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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 were about to see is not a news
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broadcast televangelist Pat Robertson's
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outspoken opinions have often made him
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the target of criticism but in 1990
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Robertson was targeted for violence
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delivered through the mail authorities
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believe the bomber has struck before and
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fear that he will strike again
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as a teenager Kathy Williams suffered
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years of physical and emotional abuse
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inflicted by her stepfather a policeman
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when Kathy went to the authorities she
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found herself victimized again and
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unjustly committed to reform school in
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July of 1990 Beverly McGowan at Boca
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Raton Florida placed an ad for a
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roommate which was answered by a
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mysterious woman known only as Alice one
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week later
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Beverly's mutilated body was found in a
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drainage canal 100 miles away for every
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mystery there is someone somewhere who
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knows the truth perhaps that someone is
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watching perhaps as you join
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[Music]
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that's why this thing is so important
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there one flesh God said I hate divorce
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televangelist Pat Robertson's daily
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broadcast over CBN the Christian
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Broadcasting Network are seen in nearly
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a million households nationwide but his
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outspoken stance on controversial issues
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has often made him the target of hate
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mail and death threats of what this does
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to society
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Robertson's broadcast originated from
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his 693 acre headquarters in Virginia
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Beach Virginia each day more than 6,000
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letters and parcels pour into the CBN
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mail room
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most of them donations from devoted
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viewers
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because of the controversy generated by
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Robertson's opinions any package which
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appears even mildly suspicious has run
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through an x-ray machine
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on April 27th 1990s a CBN security guard
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was called to the mailroom to check a
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package address personally to Pat
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Robertson
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no one else was in the area at the time
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when I look at the package on the
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monitor of the x-ray machine I didn't
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see any anything that was that's led me
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to believe that it was there was a
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problem or it was really suspicious
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Jeepers remained on guard and decided to
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check the contents of the package he was
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baffled by several strips of loose paper
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sticking out of the box
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[Music]
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I was still somewhat skeptical about it
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I'm sorry
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step away from the box as far as I could
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get and took my left hand and extended
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it out and grabbed the lid of the box I
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was immediately knocked to the floor I
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had severe pain in the upper part of my
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left leg in my abdomen over to my right
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leg I made the determination that this
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is it you know it's either lay here and
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possibly die or get up and get help and
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so that's when I made the determination
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to help myself and pick myself off the
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floor and try to get to the front of
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building
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Scheepers is rushed to a nearby hospital
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where he underwent emergency surgery to
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remove the shrapnel embedded in his leg
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I'm very fortunate the trauma room
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doctor said if I'd have been holding the
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package and I had the same size hole in
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my chest that I have in my leg I might
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not even made it out of the room itself
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so yeah I consider myself very very
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fortunate that it wasn't any worse than
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it was
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[Applause]
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postal inspectors and agents for the
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Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
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determined that the package contain a
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homemade pipe bomb they quickly linked
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the bomb to an earlier attack aimed at
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another televangelist in Texas
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Jesus in 1960 Pastor John Osteen founded
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the Lakewood Church in Houston with 8200
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seats
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Lakewood is one of the largest churches
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in America Peter who is this he said to
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Jesus thou art the Christ the Son I
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cried bird see pastor Osteen uses
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television to spread the gospel but
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unlike Robertson he does not ask for
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donations on the air the Lakewood Church
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is a family-run organization Osteen's
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wife Jody serves as co pastor and four
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of the six children are involved in
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church activities amen On January 30th
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1993 months before the CBN bombing
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Osteen's daughter Lisa arrived in her
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office to open the day's mail I noticed
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a box and I picked it up and it was very
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heavy it's a little unusual I'm
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different
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I felt like it was safe to open the
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package because I I've done a lot of
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packages is we've never had any problems
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and this looked like an ordinary package
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it had a labelled address to my dad
