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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast in 1977 a trip to Lake
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Champlain began as an ordinary summer
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vacation for Sandra Mansi it turned out
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to be anything but ordinary when Sandra
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took this remarkable photograph along
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the shore of the lake some experts
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believe the picture may be evidence as
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Scotland's famous Loch Ness monster has
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an American cousin meet Pierre a man
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without a past in May of 1992 he
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wandered confused disoriented and
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penniless into a homeless shelter in San
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Diego he hopes that someone watching
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tonight can tell him who he is and where
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he came from Todd Kelly and Christi must
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field were highschool sweethearts
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until Christy went away to college and
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began dating another man a few months
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later Todd Kelly was found murdered
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apparently the victim of a lethal
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lover's triangle also tonight a woman
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has been reunited with her family after
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she washed her own story on unsolved
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mysteries
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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Hamilton Indiana is a small lakeside
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resort town with just 684 permanent
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residents in the summer the population
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swells into the thousands thanks to
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vacationers looking for a tranquil
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escape but on August 9th 1989 the peace
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and serenity of Hamilton was shattered
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forever
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a 7:00 a.m. Christie mutts field arrived
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at the home of her boyfriend 19 year old
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Todd Kelly moments later she fled in
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terror as I'm laying on the floor and I
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screamed his name I could just I get to
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see just by looking at him that
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something was very wrong wasn't right
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Todd Kelly was dead stabbed seven times
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in the chest back and wrist his death
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hit horrifyingly close to home for
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Christie mutts Field just hours earlier
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the two lovers had been together in the
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same house where Todd was killed the
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authorities immediately questioned
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Christie muts film and the story which
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unfolded would eventually place her at
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the center of an ongoing controversy by
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the end of the interrogation a primary
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suspect had emerged another man whom
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Christie had been dating a man who
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represented the third side of a lethal
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lover's triangle built on the affections
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of Christie mutts Feld
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Christie met Todd Kelly during their
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junior year in high school but Todd
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especially it was love at first sight
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Todd was a very kind person very sweet
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he didn't hold any grudges against
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anyone time really just cared about
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everybody for who they were after
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graduation he asked me to marry him
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and I guess I said no I said I really
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wasn't ready I thought there was other
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things I really wanted to do right now
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and that's pretty much where we broken
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off right there the next fall Christy
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enrolled at a small college just seven
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miles from Hamilton she soon began
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dating Mahfouz Huk a student whose
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parents had emigrated from Bangladesh
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when he was just an infant he was very
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outgoing very energetic he was
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interested in what I had to say and yeah
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he was interested in what I thought and
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what I believed in despite outward
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appearances
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mahfouz Huck was not what he seemed to
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be shortly after he met Christy my Foos
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and one of his friends were arrested for
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three separate robberies in one of them
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my food stole $100,000 worth of jewelry
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from his own aunt he told me that it was
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all his friend you know his friend was a
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pro at it you know you'd been wanted in
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other states and he pretty much laid it
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all off on his friend after he was
