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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 15

March 09, 2017 / 42:54

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers five intriguing cases: the identity of a bank robber, a love affair gone wrong, a wrongful murder conviction, a mysterious 911 call, and the haunting of the Lizzie Borden house.

The first case involves a bank robber known as Jose Antonio Gonzalez, who is suspected of being a former security guard. After a robbery in Anchorage, Alaska, he was arrested, but his true identity remains unknown despite his elaborate background story.

The second case tells the story of Barbara Petroski, who fell in love with millionaire Richard Mins. Their relationship turned violent, leading to an attempted murder that left Barbara paralyzed. Mins remains a suspect in the case, but he has never been charged.

The episode also covers Johnny Lee Wilson, who was wrongfully convicted of murder after a coerced confession. After years in prison, he was pardoned and released, maintaining his innocence throughout.

Additionally, a 911 call related to the murder of Jamie Santos raises questions about the caller's identity, potentially linking them to the crime. Lastly, the episode explores the haunted Lizzie Borden house, where guests report paranormal activity related to the infamous double murder.

TL;DR

Five cases of mystery: a bank robber's identity, a violent love affair, wrongful conviction, a mysterious 911 call, and the haunted Lizzie Borden house.

Episode

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[Music]
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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries put your hands above your head
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he's a convicted bank robber who says
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his name is Jose Antonio Gonzalez but
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he's lying and no one knows his true
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identity Richard mins was a flashy
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millionaire Barbara Petroski a former
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beauty queen it seemed like a perfect
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match but it would end like this
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in a frightening arson case a house fire
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takes the life of a 79-year-old woman a
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young man confesses but then says his
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confession was
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coerced The House of the infamous Lizzie
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bord the scene of a brutal double murder
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Li some say it's haunted by the
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victims five cases with strange clue
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bizarre twists and with secrets you
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would never expect I'm Dennis finina and
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this is Unsolved Mysteries
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Anchorage
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Alaska two Bank employees arrive at a
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local mall to restock the automated
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teller
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machine the security guard takes the
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cash into a small secluded room behind
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the machine see you in a few minutes the
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teller goes outside to reprogram the
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ATM don't turn around do exactly what I
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say and you won't be heard open the
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door put your hands above your
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hand you over here you open the ball
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turn around there was nothing about this
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robbery that this individual wasn't
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prepared to handle on your face he knew
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the entrance into this back room back
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hallway in order to get into the tent
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machine he knew that no one could see
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him from there put the money in the
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bank put your hands behind your back and
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he knew exactly what it took in order to
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open up the machine where the money was
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stored inside a machine and also
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instructed to tell her to take a video
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tape out of the video machine so as not
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to be caught on film get the
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surveillance tape
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now I know what your name is I know
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where you live
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do you understand both of you silent for
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5 minutes the guard believed that this
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robber was very
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relaxed the FBI believed the robbery was
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an inside job they suspected a former
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security guard named Jose Antonio
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Gonzalez Gonzalez was already being
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investigated in connection with a
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similar robbery but Gonzalez had
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conveniently disappeared
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2 days later and 1,500 mil away a postal
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worker noticed a partially opened
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package oh wait a minute this one's
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torn wait a minute looks like a gun in
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there the address that was on top of the
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box was an address to a gentleman named
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Jose Antonio Gonzalez in Redmond
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Washington the return address was
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Anchorage Alaska hey
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Jim a second box was found in the same
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shipment also addressed to Jose Antonio
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Gonzalez postal inspectors obtained a
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warrant to search both boxes and
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discovered a small Arsenal look at this
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fck loaded as well Bretta loaded they
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also found cash $5,542
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make sure he gets an 1849 and we'll just
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wait for
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him postal inspectors set up what they
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call a controlled delivery basically it
