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tonight on unsolved mysteries the legend
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of Bugsy Siegel handsome sexy a
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cold-blooded killer but one night in
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Beverly Hills the Mafia's hunter became
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the hunted in Southern California rain
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slick roads lead to a brush with death
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in New Jersey another accident
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terrifying and nearly fatal soon after
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both drivers claimed they could predict
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the future can a car crash make you
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suddenly psychic for Marla's Thomas it
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should have been the happiest day of her
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life
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the doctors dropped a bombshell her
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seemingly healthy baby had died today a
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series of baffling contradictions that
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led Modest to believe the impossible her
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daughter may still be alive for
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generations the streets of Queens New
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York have seen aspiring gangsters come
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and go but according to the FBI Polly
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Ragusa is one of a kind a would-be
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wiseguy intent on making a name for
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himself by whatever means possible join
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me as we try to help authorities and the
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families of crime victims bring closure
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to unsolved mysteries
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our mobsters in the 1940s life in New
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York Chicago and Los Angeles was brutal
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mafia bosses took pride in killing and
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getting away with it
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but there is one famous hit for which no
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one has ever taken credit the murder of
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Bugsy Siegel
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in the late evening of June 20th 1947
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Siegel relaxed in the Beverly Hills home
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of his girlfriend
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the mobs top assassin had no idea that
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he was a target
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nine shots were fired into the room four
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found their mark Bugsy Siegel died
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instantly
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the list of suspects read like a classic
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whodunit business associates a
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girlfriend even a bodyguard but police
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investigating Siegel's murder hit the
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wall of the Mafia's code of silence a
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wall as still exist today the main
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frustration I have in the case is all my
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witnesses are either gone or still won't
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talk so the frustration is is that I'm
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running out of time if I haven't lost
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that time already and I'm just still not
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getting any information for Beverly
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Hills police the murder of Bugsy Siegel
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is still an open case but with each
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passing year the chances of solving the
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glamour city's most notorious crime
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becomes slimmer
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tonight the suspect list is in your
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hands can you figure out who killed
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Bugsy Siegel his real name was Benjamin
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Siegel he was a mobs most feared hit man
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beneath the smile of the handsome New
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Yorker was a heart of a cold-blooded
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killer
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Siegel's violent temper was legendary
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underworld figures talked for years
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about how he took revenge after being
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injured in a bomb blast he sneaked out
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of the hospital at 2:00 a.m. got into a
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car with his associates drove to the
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home of the suspect in Brooklyn when the
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door was answered bang bang bang they
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shot him and back in the car
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sneaked him back into the hospital he
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had a perfect alibi Segal formed a
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partnership with Meyer Lansky in New
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York an organized crime syndicate the
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sole liquor during Prohibition then
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worked its way into gambling
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prostitution and murder for hire Ben
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Siegel and Meyer Lansky were a great
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combination they complemented each other
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Lansky did the thinkin it was Bugsy who
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did the whackin in the early forties
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Siegel and Lansky teamed up with another
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East Coast mafia boss Lucky Luciano on
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the team with Siegel Lansky Luciano
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decided to expand their territory it was
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a beginning of the end for Bugsy he was
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sent to take control of gambling in
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California there he faced a major
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problem suspect number one
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Jack dragna
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right jack they'd be stupid brightener
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controlled a lucrative wire service used
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by bookies across the country Bugsy made
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a simple proposal give up the wire give
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up your life
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dragna chose to live which gave him two
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motives to kill Bugsy Seigel jealousy
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and revenge after Bugsy died Jack dragna
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got his wire service back
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Bugsy ran the mobs business and tinsel
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town with a showmanship of a Hollywood
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superstar he began an affair with
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suspect number two Virginia hill an
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alleged cash courier for the mob but
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Hill may have had her own reasons for
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wanting Bugsy dead she was leading a
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double life
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Virginia Hill was definitely connected
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some way which Gaga mob she was out
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there keeping an eye on Bugsy and
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feeling the Chicago mob information on
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Bugsy's activities on the night Bugsy
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was killed in Virginia's home she was
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out of town by coincidence or not in
