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next on Unsolved Mysteries doctors
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desperate to save a dying man turned to
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the shadowy world of
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voodoo a young woman is stranded in a
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tropical Paradise later she vanishes
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what happened to Claudia
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kers legendary gangster Dutch Schultz
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buried a $7 million treasure and took
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the secret of its location to his
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grave some say the fortune is still
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waiting to be
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found and the Char remains of a
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businessman are discovered and the last
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person to see him alive is a convicted
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felon who is on the
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run our viewers have helped solve
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hundreds of cases just like these
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perhaps you can help too I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries
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Tucson
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Arizona on a previous broadcast we
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featured the story of Charles
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Morgan a successful businessman devoted
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husband and loving father on an ordinary
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spring day Morgan suddenly
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disappeared he returned home 3 days
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later but he was staggering weak and
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unable to to
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talk Morgan communicated with his wife
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by writing notes he said that a drug had
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been painted on the back of his throat
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I'm going to call the police he was
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afraid the dosage was Lethal no Morgan
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Warner if she tried to contact the
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police or even a doctor the entire
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family would be
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killed over the next week Morgan added
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to his bizarre account he said that he
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was secretly working for the federal
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government in his abduct
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had taken his official
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ID then Charles Morgan vanished
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again 11 days later his body was found
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in the Arizona
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desert he had been shot once in the back
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of the head curiously he was wearing a
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bulletproof vest when Morgan's death was
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ruled a suicide journalist Don Deo
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became interested in the
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story bear in mind he's wearing a
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bulletproof vest at the time um I've
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never seen in all my years as a
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journalist uh a fell taking himself out
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in the desert wearing a bulletproof vest
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and shoot himself in the back of the
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head 3 weeks after Morgan's death two
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men claiming to be government officials
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showed up at his home they ransacked the
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house but no one knows what they were
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looking for or what they
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found when we this story our team
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received more than 600 calls Don Deo
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followed up on every lead and what he
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learned was
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incredible Morgan it turns out was
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extensively involved in moneya
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laundering activities through his escro
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company he was doing well in excess of a
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billion with a bee a billion dollars a
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year in Gold alone over that period Well
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in
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excess and that much of it in fact uh
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seems to have been coming out of
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Southeast Asia uh at the end of the
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Vietnam
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War Charles
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Morgan a lot of people seem to have been
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involved including uh Renegade folks
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from the US intelligence Community some
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some CIA people who were doing stuff
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perhaps undercover of the agency but
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probably most likely to line their own
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Pockets Charles Morgan kept a set of
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duplicate records of all the illicit
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transactions evidently he thought that
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duplicates would be his life insurance
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policy go there instead they became his
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death
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warrant Don Deo was convinced that
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somebody wanted Morgan's silence
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forever 3 months after we heard this
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story another unusual death occurred
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right across the street from Don deo's
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home in
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Phoenix what's time Meed me home 9 9:30
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I'll see you then okay careful at 11:00
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p.m. a man named Doug Johnston left for
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work as usual he was assigned to the
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night shift at a local computer Graphics
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Company hi John hi you were the first
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one on the scene an hour later Johnston
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was found dead in the company parking
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lot he had been shot once behind his
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left ear from a distance of about 12 in
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there was no gun found at the scene and
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there was no Powder residue on Johnson's
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hands as far as evidence the only thing
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we found was a 25 caliber bullet casing
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we can't classify it either a murder or
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a suicide and it's being maintained in
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our homicide files Doug would never
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commit suicide he had just finished a