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was a sting operation man see some ID
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please sure there you go just 3 Days
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Later Jose Gonzalez stepped right into
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their trap
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gz hands in the air postal inspectors
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back away from the car what's going on
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back away from the car get down your
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knees Gonzalez was charged with armed
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bank robbery and four counts of illegal
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transportation of firearms using the US
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mail once in custody Gonzalez seemed
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Cooperative he told authorities his life
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story born in Puerto Rico graduated from
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nickach high school in New York City
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attended college at West Virginia
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University Gonzalez then rattled off his
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social security number his date of birth
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and other Vital
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Statistics this man was almost too good
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with his background everything was right
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there on the tip of his tongue from
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where he went to high school to where he
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was brought up but nothing Gonzalez said
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was true there was no nicker Bacher High
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School in New York City and no one named
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Jose Antonio Gonzalez had ever attended
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West Virginia University you ever been
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in the service yes I have French Foreign
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Legion French Foreign Legion yes Mr
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Gonzalez uh indicated that he would a
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former French Foreign legionaire that he
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seen action in Chad and Beirut he
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claimed to be a martial arts expert uh
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and an expert with various types of
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weapons where were you born Puerto Rico
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City the FBI also discovered he had two
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Social Security numbers one belonged to
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an 11-year-old boy obviously a fake but
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the others seemed real it had been
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issued to a Jose Antonio
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Gonzalez we located a birth certificate
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in Puerto Rico under the name Jose ant
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Gonzalez but then that child died of
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tetus and we have the death certificate
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so we know who he is not we don't know
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who he is the man calling himself
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Gonzalez was convicted of armed bank
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robbery and sent to
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prison but his true identity remained a
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mystery investigators believe that two
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mysterious women might hold the
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key hi I can I help you yes I'm here to
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pick up the car for Jose
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Gonzalez after the bank robber was
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arrested his car was impounded by the
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Redmond police the next day a woman
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showed up to clim it attorney yes I
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don't understand he asked me to come and
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pick up his car there a problem
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according to police the woman was a
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possible accomplice of the mysterious
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robber she went by the name naen
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Castell naen appears to be the person
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who acquires identification for Mr
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Gonzalez almost like somebody that looks
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over him and has the documentation that
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he would
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need she has disappeared absolutely
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disappeared as far as we know in the
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United
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States another woman Brenda peninger was
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Gonzalez's girlfriend at the time of the
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robbery a few days after Castell was
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unable to get Gonzalez's car pager
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showed up at the impound lot with all
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the right papers pener pener the FBI
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expected her arrival and asked the
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attendant to serve her with a
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subpoena I've been asked to give this
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P what is it that's a subpoena so you
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come before the grand
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jury a few days later the car was found
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abandoned in the parking lot at the
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Newark New Jersey airport we have to
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this day never located Miss Pinger we've
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talked to her mother we've talked to
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everyone that we could knew that had
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contact with her and there has been no
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contact that we can verify since 3 days
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after she picked up the
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car
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update an alert viewer called to
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identify the mystery robber as mow Red's
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zovich a French
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national authorities also located and