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typewritten to my dad and then it had a
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return address and you know you don't
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you're not really suspicious of things
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like that
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it was just a cardboard box I had a one
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piece of tape on it
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[Music]
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when I open the package I remember this
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great explosion and it shook my body and
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I didn't lose consciousness but there
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was a time I opened the box when I was
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sitting down and really the next thing I
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remember is I was standing about five
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feet away from my chair and I was very
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shaken as if I'd had an electrical shock
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I'll never forget that feeling Lisa had
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been the victim of a pipe bomb wrapped
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in newspaper
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she suffered third-degree burns and
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lacerations on her right leg and abdomen
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she recovered from her injuries and just
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four weeks later returned to the pulpit
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[Applause]
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the box that was used to to mail this
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this device was a box used by home home
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sales distributors for the distribution
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of candles and there was some printed
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material on the outside of the box which
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had been scratched out with the word
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burgundy written on the box we found
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that both of these packages were mailed
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from small towns near Fayetteville North
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Carolina the National Center for the
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analysis of violent crimes researched
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all the evidence in both the bombing
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cases
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company her husband they said number one
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that this individual responsible for the
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bombings had some type of stress or
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turmoil in his life at the time of the
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bombings secondly they felt that anyone
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around during the presence of the bomber
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would have known
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a difference in this person's behavior
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if I could talk to the man that sent the
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bomb to me I think I would just say that
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I wish you would give yourself up and
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receive help because you know I was just
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an innocent victim you sent that bomb to
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me you hurt me I have scars on my body
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you could have killed me and it's not
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right for an innocent victim for that to
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happen to an innocent victim I would
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like to see him caught I don't have any
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real tremendous amount of hate or
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animosity for him he needs help he's
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hurt
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several people and now I'd like to see
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him taken off the street you know before
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he kills somebody or kill somebody these
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two composites depict the men who were
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seen mailing the bombs the drawings are
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made 3 months apart by two different
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police artists but authorities are
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convinced they portray the same
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individual he is described as a neatly
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dressed white male with brown hair is
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between 28 and 35 years old about 5 feet
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11 inches tall with average build
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he weighs between 160 and 175 pounds the
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bombs are mailed from Bladen burrow and
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Elizabethtown North Carolina both the
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small towns within 25 miles of
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Fayetteville fortunately they've been no
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other incidents it's a CBN bombing in
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1990 however authorities fear the bomber
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may strike again
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[Music]
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next a young mother convicted of murder
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wins our final appeal
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tonight a very special update thanks in
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part to our broadcast a young mother
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unjustly accused of murdering her child
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has been freed
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July 9th 1989 st. Louis Missouri
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Patti Stallings rushed her critically
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ill son to the hospital
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Brian Stallings was three months old and
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since birth he had suffered from chronic
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gastric distress but this day the
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diagnosis was shocking Brian had
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apparently been poisoned with ethylene
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glycol a substance found in antifreeze
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just have to ask you a few questions if
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you could come in for a moment police
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were called as a hospital to interrogate
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Ryan's parents and talk to by detectives
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they were saying that they knew that
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that baby had been poisoned by either me
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or my husband and I was just I was
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devastated I was blown away I just could
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not believe that they could even think I
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mean Ryan was my world
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[Music]
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while the investigation was in progress
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Patti and David Stallings contact with
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Ryan was restricted to a one-hour visit
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each week during the sixth visit Patti
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was left alone with Ryan for a short
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time
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four days later Ryan would suffer
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another severe attack of vomiting the
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diagnosis again was poisoning after just
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72 hours
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Ryan Stallings died
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[Music]
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on September 17th 1989 Patti Stallings
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who did not yet know she was pregnant
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again
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was charged with first-degree murder and