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arrested in yet to go on house arrest I
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guess had become he he he can't became
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very possessive and he said that if he
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ever saw me with anybody house and they
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would probably kill him and then kill me
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a few months later Christy rekindled her
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romance with Todd Kelly but Mahfouz Hawk
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who lived nearby remained very much in
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the picture
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two weeks before the murder mahfooz
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walked the ten miles from his house to
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christie's only to discover that she was
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out with Todd Kelly
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on August 7th the day before the murder
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Todd was at the home of a friend Mike
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Koon when Mahfouz appeared unexpectedly
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can I do I want to talk to Christie a
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little bit what would you like to know
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will Foose ask I refused em quit seeing
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her and that time tided told him no she
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told me she's in love with me their
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voices were never raised or nothing like
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that they shook hands I mean and really
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just it seemed like it was pretty much
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all over and done with you know 36 hours
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later Todd Kelly was dead and his house
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was swarming with police authorities
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were able to determine that Todd had
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died around 3:15 a.m. that same morning
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Mike McLelland the Steuben County
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Indiana Sheriff's Department took charge
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of the investigation he immediately
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noticed that the crime scene had been
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tampered with it was obvious that the
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body had been cleaned up and then moved
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into the living room from another part
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of the house upon further checking to
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the house we noticed that there were no
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sheets in the bed in the bedroom we also
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discovered a spot where there was blood
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on the floor in the bedroom by the
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bathroom door it was very hard to find
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this at first because it had been wiped
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clean we believe that the sheets were
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used and to move the body and to clean
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up the crime scene oddly the bed sheets
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have never been found in the yard police
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came across several cigarette butts they
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matched the brand smoked by Mahfouz Huk
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authorities also discovered that Todd's
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car had been wiped clean of fingerprints
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and the keys were missing they theorized
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the killer had planned to remove the
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body from the scene we discovered that
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the headlights of the car didn't work I
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believe that the suspect who was gonna
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try and use that vehicle to transport
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the body
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I think his efforts were foiled by the
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fact that he didn't know that the car
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wasn't working
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police were convinced that the person
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who held the key to the investigation
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was mahfooz Huck who had now disappeared
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they began to track his movements around
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the time of the murder between 11:00
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p.m. and 1:00 a.m. on the night of the
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murder two eyewitnesses claimed to see
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Mahfouz walking barefoot in the
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direction of Todd's house at virtually
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that same moment christy mutts field and
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Todd Kelly were in bed at his house we
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were in bed I heard noise outside noise
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I really thought that something was
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outside and Todd said was probably just
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a dog cuz he had a dog tied about
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vatican because there was nothing to
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worry about it was getting kind of late
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and I told him I had to go home because
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I hadn't hadn't really been home home
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from quite a while and I knew my father
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would be upset so so we left and he said
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he was gonna stay up all night and he
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wanted to get something to drink
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Christie says it at 2:30 a.m. she drove
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Todd into town she believes mahfouz Huck
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entered the house while they were gone
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we drove back to my to his house and um
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it's a good buy in the car and it gave
