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tonight on unsolved mysteries she was
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beautiful
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charming and she loved horses but even
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though Shelley Malone was an expert
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writer eyewitnesses claims she died in a
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freak riding accident Shelley's family
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thinks the truth is very very different
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in Indiana a sudden Thunderstone spells
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trouble for an unsuspecting motorcyclist
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tragedy seems inevitable until a
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mysterious lady in black appears from
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out of nowhere it was the night Senator
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Robert Kennedy was assassinated a crime
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which many believe is still unsolved a
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young photographer named Scott Enya
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claims he was taking pictures at the
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exact moment of the shooting
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now those pictures have inexplicably
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disappeared September 1994 a lone gunman
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lurks in the woods outside Anderson
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Missouri his target an off-duty Highway
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Patrol officer is a parent objective
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vigilante justice
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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I would hope I would hope now that the
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California primer
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jun 15 60th these primaries over Senator
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Robert F Kennedy addresses hundreds of
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supporters gathered to celebrate his
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victory in the California State primary
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my thanks to all of you and now it's on
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to Chicago and let's win there within 20
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minutes the Senators triumph would be
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swept away in a hail of gunfire
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the accused assassin was a young
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Palestinian national named Sirhan Sirhan
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the years since had been marked by
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heated controversy many people question
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whether Sirhan acted alone whether a
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second gunman was involved the debate
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has been fueled by the belief that there
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was no visual record of the precise
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moment the senator was gunned down now
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that assumption has been shattered
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there's no film of it there's no
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videotape of it there is an audio
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recording from a radio reporter and
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there are my black-and-white photographs
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and that's it
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Scott inn-yard says this is a photograph
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of him taken in the pantry of the
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Ambassador Hotel Scott claims that if
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the instant senator Kennedy was shot he
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was taking pictures
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or as most puzzling a bus gotten yards a
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remarkable story that no one can find
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the bulk of his photographs or any of
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the negatives any art claims he shot
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three rolls of film that night the
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authorities however maintained the two
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of those rolls never existed when
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Senator Kennedy gave his victory speech
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fifteen-year-old Scott in yarn was just
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a few feet from the stage shooting
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photographs for his high school
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newspaper these are summer scott's
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pictures he took his first roller film
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before kennedy mounted the podium Scott
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says he loaded a second roll just as a
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senator began to speak as a speech
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concluded Scott says he joined those who
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followed Kennedy from the stage after
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leaving the bone senator Kennedy headed
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down a coder which led to the pantry
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there he stopped to shake hands with the
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kitchen workers when he stopped I was
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about 10 12 feet behind him there was an
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open wedge which had been made by the
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two people on either side of him so I
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had a clear view of him it's at this
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point that I brought my camera up and
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started taking pictures suddenly
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gunshots regular now I was behind Robert
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F Kennedy Sirhan Sirhan was in front of
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Kennedy so I did not see Sirhan all I
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saw was Kennedy twist and fall
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I moved back and jumped up on a steam
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table and I took some pictures over
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where the dog pile on Sirhan was taking
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place his hand was sticking out with the
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gun in it but I couldn't really see what
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was taking place there because so many
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people that crowded in at that point a
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few moments later Scott Ian York
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returned to the ballroom where
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pandemonium had broken out at that time
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Scott says he loaded and clicked off his
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third roll of film
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I noticed two men in suits they were
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looking at me rather strangely and I
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moved a few steps and they moved a few
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steps not knowing who's a terrorist
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who's an assassin and who's the police I
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took off
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they went through my pockets and took
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all three rolls of the film they took
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camera of course and it's at that point
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I realized these are detectives and I'm
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with the good guys at around 3 a.m.