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question his two female friends neither
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has been charged with any wrongdoing in
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this case zakovich was released from
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prison after serving 8 years and
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deported to
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France next a fairy tale romance turns
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into a living nightmare when a man
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targets his
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girlfriend for murder
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jany Smith of Irvine California is a
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registered nurse and a marathon racer
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she is also paralyzed from the chest
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down as the result of a brutal
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attack jany used to have another name
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Barbara petrovski and another life she
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was a beauty queen and a straight A
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Premed student but that was all before
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she became involved in a passionate love
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affair his name was Richard
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mins Richard was the one man that
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Barbara ever really loved the one man
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whose child she carried the one man who
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had promised her a bright future and now
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she knows him as the one man who tried
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to have her
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killed they met in Aspen Colorado on the
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ski slopes Barbara was just 23 Richard
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was a 47 year- old sophisticated smooth
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talking
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millionaire when he first approached me
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was uh bragging about what a great guy
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he was and when he saw how that affected
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me he just very very quickly changed his
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his Persona and was very quiet
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charming and eventually I fell head over
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heels in love with him Richard was a
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bodybuilder who had made his money from
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a chain of Health Spas based in Texas he
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was a man who always got what he wanted
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and he wanted
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Barbara Barbara moved from Los Angeles
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to Houston in March to live with Richard
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and um he hired her as a model for his
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health spies and made her the center of
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his
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life happy anniversary it was incredibly
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romantic and it was too good to be
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true I mean we seem to have a very good
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relationship certainly it was U magical
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so there was no indication whatsoever in
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the beginning that there was anything
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that was really a
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miss my husband is in your house and I
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want to see him right
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now Richard Ms had forgotten to tell
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Barbara one small
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detail dick he was married you better
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get out here right right now at that
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point he explained to me that he had
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loved me so much that he knew if he had
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admitted that he was not divorced that I
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never would have consented to come to
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Houston he explained that he was legally
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separated but not
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divorced Barbara bought men's story and
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accepted a peace offering a townhouse
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for the two of them to share it's
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beautiful Barbara says that he offered
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to give her papers stating that the
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townhouse and its contents belong to
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her how do something like this happened
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right now with everything when dick was
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going through his divorce he just became
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a completely different person and it was
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something that really shocked me why
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will you stop it suddenly I saw a very
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paranoid violent side of his personality
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don't worry about it huh men's temper
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became worse after the divorce
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settlement was finalized his wife who
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had built the health spa business with
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him was awarded nearly $6
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million Barbara I don't want to at about
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that same time Barbara discovered she
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was pregnant Min suddenly put his plans
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to marry her on
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hold you
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here dick will you just calm down we
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told you I was
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pregnant good good right I told told you
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that abor no I don't want no not the or
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the clock Barbara was afraid for herself
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and her unborn child she moved out and
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took almost everything in the townhouse
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with her not that
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bar
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Barbara Barbara went into hiding min's
