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tonight
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on unsolved mysteries it rained down
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from the heavens like a plague
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tiny toxic blobs of goo that brought an
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outbreak of flu-like illnesses to
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oakville washington
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and left behind a perplexing mystery
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that may never be solved
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20 years ago a young doctor ventured
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into the chinese wilderness seeking
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knowledge about the ancient and
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mysterious art of qigong
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today aids patient salem baby believes
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the teachings of master hong lu
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have given him a new lease on life
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he's known as a ruthless operator with a
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hair trigger temper
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he's a reputed godfather of new
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england's irish mafia
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and now he's a fugitive have you seen
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james whitey bulger
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in california a house is torched to
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cover up the murder of a young woman in
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the abduction of her infant son
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now the boy's father rap music artist
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lathan young lay williams
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needs your help to solve this disturbing
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case
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join me for this intriguing edition
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unsolved mysteries
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it came from the skies to wreak havoc on
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the earth
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strange blob like droplets that look
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something like this
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it sounds like a bad science fiction
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movie but for a small town in the
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pacific northwest
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there was nothing entertaining or
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fictional about the scourge it befeld
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them in 1994
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six times it rained down from above
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leaving dozens of local residents ill
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and several pets and small animals dead
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it all happened in oakville washington
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population 665.
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here in oakville clouds fill the sky
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daily bringing rain some 275 days a year
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so when it began pouring on the morning
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of august 7th 1994
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no one was particularly concerned until
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they realized it wasn't raining rain
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it was raining tiny blobs of gelatinous
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goo
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it came down in torrance blanketing 20
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square miles
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and brought with it something of a plane
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i got sick my wife got sick my daughter
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everybody that lived here got sick
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everybody in the whole town came down
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with like a flu
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only it was a really hard flu it didn't
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last like seven days it lasted like
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seven weeks
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two or three months a local policeman
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was among the first to report the
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perplexing precipitation
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officer david lacy was on patrol with a
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civilian friend at 3 a.m
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where the downpour began
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what's on the window there i don't know
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is that inside the car we turned our
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windshield wipers on
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and it just started smearing to the
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point where we could almost not see
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and we both looked at each other we said
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you know jesus isn't right i mean
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we're out in the middle of nowhere
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basically and and
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where did this come from
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officer lacy pulled into a gas station
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to de-goo his windshield
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as an added precaution he put on a pair
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of latex gloves
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the substance was very mushy it's almost
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like if you had
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jello in your hand and you know you
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could pretty much squish it through your
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fingers
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we knew it wasn't something that we
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would normally see because we had never
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experienced
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it before so we did have some bells go
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off in our heads that
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basically said that this isn't right
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this isn't normal
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local resident dottie hearn was equally
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baffled
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by the time she stepped outside that
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morning the storm had ended
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but the blobs were everywhere
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it looked like hill laying on top of the
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wood box and everywhere else
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so i just went over and i touched it and
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it was inhaled
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it was a gelatin it's like material
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i have an appointment by mid-afternoon
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officer lacy had inexplicably taken ill
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i was to the point where i could hardly
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breathe i started to put together that
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possibly whatever the substance was it
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it made me
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violently sick you know and ill like i
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never had been before
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to the point where you know it just
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totally shut me down
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across town dottie hearn wasn't faring
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much better
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i started feeling dizzy everything
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started moving around
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and around and it got worse and as it
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did i became
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increasingly nauseated
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mom an hour later dottie's daughter and
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son found her sprawled on the bathroom
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floor
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have you been throwing up yes donnie
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she's sick she
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was cold uh drenched with perspiration
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pale my mom had been vomiting
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she had extreme vertigo she complained
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that she had difficulty with her vision
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her vision was blurring
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dottie would spend the next three days
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in the hospital the diagnosis
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a severe inner ear infection
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for some reason as we were going out the
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door i remembered the substance and i
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wondered if perhaps
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it might have had some sort of an effect
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on her
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if it might have made her sick so i
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opted at that moment
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to take a sample of this gelatinous
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material to the hospital
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a lab technician found the first
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startling clue
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the substance contained human white
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blood cells
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but exactly what it was and why it fell
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from the sky could not be determined
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the goo was promptly forwarded to the
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washington state department of health
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for further analysis
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it was very uniform there was no
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structure that we could see
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visibly or or with a microscope
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i set it up on various microbiological
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media
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and attempted to isolate bacteria
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mike mcdowell discovered that the sample
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was literally teeming with two species
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of bacteria
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one of which makes its home in the human
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digestive system
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the initial speculation was that it
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might have been
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human waste from an airliner and that
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would make sense
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you would expect to find something like
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a human white
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blood cell in human waste however
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the faa ruled that out because under the
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regulations
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human waste is dyed blue
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the substance was not blue it was
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crystal clear in color
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all told the blobs rained down upon
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oakville six times over a three week
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period
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dozens of people took ill several dogs
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and cats reportedly died after coming in
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contact with a toxic droplets
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included in the death toll with sonny
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barkley's eight-week-old kitten
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but the nature of the substance and any
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connection it may have had with the
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outbreak remained a mystery
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here we have sample number 128.76
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nearly a year after dottie hearn's
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illness she took a sample of the
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material she had stored in her freezer
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to a private research lab
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i saw what i think was a eukaryotic
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cell which was is basically a cell that
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has a definable nucleus
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and is found present in in biology
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in most animals
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translation the goo was alive
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but how in the world did living matter
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make its way into the clouds
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the explanations are as mind-boggling as
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a substance itself
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perhaps inevitably the finger of
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suspicion was soon pointed directly at
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the military
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someone uh theorized that since the navy
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had been conducting
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live bombing runs at sea they might have
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blown up a school of jellyfish
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and of course this jellyfish would have
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been thrown up into the air
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and floated 50 miles inland
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and over a period of three weeks
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fallen six times in the month of august
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1994.