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me a kiss I forget to come back please
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don't
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don't forget Christie says she dropped
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Todd off at approximately 3:00 a.m. the
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corner determined that Todd was murdered
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within 15 minutes at 4:30 a.m.
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Mahfouz Huck called Christie from his
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parents house ten miles away two hours
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later my food showed up in her bedroom
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according to Christie she broke off the
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relationship for good I've been thinking
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that maybe um maybe it would just be
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better if we didn't see each other
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anymore
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great who's your happy it kind of scared
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me the tone of voice IANA I say excuse
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me is this I hope you had a happy life
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and then he walked out at first glance a
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case seemed open-and-shut
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mahfouz Huck in an apparent fit of
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jealous rage and murdered Todd Kelly the
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authorities dismissed Christy much felt
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as a possible suspect
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but then the seemingly simple case took
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a surprising turn Todd Kelly's family is
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convinced that there are inconsistencies
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and Christy story while they do not
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believe Christy was an active
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participant in the murder they do
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question whether she has been completely
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honest the Christy story is not the way
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that it happened according to all the
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evidence that we have dug up and the
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evidence that the police have there is
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no way that she was not there she had to
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be there during the murder when Todd and
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Christy returned home and they probably
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started making love and Mahfouz waited
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in the bushes
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when he saw what was happening that's
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when his jealousy took over and he could
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no longer control himself and decided to
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finish the act
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was that when Christy said she heard the
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noise it was my first coming in the door
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I do believe at that point Mahfouz
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convinced her to help him cover up the
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murder we do believe also at that point
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that Christy did help moved about it
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there was no drag marks on the carpet
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whatsoever Mahfouz was not it a large
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man Todd was a good-sized fellow that
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would have took a lot of strength to
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pick him up bodily and carry him out the
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other room by himself
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I don't know why they want to blame me I
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mean I know time I had our hardships and
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I heard him and he hurt me but I know
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that upset them but I don't know why
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they're blaming me the possibility of an
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accomplice is pure speculation at this
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point in time there's no hard evidence
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and by the evidence given at the scene
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it appears that he acted alone
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Todd died approximately at 3:15 in the
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morning it amazes me how a man could
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alone could clean up that entire room
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cleaned up the entire mess he made
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moved the body entirely cleaned the body
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and also walk all the way back home in
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the mount of time that they had reported
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receiving another phone call he had to
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have some help it's our belief that
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there's a good possibility he could have
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made it to Hamilton and back walking
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there's also the possibility if it took
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him longer than what he thought at the
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crime scene that he could have called
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someone to come and get him the Kelly
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family believes that Christy is the
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person who gave my Foose a ride home in
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addition they questioned her statement
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about what happened when she returned to
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Todd's house at 7:00 in the morning she
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claims she did not immediately notice
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Todd's body even though it was lying
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right by the front door
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a point which even sheriff McLellan
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concedes is unlikely we're not accusing
