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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 tonight two unusual mysteries
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to commemorate the spirit of the Easter
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season she is known around the world as
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our Lady of Guadalupe a beautiful
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likeness of the Virgin Mary on an old
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piece of cactus cloth for centuries
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religious pilgrims have come to Mexico
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City to pray to the image which many
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believe was created by a miracle for
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just as long scholars and skeptics at
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pondered his Our Lady of Guadalupe a
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work of God or of man in the 1950s
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master illustrator Ben Stahl created 15
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unique paintings to celebrate the final
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journey of Christ but just after Easter
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1969 a gang of brazen thieves made off
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with a precious collection left Ben's
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stall heartbroken then stall passed away
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in 1987 having no idea what happened to
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his beloved collection tonight his
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children hope that someone in our
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audience can help recover their father's
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lost legacy join me for this intriguing
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case as well as these fascinating
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mysteries on Friday the 13th 1991 Tom
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Roche dropped his girlfriend at her job
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and then vanished without a trace
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six days later an anonymous letter
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boasted that Tom Roach had been murdered
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near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania a dark
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lonely road a minor traffic accident a
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brutal attack now authorities need your
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help to identify a killer and thanks to
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our viewers a family in Canada is
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reunited with two brothers missing for
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nearly 25 years
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since the mid 19th century religious
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pilgrims from around the world a journey
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to the French village of Lourdes says
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just before the First World War
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hundreds of thousands have traveled to
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the Portuguese farmlands of Fatima and
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in recent years millions have come to
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measure Goryeo in the former Republic of
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Yugoslavia many people believe these
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three communities have shared a
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remarkable occurrence the miraculous
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appearance of the Virgin Mary Mother of
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Jesus Christ but for centuries long
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before pilgrims flocked to Lourdes
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Fatima and major glory they have been
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coming to Mexico City the worship Our
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Lady of Guadalupe an image of the Virgin
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Mary on a 6-foot high peasants cape made
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a rough cactus cloth which many people
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claim was imprinted by the Virgin
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herself
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for more than 400 years Our Lady of
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Guadalupe II is inspired and moved
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millions long a centerpiece of Catholic
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history the images also sparked intense
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controversy to skeptics it is a skillful
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painting impressive and hardly wondrous
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on the other hand the church is
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officially recognized the image is a
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creation of God a miracle which occurred
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in 16th century Mexico when Catholic
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missionaries from Spain were attempting
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to convert the native Aztec Indians
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according to church records there was a
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man named juan diego who lived with his
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uncle in a village five miles north of
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what is now Mexico City Juan was one of
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the first Aztecs converted to
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Christianity on a December morning in
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1531 Juan Diego was on his way to mass
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when he passed by the base of a hill
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called Tepeyac
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as he approached the summit Vaughan
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heard a voice call his name he was
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instantly overwhelmed by a god-like
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radiance the Alegria will miss a signora
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cereta castella siempre Virgil Maria
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Madre de Dios the sails syndrome or the
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seconds through young templo me on or
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machi en el cerro el Tepeyac de la he'd
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wat ecomony Mensa carro para que vayas
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con lov spoil a communique snivel nunca
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signora yo solo soy un padre Indio Senor
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Obispo nunca más cuchara then fair one
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certain that he had experienced a
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miracle one journey straight to Mexico
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City then the seat of the Roman Catholic
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Church in the new world he patiently
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waited several hours for an audience
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with Bishop zoom Aragon known as a
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powerful the gentleman who treated the
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Indians with kindness and respect the
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sec silicon's through you temperance who
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northern is zero Delta P Jack Jesus he
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whom you the bishop was skeptical
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perhaps one have been drinking or
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perhaps drinking he told one to bring
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him proof
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dejected Juan returned home but the next
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day he would be given his proof his
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uncle fell gravely ill and Juan went to
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fetch a priest to perform last rites his
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route took him back to the base of
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Tepeyac Hill
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Senora
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will you come in over skirts as her
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goatee querida Juanito no Sarah
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necesario to tio Cynara completamente
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no pudica Mancera Z or Obispo Dayton
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cargo dijo que necesita una señal - yeah
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para crear may know estes triste ho
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neato
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tu eres Miele hero viola Sima del cerro
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de corte las flores que encontrar 'as
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now Han became filled with doubts of his
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own Tepeyac was barren from the cold of
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winter and if flowers had once been
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there they would certainly not be
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blooming now the forms astonishment the
