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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a man falls out of a boat and
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Searchers can't find his body he was set
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to be tried on rape charges is he truly
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dead or alive and On The
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Run just 2 days before Christmas a
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5-year-old boy and his young mother are
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brutally murdered can DNA left by the
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killer lead to his
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capture in
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1917 more than 70,000 pilgrims in
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fattima Portugal saw what they believe
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was a true Miracle it remains one of the
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great religious
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Mysteries and after searching for more
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than 50 years a man is finally reunited
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with his long-lost daughter the heir to
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his
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fortune whether it's murder Larsen or F
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play sometimes these cases are solved
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and often by people like you I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries
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the Snake River
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Washington after a late summer fishing
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trip Strider Starfire and another man
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head for home
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with night approaching they're worried
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about getting back before
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dark as the boat speeds across the water
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Strider reaches for a beer from an ice
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chest The Bu driver claims he gears his
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dog El and when he turns around Strider
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is
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gone he is never seen
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again the apparent accidental drowning
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of Strider Starfire has been questioned
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ever since it wasn't long before
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investigators learned that Starfire
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actually had a very good reason to
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disappear Strider Starfire was a family
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man hi guys let's go he his wife and her
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two young children lived in the small
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town of Roseberg Oregon the teenage
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daughter of a family friend often spent
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time with them we'll call her
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Lisa can you help
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me Lisa had grown up without a father
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and she became like a second daughter to
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Strider and his
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wife those who spent any time with
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Strider would usually fall under the
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spell of his incredible charm about 1200
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hours you know me and Tim were in this
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Foxhole all right and we're pinned down
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we can't get up and we were trying to
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get our he told romantic tales about his
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exploits while serving with the special
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forces in Vietnam spying for the CIA for
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fighting alongside the Irish Republican
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Army my belly dragging when he told us
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about being this Crusader to help the
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little man to pull the poor guy up by
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his boots and and give uh the underdog
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his day you tended to believe him he wo
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his stories very well so the reason why
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we're called the clan of Starfire is
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because Strider also claimed that he was
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the last surviving member of a Scottish
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plan and was the sole heir to its
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fortunes he
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should as Lisa grew up she spent more
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and more time with the Starfire family
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and Strider always made himself
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available to her he was a father figure
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when she had no father figure she had no
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qualms of believing and feeling safe
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with him because he'd always been safe
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something need I got to tell you but
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according to Lisa those feelings of
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trust and security were destroyed One
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Night in the Starfire home I'm in love
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with you out of the blue he started to
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profess his love to me tell me he'd been
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in love with me for
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years that
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was it was a really terrifying
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moment after making his Advance Starfire
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allegedly seduced and then had sex with
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Lisa
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for more than a year the traumatized
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teenager didn't reveal what had happened
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the secrecy took a heavy
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toll after strer did that to me my life
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really spiral out of control I couldn't
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make any friends at school so I quit
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going I did a lot of drugs and I decided
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that I
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couldn't couldn't deal with it
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anymore strider's Behavior became more
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BL in other ways one day he brought home
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an unexpected guest he introduced her as
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his new business partner I had been
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getting a little bit of rumor that there
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was more than just business going on
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between them and when they came home it
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was exceedingly obvious that they were
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being intimate who the hell is that are
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you out of your mind his wife was
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shocked when Strider proposed that she
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welcomed this woman into their home as
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his second wife that was the last draw
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within weeks she filed for divorce but
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it wasn't until after the divorce was
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Final that strider's ex-wife learned the
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true depth of his lies and his
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deceit Lisa left a note saying that she
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was running away with her boyfriend she
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also revealed The Dark Secret that she'd
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been keeping all these
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years hello Starfire's ex-wife received
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a call from 's
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stepfather he said she left a note and
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in the note she states that Strider
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molested her no I just and I was torn
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between disbelief and belief Lisa
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returned home the following day but
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Starfire's ex-wife was still grappling
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with the disturbing Revelation I was
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just overwhelmed with everything that
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had
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happened I just been through a whole
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time during the divorce of finding out
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that he wasn't who he said he was that
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the last 11 years really had nothing to
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do with
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reality Strider Starfire was formerly
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charged with felony rape and sexual
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assault and then authorities learned
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from Lisa that there might be more
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secrets to uncover in the Starfire
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home when going over her case she
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brought up another uh girl's name that
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she was aware was living there at the
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house during that time she was
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um that's when victim number two was
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brought up in
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this years earlier a girl will called
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Debbie had often babysat for the
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Starfire children this victim was in the
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ninth grade at the time that she was
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first seduced by
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Starfire I'm going to go back and I'm
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going to uh regain my kingdom
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really Debbie told police that Starfire
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had won her trust with fantastic tales
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and Promises to make her his princess
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anything you want cuz you're the
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princess you can have anything in the
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entire Kingdom it's like he made the
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fairy tale and Strider really created a
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fantasy world for a lot of people and
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for me it was the fantasy that was sort
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of where I really wanted to be in life
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not where I was it obviously wasn't just
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an isolated incident I had to come
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forward not only to give validity to the
