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tonight the exciting season premiere
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unsolved mysteries Brandon Lee handsome
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charismatic destined to be a star then
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something went horribly wrong on a movie
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set in North Carolina it Brandon Lee for
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victim deletion curse some believed also
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killed his father Bruce Lee 20 years
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earlier
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rusty Carlson was a frightened and
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confused 16 years
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she gave her baby up for adoption more
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than two decades later she and the
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child's father were together again and
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searching for their long-lost daughter
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have you ever had a dream that just had
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to be real tonight you'll meet a man
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whose nightmare of capture and
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imprisonment during the Gulf War was
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astonishing psychic vision that came
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true
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in Northern California a fugitive on the
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loose a standoff a massive search
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have you seen Tony Castile join me for
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our dramatic season premiere perhaps you
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hold the key perhaps you may be able to
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help solve a mystery
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Bruce and Brandon Lee father-and-son
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licked by legend each was a rising star
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in the action-packed world of
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martial-arts films some say Bruce and
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Brandon are also bound for eternity by
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an ancient Chinese myth a few have
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called it a lethal family curse
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supposedly the first victim was Bruce
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Lee's older brother who died as an
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infant later when Bruce nough son
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Brandon met unexpected deaths many again
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divined the unstoppable hand of fate be
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formless shapeless like water ultimately
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martial art means honestly expressing
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yourself with his explosive power and
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fluid grace Bruce Lee was a
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one-of-a-kind movie hero almost
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single-handedly he created an audience
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for martial arts films in the summer of
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1973 Lee was 32 years old on the brink
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of international stardom then on July
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20th he took a prescription drug for a
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headache and laid down for a nap Bruce
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Lee never got up I was at the hospital
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when they brought Bruce in it was just
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incredible I couldn't understand what
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was going on I you know I kept thinking
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he's gonna snap out of this you know but
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I didn't know that he was already gone
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and they were trying heroic measures to
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bring him back and all that
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the unthinkable had happened Bruce Lee
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was dead
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his funeral drew more than 25,000
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mourners after an unprecedented nine day
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inquest the corner announced his
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findings Bruce Lee had died from a freak
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allergic reaction to a pain remedy
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here we have this paragon of fitness you
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know the one of the most lethal human
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beings with his hands or his feet taken
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out you know essentially by a headache
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tablet but it happens and it only seems
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all the more unbelievable when it
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happens to someone who is larger than
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life favorite allegations sprang up
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overnight Lee had been murdered by a
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rival studio the disgruntled business
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partner the Japanese mafia others blame
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Bruce Lee's death on the family curse
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and the mysterious forces of funk she
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among other things this ancient Chinese
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belief mandates had a home be built in
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perfect harmony with its environment
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Bruce Lee's house in Hong Kong was said
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to be spiritually misaligned a virtual
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guarantee of ruinous bad luck the
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Chinese believe that unless this is
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addressed through either a funky expert
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who comes in to help you in some way
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deflect whatever evil Homans there are
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or if you just tear down the building
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and redirect it properly then you're
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okay apparently the previous owner of
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the house had consulted a funky expert
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who placed a small mirror on the house
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to deflect the evil spirits it remained
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there until July 19th 1973 when it was
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ripped away during a typhoon Bruce Lee
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died the next day
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was a coincidence for a family curse one
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that could reach across the generations
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at the time Bruce's son Brandon was just
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8 years old already he was following in
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his father's footsteps I started
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training with my dad really as soon as I
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could walk I mean my dad was a really
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diligent trainer and he always had
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people over the house practicing in fact
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I remember when I was a little kid a lot
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of my friends didn't want to come over
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to the house because there were always
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these men out in the backyard screaming
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and breaking things you know like father
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like son
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Brandin followed Bruce's path to the big
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screen as a star of martial arts films
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Brandon was 28 years old when he was
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fatally shot on the set of his fifth
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feature the chrome an untimely death one
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dogged by controversy like father like
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son it was awful
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I mean I didn't think no one no one ever
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thinks that their child is going to pre
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decease them especially one who is so
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vibrant he had so much life and so much
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future and so much promise and
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everything was coming together for him
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and for one who had already suffered
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tragedies in his life and then than this
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Brandon Lee sudden death renewed
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speculation about a family curse the
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canoe strategy really be attributed to
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supernatural forces tonight in an