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held without bail she was not allowed to
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attend her son's field on February 27th
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1990 while Patti was in jail awaiting
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trial her second son DJ was born when DJ
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was two weeks old he began to exhibit
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symptoms identical to the ones that had
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plagued his brother Ryan this time the
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ailment was diagnosed as a rare genetic
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disorder methylmalonic acidemia or MMA
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his symptoms are often confused with
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ethylene glycol poisoning
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despite DJ's diagnosis Patti stonings
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was convicted and sentenced to life in
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prison for the murder of her son Ryan DJ
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was placed in the custody of the state
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and Patti was allowed to see him only
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three times
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I've lost one child to MMA my second
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child is stricken with him on me it may
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not live
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he's year old though and there was still
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not sure how to treat him I lost my
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freedom I've lost everything on the
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night two story aired calls from
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physicians familiar with MMA poured into
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our telecentre patty starlings new
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attorneys petitioned the court to grant
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her another trial based on the fact that
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she had previously received ineffectual
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counsel on July 30th 1991 patty
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Stallings was granted a new trial and
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released from prison
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[Music]
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after the enzyme mr. is air people were
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writing and calling and just want to
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know how can we help and I can't think
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those people enough because I mean
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through all of that wheels started
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turning and everything just started
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pushing forward really fast
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along with rhymes remaining serum the
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September 20th 1991 a press conference
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was held in st. Louis dr. Pierre Ronaldo
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of Yale University revealed the
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independent serum tests showed Ryan
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Stallings had definitely died of MMA
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consequently the prosecuting attorney
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dropped all charges against patty
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Stallings unfortunately we can't undo
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the suffering that the starlings have
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endured during this entire ordeal and I
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apologize to them both personally and
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for the state of Missouri during the
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press conference Patti and David heard
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for the first time the custody of their
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son DJ had been returned to them
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[Music]
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in October of 1991 just over two years
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after his brother's death DJ came home
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for the first time
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[Music]
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just want to make up for the year and a
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half that we didn't have him and it's
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hard to make up that much time but I'm
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doing the best I can
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his condition was very scary but we've
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checked with so many hard things that
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we've just kind of said we'll beat this
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too and with that attitude I know that
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DJ would do alright and that will do
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okay he is a miracle child and we're
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lucky to have DJ and we have our whole
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life back and it's like we're starting
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over
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it's undescribable wonderful
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[Music]
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we have all met people who have made
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lasting impressions upon us sometimes
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they are total strangers passed through
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our lives without ever knowing they have
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made a difference in the early 1960s a
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young girl named Kathy Williams lived in
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a horrifying world of emotional and
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physical abuse but when all seemed lost
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a man she had never met before and has
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never seen since helped change her life
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forever July 1961 the streets of Chicago
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Southside echo with a carefree laughter
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of children but far removed from the
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delightful sounds of summer a hidden
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crime has been committed one young girl
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has been stripped of her innocence the
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night before 14 year old Kathy Williams
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was forced to participate in a drunken
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party and then fell prey to the abusive
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sexual advances of her stepfather
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Clifford Starks
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I woke in the middle of cliff is dead
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with Clifford actually laying almost on
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top of me he was naked I was totally
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naked I remember his hands being all
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over my breasts well I knew that that
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was wrong and I didn't know what else
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had happened I couldn't remember
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and so that scared me too so and that's
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why I took off I wrote the letter and I
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thought that would be the end of it in a
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child's mind I'm thinking well you know
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this would take care of everything I can
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get out of here I'll be saved the events
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of the previous evening were the
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culmination of months of horror for
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Kathy Williams
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she felt she had no choice but to run
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away but with nowhere to go Kathy was
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soon picked up off the streets by her
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stepfather she was beaten and held
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prisoner in a relative's apartment
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locked into a small room for more than a