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Scott was taken to rampart station in
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downtown Los Angeles well I'm not
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exactly sure
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Scott was questioned for about 20
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minutes this was an actual recording of
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the interrogation so the table here
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about three 1/2 feet tall so I got up on
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it so I was above everyone and I and the
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takers and then this shot started
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b5 I took pictures and kept taking
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pictures I shot for him for all the
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shots with in fact maybe a little
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afterwards I'm not exactly sure I could
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tell I can only tell by the pictures
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Scotland Yard had become a small part of
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history
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six months later Sirhan Sirhan was
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sentenced to life in prison for the
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murder of Robert Kennedy a court order
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that all files from the case including
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Scott's photographs be sealed for 20
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years
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Scott waited by 1988 he was an
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established photographer Scott wrote to
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the LAPD requesting that they return his
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film five months later Scott received a
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letter from the California State
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Archives which stated that his
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photographs could not be found the
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conclusion was that the pictures had
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been quote destroyed by LAPD in August
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1968 Scott immediately filed a lawsuit
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against the police
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this time he waited eight years top LAPD
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detectives who were assigned to work
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with our attorneys in preparation for
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this lawsuit naturally if we could find
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what Scott was looking for we thought
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that that would make the lawsuit go away
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and it was just some good detective work
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and looking in places where people
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hadn't looked before that found up in
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Sacramento found that booked under a
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different name was a was a sheet of
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negatives
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that had already been cut and put into
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plastic sleeves a few weeks later the
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city attorneys presented Scot with a
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proof sheet made from those negatives
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Scot immediately became suspicious the
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proof showed only one roll of film the
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stock was Ilford a SI 125 Scott claims
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he shot three wrongs that were Triax a
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SI 400 manufactured by Kodak basically
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what I believe the police did was they
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took roll number two which showed the
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speech and they used part of that in
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this proof sheet and then they use roll
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number three which was once I returned
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to the ballroom afterward where you see
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the aftermath and some of the victims
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and things and they just put them
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together as a proof sheet and expected
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that they could pass that office being
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all the film that I shot that role is a
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continuous roll of film shows pictures
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before mr. Kennedy speaks pictures of
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Robert F Kennedy speaking to the
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audience and then pictures of the
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aftermath of the shooting there are no
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photographs in the pantry our position
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is that mr. Angier did not make it into
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the pantry and did not take photographs
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inside the pantry
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then in 1991 a book came out that
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contained a number of previously
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unpublished photographs this one was
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taken in the pantry a few moments after
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senator Kennedy was gunned down Scott
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Ian Yard swears that he is the young man
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standing on a table with camera in hand
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just as he told detectives on the night
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of his interrogation
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I don't know who that person is for sure
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but we don't believe that that's Scott
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in here I I think it's just a
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coincidence that he you know says that
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he was standing on a table and there's
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somebody standing on a table in the
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picture we don't think that's him Scott
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in York continued to press his case
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against the LAPD in January of 1996 a
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City Attorney's Office hired a private
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courier to transport the negatives in
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question from the archives in Sacramento