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hilltop was blanketed with brilliant
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roses of caste one gathered them in his
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tilma a loose cape made of cactus cloth
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I guess that lets a negative me
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understand senorita
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accoding the church documents or the
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flowers had rested in the tilma there
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appeared an extraordinary image of the
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Virgin Mary the bishop now believed that
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a miracle had occurred that Juan Diego
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had indeed seen and spoken with his
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mother of god after Juan Diego's vision
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millions of Indians converted to Roman
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Catholicism within just three years in
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accordance with the Virgin's wishes this
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shrine was soon built on Tepeyac Hill
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with the image on prominent display it
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was named Our Lady of Guadalupe after a
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village in Spain over the centuries the
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church allowed painted details to be
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added to the portrait including gold
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rays a cherub and the green red and
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white collars of Mexico since 1976 the
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image has been housed in a special
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Basilica every years 5 million believers
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make pilgrimages
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but for as long as it has existed there
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has been debate over whether the
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portrait is truly a miracle
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Jody Smith an associate professor of
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philosophy at a Florida College is a
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leading authority on the image but Smith
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is hardly the first scholar to be
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intrigued by Our Lady of Guadalupe as
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early as 1666 the church commissioned a
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group of physicians and master artists
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one salgueiro to inspect the Virgin's
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image Massa well concluded that the
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painting was indeed on unsigned or
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unprepared or on sealed cloth and for
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that reason alone others also appearing
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but for that reason alone
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given that the cloth was made of the
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fragile a yacht a cactus fiber it should
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have long since disintegrated James
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Randi is a professional magician and an
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investigator of paranormal phenomena
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matter of fact I have a frame with some
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of the same kind of cloth in it that
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dates back about 450 550 years at least
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from Peru different country perhaps a
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different cactus the tillable cloth is
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very fragile about not what is put in a
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frame they can last for the longest time
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for the first hundred years the tilma
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had been exposed to a high concentration
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of saltpeter in the humid air where it
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was on display some experts believe this
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alone should have caused the images
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disintegration that point was
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dramatically demonstrated in 1789 when a
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sceptical priest ordered eleven artists
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to render 11 copies of the painting
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using the same kind of unsafe discard in
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just seven years all 11 were so peeled
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and coated with fungus that they had to
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be removed from public display I think
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that the fact that the images lasted for
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over 400 most 500 years now the fact
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that the tumor which is a cactus cactus
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plant hasn't rotted and the fact that
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the original picture the pigment on the
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original picture is still just like it
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always was and hasn't cracked is another
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totally inexplicable thing in May of
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1979 Jody Smith and Phillip Callahan
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were given formal permission to examine
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the image up close his protective glass
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removed
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the gold raised around the Virgin added
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in the 17th century were badly chipped
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at the original image of the face and
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body remained remarkably bright and
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uncracked naturally enough we examined
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the face most intensely and studying
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this with the magnifying glass we could
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see no hairline cracks whatever the
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medium used to color it was it's very
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strange because after all of these years
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with no evidence of retouching there's
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no evidence of age a discount through so
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many changes over the years of cars and
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so many different representations have
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been made of it and for it that is
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really hard to tell what happened to the
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original or if this is the original you
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can't tell there's really so little
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evidence available
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these infrared photographs reveal
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another surprising aspect the lack of an
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under sketch an under sketch would
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indicate that the image had been painted
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by human hands the film photographs the
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infrared photograph showed that there is
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absolutely no drawing under as
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inconceivable that an artist in the
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sixteenth century would paint a portrait
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without first doing a drawing of it in
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fact it's fairly inconceivable Reinier
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artist would do it today although you
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could do it with some modern art thing
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but not with a portrait the practice of
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making a rough sketch before proceeding
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with a portrait traces back to antiquity
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only when completely satisfied with the
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under sketch did an artist take up his
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paintbrush of course the absence of the
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under sketch in itself does not
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categorically indicate a miracle but the
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paint as beautiful a face and bust as we
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see it Our Lady of Guadalupe on a rough
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cactus cloth is all the more remarkable
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this thing is miraculous because God
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willed this to take place among a people
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who needed some sort of message it took