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week Kathy Williams was trapped in a
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horrible for all too familiar tragedy
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compounding her dilemma was the fact
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that her stepfather was a respected
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detective in the Chicago Police
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Department
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in desperation Kathy reluctantly went to
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the police what do you live Cathy
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devised an elaborate scheme in which she
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pretended to have amnesia if all what is
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planned her stepfather would never learn
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of her visit and Cathy would be sent
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somewhere else to live so we just have
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to put her down as a Jane Doe and I'm
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thinking God good they'll put take me
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someplace because anything was better
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than going back to that hellhole that I
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had run away from are you having
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problems at home well if you are having
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problems at home running away is not
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gonna solve them do you have brothers
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and sisters
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if you have brothers and sisters and you
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are having problems they could be going
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through the same thing you're going
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through so he'll finally Cathy decided
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to tell the truth and hope for the best
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my stepfather has been molesting me he
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she said you poor child she still will
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do anything and everything we can to
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help you
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everybody was sympathetic but for some
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reason I felt like this was the police
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maybe they really could help me and I
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felt that I had two younger sisters
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there that they didn't need to be there
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and the same thing could happen to him
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because I hadn't thought about that
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Kathy's optimism was quickly shattered
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just as she had feared her stepfather
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was notified sergeant detective covered
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Starks what brings you to the 7th come
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to pick up my daughter your daughter
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what's she doing here Kathy Williams get
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her down here once Clifford came down to
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the police station and flipped out his
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badge that was the end of me Kathy
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Williams she's detective Clifford
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Stark's daughter and he's come to take
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her home
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he became omnipotent and I became a pile
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of nothing doesn't want to go home with
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him she doesn't want to go home with me
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and lock her up I knew if I went home
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with him I was dead meat lock her up and
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I refused and upon refusal to go home
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with them I was then shackled with
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handcuffs and thrown into the back of a
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paddy wagon like a common criminal and
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taken off to the county jail
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Kathy says that she was labeled
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incorrigible according to existing
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Illinois state law she spent one night
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in jail and was then remanded to a city
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home for delinquent minors crazy I'm so
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scared I don't once later Kathy appeared
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at a hearing and juveniles killed many
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of her closest friends from the
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neighborhood gathered prepared to
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testify on her behalf I'm sorry this is
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a juvenile court proceeding and is
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limited to the immediate members of the
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family you'll have to wait out here
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Kathy Williams yes sir your honor please
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take a seat
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Kathy remembers that is a proceedings
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began it was discovered that her case
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file had conveniently disappeared
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counselor the file contained affidavits
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supporting her allegations of sexual
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abuse once again it seemed that Clifford
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Starks had stacked the deck against his
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stepdaughter we seem to have a blank
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file here your honor this is detective
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Sergeant stars
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this is Kathy's father the judge's
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decision was based solely upon the
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testimony of Clifford Starks that day
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and that moment in the courtroom she
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stays out late at night if she comes
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home at all she runs with a bad group of
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kids Clifford told them they had had all
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kinds of trouble with me out that I was
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quote-unquote incorrigible runaway
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teenager prostitute with in fact said I
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was into drugs miss Williams please rise
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it's the order of this court that you be
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confined to the Illinois state training
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school for girls at Geneva until here
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18th birthday my feelings were it was
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the end of the world I was
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and I didn't know I could feel that kind
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of pain of it that much hurt each time
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you think it's bad you just think you
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just couldn't get worse but it gets
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worse and when you look over at your
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family and friends it's like now it's
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this proven that I'm wrong you know
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obviously this wouldn't happen if I
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wasn't bad and maybe I did deserve this
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[Music]
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Kathy was placed in the custody of a
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Cook County deputy sheriff to be
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transported to reform school she had no
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idea that this ride would become a
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remarkable turn of Fortune when they put
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me in the back of the paddy wagon I just
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started boo-hooing I just got to thing