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Hollywood
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only one man seemed to hold his ground
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against Bugsy Siegel suspect number
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three Mickey Cohen was a Cleveland
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gangster newly transplanted to LA Siegel
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could have killed him but instead he put
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him on his payroll been like that that
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this case stood up to he liked it so
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much today he hid his personal bodyguard
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really after Siegel's death Cohen was
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given control of West Coast gambling a
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promotion he would never have seen with
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Bugsy alive when gambling became legal
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in Nevada Siegel saw the opportunity of
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a lifetime
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he envisioned a luxurious casino like
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the world had never seen Bugsy figured
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the Flamingo would cost a million
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dollars Lansky Luciano gave him the
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money but 1 million became - two became
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four and four became six
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Lansky Luciano became the final suspects
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they needed to plug a loose cannon that
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was financially out of control
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it has to stop and stop now Lansky did
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go out and visit Seiko
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in Nevada and I think he cautioned him
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and he warned him pay attention to the
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business don't let the course get too
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high your investors are not happy there
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were also rumors that Siegel was
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pocketing some of his investors money to
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support Virginia Hill she was a very
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very expensive playmate they probably
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had a feeling that he was spending some
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of their money on Virginia 20 minutes
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after Siegel's death two members of the
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Lansky Luciano mob took control of the
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Flamingo casino a new boss picture you
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have any questions you can call our
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friends in New York no one believed the
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timing of the takeover was coincidental
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investigators have little doubt the
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Siegel's hit was a professional job but
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which of the suspects could have been
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involved in Bugsy's death some feel the
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most likely scenario involves them all
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Virginia Hill provided the location for
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the murder and possibly was given a
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reward she had two trillion dollars in
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an Aes swiss bank account
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Siegel's bodyguard Mickey Cohen knew his
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bosses scheduled for the evening but at
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the time of the killing he was not doing
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his job Mickey Cohen even came into the
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station and said what happened what
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happened I was supposed to be watching
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him and Jack dragna he may have ordered
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the hit with the approval of Lansky and
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Luciano he would not have dared to do it
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on his own he would have asked
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permission from people he regarded in
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the New York area it's a possibility
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because they were thinking of killing
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Sego anyway so all right let Jack dragna
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handle it
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today none of the key suspects in the
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Seagal murder are still alive but
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Beverly Hills police still hope that the
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mafia code of silence may one day be
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broken murder has no statute of
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limitations so until the case is solved
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the case remains open I'm sure there's
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people out there that are descendants of
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people in the Mafia or people in the
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know that have information I would love
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to have a phone call from
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perhaps there is someone just one person
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who might have that vital clue that can
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crack this intriguing 50 year old case
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perhaps it's you
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next one police officer dead and two
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wounded and the suspects are still on
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the run
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that truck is $10.99 out of Durango May
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29th 1998 45 year old police officer
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Dale Claxton followed a stun and water
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truck out of the small town of Cortez
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Colorado flexin was a relative newcomer
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to the force having become an officer
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just three years earlier
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care for suddenly the water truck pulled
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over
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Dale Clarkson have no idea what he was
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about to encounter
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they'll never had cast him but your
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seatbelt even go for the door it was
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terrible it was in 33 years of being in
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this business is the most violent thing
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I've ever seen
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Dale Claxton left behind a wife four
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children and a grandchild
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there is no sense to this the men who
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killed Dale were armed for war and they
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were ready to kill whoever and whatever
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got in the way
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an assault sudden attack in the
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foothills of the Rocky Mountains done
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with brutal military-like precision who
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were these people wielding ak-47s and
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assault rifles police had no idea and
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the killing of Dale Claxton was only the
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beginning an APB was quickly put out on
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the water truck
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deputy Jason Bishop was told to search
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for it what he didn't know was the
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suspects had abandoned the water truck
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and had stolen a pickup I just happened
