he seem to target
00:40:17
only to park why wartooth parks
00:40:20
bodyguards armed at the time of the
00:40:22
shooting when they had been armed
00:40:24
earlier in the evening and why were the
00:40:30
strip swarming with people including the
00:40:32
two unidentified women just a few feet
00:40:34
from the shooting was no one apparently
00:40:36
willing to cooperate with police what I
00:40:41
was told by one homicide detective was
00:40:44
that everybody went deaf dumb and blind
00:40:47
they were surprised because they said
00:40:49
these are professional bodyguards
00:40:51
they're paid to guard you know Tupac he
00:40:56
hired them for this purpose yet they
00:40:59
didn't see anything the only person who
00:41:04
reportedly did see something
00:41:05
yahhh fufu never had the opportunity to
00:41:08
view a photo lineup of possible suspects
00:41:11
within a week of the shooting he
00:41:13
returned to his home in New Jersey
00:41:16
two months later fula was gunned down in
00:41:19
the stairwell of a housing project a
00:41:21
random act of violence or a premeditated
00:41:25
murder to keep fuller from talking to
00:41:27
the authorities he was their best bet he
00:41:32
was right behind the car when it
00:41:34
happened Annie said he could identify he
00:41:36
believed he could identify the gunman
00:41:38
and now full is dead and they don't have
00:41:41
that anymore
00:41:44
authorities have always maintained that
00:41:46
fula was the only eyewitness willing to
00:41:48
talk however just two weeks ago two
00:41:51
other members of two parks aren't jurors
00:41:53
claimed they told police from the
00:41:55
beginning that they had a clear view of
00:41:57
the shooter they say police never asked
00:42:00
him to view a photo lineup the police
00:42:03
say the men initially denied seeing the
00:42:05
shooter but have now reinter viewed them
00:42:08
[Music]
00:42:11
ironically in one of two parks final
00:42:14
videos he seemed to foretell his own
00:42:16
violent demise cut down in a hail of
00:42:20
gunfire by a shadowy unknown assassin
00:42:23
[Applause]
00:42:29
I don't know if we'll ever know who
00:42:31
killed Tupac Shakur but I do know that
00:42:33
there's millions of people that are
00:42:35
devastated by his loss things people
00:42:43
might consider bad about Tupac whether
00:42:45
there was a lot of good things about
00:42:46
Tupac in we had yet to see all the good
00:42:49
things and I believe that it came out of
00:42:51
Tupac Shakur join me next to four more
00:43:09
unsolved mysteries
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