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it dawned on me then nobody knows when
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I'm going I don't know where I'm going
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you know this has to be hell alone and
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scared to death
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Kathy began to blurt out her story to
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the deputy with me messing with you how
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touching me the way a man touches a
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woman by the time we arrived at the
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reform school the deputy was convinced
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that the system had made a terrible
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mistake Kathy was obviously being
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punished for being a victim
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the deputy risked his own job by
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offering to help that's all about what
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you said and what you said it makes me
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believe
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and I'd like to check it out for the
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ones that you said you wanted me to call
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I didn't know if I could believe him
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Annette I had believed everybody else
00:24:26
and that still was on my way to Geneva
00:24:28
so somebody something in my heart wasn't
00:24:32
needed believe me it was something kind
00:24:33
in his eyes I saw in that mirror maybe
00:24:36
he would be the one that could do
00:24:38
something I didn't know I just don't
00:24:40
have any idea the unknown deputy was
00:24:47
true to his word seven weeks later Kathy
00:24:50
was taken to the State Building in
00:24:51
downtown Chicago for an interview with a
00:24:53
social worker but Kathy I can't make any
00:24:56
promises we're gonna try and help you
00:24:58
and when you took that paddy wagon ride
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down to Geneva you talked to the sheriff
00:25:03
who was driving again they gave him some
00:25:05
names I don't know what you said to him
00:25:07
but whatever it was it must have been
00:25:08
pretty convincing came over here he
00:25:10
talked in the end death the deputy had
00:25:12
contacted Kathy's friends and put them
00:25:14
in touch with our proper authorities
00:25:16
some had even signed affidavits
00:25:19
corroborating Kathy's accusations
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against her stepfather look from
00:25:23
everything we've been able to find out
00:25:24
it looks like they're in the wrong place
00:25:26
you got a raw deal he looks to me like
00:25:29
you were railroaded
00:25:30
he said Anna cordon everything I have in
00:25:31
front of me you work he said someone
00:25:33
should go back there keep your nose
00:25:35
clean stay out of trouble and we'll be
00:25:38
back in touch and I thanked him but
00:25:41
knowing that yeah hey this is just
00:25:43
another bubble and it was gonna pop and
00:25:46
float on off into the sunset like the
00:25:48
rest but this time the system worked two
00:25:52
weeks later Kathy Williams was released
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from the reformatory ultimately she was
00:25:56
declared an emancipated minor and went
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to live with friends in the neighborhood
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it was like New Year's you know counting
00:26:04
down for the clock you know it was just
00:26:06
very happy happy time I was finally
00:26:08
getting to go home with my new mother
00:26:10
and finally my new sister stuff joyous
00:26:13
occasion Kathie Williams was fortunate
00:26:19
she flourished in her new family and
00:26:22
started a church group which offers
00:26:23
counseling to abused children but Cathy
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has never forgotten the unknown deputy
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who led a helping hand every girl I
00:26:34
guess in fairy tales wants the prince on
00:26:37
a horse or a knight in shining armor and
00:26:39
he'd be my night in the paddy wagon and
00:26:41
if I if I could find him I just want to
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say to him that many people reach out
00:26:48
for help and many are refused help but
00:26:51
because of the fact that I reached out
00:26:53
to him and he acknowledged me and gave
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me the help that I needed
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he gave me my life he gave now in my
00:27:00
life I have a healthy son who's here
00:27:03
I've touched other people's lives in
00:27:05
many ways and it had not been for him
00:27:09
none of that would have happened
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[Music]
00:27:33
when we return the bizarre disappearance
00:27:36
of a woman in Florida culminates in
00:27:38
murder on Thursday July 19th 1990 Jane
00:27:54
McGonigal caretta in Florida received a
00:27:56
disturbing letter from her 34 year old
00:27:58
sister Beverly the handwritten note had
00:28:01
been postmarked a day earlier I've got
00:28:05
to make some major changes in my life I
00:28:07
quit my job sold the condo and furniture
00:28:10
and I'm leaving for a while the
00:28:12
following day Jane and Beverly's brother
00:28:14
Steve received a similar letter from
00:28:17
Beverly something bothered me because
00:28:20
that's not the type of person that the
00:28:22
Bev was she was not the kind of person
00:28:24
after spending all her money to try to
00:28:26
get that condo and try to land a job at
00:28:29
the bank when she was seemed to be happy
00:28:31
with it was not her nature to just give
00:28:34
up give up on everything and just walk
00:28:36
away from it that evening Steve and Jane
00:28:40
went to Beverly's condo her car was gone
00:28:44
her phone had been disconnected
00:28:46
and she had not been seen at work for
00:28:48
two days there was her nightgown by in
00:28:53
next to the bed the bed wasn't made I
00:28:56
mean it just looked like you know she's
00:28:58
going out for the day and ever had every
00:28:59
intention of coming back that night
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[Music]
00:29:04
it appeared as if Beverly had indeed
00:29:06
decided just to go off and start over
00:29:09
all she took with her were her two cats
00:29:12
her address book birth certificate and
00:29:14
passport
00:29:17
[Music]
00:29:18
Steve and Jane McGowan are completely
00:29:21
baffled by the sisters sudden decision
00:29:23
to walk away from her family and her
00:29:24
life the day after she was last seen
00:29:27
Beverly sent a telegram to her mortgage
00:29:29
company authorizing him to foreclose on
00:29:31
her condo and dispose of her personal
00:29:33
belongings in several letters to family
00:29:35
and friends
00:29:36
Beverly offered no explanations to her
00:29:39
brother Steve she wrote simply I just
00:29:41
want to say goodbye to you and the kids
00:29:43
and let you know that what I'm doing is
00:29:46
the right thing
00:29:51
the type of person that Bev was she had
00:29:54
two different sides to her first side
00:29:56
was her private side which I know she
00:30:00
enjoyed her privacy a tremendous amount
00:30:03
her second side was decided she showed
00:30:05
once she was with myself my sister and
00:30:08
my my family and that was just a
00:30:11
fun-loving person to somebody that's out
00:30:13
to enjoy themselves as much as I
00:30:14
possibly could
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in 1987 Beverly McGowan began a
00:30:22
promising career in the loan department
00:30:24
of a Fort Lauderdale bank within two
00:30:27
years she was able to purchase a modest
00:30:29
condo nearby Pompano Beach the week
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before her disappearance
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Beverly began advertising for a roommate
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Bev came in one morning and said that
00:30:41
she had advertised for a roommate and
00:30:45
that this woman Alice was going to be
00:30:47
moving in and approximately I think it
00:30:49
was the following Friday and she just
00:30:53
thought this woman was incredibly nice
00:30:55
it was gonna be great oh they clicked
00:30:58
that's the way she felt no as I was
00:31:02
explaining to you your Life Path number
00:31:04
is your birth date
00:31:06
Beverly told Cindy that Alice was
00:31:08
English she drove a nice car seemed to
00:31:10
be a successful career moreover she and
00:31:13
Beverly shared a common interest in the
00:31:15
New Age movement especially numerology
00:31:19
Oh that shows that you are at a
00:31:22
crossroads in your last beb's for some
00:31:25
numbers that pertain to her life so that
00:31:28
she could do a chart for her and gave
00:31:32
her some numbers not anything real
00:31:35
serious not real personal and she did an
00:31:38
initial chart and then came back and
00:31:40
said I need more information
00:31:41
at which point Bev volunteered her
00:31:43
passport numbers numbers on her birth
00:31:45
certificate well the first adjustment I
00:31:48
see is a long trip apparently I was told
00:31:52
Beverly that she would find true romance
00:31:54
and accumulate great wealth but she did
00:31:58
predict a dark cloud on the horizon but
00:32:01
there is a gray area that I must tell
00:32:03
you about Beverly it involves a couple
00:32:05
Amanda de woman they are related but I
00:32:09
don't know if they're married they're
00:32:11
very close to you and they're going to
00:32:13
deceive
00:32:13
[Music]
00:32:16
I don't
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[Music]
00:32:24
Thursday July 19th two days after
00:32:27
Beverly was last seen at 5:30 p.m. the
00:32:32
mutilated body of a woman was found at
00:32:34
the edge of a drainage canal in st.
