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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries in the Nevada desert a young
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man is found dazed and confused he says
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he's suffering from Amnesia the police
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say he's
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faking on a remote Riverbank three
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fishermen stumble upon the body of a
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woman wrapped in a bed sheet from her
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own home some say her ex-husband knows
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more than he's saying
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meet Jean
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Bo she draws police composits with
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uncanny accuracy watch as she tries to
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help solve a baffling
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murder and this 8-year-old girl has an
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amazing talent she sees dead
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people join me for these intriguing
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stories plus updates on cases solved by
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you I'm Dennis finina and this is
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unsolved Mysteries
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Las Vegas
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Nevada do you have any pain anywhere can
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you wiggle your toes for me a young man
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is rushed to a local hospital he has
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been found in the desert outside of Las
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Vegas dehydrated and disoriented can you
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tell me your name he has no
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identification and is suffering from
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Total Amnesia the Hospital staff names
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him Tyler you cannot have anything right
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authorities can't find a missing
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person's report matching Tyler's
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description and his fingerprints are not
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in any local or National Police
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databases for more than 8 months Tyler
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remains a man without a past and
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possibly without a
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future I can't go to work because I'm
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not eligible for a social security
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number I can't drive a car because I
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don't have a Social Security number or a
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date of birth
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and I'm starting to feel more frustrated
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as the days go by because I really feel
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this needs to come to an end I do need
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to find out who I
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am Tyler was diagnosed as a genuine
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victim of
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Amnesia but when his identity was
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discovered after we aired his story some
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began to believe that he may not have
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lost his memory at all Tyler sat down
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with friends to watch Unsolved Mysteries
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that evening our cameras were also on
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hand but even before his story aired in
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Las
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Vegas a man from Boise idah contacted us
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and said that he was Tyler's
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father we called Tyler immediately but
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everything that that I was looking to
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cross referenced and we have located
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your family for you you have yes our sta
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told Tyler that his real name is Arthur
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Paul Beal but he goes by Paul was 23
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years old and before he was stricken
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with amnesia he lived in Boise Idaho a
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few minutes later Paul Beal called the
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mother and stepfather he could not
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remember hello may I speak with Mrs Beal
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this is Mrs be this is your
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son how are
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you you sound
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great I don't remember you I'll help you
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Paul the emotional call lasted nearly 20
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minutes you be strong okay and I'll talk
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to you real soon okay okay honey bye bye
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a short time later Paul's story took an
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unexpected
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turn I don't know you don't know you
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don't know what your dat of birth is I
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don't I have the Las Vegas police showed
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up at Paul's apartment and arrested him
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for Grand Larson it turns out that Paul
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Beal was wanted by Boise Police for
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stealing a shipment of frozen
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food how long have you had Amnesia 9
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months how do you remember that if you
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got
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amnesia hi I've come to get my son the
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next night our cameras witnessed the
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emotional reunion between Paul and his
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mother Paul
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ly Beal had arrived to post Paul's bail
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but he still did not recognize I don't
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remember you you will it's strange being
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with Paul and his not remembering
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anything about me not knowing who I am I
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want to push everything into his head
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make him remember everything I want to
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make sure I can do things to help him
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I'm scared I don't want to do something
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to push it back farther I want to I just
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want him to know I love him we all love
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him and I'm relieved that he's safe he's
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alive I wored so much the reunion was
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complicated not only by Paul's Amnesia
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but by the criminal charges against them
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in Boise Paul had worked as a Salesman
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for a food supply company he went to Las
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Vegas to sell a shipment of frozen food
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but he never returned 3 weeks later Paul
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showed up with the empty truck in
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Boulder City Nevada where he was
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questioned but not arrested by local
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police I told him when he left I
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says boys he going to get a warrant for
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you you know they're going to do it it's
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going to be Gran larsy felony so it's