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place at a time when it was needed and
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it took place because God made nature
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and God can manipulate nature any way he
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wants the essential idea and studying
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the image of Guadalupe is that we might
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find something alien something
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supernatural and that remains an open
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possibility but it is by no means the
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only possibility
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perhaps no amount of scientific research
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can unlock the mystery of the image of
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Our Lady of Guadalupe for true believers
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there is no controversy as they have for
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centuries pilgrims have continued to
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pray and offer thanks to the image to
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them the beautiful face of the Virgin
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Mary is purely and simply something of
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miraculous wonder
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when we return the search for an artist
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precious Lost legacy 15 paintings
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depicting the final days of Christ in
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the Gospel according to John it is
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written so then Pilate took Jesus and
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scourged him and the soldiers twisted a
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crown of thorns and they put it on his
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head and he bearing his cross but out to
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a place called Golgotha the Bible
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movingly recounts the story of the
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crucifixion his power is undeniable
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these compelling images which illustrate
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the story are the life's work of
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American artist Ben Stahl there are 15
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paintings in all depicting the 14
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Stations of the Cross and the
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resurrection
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sadly the public has not been able to
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view these works for nearly 25 years
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it happened ten days after Easter in
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1969 then stalls beloved collection was
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stolen stall died in 1987 still mourning
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the loss of the works he considered his
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masterpieces tonight Ben stars children
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hope that they can find their father's
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lost paintings in time for Easter they
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feel that would be the most fitting and
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most moving tribute they could give him
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Ben Starr was born in Chicago in 1910
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even as a young man he enjoyed a
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reputation as a skilled artist for books
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and magazines Norman Rockwell once wrote
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in the letter to stone the rest of us
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are just illustrators but you are among
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the Masters in 1954 the Catholic Press
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commissioned been stalled to paint the
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Stations of the Cross for a special
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people edition of the Bible the 14 small
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paintings were such a resounding success
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the Ben stall decided to duplicate them
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on a grander scale
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and over the years my father would get
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letters from people all over the world
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wanting to see them and wondering where
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they were and so I guess my parents got
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together and decided to build a museum
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and daddy would paint a new set and
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daddy also added the fifteenth painting
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which was the resurrection
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so he spent two years painting these
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paintings
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there was something very special going
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on while he was painting these paintings
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because when he did the face of Christ
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or the head of Christ who he pulled it
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off in 30 40 brushstrokes without ever
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having to do it over again and he was
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really amazed at that
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in November of 1966
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Ben stall opened the Museum of the Cross
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in Sarasota Florida to house a second
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set of paintings
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it was almost holy I mean it's just the
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atmosphere at the Museum and people
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would come out with tears in her eyes
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whose it's very moving for a lot of
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people but on April 17th 1969 Ben stalls
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world came crashing down responding to a
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frantic phone call from the museum
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director Stahl found the galleries
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ransacked all 15 paintings had been
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stolen
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Ben Starr was inconsolable
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he found it absolutely incredible that
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this this kind of thing could happen for
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after all who would steal religious
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paintings in the first place and such
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large paintings where who what could you
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do with them you had a lot of trust in
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people insurance is very expensive but
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he didn't have any there were no burglar
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alarms or anything like that because of
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this trust so when when the place was
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robbed he was in total shock police
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discovered that the thieves had entered
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the museum in a brazen fashion breaking
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through the fire door they were somehow
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aware that neither a security guard darn
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alarm system was in place
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instead of cutting the canvases out but
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these painstakingly removed each
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statement then rolled the paintings up
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and made a clean getaway that they had
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to be at least three to four people do
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this and we felt that they were probably
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in there and a minimum of four hours the
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investigation seemed to be at a dead end
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then six weeks after the theft a man
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claiming to be a Catholic priest called
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a Sarasota Sheriff's Office he said he
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had been approached by the people who
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stole the paintings yes what the
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paintings paintings yeah you know the
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paintings paintings in Sarasota yeah
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that's right stay right there for course
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we were elated you know this was a break
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one point these weeks my investigation
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however this lead to me failed to pan