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year of computerated drafting he
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graduated with honors we had a future
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starting all over again for us and
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there's no way he would have committed
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suicide
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Don Deo lived across the street from the
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parking lot where Doug Johnston was
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killed his car was an old Toyota station
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wagon that looked a lot like
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Johnston's I contacted Phoenix PD uh
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within a few days of the Johnston
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shooting and told them that I was across
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the street had a similar car and was in
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fact working on a homicide case and the
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initial read I got from Phoenix PD was
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one of not really thinking that that had
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any bearing on the Johnston shooting and
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so although I continued to track it for
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a while over a period of time I just
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sort of put it out of my
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mind the year after Doug Johnston was
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shot Deo was contacted by Dan Castello a
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writer from Washington
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DC Deo agreed to share the information
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he had uncovered concerning Charles
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Morgan but before Deo can even mail his
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research Casto was dead
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head found in a hotel room his wrist cut
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with a dozen deep
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slashes police ruled the death a suicide
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but to Deo and others it just didn't
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make
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sense Dan castello's brother is a doctor
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the doctor tells us the Dan calero was
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so squeamish that he was reluctant to
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allow his brother to prick his finger it
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up here quiash ing his wrists a dozen
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times in a
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bathtub and dying in that manner seems
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to me the least likely of anything he
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could possibly have
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done these guys don't offer much they
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don't volunteer
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information okay 6 months after Dan
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calero's death another journalist warned
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Deo that his own life was in danger and
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the word I got back was that they did
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think they were getting you when they
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got that guy
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these are the exact words there have
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been and there still are contracts out
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to kill you it's a shocker when somebody
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calls you up and says uh you're about to
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be killed that doesn't mean it's going
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to happen tomorrow my colleague told me
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that uh looked like I had a problem uh
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that he understood from his CIA contact
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that whatever it was it involved
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something I was looking at that had both
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CIA and organized crime
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dimensions and uh that I could be in in
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some trouble and to get my head down
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maybe even get out of there for a while
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until he could figure out what was uh
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what was happening it's on the street
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and alter my later two other sources one
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from the CIA and one from Israeli
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intelligence confirmed the that
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threats Deo believed that he was
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targeted because of his work on the
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Charles Morgan case if so Doug Johnston
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may have been an innocent victim of a
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contract that meant for Deo
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his parking lot is right across the
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street from my parking
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lot he was driving a car much like my
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car and this was not just some random
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shooting this was a a shooting that had
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all the characteristics of a very
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professional killing this was a a single
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shot 25 caliber back of the left ear um
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very slick uh murder
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vict if Johnson was killed with a bullet
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that was intended for me I feel terrible
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about it and uh I feel very awful for
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his wife and and
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family there's so much evidence that
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these people were After Dawn instead of
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my husband it wasn't a gang related
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shooting or suicide or anything and it
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all kind of fits together that they were
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After Dawn and my husband just happened
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to be in the wrong
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place uh I am not thrilled to think that
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there could be quote a highlevel CIA
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official close quote who knows about
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this uh who is not himself taking
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official actions to correct it and
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clearly if there are people in the US
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government who know and disapprove of
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this sort of thing then they damn well
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should get off their butts and do
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something about it
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next a young American woman on an island
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adventure mysteriously
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disappears nugrill
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Jamaica new york-based travel writers
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Claudia kers and Tanya gringer found
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themselves stranded in Jamaica their
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business trip to Havana Cuba was