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to look in my rearview mirror and I see
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this yellow Ford pickup barge and really
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close that's when the shot started
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coming in I lost consciousness and fell
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over into the passenger seat and wrecked
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my patrol car the next five minutes law
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enforcement was under siege state
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troopers and local police were moving
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targets in the rampage
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and they came around the corner at me it
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took me by surprise they went off the
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road to go by me and they were doing at
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least 60 70
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then the yellow picker is bearing down
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Detective Sergeant Todd Martin
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[Applause]
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I was just overwhelmed with automatic
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gunfire my left arm it exploded
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Martin was hit twice once in the arm
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once in the leg
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officer Kim bobwhite saw him go down I
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lost so much blood
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they said I lost the maximum amount
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anybody can lose without getting a
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transfusion and keeping alive so I think
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if it wasn't for Jim Bob thought it died
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out there nine law enforcement vehicles
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have been riddled with 300 high caliber
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assault rounds police and troopers never
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had a chance to get off a single shot
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one officer was dead and two were
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hospitalized It was as if they were
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fighting a military battle they were
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dressed military fatigues
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a full military gear and as if they were
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going to war
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an hour later the stolen pickup truck
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was found in a ravine 41 miles northwest
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of Cortez on the Colorado Utah border it
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sports the largest manhunt in Colorado
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history 62 police agencies participated
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well we found the vehicles some of the
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rugged this country in the state of Utah
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lots of Indian ruins in it lots of Mines
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some deep canyons and just lots of
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places to hide police identified the
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suspects in the shooting 30 year-old
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Alan Monte pylon from nearby dub Creek
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and Durango residents Robert Mason and
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Jason McVean both 2603 were known to
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have anti-government views pile-on was
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also battling the IRS over back taxes
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though they had no criminal records the
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men once tried to join a militia group
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in the Four Corners area but were thrown
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out for being too violent
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more importantly they all were
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well-trained in wilderness survival
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tactics they have supplies stored
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throughout the area the same hills and
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canyons used as a hideout a century ago
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by butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang
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they had been going to that area for the
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last four or five years had done a lot
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of survivalist training in that area had
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done a lot of backpacking and living off
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the land in that area it was like them
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going to their backyard a week later the
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fugitives struck again this time they
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shot and wounded a deputy sheriff and
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Bluff Utah SWAT teams quickly surrounded
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the area a few hours later a body of
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suspect Robert Mason was discovered dead
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from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
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coming up two separate car crashes seem
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to give the accident victims astonishing
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psychic powers an evening rainstorm in
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Southern California driver John
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Holland's life was about to change
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forever
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Holland was dazed but not seriously
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injured but the following day he started
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to feel strange I started noticing kind
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of like electricity building up in my
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body like hey I don't want to say a
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power but it was more like a surge of
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energy was building I just felt that my
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body had too much energy in it that's
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the only way I could describe it and
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then I started talking to people on the
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phone some friends and as I was talking
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to them I was realizing I would I
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started to know things in their lives
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what was going to happen as a child
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Holland had been interested in psychic
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phenomena but it wasn't until after his
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accident that he says he became aware of
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his gift it became obvious that his job
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at a local hotel bar he knew what it was
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a stranger's birthday he knew that a
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co-worker would have complications in
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childbirth Holland says he was never
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wrong they would just come out of my
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mouth straight out and I had to learn
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how to stop that so it was almost like
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my customers was my practice so I'm
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seeing 3 years for the two of you am i
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right
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Hollan became a sensation at the hotel
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business executives would come to see
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him to ask if a big deal was going to
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happen I see the merger as being
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something that's it's gonna be a success
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he said his predictions were so uncanny
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the co-workers became wary of him others
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felt his predictions were simply clever
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manipulation Holland's boss eventually