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i find that somewhat preposterous now if
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that were jellyfish
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floating around up there for that long
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they would have
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smelled a heaven
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the air force confirms a practice
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bombing runs are being conducted over
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the pacific in august of 1994.
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however they deny any knowledge of the
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unknown substance
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or any involvement in creating or
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dispersing it the locals don't buy it
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we had a significant amount of military
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aircraft
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flying over the home uh prior to this
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happening
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every day almost to slow flying bombers
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helicopters
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all black in color and
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we kind of thought maybe it might have
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come from them
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they let off things in the air all the
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time here testing
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you know there's testing done all over
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the place there's a lot of places you
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can't go into
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maybe we were a biological experiment of
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some kind a small one
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maybe just get people a little bit sick
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to find out say if an enemy did come
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over here with a biological bomb or
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something and dropped it
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maybe just a test run to see how it
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would what would happen
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translation germ warfare however that
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seems unlikely given the severe
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international restrictions regarding
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experiments with biological weapons and
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populated areas
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the present is impossible to say what
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the strange ghoul was or where it came
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from
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unfortunately all samples of the
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substance are gone making further study
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impossible
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perhaps the answer will come someday
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soon when the skies open up over another
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small community
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and the blobs once again fall to earth
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next on a cottage campus in texas
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two brutal rapes one unknown assailant
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now the suspect is identified and on the
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run
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after a chance encounter with one of his
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accusers
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perhaps the most shocking of all crime
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statistics is that one out of every
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three women in the united states will be
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sexually assaulted during her lifetime
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one of three occasionally even the
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safety of a college campus can be
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violated by a sexual predator
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as it was at texas a m university in
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january of 1995.
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the rapist hid his intentions behind a
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show of normalcy
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he was just a jogger he looked like any
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other student
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when the jogger ran by the victim he ran
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out of sight
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then turned around came back she didn't
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feel at that time that that was really
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strange because the fact that there are
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a lot of joggers that
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you know go to a certain area they'll
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turn around and come back and they may
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come back the same way or they may
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continue a different route
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hey hi a chilly evening tonight
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the suspect kept telling the victim to
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do what he told her to do
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get on your feet he also kept that knife
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within her sight and she had every
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indication
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at that point that he would use that
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knife on her
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30 minutes later the rapist disappeared
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into the shadows
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university police soon released a
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composite drawing and character profile
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of the suspect
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he was probably a college student he
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would strike again
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he would use that knife we had to catch
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this guy
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we had to identify him we had to find
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out where he was
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and we had to prevent him from
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performing another sexual assault
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the profile was right on target three
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months later a knife-wielding assailant
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attacked another texas a
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m student
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she was very frustrated that she
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couldn't overpower him
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but from nowhere she said a knife
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appeared
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and was placed against her throat he
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threatened her
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he told her that if she screamed he was
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going to kill her and therefore she
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comply with his instructions he then
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took her to a nearby field
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there was about five foot tall grass and
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he had already matted down
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a six foot diameter area so the grass
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was real low
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which is where he then sexually
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assaulted her the site was chosen
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but not necessarily the victim he just
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waited for the right one
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to come by and then took her to the
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location that he was
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he had already prepared
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this composite is based on the second
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victim's description
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when compared with the first drawing it
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bolstered investigators fears
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that a serial rapist was stalking the
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campus
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upon reviewing the information that we
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had we became very concerned that
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if it was indeed the same person if he
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had committed one
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and committed a second there was most
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likely going to be a third and a fourth
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and so on
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until he was stopped
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authorities wallpapered the campus
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community with posters
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however the sketches could only deal in
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generalities
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the suspect had straight hair not curly
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he was young
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not old white not black
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a lot of people end up saying yep looks
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like just any regular person
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even the second victim that i had
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interviewed in depth she made the
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comment to just looked