00:32:35
Lucie County 100 miles from Pompano
00:32:38
Beach the victims had had been crudely
00:32:45
decapitated only a portion of the lower
00:32:47
jaw and five teeth are lamed her hands
00:32:51
had been severed her throat slit and
00:32:53
Potter abdomen cut away apparently to
00:32:56
remove the tattoos we assume that
00:33:00
whoever committed the murder was trying
00:33:04
to conceal her identity it was probably
00:33:09
one of the most gruesome homicides that
00:33:12
our agency has investigated in recent
00:33:15
years the only solid clue to the
00:33:19
victim's identity had been overlooked by
00:33:21
the killer a small tattoo of a yellow
00:33:24
rose on her right ankle Beverly McGowan
00:33:27
had just such a tattoo four days later
00:33:33
dental records provided positive
00:33:35
identification the dead woman was
00:33:38
Beverly and McGowan we found nothing in
00:33:43
her background that would indicate that
00:33:45
she was anytime in any type of trouble
00:33:47
or was involved in anything illegal the
00:33:51
authorities and Beverly's family were
00:33:53
especially baffled by her letters they
00:33:56
were all in her handwriting and there
00:33:58
was no indication that she had been
00:33:59
coerced into sending them investigators
00:34:04
immediately searched Beverly's condo
00:34:06
looking for something anything tying
00:34:08
Beverly's apparent decision to leave
00:34:10
with her murder
00:34:12
they found a notepad with a list of
00:34:15
names and phone numbers of people who
00:34:16
had called about the ad for a roommate
00:34:18
only the last notation did not check out
00:34:21
it read Alice Tuesday 6:30 no last name
00:34:26
no phone number
00:34:28
Alice was supposed to be on loan to the
00:34:31
United States from England working for
00:34:34
IBM in in South Florida upon checking
00:34:37
with the IBM corporation we learned that
00:34:41
they had nobody on loan to South Florida
00:34:43
from England and at the office that
00:34:46
Alice said she worked for in Fort
00:34:48
Lauderdale that they didn't even have an
00:34:50
office in Fort Lauderdale it's going to
00:34:58
be a charge investigators soon
00:35:00
discovered that on the day Beverly's
00:35:02
body was found a woman fitting alice's
00:35:05
description used Beverly's Visa card to
00:35:07
make purchases at several shops in the
00:35:09
area the day before someone had used the
00:35:13
card to withdraw $300 from an automatic
00:35:15
teller machine on Friday July 20th the
00:35:19
day after the body was discovered the
00:35:21
case took another bizarre twist someone
00:35:25
used the same credit card in North Miami
00:35:27
to reserve a rental car at London's
00:35:29
Heathrow Airport yes I'd like to buy a
00:35:33
car rental voucher the travel agent
00:35:39
described this person as a very
00:35:42
masculine looking female that to them
00:35:45
appeared to be a male wearing a cheap
00:35:49
black Cleopatra wig taxis in London
00:35:53
these days just so expensive she also
00:35:56
described her as having a British accent
00:35:59
and a person who was appear to be very
00:36:01
familiar with the Heathrow area in
00:36:05
London England
00:36:07
the man told the travel agent that he
00:36:10
was flying to London on British Airways
00:36:11
flight 292 which was scheduled to depart
00:36:14
on Sunday evening a 6:30 p.m.