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suddenly canceled when we found out that
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we weren't going to Cuba we were really
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really upset I had assignments Claud was
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there on work we were also concerned
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because when they told us we couldn't go
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they also told us we couldn't get back
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to New
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York just prior to her trip Claudia had
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landed her dream job with Frommer's
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travel guides although she was stranded
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in Jamaica Claudia decided to make the
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best of it and then get back to New York
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as soon as possible of the location so L
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where you come from We're from New York
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New York you're from New York clo made
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friends with Anthony Grant one of the
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Resort's
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bartenders she was a big fan of reg
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music and Grant reportedly offered to
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take her to a nearby
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club she told me that she had gone out
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with one of the bartenders who turns out
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to be Anthony Grant well okay so you
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remember the bartend Tanya managed to
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book a flight back to New York and
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Claudia was supposed to catch a later
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flight they agreed to meet up once
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Claudia
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returned you think I'm going to be able
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to find somebody that can braid my hair
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just up the way there a little Claudia
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was reportedly GL seen by a lifeguard on
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a local Beach away from the resort then
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she
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disappeared she didn't when her parents
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found out that she hadn't show up for
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work in New York they called the resort
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call her
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mother hotel maids had reported Claudia
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missing after noticing that she hadn't
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slept in her bed for several days but
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everything in her room seemed normal all
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her clothes except one bathing suit were
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neatly packed away in her suitcase her
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passport credit card cell phone and $180
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cash were recovered from the hotel
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safe probably the most devastating piece
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of news initially was that all of her
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belong longings were in her room I mean
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we would rather have heard that some of
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her things were missing and then we
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would have thought maybe she went
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somewhere else when we heard the news
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that Claudia's things were all in her
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room and they didn't know where she was
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it's not that's not Claudia Claudia's
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really organized orderly person if she
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was planning to go off somewhere she
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would have made a phone call she would
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have let us know we felt ear very early
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on that something happened to her that
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something just was not right
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Claudia's parents were on the next plane
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to
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Jamaica I wonder if you could tell me if
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you've seen my daughter they hit one
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dead end after another beginning at the
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resort where Claudia had been
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staying as a security precaution the
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license plates of all vehicles entering
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and leaving the resort are carefully
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recorded in a log book but the log book
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for the month that Claudia disappeared
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cannot be found
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the videotape from a surveillance camera
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mounted near Claudia's room had been
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recorded
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over room 621 the room where Claudia
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stayed was cleared by housekeeping and
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hotel security before it could be
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processed for Clues Z that
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up authorities had no evidence of file
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play so they began to investigate the
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possibility that Claudia had drowned
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it's not impossible but I would say it's
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highly unlikely
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uh that area it's not deep and uh the
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current is not very strong and if
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something should go wrong with someone
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there the body would be found
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easily news of Claudia's disappearance
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spread through Jamaica many sightings of
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a woman fitting her description began to
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suggest another
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possibility many local residents believe
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that Claudia may have chosen to run away
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to live in the Hills with a Jamaican
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lover we know she wouldn't do that she
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had no reason to escape as as has been
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said she loved her life you know her
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family her friends her new apartment
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everything was going right for her so
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there was nothing to escape we got a
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call that Claudia went off with r man in
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some hills in
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Jamaica we have checked several areas we
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have spoken to a number of rest
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ofans everything cool all righty we just
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want some help from my in fact we have