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was Furious Barbara he had already lost
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half his fortune and now Barbara was
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gone
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he had called begging to have me come
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meet him on a particular
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evening and even though I knew that it
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was a big mistake I felt as if I had to
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at least see what he had to say when
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Barbara arrived at Men's hotel room he
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wasn't there she waited in the hallway
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until well after midnight tell me
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whoa come come on bar I can see it
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didn't take you very long
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Barbara want to talk wait a minute I
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wanted you to come here wait Barbara who
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is that he grabbed me at first forcibly
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and wouldn't allow me to leave begged me
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to just come in and
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talk so he brought me in to uh his suite
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and um he was telling me how much he
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loved me and all of a sudden the door
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burst open it was the police he threw me
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from his arms toward them and said take
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her I have a
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warning Barbara had been set up Men's
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obtained a warrant for her arrest sign
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by judge I'm going to have it's not true
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God he said that she had stolen his
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belongings from the
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townhouse dick why are you doing this to
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me Barbara Barbara was thrown in jail
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and at Daybreak a police detective came
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to see her okay if you'll settle up with
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dick mans we can forget about this whole
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thing I've got a little piece of paper
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here read this you sign it when white
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slate claim he wanted a finality of
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their relationship and he wanted in
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writing and he wanted the peace of mind
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I guess that he considered was uh
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necessary for him to go on without any
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concerns about her instituting any
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litigation with respect to a marriage or
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paternity
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that I never knew Richard mins that I
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never had a relationship with him and
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I'm not carrying his child no I'm going
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to sign it bar refused to sign the
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statement and men's refused to drop the
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charges okay
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then Barbara was formerly charged with
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felony grand theft and aggravated
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assault because she hit men's with her
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purse in the
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hotel when she was released on bond she
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went into hiding less than 30 6 hours
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later Barbara Miss
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carrier when we come back their
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obsessive love affair ends in
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tragedy when she was just 23 Barbara
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petrovski fell in love with Richard mins
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a Texas
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millionaire 3 years later their romance
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fell apart calm down please and be
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careful remember I told I told you I was
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pregnant men's had Barra briefly thrown
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in
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jail I had been told by people who knew
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him well that he was so embarrassed and
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angry that I had left him that he had to
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teach me a
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lesson hey look men's had a private eye
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named Dudley Bell follow her I told her
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to be careful to not be alone to uh
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watch what she did and Where She
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Went unfortunately no Safeguard is
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enough if someone's after you they can
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find a way to get you eventually someone
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did get Barbara
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petrovski as I was getting back into my
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car a man approached
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me and I knew I knew immediately what
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was going to happen
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Barbara was shot four times and left for
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dead the bullets collapsed her lungs and
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severed her spinal cord leaving her
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paralyzed from the chest down at first
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it appeared to be a random street crime
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but nothing could have been further from
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the truth on the night of the attack
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when paramedics asked Barbara who was
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responsible she gave them the name of
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her former lover Richard
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mins within minutes of the shooting two
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smalltime Crooks from California
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Nathaniel Ivory and Patrick Steen were
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arrested for attempted