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out the priest would not give his name
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and eventually he broke off content
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what happened to Ben stalls paintings
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over the years rumors placed the
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collection in the Bahamas or in South
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America possibly Brazil the authorities
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however believe that the paintings are
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still somewhere in the United States
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that whoever has them now may not even
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know they are stolen
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recently we went to Canada to bring you
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the story of one of that country's great
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national tragedies for 20 years through
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a well-meaning but misguided social
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welfare system thousands of a Ghibli
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Indian children were taken from their
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families and the reservations to be put
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up for adoption in the segment we
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profiled a Seton family of winnipeg
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manitoba
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in 1969 the six children were taken from
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their home by government social worker
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where someone can take care of you
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alright
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Sandra Seaton the oldest was just nine
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but it happened so fast they just you
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know come in and they don't really
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explain anything they just picked up the
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kids and then put them in the car that
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was real scary not knowing where they
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were gonna be taken kind of go a little
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dead inside or something you know cuz
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you just we were all just kids at a
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court hearing a judge order that all six
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children be put up for adoption but
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Sandra never gave up trying to reunite
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her family
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by 1988 she had found her two sisters
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her mother and her oldest brother but
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the two youngest boys Calvin and Bernie
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were still missing all the night two
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story aired in Canada
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Bernie's adoptive parents one of
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Calvin's former foster mothers were
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watching the show through their efforts
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and cooperation the two brothers are put
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in touch with her sister Sandra three
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weeks after our broadcast everything was
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arranged March 4th 1993 would be a day
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of reunions joy and tears
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at 10:30 a.m. sander and her mother
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Myrna were at the Winnipeg Airport
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awaiting the arrival of Bernie
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I had such an anxious feeling just
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looking and wondering cuz I'd we hadn't
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seen Bernie at all didn't see no picture
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and I was oh I just an and all of a
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sudden his face just you know sort of
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just was right there and oh that's him
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with birdie back in the fold the group
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headed to Mona's house with a new Kelvin
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would be waiting
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in his youth Calvin had been shunted
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about to 14 different foster families
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now he was finally home again after
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nearly 25 years it feels really good to
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be taken in instead of being pushed away
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hey like this is a big swish for me and
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I'm happy if I knew bigger words I
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probably could say some big word that
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would describe how I feel right now but
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there's no words that I can think of
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that describes this just uh you know
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it's the beginning I just think it's the
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beginning of a good thing it's all good
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it feels great
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just great that there's a piece of my
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life put together which I think all my
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friends knew that there was a piece
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missing maybe this is just the part to
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my life that was missing
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it's got so much to talk about you know
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so it's just a really great feeling
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there is a piece you know there's there
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was always that piece of my my heart
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somehow just needed you know to know
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that they were okay each one of us has
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our own lives but it's it's so good to
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know that we have family
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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Tom Roach and Barbara Rondo of Burbank
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California loved nothing better than to
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fire up their harley-davidson and hit
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the road
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they belong to a club that often drove
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on weekend trips across California
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Barbara and Tom met in Rhode Island and
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moved to California in 1988 after 16
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years together cycling was a passion
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they shared we'd known each other since
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76 in all our extra time was spent
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riding Tom's my father lover teacher
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guide
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he's tons my life like their fellow
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cycle club members who were lawyers
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plumbers and accountants Tom and Barbara
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held steady everyday jobs Barbara worked
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at a blue print company tom was an
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expert in metal plating in the fall of
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1991 he accepted a well-paid management
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position with a company that plated
00:28:19
aircraft parts he was to start on Monday
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September 16th
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three days before on Friday the 13th
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Tom drove Barbara to work they made
00:28:34
plans to meet for lunch but Tom never
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showed up and never called to explain my
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lunchtime came around and he wasn't
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there
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so just hanging around waiting for him
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and no show no show and I thought maybe
00:28:59
that he might have gotten caught up at
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his new place of employment but in fact
00:29:04
he would have called me and said you
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know Barbara I'm not gonna be able to
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make it I'm still at the plating shop or
00:29:10
whatever he Tom wouldn't know let me
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just hang there you know waiting on him
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by the time Barbara got home at about
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5:30 p.m.