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gone to an area where the report said
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she was take a look and there's no
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information to suggest that Claudia kers
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was ever seen in that area if you ever
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see her or hear anybody say anything
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about her you know youever find
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me where is she Val show me frustrated
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by the progress of the investigation
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Claudia's parents brought in the FBI and
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an American search and rescue
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team show me show me according to a k9
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Handler on the case his dog track
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Claudia sent to the home of Anthony
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Grant the
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bartender the dog hit on a pair of boots
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a pair of gloves and a knife
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bingo while searching Grant's Car the
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dog also sved the hit on Claudia kers
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shock's scent in the back seat and the
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trunk the Articles found Boots knife
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material that made up the trunk of the
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car was removed by the evidence the FBI
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evidence Response Team it was taken to
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the FBI forensic laboratory in the
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states it was checked for signs of human
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blood nothing was
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found Anthony Grant was investigated and
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polygraphed but the results were
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inconclusive at this time Grant is not
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considered a suspect in Claudia kok's
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disappearance yes or
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no we
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interviewed him for several
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weeks we just don't find enough evidence
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to in any
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way believe that Grant is involved in
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her disappearance other than that he was
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associated with
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her no one disappears from the face of
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the Earth in a town of 3,000 people
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without one other person knowing it we
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do believe that Anthony Grant the
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bartender introduced her to someone who
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has a much better idea of what happened
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we believe Anthony Grant probably knows
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something as
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well you know she could be
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anywhere the kers shocks are still
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looking for their daughter and have
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offered a $50,000 reward in this
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case if you have any information on The
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Disappearance of Claudia kers please log
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on to our website at unsolved.com next
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the legendary treasure of Dutch
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Schultz it might be in Upstate New York
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just waiting to be
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found 100 Mil north of New York
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City two shadowy figures dig along the
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banks of a creek on a moonless
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night the man doing all the work is
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Bernard frosen CR nicknamed Lulu his
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boss is Dutch
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Schultz King of the New York
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underworld according to the legend the
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Dutchman buried a strong box that night
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it contained cash bonds diamonds and
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gold coins today it would be worth more
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than $50
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million it's a lot of
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loot it all started when prohibition was
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passed in
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1919 the manufacturer and distribution
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of boot late liquor made Millions for
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gangsters like Legs Diamond lucky
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luchano Al Capone and Dutch
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Schultz Schultz whose real name was
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Arthur flegenheimer was one of the
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toughest
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Dutch Schultz was a very successful and
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widespread Bootlegger uh owned a string
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of speak easys and then quickly branched
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out into narcotics the numbers Racket
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and the protection
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racket Schulz was an extremely dangerous
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gangster he was reported to have had 136
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people
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killed and that's over a criminal career
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of less than 10
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years at the end of The Roaring 20s
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Dutch Schultz's criminal Empire was
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making more than $20 million a year and
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the IRS knew it he was indicted by a
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grand jury for income tax evasion and
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that's when the Dutchman took steps to
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protect his
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money at the time Dutch Schultz was
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facing long prison sentence and he
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decided that he needed a nest EG to fall
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back on in case he was sent to
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prison so he had his top lieutenants
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clean out his safety deposit boxes and G
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GA together whatever cash they could
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from his available bank accounts
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beautiful looks good
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boss at a Hideway in Connecticut Dutch
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Lulu Rosen CR and a man named Marty
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Kroner packed bundles of1 th000 bills
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negotiable liberty bonds gold coins
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diamonds and other gems into a
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steel-plated strong
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box hey
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M don't give me something to drink Dutch
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Schultz had the only key