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exclusive television interview
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detectives in charge of the case set the
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record straight
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nearly 50 eyewitnesses more than a dozen
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ballistics tests
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this is the story pieced together by
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detectives Rodney Simmons and Brian
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Pettis of the Wilmington North Carolina
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Police Department the strange six-week
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journey of the bullet destined to killed
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Brandon Lee after about five to six
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months we knew pretty much where the gun
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had gone where bullets had gone who had
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handled the bullets who had handled the
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guns and at what level responsibilities
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everybody was they were filming a pawn
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shop scene and they needed items from
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actual pawn shops so they went to one of
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the local pawn shops and Wilmington the
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stagehand gathered hundreds of props
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among them was a box of live 44 Magnum
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bullets the first link and the fatal
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chain of events was now in place they
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dressed the set up with all the items
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that they received they had placed the
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44 rounds on a counter that was used in
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the scene punch up earlier
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these are live hey that's enough stunt
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coordinator said when he found a lot of
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ammunition 'el and said he was livid the
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bottom line rule is that you don't have
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a lot of ammunition on the set the stunt
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coordinator locked the bullets in the
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trunk of his car
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where they would remain for another two
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weeks understanding the tragic events to
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come requires some knowledge of bullets
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and blanks the business end of a bullet
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is a lead tip it sits snugly in the
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casing packed inside is a load of
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gunpowder
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this small disc is an explosive charge
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known as a primer once the trigger is
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pulled hammer hits primer primer
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detonates igniting powder the explosive
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force of burning powder shoots LED tip
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towards target simple deadly a blank is
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a bullet with a harmless disc of
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cardboard instead of a LED tip a
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gunpowder load can be varied to affect
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the amount of flash visible when the
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blank is fired on the set of the CRO
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preparations are underway for a scene
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that required quarter load blanks
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however none were purchased to save time
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the live shells were brought out to be
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modified into blanks they removed the
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lead tip with pair of pliers shook out
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the powder that was inside of it that
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left the cartridge in the primer the
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primer in itself they decided was the
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equivalent of a quarter load
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manufactured blank the end result was a
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handful of empty casings each with a
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live primer and while they were making
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the quarter low blanks they realized
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that he needed some dummy bullets also
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the dummy round is basically a bullet
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with no powder no primer just a casing
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and a LED tip it no way it could be
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fired that's a dummy round so what they
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did they fired off there were some of
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the primers from the blanks that they
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made and took those casings and put the
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lead tips back in the casings but what
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they didn't do was check the primers to
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see if they'd all been fired when they
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made the dummy rounds so they got some
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mixed up so they made at least one dummy
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round they had a primer still intact
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they needed a scene looking down the
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barrel the gun people that are doing to
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do this shot was part of the second unit
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filming crew and they would pull the
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trigger rotating one cylinder at her
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time around simulating someone firing a
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weapon
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police say that at least two people on
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the set heard of popping noise no one
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realized it had been the sound of a
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primer firing no one realized that the
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primer had exploded with just enough
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force to dislodge the lead tip from the
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bullet casing and wedge it into the gun
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barrel there it would remain undetected
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for another 14 days awaiting his fateful
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meeting with Brandon Lee about two weeks
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after the second unit filmed the gun the
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same came up it was a death scene for
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Brandon's character and for this scene
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the director chose to use a full load
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blank they called for the the 44 magnum
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loaded it with the full charge blanks at
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this time the LED tip is still lodged
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inside the barrel he gives the gun to
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the actor
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and action
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that bullet being lodged in the barrel
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and that full load blank that was the
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equivalent of a live 44 round and it was
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projected out of the gun and and to
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Brandon Lee
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North Carolina officials concluded that
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the film company's biggest failures were
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not having a gun expert on the set and
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taking shortcuts to save time and money
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however the chain of negligence involved
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so many people that convicting any one
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of them was unlikely no criminal charges
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were filed in the end it seems that
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Brandon Lee was truly a victim of
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circumstance or was he as some claim the
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final casualty of the family curse I
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think the family of Bruce Lee is has
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been blessed not cursed and we who are
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still here myself and my daughter
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Shannon I felt very fortunate that we
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were part of this family and knew Bruce
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and Brandon intimately I think that