00:36:18
we check the manifests for that
00:36:20
particular flight and other airlines
00:36:23
that we're traveling to London on that
00:36:25
particular day nowhere on any of the
00:36:29
manifests did we see the name of Beverly
00:36:31
Ann McGowan on Monday July 23rd a person
00:36:38
wearing a cheap looking wig in posing as
00:36:40
Beverly McGowan did indeed pick up a car
00:36:43
at Heathrow Airport
00:36:47
two days later
00:36:49
Beverly's car was found at a motel near
00:36:51
Miami International Airport it had been
00:36:54
there for at least five days
00:36:57
investigators found only one significant
00:37:00
clue four strands of black synthetic wig
00:37:06
hair the mystery surrounding Beverly
00:37:12
McGowan's death reverberates with a
00:37:13
single word why it seems obvious that
00:37:17
Beverly was a victim of a scam but it
00:37:19
was a scam which only netted the
00:37:21
perpetrators $1000 why would anyone
00:37:24
commit such a vicious murder for so
00:37:26
little money why did they go to such
00:37:28
lengths to conceal the victim's identity
00:37:30
and why did they choose Beverly McGowan
00:37:37
the most puzzling part about it is the
00:37:40
lack of motive the savage nature in
00:37:44
which the body was decapitated and the
00:37:48
pains that they went through trying to
00:37:52
conceal her identity isn't that of your
00:37:56
normal everyday domestic killing I tried
00:38:02
to think about the people that they've
00:38:04
worked for her friends her relationships
00:38:09
what kind of person would would be
00:38:11
involved with it with a murder like this
00:38:13
why somebody would come in to to my
00:38:17
sister's life and for a measly thousand
00:38:20
dollars just take it
00:38:23
you know it doesn't make any sense to me
00:38:26
[Music]
00:38:43
[Music]
00:38:51
[Music]
00:38:59
[Music]
00:39:11
[Music]
00:39:20
in 1985 Sally Garrity of San Francisco
00:39:24
California faced an all-too-common
00:39:26
dilemma she was looking to settle down
00:39:28
but had not yet found the man of her
00:39:30
dreams
00:39:32
excuse me then in February of that year
00:39:35
that a neighborhood tavern
00:39:36
Sally thought she had met the perfect
00:39:38
mate a young man named Sal guardado
00:39:41
all right can you break what's her name
00:39:43
anyway Sally what's yours Sal Sal
00:39:46
guardado Sal Sally that's neat she said
00:39:50
I think I met mr. right sherry so I was
00:39:53
very happy for her to have a good meet
00:39:56
someone that would make her happy and I
00:39:59
seen that in her face that Sal had made
00:40:02
her happy but just the short time that
00:40:05
she had met him and known him
00:40:07
[Music]
00:40:09
sallie gary was half Irish half Shoshone
00:40:12
Paiute Indian she and her sister sherry
00:40:17
were raised by their aunt Lydia in San
00:40:19
Francisco Sally had been trained as a
00:40:23
bookkeeper
00:40:24
but was making and selling Native
00:40:26
American handicrafts when she met Sal
00:40:30
Sal worked part-time in a local pizza
00:40:33
parlor where Sally brought her family to
00:40:35
meet him Sally was really glowing when
00:40:49
she introduced me she was so happy and
00:40:51
she said did you see his car do you see
00:40:54
him he has a job and her expression and
00:40:58
her glowing was so over just
00:41:01
overpowering that she was so happy
00:41:05
[Music]
00:41:07
the romance proceeded at a whirlwind
00:41:09
pace within a week Sal proposed and took
00:41:13
out a loan for a diamond ring but it
00:41:15
wasn't long before the relationship
00:41:17
began to change Sal lost his job on his
00:41:22
car
00:41:23
and the couple was forced to move in
00:41:25
with Sally's aunt Lydia it became
00:41:27
obvious that there was another side to
00:41:29
Sal that had been hidden until now this
00:41:32
place is a dump
00:41:35
he grew surly and refused to do anything
00:41:38
but watch television and go bowling with
00:41:40
his friends
00:41:48
three weeks later when they visited a
00:41:50
Native American festival 30 miles from
00:41:52
San Francisco
00:41:53
Sally's sister Cheri got a first-hand
00:41:56
look at Sal's darker side Sally didn't
00:42:05
seem very happy that day that was the
00:42:08
first indication to me that she wasn't
00:42:11
happy with him so do you want to tell
00:42:15
her just forget about it Sal not gonna
00:42:17
work out
00:42:17
what's the matter what are you talking
00:42:18
about Sal doesn't want to take the train
00:42:20
back to San Francisco he wants to borrow
00:42:22
your van instead oh I'm sorry Sal you
00:42:24
can't take it what is the problem we
00:42:26
need the van so we'll just take it so
00:42:28
it's not mine I just borrowed it for the
00:42:29
day I have to get it back don't give me
00:42:31
that bye where are the keys not a lie
00:42:33
you can't take it shut up and give me
00:42:34
the keys I don't listen all your lyin
00:42:36
excuses come on now leave it alone the
00:42:38
models on his he baby was a big change
00:42:40
from the pizza parlor she indicated to
00:42:44
me that she wish he would leave and that
00:42:49
he would move out