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just a matter of time you better get up
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there go back up there he said yeah I'm
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going back now I'm going right back up
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there and take care of the situation
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it'll be
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fine it was 3 days after he was
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questioned that Paul was found wandering
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in the desert detective Bowman wondered
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if Paul was faking is amnesia amnesia is
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easy I don't know who are you I don't
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know where you from I don't know do you
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know anything I don't know it's it's
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easy and a guy like him he's
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convincing is this the four of you
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uh-huh this still isn't my son in the
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fact that this isn't how he would react
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to me we were very
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close I could tell by his eyes when I
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first saw him tonight that he really
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didn't recognize me he was he wanted to
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I could see it in his face he wanted to
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do you know your name can you squeeze my
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hand this is probably the most
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horrifying nightmare that anybody could
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go through losing an identity losing
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every ounce and fiber of a person's life
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having it pulled away then 9 months
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later have it given back to you but you
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still don't have
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it and I give anything in the world to
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remember right now
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Paul Beal returned to Boise Idaho where
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he served 90 days for petty theft his
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case is now closed but one mystery
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remains did Paul Beal fake his Amnesia
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to avoid criminal prosecution or is he
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truly a man without a
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past next a 22-year-old is found shot to
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death in his own bedroom
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Westerville
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Ohio an ordinary townhouse on an
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ordinary Street home to a typical
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middleclass family the
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lombardis Cheryl Lombardi comes home at
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around midnight she assumes that her
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22-year-old son Tony will be home
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shortly
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at around 12:45 a.m. she hears a door
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closing and some
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footsteps
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son assuming it's Tony she goes to his
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room to say good
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night what she discovers is
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horrifying a single gunshot wound to the
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head has killed Tony
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Lombardi that morning Cheryl Lombard's
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home was swarmed by detectives as they
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searched Tony's room for Clues they
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began to realize that the evidence
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pointed toward two conflicting theories
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they were two different scenarios that
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would pit Tony's family against the
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police 30 minutes after Cheryl's
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gruesome Discovery detectives were
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investigating the scene they found a 38
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caliber semi-automatic pistol on the
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floor and on the bed a single spent 38
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caliber shell in Tony's pocket they
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found a citation he had received for
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drunk driving 2 days earlier
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DUI okay thanks for the info Tony faced
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stiff fines and the suspension of his
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driver's license the investigators
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viewed him as someone who might have
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been despondent over the DUI right now
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everything that we have and the evidence
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that we have indicates Tony's death was
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suicide but Tony's Family believes that
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there is evidence that his death was a
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coldblooded
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murder I believe that there was a
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struggle he had an inch and a half gash
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over his left eye he had a broken jaw he
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had bruises uh the fact that he was
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found nude he would never let anyone see
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him nude those are all things that I
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think should have been looked
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into cherl believes Tony's killer was
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still in the house when she got home
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that night going up and down the steps
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you you can see my son's room and the
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door was closed and there was no light
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on going up and down the steps as many
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times as I did there is no way I could
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have missed the light being
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on Cheryl assumed Tony's light was
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turned off because he wasn't
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home 45 minutes later she heard the door
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closing the light in Tony's room was now
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on Cheryl again assumed that he had
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finally come
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home who could have turned on the
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light well Cheryl believes it was the
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killer who became trapped in Tony's room
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when she arrived home I believe that I
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surprised him and then when I went to my
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bedroom to get ready for bed they
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thought that was a good opportunity for
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them to leave and I believe that's what
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I heard was someone
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leaving Tony's parents say there is even
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more evidence that points to murder in
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the week before he died Tony was the
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target of two different death threats
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cut me off like that again and I'll kill
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you you hear me I hear you where do you
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live I said where do you live right here