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like a clean-cut student
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the critical break came from the first
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victim herself
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in november of 1995 10 months after the
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assault
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she stopped for groceries at a local
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market
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have a good day thanks howdy how you
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doing
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hey hi thanks this is a knife
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do what i say and i won't hurt you
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we're gonna go for a little walk
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okay okay
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that'll be 42.57 please
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can i write you a check sure
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the call is
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can i see your driver's license please
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driver's license
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thank you the young woman was convinced
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she was face to face with a man who
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raped her
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excuse me hey
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you forgot something police would soon
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learn that the clerk was named don
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richard davis jr
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he was scheduled to graduate in three
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weeks from texas a
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m i'm detective villarreal this is
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detective lynn holmer with the texas a m
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university police department
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hi we're investigating the two rapes
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that took place on the campus last year
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your name came to us a little look-alike
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yeah now this is just routine and we've
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already interviewed more than 70 people
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but i'd like to get your picture for
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photo lineup
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sure his demeanor his posture even his
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physical
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continence was very timid very sheepish
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but interesting enough we started to
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really study that picture and look at
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him
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and he started to really look in those
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eyes they didn't match
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the sheepish behavior we had seen
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the eyes ended up reflecting a very
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thoughtful
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aware focused individual
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when this photograph of davis was shown
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to the second victim
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she too identified him as the rapist
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dna was the clincher police say the
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preliminary tests showed with 90
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certainty that davis and the rapists
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were one and the same
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in january of 1996 don davis jr was
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arrested and charged with aggravated
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sexual assault
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those who knew him were incredulous
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teachers praised his abilities and his
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works his peers liked him very much
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he had lady friends both within the
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university and outside the university
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environment
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some described him as a very handsome
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young man with
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with good manners there's a lot of
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people that think very highly of them
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and can't even perceive of him ever
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committing these type of offenses
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when i heard these charges i was in
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disbelief i thought
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there's got to be some mistake don's not
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that type of person he's he
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there's nothing aggressive about his
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personality
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and i thought it was a case i still
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think it is a case of mistaken identity
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however investigators say that the final
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dna test results have left little margin
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for such an error
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the evidence was pretty overwhelming and
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conclusive that
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out of all the white males in the world
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he was a one in five million on one
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incident and one in five billion in the
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other
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don davis jr was released on bail of 150
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000 the court ordered him to stay with
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his parents and observe a 10 p.m curfew
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on august 20th 1996 six days before the
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start of his trial
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davis did not come home
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coming up the authorities say whitey
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bulger ruled the boston underworld for
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more than 20 years
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now they need your help to track him
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down
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but first the mysterious art of qigong
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can this ancient chinese practice
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harness a body's natural energy to help
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heal the sick
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to the chinese energy is a force vital
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to all life
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they believe it flows through our bodies
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like blood through our veins the chinese
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also believe there are rare few
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can control that energy healers who have
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mastered an ancient and mysterious art
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known as qigong
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literally the exercise of energy
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canton province southern china 20 years
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ago
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yeah hong lu a young doctor from
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shanghai
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climbed to a cave hidden high in the
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mountains
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lou had grown up in a family of
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physicians schooled in traditional
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western medicine
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but he suspected there was more to
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healing than science
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the isolated cave was a home of a qigong
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master named quan
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a man who reputedly could diagnose
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illness with a single glance
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and perform cures without even touching
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the patient
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for eight long years hong lou worked
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with master kwan
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learning how to tap the energy of the
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universe to find enlightenment and heal
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the sick
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today dr hong lu is one of twelve qigong
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high masters in the world
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he lives in southern california and is
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the only one of those masters practicing
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in the united states
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is not a miracle
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but it cannot cure every illness
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i really wanted and hoped that there was
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somebody out there that had a magic wand
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that was going to wave it over me and
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say oh you're cured you have your
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full use of your left side back that's
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that's the kind of you know that's where
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i was coming from at the time
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that time was december 1994.