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she still had not heard from Tom she was
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surprised to find the front door
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unlocked
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[Music]
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ha
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there was no sign of town everything was
00:30:01
in its place except for Tom
00:30:07
but naumann his pattern soon emerged the
00:30:10
newspaper was still unopened strange
00:30:13
since Tom rarely left the sports page
00:30:15
unread a motorcycle battery that Tom had
00:30:19
planned to install that morning was on
00:30:21
the counter the answering machine was
00:30:24
off suggesting Tom had planned to be at
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home most of the day Barbara had no
00:30:29
choice but to wait and hope I didn't
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sleep at all that night it's just trying
00:30:41
to figure out where tom was and why he
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hadn't called to let me know where he
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might be
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[Music]
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there's a lot of different circumstances
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for different types of missing-persons
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they could take off because of family
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problems they can take off because of
00:31:03
money problems they can take off for a
00:31:05
number of different reasons we really
00:31:07
don't know the reason until we get into
00:31:09
talking with the family or friends if
00:31:11
Tom in fact wanted to get out of our our
00:31:15
relationship or if again there was a
00:31:19
problem you know he Tom would have just
00:31:21
told me right out do you see a lot of
00:31:24
people going in and out of that house no
00:31:27
just him and Barb routine questioning
00:31:30
around the neighborhood turned up
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nothing significant police could not
00:31:35
determine where the talent left
00:31:36
voluntarily or become the victim of some
00:31:38
kind of violence it was as though Tom
00:31:41
Roach had simply evaporated
00:31:44
however Barbara was convinced something
00:31:46
terrible had happened to Tom when she
00:31:48
circulated these Flyers at his usual
00:31:50
hangouts no one came forward with any
00:31:53
information and Tom Roach was officially
00:31:56
listed as a missing person a day passed
00:32:02
then too soon five Barbara's father flew
00:32:07
in from Rhode Island to be with her then
00:32:09
on Thursday September 19th a letter
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arrived addressed to the family of Tom
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Roach
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[Music]
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[Music]
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in the envelope for Toms driver's
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license and the earring he had been
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wearing the day he disappeared
00:32:31
they were unfolded in a letter a bizarre
00:32:34
confession would wrench the case in a
00:32:36
sinister and new direction this is the
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actual letter received by Barbara Rondo
00:32:44
it begins you don't know me and
00:32:48
hopefully never will but I am the one
00:32:50
who killed Tom Roach I sent along some
00:32:53
personal belongings of his just so that
00:32:55
you won't think this is some kind of
00:32:57
sick joke or anything
00:32:59
finally the self-proclaimed killer goes
00:33:01
on to say I am very sorry for what I
00:33:04
have done I know in time what the guilt
00:33:06
will leave me so will your pain was
00:33:15
there someone who might have wanted to
00:33:16
hurt him barbar Rondo was devastated had
00:33:27
Tom Roach been murdered
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where was the letter a hoax it yielded
00:33:31
no fingerprints bore no return address
00:33:33
and was of course unsigned it was just
00:33:38
unbelievable but I wasn't going to
00:33:43
believe that that tom was dead
00:33:51
authorities immediately renewed their
00:33:53
efforts to track Tom Roach's activities
00:33:55
on Friday the 13th bank records show Tom
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made two deposits at approximately 820
00:34:02
a.m. he did not withdraw any money
00:34:06
indicating he had no plans to leave town
00:34:15