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murder you're going to do a lot of time
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when questioned they said nothing about
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Richard min's being
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involved the next night detectives met
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with one of min's former bodyguards he
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claimed that one month earlier a
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contract had been put out on Barbara's
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life so what were you offered 10
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grand by
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Who police learned that a man named
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Robert just Anderson owned the getaway
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car used by Steen and
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ivory hiis Bob Anderson Steen and ivory
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were questioned again they identified
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Anderson as the man who had hired them
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to kill
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barbar then he gave us a gun and said it
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would be better if she was dead
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[Music]
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I just happened to notice little little
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note here the following day Dudley
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Bell's ex-wife gave police a note it
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seemed to connect men's and Dudley Bel
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with Robert Jess
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Anderson the note was in Dudley Bell's
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handwriting and was printed on Richard
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min's Hotel stationer a list of guns was
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on the back the guns belong to Robert
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Jess Anderson
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police arrested Anderson on charges of
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conspiracy to commit murder I don't know
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from no relationship I mean we solicited
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at that time his cooperation because the
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information that we had in this
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particular case certainly indicated that
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there were people far above Robert Jess
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Anderson that were involved Dudley's
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private eye you know he was working for
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this guy Anderson confirmed that Dudley
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Bell had hired him then Anderson found
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the two Hitmen Anderson suspected that
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Bell was was working for men's but had
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no
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proof despite Anderson's cooperation the
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da still claimed there was not enough
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evidence to indict either Richard mins
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or Dudley Bell mins was never even
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questioned in the
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case Nathaniel Ivory and Patrick Steen
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were convicted of attempted murder each
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was sentenced to 35 years in
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prison order just over a year later
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Barbara filed a civil suit for wrongful
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injury against mins and his alleged
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accomplices Steen Ivory Anderson and
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Bell but before depositions could be
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taken Richard mins left the
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country Richard Ms remains a suspect in
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this case unfortunately an unindicted
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suspect in this case because we don't
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have sufficient evidence in order to
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indict nor try Richard mins for the
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offense
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I don't know why dickm hasn't been
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charged he should have been and no fair
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jury that hears that case would find
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anything other than dickm was
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responsible several years later in an
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unrelated investigation the FBI tape
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recorded Anderson bragging about the
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petrovsky hit he was convicted of
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soliciting a murder and sentenced to 38
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years you asked me to do a job I did a
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job dudy Bell was also arrested when a
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former employee testified in court that
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Bell had tried to hire him to kill
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Barbara like Anderson Dudley Bell was
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sentenced to 38
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years the court is noting at this time
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and I want the record to show on 17
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different occasions men's fail to appear
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in court to respond to Barbara's civil
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suit ultimately a jury ordered him to
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pay Barbara more than $50 million
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judgment in the amount of $58 million
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plus cost but men's was still out of the
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country I think it's a consensus in the
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DA's office and the homicide division
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that there is at least one person that
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has not been indicted and has not been
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convicted and uh until that
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happens this case will not close
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update Richard mins who is not an
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American citizen was arrested at a
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Dallas airport on charges of passport
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fraud after serving a 4-month prison
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turn mens was
