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tonight on unsolved mysteries
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Michelle O'Malley says it started with a
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single vivid dream about her deceased
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grandfather over time the dreams became
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more frequent and more real leaving
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Michelle convinced that her
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grandfather's spirit was actually
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communicating with her from beyond the
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grave in Connecticut a wealthy community
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is shocked by the brutal death of a 15
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year old girl there's a key to her
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murder why were the sons of a prominent
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family who lived across the street for
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Jean Warren a foster child named Roger
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Linsley became the loving son she never
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had but after three years together the
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authorities placed Rodger with another
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family
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launching Jean on a poignant search the
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disp and nearly three decades
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also we've traveled here to Washington
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State for a startling report new
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information has surfaced in the baffling
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case of the Green River Killer over a
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two-year period he claimed at least 49
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victims all of them young women he set
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in motion one of the greatest criminal
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investigations in history yet no arrest
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was ever made and the name of the killer
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remains a mystery incredibly this man
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claims to know what the police do not
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the identity of the Green River Killer
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it all began here along the Green River
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near kep Washington when the bodies of
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the first victims were found in 1982
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more than a decade later the search for
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answers continues join me for this
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fascinating edition unsolved mysteries
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we didn't
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what happens when we die is there a
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light beyond this one remarkably four
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out of ten people say they've
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experienced some form of communication
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with a dead often through dreams these
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visits are called direct contacts what
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makes them unique is the specific
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previously unknown information passed on
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to those who have been visited consider
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the case of Michelle o Malley of
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Portsmouth Virginia it was November 15th
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1993 three months after the birth of
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Michelle's son Benjamin that evening
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Michelle had an extraordinary dream the
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first direct contact with her deceased
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grandfather
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in the dream I saw my grandfather and he
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came up to me and he asked me did you
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think it's true and all throughout my
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dream he kept coming up saying did you
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bring that french toast first
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I thought it was just one of those
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things where I must have had him on my
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mind and you know thinking it was just a
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dream and I asked one of the family
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members and they said oh yes he'd loved
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french toast you know and I was like
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okay well this must be a coincidence
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Michelle was just ten when her
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grandfather Benjamin passed away as she
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grew up specific memories faded but
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Michelle never forgot his warmth his
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strength his kindness
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Michelle always knew she would name her
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first son Benjamin in honor of her
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grandfather but she never imagined the
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profound impact it was to have upon her
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life
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a second dream came just days after the
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first Michelle's grandfather reappeared
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with a message for his son Greg
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Michele's father I didn't know if it was
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all in my head again like the French
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toast or not and I asked my dad I said
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what did he mean by this
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and I was just stunned I didn't say
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anything she says does that make any
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sense I says it makes perfect sense and
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I remembered back when I was a child he
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had asked me on Labor Day to go fishing
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with him and I remember taking the pail
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and caught an eel and my job was to
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carry it back in the pail and it was
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kind of a scary scary thought I mean
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this thing's squirming around on this
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bale walking back with it Michelle had
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no way of knowing that I became a
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believer at that point I knew that it
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wasn't something she was just
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remembering bits and pieces of memories
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from her childhood that these were
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things that she could possibly have no
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knowledge of one of the most fascinating
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evidences of life after death contained
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in direct context is the fact that the
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loved ones who have passed on will often
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through particularly vivid dreams tell
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us little bits of information tell us
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things that we could not possibly know
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Verte I'm Michelle's dreams began to