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to Los Angeles once there the courier
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rented a car to drive from the airport
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to the downtown courthouse about 20
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miles away
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soon after leaving the airport the
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courier was forced to pull into a
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service station his right rear tire was
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flat
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apparently slashed by a knife sometime
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during the next ten minutes the
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briefcase containing the negatives was
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stolen I was with my attorneys when we
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when we learned this and we were just
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absolutely shocked I mean we were for
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some reason we weren't surprised but we
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were just truly shocked I couldn't
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believe it happened it but if I was a
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conspiracy theorist
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I'd say see there's further proof now
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we'll never know the entered photos if
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he captured the actual shooting would be
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the only photographic record that we
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have if those any encana Diaz he was
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falling it could be the whole case it
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could tell us everything we want to know
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about what happened
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[Music]
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next in the aftermath of a violent storm
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a young man finds himself in desperate
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need of a miracle and later but an
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experienced horsewoman dies in a freak
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riding accident
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her family suspicions lead them to a
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stunning conclusion
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[Music]
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[Music]
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good fortune can quickly turn back
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swiftest thunderclouds can sweep a
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summer sky no one knows this better than
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Robert Davidson 16 years ago in June of
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1980 Davison was barreling down AI 74
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near Acton Indiana as a rain storm
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whipped up around me
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Davidson's luck suddenly changed for the
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worse when you're driving 60 65 mile an
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hour on a motorcycle and raindrops hit
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you it's really pretty
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stinging it hurts and I thought I better
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pull over and get my rain jacket out of
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the trunk I had one foot on the ground
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and that's the last thing I can remember
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[Music]
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it was a direct hit more than 200,000
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volts of electricity 38 year old Robert
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Davison should have died right then and
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there yet Davison is still very much
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with us today at the age of 54 some say
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his survival was just another shift in
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the winds of fortune nothing more than a
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stroke of luck
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but others including Davis and himself
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called it a miracle personally delivered
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by a Messenger of God within minutes of
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the lightning strike emergency crews
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were on the scene from the start it
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appeared their efforts would be in vain
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clinically he should have been dead by
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the color of his skin and when we
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arrived there was no blood pressure no
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pulse basically he had no chance at all
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according to several witnesses events at
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the scene suddenly swerved towards a
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supernatural first every power circuit
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and the ambulance inexplicably failed
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and the engine shut down the lights
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turned off and it was without power
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completely we got dual batteries one
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battery would go down everyone take over
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and there's no way they could have both
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gone down at the same time it was an
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eerie feeling I mean you could just it
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felt strange and as they were doing the
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CPR you heard this woman coming up
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yelling I need to touch him I need to
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touch and just let me touch him nobody
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knew her name or where she came from
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later they would refer to her reverently
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as the lady in black she just kept again
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and again again you know I can save his
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life of course you know at that point in
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time I kind of thought well maybe this
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is just one of the people so to speak
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left over from the 70s you know but I
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said you don't let her do what she needs
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to do you know what can it hurt
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[Music]