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asked him to stop telling the future
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because he was frightening the customers
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I'm not out to prove anything okay
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this is what happened to me this is what
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comes out of me and this is people come
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back and confirm car accidents and other
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sudden events that shake up a person's
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body and of course the inner body called
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the aura have on occasion caused that
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person to become psychic there are a
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number of cases on record there's also a
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case of a man who fell off a ladder and
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as a result became a well-known psychic
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something happens to the inner body of
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the persons were and what was before an
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ordinary human being who now becomes a
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psychic it's perfectly natural
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for two years after his accident
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John Holland honed his psychic skills
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he began seeing clients people who
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wanted to know what the future held for
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them Holland claims his powers
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intensified and quickly reached a more
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profound level he could communicate with
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the dead a client named Adrian who came
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to see me and her dad passed away sadly
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and he's basically she wanted to know
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where is he what is he doing right now
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so what happened her dad came and told
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me to tell her to look in a book on the
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bookshelf he wants you to be at peace he
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described the bookcase he described the
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location of a book and he said in and
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there's gonna be something a message
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from your father
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in this book and I was unclear if he
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meant the book it said he said no
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there's a message in it a piece of paper
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a message from your father that will let
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you know that he's okay
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it took two weeks before Adrian got the
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courage to open the book inside was a
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poem written by her father 28 years ago
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it was called soar into the cosmic blue
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and it talks about finding that there's
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a whole nother world to explore when you
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leave this world and all that's out
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there is open to you then and it ends
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soar into the universe of light at peace
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and fly to the rim of heaven it's a
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baffling mystery can trauma spark unseen
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forces that allow us to see things
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others cannot do we all possess the
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ability to see the future could we to
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some day become suddenly psychic in
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certain River New Jersey a mother and
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her son were badly injured in a
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devastating car accident caused by a
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drunk driver
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Elizabeth Joyce had shielded her son
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Jeff from the impact she suffered
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massive injuries in the wreck
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on the way to the hospital her heart had
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to be restarted three times during the
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blackout's she was reunited with
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relatives who had died a year earlier on
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the left with my stepson on the right
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with my husband they talked to me with
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their mind you have to go back you have
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to go back
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Elizabeth survived the accident without
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any permanent physical disabilities but
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she feared neurological damage I started
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having a tingling sensation across my
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shoulders and up my neck and I started
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having blackouts Elizabeth began having
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a frightening recurring dream it was an
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explosion I saw a house I saw a body I
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saw it go out the roof I was aware of
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oil wells I was aware of a trailer park
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and a fence
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it was so real to me and in my head I
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would hear your aunt died she's in
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Houston Texas
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but Elizabeth aunt lived in Concord New
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Hampshire not Houston after having the
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dream every night for three weeks she
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confided to social worker Brenda Hayes
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Brenda was amazed the home Elizabeth was
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describing was her aunt's that her aunt
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had died in an explosion a week earlier
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there was a pipeline explosion on her
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property and they haven't been able to
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find her body or find any remains to
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identify what happened to her let me go
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I started to explain to her what the
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setup was and she said no wait
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I'll draw you the picture Elizabeth drew
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an exact rendition of the house she then
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put it to a section of tall grass near
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an oil well and said Brenda's aunt was
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there Brenda call the authorities in
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Houston within an hour
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police had found the body of her aunt it
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would not be the last time Elizabeth
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newly discovered powers would solve a
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mystery in 1992 Sidney J reso the
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president of the Exxon corporation was
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kidnapped from in front of his home
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police had few clues in the baffling
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crime
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but Elizabeth Joyce had a vision about
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the abduction and called police
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I really don't give much credence to
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psychics I'm not a fan of psychics and
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I've come across many many psychics but
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in this particular case with Elizabeth