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feel more and more real Michelle
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actually appeared in some dreams herself
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conversing with their grandfather
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my grandchildren Michele ask Rick if he
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knows where your uncle's purple hardens
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grandpa when I asked my father about the
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Purple Heart my dad was like no Michelle
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you know none of my uncle's not that I
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know of had a Purple Heart and one day I
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happened to be speaking to my mother and
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I asked her about it and she says oh
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yeah
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she says your uncle had gotten a Purple
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Heart and she had it and it was wrapped
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in a flag which my father had also told
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Michelle that's that's the way she would
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find the Purple Heart the dreams began
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to take Michelle to places she had never
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been before places her grandfather has
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spent some of the happiest days of his
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life we're late for the track
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I'm sorry do you have to go back no come
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on home but tell Greg I got his lucky
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pencil I thought now I'm really losing
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it this did not make sense whatsoever so
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I called dad when I told him about the
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lucky pencil dad just sat there again on
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the phone and he was real quiet and he
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told me that when he was a little boy
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they used to all go the racetrack my mom
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had a box of pencils little stubs and
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full-length ones and I took that down
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off the shelf
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and I stood at the gate of the racetrack
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and sold lucky pencils she was coming up
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with little nuances that I had no I
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couldn't imagine how she was picking
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these things up because we had never
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talked about it and there would be no
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way for her to know these things
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another dream at the racetrack brought
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more information and the unexpected
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appearance of family members Michelle
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had never met locked up Slater's after
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they called you know I did not recognize
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them come to find out my uncle said that
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yes my grandfather used to talk to a man
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who would Clark the horses in the
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morning and he would try to get get the
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good score so he would know who to bet
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on during you know during that time so
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yeah it's an I had no way of knowing
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that none he said he will always watch
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over me and Benjamin so in a way I look
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at it as a guardian angel I often
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wondered why me
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Michelle had named her baby Benjamin
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after her grandfather I believe that's
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the reason grandpa came back to her it
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was a way of affirming that he's there
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it was a way also of saying thank you
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hey that's nice just the way of somebody
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here on earth named a child after you'd
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say well thank you how flattering that
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was all two years and more than 100
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dreams later Michelle O'Malley looks
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forward to each encounter with her
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grandfather just as one would anticipate
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the visit of an old friend I just kind
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of look at it as a blessing a gift and
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one thing he did tell me was that I was
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gonna help a lot of people with my story
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and I don't know how I'll know that but
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I believe him because when grandpa
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speaks I listen
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make that french toast so they have you
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mean to measurement because you
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mentioned out Greg I got his lucky
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pencil is there an earthly explanation
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for Michelle O'Malley's extraordinary
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experiences a skeptic might say her
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dreams are just wishful thinking that
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hardly matters to Michelle who credits
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the visions of her grandfather with
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teaching her the true meaning of family
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next a special report this man believes
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he has evidence that the Green River
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Killer was his own brother
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and later murder rocks a wealthy
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community and two teenaged boys become
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suspects
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I'm standing by the Green River 13 miles
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south of Seattle Washington it was here
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in the summer of 1982 that the bodies of
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five young women were found it was the
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beginning of the hunt for a heinous mass
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murderer
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a hunt that is yet to end tonight will
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reexamine this disturbing case and take
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a closer look at one of the key suspects
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a man who many believed was the infamous
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Green River Killer it remains the
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largest unsolved serial murder case in
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US history two years 49 victims all
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young females
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most of them prostitutes who operated
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along a seat tax strip near the
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seattle-tacoma Airport nearly all of