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she was dressed in the late 1800 dress
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your basic black dress very very old
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fashioned
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she had the old-fashioned black shoes
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that went with it and carried her little
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black Bible then she raised the Bible to
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the sky and started speaking in tongue
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which was something I didn't understand
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but I'm sure somebody out there did we
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could just feel all the time that she
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was saying it's just chills from head to
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toe it was like just a tremendous amount
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of energy
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[Music]
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when she was finished she looked at me
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smiled and got up walked away probably
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five seconds had passed by in a turn to
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look the direction where she had left
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and there was nobody to be found
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accounts from that day couldn't be more
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contradictory some eyewitnesses
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including two of the paramedics insist
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that the mysterious woman was never
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there I don't know why they couldn't see
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her really because it was plain as day
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to me as plain as day to Randy you know
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why couldn't anyone else see her or hear
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her there is no doubt in my mind that
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she was there I believe there was a
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power they actually shut the vehicle
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down a surge which just obliterated the
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vehicles power supply and shut it down
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when this woman walked by according to
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those who saw the lady in black her
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departure triggered another chain of
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uncanny events first the ambulance came
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back to life then I've got it I've got a
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pulse
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it almost bursts my eardrums but it was
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a welcome to hear that first heartbeat
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and I yelled again I think everybody
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could have heard me down the interstate
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because I was so happy that we was
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getting some vital signs
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[Music]
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Davison had a heartbeat but his life was
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still hanging by a thread
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the ER physician was not optimistic my
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prognosis was that he would not come out
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of his coma and I expected him to remain
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in permanent coma and ultimately suffer
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complications and ultimately die for
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nearly two months Robert Davidson was
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more dead than alive then one day he
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simply woke up and presumed his length
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when I came out of the coma I looked
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around and I couldn't figure out what I
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was doing in the hospital because I had
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no memory of anything happening to me
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that would put me in the hospital when
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it became apparent that he indeed woke
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up and not only woke up but was talking
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and walking it I was utterly amazed
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Davidson's astounding recovery has
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prompted speculation that the woman in
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black was far more than a simple
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passerby some believed her to be a
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divine spirit that rose up from
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Indiana's fervid religious past just
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down the road from her Davison was
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struck by lightning lies this quiet
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meadow it is a site of a 19th century
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spiritual retreat known as Acton
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campground more than a hundred years ago
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this spot rang out with fiery sermons
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gospel hymns and the strange music of
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the faithful speaking in tongues
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[Music]
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most of Acton campground burned down in
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1905 but a few artifacts castilho found
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at a local museum there among the relics
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of a long vanished era is a vintage
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dress unmistakably reminiscent of the
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lady in black I believe that this woman
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maybe had been asked her Reverend or a
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priestess or whatever in her life prior
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and when she passed on she was brought
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in to I guess guardian angel form I know
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I witnessed a miracle there's just no
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other words to say it it was a miracle
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many will argue that Robert Davidson's
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life was saved by quick treatment and a
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measure of good luck but others believe
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just as firmly that the spirits of Acton
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campground were awakened that one of