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deported Barbara's civil suit against
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Mims was eventually dismissed so he paid
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no
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damages Barbara Petroski has since
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changed her name to jany Smith she
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attended medical school and is married
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she now works with disabled
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children next a Young Man convicted of
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murder claims that his confession was
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[Music]
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coed it was a Sunday night fire and
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rescue squads raced to a raging house
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fire in Aurora
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Missouri when the fire was out they
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found the body of 79-year-old Pauline
00:24:40
Marts she had been bound gagged and left
00:24:43
to die investigators concluded that the
00:24:47
fire had been deliberately
00:24:50
set I say I wasn't what if we had a
00:24:54
witness that says he was police
00:24:57
questioned a local 20-year-old named
00:24:59
Johnny Lee Wilson Wilson is mentally
00:25:03
challenged with an IQ in the mid
00:25:06
60s you was there before that fire
00:25:08
started after a grueling 4-Hour
00:25:11
interrogation Wilson confessed a
00:25:13
confession he would later recant at the
00:25:16
end of the interrogation he he forced my
00:25:18
head back and that's that's when I said
00:25:21
okay okay I did it but when I really
00:25:23
didn't that's that's when I
00:25:26
lied Johnny's attorney recommended that
00:25:29
he plead guilty to avoid the death
00:25:32
penalty in doing so he waved his right
00:25:35
to a trial by jury Johnny Lee Wilson was
00:25:38
sentenced to life in
00:25:43
prison over the years the case against
00:25:45
Johnny Lee Wilson began to fall apart a
00:25:49
key witness against him recanted his
00:25:51
testimony a convict in another prison
00:25:54
actually confessed to the crime but
00:25:57
Johnny was never granted a trial Johnny
00:26:00
Lee Wilson is innocent and if he had a
00:26:02
trial he would probably be acquitted I
00:26:05
don't think the jury would deliberate
00:26:06
more than an hour before they acquitted
00:26:09
him and it's a shame that he never got a
00:26:12
chance to prove his
00:26:14
innocence
00:26:16
update Johnny's attorneys appealed to
00:26:19
the Missouri governor at the time Mel
00:26:21
carahan they requested a pardon on the
00:26:24
grounds that there was no evidence
00:26:26
against their client
00:26:29
my Council uh reinterviewed the
00:26:31
witnesses talked to the prosecutors and
00:26:33
the police looked at the evidence read
00:26:35
the transcripts a year-long study and we
00:26:38
became convinced that uh it wasn't not
00:26:42
only wasn't appropriate for him to
00:26:43
remain in prison but that he was
00:26:45
innocent the pardon was
00:26:48
granted after 9 years 5 months and 10
00:26:51
days Johnny Lee Wilson was finally a
00:26:54
free
00:26:55
man I I never never thought thought that
00:26:58
I would see the day that I would walk
00:27:00
out those doors and and be driving away
00:27:02
from that place it felt
00:27:06
great following his release Johnny was
00:27:10
reunited with his mother and
00:27:13
grandmother re hugged each other and all
00:27:15
of us and was really happy could hardly
00:27:18
believe it you know after all those
00:27:22
years he now lives in his hometown of
00:27:25
Aurora Missouri where he hopes to put
00:27:28
his long ordeal behind
00:27:31
it I have no bitterness of nothing you
00:27:35
know I got so much Faith you know I I
00:27:38
knew sometime somehow that I was going
00:27:40
to get out I just I'm just glad I
00:27:48
did you're about to hear an actual 911
00:27:51
call recorded by an emergency operator
00:27:54
in Wheeling Illinois the caller spoke
00:27:57
from a pay phone he refused to give his
00:27:59
name but police believe that he alone
00:28:02
holds the key to solving a
00:28:04
murder police killing yeah get someone
00:28:07
to 1765 St Edge Court in Wheeling
00:28:11
immediately there's a young woman there
00:28:12
who's not breathing she's turning blue
00:28:15
1765 Stonehenge Stone HED head like a
00:28:19
bush Okay and Wheeling yeah what phone
00:28:22
over you calling from I don't know it's
00:28:23
public phone when were you at that house
00:28:26
sir sir
00:28:30
call the unidentified caller was right
00:28:34
27-year-old Jamie Santos wasn't breeding
00:28:37
she had been smothered with a pillow and
00:28:39
nothing would ever revive
00:28:42
her Jamie lived just down the street
00:28:45
from her family she was just like a
00:28:47
burst of energy when she walked in you
00:28:49
knew she was there her presence
00:28:52
just would just
00:28:56
radiate I think ultimately she just
00:28:58
wanted to get married and have a family
00:29:00
success was important to her I don't
00:29:02
think she really had a handle on what
00:29:04
she wanted to be successful
00:29:08
at Jamie used her natural good looks to
00:29:11
earn a steady income dancing for
00:29:14
exclusive parties in and around
00:29:19
Chicago when Jamie first told us that
00:29:21
she was going into dancing entertainment
00:29:24
it was a little difficult to handle
00:29:29
our main concern really wasn't the the
00:29:32
type of work she was doing but was for
00:29:33
her safety my God it's okay thanks once
00:29:37
she reassured us that she'd have uh
00:29:39
somebody accompanying her at all times
00:29:41
the driver bodyguard we felt a little
00:29:44
bit more comfortable I just like to make
00:29:46
a little extra
00:29:49
money I don't think
00:29:52
so it's go it's
00:29:55
okay are you going one evening Jamie
00:29:59
didn't feel well she cancelled her
00:30:01
bookings rented a couple of movies and
00:30:03
called a friend tired I don't know maybe
00:30:05
it's the flu or
00:30:07
something
00:30:09
mhm the call for help came the next
00:30:13
morning send an ambulance to 1765
00:30:16
Stonehedge Court in Wheeling immediately
00:30:18
there a young woman she's not breathing
00:30:20
she's turning blue paramedics found
00:30:23
Jamie in her bedroom there were signs of
00:30:26
a struggle yet Jamie's head was
00:30:28
carefully propped on a pillow she had
00:30:31
not been
00:30:33
raped there were few Clues no
00:30:36
eyewitnesses no fingerprints nothing
00:30:38
that would yield a DNA
00:30:44
profile the only lead was the male voice
00:30:47
on the 911 tape there's a possibility
00:30:50
the 911 caller could be an innocent
00:30:53
bystander that stumbled upon this
00:30:55
there's evidence of a struggle possibly
00:30:57
somebody could have heard a struggle
00:30:59
possibly somebody could have seen
00:31:00
somebody running from the area and seen
00:31:02
an Open Door anybody
00:31:05
home hello 911 caller could be afraid to
00:31:09
come forward thinking that they'll be
00:31:12
accused of being the killer when in fact
00:31:14
you know they were
00:31:17
bystander it is also possible that the
00:31:20
911 call was made by the killer
00:31:24
[Music]
00:31:25
himself hey hi think can uh come and
00:31:29
talk for a while we don't have evidence
00:31:32
that there was forced entry so there's a
00:31:34
good chance person wasn't invited
00:31:39
guest no don't
00:31:42
don't could be a crime of passion it
00:31:44
could have been something that started
00:31:46
out innocently and turned bad it could
00:31:48
have been uh a domestic type argument
00:31:52
look I'm going to have to ask you to
00:31:54
leave what just know things went too far
00:31:57
don't you're hurting me stop it
00:32:02
I'm when the person realized that he had
00:32:05
hurt Jamie he had remorse he put a
00:32:08
pillow under her head he he made an
00:32:10
honest effort to get a medical help for
00:32:14
her the 911 caller was very sure of
00:32:17
Jaime's address which seems to show that
00:32:21
he knew her to 1765 Stonehedge court and
00:32:24
Wheeling immediately Stonehedge like the