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them strangled and dumped in a remote
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area thousands of leaves were
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investigated hundreds of suspects
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interrogated today more than a decade
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later one man in particular stands out
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his name William J Stephens
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bill Stephens was a petty thief in and
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out of trouble with the law for most of
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his life in 1981 he simply walked away
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from a minimum security facility where
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he was serving time for burglary over
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the next eight years
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Stephens avoided the authorities
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dividing his time between Seattle
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Spokane and Portland Oregon bill Stevens
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was an alienated disaffected individual
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who never held a job he fit all the FBI
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profiles of serial killers his poor
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relationship with women a mother who
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throttled his personality and
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development he was raging to his friends
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about how with the prostitutes of the
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SeaTac strip were spreading the AIDS
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epidemic my brother told people on
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several occasions that he wanted to kill
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women he wanted to torture them he
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wanted to cut them up dissect him he
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wanted he wanted to fill them with rocks
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he wanted to fill them with concrete and
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he wanted still put all of this on tape
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he thought that would be neat Chris take
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the back January 1989 acting on several
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tips police searched Stephens parents
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house in Spokane they uncovered a cache
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of guns and police badges
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they also found dozens of Polaroids of
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nude women
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most of them prostitutes
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in another room police came upon dozens
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of pornographic tapes and fraudulent
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credit card receipts from 1981 to 1989
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covering the years of the Green River
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killings Stevens also had had a fully
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equipped police car which he had managed
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to get registered to a non-existent City
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he had an ambulance police motorcycle
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those factors tended to make him more of
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a suspect in that it would have provided
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some ease for contacting potential
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victims investigators later searched a
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second house in Portland where Stevens
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lived until 1985
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in the basement there was a secret room
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which could only be accessed by using an
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automatic garage door opener the secret
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room first came to the attention of a
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neighbor who lived outside Portland at
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the same time Stevens did he invited her
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in to see this room and in in the room
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as I remember it
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there was a bed and on the bed was a
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mannequin a store dummy that was dressed
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in women's underwear
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and was struck in an obscene pose in
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January of 1989 Phil Stevens was
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arrested and charged with felony escape
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in a series of weapons violations that
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summer Stevens was also publicly named
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as a prime suspect in the Green River
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killings
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but within months authorities had
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cleared Stevens primarily because of an
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alibi provided by his younger brother I
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visited him in the King County Jail
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before he was transferred back to
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Spokane and he mentioned that he
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couldn't have done the killings because
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he was on a trip in Connecticut visiting
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me in 1982 when the killings first
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happened after the visit bill Stevens
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and his Paris continued on a
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cross-country trip
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Bob Stephens produced receipts which
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seemed to prove that bill was still
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traveling with her parents when the
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first five victims were murdered
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additionally we were able to determine
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that Stephens was not in the Seattle
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area he was either in Spokane or or
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Portland OR Vancouver Washington on the
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day before or the day after
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19:00 Green River victims were last seen
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today many people still believe bill
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Stephens got away with murder at least
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49 times perhaps the most surprising
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convert is Stephens own brother the
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person who provided him with his alibi
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I really believe my brother is a Green
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River Killer that the police had had the
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killer behind bars in 1989 and I helped
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get a killer away free
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Bob Stephens now questions whether his
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brother was in fact with their parents
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when the first five murders were
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committed
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my dad had told me that my brother
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didn't always leave with them he would
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always maybe just kind of join them
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somewhere disappear on their trip and
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then leave again that was his way of