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Christy the only problem is is we feel
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that there's some inconsistencies in the
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things that she has told us
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we've asked Christy for a polygraph
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examination and she has refused to do
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that all we want from her is the truth
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and the whole truth and we do not
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believe we're getting that from her we
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do feel that possibly she could help the
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case out by stepping forward and tell
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him the whole story the way it should be
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told
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Todd's family they're just they've
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they've been very hard on me from the
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beginning yeah
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they harassed me accused me unjustly
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accused me of everything I wouldn't even
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let me go to his funeral they'd just
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been very accusing and and I realized
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they're hurting and I don't think that
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they realize that I'm hurting too but
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then everything that they say and every
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time they accuse me of something it just
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hurts more I don't know why they're
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doing what they're doing
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[Music]
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next the incredible tale of a primitive
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sea creature America's old Loch Ness
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monster said to live in the depths of
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Lake Champlain centuries ago along the
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shores of what is now Lake Champlain in
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upstate New York in Vermont
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the Iroquois paid homage to the spirit
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of a great horned serpent said to rule
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the murky depths of the lake the fabled
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sea monster which captivated the
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Iroquois still fascinates people today
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in fact in the past 25 years no less
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than 100 eye witnesses claimed to have
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seen the Lake Champlain sea monster
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known affectionately as champ
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Sandra Mansi a successful antiques
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dealer grew up near Lake Champlain when
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she was a child her grandfather teased
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her with fearsome tales of the legendary
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creature grandfather told us all about
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camp and when we would go fishing he
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would say to us if you don't sit down
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and behave in the boat I'm gonna throw
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you over and chance going to eat you of
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course we didn't believe a word of it
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wasn't anything that we really believed
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in it was just a threat of grandfather's
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and so I just really all kind of
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dismissed it for years and years as just
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one of grandfather's big stories in July
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of 1977
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Sandra took this remarkable photograph
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which fueled worldwide speculation and
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not surprisingly controversy Sandra will
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never forget the day she saw champ
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[Music]
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that summer sandra her two children and
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her fiance Tony were on vacation
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near Lake Champlain we stopped at this
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one place and went down over a bankin
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the children were down further on the
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beach having a great time and Tony
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decided to go back to the car and get
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the camera because we hadn't taken any
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pictures of the children they were had
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their shoes off in there waiting down on
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the shore and I'm sitting there by
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myself and I'm looking out at the lake
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and the lake started churning
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my first thought was scuba divers but
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then it's too much it would be too big
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of a group of scuba divers but then fish
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there's some very large sturgeon and big
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walleyes and Champlain so I thought well
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it's a very very large school of fish
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then the head in the neck came up out of
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the water and then the back and I
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watched it turn its head and neck and
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look around and when it first came up
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its mouth was open and I could see water
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coming out of the mouth but I don't
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remember any eyes or any details like
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that just the head and the neck and the
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back and its really really serene and