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Brandon and I think that Bruce were two
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people who did try their best most of
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the time who wanted to produce quality
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work in their lives and who did they
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were extraordinary young people next the
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mysterious case of the missing
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anchorwoman what happened Jodi
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huisentruit
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Mason City Iowa is a quintessential
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small town in fact it was a model for
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the town immortalized in the legendary
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Broadway show The Music Man
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but since June of 1995 this homespun
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Hamlet has been in mourning yellow
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ribbons everywhere symbolize the hope
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that one of Mason city's most popular
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residents will someday come home I'm
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John shine from KIMT television Mason
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City Iowa we need your help one of our
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news anchors is missing her name is Jodi
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huisentruit Jodi is five feet three
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inches tall and weighs 120 pounds she
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has blonde hair and was last heard from
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around 4:00 a.m. Tuesday June the 27th
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in case you're coning today marks the
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sixth consecutive day of hitting 90
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degrees or better
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Jodi huisentruit moved to Mason City in
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late 1993 and quickly became an active
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member of the community as the anchor of
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a morning news show Jodi was a local
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favorite a woman with many friends and
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no known enemies the day Jodi vanished
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she was scheduled to work a regular
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shift on the morning show but she didn't
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arrive on time
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producer Amy kun's called her apartment
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everything sounded normal just like I
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had just woken her up
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what time is that she asked the question
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so I told her jawed it's about 10:00 to
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4:00 you need to come into work how much
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time was left to produce on the show I
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mean she was obviously thinking and she
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was aware she just knew she had
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overslept and she had to get into work I
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didn't hear anything out of the ordinary
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nothing
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when Jody didn't show up by airtime amy
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anchored the newscast then sent the
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first available person to check on Jody
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I was halfway mad because I had to do
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all of this stuff all by myself halfway
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worried because I thought geez what if
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she's laying in her apartment bleeding
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because she fell down hit her head on
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the tub you know things like that but
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never once did I think somebody nabbed
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her outside of her apartment never wants
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to that cross my mind
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the officer arriving at the scene
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observed several Julie's personal items
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strung about the ground around her car a
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quick check was done in and around the
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apartment complex for Jody eventually
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were when I unable to find her her
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personal items which which appear to be
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things that she was bringing with her to
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work in preparation for that morning's
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newscast were scattered about her car
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kind of trailing off away from the
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vehicle which which - all involved is a
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good indicator that she was taken
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fortunately by that afternoon the Mason
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City police launched a massive search
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aided by the FBI in the Iowa Division of
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Criminal Investigation rescue teams
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scoured the countryside divers and
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police dogs covered the Winnebago River
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and its banks but there was no trace of
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Jodi huisentruit in fact the only
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possible clue was a white Ford Econoline
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van much like this one it was seen in
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the parking lot of Jodi's apartment
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building about the time she disappeared
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the most difficult aspect of this
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investigation to date has really been
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the lack of apparent motive for an
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abduction the lack of physical evidence
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involved in the crime scene and the lack
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of any genuine eyewitnesses this is
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still very much an open case and will
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remain an open case we are receiving is
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still four to six leads a day on the
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case in those K all those leads will be
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followed outward
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it's been eight months since the people
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of this quiet community hung the yellow
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ribbons and put up the missing posters
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the ribbons are now shattered a posters
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faded and mason city is still trying to
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make sense of what happened to Jodi
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huisentruit good thinking way to go we
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spent a lot of time and a lot of effort
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talking to the people who knew Jodi and
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spend time with Jodi we've located
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nothing in her private life that would
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have put her at risk at all no dark side
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to Jodi she was as real and all-american
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as as she appeared to those who knew her
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and into her viewers I think there's
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still hope I really feel that we might
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find her yet
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there's you can't give up hope that's
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what gets you up in the morning I can't
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imagine life without her because she is
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our joy she's our life I mean we love
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her so much it's just everything to us
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[Music]
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next more than 20 years ago a teenage
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girl reluctantly gave her daughter up
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for adoption
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can you help reunite
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[Music]
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tis better to have loved and lost than
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never to have loved at all or so the
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poet's say better still to have a second
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chance at that lost love and so it would
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be for an Iowa teenager named Christie
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Whismur