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Joyce I did find her to be very very
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accurate and black-and-white
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I saw a blonde haired woman and a
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jogging suit running behind the car
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falling and screaming for help I saw the
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man get out of the car to go over and
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help this woman I saw a man come around
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from the bushes
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I saw him grab this man that had gotten
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out of the Cadillac and put a gun to his
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head and force him into a white van
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Elizabeth says she was in contact with
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the FBI on a daily basis for six weeks
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giving them information about the case I
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said they're putting him in a trunk and
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they're taking him off a main road and
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they're going to dig a shallow grave and
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he said describe it to me all I said
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it's between two pine trees it's in it
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it's in a narrow space between two pine
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trees and it's off a main road either
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the Garden State Parkway or the New
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Jersey Turnpike though the FBI will not
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talk about Elizabeth's involvement a
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body of Sidney reso was found exactly
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where she said it would be remains
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she says her information also helped
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catch the killers for Elizabeth the
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proof is in her results I don't try to
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ever convince anyone that there is such
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a thing as psychic sensitivity I let
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them find it for themselves I'm there to
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help others if they are open to being
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helped if I can reach one person that it
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helps them change the life for the
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better and they know
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things about themselves more or if they
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know that we all go on then I've done my
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job
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Joanne Hollender Elizabeth Joyce say
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they are continuing to use their powers
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to help others
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both have day jobs and say they do
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psychic work on the side charging
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nominal fees for their services can John
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and Elizabeth really see the future many
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believe they can but in the unexplained
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world of psychic phenomena their stories
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remain an unsolved mystery
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next it was modest Thomas's worst
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nightmare
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now the tragic loss of her newborn
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infant has become an intriguing unsolved
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mystery
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this is Marla's Thomas she's 55 years
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old and in failing health more than 30
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years ago vadas thought she buried her
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infant daughter in this graveyard now
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she believes that daughter is still
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alive
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June 12 1962 Worthington Minnesota
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modest was just 20 years old and
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separated from her husband she had moved
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to Minnesota to be near her mother when
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the baby was born
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Marlys was heavily sedated during her
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difficult labor
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the next thing Modest remembers is
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seeing her daughter Mary Agnes gross for
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the first time I can't take my eyes off
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her little feet they were moving I felt
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so happy and I just kept watching her
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little feet and then I drifted back to
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sleep when I woke up I looked to see
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where my baby was and I didn't see her
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and I asked the nurse where's my baby
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and she said the doctor will be in to
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talk to you can I see my baby now I'm
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sorry Marlys but your baby died
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how long did my baby live it's one hour
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I wanted to see my mother now oh no no
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no no relax we'll take you to your
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mother soon enough not you and that was
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just such a shock to me you know it hurt
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so bad and I couldn't hardly believe
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that you know because I seen her little
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feet when modest left the delivery room
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she passed a bassinet that was on his
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way to the morgue and I must have only
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seen my daughter maybe 10 seconds 15 at
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the most and my baby didn't look dead
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my baby looked like she was just
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sleeping she wasn't purple then she had
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dark hair yeah she had lots of hair
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Morris also noticed that Mary Agnes had
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marks on her forehead mark slept by the
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doctors forceps during the delivery
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Morris asked for an autopsy but was told
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it was too late
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while modest was still in the hospital
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her friend Judy Voges visited the
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funeral home along with Marla's mother
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Judy claims that the baby she saw looked
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different from the infant that Marlys
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had described
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I didn't see any marks on her forehead
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her hair was light bro not dark bro it
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was light bro and not a whole lot of it
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it was look you know kind of downy like
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I suppose I can't stranger stood on
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Morris's mother tried to take a picture
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of the baby
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the funeral director would not allow it
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I know you can take one of the cemetery
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after them after the caskets of an
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artist later that day
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Morris's mother did take these pictures
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of the casket just before the burial the