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salem babic accompanied by his mother
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made his first visit to master liu
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salem was in the final stages of aids he
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was partially paralyzed
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losing his vision and had recently been
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diagnosed with pml
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a brain virus that is swift and deadly
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[Music]
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i remember asking my physician maybe a
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month or so after i was diagnosed
00:22:37
do you have any other pml patients who
00:22:39
says yes and i said how are they they
00:22:40
said they're all dead
00:22:45
master lou claims he can simply look at
00:22:47
his patients and see where the qi energy
00:22:49
flow is blocked
00:22:52
then he uses his own qi to help clear
00:22:54
the path
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the session had barely begun when master
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liu's apprentice removed salem's leg
00:23:02
brace
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next master liu told salem to rise
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stand up
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[Music]
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okay
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okay
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i was amazed i couldn't believe that i
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was standing
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without the aid of anything okay
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it felt like something was coming into
00:23:36
my body from afar
00:23:38
from behind me when master lou was
00:23:40
working on me it felt like
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something something was penetrating my
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skin and
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as a result making me stand upright
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every time i felt myself
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leaning this way or leaning that way or
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falling he would just
00:23:51
push his energy into my body and that
00:23:53
would make me stand upright again
00:23:57
it was like shadow boxing in a way
00:24:00
my son would start going to one side
00:24:04
he would bring the energy from his body
00:24:06
toward my son
00:24:08
without touching my son and he would
00:24:10
straighten up
00:24:11
he would start going to the other side
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he would
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go from the other side it was it was it
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was the most
00:24:18
incredible thing to watch
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[Music]
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from that day on weekly sessions with
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master lou were a regular part of
00:24:28
salem's therapy
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with western medicine and they work
00:24:46
together
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what will happen
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the effect has been positive
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you want to have a backgammon trouble
00:24:56
tonight why not to salem the result was
00:24:58
nothing short of miraculous
00:25:01
within six months he had regained 80
00:25:03
percent of the mobility on his left side
00:25:05
and could walk without a brace or crutch
00:25:08
salem's dramatic improvement amazed
00:25:10
everyone especially his western doctors
00:25:15
i was quite surprised to see salem
00:25:17
recover in the way that he did
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in my experience patients with aids and
00:25:22
pml
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do not improve they deteriorate
00:25:30
it's clear that for the moment at least
00:25:32
salem has beaten the worst odds
00:25:34
his doctors credit a new approach to
00:25:36
drug therapy that uses a combination of
00:25:39
aids drugs
00:25:40
rather than one at a time
00:25:43
salem however is convinced that qigong
00:25:45
was a crucial component
00:25:49
i cannot say master luke cured me but he
00:25:52
definitely
00:25:53
brought me to the road of recovery
00:25:56
if you can imagine coming from the point
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of being diagnosed as somebody who's
00:26:00
just as good as dead
00:26:02
to where i am now i mean it's just i'm
00:26:04
elated i'm totally elated
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salem babic is now one of thousands
00:26:13
worldwide who practice
00:26:14
qigong sometimes in group sessions like
00:26:17
this one
00:26:19
debbie patella has a bone marrow disease
00:26:22
a condition that is often a precursor
00:26:24
to leukemia for debbie qigong is a full
00:26:28