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that night Dutch and Lulu traveled to
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Phoenicia New York a town Dutch knew
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from his bootlegging
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days the Dutchman swore Lulu to secrecy
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and then supposedly marked the site by
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carving an X into the trunk of a nearby
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tree but Lulu couldn't keep his mouth
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shut he told his friend Marty kampir
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where the treasure was married I
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shouldn't tell you this but I think it'd
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be good for somebody else to know know
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what remember that strong box some say
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that Lulu even Drew Marty a map what
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about
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it I ain't got to worry about you doing
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anything stupid do I me and the Dutchman
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were like this and he's going to take
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care of me listen rumors of Dutch's
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secret treasure filtered through New
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York I'll be back in just a minute but
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the Dutchmen had other problems
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baby Manhattan da Thomas E dwey was
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determined to further his political
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career by destroying Dutch Schultz and
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his illegal
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Empire Schultz finally surrendered to
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authorities in Aly New York his first
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trial ended with a hung
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jury at his second trial he was
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acquitted of all charges some suspected
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jury tampering
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after the AC quiddle Dutch Schultz moved
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his headquarters to a Tavern he owned in
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Newark New Jersey the palace Chop House
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and then he went on a bloody Killing
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Spree to regain control of his
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Empire and that angered the powerful New
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York crime
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syndicate The Syndicate was a
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confederation of of New York City
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Mobsters who controll virtually all the
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crime in the Manhattan area and they
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were very afraid that he was bringing
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additional heat upon them with these
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killings The Syndicate took steps to
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turn down the heat
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Dutch Schultz died at 8:35 p.m. on
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October 24th
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1935 almost 22 hours after he had been
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shot he was just 33 years old his
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bodyguard Lulu Rosen cratz died hours
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earlier and that left only one man who
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knew where the treasure was buried Marty
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cromier the night of the Chop House
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murders two henchman caught up with
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Marty at a barber shop in New York
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City gunned him down and took the map
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Kier survived the attack but he was
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never able to locate the treasure
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without the map Jake Shapiro made
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several attempts at Finding the Treasure
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from the map uh as did several other
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gangsters of the year but none were
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successful if people knew about it
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Schultz is as close as associates they
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told other people I would suspect
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strongly that it been retrieved long
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before now I personally I believe The
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Treasure of Dutch Schultz was
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buried and there's a good possibility
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that it still exists
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today because uh even though the liberty
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bonds have long since matured in the
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last 60 plus years none have ever been
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redeemed perhaps the Dutchman's treasure
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is still buried in Upstate New York if
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so someone who finds a tree with an ax
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carved into it might just hit the
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jackpot
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next Voodoo at a modern-day Hospital in
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a last ditch attempt to save a dying
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patient the word voodoo brings to mind
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dark rituals and mysterious spells but
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in the story you were about to see two
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medical doctors create their own Voodoo
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ceremony in a last Stitch effort to save
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a dying
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man Dallas
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Texas Dr Larry dossy was a young intern
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when a patient came to him with a
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mysterious illness you say you've been
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uh losing weight right it's any pain
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anywhere not really sometimes when I
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cough okay we're going to run some tests
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we're going to do some blood tests and
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some x-rays that sort of thing we're
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going to find out what your problem is
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okay
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thank you I embarked on a an elaborate
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evaluation a medical workup to uncover
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the cause of the problem and this man's
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chart just began to get thicker and
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thicker with normal tests Mr Bennett I
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don't understand it I've run every test
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I know how I've performed every exam I
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know how and they all come up normal how
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do you feel not good at all you don't
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you don't look
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good I just don't know what to do Dr
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dossy called in a colleague Dr William