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providing a paper trail he used my
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parents as his alibi Bob Stevens
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believes his brother had his own unique
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mo he would travel to various parts of
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the country established that he was
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there
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fly back to Seattle to commit murder and
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then returned to his vacation spot to
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re-establish his alibi Bob Stephens has
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never contacted us and provided us with
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any information contrary to what he he
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initially gave us this is basically news
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to me the police are involved in
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misdirection here because they don't
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want the public looking too closely at
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the various roles Stevens played in his
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life Roderick Thorp claims that the
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authorities are not reinvestigating
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William Stevens for one simple reason
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thou'rt believes as Stevens was a police
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informant
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police are only as good as the
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information they get which they get from
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people who live as Stevens did on the
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edge of society committing crimes that
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the police have to overlook because a
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guy like Stevens is constantly giving
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them information about more serious
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criminals so he was a good police
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informant but at the same time he was
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indulging in his little sport there
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which was the murder of young girls and
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but they never could believe it bill
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Stevens was never an informant with for
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any for any of the local police
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departments and was never affiliated
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with any of the local police departments
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there's no cover-up with regards to the
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investigation of William Stevens he's
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simply not the Green River Killer bill
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Stevens died of cancer in 1991 today
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detective Jensen is the only Police
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Officer actively working the Green River
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case officially the murders themselves
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ceased in the early months of 1984 we've
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explored the reasons why the killings
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may have stopped the suspect could be
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dead could it be incarcerated for
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another crime he could have moved to a
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different part of the country but
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however the killings truly stopped at
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least six unsolved murders in Seattle in
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the late 80s and early 90s bear an eerie
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resemblance to the Green River killings
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if William Stevens was in fact the
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killer then who could be responsible for
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these latest deaths it seems very clear
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that Stevens did not work along Stephens
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phone bills were in the possession of
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the police and one of the detectives
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told me that they were puzzled about
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hours and hours of long-distance calls
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to a certain number what were they
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talking about
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there is no evidence to support the
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theory that there was more than one
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killer long telephone calls to a friend
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or are not in any way incriminating and
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in many cases tend to provide him with
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alibis there have been killings since
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that are Green River type killings all
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right they're suggesting that the person
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who was Stephens accomplice has
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continued in a very random way because
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that's the way to get away with it
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was William J Stephens a Green River
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Killer did he work with an accomplice or
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was a killer someone else someone who
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may still be on the loose
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[Music]
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[Music]
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in a moment the woman needs your help to
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find the foster son she still loves as a
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row
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[Music]
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for Jean Warren and her family February
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of 1967 was a time of tearful parting
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[Music]
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five year-old Roger Linsley who had been
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living with the Warrens as a foster
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child was leaving I think the whole
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family was on edge because we knew that
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we were gonna lose Roger and just broke
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my heart because Roger was our family
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and I had all intentions of adopting him
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and my husband also as our son but
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didn't work out that way it's been
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almost 30 years since Jean Warren said
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goodbye to Roger Linsley tonight Jean
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needs your help to find the foster son
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she still loves as her own they met in
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1964 Jean her husband Don and her three
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young daughters were living in Queens
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New York but the wars had always longed
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for a son and Jean had a special reason
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for wanting to be a foster parent I was
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a foster child and because of this I
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guess I wanted a foster child to do what
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somebody did for me it's the tender
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loving care to me this is what's