partner in her therapy
00:26:30
it's not a cure but a way to alleviate
00:26:32
the side effects of drugs prescribed by
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her doctors
00:26:36
i don't have any of the symptoms anymore
00:26:38
i don't get the headaches i don't get
00:26:40
nauseous
00:26:41
i have tried everything you name it
00:26:44
nothing has ever given me the energy
00:26:46
that qigong has done for me i wish i
00:26:47
would have known about it a long time
00:26:49
ago
00:26:50
i feel like i'm me again
00:26:54
how it works i don't know i don't know
00:26:57
but i honestly feel it worked for me
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and it can work for others
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in 1993 randy hebert says he was
00:27:07
diagnosed with an aggressive form of
00:27:09
prostate cancer
00:27:11
three doctors told him he should have
00:27:12
surgery instead
00:27:15
he tried qigong
00:27:18
skeptically with uh one eye kind of open
00:27:21
and the other one kind of closed
00:27:22
i started to go to him
00:27:26
master lou put randy on a macrobiotic
00:27:28
diet
00:27:29
taught him exercises to do at home and
00:27:31
gave him treatments three times a week
00:27:33
[Music]
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i know that other people he has worked
00:27:37
on they
00:27:39
they've gotten into trance-like states
00:27:42
i never did but i did feel something
00:27:45
going through me
00:27:46
something almost like heat
00:27:53
after working with randy for three
00:27:54
months master lou made an astounding
00:27:56
pronouncement
00:27:59
he said to me the the cancer is gone
00:28:04
and i still get goosebumps to this day
00:28:06
that i i said what did you say
00:28:08
he says the cancer is gone
00:28:13
randy scheduled another biopsy
00:28:15
immediately how you doing today
00:28:17
the results appear to confirm master
00:28:19
lu's diagnosis
00:28:20
good news for you you do yes your biopsy
00:28:22
results are negative there's no sign of
00:28:24
cancer
00:28:26
that's great over the next year and a
00:28:29
half randy had
00:28:30
three more biopsies all were negative
00:28:33
nevertheless it will take more than one
00:28:35
case to convince a medical community
00:28:37
that qigong is an effective treatment
00:28:39
biopsy every six months
00:28:41
despite four thousand years of history i
00:28:43
think that qigong and other
00:28:45
forms of alternative therapies really
00:28:47
need to be held up to the same
00:28:49
uh light and burden of proof
00:28:52
burden of evidence that traditional
00:28:54
medicine has held up to
00:29:21
that's why i recommend western medicine
00:29:23
combined
00:29:24
with our methods this is more guaranteed
00:29:27
for the patient
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[Music]
00:29:32
officially the american medical
00:29:34
association has no opinion on qigong as
00:29:36
a legitimate healing technique
00:29:44
next join the search for whitey bulger
00:29:47
the reputed godfather of boston's irish
00:29:49
mafia
00:29:51
and later a rising rap star searches for
00:29:54
his infant son
00:29:55
and the people who kidnapped him
00:30:10
next january six men are scheduled to go
00:30:13
on trial for extortion and racketeering
00:30:14
here in boston massachusetts
00:30:17
the star witnesses will be several of
00:30:18
their alleged victims
00:30:20
but authorities have every reason to
00:30:22
fear for the safety of those witnesses
00:30:25
if the trial were to start today one of
00:30:27
the defenders would be conspicuously
00:30:29
absent
00:30:30
he is perhaps new england's most
00:30:31
notorious fugitive
00:30:33
whitey bulger the reputed godfather of
00:30:35
the irish mafia
00:30:40
james j whitey bulger has been described
00:30:42
as a throwback to the gangsters of the
00:30:44
1930s
00:30:45
quick-witted hot-tempered ruthless
00:30:48
a petty thief turned bank robber who
00:30:50
spent nine years in federal prisons
00:30:52
including alcatraz
00:30:55
after his release bulger allegedly
00:30:57
established an empire in south boston
00:31:00
according to the authorities whitey
00:31:01
ruled his turf with an iron fist for
00:31:03
more than
00:31:04
20 years and in the process earned an
00:31:06
estimated 25 million dollars
00:31:15
in his heyday whitey bulger operated out
00:31:18
of the back of a liquor store
00:31:19
on the edge of south boston
00:31:23
late one night in 1989 he allegedly
00:31:26
arrived to take care of some unfinished
00:31:28
business
00:31:29
relax timmy reportedly whitey's
00:31:31
associate stephen the rifleman flemmi
00:31:34
was waiting inside
00:31:35
their guest of honor is a local tavern
00:31:37
owner named tim connolly
00:31:39
whom whitey had allegedly targeted for
00:31:41
extortion oh fine fine thanks sit down
00:31:43
sit down
00:31:43
how's your family it's good i mean i got
00:31:47
a problem here
00:31:48
i get this guy he owes me forty thousand
00:31:50
dollars and he decides the way he's
00:31:52
gonna pay me back is take a mortgage out
00:31:54
on his house get that paperwork
00:31:55
yeah yeah and uh something's happening
00:31:57
here and my friends
00:31:59
aren't helping this guy along waiting
00:32:01
whitey
00:32:04
i want some respect from you oh i'll
00:32:07
show you some respect
00:32:08
this is respect this is respect that's
00:32:12
respect
00:32:13
that's respect that's respect i'm gonna
00:32:15