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day was marked by an additional bizarre
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occurrence Morris's mother told her that
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another family was at the gravesite
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mourning the death of a child and they
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took it so hard and they prayed and
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prayed and they had tears I could never
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figure out who those people were and my
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mother never could figure out who those
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people were a week after the funeral
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Mardis was well enough to visit Mary
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Agnes gravesite
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there was only one grave there at that
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time and I took it so hard just so bad
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and from that day on I was off to that
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cemetery like three four times a week
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Martis accepted her baby's death as a
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natural occurrence but just three months
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later another unsettling development
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Morris received a mysterious photograph
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in the mail there was no letter no
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return address just a picture of a
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husband a wife and three children one of
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them a baby girl the baby look like my
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husband and I didn't know these people
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I've never seen these people in my life
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and I showed it to my family and my
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family didn't know who those people were
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either but they also thought the baby
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looked a lot like my husband strange
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indeed but it would be nearly three
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decades before Modest would come to
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realize the significance of the picture
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a year passed before Morris saved enough
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money to buy a headstone but
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inexplicably Cemetery workers did not
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place a stone atop Mary Agnes burial
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plot instead it was positioned a few
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feet off to the side though she moved
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away modest periodically visited her
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daughter's grave on one visit she got
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the shock of her life
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in 1989 a headstone for a different baby
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had been placed on Mary Agnes's burial
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plot that baby's name was Pamela
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r.a.dickey Marlys immediately questioned
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the funeral director I says well this
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can't be I says I even bought a stone
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and laid it out there and then he said
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right away he said I often wonder what
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that stone was doing out there because
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there never was a grave and I says well
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I know they laid it on the wrong spot at
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that time well he says no he says your
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daughter's not buried out here not
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buried here Loras was deeply disturbed
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the old doubts and questions came
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flooding back she began researching the
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details of her baby's supposed death and
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burial and discovered an odd coincidence
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Pamela Dickey had died only a few hours
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before Marla's daughter on the same day
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in the same hospital and even more
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startling Mary Agnes and Pamela Dickie
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were also buried on the same day there
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was not to funerals out there that day
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there was only one funeral one grave and
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after the funeral there was only one
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heap of dirt that's all there was out
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there there was more modest found Mary
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Agnes lastname gross written in the
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upper corner about a Pamela Dickies
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funeral papers even more positive
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hospital records said Mary Agnes was
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healthy at birth but the death
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certificate said she had never drawn a
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breath the birth certificate said she
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was born as 6:23 p.m. incredibly the
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death certificate said she died three
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minutes before she was born at 6:20
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every place that I go and check this out
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the papers just just like my daughter
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had never died you know there's no
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nothing that shows me that my daughter
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died mara says Pamela Dickies mother for
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help but understandably Margaret Nikki
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preferred not to disturb her daughter's
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grave
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nonetheless modest had to make certain
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Mary Agnes his body had not been moved
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without her knowledge she had the grave
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that lay beneath her daughter's
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tombstone exhumed the remains were old
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and difficult to identify but Marlys was
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right DNA testing revealed that the
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child buried there was not Mary Agnes
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gross
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nor was it Pamela r.a.dickey
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Mardis then showed the pictures her
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mother had taken a Mary Agnes as casket
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to Pamela's mother Margaret Dickey
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she looks at the picture she says that's
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my baby my husband bought that casket
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and then I asked her I said did anyone
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go to your baby's funeral she said yes
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my in-laws and my husband I believe that
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my mother now went to that pamela ray
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Dickies funeral that that it's only one
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baby there and that's Pamela ray Dickie
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if Morris is right and Pamela Dickie is
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buried where she thought her own
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daughter was laid to rest what happened
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to Mary Agnes today mortis is only one
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possible explanation she is convinced
00:37:24
that Mary Agnes is still alive and that
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the baby and the pictures she received
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more than 30 years ago was her firstborn
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daughter but I think today that picture