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I'm feeling like I shouldn't be there
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this is something I should not be
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witnessing because to me this thing
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should have been extinct thirty million
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years ago and even then I'm not
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frightened I'm in total awe and very
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calm and then Tony came back and he saw
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it and he got all panicky screaming and
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high scream damn eetu get back there so
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help me up the bank and when you did he
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handed me the camera and under turn
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around and it's still there and I picked
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up the camera and took one shot
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when Sandra had the film developed she
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was certain she had taken a picture of
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champ she was equally certain that no
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one would believe that the photo was
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real she threw away the negatives and
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fearing public ridicule kept the picture
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hidden for the next two years finally in
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the autumn of 1979 Sandra had the
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snapshot blown up into an 8 by 10 inch
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print at the urging of friends she
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contacted Jose oz insky who spent more
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than a decade researching a book on the
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Lake Champlain sea creature this great
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picture when I opened it up I thought it
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was too good to be true after putting in
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so many years of researching fieldwork
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and then finally there was his color
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photograph that clearly depicted a head
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and neck sticking out of the water
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and it was almost as if all my
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Christmases came to me at once I know it
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was at the north end of the lake
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unfortunately sandra was unable to
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pinpoint the exact part of the lake
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where she had taken the photograph Joe
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sent the print to the University of
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Arizona to be analyzed we digitized it
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and run all sorts of computer
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enhancement techniques we were looking
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like four pulleys or ropes or anything
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like that
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superimpositions but we found no
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evidence of hoaxing and we concluded
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that that objects whatever it is was
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there in the lake at that estimated
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distance it wasn't any sort of
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superimposition when the photograph was
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released had caused a media sensation
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the New York Times and Life magazine
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carry the story many were reminded of
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another far more well-known creature the
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legendary Loch Ness monster of Scotland
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some speculated that if such creatures
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did exist perhaps they were prehistoric
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animals which had somehow managed to
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survive
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well the objects in the Mansi photograph
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resembled a plesiosaur which is an
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aquatic reptile from the Cretaceous
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about 60 70 million years ago long neck
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and flippers it resembles that but
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that's that's a long time to have
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survived another theory maintains a chap
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might be a zoo blade on a snake-like
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whale extinct for 20 million years or
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perhaps champ was simply a lake sturgeon
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which had been known to reach 7 feet in
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length
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no matter the explanation the fact
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remains that following the publication
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of the Mansi photograph dozens of
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eyewitness sightings were reported near
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dusk on July 7th 1988 Walter Tappan his
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wife Sandy and daughter Heidi went out
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on Lake Champlain with a camcorder the
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previous day Walter and Heidi believed
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they had seen chant the tappan czar
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probably 10 to 12 miles from the area
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where Sandra Mansi had taken her
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photograph 11 years earlier
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it was a quiet night just as still as
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glass like the first night had been and
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I was full of anticipation and
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excitement but also not necessarily
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expecting anything and for about 10
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minutes we saw nothing and then sandy
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curiously enough sandy says I was