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in 1973 Christie was 16 her boyfriend
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Dave Carlson was 18 their youthful
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romance burned briefly but brightly
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[Music]
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after six months together they broke up
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only to discover that their love had
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consequences it would last a lifetime
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[Music]
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Christie hi I need to talk to you
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how you doing
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not so good
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I'm pregnant
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[Music]
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we had broke up a week before I found
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out that I was pregnant you know I could
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think of was house Dave gonna handle
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this and what about my folks you know I
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just thought it was the end of the world
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coming come on in Carlson any parent
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would be upset and angry to learn that
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their teenage daughter was pregnant
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Christie says a confrontation with her
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father came when she was four months
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pregnant and just beginning to show
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you're 16 and pregnant and you did it
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it's my father he was taking it very
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hard and told me that um you know I was
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just an embarrassment to the family that
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you couldn't possibly love me it seemed
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like the only thing to do was put the
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child up for adoption Dave and Christie
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talked about getting married but that
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was out of the question I was forbidden
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to see him so we'd sneak you know and
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see each other but then we kind of grew
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apart during the pregnancy in June of
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1974 Christie Whismur gave birth to a
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baby girl it should have been a time of
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joy for Christie a transition to life
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with a child in the family of her own
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instead the infant was to be adopted
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giving birth was lonely labor destined
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to end and discipline they took the baby
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wave right away and after they wheeled
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me back to my room and put me into the
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bed my mother come up and talked to me
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for a little while and she asked if I
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had walked down and look at the baby I
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saw her earlier this evening she's
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beautiful she's the one down front she
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looks so sweet laying there you know I
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knew that I loved her
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[Music]
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but I couldn't take her home
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Christie Bob Riley about that paper for
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you to sign the adoption rolled forward
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overwhelming any last-minute doubts
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Christie might have heard that right
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there sure I just want you to know how
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proud we are before the baby was 24
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hours old she was on her way to a new
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family I'm very tired right now do you
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think this could wait until a little bit
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later no got to do it right now just as
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we talked about there you go
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I knew that the adoption was gonna take
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place but it hadn't really
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hit me at the time you know I was just I
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was pregnant I was in labor
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everything was just happening so fast
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Cristi Whismur never saw her daughter
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again she and Dave Carlson went their
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separate ways
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they each married had children divorced
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in 1995 Christie returned to Iowa for
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her 20-year highschool reunion
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friends told of the Dave Carlson I've
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been asking about her Christie called
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him up I was really nervous about
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contacting him and I was really glad
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when I did make the phone call though
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because it seemed like we still you know
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the feelings were still there and he
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asked if we could see each other at the
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following night for a date and we met
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and things were still quicken between us
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the romance that is Spofford for two
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decades reignited Christie and Dave were
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married on June 22nd 1996 now they feel
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that their happiness would be complete
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if they could locate their daughter and
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I'm trying to take the place of her
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family I gave up all my rights back then
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and I would just like to make myself
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available for whatever purpose she might
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have
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[Music]
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I've kept it inside for so many years
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and not talked about it after meeting
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Dave again it's just surfaced and it's
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just something that I've got to do I've
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got to at least attempt and try to find
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her let her know that I didn't give her
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up for adoption because I didn't want
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her I gave her up because by the
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circumstances maybe she never will
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forgive me for what I've done back then
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but I would like to just be able to see
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her and talk to her
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next an accused killer is on the run and
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the authorities need your help to track
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him down
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July 23rd 1994 a young man in a Chevy
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Suburbans beat southbound along
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Interstate 5 in Shasta County California
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on his tail his Highway Patrol officer
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Kevin Benson southbound approaching
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father Cloud Washington Tom x-ray Sam
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726 requesting backup officer Benson has
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no idea that he is following a very
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dangerous fugitive
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Tony Castro is a Mexican national a long
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rap sheet for violent offenses three
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days earlier he had walked into an empty
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house near Sacramento California an
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allegedly attacked a man who was
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repairing a heating system he stabbed me
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multiple times kicked me and left me on
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the floor went through my pockets for
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the car keys took my car and left two
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days later the burned-out shell of