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important giving a child to love the
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attention that he needed and not just a
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bed to sleep in
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Roger this is Carol and Wendy and Donna
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Donna this is Roger hi joy I can place
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my toys he was kind of shy but Donna she
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was a year older than Roger and she took
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to him the agency did tell you back I
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saw the problem to me problem
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Rogers a little slow he has trouble
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picking up new things you just have to
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be patient with him Gina and her family
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were more than patients Donna especially
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took her new brother under her wing all
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three of us girls tried to help them as
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much as we could but since I was closest
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to his age I think that's why we got
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along so good he was my buddy and my
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brother I thought of him as my brother I
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never thought of him as a foster child
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he was Roger my brother he'd come to me
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and he'd go I got my shoes on and then
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I'd looked down at his feet and they'd
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be on wrong you know and I was always
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trying to show him you know which side
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to put on which foot it took a while but
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he finally did learn and he learned to
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tie his shoes really quickly Roger do
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you remember what this is you said the
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word yesterday is it soda can you say
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that for me yeah very good would you
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like some
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within a year's time I have to say Raja
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developed so wonderfully he started
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smiling a lot laughing a lot you know he
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was no longer that shy little boy that
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walked in that Danny you're doing real
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good Roger I'm proud of you I think
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adjusting and our family was the best
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thing for Roger whatever we did he was
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there with us and each day I was loving
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this child more and more and more
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Roger lived with the warns for three
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years then in 1967 Don and Jean had to
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move to Ohio
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they were heartbroken to learn that they
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could not take Roger with him I
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questioned the agency because I wanted
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to adopt Roger and they told me that was
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impossible because he had family then I
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asked them would it be possible to take
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Roger to Ohio with us and that was also
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denied because he forced a child
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couldn't be taken out of state
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Roger you're gonna go with this nice
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lady here despite the fact that Roger
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had relatives in the area he would not
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be returning to them instead he was to
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go to another foster family Roger will
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be well taken care of
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did you find a nice home for him well
00:26:41
I'm afraid we haven't found him a
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permanent home yet
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but we found the family who can take him
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in temporarily I'm afraid they don't
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speak English but they're very good
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family I don't understand what do you
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mean they don't speak English well I'm
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afraid they only speak Spanish oh you
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can't do this we've worked so hard with
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Roger he's doing so well he's made so
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much progress this kind of traveled me
00:27:05
because I felt that Roger would more or
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less forget everything that he was
00:27:09
taught I just thought that would be the
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worst thing for him but there was
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nothing I can do but I cried naturally
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even more so I didn't want to let him go
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come on mature I'm going
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when she took him to the car he looked
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at us and looked at me and I remember
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putting up his hand and crying I don't
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want to go I don't want to go and you'd
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be a good boy Roger I could only say
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Roger be good take care of yourself and
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I love you and I'll always remember you
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when we return the unsolved murder of a
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teenage girl fuels controversy and
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scandal in a wealthy community
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on the night before Halloween 1975
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fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley of
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Greenwich Connecticut disappeared for 12
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hours her family was in a panic
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the entire neighborhood spread out in
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search of the missing teenager the next
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day another fifteen-year-old girl took a
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shortcut through Martha's yard and made
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a shocking discovery I became an adult
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very young I saw something I should
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never have seen I saw this beautiful
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wonderful sweet girl who maimed I mean
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just devastated
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I saw how cruel people can be to people
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Sheila was crying and I civiles she all
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right did she see she didn't think so
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and so I stayed in the house and this
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friend went with Sheila and they came
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back in a couple of minutes and my
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friend said it's Martha and she's dead