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manning the camera all the time
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and when you look through the viewfinder
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you can't see much and so we had quite a
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time there where my daughter and my wife
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were saying there there look look and
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I'd say where I can't see anything
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Walter and his family believed that they
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saw not just one creature but several
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what he photographed is visible in the
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center portion of the screen we saw
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frequently a series of small humps
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coming up breaking the surface gliding
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along and then subsiding again but we
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watched these creatures for 45 minutes
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and at one particular moment they
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spotted Heidi and I think spotted one
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not far from the boat at the most 50 or
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60 feet from the boat and then began the
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footage for about 20 or 30 seconds of
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seeing these humps glide along first two
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then three then four and then suddenly
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five all in a row stretching out about
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20 feet
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at one time I saw I would say five in
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the community but throughout the night I
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had went on for about an hour I had
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probably I would say seven different
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sightings of them and then I became very
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worried about it because my husband had
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seen it the night before and now we see
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it again I thought maybe this is some
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sort of nesting site but I didn't know
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what it was and I kept trying to make
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sense out of it so I got we have a Sun
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Deck on the back so I decided to climb
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up instead on the Sunday and I just scan
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the water like that back and forth
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scanning and lo and behold I saw one of
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those Brahma bull humps coming along the
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water and then all of a sudden the neck
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and the head came up and it looked right
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at me I will never forget it and so as I
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said it just happened like that all of a
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sudden is this lead hump like the Brahma
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bull hump all of a sudden just like this
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just so gracefully just like that looked
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out look to me and I was screaming with
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excitement which I wish I wasn't doing
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because it went down more rapidly came
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back and then very gracefully very
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slowly went back down into the water
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just like that and this was the movement
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you noticed up down there was no time
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for me to get the camera and refocus I'd
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give anything now to have that on
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footage because what sandy saw was of
00:26:09
course an astounding thing this creature
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looking at us and lifting its head out
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of the water and what it did was to
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confirm absolutely for all of us that
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what we had seen was champ scientific
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opinion is varied but at least one
00:26:25
expert Beleza what Walter Tappan
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photographed was nothing more than a
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school of fish
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perhaps he is right but who can explain
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the Mansi photograph or the hundreds of
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eyewitness accounts recorded through the
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centuries
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do I believe champ exists you'll never
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convince me of anything else you can
00:26:48
call it champ you can call it a monster
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you can call it a zoo batán you can call
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it a place yes right you can call it
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anything you want I'm telling you in
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that Lake there is something
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extraordinary I think there's a good
00:27:02
chance that there's something in Lake
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Champlain that still remains unknown to
00:27:07
zoology something large something
00:27:10
unknown and for that reason if for no
00:27:15
other we should continue trying to find
00:27:17
out what it is when we return the story
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of a young man who claims that he has
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lost almost all memory of his past
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imagine waking up one day with no sense
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of who you are where you are or where
00:27:41
you came from that is exactly what
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happened to a mysterious young man named
00:27:45
Pierre who seems to be suffering from
00:27:47
near total amnesia his Odyssey began
00:27:50
when he awoke in the middle of nowhere
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surrounded by the fog and mist of a
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forgotten past those first few minutes