let you buy your life for fifty thousand
00:32:17
dollars
00:32:18
fifty thousand dollars by the end of the
00:32:20
week i can't get it all today oh yeah
00:32:22
well
00:32:23
could you call me on a good day huh
00:32:24
cause i'm gonna let you give me 25
00:32:26
in two days
00:32:32
two days later tim connelly claims he
00:32:34
did the only thing he felt he could do
00:32:36
he returned to the liquor store with 25
00:32:39
000
00:32:39
cash how are you tim good jimmy yourself
00:32:42
good
00:32:43
good going out of florida yeah yeah i'm
00:32:46
leaving in the morning jimmy good
00:32:47
bulger realized that they got half of
00:32:49
the money back and connolly had promised
00:32:51
the other half
00:32:51
and everything was forgiven connolly
00:32:55
claims that bulger then came out put his
00:32:57
arm around him said
00:32:58
now you're our friend again
00:33:01
but tim connolly apparently did not feel
00:33:03
as enthusiastic about the friendship
00:33:06
he went to the fbi they in turn began
00:33:09
building a case against the so-called
00:33:11
dawn of south boston
00:33:15
james j whitey bulger came from a
00:33:17
prominent local family
00:33:18
his older brother billy is a former
00:33:20
state senator the current president of
00:33:22
the university of massachusetts
00:33:24
but by all accounts whitey was a wise
00:33:27
guy from day one
00:33:30
in south boston you very often had in
00:33:32
real life
00:33:33
angels with dirty faces when jimmy
00:33:35
cagney is the bad kid and pat o'brien
00:33:37
becomes the priest that happens over
00:33:38
there
00:33:39
i know many families that have a priest
00:33:42
and a gangster in the same family
00:33:44
or a gangster and a police officer in
00:33:46
the same field
00:33:47
it's very common in that culture
00:33:52
south boston is an insulated irish
00:33:54
catholic community
00:33:55
a place where whitey bulger known to his
00:33:57
friends as jimmy felt right at home
00:34:00
dr frankie uh yeah some of his guys
00:34:03
don't know uh where north ends and south
00:34:05
begins listen we got to talk to frankie
00:34:07
we got to get that straightened out
00:34:08
south boston really believes that we
00:34:10
look out after our own
00:34:12
and that's what whitey bulger was all
00:34:14
about in south boston whitey bulger was
00:34:17
widely viewed in the working class as
00:34:19
our gangster
00:34:21
yeah he's a wise guy yeah he'll hurt you
00:34:23
if you deserve it or if you cross him
00:34:25
but he's a gangster with scruples he's a
00:34:28
guy that will keep
00:34:29
an order a certain order to the
00:34:32
underworld
00:34:32
people maybe love the fact that that
00:34:35
they felt that he took care of the
00:34:36
community
00:34:37
that he would be the guy that would
00:34:38
carry the groceries of the elderly woman
00:34:40
that was you know getting out of a taxi
00:34:41
and trying to get up to her apartment
00:34:43
i would help a little boy that maybe had
00:34:45
a dog his dog died would go out and buy
00:34:47
a dog for a little boy
00:34:49
but he also was viewed as somebody that
00:34:51
you didn't cross oh wait look what we
00:34:53
got here
00:34:54
hey hey bobby come over here bulger
00:34:57
reportedly had no qualms about flexing
00:34:59
his muscle
00:35:00
in full view of the neighborhood hi
00:35:02
jimmy hi steve nice seeing you both
00:35:04
it's not nice seeing you bobby steve
00:35:06
they're going to close me down last
00:35:07
month i had to come up with a double
00:35:08
months rent for these people
00:35:10
stephen i i swear if i only bobby friday
00:35:14
two o'clock friday two
00:35:17
o'clock jimmy whitey bulger absolutely
00:35:20
controlled what went on in south boston
00:35:22
in fact nothing happened in south boston
00:35:24
without his approval
00:35:26
every bit of illegal gaming loan
00:35:28
shocking drug dealing
00:35:30
he had a piece of it if it happened he
00:35:32
had to sanction it and he had to have a
00:35:33
piece of it
00:35:36
from time to time the feds brought
00:35:38
whitey in for questioning
00:35:39
but they never had enough evidence to
00:35:41
nail him or all intents and purposes
00:35:44
whitey bulger was untouchable
00:35:48
whitey bulger is the master of eluding
00:35:50
surveillance
00:35:51
he learned quickly um how to avoid you
00:35:54
know being caught he never said anything
00:35:56
incriminating in any
00:35:57
confined place and he had a real habit
00:35:59
of conducting all of his business
00:36:01
outside
00:36:03
but the boston globe has reported there
00:36:04
was another reason why he was never
00:36:06
busted
00:36:07
that he was actually working with the
00:36:09
fbi as an informant
00:36:10
to bring down the italian mafia
00:36:15
i think there was always a split within
00:36:16
the fbi i think there were some agents
00:36:19
who for their own reasons
00:36:20
wanted to use him as a resource and
00:36:23
probably
00:36:24
liked him at one level and i think there
00:36:26
were other agents
00:36:27
who looked at him and said he's just
00:36:29
another gangster those are the people
00:36:30
we're supposed to be taking off
00:36:32
what i can tell you is that when it
00:36:35
comes to matters within the fbi
00:36:37
involving informants and sources and
00:36:40
witnesses
00:36:41
cooperating witnesses that we just do
00:36:43
not talk about that
00:36:44
that is not something we speak about in
00:36:46
public
00:36:48
john gamble has been on the bulger case
00:36:50
since 1990.