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good I got it a neighbor saw the driver
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of a white pickup truck screaming at
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Tony
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Tony's father overheard the second death
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threat just a few days
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later I was checking my messages and I
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heard this threat on our voicemail of a
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a gentleman a young person telling Tony
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that he had a gun and was going to use
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it if Tony didn't stay away from his
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girlfriend and at that point I brought
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that up to Tony and he said not to worry
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about it I told Tony that I talk to the
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guy and see what the deal was on it and
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he said to me that uh his problem was
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not with me it was with Tony and that he
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would take care of it Tony would get
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what was coming to him lead detective on
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the case contacted as many people as he
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could either by phone or in person and
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attempted to question him about what
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they had said or somebody said they had
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said and we found no evidence that Tony
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was under any immediate death threats
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the police never contacted me about uh
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Tony's death at all um I never heard
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from
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anybody about anything
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the position of Tony's body and the
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angle of the Fatal bullet were also
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controversial her son's head was on a
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couple of pillows and the detectives
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removed that spent Bullet From the
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headboard examined the angle and had
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every indication that the trajectory of
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that bullet was correct this was our
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son's bed that he was actually killed in
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and The Bullet Hole in the headboard is
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behind the pillows and as you can see
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it's down there and if you take a pencil
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and you
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insert that
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into the headboard you can see that the
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Bullet Hole is much lower than the way I
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found our
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son The Bullet Hole does not make sense
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to me unless there was some pressure on
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top of Tony holding him down the bullet
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would have been much higher in the
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headboard finally Cheryl says the county
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Corner found bruises on t 's chest
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directly under his clenched hands to
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Cheryl that is proof that her son was
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forcibly held down by an as salent Tony
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Lombard's death remains clouded by
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controversy the police the county Corner
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the sheriff's department and the
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district attorney all agree Tony's death
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was a
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suicide the Westerville police sure have
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sympathy for the family they've suffered
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a lot of
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trauma but we have to dealing the facts
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and the facts of this investigation
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reveal what happened was a
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suicide until they open our son's case
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back up and change the cause of his
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death I will not stop until the last
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breath is taken from my body and if I do
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not exceed to be able to get that done
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till the day I die then I'll fight him
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from
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eternity if you have any information
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about Tony Lombard's death please log on
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to to our website at unsolved.com
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coming up an 8-year-old girl claims to
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see and talk to dead people is it her
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imagination or does she really have a
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gift do you remember the movie the six
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sense and that little boy who said that
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he could see dead people well it turns
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out that there is a child who can do
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just that her name is Heidi wrick and
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she's just 8 years old and apparently
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can communicate with people who have
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died many many years ago hello honey hi
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what's your name Heidi that's a pretty
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name Heidi Heidi's family had just moved
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to ellersly Georgia a small southern
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town one fall day according to heidy a
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man named KH appeared at the front door
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and go play on that swing he had white
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hair and he had a t-shirt on with blood
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all over it and he had a bandage on his
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hand with blood on
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it Mama what hi can I go play outside
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with the man is it Uncle Mark no what
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man is it he has gray hair and he has BL
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on his shirt come here are you
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sure yeah I thought someone was trying
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to kidnap her I don't see anyone so I
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brought hiid in and I locked all the
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doors and I got the butcher knife out of
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the K you know out of the drawer and I I
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called my husband home I said Andy you
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have got to come home we got out and we
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walked all up and down the street you
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know trying to find somebody to fit that
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description but we never you know found
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nobody hi there Heidi hi that is your
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name isn't it yes I'm Mr
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shortly after her visit from Khan Heidi
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told her mother about meeting a man she
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called Mr gardy would you like to go
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over and swing with me for a few minutes
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okay I thought that Khan and Gordy was