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you're literally nothing and you feel so
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empty it's very lonely and painful to be
00:28:08
empty I'm so sorry if the voice shakes
00:28:13
and I stutter more than usual but it's
00:28:15
not nice to talk about these things it
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was a chilly wind swept morning in May
00:28:23
of 1992 Pierre says he inexplicably
00:28:26
found himself along a deserted stretch
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of coastline with a blue duffel bag
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beside him
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feeling weak hungry and terribly
00:28:42
confused pierre recalls that he made his
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way to the road
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highway one leading south from Big Sur
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California so I started walking and as I
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he came upon well you could call it a
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village if you're polite but it's a very
00:28:57
small small place it's called good Gordo
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I saw the sign Pierre spotted a
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telephone his first chance to obtain
00:29:05
help
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only then did it dawn on him that he had
00:29:15
no one to call then I realized I
00:29:19
couldn't phone anybody and that's when I
00:29:22
realized that I didn't know anybody
00:29:25
equally me alone and distraught pair
00:29:29
searched through his belongings tucked
00:29:32
into one of his shirts was a crumpled
00:29:34
piece of paper a library card from the
00:29:36
Boston Public Library handwritten on the
00:29:39
back of the card was a name April
00:29:41
, Pierre Pierre says now that it was not
00:29:45
his signature
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well it's struck me that hey that's the
00:29:52
name of whoever owns that card and that
00:29:54
must be me it's in my belongings with my
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socks it's with my shirts it's with my
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veins Pierre claims he was plagued by
00:30:01
hazy memories of San Diego California at
00:30:04
400 miles to the south with just 17
00:30:07
dollars in his pocket he set out
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hitchhiking
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three days later Pierre arrived in San
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Diego he wandered through the streets of
00:30:18
the city searching for a recognizable
00:30:20
landmark I was not so much for
00:30:25
frightened anymore as angry because I
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was so sure everything would come back
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but I saw downtown and said nothing I
00:30:35
looked at the building and they meant
00:30:37
nothing I was so sure this city would
00:30:42
bring everything back and it did not and
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I will walk the streets of the city for
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a long time
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Pere felt he was hovering on the brink
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of madness
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finally a sympathetic bus driver gave
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him a free ride to the st. Vincent
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DePaul homeless shelter we've had cases
00:31:03
of people pretending they didn't know
00:31:05
who they were but Pierre was very unique
00:31:08
in that sometimes in the other cases the
00:31:12
residents are after something they want
00:31:14
to kind of use staff to get some needs
00:31:17
met affairs and that wasn't Pierre's
00:31:20
case at all he didn't ask for anything
00:31:21
he didn't even ask for help in the past
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six months Pierre has undergone a
00:31:29
battery of physical and psychological
00:31:31
examinations doctors theorize he may be
00:31:34
suffering from trauma induced amnesia
00:31:38
the doctor here at the facility did
00:31:41
scream here and found no obvious
00:31:43
physical causes or reasons for the
00:31:46
amnesia and he did say that the case was
00:31:49
very unique from his perspective in that
00:31:52
it's very rare to have somebody lose
00:31:54
their long-term memory for as long as
00:31:57
Pierre has
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while at st. Vincent's Pierre began the
00:32:02
painstaking search for clues to his past
00:32:04
soon fragments of his former self began
00:32:08
to emerge Pierre apparently has
00:32:10
considerable knowledge of physics
00:32:12
advanced math and computers and even
00:32:15
claims he knows how to fly an airplane
00:32:17
Pierre also discovered that he possesses
00:32:20
some artistic ability but other clues
00:32:23
only serve the deepen the mystery in the
00:32:26
blue duffel bag was a neck brace Pierre
00:32:28
believes that he may have been injured
00:32:30
while playing hockey he also claims that
00:32:32
he can type 85 words a minute
00:32:38
pierre also found that he has a talent
00:32:41
for music and learned how to play the
00:32:43
guitar in just a few hours now every
00:32:48
morning pierre travels to balboa park in
00:32:51
san diego or a yearn spending money as a
00:32:53
street entertainer well it gives me an
00:32:58
identity for one thing i have a musician
00:33:01
now I am something I don't feel empty
00:33:05
now because I keep myself very very busy
00:33:13
hoping to add detailed appears
00:33:15
fragmented memories unsolved mysteries
00:33:17
arranged form to consult with a police
00:33:19
sketch artist in the session two
00:33:22
portraits were created portraits of
00:33:25
people who may have been significant in
00:33:27
pairs past the first was a man who
00:33:30
Pierre believes is his cousin Luke
00:33:32
nicknamed curly according to pear Luke
00:33:36
is an auto mechanic who once fixed the
00:33:38
tour bus of a well-known group of
00:33:40
Louisiana musicians the Preservation
00:33:43
Hall Jazz Band the second drawing was a
00:33:46
woman who Pierre believes as once his
00:33:48
employer her name is Carol Pierre
00:33:52
recalls that they work together in a
00:33:53
business office but for every memory
00:33:56
which returns Pierre says there are
00:33:58
literally thousands which remain buried
00:34:01
and forgotten II I just want to find out
00:34:04
what the past is if I can if I try to
00:34:09
remember something too hard I get a
00:34:12
beautiful headache that I wouldn't want
00:34:13
to inflict on my worst enemy
00:34:15
and most recently like those last few
00:34:18
days if I try not to remember something
00:34:21
that's coming back I get the same thing
00:34:24
like some lumps of things come back that
00:34:29
are not especially pleasant
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and if I try to block them out I get the
00:34:41
same kind of headache it's a hazy
00:34:43
piercing pain that engulfs the whole
00:34:46
head it's not something nice it's
00:34:50
something I can do without update on the
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night of our broadcast the viewer in
00:34:59
Canada called our telecenter to say that
00:35:01
the young man had once worked for his
00:35:03
wife and that his name is in fact Pierre
00:35:06
Aprill Pierre soon learned that he has
00:35:11
two sisters that his parents live at
00:35:12
Machine Canada for his father practices
00:35:15
medicine the next day they spoke on the
00:35:18
phone for the first time in more than