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Hensley for a consultation and I wanted
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to come see you to find out possibly if
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anything that you know of unusual has
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happened to you such as an insect bite
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or anything of that
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sort L do you believe and
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whoo it was a strange question but the
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patient had asked the right
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doctor as a child Dr Hensley lived at
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his grandmother's sprawling South Texas
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ranch there he got to know a woman named
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Mary reputed to be a voodoo queen The
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Experience convinced him that Voodoo had
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a dramatic effect on those who believe
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in its power a while back I went to see
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aita the patient then told Dr Hensley
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that he recently refused to pay a
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fortune teller who had given him a
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reading he thought she had cursed with a
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death hex I start feeling bad feeling
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real bad you really believe this I
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believe she put a dying hex on me after
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when he started talking about the
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fortune teller he became very
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emotional frightened there really was a
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possibility that someone with with that
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strong a belief system could actually be
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frightened to death you're not going to
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believe what he told
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me let's go talk over here you know I
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consider myself a fair thoro physician
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but yet I was blind to the possibility
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that anything like a hexing or a cursing
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had taken place so this just didn't have
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a place in the way I thought the world
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worked but Dr Hensley had seen enough as
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a child to perform a ritual that
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incorporated elements of
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voodoo well I don't know that sounds
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pretty far out the thing is if I was
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confronted with something for me that
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was very very strange I realized though
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that with better do something because
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this man was
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dying we were fearful and we were
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convinced at the time that we could be
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severely reprimanded if not fired
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therefore we did this at the slow time
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of the week which was late Saturday
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night so no one would witness this
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Ceremony this dexing
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ritual I knew that there had to be a
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fire
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I knew that we had to have a body
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part and I knew that we had to convince
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him that we were
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Superior and could overcome the uh the
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hex that been put on
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him what he didn't know was how
00:29:13
convincing it would be to a True
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Believer the doctors needed fire they
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lit a drug called
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mandelamine This Magic is more powerful
00:29:26
than any that has come before it they
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needed a lock of
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hair and finally the incantation as your
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hair burns the hex is
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removed Harold if you breathe word of
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this to anyone the hex will return
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twofold good morning something for you
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oh and let me get this overnight the
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patient made an incredible recovery can
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I have some ham and eggs too sure that's
00:30:01
what you want
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Harold hi doctor hi how you feeling
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today much much much better yeah it
00:30:08
looks like your appetite's back huh it
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was genuine it was a cure overnight
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literally overnight this man turned the
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corner uh from death into life this was
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your basic dramatic Miracle kind of cure
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I don't believe that anything medically
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cured
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him uh and I don't know what did I I
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know that that uh he believed so
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strongly uh in in both uh what was
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happening to him and what we were doing
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to change what what was happening to him
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that we were able
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to
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Prevail is it possible the voodoo worked
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if not what actually did cure the
00:30:53
patient in order to understand why this
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man lived we have to understand that
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that belief is biology your belief
00:31:00
becomes your biology there's not the
00:31:03
Mind here and the body over here they're
00:31:04
not
00:31:05
separate so if you wanted to cure this
00:31:08
man you need not just work on the body
00:31:10
you could work with the belief system
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this is what all Shaman do this is what
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Dr Hensley
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did coming up the body of a businessman
00:31:27
is found charred and riddled with
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bullets and his only employee is nowhere
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to be
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found on a previous broadcast we
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profiled an Oklahoma couple Teresa and
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Paul Stamper when they got married
00:31:51
Teresa thought he was a successful
00:31:54
businessman she had no idea Stamper was
00:31:57
also a victed felon with a violent
00:31:59
criminal past now I want to know who you
00:32:02
were with and I want to know it now
00:32:03
within 6 months Teresa's marriage became
00:32:05
a living nightmare Stamper accused her
00:32:08
of cheating on him and would often have
00:32:10
violent and uncontrollable rages you're
00:32:13
running around this crazy I don't know
00:32:15
you shut
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up he was jealous and you had better be
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here when I get