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the murder of Martha Moxley stunned the
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wealthy gated community of Belle here
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initially everyone assumed the killer
00:30:06
had to have been someone from outside
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the area in fact among the suspects then
00:30:11
enough our two young men who lived less
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than 200 yards away you have a case here
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which really should be called getting
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away with murder
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and I believe that where this not a
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prominent family
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nobody would have gotten away with this
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crime
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it's been more than 20 years as Martha
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Moxley was murdered but the case remains
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open and is perhaps now more than ever
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solvable not only because of advances in
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forensic technology such as DNA analysis
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but because of stunning new revelations
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allegedly made by two of the suspects
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themselves
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mock's October 30th 1975 had begun
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innocently Martha Moxley as several
00:31:08
friends went out for an evening of
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teenage pranks early the next afternoon
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Martha's body was discovered in her own
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backyard her jeans and underpass were
00:31:19
pulled out around her knees but there
00:31:21
was no evidence of sexual assault
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Martha was struck with a golf club
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she received several blows to the head
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the head of the club was found 50 feet
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from the portion of her driveway where
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she believed she was accosted
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subsequently we were able to determine
00:31:41
that she was stabbed in the neck it's
00:31:45
believed that the portion of the shaft
00:31:47
of the golf club that was used was later
00:31:51
used as a weapon to stab her with that
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the particular section of the club which
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is a probably about a foot long was
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never located here the clubs you
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requested from that set it's the only
00:32:02
set like that that we have the golf club
00:32:04
turned out to be part of a set belonging
00:32:06
to the Skakel family who lived across
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the street from the moxley's Rushton
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Skakel is a brother of Ethel Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy's Widow in fact that the
00:32:16
club
00:32:17
now was determined to have come from
00:32:19
that from the Skakel resident I think
00:32:20
there was a significant piece of
00:32:22
evidence and made us obviously focus our
00:32:25
investigation in that household and
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within that family
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the police estimated that Martha had
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been murdered between 9:45 and 10:00
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p.m. 15 year-old Michael Skakel told
00:32:39
police he had been with Martha that
00:32:41
night 17-year old Thomas Skakel was with
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her as well Thomas in fact was the last
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person known to have seen Martha alive
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we want to listen to some tapes but my
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brother and my cousin were inside the
00:32:56
house listening to music on the big
00:32:58
stereo so we decided to go ahead and
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listen to music in the car thomas told
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detectives that he and martha along with
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michael and two other friends sat in the
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car from around 9:00 to 9:30 well we're
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in the car for a while and my brothers
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came out and kicked us out of the car
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because my cousin Jimmy needed a ride
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home
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when was this about what time oh maybe
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9:15 9:30 men well then Brian left and
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then Alexandra left and a few minutes
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later Martha left I had a paper due on
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Abraham Lincoln so I went back inside
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the house and up into my room and what
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time was it say about 9:30 the police
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later checked with Thomas's school they
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found that no such report had been
00:33:58
assigned Michael Skakel corroborated
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part of his brother Thomas's story
00:34:03
Michael told police that at 9:30 he went
00:34:06
with his two oldest brothers John and
00:34:08
Rush jr. to give their cousin a ride
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home
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but if Michael was in the car and Thomas
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was in his room what happened to Martha
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Moxley on her short walk home
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investigators found yet another suspect
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in the Skakel household about 12:00
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12:30 24 year-old Kenneth Littleton had
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just been hired as a live-in tutor for
00:34:35
the Skakel children he had moved into
00:34:38
the house in the morning of the murder I
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spent the entire time watching TV what
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were you watching
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French Connection anybody see you in
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there watching TV sure uh mrs watson
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she's the housekeeper mr. Littleton I
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just heard some noise going on outside
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my window could you go and take a look
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please sure mrs. Watson I'll go check so
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what time was that
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that was about 9:45 before he went
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outside Littleton said that he decided
00:35:15
to check on the 7:00 Skakel children the
00:35:18
four oldest boys rush jr. John Michael
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and Thomas were still not home but his
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story was he had heard some noises
00:35:27
coming from the bushes on the property
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and Lee leaves rustling but claimed he
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did not see anything at the time he was
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out Littleton said he didn't see Thomas
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until 10:25 when Thomas joined him in
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front of the TV the other three boys
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came home within half an hour over the
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next several months detectives
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interviewed more than 200 people and
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gave several polygraph exams according
00:35:58
to the police Thomas cackled was given
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two tests the first was inconclusive