00:32:27
bush
00:32:29
if the caller did know Jamie he might
00:32:32
have met her while she was working as an
00:32:34
exotic
00:32:37
dancer perhaps one of Jaime's clients
00:32:40
couldn't take no for an
00:32:43
answer I don't think
00:32:47
so head heads like a bush Okay and
00:32:50
Wheeling yeah well pH over 911 tape is a
00:32:54
very important clue we feel that with
00:32:56
the identification of The Voice and this
00:32:58
tape we can resolve this
00:33:03
matter here again is the 911 recording
00:33:07
please listen closely get someone to
00:33:10
1765 Stone Edge Court and Wheeling
00:33:13
immediately there's a young woman there
00:33:14
who's not breathing she's turning blue
00:33:17
1765 Stonehenge Stone head heads like a
00:33:21
bush Okay and Wheeling yeah I feel that
00:33:25
this person could give us some
00:33:26
information on this and I can't
00:33:28
understand why he doesn't come forward
00:33:30
and help us to relieve some of the pain
00:33:32
of Jamie's
00:33:34
death what's going you calling from I
00:33:36
don't know it's public phone when were
00:33:38
you at that house
00:33:40
sir
00:33:42
[Music]
00:33:43
sir if you recognize the voice please
00:33:46
log on to our website at unsolved.com
00:33:50
[Music]
00:33:52
next it was the scene of one of
00:33:55
America's most gruesome crimes and now
00:33:58
Lizzie Borden's house is a quaint bed
00:34:00
and breakfast and possibly haunted by
00:34:03
those who were killed
00:34:14
there on August 4th
00:34:18
1892 wealthy businessman Andrew bordon
00:34:21
and his wife Abby were brutally hacked
00:34:24
to death in their
00:34:26
home Andrews 32-year-old spinster
00:34:29
daughter Lizzy was arrested for the
00:34:31
double
00:34:33
murder
00:34:35
lizy and her
00:34:38
mother when she saw what she had done
00:34:40
she gave
00:34:46
[Applause]
00:34:47
her1 good morning hi Sue welcome to
00:34:51
Lizzy B the Boron home is the scene of
00:34:54
one of the most gruesome Unsolved
00:34:56
Mysteries in US history now it is the
00:34:59
Lizzy bordon bed and
00:35:02
breakfast guests can discuss the
00:35:05
sadistic murders over breakfast the same
00:35:08
breakfast that Abby and Andrew bordon
00:35:10
ate on their final
00:35:13
day then they can hang out in the Parlor
00:35:17
where Andrew's head received 11
00:35:19
unexpected blows from an
00:35:22
Axe and after a long day of sightseeing
00:35:25
they can sleep in the same bedroom where
00:35:28
Abby boron's body was discovered
00:35:30
lifeless on the
00:35:34
floor some of the guests do try to
00:35:36
figure out you know who did it not
00:35:39
surprisingly most people do not sleep
00:35:42
easily also not surprisingly many guests
00:35:45
have reported the Inn is
00:35:48
haunted I think the apparitions and all
00:35:51
the activity that has been happening in
00:35:52
the house it's a possibility that the
00:35:55
spirits are trying to communicate
00:35:57
through myself my staff or my guests of
00:36:00
who really committed the murders so they
00:36:02
can rest in peace put the story to sleep
00:36:05
for once and for all Lizzie bordon was
00:36:08
never convicted of the brutal murders
00:36:10
nobody knows who committed that Savage
00:36:13
crime nobody except the victims
00:36:16
themselves and they're dead and
00:36:19
gone or are
00:36:21
they when Martha mcin was a teenager she
00:36:25
lived in the boarding house which was
00:36:27
purchased by her grandparents in
00:36:30
1947 when I was about 16 years old I was
00:36:33
in my bedroom reading a
00:36:35
book and above my room I could
00:36:38
distinctly hear footsteps and the sound
00:36:42
of like marbles being
00:36:45
played and it almost sounded like little
00:36:48
children's
00:36:54
laughter shortly afterwards Martha with
00:36:57
wi something even more disturbing I went
00:37:00
up the stairway in the window at the end
00:37:03
of the second floor Cara just began
00:37:05
opening and slamming
00:37:07
shut it was just violently going up and
00:37:13
down I got the creepy crawlies that
00:37:17
time Martha wasn't completely sure that
00:37:20
there was a ghost in her
00:37:23
home until she made the mistake of going
00:37:26
into the basement
00:37:28
alone according to Legend Lizzy hid the
00:37:31
axe here the one she supposedly used to
00:37:34
butcher her father and
00:37:37
stepmother a shadow sort of like a
00:37:39
silhouette floated maybe 4 in above the
00:37:43
floor I could tell it was a woman I
00:37:46
could tell it was Victorian
00:37:49
clothes I just turned around and ran
00:37:52
back up the stairs that experience
00:37:55
really did frighten me that actually did
00:37:58
make my hair stand on
00:38:00
end years later Martha inherited the
00:38:03
boarding house she decided to turn it
00:38:06
into a very unusual bed and
00:38:11
breakfast using crime scene
00:38:14
photos Martha replicated the home's
00:38:16
exact condition on the day of the
00:38:19
murders thank you when we first opened I
00:38:22
had hired my staff most of them at the
00:38:25
time did not believe in ghosts or
00:38:26
apparitions or anything like that and
00:38:29
then odd things started happening to
00:38:33
them I arrived at work to stop cleaning
00:38:36
the house I was on my last room and I
00:38:41
had made the bed clean dusted and
00:38:43
everything and then I turned around and
00:38:46
there was the perfect impression of
00:38:48
somebody laying on the
00:38:50
bed the indent in the pillow in the bed
00:38:54
I I looked at it for like a couple of
00:38:56
seconds and then I I booked it out of
00:38:58
the room I had to leave I I was just it
00:38:59
scared me cuz I I had never seen
00:39:01
anything like that before in my life
00:39:03
Carrie was white as a ghost forgive the
00:39:07
pun but she was really pale and I
00:39:10
couldn't get her back in not even to get
00:39:11
her paycheck she would not come in the
00:39:14
house it was in this room that Abby
00:39:17
bordon received 19 hacks to her
00:39:22
face some are convinced that Abby is now
00:39:25
trying to communicate with the
00:39:28
living Andrew bordon was killed in this
00:39:31
parlor his halfs sitting half flying
00:39:34
body slumped across the Victorian
00:39:39
sofa I was sitting in the paror on the
00:39:42
phone and this strange feeling came over
00:39:45
me a very eerie feeling hi Sally it's
00:39:49
Elanor when I looked up to the kitchen
00:39:51
door I saw what I thought was all this
00:39:55
smoke coming out of the kitchen
00:39:59
what the heck is
00:40:01
that and I thought to myself well that's
00:40:03
strange there isn't anybody in the
00:40:05
kitchen cooking why would all his smoke
00:40:07
be coming
00:40:09
out the way it traveled very slow until
00:40:12
it got to the sofa where Mr bordon was
00:40:15
hacked to
00:40:16
death I'm freaking out this is too weird
00:40:19
and it just
00:40:22
dissipated I know I saw something that
00:40:25
was out of this world it wasn't from
00:40:28
this world that's for
00:40:32
[Music]
00:40:34
sure what's going on in the house today
00:40:37
in terms of things that people are
00:40:38
experiencing and seeing and hearing
00:40:41
certainly has a lot to do with the fact
00:40:43
that a violent emotional act went on
00:40:48
here author and Ghost Hunter Katherine
00:40:51
ramsland believes that Andrew and Abby
00:40:53
bordon are trying to tell us who killed
00:40:56
them
00:40:57
[Music]
00:40:59
Catherine and a BNB employee hoped to
00:41:02
document the Paranormal
00:41:05
Activity they went to the basement with
00:41:07
a voice activated
00:41:10
recorder it was very dark and I just
00:41:14
simply said is anybody
00:41:17
here and we could see that the recorder
00:41:20
was activated that we could hear nothing
00:41:23
it was absolute silence and yet it was
00:41:26
clear something was being
00:41:29
recorded so I decided instead of asking
00:41:32
any more questions I would just see what
00:41:34
we had
00:41:35
gotten is there anyone here with
00:41:42
us we shot up the steps because we
00:41:46
weren't staying down there with that
00:41:47
whatever it
00:41:48
was Catherine feels the recording is the
00:41:51
first solid evidence that Lizzy Abby and
00:41:55
Andrew still walk these Halls and haunt
00:41:58
these
00:42:03
rooms and she hopes that Sunday maybe
00:42:06
one of them will tell us what really
00:42:08
happened on August 4th 1892
00:42:15
[Music]
00:42:28
[Music]
00:42:43
[Music]

