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next on unsolved mysteries for robbers
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break into an armored car facility and
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take more than money a sultry young
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actress is found severed and two it's
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the notorious case of the Black Dahlia
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drug smugglers create an ingenious
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scheme 30 feet below the ground two
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families discovered their homes are
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built on a graveyard and they are
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frightened to death
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five cases with strange clues and
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bizarre twists and secrets that you
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would never expect
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I'm Dennis Farina and this is unsolved
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mysteries
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Vallejo California 211 in progress there
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was an armed robbery called in from the
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Loomis armored car company patrol cars
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immediately rolled to the scene of what
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they believed was a robbery in progress
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at Loomis headquarters
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as police made their approach they saw
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that the security door of the main
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building was partially open
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the officers moved cautiously fearful
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that gunmen might still be inside
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waiting
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inside police discover that this was
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more than just a simple robbery just
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beyond the door
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a security guard lay dead his hands were
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bound with rope and he had been shot
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through the head a bag of money lay near
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the entrance in another part of the
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building police found two other guards
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one was dead the other mortally wounded
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like the first victim they had each been
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found and shot in the head
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the guards were identified as 49
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year-old Martin McCumber 29 year old
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Dennis Jacobsen and 25 year old Alfonzo
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LAN Toya
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McCumber left behind a wife and children
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LAN Thao was engaged to be married in
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six months it was just the brutal and
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senseless crime as police began to
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investigate they were surprised by the
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amount of physical evidence left behind
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by the killers evidence that they hoped
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would help solve the case immediately
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after police units secured the crime
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scene detectives were called in their
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first piece of evidence an 8-inch blue
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steel 357 Magnum
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the revolver had been reported stolen
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two years before inside the fenced
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compound investigators found that orange
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duffel bag stuffed with hundreds of
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thousands of dollars
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and nearby they found the bolt cutters
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which had been used to break in through
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the wire fence as they searched along
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the fence line of the Loomis compound
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detectives found gloves ski masks and
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another enormous sack of cash in a park
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across the street investigators found
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another pair of gloves a ski mask and an
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ak-47 assault rifle nearby where this
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ak-47 was found we found an impression
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in the ground this impression leads us
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to believe that the responsible laid in
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that area for some time following the
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crime hoping that the place believed and
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he could finish his escape
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judging from the evidence authorities
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concluded that there were four robbers
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hair samples found on the ski masks
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indicated that at least one was white
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and one was black
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exactly one week to the hour after the
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murders authorities set up a roadblock
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near the armored car company they were
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hoping to find people who traveled the
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area regularly they learned that a white
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man was seen running north from the
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building at around 9:00 that night at
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the same time a black male was seen
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running north on a different Street
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working backwards authorities began to
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piece together what happened on the
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night of the murders here's what they
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came up with at approximately 8:00 p.m.
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to 4:00 heavily armed men dressed in
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combat fatigues approached the Loomis
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building one security guard was on duty
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inside 40 minutes later two other guards
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arrived transporting a large amount of
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cash
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once the truck arrived and the gate
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began to open it would have been
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possible for the murderers to enter the
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facility coming in underneath the
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opening gate quickly before the guards
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had a chance to respond
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they could have helped the guards as
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hostages ordering the guard to exit to
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turn room which he may have done
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thinking that that would save the lives
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of his friends once all three of these
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guards were overpowered
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they were then balint there was no
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reason to kill them other than if for
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some reason they could possibly identify
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the robbers when a gun shot was fired
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they activated an interior alarm which
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cost them to panic and flee
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they filled the bags so full of money
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that they could not carry them they were
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not aware of how heavy money actually is
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despite the blaring alarm the colors
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fled and got away scot-free the irony is
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they got away with no money update after
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three years four suspects were arrested
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for the killing of the Loomis guards
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while in prison on unrelated charges
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Thomas young confessed to the murders
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and named three accomplices Eugene
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Livingston a former Loomis employee had
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assisted in the break-in he confessed to
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the robbery but denied participating in