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the same person so I thought his name
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was KH Gordy and that's when I started
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asking everybody do they have they ever
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heard of a name KH Gordy Lisa happened
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to mention Khan and Mr Gordy to her
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sister who had just bought the house
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next door her sister was shocked just
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read that right there what right here
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look James S Gordy when I see Mr Gordy's
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name on the deed I was terrified I
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really was because I knew that the the
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previous owners had was there you know
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years and years and years back so I knew
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that Mr Gordy I knew he had to have been
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dead I knew Mr Gordy when I was a small
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child
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and um Mr Gard owned a real estate
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company in
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Columbus and for many many years he was
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um Sunday School Superintendent at our
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church up here Ells Methodist Church
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Katherine ledford's family had owned the
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house that Lisa's sister now lived in
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Katherine said that James gardy was the
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executive of her mother's will he died
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in
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1974 Let's see we got Catherine didn't
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have any pictures of Mr gardy but she
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said Heidi's description of him was dead
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on accurate he had gray hair and always
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wore a suit and tie and those shiny
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black
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shoes Catherine decided to show Heidi
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some of her other family
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photos I was looking through the
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pictures and I never saw n of them
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people and when I got to the bottom
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there's this little bitty
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picture that's a guy with the bandage on
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his arm and the blood on his
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shirt that's C Heidi had identified
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Catherine's Uncle his name is Uncle L
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he's my uncle L lived here when he was a
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young man he died in
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1957 of cancer and he lost his hand I
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would say before he was 20 years old in
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a cotton gin up here in Ellis why don't
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you go ask your mom when I saw him he
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was holding his right hand under his
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left hand and he was doing that in the
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picture when I found out that it was
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Miss Kelly's uncle and his name really
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wasn't Khan it was L it scared me to
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death cuz I knew Heidi was really seeing
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something for the next 4 years Heidi
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continued to spend time with the
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friendly spirits of James Gordy and Lon
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Bachelor but when her mother gave birth
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to a baby girl a nasty and violent
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Spirit came to visit
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TTY had never been scared of anything
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she had never been scared of of Khan she
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had never been scared of Mr Gordy but
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when she seen the dark figure in our
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hallway she was
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hysterical the new spirit became a
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frequent and sometimes violent guest
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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what is
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it oh my God are you
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okay oh she had just deep gashes down
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her face and it terrified me I didn't
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know what it was and I couldn't imagine
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what could have scratched her that bad I
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thought maybe she had scratched herself
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during the night and I didn't really
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think too much about it
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so about two nights later I woke up my
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side was just burning like fire listen
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listen what is this I had three claw
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marks going around my
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side the next night I went to sleep and
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I woke up and I had three claw marks
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down my back and then it happened again
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the next night and I woke up and had
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three claw marks down my
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chest I was worried to death that it was
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going to scratch the baby and uh that's
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when you know I was so worried I thought
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well I've got to do something and that's
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when I called Dr Ro noted Paris
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psychologist Dr William R was The
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Logical choice to investigate you were
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standing here and and and where was M Mr
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Gordy standing do you think she came up
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with physical descriptions and and with
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names that she apparently could not have
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obtained in any ordinary way so that
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immediately made me interested in the
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case a couple of pictures have been
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found of Mr gardi The Hope was that
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Heidi would be able to identify Mr G's
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picture uh if they were presented to her
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with with a number of other photographs
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in this pile of pictures we're looking
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for somebody who looks like uh Mr
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gardi all right
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so what you're watching is real Heidi
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wirick is looking through the
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photographs for the first time
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that one looks like
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them that is Mr Gord you're
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right incredibly Heidi correctly picked
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the photograph of James Gordy twice now
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she had correctly identified Spirits
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from a photo
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lineup having spoken to Heidi and and