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them came to Davidson's rescue I've
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always kind of believed in angels that
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everybody has a guardian angel but most
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people will never get to see em or have
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them really do anything for them
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I think my angel was doing her job that
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day coming up controversy rocks a
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wealthy enclave in Virginia after a
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beautiful young woman dies under
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mysterious circumstances
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but first Timothy Combs bills himself as
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a servant of God and a defender of
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freedom but the police say he's a
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dangerous criminal
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perhaps capable of murder
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[Music]
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September 16th 1994 Anderson Missouri a
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lone hunter cautiously makes his way
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through the woods stalking waiting for
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just the right moment to strike
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but his prey is not what you would
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expect the target this night is a
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Missouri State Highway patrolman and the
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hunter is not your everyday outdoorsman
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according to the police his name is
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Timothy Collins and he calls himself a
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free man they exist on the farthest
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right fringe of the political spectrum
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they believe they are the true Americans
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but others call them domestic terrorists
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the rallying cries are Waco Ruby Ridge
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and now justice Township in Montana the
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freemen are a loose knit Brotherhood
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bound by what some say is a pathological
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mistrust of the United States government
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mr. Thomas in late November of last year
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did a couple from Kansas City call on
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you at your home or place of business
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what was the purpose of that visit this
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is a recreation of a so-called common
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law court most Freeman no longer
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acknowledged the authority of our legal
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system and see common law courts as a
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way to circumvent the government what
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was it the sheriff wanted to talk to you
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about he wanted to know if I had a tax
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ID number how long I've been working out
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of my home and had I paid state sales
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tax state sales tax yes he wanted you to
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pay state sales tax on items that you
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made in your own home that's right
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the common law courts now that are being
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formed or by citizens of the counties
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and they are tired of being jerked
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around in the state courts and not
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having the rights protected within these
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courts the common law courts are
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predicated upon freemen using their
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right to determine issues of law Robert
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jokes the self-styled minister is asked
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to be filmed in silhouette due to his
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religious convictions
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this is a photograph of Joe's taken in
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1995 he is one of the area's leading
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advocates of the free man movement the
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Freeman or super Patriots are patriots
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or Christian patriots believe that the
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Constitution is a divinely inspired
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document along with the Bill of Rights
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that gives them preeminent rights in
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American society that they do not have
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to do things like pay income taxes or
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have driver's licenses and so forth
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because that's all part of the laws that
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were passed after the Constitution and
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the Bill of Rights they see these as
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man-made laws that don't apply to them
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in the case of Robert Jo's that
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philosophy apparently led him to issue
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faked legal documents in 1985 he was
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convicted of drafting a bogus court
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order in the case of a parishioner who'd
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been arrested for a minor traffic
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offense for nine years
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jost laid low on his farm while he
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contested the conviction but in June of
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1994 the new prosecuting attorney from
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McDonald County Missouri ordered the
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Highway Patrol to bring Jos in mr. Jose
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has a history of resisting arrest and to
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avoid an armed confrontation on his
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property where he's believed to have a
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large number of weapons decision was
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made to arrest him on a county road