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the murder Livingston served three years
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and was released assad mohammed denied
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everything but six years later DNA
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evidence linked him to the crime
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the fourth suspect was released for lack
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of evidence
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next a Florida criminal successfully
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Rob's 30 banks but why did the police
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call him fumbles and later the exotic
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mystery of the Black Dahlia Murder
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anywhere across the state of Florida you
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might meet the bank robber known as
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fumbles
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besides the cap and gloves he has a very
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distinctive trademark given the nickname
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early on of fumbles because in the first
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robbery when he came in he got inside
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the bank drew the weapon held it in his
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hand and proceeded to trip and fall here
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he is again watch his mask the police
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admit to a certain amount of amusement
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at their adversaries clumsiness 30 armed
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robberies however are no laughing matter
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update fumbles has been captured within
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minutes of our broadcast the police
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department in Clearwater Florida
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received a call from one of our viewers
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he recognized fumbles as Ross James
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Preston a 23 year old student living in
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Clearwater when he was arrested
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clearwater authorities said preston was
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so scared that he suggest that that they
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let him jump out of a window fumbles
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pleaded guilty to a total of seven
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counts of bank robbery and weapons
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charges he served 13 years in prison and
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has since been released
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Hollywood California the city were
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dreams die hard she was known as the
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Black Dahlia
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she had jet black hair and preferred
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black dresses and lingerie those who
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knew her best said she had a tattoo of
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an exotic flower on her inner thigh she
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wanted desperately to be an actress but
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her fame would not come from the movies
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it would come from her death her murder
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which has gone unsolved for 60 years on
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a cold morning in January 1947 the nude
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mutilated body of 22 year old Elizabeth
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Short was discovered in a vacant lot in
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the Lemur Park area of Los Angeles
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what made the murder so unique was the
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barbaric nature of the crime the black
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dahlia spotty had been neatly severed in
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half got it and drained of blood her
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face had been very brutally cut from ear
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to ear and a grin her throat had been
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cut
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and she had been mutilated sexually
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basically she was the worst case of
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a sex crime in history of Los Angeles
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County it's a case that has fascinated
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crime writers for generations and almost
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every one of them has a different theory
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about the killer author Lawrence sure as
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study every angle of the Black Dahlia
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case and now he believes he knows the
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real identity of the man who so brutally
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murdered Elizabeth Short her life was as
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sad as it was brief like so many other
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young women Elizabeth Short had been
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lured to Hollywood with dreams of
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becoming a star her career was going
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nowhere and she was running out of cash
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according to some Elizabeth eventually
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drifted into prostitution
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can you take me home yes I will I need
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to ride all the way to Los Angeles can
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you take me to Los Angeles yeah thank
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you
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her final days were shrouded in mystery
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Elizabeth seemed to be constantly on the
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move and was last seen leaving a diner
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in San Diego with a man who has never
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been positively identified
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she called him red when she spoke to him
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in the diner and he did have reddish
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colored hair however the police were
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never able to positively identify him
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although some people felt that he might
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have been Robert Manley Robert Manley
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was a hardware salesman who dated
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Elizabeth police brought him in for
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questioning but he was cleared of the
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crime other men who were involved with
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Elizabeth were also interrogated meats
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like Manley had an airtight alibi the
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authorities were completely stunned then
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a mysterious package was mailed to a
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local newspaper a package from the
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killer Kyra's Dolly's belonging this
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letter to follow inside the envelope
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they found Elizabeth shorts address book
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which was in reality her trick book one
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of the pages in that book was missing
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and it is undoubtedly true that upon
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that page was the name of the man who
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actually had killed her the package was
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the closest anyone ever got to the black
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dodgiest killer then Lauren chirp began
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to research the case and made a
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remarkable connection the case had many
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of the same features as the torso slings
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in Cleveland that sensational crime
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spree was the case that baffled Elliot
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ness the head of the famed
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crime-fighting team The Untouchables not
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at this time
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I found a body here late this morning
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the arms and legs and I cut off between
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1934 in 1938
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no less than 13 mutilated bodies were
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discovered in the Kingsbury run district
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and surrounding areas of Cleveland the
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victims were all prostitutes or drifters
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the killer had dismembered most of the
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bodies with surgical precision