Tom was next seen by a neighbor talking
00:34:19
with an unidentified white male at about
00:34:21
9:30 a.m. if the letter is not a hoax
00:34:25
and police believe this man may have
00:34:28
been Tom's killer
00:34:30
we contacted wend witness who told us
00:34:32
that she had seen Thomas that morning
00:34:35
with another subject standing by a
00:34:37
pickup truck looking into the bed of the
00:34:39
pickup truck she said that they were not
00:34:42
arguing it look like they were just
00:34:43
carrying on a normal conversation and
00:34:46
there was nothing suspicious about that
00:34:48
and I believe that was the last time
00:34:50
Thomas was seen however testimony from
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one eyewitness suggest the letter may
00:34:58
indeed be a hoax an employee at a
00:35:01
motorcycle parts store in nearby
00:35:03
Glendale is convinced Tom came in on
00:35:05
Saturday September 14th one day after
00:35:09
the letter said tom was killed he acted
00:35:14
a little strange in the sense that he
00:35:16
didn't joke around with me I mean we
00:35:20
would always joke around about what kind
00:35:22
of motorcycle a rodent about it or
00:35:24
leaking oil and stuff you know so I mean
00:35:26
I knew Tom well enough to know Saturday
00:35:28
that it was Tom that came in I had gone
00:35:33
into the warehouse to pick up some parts
00:35:35
for the customer and when I came out Tom
00:35:39
wasn't there or anything so he must have
00:35:43
left when I was in in the warehouse and
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I mean I just feel this kind of strange
00:35:50
that he didn't say anything when he came
00:35:52
in or when he left
00:35:55
authorities believe handy marsala did
00:35:58
see Tom Roach but suspect he is mistaken
00:36:00
about the date
00:36:02
however the account raises a disturbing
00:36:04
possibility
00:36:05
perhaps Tom Roach intentionally fled and
00:36:08
wrote the grotesque letter to cover his
00:36:11
tracks
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for months past with no clues no
00:36:18
eyewitnesses and no further letters the
00:36:20
investigation dragged to a standstill
00:36:22
until January 11th 1992 that afternoon
00:36:32
authorities in Placer County California
00:36:35
almost 500 miles north of Burbank were
00:36:38
called to investigate a report of
00:36:40
weathered bone fragments and personal
00:36:42
effects strewn over a remote hillside
00:36:46
motorcycle emblems on some of the
00:36:48
clothing eventually led authorities to
00:36:50
link the items to Tom Roche
00:36:56
the scattered possessions included a
00:36:58
duffel bag flashlight hunting-knife
00:37:02
bottled water two pairs of prescription
00:37:05
eyeglasses an empty prescription
00:37:07
medicine bottle and several shirts if
00:37:11
the items were indeed Tom's he seemed to
00:37:14
have been packed and ready for the road
00:37:17
investigators contacted Barbara Rondo
00:37:20
she recognized all the shirts and a pair
00:37:23
of eyeglass frames as Tom's I do feel
00:37:28
that what they found is Tom but there's
00:37:33
that hope that he is still out there
00:37:38
somewhere and that in fact I will find
00:37:41
him
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[Music]
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what is the truth about Tom Roach the
00:37:53
mysterious letter taken at face value
00:37:55
would explain
00:37:56
Tom's disappearance unless it was
00:37:59
written by Tom Roach himself it has been
00:38:04
a nightmare it has been hell
00:38:07
I still live for Tom he's my life
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[Music]
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there's not a minute that goes by that
00:38:20
he's not within my thoughts
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he'll always be within me
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it is interesting to note that this
00:38:32
letter claims Tom Roach who is murdered
00:38:34
and then buried in the Los Angeles area
00:38:36
the only 500 miles south of Placer
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County within the next few months
00:38:41
authorities will conduct DNA tests on
00:38:43
the bone fragments to finally prove
00:38:45
whether they are Tom's remains until
00:38:48
then the only person may be able to
00:38:50
answer the questions in this case is the
00:38:52
author of the letter and for now his
00:38:55
identity remains a mystery
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[Music]
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when we return the only clues in a
00:39:17
murder case come from the victim himself
00:39:20
before he dies fortunately the only
00:39:32
contact most of us will ever have with
00:39:33
random violent crime is watching the