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was was a family that adopted my baby
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and they wanted to show me that my baby
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was in a family and that's why they sent
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me that picture I was 20 years old I
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lived by myself and maybe they thought
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that I couldn't take care of the baby so
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they had another family raised my baby
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Marla still suffers the agony of not
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knowing what happened to her daughter if
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Mary Agnes is indeed alive she was born
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in 1962 and would today be 35 years old
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the birth took place at Worthington
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Regional Hospital in Worthington
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Minnesota
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I want so bad to find where my daughter
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is you know I really got to know where
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she is and I'll never give up never give
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up until I find where she's at
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next
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the FBI says Pauly Ragusa did it all
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racketeering robbery attempted murder is
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that any wonder they want your help to
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track down this fugitive wise guy New
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York City the Big Apple money media and
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fashion but in the shadows of the
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skyscrapers another world the underworld
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across the river from Manhattan alized
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the borough of Queens for generations
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these streets have been home turf for
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powerful mobsters and a fertile breeding
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ground for young wannabe wise guys like
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Pauly Ragusa orig wood Queens
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by all accounts Pauly was on the outside
00:39:26
looking in to get the attention of the
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important crime families Raguse
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apparently felt he had to make a
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statement he made it guns and violence
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paul Ragusa was the leader i think based
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on his propensity to engage in violence
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a Ragusa is known as a fighter
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as somebody that is not adverse to using
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his hands and to using firearms Pauly
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Ragusa allegedly did it on robbery
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assault racketeering arson and he got
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away with it because his victims refused
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to press charges for Pauly winding up on
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the FBI's ten most wanted list was
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probably inevitable some say he was
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literally born into a life of crime
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his father Filippo was a major heroin
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trafficker who smuggled in many kilos of
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heroin from Sicily his older sister
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Francesca was a member of his father's
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heroin ring her husband was also a
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member of the ring and so was another of
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Pauly's brother-in-law's
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with his father behind bars Paulie set
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his sights on being a big-time crime
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boss with his own family he organized
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the Giannini crew a gang of aspiring
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mobsters who reportedly had their
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headquarters in the heart of Queens at
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the cafe Giannini it's a place that the
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young wannabes aspired to go to just to
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be closer to the real tough guys to make
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guys according to police
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Raghu sued his gang spent countless
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hours sipping espresso and plotting the
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crimes that they hoped would put them on
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the map Paul and his gang were extremely
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dangerous they just didn't have any
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regard for life she got in their way
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they were gonna shoot you you know it's
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not a birthright you have to be Italian
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to get into the mob but you have to earn
00:41:26
your way into it you have to show that
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you're a tough guy I'm willing to do
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just about anything that's required to
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make money for the family these guys
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however went too far a perfect example
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Ragusa and his Giannini crew robbed the
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same Bank in their own neighborhood
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three times in a row netting more than
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$200,000 but for sheer audacity nothing
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matched the events that took place in
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Maspeth Queens two security officers
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carrying $20,000 in cash arrived at a
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bank to make a light deposit joy either
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got out of the van proceeded over
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through the night deposit box he walked
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over the night deposit box he realized
00:42:13
there's a van across the street he
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turned at that time three suspects
00:42:18
exited van approached him and fired at
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him a rapid session he returned fire
00:42:24
emptying his revolver he then fell to
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the ground and crawled to safety
00:42:27
his partner taking cover behind a wall
00:42:30
also returned fire a wild shootout
00:42:33
ensued you can still see some of the
00:42:35
results from that shootout
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the shootout left one security guard
00:42:42
seriously injured authorities later
00:42:44
linked Ragusa and the Giannini crew to
00:42:46
the robbery investigators believe the
00:42:49
gars might have been executed if the
00:42:51
gunman had not run out of ammunition the
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main factor that makes these types of
00:42:57
individuals so dangerous has won their
00:42:59
youth and to their total disregard for
00:43:02
human life by early 1996 a joint
00:43:06
investigation by the FBI and the New
00:43:08
York City police led to a 32 count
00:43:10
indictment against Ragusa and 13 members
00:43:13
of his gang Ragusa did not wait around
00:43:16
to be arrested if you want to be a tough
00:43:21
guy you have to show you're not afraid
00:43:23
of anything but deep down all of these
00:43:25
guys have some kind of a fear that
00:43:28
they're going to be caught it was this
00:43:30
knowledge that Paulie was going to get
00:43:33
caught that forced him to run away
00:43:37
Paulie Ragusa has been on the run since
00:43:39
June of 1996 he reportedly speaks fluent
00:43:43
Italian frequents high-priced
00:43:45
prostitutes and is a heavy gambler
00:43:47
Raguse is 27 years old stairs 5 feet 10
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inches tall and weighs 170 pounds
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some mysteries may never be explained
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but others may be solved with a single
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phone call from you join me for our next
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edition of unsolved mysteries
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