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just like the Black Dahlia case nine
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years later
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many people believe that nests actually
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knew the Slayers identity but never had
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enough evidence to prove it in court
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his biographer Oscar freely says that
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Ness was approached by a member of
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Cleveland's high society this lady
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socialite who was working when it came
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to him and said a member of one of our
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influential families fits your profile
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so Eliot said that's fine let's meet
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this man admitted that he had been to
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medical school so Elliott thought surely
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he had to go have you ever been to
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Kingsbury run after sunset
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no Ness said he gave the man to
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lie-detector tests and both times the
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suspect failed have you ever paid for
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the services of a prostitute no soon
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after he took the polygraphs
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the suspect voluntarily committed
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himself to a mental hospital around that
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same time the torso slayings in
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Cleveland abruptly stopped Ness believed
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that this would be the end of the case
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because the suspect was so deranged that
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he would probably remain in a mental
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institution for the rest of his life but
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a few months later a letter arrived from
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California and it's from the butcher
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Elliott in that letter the torso killer
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describes the fact that his left
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Cleveland and has come to California as
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he described it sunny California and is
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now performing medical experiments upon
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his guinea pig victims here in Los
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Angeles in the letter the killer
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referred to himself as ADC a doctor of
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chiropractic he said quote I felt bad
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about operating on those people but
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science must advance the letter is just
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the beginning of the torso Slayer Black
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Dahlia Connection
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the killer apparently had a fetish or
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cleanliness and cleaned the dahlias body
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very carefully with water washed it very
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carefully shampooed her hair and
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scrubbed her with a bristle brush so
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severely that he left bristles embedded
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in her skin the cleveland victims also
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indicate that there were attempts to
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clean bodies a butcher knife was used to
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bisect the Dahlia and a butcher knife
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was used to dismember decapitate and
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bisect victims in Cleveland police
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determined that Elizabeth had been
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tortured for several hours before being
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killed we know that she had been tied up
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she had rope burns on her neck arms and
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legs in Cleveland several victims had
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exactly the same type of marks also the
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Dalia's body had been arranged in a
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sexually suggestive position just like
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the torsos latest victims
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but if the tarsal Slayer was locked away
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in an Ohio Hospital how could the
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murders have continued in other parts of
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the Midwest and later Los Angeles
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perhaps one crucial point was overlooked
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by Eliot Ness when the killer entered
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the hospital sorry I was late sweetheart
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if one is voluntarily in a mental
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hospital you are free to legally walk
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out anytime you want and I think that's
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exactly what he did I think he used the
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mental-health system most of his career
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when things got tough four
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investigations heated up he simply
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checked himself into a mental
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institution waited until they cool down
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and then check himself out again and
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departed and continued killing Eliot
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Ness never publicly identified the
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suspect he took the name with him to the
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grave he was the most prolific mass
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murderer in the history of the United
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States and to this day his true identity
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remains unknown next drug smugglers come
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up with a foolproof scheme which has
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baffled authorities and later the
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real-life ghost story behind the
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legendary horror film poltergeist
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we're about to take you inside one of
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the most elaborate drug running
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operations ever discovered it was a
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pathway for some 50,000 pounds of
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cocaine to enter the United States
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undetected Douglas Arizona it's a sleepy
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border town 97 miles south of Phoenix
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just across the border is the Mexican
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town of Agua Prieta this border crossing
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is watched closely by law enforcement
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the douglas hog lafayette the area is at
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one of the main conduits for cocaine
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coming into the united states and for
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that reason it's known as the cocaine
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alley a Mexican national named Rafael
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Camarena began to cross the border daily
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from Agua Prieta into Douglas Camarena
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had purchased a concrete mixing company
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in Douglas and he was working very hard
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to make a go of his new business when I
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have spoken to mr. camreta he he had
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told me that he planned to be here for a
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number of years he would check in on the
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business once or twice a day he spent a
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lot of time in Mexico I see him pursuing
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contracts over in our Prieta but yes he
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was a non hands type of business owner
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he could have opened up a business
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anywhere in the United States of America
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when Camarena constructed a large
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warehouse in douglas at the same time
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just across the border
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he built a four-bedroom ranch style home
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the home located in a wealthy area of