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where he's by himself
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jost drove right into a trap sergeant
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Steve Dorsey and corporal Bob Harper
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were waiting
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I knew Jose from several years back and
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he had never calls me any problems by
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some accounts this day would be
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different I walked up the van him
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screaming all think you're dealing with
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someone that had a mental problem
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maybe screaming hollering and just
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Tony's hands up and saying who are you
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who are you I knew if they were gonna
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kill me they were gonna kill me it
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wasn't anything I could do except pray
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to God and that's what I was doing and I
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knew they had the rifle cause of arrest
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and they and as it turns out they didn't
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have any that's why they had to make up
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the story about resisting arrest and a
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concealed weapon after they arrest me so
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they had some reason to hold me Smith
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Robert Joseph was taken to McDonald
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County Jail where he remains to this day
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a waiting trial unable to raise bail
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according to the authorities his
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confinement precipitated the disturbing
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events that followed
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three months after jos was captured one
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of the arresting officers corporal bob
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harper was home celebrating his 33rd
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wedding anniversary
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I heard this loud shot and I ran up the
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hallway and mob was laying next to the
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cabinet and he was trying to tell me
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that the candidate exploded and I
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explained to him that he had been shot
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call the sheriff it was only by a
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miracle that Bob Harper survived the
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bullet pierced his rib cage after missed
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his heart by just 1/16 of an inch the
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next day investigators clustered around
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a grove of trees 245 feet from Harper's
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kitchen window it wasn't long before
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they found what they were looking for
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looks like 70 warm 16 maybe Bob Harper
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was not known to have any enemies and
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because of his recent involvement in the
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arrest of Robert Jos we felt that it was
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probably connected a few days later
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officers were dispatched to the Jos farm
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to speak with Robert Josas girlfriend
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they were confronted by an armed
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strength we need to talk to Annie he
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demanded that we stay where we were and
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he said that he would go get her we felt
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uncomfortable staying there so we
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retreated to her patrol cars and about
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ten minutes later he returned and
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started shouting at us and we
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subsequently had a about a 30-minute
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conversationally right here with the
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citizens of kingdom oppressed we got our
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elders the man identified himself as
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James Wilson according to the police he
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began to spot wild religious rhetoric
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unlike anything they had ever heard
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metallus you say that the state elders
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are training people to carry out violent
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acts for violations against the church
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well sure we've got snipers right now
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being trained by the state elders to to
00:29:03
help us you know it's it's the law it
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says it in the Bible
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it's God's law right here in Colossians
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1:13 you can read about it for yourself
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how many
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in that violent faction we didn't feel
00:29:13
comfortable with what we had heard from
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him so the following morning calls were
00:29:17
made to Arkansas and we received a large
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amount of information about James Wilson
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found out at that time that his real
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name was Timothy Combs Timothy Combs had
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served time in prison on various weapons
00:29:30
charges by the time police secured a
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search warrant for the Jos farm
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combs had vanished however investigators
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did uncover an impressive arsenal
00:29:41
pistols rifles and more than 40 sticks
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of dynamite that same day in Arkansas
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Combs's next-door neighbor gave
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investigators a bullet that had struck
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his horses rear flank can you show me
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the location of the shooter sure is my
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neighbor he's up this direction a man
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suspected it had been fired by cones who