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other girl's claims but also just to try
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and prevent this from happening to
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somebody
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else although Starfire was arrested he
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was later released without bail to wait
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for his
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trial and then just 10 days before the
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trial was due to begin Starfire
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vanished we have a lot of people come up
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missing or drowned in the Snake River
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but I in my 13 years experience I've
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never had one like this what time did
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you put the boat in water this morning
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did Strider Starfire stage his own
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disappearance when police examined the
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boat it was dry and it didn't appear to
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have been under water that day all the
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fishing gear on board was clean and
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neatly stowed away inside Starfire's
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pickup they found a fishing license in
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the name of Daniel chafe which turned
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out to be Starfire's real name police
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also learned that others knew Strider
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Starfire as Curtis
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jacobe man it's getting cold I'm sure Mr
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Starfire is alive and well I don't
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believe Mr Starfire was ever on that
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boat I don't believe he was ever on that
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River I believe he's hoping that at some
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point hopefully all this will just go
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away and he can lead on with a happy
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life update there are new developments
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in this case here's one of our staff
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with
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details Daniel chafe AKA Strider
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Starfire AKA Curtis jacobe managed to
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elude authorities for 15 years before he
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was finally captured in Montana chafe
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was wanted on several charges of rape
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and sexual abuse of minors chafe pled
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guilty to four of the charges and after
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plea bargaining was sentenced to five
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and one half years in
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prison next the brutal double murder of
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a mother and son in Dallas
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Texas Dallas
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Texas it's just 2 days before Christmas
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the Dallas County Sheriff's Department
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is setting the table preparing for their
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holiday lunch I'd like to but I need to
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get back on streets it's going to be
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good it's a day that no one in the
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department will ever
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forget officer Roy beard was still on
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duty patrolling an area 10 Mi outside
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Dallas a car parked on the wrong side of
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a dirt road caught his attention
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on the back seat was a pile of Christmas
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gifts on the front seat a blue sports
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bag a pair of women's gloves and a purse
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officer be concluded that someone was in
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trouble I felt that there was possibly a
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rape going on or that a female had been
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raped I then call for cover and made my
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entrance into the fied on the north side
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of the
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road I observed a small boy crumpled to
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the ground and lying next to him was a
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white female that was covered with a
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blanket I touched him and his body was
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still warm I felt that whoever did this
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was possibly still in the
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area later that day the victims were
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identified as 30-year-old roxan GS and
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her 5-year-old son
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Christopher the police in Dallas were
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shocked by these brutal killings solving
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this mystery became a high priority for
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detectives but more than two decades
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would pass before they got their first
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solid
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lead roxan Cheves had moved to Dallas
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with Christopher after a divorce she
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worked for an insurance company enjoyed
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country western dancing and was engaged
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to be remarried
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friends described Christopher as happy
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and an outgoing child he had turned 5
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years old on December
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23rd the very same day that he was
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murdered where you go that morning roxan
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and Christopher had planned to make a
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Christmas trip to visit relatives in
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Kansas concerned that their car might
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break down on the long journey roxan
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took along her
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toolbox an hour before the ERS a man
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that police believe was the killer was
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seen by a neighbor outside of Rox San's
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apartment with a female companion it was
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the first of many eyewitness reports
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that helped investigators piece together
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what happened to roxan and
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Christopher we located a neighbor of
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rock Sands who left about the time that
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Christopher came out the door with the
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red toolbox matter of fact she spoke to
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Christopher in the process of going to
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her car she saw the man carrying the
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toolbox in one hand and Christopher by
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the hand as they went around the corner
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where she believed Roan's car was parked
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she said they looked rough nervous she
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describe them uh as not fitting in the
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complex check under your hood the next
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time the suspect was spotted he was with
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roxan and Christopher in their car the
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woman seen near the apartment was no
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longer with
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them he was acting kind of nervous he
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never looked up at me he never said
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anything you could tell that she was
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nervous and when I looked her she looked
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me right in the eyes and you could tell
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that something was
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wrong her little boy was in the back
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seat and I thought well he act like
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everything's all
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right very much I told one of my fellow
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employees I said it's going to be
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something if something happens to that
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woman cuz ated awful
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strange sometime during the next half
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hour roxan and Christopher were
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murdered I'm afraid that she saw her son
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killed and then she and the killer had
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quite a struggle before she was
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initially shot twice
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herself just as other deputies arrived
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at the scene a witness reported seeing
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the suspect running across a
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field a total of eight eight Witnesses
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saw the killer either running or
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hitchhiking away from the
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scene meanwhile less than a mile away
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investigators were combing the area for
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evidence they got
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lucky the killer had left behind his
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blue sports pack and it was full of
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Clues inside the bag deputies found a
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preor War II
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holster possibly a collector's item a
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set of burglary tools a brown knit cap
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and finally a bottle of formal deide it
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would be the first hint that the murders
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were linked to drugs Al it was popular
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among heavy drug users then to lace a
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marijuana cigarette with falah hiide
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locally here they called it a Sherman
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stick after the murder callers flooded
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police hotlines with tips many of them
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made the same Justin talked to Roxanne's
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brother Army private Kurt
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Jes police soon learned that just before