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Agua Prieta had all the amenities that
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come with success
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mr. Camarena seemed to be a good husband
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and a good father he's a type of person
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that that you would want to be as your
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friend
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in reality Camarena's entire life was
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nothing but a devious facade it created
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the cover-up a very lucrative and very
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illegal enterprise u.s. customs
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officials received information that
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Camarena was smuggling drugs from his
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home in Agua Prieta across the border to
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his warehouse in Douglas incredibly
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common rayna's business was located just
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one block away from the US Customs
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headquarters early 1990 we initiated
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24-hour surveillance of the Douglas
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ready-mix company agents staked out
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Camarena's business for over two months
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yes comedy alright they became
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suspicious of a truck that arrived and
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departed from the new warehouse nearly
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every day
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on one occasion we followed the
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tractor-trailer rig from Douglas
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ready-mix to a rural area outside of
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Phoenix Arizona
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a special task force of US Customs
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agents and other law enforcement
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agencies raided a formal Camarena's
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truck had been seen
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agents seized over a ton of nearly pure
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cocaine the cocaine had been transported
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inside a hidden compartment beneath the
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trucks bed the raid confirmed that the
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drugs had come from crammed arenas
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warehouse but the agents were baffled
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how we had Camarena managed to smuggle
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drugs into his warehouse who was being
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watched around-the-clock by federal
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agents just the block away we began
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receiving bits and pieces of information
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from a variety of sources
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concerning a the existence of a tunnel
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in the Douglas area two days later
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agents from the United States and Mexico
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launched simultaneous raids on Pam
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arenas warehouse in Douglas and his new
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home art wealth creator
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Mexican authorities arrested two men who
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claim to be gardeners Camarena and his
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family fled there was no visible
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evidence of a tunnel at the Douglas
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warehouse US agents at first found
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nothing then they came upon a large
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floor dream
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we found about a five and a half
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diameter shaft that went 30 feet into
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the ground and at the bottom of the
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shaft we found the tunnel itself this is
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the actual tunnel through which enormous
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amounts of cocaine were smuggled when
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authorities uncovered the tunnels
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entrance beneath Camarena's home it
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became clear that this was no ordinary
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drug smuggling operation it was
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something right out of a James Bond
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movie
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hydraulic pedestals lifted the pool
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table in a two-ton section of concrete
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floor to expose the entrance huge
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amounts of drugs could be stored below
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until they were ready to be moved across
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the border
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the drugs were transported on a
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specially designed cart at the Douglas
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and a custom-made hoist lifted the
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illegal cargo into the warehouse
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workers pack the cocaine bricks into the
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false bottom of the truck the contraband
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was driven out right under the noses of
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US customs agents in my 18 years with
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the Customs Service this is one of the
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most amazing investigations I've ever
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encountered the sophistication of the of
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the smugglers the construction of this
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tunnel itself just demonstrates to what
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extremes these organizations will go to
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update ten years after the tunnel was
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discovered u.s. customs agents
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determined that Rafael Camarena was
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already in a Mexican prison he had been
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sentenced to ten years under a
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fictitious name for a different drug
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charge after completing that sentence he
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was extradited to the US where he pled
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guilty of smuggling cocaine across the
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border he was sentenced to another ten
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years in prison
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next a man uncovers a coffin in his
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backyard and soon he and his neighbors
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are victims of the black hope curse
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just outside of Houston Texas is a
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neighborhood filled with upscale homes
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and manicured lawns salmon Judith Haney
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settled in at the far western edge of a
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development when we bought the house in
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Newport it was the house that we had
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always been looking for so it was the
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house that we intended to stay at for a
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long period of time but there was a
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morbid secret about the Haney's perfect
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home one that would soon turn their
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lives into one never-ending nightmare it
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all began when a mysterious stranger
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showed up at their door within ominous
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warning yes this elderly man told me
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that he had noticed that we were putting
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a swimming pool in our backyard and that
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there was something about our backyard
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that I needed to know about so I
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followed him around to my backyard he
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pointed at the ground and said that
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there are some graves right here two
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graves and he marked a spot on the
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ground where they were I really didn't
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know how to react to that I didn't know
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if he was just joking I couldn't
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understand why anybody want to joke