00:36:51
by that time whitey had set up his
00:36:53
office on castle island at the tip of
00:36:55
south boston
00:36:57
just across the harbor was boston's busy
00:36:59
logan airport
00:37:03
you have planes coming over you have
00:37:05
joggers running by you have
00:37:07
dogs barking it is a perfect location
00:37:10
to avoid having people like me listen to
00:37:13
you
00:37:13
what do you think bulger also used a
00:37:16
technique the fbi has labeled
00:37:18
disciplined randomness
00:37:21
when i was watching whitey he might be
00:37:22
sitting and talking with somebody
00:37:24
and i have literally seen him having a
00:37:26
conversation with somebody look at his
00:37:28
watch
00:37:28
and go three benches down and sit down
00:37:30
and continue that conversation with
00:37:31
these people
00:37:32
ten minutes later and then move again in
00:37:34
ten minutes
00:37:39
i've been there when it was 20 degrees
00:37:41
i've been there when it's 94 degrees
00:37:43
and he's been out there
00:37:48
he had a select group of trusted
00:37:51
associates and they would be the go
00:37:53
between they were the ones that would go
00:37:54
out and deal with bookmakers and loan
00:37:56
sharks and pick up money to bring back
00:37:58
to whitey
00:37:59
very rarely did whitey make an
00:38:01
appearance and actually have a
00:38:02
face-to-face confrontation he left other
00:38:04
people to do his dirty work
00:38:06
but unfortunately for whitey he made an
00:38:08
exception in connelly's case
00:38:10
i'm gonna let you give me 25 000 in two
00:38:12
days
00:38:13
now get out
00:38:16
and if i don't get the rest of it this
00:38:18
is you
00:38:21
tim connolly turned to the fbi because
00:38:23
he was scared and i think
00:38:24
um connolly decided that it was time to
00:38:27
start talking
00:38:29
are you implying that mr bulger
00:38:31
threatened you mr common connolly
00:38:32
provided authorities with the evidence
00:38:34
needed to build a federal racketeering
00:38:36
case against bulger
00:38:39
in january of 1995 whitey was indicted
00:38:43
along with his associate stephen the
00:38:44
rifleman flemmi
00:38:46
also indicted was cadillac frank salemme
00:38:49
the boss of new england's italian mafia
00:38:52
but in true whitey fashion bulger
00:38:54
managed to slip through the authority's
00:38:56
grasp
00:38:59
i think that the law enforcement um
00:39:01
rushed the arrests a little bit because
00:39:02
they were worried that they were they
00:39:04
were going to lose their their intended
00:39:05
targets that they would all take off
00:39:07
and so they grabbed stevie flemi and
00:39:09
when they did they were unable to locate
00:39:12
frank salemme or whitey bulger six
00:39:14
months later they found frank salemme in
00:39:16
florida but they have yet to find whitey
00:39:18
i think a lot of people who have had
00:39:22
dealings with whitey and who are going
00:39:24
to be witnesses
00:39:26
in the upcoming case are probably
00:39:29
nervous about about the fact that he's
00:39:31
not in custody
00:39:47
[Music]
00:40:11
next a house set a fire a young woman
00:40:15
murdered
00:40:15
a four-week-old son of a rap musician
00:40:19
[Music]
00:40:22
abducted
00:40:26
[Music]
00:40:37
his name is lathan williams known to his
00:40:40
fans as young lady
00:40:41
a rising star in the rap music woman now
00:40:44
a young man at the center of a bizarre
00:40:46
double mystery
00:40:49
a tragedy that is torn from him the two
00:40:51
most important people in his life
00:40:54
a case that has stumped police in
00:40:55
vallejo california for months
00:41:01
in the spring of 1996 things were going
00:41:04
well for lathan williams he had recently
00:41:06
signed a recording
00:41:08
this new video was about to be released
00:41:10
and his girlfriend had just given birth
00:41:12
to their first child
00:41:14
a boy named liazon
00:41:18
what i feel about zion was it's the
00:41:20
first son
00:41:21
you know what i'm saying uh the summer
00:41:23
confetti to come you know what i'm
00:41:24
saying i'm gonna uh
00:41:25
be with him you know i'm saying take
00:41:27
care of him and it was experience to me
00:41:29
you know i'm saying i was happy
00:41:33
lathan's girlfriend 17-year-old daphne
00:41:35
boyden lived with her grandmother in
00:41:37
vallejo
00:41:39
daphne was working hard to finish high
00:41:41
school while caring for baby liaison
00:41:43
[Music]
00:41:46
on may 17 1996 daphne's grandmother riva
00:41:50
lee boyd
00:41:50
was getting ready to go to her weekly
00:41:52
bingo game when the doorbell rang
00:41:55
[Music]
00:41:57
is daphne home yeah come on in she's in
00:41:59
the back
00:42:01
you have company daphne was getting a
00:42:05
lot of visitors
00:42:06
she was a mother of a local rap star's
00:42:08
baby
00:42:09
everybody wanted to see lathan's son we
00:42:12
just came by to see the baby
00:42:14
so cute you can sit down
00:42:17
daphne i'm going to play bingo i'll be
00:42:19
gone a couple days rivally didn't
00:42:21
recognize these two girls
00:42:23
but daphne obviously knew them
00:42:25
everything seemed fine
00:42:28
briefly couldn't have been more wrong an
00:42:32
hour later she was rushing home
00:42:34
neighbors had told her that her house
00:42:36
was on fire she had no idea whether
00:42:38
daphne and lizon were still inside
00:42:46
[Music]
00:42:55
he said
00:43:01
[Music]
00:43:03
your granddaughter
00:43:04
[Music]
00:43:10
daphne was dead the news grew worse
00:43:13
none of it had been an accident daphne
00:43:16
had been murdered the house torched to
00:43:18
cover up the crime
00:43:20
and there was more baby liaison was
00:43:23
missing
00:43:23
apparently kidnapped for lathan williams
00:43:26
a shock was devastating
00:43:28
he couldn't believe they were both gone
00:43:31
i was saying please to myself please
00:43:33
daphne coming walking around this corner
00:43:35
you know what i'm saying with this baby
00:43:36
you know what i'm saying
00:43:44
daphne's death outraged the community