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William gull arts car was found in
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Washington State 800 miles away the day
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before just down the road 72 year old
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Mike Fidel had been murdered in his
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farmhouse the prime suspect is now Tony
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Castro mr. Fidel was beaten badly shot
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twice one of the worst cases our
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pathologist has ever seen I just don't
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understand how he could do it
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how he could have beat on my uncle the
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way that he did and then to shoot him
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boy was Mike for deaf word apparently
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for his gun collection and his truck
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officer Benson kept Castro in his sights
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for about ten miles Bari got fifty to
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sixty one be advised he's exiting the
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bollard flat he may have just been
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hoping that the patrolman just continued
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on south on i-5 and and he would make
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his escape that way but the escape route
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led straight to a cul-de-sac
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Tony Castro was trapped or so it seemed
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get your hands up on them officer keep
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your hands up get out of the car get out
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okay
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you know in the blink of an eye Castro
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disappeared within an hour state and
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local law enforcement agents had
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converged on the Sacramento River Canyon
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a wilderness area that covers thousands
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of acres of rugged dense terrain not a
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trace not yet the whole situation was
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dealt with as an emergency in progress
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there was nothing that led us to believe
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that he wouldn't commit the same acts in
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his attempt to flee the area forty units
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were dispatched immediately
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the Highway Patrol put extra squad cars
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on the interstate trackers fanned out up
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and down the Sacramento River SWAT teams
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checked the freight trains that ran
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through the canyon but there was no sign
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Tony Castro
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because a canyon is bordered by steep
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terrain to the east and west
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authorities speculated that Castro would
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stick to the river an hour later
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confirmation command post 20 to 24 there
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wasn't anything rational about him it
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was difficult to pinpoint what he would
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do next this guy had no feelings towards
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taking a human life to just get an
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automobile just to provide himself
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transportation to kill another human
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being in the early afternoon and a mile
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upstream a news reporter was lost along
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the frontage road
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Kestrel doated back into the woods and
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apparently changed direction he headed
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south downstream this is an extremely
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rugged Canyon we could have had an army
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of officers out there and he still would
00:31:18
have slipped by us just because of the
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natural terrain and the concealment
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opportunities he had made available to
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him
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Castrol is a survivalist this man has
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the skills to survive in elements that
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the average person wouldn't he was a
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strong individual he could probably go
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for days in the elements without food or
00:31:43
water and and survive call in the teams
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will just pick it up tomorrow he's got
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the advantage and I don't want to
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jeopardize our trappers as nightfall
00:31:53
approached captain Richardson was forced
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to pull the trackers out of the canyon
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he could only hope that Castro would
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still be around the next day in our fear
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level kept rising because we hadn't had
00:32:05
any reports on the movement of the
00:32:07
suspect we hadn't been able to confirm
00:32:10
whether he was still in the area or not
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and it became our concern that he had
00:32:14
taken refuge in somebody's home holding
00:32:16
him hostage or doing him harm but Tony
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Kestrel continued to confound
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authorities as far as anyone knows he
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did not bother a soul that night in the
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morning he showed up in the small town
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of Lakehead eight miles south of where
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the chase had begun can I help you with
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something
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Thank You bear your car uh it runs good
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right
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Thank You Beth my wife huh do you
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hundred bucks right yeah if you got the
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cash I got cash I'll get the key wait up
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hope you don't mind you wait right there
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I'll be right back I was swimming with
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some friends a few minutes later Tony
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Castro was on the road again having
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bought himself a new set of wheels
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Enoch showed his face in Orange County
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California Maria's family but within a
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few days Castro disappeared again he had
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eluded one of the largest manhunts in
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Northern California history the
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authorities feel very fortunate that no
00:33:28
one was hurt during Castro's flight to
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the Sacramento River Canyon but they
00:33:33
also fear that the next time Castro was
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cornered he may lash out
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Tony Castro is 28 years old five feet
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seven with a muscular build he has two
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distinctive physical features his right
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index finger is cut off at the knuckle
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and his upper front teeth have gold
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etching at the gumline when we return a
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man's strange dream of capture and
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imprisonment apparently comes true of
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one of his friends
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at one time or another most of us have
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had a dream so intense so vivid that we
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felt it had to be real do you though
00:34:21
have ever discovered the dream actually
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was real if you aver the spine-tingling
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experience of the man you're about to
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meet
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January 1991 the onslaught by the United
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States and its allies known as Desert
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Storm burst across Iraq and Iraqis
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Kuwait
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the conflict was instantly uplinked
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television sets all over the world I
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would like to see a peaceful solution to