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about something like that yeah I don't
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want to get involved
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using a backhoe Sam Haney decided to see
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if the man's alarming claims were truth
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I think I see something and at that
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point he stopped with the backhoe and we
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got down into the hole and continued
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digging by hand
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there was pine boards when we lifted up
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the first board we could see the
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indentation of skeleton form it didn't
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take long to figure out that it was an
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actual human remains Sam
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immediately called the sheriff and the
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County Coroner who conducted an official
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explanation most of the bones had turned
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to powder but 25 fragments were found
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some so brittle they had disintegrated
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when touched a second coffin located
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alongside the first hadn't been
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disturbed inside two wedding rings were
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discovered on the frail index finger of
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the exposed skeleton
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they handed me the rings and it was
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sickening to think that I had desecrated
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somebody's grave horrified me wanting
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desperately to do the right thing the
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Haney's decided to find out whose
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remains were buried in their backyard
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the search led them to a longtime
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resident named Jasper Norton years
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earlier Norton had dug several graves in
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the area
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he told the Haney's that their home and
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a dozen others were built on top of an
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old African American Cemetery called
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black hope the deceased were mainly
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former slaves the last burial was in
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1939 and as many as 60 people were
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interred there in paupers graves the
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people had very little money they marked
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their graves however they could with
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markings on trees with little stones
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with fences around them like a family
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plot the two people buried in the
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Haney's backyard were Betty and Charlie
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Thomas this picture of Betty is the only
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known photograph of either one they died
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during the 1930s and their graves were
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eventually forgotten it was up to me to
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give them the dignity that they deserved
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and that was very important to me
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Judith and Sam Haney made an
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extraordinary decision they reburied
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Betty and Charlie in their yard and
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prayed their spirits would rest in peace
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I'm so sorry a piece did not come to the
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Haney's there was a clock in my bedroom
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and one night it started sparking and
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putting out sort of a blue glow when
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Judith checked the clock she found that
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it was unplugged that was only the
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beginning of the Haney's
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hell on earth one evening Sam went to
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work the night shift leaving Judith
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alone
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I heard the sliding glass door open and
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I heard which I thought was Sam saying
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what you doing that everything was quiet
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the sliding glass doors were locked and
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I thought well you know you must be
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losing your mind this really must be
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getting to you but much to my amazement
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that's not where the story ended in the
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morning I awoke went in my closet to get
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my red shoes and I could not find them
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anywhere so of course I started looking
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for them and went through all of her
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closets where she normally puts things
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and we just couldn't find it we walked
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just a short distance where the
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gravesites work and I could see
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something on the grave and they were
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both side by side like someone had just
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picked them up and carried them over and
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laid them down on the graveside even
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more disturbing to the Haney's was the
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realization that this was Betty Thomas's
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birthday and I kind of got the feeling
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that it was like Charlie was giving
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Betty a birthday present I began to come
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to the realization that this was not all
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in my mind and that this had to have
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some relationship to Betty and Charlie's
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graves being disturbed their spirits
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were saying this isn't right the Haney's
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were not alone a dozen of their
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neighbors also reported unearthly sounds
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lights turning on and off ghostly
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apparitions and now these bizarre events
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were becoming malicious
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like the Haney's ben and jean williams
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thought that they found their suburban
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paradise when they moved into the same
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neighborhood and then after we moved in
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everything changed when i tried to plant
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new plants they just would not live no
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matter what i did you know fertilizer
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whatever i stay still and i would not
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live I constantly had a foreboding
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feeling a feeling of things are not
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right or something bad is about to
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happen the William said that near their
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flowerbed sinkholes appeared in the
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unmistakable shape of a coffin the
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Williams would fill the men only to have
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them reappear a few days later the
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Williams felt their ideal home was
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invaded by a menacing presence random
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shadows slid along the walls whispered
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words in a putrid smell followed in
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their wake at the time the Williams
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granddaughter Kylie lived with a couple
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during the blazing heat of summer Kylie
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said she would stumble into
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bone-chilling pockets of ice-cold air it
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would be very very chilly and you'd have
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just this feeling of foreboding or just