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back I mean I could be sitting at we
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could be sitting at a red light and I
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could just turn and look at someone and
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it could be a guy sitting in his car and
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he would just double his fist up and
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just hit me right in the
00:32:38
mouth I mean it was just it was Unreal
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to the abuse that he did to
00:32:44
me after 2 years of almost constant
00:32:48
emotional and physical abuse Teresa
00:32:50
Found the courage to leave her
00:32:53
husband for the next 6 months he stalked
00:32:56
Teresa
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night and
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day and then one night Teresa and a
00:33:02
friend Chris Butler were heading home
00:33:05
after an evening out they were fooled
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over by what they thought was the
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highway
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[Music]
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patrol Teresa honey you get out of the
00:33:23
car hey man she's not taking orders hey
00:33:25
you shut up what are you doing to my
00:33:26
wife anyway huh in your business put
00:33:29
down the gun get out of the car now come
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no Chris oh my oh my God what are you
00:33:38
doing open the door I'll shoot you
00:33:40
through the window come on finally you
00:33:44
know he I was so scared that I just I
00:33:46
unlocked the door and he just grabbed me
00:33:48
around my neck and just forced me out of
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the
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car Chris had C too and he had yelled
00:33:58
don't leave me here you know Teresa
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don't leave me here you know and there
00:34:03
was there wasn't anything I could
00:34:06
do Chris Butler survived the attack but
00:34:09
Paul stampler held Teresa hostage for 2
00:34:12
days before she managed to
00:34:15
escape Stamper was arrested at a bus
00:34:18
station but just 6 months later he broke
00:34:21
out of jail and
00:34:25
disappeared update
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just minutes after this story aired the
00:34:30
FBI received information from several of
00:34:33
our viewers that Paul Snapper was living
00:34:35
in a suburb of Denver
00:34:38
Colorado one phone call was very
00:34:40
specific it had uh his Alias it had his
00:34:43
location his address his employment that
00:34:46
he was driving a semi TR Overland and
00:34:49
that brought an immediate response from
00:34:50
the Denver FBI so that we moved out
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within the
00:34:55
hour just 3 hours later Stamper was
00:34:59
arrested as he left his home he had been
00:35:01
living in the Denver area for
00:35:03
approximately 4
00:35:08
years this is one of the more efficient
00:35:10
uh cost effective Speedy apprehensions
00:35:13
that we've ever made for us to uh not
00:35:15
have any idea early evening that this
00:35:18
individual is in the Denver area and by
00:35:21
11:30 he is captured he's off the
00:35:24
streets and he's on his way to Denver
00:35:26
City Jail that uh I think maybe close to
00:35:29
a record for
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us Paul staer was returned to Oklahoma
00:35:34
and pled guilty to kidnapping attempted
00:35:36
murder and prison escape he received a
00:35:39
35-year
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sentence in Odessa
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Texas firefighters responding to a
00:35:53
routine call arrived to find a charred
00:35:56
corpse riddled with bullets The Remains
00:35:59
are later identified as Neil Jennings a
00:36:02
classic car buff from Dallas believe got
00:36:06
someone burned up
00:36:09
and
00:36:11
get two days earlier Jennings had
00:36:14
dropped by his brother's
00:36:16
house Neil this car looks great yeah
00:36:19
Bill helped me restore it did a pretty
00:36:21
good job pretty good job a man named
00:36:23
Bill Roberts was with him Neil had hired
00:36:26
Roberts to do the details on his latest
00:36:29
project a 1959 Ford
00:36:32
Thunderbird in private Neil L on that he
00:36:35
was having financial problems in fact he
00:36:38
could not even pay Roberts for his work
00:36:40
on the car Bye Bill glad to met you yeah
00:36:51
bye after the visit Neil Jennings and
00:36:54
Bill Roberts drove 300 mil to Odessa and
00:36:57
checked into a motel that was the last
00:37:00
time Neil was known to be
00:37:05
alive however Roberts was seen all over
00:37:09
Odessa engaged in a number of suspicious
00:37:13
activities an hour after arriving in
00:37:15
town he showed up at the home of a
00:37:17
friend named Jack hey Bill come on in
00:37:20
Roberts was sweating and acting nervous
00:37:23
he asked Jack if he could park the truck
00:37:26
in the back and go to to sleep oh sure
00:37:29
you can
00:37:31
bill the next morning Jack noticed that
00:37:34
Roberts was walking around the truck and
00:37:36
staring at the cargo bed which was
00:37:38
covered by a
00:37:40
tarp how doing after Roberts left Jack's
00:37:44
house he stopped at a rundown Motel
00:37:47
where he tried to sell Neil's truck for
00:37:50
$1,200 when he couldn't sell the truck
00:37:53
Roberts asked if he could park it in the
00:37:55
back of the motel hidden from view all
00:37:58
right well I appreciate that all right
00:38:00
yeah about 6 hours later bill Roberts
00:38:03
asked for another
00:38:05
favor listen I wonder if uh you might
00:38:07
have a pick and a shovel I could borrow
00:38:09
I need to fix a broken water line for an
00:38:11
old
00:38:12
lady sorry about that bill I don't think
00:38:14
we have a pick or a shovel around here
00:38:17
wish I could help you though that's okay
00:38:21
look I'll just going to see y a little
00:38:22
later
00:38:23
then then Roberts drove the truck to a
00:38:26
convenience store about a mile
00:38:28
away I was sitting on the store behind
00:38:31
the counter and uh bill came in and
00:38:34
asked me if he could park the truck
00:38:35
behind cuz he's uh the truck was
00:38:37
overheated thank you I'm just going to I
00:38:39
said go ahead no
00:38:41
problem that be
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all 15 minutes later Saul heard two
00:38:52
gunshots in the
00:38:54
distance 45 minutes passed then then
00:38:57
Roberts came back this time with a large
00:39:00
watt of cash
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00:39:04
night Robert spent the night in Neil's
00:39:07
truck behind the
00:39:09
motel Saturday night he came back and uh
00:39:13
he said he' done done the
00:39:15
job he acted real
00:39:18
nervous you Bill all right the next
00:39:21
morning he asked for yet another favor
00:39:24
would it be okay if I did some laundry
00:39:27
and I noticed that blood was on his
00:39:29
shirt well I didn't think anything about
00:39:31
it because you know it just looked like
00:39:32
maybe he cut his and wiped it off on his
00:39:35
shirt once you follow me and I'll show
00:39:36
you how to use this washer so I told him
00:39:39
okay you know yeah you can use the
00:39:43
laundry a few minutes later another
00:39:45
Resident of the motel noticed blood on
00:39:48
the back bumper of Neil's
00:39:52
pickup around noon Roberts left the
00:39:55
motel and never reached
00:40:00
turned 8 hours later the police were at
00:40:03
the scene of the fire
00:40:07
burned our investigation at the scene
00:40:09
showed there was two pools of
00:40:13
blood we found shotgun shell casings and
00:40:17
wading there at the
00:40:20
scene there was drag marks leading
00:40:24
from uh the parking lot over to through
00:40:27
the concrete slab where Neil was was
00:40:31
actually found on
00:40:33
fire there's no doubt in her mind that
00:40:36
the Fatal shots happened in that parking
00:40:42
lot sheriff's deputies believe that bill
00:40:45
Roberts shot Neil Jennings on Saturday
00:40:47
night and hid the body in a trash Heap
00:40:50
for some reason he waited 24 hours to
00:40:53
set Neil's body on fire
00:41:03
Robert's apparent motive was to murder
00:41:05
Neil Jennings so that he could steal his
00:41:08
truck and sell
00:41:10
it police later learned that bill
00:41:13
Roberts was actually Bill
00:41:15
Blackwell who had served time for Larsen
00:41:18
and theft Blackwell was wed by the Texas
00:41:21
Department of Corrections on a parole
00:41:26
violation Blackwell had apparently left
00:41:28
Odessa within 24 hours of setting the
00:41:33
fire he then drove to alberquerque New
00:41:35
Mexico where he sold Jennings truck at a
00:41:39
flea
00:41:40
market
00:41:43
update Bill Blackwell was using an alias
00:41:46
when he was jailed briefly on a weapons
00:41:48
charge in North
00:41:51
Carolina by the time a fingerprint check
00:41:53
revealed his true identity Blackwell was
00:41:56
on the Run
00:41:59
run authorities tracked him a thousand
00:42:02
miles to Texas where he was finally
00:42:04
arrested Blackwell pleaded guilty to the
00:42:07
murder of Neil Jennings and was
00:42:09
sentenced to 30 years in prison
00:42:28
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