00:39:36
nightly news random crime is very real
00:39:39
extremely difficult for police to solve
00:39:42
an utterly impossible for families
00:39:44
touched by the violence to comprehend
00:39:46
one such family was the Hurley's of
00:39:49
Turtle Creek Pennsylvania Pam and David
00:39:54
Hurley were married in 1983 by 1988
00:39:58
their family had grown to include three
00:40:00
sons the hurdy shared a nun dramatic but
00:40:04
happy life until the early morning hours
00:40:06
of Saturday June 13th 1992
00:40:10
that weekend David and his brother were
00:40:13
taking a troop of Boy Scouts on a
00:40:15
long-planned canoe trip honey I'm just
00:40:23
gonna go I'm too wound up to sleep I'm
00:40:26
gonna go pick up some doughnuts and head
00:40:28
over to my brother's hang out there till
00:40:29
we go okay
00:40:31
okay you'll have a good weekend thank
00:40:34
you I love you David left home at 1:30
00:40:39
a.m. about an hour and a half later
00:40:44
Pam was startled to hear her husband
00:40:47
calling out David
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[Music]
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what are you doing home I've been shot
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what are you talking about I was stunned
00:41:11
and thoroughly shocked
00:41:13
I just couldn't comprehend that he get
00:41:16
been shot that was just too unbelievable
00:41:19
while they waited for paramedics to
00:41:22
arrive David told his wife about the
00:41:24
chilling events of that morning David is
00:41:29
stopped for doughnuts and was heading
00:41:30
toward his brother's house suddenly a
00:41:32
car appeared out of nowhere
00:41:41
David told family expected simply to
00:41:44
exchange insurance information with the
00:41:46
other driver what happened next
00:41:48
defies reason
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[Music]
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he said all he can remember is getting
00:42:20
the van and trying desperately to get
00:42:23
home to get away police and paramedics
00:42:29
arrived at around 3:30 a.m. David told
00:42:32
his story again he was called for a
00:42:36
person had just been shot he was able to
00:42:39
give me the information I had was asking
00:42:42
for so we could stop this vehicle before
00:42:45
it got too far away from our area at
00:42:47
that particular time I was concerned
00:42:49
with getting information that I could
00:42:51
put on the air for the other units that
00:42:54
were still out on the road David Hurley
00:42:58
would be rushed by helicopter to
00:42:59
Presbyterian University Hospital in
00:43:01
Pittsburgh six miles away at 4:30 a.m.
00:43:05
he was wheeled into emergency surgery
00:43:07
his doctors emerged from the operating
00:43:10
room two hours later and I remember we
00:43:13
looked at the clock and it was 6:30 a.m.
00:43:15
and I looked at my brother and I said
00:43:17
this is great they're done already it
00:43:19
must have been a lot better than we
00:43:21
expected because we expected four to
00:43:23
five hours from what they told us
00:43:26
in addition to gunshot wounds and the
00:43:28
arm and shoulder
00:43:29
David was bleeding internally from a
00:43:31
lacerated liver the surgeon told Pam
00:43:34
that the operation had progressed well
00:43:36
until without warning David went into
00:43:38
acute cardiac arrest I said to him
00:43:43
you've got to be kidding and he said no
00:43:49
I'm not kidding he's dead
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[Music]
00:43:55
David Eugene Hurley husband and father
00:43:58
of three murdered at the age of 34 in
00:44:05
searching for David's killer police are
00:44:08
limited to the sketchy information
00:44:10
Hurley himself gave before he died we
00:44:14
only have the description of a young
00:44:16
black male traveling to
00:44:19
champagne-colored Honda Prelude and it's
00:44:23
a good possibility that this individual
00:44:25
is local when someone you love dies it's
00:44:31
very painful and that never goes away
00:44:33
and I am sure that never will but that
00:44:36
pain is also turning to anger to realize
00:44:40
that there's a person out there
00:44:42
continuing with his life as if nothing
00:44:46
happened
00:44:47
it just makes me very angry David Hurley
00:44:54
was attacked along Route 22 at Wilkins
00:44:56
township pennsylvania on june 13 1992
00:44:59
during the few moments hurley was face
00:45:02
to face with the assailant he noticed no
00:45:04
unusual characteristics and at this time
00:45:07
police lack sufficient information to
00:45:08
produce even a sketch of the suspect
00:45:13
[Music]
00:45:19
join me next time perhaps you hold that
00:45:23
crucial clue which could help solve a
00:45:25
mystery
00:45:26
[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