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and her parents I'm even more convinced
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that we dealing with the genuine uh
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parapsychological
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experiences then the question comes up
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why are these things happening to this
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little
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girl does Heidi possess some mysterious
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power to communicate with the
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dead I think hady is special I do she's
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been seeing him for so long now and uh
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it's just something I don't think she'll
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ever grow out of she's just a special
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child she's gifted so to
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speak Heidi is now a young woman and no
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longer lives in the old family home she
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reports that she has not seen Mr Gordy
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for years however she continues to see
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the mysterious dark figure as well as
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numerous other Spirits the sightings are
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so frequent that Heidi now takes them in
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stride not even that dark mysterious
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figure scares her
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coming up a criminal composite artist
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Jean boand draws the face of a
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killer when 12-year-old poly class was
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abducted from her Northern California
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home and savagely murdered police
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distributed thousands of copies of this
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composite sket
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in the end its amazing accuracy helped
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catch the killer Richard Allen
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Davis the secret weapon in Paulie's case
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was this woman composite artist jeie
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boand without her sketch of Richard
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Davis he might still be on the loose
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these days the FBI and police
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departments compete for her talents they
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know that her drawings can help solve
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the most difficult of
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cases in the mid 70s Jean worked at a
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sheriff's department in Oregon where she
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saw how suspect sketches were made in
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many cases Jean didn't like what she saw
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was skinnier it was longer yeah it was
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more like that more like that maybe like
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that nuh more like that one I would hear
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the way that investigators would
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question Witnesses or victims and I
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could hear that they weren't allowing
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them to answer they would cut the
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answers off it was kind of just the
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facts and Uh I that that seemed to me to
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be wrong
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would you put any other shape around the
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eyes Jee knew that she could do better
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she got her chance when a supervisor
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gave her one of his most difficult cases
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an unsolved rap I can't remember anymore
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it's okay and I found that if I used
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sort of a diversionary system of
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interviewing where we would kind of
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circumvent the the events of the crime
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and scenario of the crime and talk about
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other topics and I could relax them then
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periodically this information would
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surface you know I just remembered
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something he had a scar and it started
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on his forehead and it led back into his
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hair it's like the tip of the tongue
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syndrome where you have somebody's name
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that's right there and you're trying to
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remember it you can't bring it up and
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maybe two or 3 hours later you stop
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trying and it just pops into your mind I
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just remembered something else too
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um he had a wide face I knew that the
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drawing that had been done on that case
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prior to the one that I was doing was
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wrong so what we came up with was so
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radically different that that was sort
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of fresh hope for that
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case a suspect was arrested and later
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convicted because of Jean sketch more
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cases followed and Jean's reputation
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grew I've seen a lot of the work Jean
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boand has done and very impressed it's
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the best artist conceptions I've ever
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seen Albuquerque New
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Mexico the FBI turned to Jean in the
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case of 16-year-old Jonathan Francia who
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was kidnapped from behind this
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restaurant 5 days later his body was
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found in the trunk of his torched car
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one of the killers known only as Jason
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is still at
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large investigators ask Jean to meet
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with a key witness Scott Johnston hi
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yeah I'm Jean Bo nice to meet you Scott
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had innocently spent several hours with
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the killers at his home in Winslow
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Arizona Jean automatically sized up his
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potential as an eyewitness visual things
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are very important to him he takes some
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care in the way that he looks which was
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the first cue to me that I would be able
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to work in a visual context with him so
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one thing that I did was I got out some
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Playdoh something to Anchor him in the
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present and gave it to him to play with
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and sort of feel to keep him in the
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moment I shave it more in the
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longer as Scott told his story Jean
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began to sketch the killer named
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Jason Scott said that he met Jason
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through his friend Trina
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Richardson she was staying with Scott