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often took target practice nearby you
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see the machine shed there and in the
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tree to the right he's about midway in
00:30:08
between back in that brush according to
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the authorities a thorough search of
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Combs's property turned up the
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incriminating evidence shell casings
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that reportedly matched the casing found
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outside of Bob Harper's kitchen window
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police suspect the trail leads not just
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to Timothy combs at the Robert Jo's we
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believe that there is collaboration
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between Jos and Timothy combs we believe
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that the weapon used to see Bob Harper
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was actually an SKS rifle that had been
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purchased by Robert Joseph at the Greeks
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prior to his arrest for resisting arrest
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he will now not talk about that weapon
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Robert Joseph ain't Eanes that he had
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nothing to do with the attack on Bob
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Harper yeah they're trying to claim I
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was involved in a conspiracy to shoot
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Harper I had nothing to do with it
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didn't know anything about it until
00:31:07
after it happened still don't know that
00:31:09
he's actually shot I've never seen
00:31:10
medical evidence never heard doctor
00:31:11
testified a man was shot far as I know
00:31:13
he had another heart attack and I had to
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crack his chest to emerge the open heart
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on him I mean from what I've experienced
00:31:19
with these cops here they'll lie about
00:31:20
anything and everything to try to frame
00:31:21
somebody and the people that are helping
00:31:24
to date only Timothy Combs has been
00:31:27
charged in the shooting of Bob Harper
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Combs is now 37 years old
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authorities believe he has gone
00:31:34
underground and is probably being
00:31:36
harbored by members of a right-wing
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militia group
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there are people associated with this
00:31:42
movement who are threats because they
00:31:45
see themselves as warriors basically
00:31:48
against American society they see
00:31:51
themselves as having a special status
00:31:53
that others are trying to they believe
00:31:55
undercut and the problem with that is
00:31:58
that one when this is increasing in
00:32:00
small communities in particular it's a
00:32:03
very very very scary thing for local
00:32:06
officials and others to have this
00:32:07
counter force there that's usually very
00:32:09
well-armed and it's implicitly a threat
00:32:15
but we were completing this story we
00:32:18
were saddened to learn that corporal Bob
00:32:19
Harper had died during surgery for a
00:32:22
pre-existing heart condition his
00:32:24
colleagues believe there could be no
00:32:25
more fitting tribute to his memory than
00:32:27
the capture of Timothy Combs
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next
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witnesses say veteran rider Shelly
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Malone was trampled by her own mouth
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however expert horseman said highly
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unlikely
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the plains virginia's thoroughbred
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country the small wealthy community
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where both people and horses have been
00:33:13
agrees it's not at all the kind of place
00:33:16
you would expect to find an unsolved
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mystery much less a mystery fueled by
00:33:20
one family suspicions of foul play
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Charlie Malone was 37 years old when she
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died on many levels her case is one of
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the most emotionally charged we have
00:33:33
ever profiled we have been unable to
00:33:36
obtain interviews with the local police
00:33:37
or the people who are with Shelley the
00:33:39
day she died
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consequently this story is told almost
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entirely from the point of view of
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Shelley's family are the overreacting
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out of grief hypersensitive to every
00:33:50
inconsistency or is it possible their
00:33:53
suspicions add up to a sinister truth
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October 18th 1992 paramedics were called
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to a field in a wooded area outside the
00:34:06
plains Shelley Malone an accomplished
00:34:12
horse woman had been badly injured in a
00:34:14
riding accident as the paramedics
00:34:19
struggled to safe shouting her boyfriend
00:34:21
George Carhartt and two other friends
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Erica stumble and Carter Wiley could
00:34:26
only stand by helplessly and watch
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according to Erica the only witness to
00:34:34
the accident Shelley's horse has stepped
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on her and kicked her repeatedly one
00:34:39
blow was apparently powerful enough to
00:34:40
rupture her heart
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however Shelley's family has always
00:34:44
found Erica's account highly
00:34:46
questionable I know that that accident
00:34:49
is most improbable if not impossible in
00:34:54
an open field for a horse she loved and
00:34:57
loved her to step on her squarely in on
00:35:00
the chest after he had thrown her off
00:35:03
this is impossible
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- Shirley's family has seemed
00:35:11
particularly impossible for such an
00:35:13
experienced writer Shelley had been
00:35:15
around horses since she was a young
00:35:17
child Shelley was born loving horses
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when she was six or seven she told me
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she was going to marry a horse when she
00:35:25
grew up so she never ever lost her
00:35:30
interest in horses
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it was horses have brought Shelley to
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the plains area 1988 located an hour and
00:35:40
a half from Washington DC the plains is
00:35:42
home to many of the country's rich and
00:35:44
powerful including US Senator John
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Warner though her own roots were modest
00:35:49
Shelley gained entry to this elite
00:35:51
Society thanks largely to a wealthy
00:35:53
older benefactor named Cecil Altmann
00:35:55
Altmann said Shelley up in business and
00:35:59
reportedly gave her an allowance of
00:36:00
$5,000 a month
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Shelley lived in a small house out in
00:36:08
the country a perfect place to stable