00:42:51
[Music]
00:42:53
on May 23rd 1985 three months after
00:42:56
meeting Sally Sal guardado waited for
00:42:59
her to come home
00:43:09
when he noticed that a young man had
00:43:11
given her a ride Sal became
00:43:13
uncontrollable just drop it well you say
00:43:17
nobody told you I didn't do anything I
00:43:20
do when I could see you in the car he's
00:43:22
afraid
00:43:24
Sally zap Lydia returned right in the
00:43:27
middle of the argument oh I just hate it
00:43:34
he was very aggressive
00:43:37
he might've got tell us yes but there's
00:43:41
nothing between the man and Sally she
00:43:44
just rode home with him lady I need you
00:43:48
to go to the store for me I need some
00:43:49
smokes
00:43:49
okay so here's some money leave him
00:43:52
right away
00:43:52
okay he never asked me to do anything it
00:43:57
was just what me I allows that name when
00:44:00
I think about it that's what I think
00:44:04
that's what he wanted me out
00:44:07
[Music]
00:44:08
I'm home Sal I got your cigarettes here
00:44:13
thirty minutes later
00:44:14
Lydia returned I didn't see anything
00:44:23
when I came back it was so quiet then
00:44:29
the TV was on so I just sat down on
00:44:31
their stay bed and thought well I better
00:44:34
watch some news as it was coming on I
00:44:41
heard the bedroom door open and I didn't
00:44:44
hear nothing else I just kept watching
00:44:46
the news
00:44:49
[Music]
00:44:52
he's tried to strangle me let's start
00:44:57
fighting email before I know I got the
00:45:00
hit on her head
00:45:01
I heard that bones crushing and the ball
00:45:05
roll over or something you know you can
00:45:09
hear that bowling ball roll in the lanes
00:45:13
how it sounds that's what I heard but
00:45:16
that was out after about 45 minutes
00:45:24
Lydia regained consciousness when I came
00:45:30
to I got up and I was so weak I was just
00:45:33
staggering around and then I went in the
00:45:36
bedroom
00:45:37
my niece was laying there I knew right
00:45:42
away she was dead
00:45:44
[Music]
00:45:48
and after that I just went to my
00:45:50
neighbor and told knocked on the window
00:45:52
and told her call the police I was hurt
00:45:58
Sally Garrity had been strangled to
00:46:00
death possibly with a cat leash or
00:46:02
telephone cord
00:46:04
Lydia Henry had suffered a concussion
00:46:06
and lacerations during the investigation
00:46:10
Sally's family discovered that Sal
00:46:11
guardado was a convicted felon with a
00:46:14
long criminal record it spent five years
00:46:17
in prison for arson and attempted murder
00:46:19
the intended victim was a former
00:46:21
girlfriend authorities immediately began
00:46:25
combing the San Francisco area they
00:46:27
received reports that cell might have
00:46:29
left the country and disappeared in
00:46:31
Mexico we thought we'd solved this case
00:46:35
right away we had the FBI involved we
00:46:38
had local law enforcement involved we
00:46:41
had all the tools and we just couldn't
00:46:44
find out where he'd going or where he
00:46:46
was
00:46:47
boggles the mind to understand how we
00:46:49
avoided this all this time some seven
00:46:51
years
00:46:53
[Music]
00:46:55
in the native-american beliefs our
00:46:58
cultural we believe that if someone's
00:47:00
life is taken before they're ready their
00:47:04
spirit can't rest until justice is
00:47:07
served so Sally spirit we believe isn't
00:47:11
at rest until cells will be caught and
00:47:15
put to justice
00:47:18
three months after cell Guardado
00:47:20
disappeared a witness reported seeing
00:47:22
him back in San Francisco at a fast-food
00:47:24
restaurant
00:47:25
however authorities now believe he may
00:47:28
be in Miami Mexico Hawaii or Puerto Rico
00:47:32
guardado is currently wanted on charges
00:47:34
of murder attempted murder and assault
00:47:36
with a deadly weapon
00:47:39
[Music]
00:47:41
Salvador Nunez guardado is 5 feet 10
00:47:44
inches tall and weighs 210 pounds he has
00:47:47
black hair brown eyes and a tattoo of a
00:47:50
heart and arrow with a named Rachel on
00:47:52
his upper right arm he is a Mexican
00:47:54
descent
00:47:57
[Music]
00:48:03
[Music]
00:48:13
in 1989 two Belgian national policemen
00:48:17
had a shocking encounter with a strange
00:48:19
brilliantly lit object since that time
00:48:22
thousands of ordinary citizens have
00:48:23
reported similar sightings and
00:48:25
incredibly the Belgian Air Force has
00:48:28
recorded on radar an unidentified flying
00:48:31
object
00:48:32
in 1969 Rock Creek Ohio was terrorized
00:48:36
by a gang of street toughs
00:48:38
and robert Hamrick took over the police
00:48:40
force he was determined to clean up the
00:48:42
town just eight months later Hamrick
00:48:44
died in a mysterious car accident his
00:48:47
family is convinced he was murdered and
00:48:50
thanks to our viewers a woman in
00:48:53
Tennessee has finally found her natural
00:48:54
mother join me for their heartwarming
00:48:57
reunion next time on unsolved mysteries
00:49:05
[Music]
00:49:28
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