00:43:47
hundreds turned out for a march
00:43:48
memorializing daphne and urging liaison
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safe return
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the question on everyone's mind was why
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i did hear that
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some girls were threatening her
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and i didn't understand that you know
00:44:08
but they said it was behind my son
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i don't know for sure or not
00:44:13
what the situation is but it seems to me
00:44:16
as some
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apparently somebody wanted a baby and
00:44:19
they wanted to do
00:44:20
away with her and why i don't know
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daphne herself was a 17 year old girl
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that
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attended school did well seem to be well
00:44:28
liked
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the problem was that she did have this
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baby that was fathered by
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a up-and-coming rapper in the area
00:44:36
he was assigned to a contract and was
00:44:39
actually doing quite well and we
00:44:42
initially felt that possibly there were
00:44:43
some jealousies that have been aroused
00:44:44
in
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competing females for lathan's
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affections
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is daphne home yeah come on in she's in
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the back
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the obvious suspects were the two girls
00:44:54
who had visited daphne the evening of
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her murder
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they were first seen just before they
00:45:01
arrived at the house by a neighbor who
00:45:03
wishes to remain anonymous
00:45:07
i saw two girls on the same side of the
00:45:10
sidewalk
00:45:12
one of the girls she had like a black
00:45:15
tote bag
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she unzipped the bag and pulled out
00:45:18
something which appeared
00:45:19
to me to be a rope you got the light yes
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when they were walking past by me you
00:45:28
know how you watch
00:45:29
scary movies and you get scared that's
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the kind of feeling
00:45:33
i had inside me when i looked at their
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eyes
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another witness allegedly noticed the
00:45:41
girls leaving the boyden house just
00:45:43
before the fire broke out
00:45:46
one girl may have been concealing
00:45:48
something in her jacket
00:45:52
a few blocks down the street the two
00:45:54
girls were spotted again
00:45:57
yeah come here i want to talk to you for
00:45:58
a minute these witnesses too
00:46:00
believe one of the girls may have been
00:46:02
concealing something
00:46:05
if the girls did indeed murder daphne
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and kidnap baby laizan
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was it for love of lathan or could there
00:46:12
have been another motive
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ten months earlier lathan himself had
00:46:18
been a target
00:46:19
the victim of an attempted hold up break
00:46:21
yourself what's up homie what time it is
00:46:23
i thought we was close you're about the
00:46:24
damn little one busting
00:46:26
come on come on anybody moves everybody
00:46:30
dies
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one bullet hit lathan piercing his brain
00:46:38
when he recovered he testified against
00:46:41
the shooter
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it's only natural to assume that there
00:46:44
could be some possible connection there
00:46:46
that it may be some type of retaliation
00:46:47
we don't want to overinflate that
00:46:49
possibility
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but again it's unsolved so we're trying
00:46:52
not to close any doors on it
00:46:53
okay i don't think uh you know what i'm
00:46:55
saying however lathan williams is
00:46:56
convinced the two attacks are not
00:46:58
connected you know what i'm saying
00:47:00
had nothing to do with it you know i'm
00:47:01
saying because of the fact
00:47:03
that uh they would uh try to get at me
00:47:05
you know i'm saying my life would have
00:47:06
been in
00:47:06
danger you know what i'm saying not uh
00:47:08
you know i'm saying my baby mama's like
00:47:10
you know what i'm saying and my kid
00:47:16
whatever the motive police have no doubt
00:47:19
that whoever killed daphne
00:47:20
also kidnapped liaison
00:47:24
still feel that there's hope to recover
00:47:25
the baby obviously we feel it's
00:47:27
still alive and we hope that this
00:47:29
information on a nationwide level it can
00:47:30
lead to some
00:47:32
further leads that eventually lead to an
00:47:36
arrest
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on our next unsolved mysteries a
00:48:22
deranged ex-policeman and his wife
00:48:24
a homemade bomb an elementary school
00:48:27
held hostage
00:48:28
at the moment of detonation it seemed
00:48:30
only a miracle could save the children
00:48:32
and many believe that is exactly what
00:48:34
happened
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join me next time for another compelling
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hour of unsolved mysteries
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