00:36:03
Thomas passed the second
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then after months of cooperating with
00:36:09
the authorities
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the Skakel's on the advice of their
00:36:11
attorney abruptly put a halt to all
00:36:14
further questioning
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no one has an obligation to cooperate
00:36:19
with police but most instances
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individuals who may have some knowledge
00:36:24
that may lead to the identification of
00:36:26
an individual who has committed a
00:36:27
violent crime are more than pleased to
00:36:29
contribute that information to the
00:36:31
police so it's most unusual when an
00:36:33
individual possessing information
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decides that he does not want to give
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that information to investigators
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do you know who killed Martha Moxley
00:36:42
know eventually attention shifted again
00:36:45
to Kenneth Littleton who'd been
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dismissed by the Skakel's after six
00:36:49
months in July of 1976 Littleton was
00:36:53
arrested and Nantucket Massachusetts for
00:36:55
burglary and theft according to the
00:36:59
police he was given a polygraph
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regarding the Moxley murder and failed
00:37:03
still authorities felt there wasn't
00:37:05
enough evidence to make an arrest the
00:37:07
case became inactive no and you know you
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can always count on your family don't
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you if you're implying that my family is
00:37:16
lying to protect me you're dead wrong
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incredibly 16 years later it was a media
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attention surrounding the rape trial of
00:37:24
William Kennedy Smith that brought the
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Moxley case back to life
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the connection between the Skakel and
00:37:30
Kennedy family served as the impetus
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within weeks the Greenwich Police had
00:37:34
reopened their investigation the opinion
00:37:38
of the and most of the investigators who
00:37:40
are again trained police officers are is
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that whoever was responsible for this
00:37:45
crime probably was in the Skakel home at
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some time that evening and we've been
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told in no uncertain terms that under no
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circumstances would they ever speak or
00:37:58
agree to any type of interviews or come
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forward and meet with any of us at any
00:38:06
time other
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in 1991 the police had brought in
00:38:11
forensic pathologist dr. Henry Lee who
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would later gained national prominence
00:38:15
during the OJ Simpson murder trial dr.
00:38:18
Lee was able to utilize technology
00:38:20
unavailable in 1975 while was able to
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re-examine certain evidence who was
00:38:28
sample fond some newer evidence among
00:38:33
the items examined by dr. Lee were
00:38:35
clothes found discarded in the Skakel's
00:38:37
garbage shortly after the murder this
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included a pair of pants and sneakers
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which reportedly belonged to Michael and
00:38:46
will found some hairs and fibers some of
00:38:49
the hair microscopically similar to hers
00:38:52
other hair dissimilar to her dr. Lee
00:38:57
determined that the hair belonged to a
00:38:59
male Caucasian but he didn't have a hair
00:39:01
sample from any of the possible suspects
00:39:04
and was unable to make a match however
00:39:07
after studying the crime-scene
00:39:08
photographs dr. Lee was able to provide
00:39:11
a possible motive for Martha's murder
00:39:13
the blood smear on her body indicates
00:39:17
somebody tried to use force
00:39:20
it's suggest could be a sexual motivator
00:39:24
homicide Leonard Leavitt is an
00:39:28
investigative reporter for the Long
00:39:29
Island based daily Newsday he has been
00:39:32
looking into the Moxley cases 1982 there
00:39:36
were no defense wounds which indicates
00:39:39
that she knew her attacker merely the
00:39:42
fact that she was hit repeatedly with a
00:39:45
golf club indicates some kind of rage
00:39:46
which personalizes this thing which
00:39:48
indicates that there was such anger that
00:39:53
the two had to have known each other
00:39:56
that it was a crime of passion
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time and again the trail led back to the
00:40:04
Skakel's by 1995 thomas cackled was 37
00:40:08
years old a successful businessman
00:40:10
married and the father of two years
00:40:13
earlier Thomas's father rushed and
00:40:15
Skakel is set out to clear the family
00:40:16
name once and for all he hired his own
00:40:19
private investigators but what they
00:40:22
allegedly discovered about the night in
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question was nothing short of a
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bombshell
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in November of 1995 a full 20 years
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after the murder of Martha Moxley
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Leonard Levitt reported in Newsday that
00:40:37
Thomas and Michael Skakel had made
00:40:38
startling admissions to the private
00:40:40
detectives both Thomas and Michael told
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the investigators that they had lied to
00:40:46
the police about their accounts the
00:40:48
night of the murder
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Thomas said to them that after 9:30 he
00:40:53
went inside his house and then he went
00:40:55
back out and spent another 20 minutes
00:40:58
with Martha he claims now that he and
00:41:01
Martha engaged in a sexual act and then
00:41:04
left her at about 10:00 to 10:00 if you
00:41:07
go back now and you look at the story
00:41:09
that he told it just doesn't add up
00:41:13
I'm very sorry to be calling you so late
00:41:15
but I'm looking for my daughter Martha
00:41:18
at 1:00 a.m. Martha's mother called
00:41:21
around the neighborhood looking for
00:41:23
Martha they awakened Thomas who's asleep
00:41:26
and his story is I last saw her at 9:30
00:41:29
p.m. if Thomas doesn't know that Martha
00:41:34
is dead why doesn't he say then I last
00:41:38
left her at 10:00 to 10:00 why is he
00:41:41
lying before even knows that something
00:41:44
has happened to her that's a question
00:41:46
that nobody has resolved his younger
00:41:51
brother Michael says that around
00:41:53
midnight he went out to Martha's house
00:41:55
climbed up a tree threw stones at her
00:41:58
window to awaken her the only thing that
00:42:01
possibly makes any sense was that if
00:42:03
Martha was dead at 10 o'clock and he's
00:42:06
up there at midnight they didn't know
00:42:08
she'd been killed then climbed down and
00:42:12
passed what police now say is the murder
00:42:15
site says he saw and heard something saw
00:42:20
nothing and went home and what this wall
00:42:24
means nobody can quite figure out
00:42:28
clearly we're a different situation now
00:42:30
that we've ever been because we've got
00:42:32
these admissions from Thomas that he
00:42:35
lied to the police
00:42:36
that he's put himself with Martha at
00:42:39
precisely the time that the police
00:42:41
believes she's murdered if you take
00:42:46
those articles that being factual the
00:42:48
question arises why did they lie and why
00:42:53
have they
00:42:53
20 years later decided to change their
00:42:56
stories there's certainly a strange and
00:42:59
different change in stories here that
00:43:02
firmly indicate to me that the answers
00:43:05
to this case are within that family it's
00:43:08
frustrating to know that for 20 years
00:43:11
they've known that they lied and they
00:43:13
know something that's going on and I'm
00:43:15
not saying that they did it but they
00:43:18
know something that could help us it was
00:43:21
just very exciting to think that we've
00:43:24
actually had some little breaking down
00:43:27
in their story and just with the hope
00:43:32
that if one thing breaks down maybe
00:43:35
other things will break down and it's
00:43:37
bound to happen anytime I can do
00:43:42
anything to help it I'm going to do it
00:43:44
and I won't give up and I have to do
00:43:46
that for Martha
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but our next turn saw mysteries do you
00:44:32
believe in ghosts perhaps you will for
00:44:35
taking the unofficial tour of the
00:44:36
legendary Comedy Store in Hawley some
00:44:40
people say that once a celebrity's go
00:44:41
home the real show begins join me next
00:44:47
Friday at our regular time for another
00:44:49
fascinating edition fun song the spirits
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