00:35:19
five months it was a very emotional
00:35:23
moment and then I even had to tell him
00:35:26
that I couldn't even trust him 100% that
00:35:28
I wanted the package with family
00:35:31
pictures in it and with my birth
00:35:33
certificate in it and anything else he
00:35:35
could think of he said okay we'll send
00:35:38
that to you and then he said do you
00:35:42
remember your mom and I said no and she
00:35:44
was listening on the extension and she
00:35:47
burst into tears
00:35:50
a few days later the packet arrived
00:35:52
Pierre sat down with his fiancee Lea let
00:35:55
me San Diego and a friend to get
00:35:57
reacquainted with his past it is strange
00:36:01
to be told who you are and what you did
00:36:05
I'm someone again and for quite a few
00:36:09
months I was nobody and nothing next the
00:36:23
heartwarming reunion of a woman and her
00:36:25
family on a previous broadcast we
00:36:38
profiled the case of a woman named
00:36:40
Lorene Roberts who mysteriously vanished
00:36:42
to 1962 had no idea this she was one of
00:36:45
the heirs to a million-dollar estate in
00:36:48
a happy turn of events Irene herself was
00:36:50
watching television on the night of our
00:36:52
broadcast and saw her own story on
00:36:55
unsolved mysteries in 1951 Lorene
00:37:02
Roberts was 16 years old and working as
00:37:04
a waitress in Austin Texas when she fell
00:37:06
in love coffee pie how about I take you
00:37:11
for a whirl
00:37:12
Loreen and the young servicemen were
00:37:14
married just 10 days after they met
00:37:19
by 1956 the couple had two sons and a
00:37:22
daughter but the marriage was on the
00:37:24
rocks when her husband filed for divorce
00:37:26
marine was left to raise the children on
00:37:29
her own Lorene tried she worked and she
00:37:39
tried to him you know her situations and
00:37:43
she loved her children very much but
00:37:47
that was just something she couldn't
00:37:48
handle and she seems you couldn't handle
00:37:50
it and she tried to get help from her
00:37:54
husband but no help
00:37:58
finally Lorene felt she had no choice
00:38:00
but to give her children up for adoption
00:38:04
the decision left Lorraine shattered and
00:38:07
her emotional state grew increasingly
00:38:08
fragile finally in 1957 the stress
00:38:14
became too great and Lorraine was
00:38:16
admitted to a state mental facility two
00:38:22
years later while on furlough from the
00:38:24
facility Lorene paid a short visit to
00:38:26
her sister Ruby no one in the family
00:38:29
ever heard from her again in 1988 Lorene
00:38:35
became one of the heirs to a
00:38:37
million-dollar estate after the death of
00:38:39
her mother an extensive search was
00:38:41
launched but there was no sign of Lorene
00:38:43
Roberts what we err the story we never
00:38:48
imagined that Lorene would call our
00:38:50
telecenter and solve her own mystery
00:38:52
Marie's family was overjoyed to learn
00:38:55
that she was alive and well
00:38:56
her sister Ruby immediately flew to
00:38:59
Little Rock Arkansas
00:39:00
when arena been working as a housekeeper
00:39:02
for just room and board
00:39:07
a few days later ruby brought Loreen
00:39:10
back home to Austin Texas for a poignant
00:39:12
reunion with the rest of her family it
00:39:25
was unbelievable
00:39:27
I could hardly believe it because I
00:39:30
guess for so long we had searched and
00:39:33
searched for and we couldn't find a lead
00:39:36
I was so enthused I just I cried I
00:39:41
laughed I did everything
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00:39:49
yes it's get nice to be back there real
00:39:53
nice they've always been there original
00:39:57
people that said that are very darling
00:40:00
new people after we filmed this reunion
00:40:06
Loreen remained in Austin for three
00:40:08
months she received her one hundred and
00:40:10
five thousand dollar inheritance and has
00:40:12
since returned to her home in Arkansas
00:40:18
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00:40:23
we're gonna try to be happy and just do
00:40:26
all the things we can to be together and
00:40:29
love each other and and include her
00:40:33
children and her grandchildren and which
00:40:36
I think will be real good for Loreen and
00:40:39
all of us
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[Music]
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from time to time the authorities
00:40:50
contact us with fast breaking cases
00:40:52
hoping at merchants appeal to our
00:40:53
viewers may help solve them our first
00:40:56
special alert tonight is a tragic story
00:40:58
of a woman who was kidnapped and later
00:40:59
murdered by her husband Joseph and Louis
00:41:04
Krantz of Kalamazoo Michigan had been
00:41:06
married for 14 years
00:41:07
none of them easy joseph had been in and
00:41:10
out of prison since the mid-1970s for
00:41:13
offenses ranging from burglary to fraud
00:41:15
to forgery on July 31st 1992 he was
00:41:20
released from jail after serving two and
00:41:22
a half months for embezzlement and
00:41:24
parole violation at the time his wife
00:41:27
Louis was pregnant with a couple's third
00:41:30
child but she had recently contacted
00:41:32
legal aid about seeking a divorce on
00:41:36
August 5th less than a week after his
00:41:38
release
00:41:39
Joseph Kratz showed up at Lois's
00:41:41
apartment brandishing a gun a friend
00:41:44
Janice McCray was with Louis that
00:41:46
morning she went into the bedrooms to
00:41:50
get some stuff we went into the living
00:41:52
room we mean the kids know we're sitting
00:41:56
in there and Louis come running out of
00:41:58
the bedroom yelling oh no oh no no just
00:42:00
screaming Krantz forced his wife into a
00:42:03
car and sped away that night he called
00:42:07
his mother and told her that he had
00:42:08
killed Louis and dumped her body near a
00:42:11
lake about 30 miles from Kalamazoo
00:42:13
three days later Louis Krantz his body
00:42:16
was found in the general area her
00:42:18
husband had described she had been shot
00:42:21
once in the head
00:42:24
on August 12 1992 Louis Krantz was laid
00:42:28
to rest her two daughters are not with
00:42:30
relatives in a place where they'll be
00:42:32
safe from their father Joseph Krantz has
00:42:35
not been seen since he kidnapped his
00:42:37
wife and authorities believe he may now
00:42:40
be in Florida in our second special
00:42:55
alert case another family has been
00:42:56
shattered by a kidnapping the victim is
00:42:59
a 65 year old woman who suffers from
00:43:01
severe asthma and must have daily
00:43:03
medication Martha dole Roberts and her
00:43:07
husband Allen lived in EADS Tennessee 25
00:43:11
miles from Memphis Allen last saw his
00:43:14
wife when he left for work at 9:30 a.m.
00:43:16
on August 7th 1992 when he returned
00:43:20
later in the afternoon
00:43:21
his wife was gone that night Alan
00:43:24
Roberts received a ransom call a muffled
00:43:27
male voice demanded $100,000 or
00:43:30
threatened he was split open Martha's
00:43:32
head the kidnapper has made no further
00:43:35
contact
00:43:36
if door is released unharmed I will meet
00:43:39
any demand I will do whatever is
00:43:42
necessary to obtain her release
00:43:46
[Music]
00:44:06
next week on unsolved mysteries senator
00:44:09
Huey Long of Louisiana in his day the
00:44:12
most fascinating character in American
00:44:14
politics but in 1935 long died in a
00:44:18
flurry of gunfire in his own State
00:44:20
Capitol history records that his
00:44:23
assassin dr. carl weiss was killed
00:44:25
almost instantly by the Senators
00:44:27
bodyguards today there is mounting
00:44:29
evidence that dr. weiss may have been
00:44:31
innocent and that the truth may have
00:44:33
been shrouded by a cover-up join me next
00:44:38
time perhaps you may be able to help
00:44:41
solve a mystery
00:44:46
[Music]
00:45:09
[Applause]
00:45:12
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