00:36:10
her two horses in 1990 she started
00:36:14
dating George Carhartt who lived in New
00:36:16
York and reportedly came down frequently
00:36:18
to visit however Shelley's mother claims
00:36:26
that after two years Shelley was ready
00:36:28
to move on the relationship was strained
00:36:33
she had relayed to my husband and myself
00:36:36
that she was bringing this relationship
00:36:41
to a close
00:36:45
on Friday October 16th 1992 two days
00:36:49
before she died
00:36:50
Shelly allegedly had an impromptu
00:36:52
romantic encounter with a local attorney
00:36:55
Shelly's family believes George Carhartt
00:36:57
found out about the affair when he came
00:36:59
to visit that weekend on Sunday
00:37:08
afternoon Shelly had plans to go riding
00:37:10
with Erica stumbled George Carhartt and
00:37:13
Carter Wiley Erika's boyfriend stayed
00:37:15
behind at the house Erica is issued only
00:37:19
one official statement on the day's
00:37:20
events written document she prepared and
00:37:23
delivered to the police you're about to
00:37:25
hear selected portions from that
00:37:27
statement we alternately walked trotted
00:37:32
and galloped the horses through several
00:37:34
fields and trails we were approximately
00:37:38
100 yards into a new field we had just
00:37:41
entered we were walking the horses side
00:37:44
by side to cool them down unexpectedly
00:37:46
both horses spooked or started I was
00:37:51
thrown and fell off to the left of my
00:37:53
horse
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I was not seriously injured I cited
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Shelly about 30 feet away the horse
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stepped on her legs face and head
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taking her head as he did so in an
00:38:05
apparent attempt to get away as the
00:38:08
horse moved away from her I immediately
00:38:10
ran to her Joey Joey I checked her pulse
00:38:16
and looked in her mouth to see if there
00:38:17
were any obstructions I noticed her left
00:38:19
cheek was turning purplish blue which I
00:38:22
assumed was the result of the horse
00:38:23
stepping on her face I'll be back as
00:38:26
soon as I can all right fearful of a
00:38:28
head injury as a result of seeing the
00:38:30
horse kick her in the head
00:38:31
I then concluded that the best thing to
00:38:33
do was try to seek medical help erica
00:38:38
says she got lost trying to find help it
00:38:40
would be an hour and a half before
00:38:42
paramedics reached Shelly it was George
00:38:44
Carhartt later called Shelly's mother in
00:38:47
Florida when the phone rang
00:38:51
he said jollies had an accident I
00:38:54
expected him to say she slipped and
00:38:57
broke an arm or leg or something and I
00:39:01
said what kind of an accident and he
00:39:02
said she's dead Shelly's family claims
00:39:10
they got another shock at the morgue to
00:39:12
them
00:39:13
Shelly looked like she had been involved
00:39:14
in much more than a riding accident one
00:39:19
of the clerks there showed us four
00:39:22
Polaroid of my daughter's face it was so
00:39:26
bad and so swollen her eyes were black
00:39:29
and blue that I didn't recognize her
00:39:34
according to Shelly's family subsequent
00:39:37
events made them even more suspicious
00:39:38
despite the fact that the coroner's
00:39:40
ruling was accidental death
00:39:46
two days after Shelley's funeral her
00:39:48
family claims they had an odd experience
00:39:50
at her home
00:39:51
George Carhartt was one of those present
00:39:54
there was a pickup truck backed up to
00:39:57
the front porch and there was some large
00:40:01
pieces of my sister's furniture on there
00:40:03
and they were moving stuff out and
00:40:06
loading bags up with their clothes and
00:40:09
her belongings Shelley's mother claims
00:40:13
that car horn made several insensitive
00:40:15
comments and I countered with well i'm
00:40:26
priy torch and i don't understand that
00:40:29
you're mean and he said all of her
00:40:31
clothes will go to charity and I said we
00:40:34
have made no arrangements to do anything
00:40:37
of the kind
00:40:38
and as these black garbage bags were
00:40:41
going down the stairs with her
00:40:43
belongings in them I was in pulling them
00:40:48
back up the stairs and we were like
00:40:49
having a tug-of-war with these bags
00:40:55
the next day George Carhartt took
00:40:57
Shelly's family to the local dump to
00:40:59
retrieve the clothes she was wearing
00:41:00
when she was killed they never found the
00:41:03
clothes but they say they did discover
00:41:06
more than two dozen Julie boxes from
00:41:08
Tiffany and Cartier all of them empty
00:41:12
when we questioned George about where
00:41:16
the contents were he told us that she
00:41:18
was Hawking her jewelry
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that explanation struck Shelly's family
00:41:26
as dubious at best but some find it
00:41:28
credible particularly in light of
00:41:30
questions relating to Shelly's past
00:41:32
including a drug conviction in 1979 and
00:41:36
alleged ties to a savings and loan
00:41:38
scandal in the 1980s Shelly's past
00:41:43
however does not explain the matter of
00:41:45
her truck and the family brought the
00:41:47
truck back to Florida they discovered
00:41:49
what they believed to be bloodstains a
00:41:51
local detective was asked to test them I
00:41:55
did a field test to tell whether or not
00:41:59
it was human blood and the field test
00:42:01
was positive from the angle where the
00:42:05
blood was on the passenger seat it
00:42:08
appears that it came from a head wound
00:42:13
Shelly's family took the truck back to
00:42:15
the plains and turned it over to the
00:42:17
authorities some routine blood tests
00:42:20
were performed however the [ __ ] your
00:42:22
County Sheriff's Office claimed they
00:42:24
didn't have the budget to do DNA
00:42:25
comparisons Shelly's family has taken
00:42:32
out newspaper ads written letters and
00:42:34
made numerous phone calls to local and
00:42:36
state officials all for one purpose they
00:42:39
want a full-fledged investigation an
00:42:41
investigation they believe or prove
00:42:43
Shelly was murdered I can only think
00:42:47
that an argument came about between
00:42:50
Shelly and George or Shelly and Carter
00:42:53
Wiley I don't know which of the two I
00:42:55
think wasn't a planned thing but I think
00:42:57
one of them struck her and killed her or
00:43:04
felt that they had killed her or felt
00:43:07
that they had named her in a very
00:43:10
serious way and I think the rest of the
00:43:15
scenario that we've been told is simply
00:43:19
that a scenario
00:43:25
John Strasburg a horse expert and editor
00:43:28
of a chronicle of the horse feels it is
00:43:30
highly unlikely Shelley's horse would
00:43:32
have behaved as Eric Istanbul described
00:43:36
the element of the story that that
00:43:39
raises questions in my mind are a horse
00:43:43
stepping on its rider in an open field
00:43:49
it's hard to imagine a horse
00:43:53
intentionally or accidentally stepping
00:43:56
on someone in that situation not
00:43:58
impossible but very hard to mention I've
00:44:04
talked to medical men who say a man with
00:44:07
a big fist could strike a girl laying
00:44:10
104 pounds and just with the force of
00:44:13
his hand sever that ventricle so that
00:44:18
once that had happened and she was
00:44:20
unconscious or dead what could they do
00:44:24
so you take the shoe off of the horse
00:44:28
Ram it onto a 4x4 and then with all the
00:44:32
force you have plant a hoof print over
00:44:37
the heart
00:44:41
what happened to Shelley Malone the
00:44:44
Sheriff's Department in Fauquier County
00:44:45
Virginia issued the following statement
00:44:47
in response to our story quote MS
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Malone's death has been investigated and
00:44:53
reviewed by several agencies to include
00:44:55
the Virginia State Police all conclude
00:44:58
the death is accidental end quote
00:45:00
in addition the office of the chief
00:45:03
medical examiner in Washington DC also
00:45:06
ruled that the death was accidental
00:45:18
join me next time for another
00:45:21
fascinating edition of unsolved
00:45:23
mysteries
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