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you know like either something wasn't
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right anywhere in the house you'd have a
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feeling that you were not alone somebody
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was watching you it terrified me to be
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in the house by myself
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the toilets used to flush on their own
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as the water went down I could hear it
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was almost like conversations that could
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hear people murmuring to themselves it
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was a presence or spirit or something
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there something that wanted to be heard
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wanted me to know it was there I
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absolutely believe that all of these
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things happen to us because we were on
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the graveyard and that we were simply
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going to be tormented until we left
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there
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next the Williams report the hauntings
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in their home turned from horrifying to
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deadly
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in a quiet Houston suburb two families
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discovered that their homes had been
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built on an old cemetery now they soon
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found themselves experiencing strange
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sounds and heart-stopping apparitions
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the unexplained phenomena seemed to
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target the home of Ben and Jean Williams
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both day and night
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Ben and Jean debated what to do next
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that made Jay we talked it over and she
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said what can we do walk off and leave
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it
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she said we had got enough money to pay
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doubt on another home I said we always
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been fighters we're gonna stay right
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here fight it and we try to beat it it
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wasn't long before Ben got his chance I
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came home from work around 10 after
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12:00 for midnight shift and a walk
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straight to the kitchen open
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refrigerator door
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and that's when I seen these to go sleep
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ever
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and they went straight backwards into
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the den and then they started heading
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right down the hall to jeans and it was
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standing right about a foot and a half
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on the end of the bed the only thing I
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really thought of they mess with my wife
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as I drove through it I felt a sticky
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cold sensation in my body down the
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street from the Williams the Haney's
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lives were also unraveling I was crying
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all the time I was frightened I was
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scared of doing my daily routine in my
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own home
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the Haney's decided to fight back in
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court they sued the Builder for not
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disclosing that their home was built
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over a cemetery in parts so that
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everyone would know what was happening
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at their subdivision a jury awarded them
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142 thousand dollars for mental anguish
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but a devastating reversal ruled on
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legal grounds that the developers were
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not liable the verdict was thrown out
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and the Haney's ordered to pay fifty
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thousand dollars in court costs and at
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that point we decided to file bankruptcy
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all in all we ended up losing the case
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losing the money losing the house we
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were exhausted and we got in her car and
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went where there was love and support
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and tried to put it behind us
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the Williams also explored legal
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recourse but they say that they were
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told that without definitive proof of a
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cemetery on their property nothing could
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be done it was then that Jean made a
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decision that she will forever regret
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that was the last straw you want a body
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I'll show you a body so I thought to
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myself I can dig and I can dig about two
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feet a day and I knew I would reach a
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body but soon after she started digging
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Jean felt ill her daughter Tina
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volunteered to finish the job she died
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for almost half an hour okay yeah I feel
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just a little faint I remember her
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saying that she was that she felt funny
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she was getting dizzy as well
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she put the shovel down and she went
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back inside and she just laid down on
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the couch she's like mom daddy I don't
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feel right no there's something wrong we
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got to call 9-1-1
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the last thing I remember her saying was
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mommy take care of my baby take care of
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my baby and she looks so scared
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talk to me Tina almost immediately her
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eyes started glazing over and I was
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talking to her trying to talk her out of
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dying
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please Tina talk to me and all this time
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her eyes were changing until they got to
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the point where I knew that she wasn't
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with me or she wasn't you know
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responding at all Tina had suffered a
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massive heart attack two days later she
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died and I realized that I had
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desecrated another grave and now I'm
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paying
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I told me and I says we have to get out
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of here it doesn't matter what we lose
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what we had I knew that if we didn't
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that I was not going to make it because
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my fight was gone I could fight no more
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forever the Williams escaped to Montana
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and later moved back to another house
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and another neighborhood in Texas today
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they are a happily growing family no
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longer plagued by mysterious noises
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horrific apparitions or heartbreaking
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tragedies back in their old neighborhood
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none of the current residents had
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reported any paranormal activity but no
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one has been able to explain what
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happened to the Williams or the Haney's
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it remains an unsolved mystery
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