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while her husband Paul was in Alabama
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early one morning Paul returned with a
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strange man in the
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car Scott what's happening not much this
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is Jason hi come in my first impression
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of Jason was oh boy this guy dressed
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like a cowboy he had the velvet hat the
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long hair and the jacket and the you
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know the jeans and kind of like worn out
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tennies Scott noticed something strange
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about Jason's hands but he didn't notice
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what it was until
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later I look down I noticed his hand was
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kind of like red kind of clay type I
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thought it was just you know dirt but
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apparently it was
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blood Jason asked to take a shower
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shortly after he arrived that was the
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only time that Scott saw him without a
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hat tell me a little bit about how you
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would put the placement of the hair I
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place the hair kind like long and back
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over the ears to Scott told Jean that he
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and Trina went out to run errands around
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9:00
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a.m. when they returned Paul and Jason
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were washing the car we came back pulled
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up they saw us and they shut the trunk
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and they act like they didn't want us to
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see what was in it Scott later learned
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that the body of Jonathan Francia was in
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the trunk Scott you got a gas can no but
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I can go borrow one okay so I went next
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door got the gas can came back and
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that's when Trina Paul and Jason were
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outside
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talking an hour later Trina and Paul
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showed Jason the way back to the main
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Highway that was the last time I saw
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Jason I thought that he went back maybe
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to Dallas or maybe somewhere else where
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he is you know we told me he was
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from 4 days later an eyewitness tip LED
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police to a remote corner of the desert
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30 m from Scott's trailer there they
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found the burnt out car and Jonathan
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Franc charred remains he said he was
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from Dallas Paul Richardson was arrested
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2 weeks later he admitted that he and
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Jason had abducted and murdered Jonathan
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we took
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it 2 days after his confession
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Richardson committed suicide by hanging
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himself in his jail cell would you
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create a division between the Brows
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would you have it connected it was now
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up to Jean to help find
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Jason okay when I first in the composite
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it looked pretty much like the same
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person that I've seen in the trailer
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pretty pretty close I was amaz
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that's how well it you know turned out
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okay is there anything else you'd add to
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it I believe that Miss boand has a
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magician's touch in dealing uh with
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Witnesses who and has a way of just
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extracting a photo from their mind if
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you will Jean sketches of the man called
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Jason have provided some hope for
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Jonathan francia's family it would set
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our hearts a little give us a little
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easy in our heart can't bring our son
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back but it'll put him where he belongs
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and that's what we need you know if
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there's some way that this contribution
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can help bring some peace to them then
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then I would I would be
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delighted Jean Drew three portraits of
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the Man known as
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Jason authorities believe he has
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relatives in either pin toop or PAC
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Arizona and also in Dallas Texas Jason
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is described as 5' 10 in with a medium
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build he smokes chews tobacco and wears
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western style clothes including a
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horsehair
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belt if you have any information about
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this case please log on to our website
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at unsolved.com
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next Brenda and Jerry seem to be working
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out their divorce amicably until she
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disappeared Birmingham
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Alabama hello two of Brenda Bowen's
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friends stop by her house they are
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worried because she didn't show up for
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her regular prayer meeting swee Brenda
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but Brenda is nowhere to be found no
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anybody home
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within hours a Shelby County Sheriff
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arrives to investigate Brenda's clothes
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were laid out on her bed as if to dress
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after her shower on her dresser was her
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jewelry everything was laid out real
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nice and neat her curling iron was in
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the own position in in the bathroom but
00:33:18
there was no other signs that you know
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Brenda was there at
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all Brenda lived the life most With Envy
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she was blessed with two healthy teenage
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children a thriving real estate business
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and a beautiful home in the Alabama
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Countryside her friends and family
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couldn't figure out why she would
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suddenly vanish when Brenda went missing
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it was devastating to us I stayed at
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home I thought she might call you know
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but in my heart I knew that something