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Episode Highlights

  • The Mysterious Jose Antonio Gonzalez
    A bank robber's true identity remains a mystery, leading to a complex investigation.
    “This man was almost too good with his background.”
    @ 05m 51s
    March 09, 2017
  • Barbara Petroski's Tragic Love Story
    A beauty queen's romance turns into a nightmare when her lover targets her for murder.
    “He was the one man who tried to have her killed.”
    @ 10m 48s
    March 09, 2017
  • Johnny Lee Wilson's Fight for Innocence
    After a wrongful conviction, Johnny Lee Wilson's case falls apart, leading to his eventual release.
    “Johnny Lee Wilson is innocent and if he had a trial he would probably be acquitted.”
    @ 26m 02s
    March 09, 2017
  • Johnny's Release
    After years of hardship, Johnny reunites with his family and finds hope in his hometown.
    “I have no bitterness of nothing, you know I got so much Faith.”
    @ 27m 31s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Mysterious Murder of Jamie Santos
    Jamie Santos was found dead under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a haunting mystery.
    “She was just like a burst of energy when she walked in.”
    @ 28m 47s
    March 09, 2017
  • Lizzie Borden's Haunted Bed and Breakfast
    The infamous site of the Borden murders is now a B&B, rumored to be haunted.
    “I know I saw something that was out of this world.”
    @ 40m 25s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • I never thought I would see the day that I would walk out those doors.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 15
  • I have no bitterness of nothing, you know I got so much Faith.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 15
  • I just I'm just glad I did.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 15
  • She was just like a burst of energy when she walked in.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 15
  • I just turned around and ran back up the stairs.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 15
  • I know I saw something that was out of this world.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 15

Key Moments

  • Haunted House00:56
  • Love Gone Wrong09:48
  • False Confession24:17
  • Reunion27:10
  • Hopeful Future27:25
  • Tragic Discovery28:37
  • Paranormal Encounter37:49
  • Ghostly Evidence41:51

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