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this question I think saddened the saint
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should fully the first night Baghdad was
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bombed Joe O'Brien of Crestline
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California watched with special interest
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one of the Kuwaiti jet pilots fighting
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with the Allied forces was his longtime
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friend Muhammad Mubarak nicknamed Sami
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they had met sixteen years before when
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Sammy was in the US on a training
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mission and had remained close ever
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since during the hours of darkness
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Baghdad was bombed by allied warplanes
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wait Homa Joe had no doubts Sammy would
00:35:38
be in the thick of the fighting I'm
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gonna have to call you back but he was
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stunned to see his friends face staring
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out at him from the TV
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the Iraqis who shot down Sammy's plane
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and taken him prisoner I had a feeling
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it was like my blood turned to lead I
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think my biggest concern when he was
00:36:00
shot down was that Saddam Hussein would
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make an example out of him Iraq's issue
00:36:07
was with Kuwait so we have a Kuwaiti
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pilot we will if they were to torture or
00:36:12
kill him that was my main concern
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Joe was consumed with worry when he
00:36:22
finally fell into a fitful sleep he had
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a dream without question one of the most
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bizarre he had ever had
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in my dream I was very much aware that I
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was Sammy I was in his cell and I was
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seeing things through his eyes it was a
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fairly small cell with a high ceiling
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the floor was very cold I was very cold
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in this dream and I noticed the color
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was almost like a dark flat porcelain it
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had on a maroon took on a maroon or a
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purplish color when the light was on
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when it was off it just looked gray or
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black I remember being very
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uncomfortable but the pain I had in my
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hands almost overrode everything else
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about my captivity it was so painful my
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hands were on fire
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in his dream Joe had a surprisingly
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strong feeling about what appeared to be
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an ordinary striped blanket there was
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something about this blanket or material
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that I was very happy to have it and I
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don't know what the significance was but
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I remember studying the material and the
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design and I was shortly after that when
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I woke up in a cold sweat I've never had
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a dream like that and I've never woken
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up like that before and I immediately
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got out of bed it was about 6 o'clock
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and I went right in to the bathroom and
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turned on the cold water to run some
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water on my wrists which were very very
00:38:05
sore that same morning Joe met a friend
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John Goffe for breakfast sure when he
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showed up I noticed that his hands were
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kind of red and he had a tough time
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picking his coffee cup up and he says
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the darkness thing happened to me last
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night
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I had a strange dream and in the process
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of my dream my hands started hurting and
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so then he told me about the dream
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your friend is a Kuwaiti planet yeah
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yeah I dream that was him in his cell
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Joel Bryan is not a person to just
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fabricate stories he's a very honest
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person and when he told me about this
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story I really did think that there was
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something really unusual because of the
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fact that he explained in detail about a
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prisoner of war and that the pain of his
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hands didn't go away for five days you
00:39:06
know someone's captive you're gonna
00:39:08
picture a cell but why the pain and why
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in my wrists you know I've I used to be
00:39:15
a Mason I have strong hands I've never
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had problems with my hands and here I
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can't even hold a coffee cup
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finally 42 days after the war began
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Iraq surrendered Saddam Hussein agreed
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to a ceasefire and an exchange of
00:39:33
prisoners Joe again saw Sammy on
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television this time he was on his way
00:39:38
to freedom
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when I saw Sammy actually being released
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I couldn't believe it I was just so
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happy and I called him I called him
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right after he that night he was in the
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hospital and I guess he had just walked
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into his room and I called him and had a
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wonderful conversation with him and it
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was very happy you know so it was a good
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day the following Christmas was a true
00:40:07
celebration Sammy and his sister visited
00:40:10
Joe in California for a reunion that
00:40:14
night Joe finally decided to tell Sammy
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about his extraordinary dream I think I
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was
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Sammy was struck dumb Joe's words thrust
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him back back into the horror of
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captivity while the Iraqis were taking
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Sammy to the PIO WK they kept him
00:40:45
handcuffed so tightly that his wrists
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were cut and bleeding the pain of the
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hands guy hardly can move my rusts
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around
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I had the handcuffs for five long days
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you know very tight and very hurting my
00:41:04
breasts badly and then also he had the
00:41:07
pain for five days exactly so very
00:41:11
strange general this asian green striped
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cloth which was really important to me
00:41:19
the detail was astonishing Joe was
00:41:22
describing Sammy's blanket
00:41:24
the only comfort he had I was very cold
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and to keep myself warm so I usually
00:41:32
just have the blanket around me and that
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was some kind some how my favorite
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because you know it was keeping me warm
00:41:43
Jones Sammy compared notes for hours on
00:41:46
point after point Joe's dream match
00:41:49
Sammy's experience precisely I was
00:41:52
totally amazed surprised he said we
00:41:56
matched the cell and the reality almost
00:42:00
is a hundred percent you know 100
00:42:03
percent the feeling that description the
00:42:06
color is how I felt everything there is
00:42:13
no accepted explanation for this
00:42:15
particular unsolved mystery perhaps it
00:42:18
was just an eerie coincidence or perhaps
00:42:20
it is proof that true friendship cannot
00:42:22
be bound by time distance or dimension
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as renowned psychiatrist and dream
00:42:27
analyst Karl Yune once said the
00:42:30
unexpected in the incredible along in
00:42:32
this world only then is life hold for
00:42:45
every mystery there is someone somewhere
00:42:47
who knows the truth perhaps it's you
00:42:50
join me again next Friday and every
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Friday run solve mysteries
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