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had happened to Brenda something
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bad the only difficulty Brenda had
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experienced was her divorce from her her
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ex-husband Jerry Lee Bowman 2 years
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earlier their 19-year marriage had
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suddenly Fallen
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apart they were together for about 18 or
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19 years but Jerry got out and found a
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girlfriend and he asked her for divor
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Jerry you've agreed to give Brenda
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complete and uncovered use of the house
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until your daughter turns 19 with the
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help of a divorce attorney Jerry and
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Brenda separated on good terms they even
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agreed to a very unusual living
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Arrangement Jerry would live in the
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guest house behind the main house he
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also gave Brenda most of the couple's
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assets their Arrangement worked out well
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until Jerry ran into some money problems
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I'm asking for your help here I don't
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know Jerry you're asking me to live a
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life it's only a business Arrangement no
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and he told Le he was in financial
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trouble and they had to get back
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together he had to have some
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relief Bend's answer was I'd have to
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think about that
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Jerry
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Jerry Jerry we can talk about it in the
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morning I'm going to take you back to
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court 4 days later Brenda
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disappeared anything you'll find I want
00:35:26
baged I want it filed police began their
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investigation at the Bowen home Jerry
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cooperated with the police he even told
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them what he thought had happened to
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Brenda as I started to leave Jerry says
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well Don what do you think happened to
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Brenda well let's just hope she's on a
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beach somewhere down in Florida T in her
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buns you're
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wrong she's
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dead I said well if she's dead where do
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you think we could find her and and
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Jerry looked at me he says you could
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find her in water somewhere you got call
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about an abandoned vehicle that same
00:36:04
night police found Brenda's car stuck in
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the mud 43 mil from
00:36:10
home we found her purse we uh we found a
00:36:13
cell phone there was checkbooks there so
00:36:16
that told us that this was not a
00:36:19
robbery this here's the Bowen boy
00:36:21
Brenda's son asked the troubling
00:36:23
question about the
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car I was wondering with the position of
00:36:28
the driver's seat was in all the way
00:36:30
back right yeah it was all the way back
00:36:33
well um my mom she's only
00:36:35
5'2 with the car seat completely pushed
00:36:38
back Brenda's feet could not reach the
00:36:41
pedals but the strangest question of all
00:36:44
came from Jerry who
00:36:46
unexpectedly appeared at the crime scene
00:36:49
is that the car that belongs to the
00:36:50
woman who's
00:36:51
missing yes now this was his ex-wife's
00:36:56
car he knew whose car that was and it
00:36:59
turned out later to be a question that
00:37:01
we felt was very important to pinning
00:37:04
down as to who was responsible for
00:37:05
Brenda's
00:37:07
death Jerry was taken to the Shelby
00:37:09
County Sheriff's Office for questioning
00:37:12
his behavior continued to raise red
00:37:16
flags he was not of any help to us
00:37:18
whatsoever he showed no concern for her
00:37:22
well-being and uh during the process of
00:37:24
interview he actually went to sleep
00:37:27
remember Jerry's friends and family
00:37:29
insisted that he was just in shock and
00:37:32
devastated over Brenda's disappearance
00:37:35
Jerry was very concerned about her but
00:37:37
he was also upset that the police
00:37:40
thought it might be him he said often
00:37:43
that that he was innocent so there was
00:37:46
no way he was going to be pinned with a
00:37:48
murder they stripped him down they
00:37:51
checked him for any Cuts or bruises or
00:37:54
bites or anything they didn't find a
00:37:56
scratch on him
00:37:58
anywhere but they got in his face and
00:38:01
told him we know you did something to
00:38:03
her whatever happened to her we know you
00:38:05
did it and we will prove it and they had
00:38:09
T vision from that night
00:38:11
on Man Zero doubt in my mind that Jerry
00:38:15
Bo and killed my daughter
00:38:17
Brenda no doubt I remember but there was
00:38:21
no evidence linking Bowen to his wife's
00:38:24
disappearance so he was released several
00:38:28
months later three fishermen saw
00:38:30
something floating in the murky Waters
00:38:32
of a nearby River it was Brenda's body
00:38:36
bound and tied inside a sheet the corer
00:38:40
could not determine the cause of death
00:38:42
because the body was so badly decomposed
00:38:46
when Brenda Bowen's body surfaced she
00:38:48
was for lack of a better way of saying
00:38:50
it packaged in a certain manner we got
00:38:54
the call late this afternoon there three
00:38:55
fishermen found the body around her body
00:38:59
was a green top sheet off of a bed
00:39:04
around that was a length of nylon rope
00:39:08
the sheet was positively identified as
00:39:11
coming from the Bowen home and there
00:39:13
were two strange things about the Rope
00:39:16
first it was tied with two specific
00:39:19
knots a bow line and a slip knot and
00:39:23
second the ends had been deliberately
00:39:25
burnt the Sun asked to look at the rope
00:39:30
that was around his mother's body and he
00:39:33
looked at it and tears filled his eyes
00:39:37
he said I've seen that same combination
00:39:39
of knots from Jerry Bowen dozens of
00:39:41
times he said I've never seen anybody
00:39:43
else do it in addition to that every
00:39:46
time Jerry Bowen cut a piece of nylon
00:39:49
rope he would take a cigarette lighter
00:39:50
and burn the ends of it the knots the
00:39:54
car seat the burned ends of the Roe
00:39:58
it all starts pointing back to Jerry
00:40:00
Bowen Jerry Bowen was arrested the case
00:40:04
against him was almost entirely
00:40:06
circumstantial except for one crucial
00:40:09
element Bowen did not have an alibi for
00:40:12
the morning His Wife
00:40:14
disappeared at his trial a jury took
00:40:16
only 6 hours to convict him but the
00:40:19
bizarre story of Jerry Bowen does not
00:40:22
end with his
00:40:23
conviction while he awaited sentencing
00:40:26
Bowen was was released on bond the day
00:40:29
of his hearing his sister received a
00:40:31
goodbye letter it read this may be a
00:40:35
dumb move on my part sis but I don't
00:40:38
feel that I should serve time for a
00:40:39
crime that I didn't commit therefore I'm
00:40:43
running when Jerry was convicted my
00:40:46
thoughts was it's
00:40:48
payday when Jerry fled I felt like
00:40:51
payday
00:40:53
evaporated the FBI descended on Bowen's
00:40:56
home looking for Clues as to where he
00:40:59
might have gone they were shocked by
00:41:01
what they found on his
00:41:03
computer thousands of violent and
00:41:06
sadistic pornographic images jury is
00:41:10
very polite respectful to others but
00:41:13
when he's back in his own secret place
00:41:14
within his own residence the bizarreness
00:41:17
of his behavior starts to emerge when
00:41:20
he's visiting websites of women being
00:41:22
abused tied up uh Shackled and tortured
00:41:25
as well as a fascination for pregnant
00:41:28
women that are uh
00:41:30
naked there was no evidence recovered
00:41:32
from Jerry's home that would help
00:41:34
detectives find a convicted killer then
00:41:38
his story aired on Unsolved
00:41:42
Mysteries update after our broadcast one
00:41:46
of our viewers notified authorities that
00:41:49
a man she knew as Steven Starbucks
00:41:52
looked exactly like Bowen when police
00:41:55
arrested Starbucks he denied that he was
00:41:57
Bowen but his fingerprints confirmed his
00:42:01
identity Bowen was sentenced to life in
00:42:04
prison for the brutal murder of his wife
00:42:06
he will not be eligible for parole until
00:42:10
December 2019
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