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he joined the army Kurt had been staying
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with roxan and Christopher in their
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apartment they also learned that roxan
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seemed relieved when he
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left we know that he was dealing in
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marijuana and at some point in time he
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had a disagreement with these folks over
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some of their uh transactions uh with
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regard to this
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marijuana according to Roxanne's friends
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a man showed up at her apartment late
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one
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night where's Kurt Kurt's not here what
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do you mean he's not here police now
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believe that when Kurt left to join the
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Army he also left behind an angry
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customer roxan may have been trapped in
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the middle of a bitter dispute over
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drugs Kurt owed me some money and I'm
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going to find
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him 2 years later Roxanne's brother Kurt
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had been murdered during a drug buy he
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had always insisted that he knew nothing
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about who might have killed his sister
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and nephew this case occurred at
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Christmas time and I'm sure that myself
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and all the other detectives will never
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forget what we saw out there that day
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whomever committed that offense doesn't
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need to be free in our
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society and I don't intend to ever give
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up trying to find that person
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update 22 years after roxan and
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Christopher were murdered a man named
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George Washington Hicks was convicted of
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the killings police had recovered a
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strand of human hair from the cap that
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was left in Bran's car on the day of the
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murder the DNA from the hair sample was
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compared with DNA from convicts serving
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time in Texas state
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prisons Hicks was The Identical match at
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the time he was serving an 80-year
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sentence for sexual assault and two
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15-year terms for assault and robbery
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after being convicted for the murders of
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roxan and Christopher Hicks was
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sentenced to life in prison this
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sentence will not begin until at least
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2024 when he completes his existing
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terms next a 20 th Century miracle that
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converted many Skeptics into
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Believers Fatima
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Portugal the shrine of Our Lady of
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Fatima is visited by more than 4 million
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people every year it is said that on
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this very spot in
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1917 the Virgin Mary appeared to three
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young
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children at the time Lucia santush was
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10 years old she and her two younger
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cousins yasinta and franisco Maru worked
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as Shepherds near the small town of
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Fatima their story began on Sunday May
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13th
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1917 Lucia santush and her cousins had
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taken their sheep to an area known as
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the kova D area land owned by lucius's
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family as the flock grazed the children
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began to
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play they were building a little wall
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around a tree when there was a flash of
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light and Lucia thought the flash was a
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sign of rain she thought that it was
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lightning so she said let's go home so
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we don't get caught by the
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rain when the children saw a second
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flash of lightning they realized it
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meant more then
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rain according to Lucia the glowing
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figure said that she was from
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Heaven the lady promised to return
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several times always on the 13th of the
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month she also asked the children to be
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her Messengers but warned them to expect
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great
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hardships although word of the vision
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spread quickly not everyone was inspired
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by the rumors in fact Lucia's mother was
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furious at her daughter's involv
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her mother punished her every now and
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again sha Maru luci's cousin was a young
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boy at the time it wasn't that her
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mother was bad but she wanted to have
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her daughter to say that this was a lie
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but Lucia kept saying how can I say it
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was a lie if I actually saw her for
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Lucia the suffering predicted by the
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lady had begun but even in the face of
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her mother's anger she returned with her
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cousins to the kova DI area on the
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appointed day June 13th they were joined
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by some 50 villagers drawn by rumors of
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the impending
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visitation once again the three children
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claimed the lady from Heaven appeared to
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them as in the first
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visitation only Lucia spoke to the
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vision
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although some said that a strange Cloud
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of light was visible no one else saw the
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lady from
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heaven when news of the second
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visitation reached Lucia's mother she
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was outraged she believed that her
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daughter was part of a hoax
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her mother said you're going to go to
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the priest and you're going to confess
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to him in front of the altar in the
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church that you li when confronted by
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the local priest Lucia refused to
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discuss what she had seen given the time
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and place this was a startling Act of
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disobedience
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later in life Lucia wrote about the
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episode as I heard people say that the
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devil always brings conflict and
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disorder I began to think that truly
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ever since I had started seeing these
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things
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our home was no longer the same for joy
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and peace had fled what anguish I
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felt July 13th
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1917 the appointed day for the third
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appearance by now word of the miraculous
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Visions had spread across Portugal and
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neighboring Spain pilgrims clogged the
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roads leading to Lova at 12:00 noon the
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mysterious vision appeared once more but
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once again it was only visible to the
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three
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children the lady from Heaven reminded
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Lucia to return at noon on the 13th day
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of each month she also promised that on
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her sixth appearance she would perform a
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miracle for all to see and believe the
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lady then presented a terrifying vision
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of
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Hell a vision that Lucia later described
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in her
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memoirs plunged in this fire were demons
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and Soares in human form Amid shrieks
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and groans of pain and despair which
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horrified us and made us tremble with
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fear Lucia claimed that her vision of
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hell was the lady's warning that God was
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offended by the conflict in Europe
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World War I was then in its third year
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although the lady predicted that the war
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would end soon she said that it would be
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replaced by a more serious conflict a
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war with
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Russia Lucia said the lady from Heaven
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revealed one more prophecy but made her
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promise not to reveal it one month later
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the promise would be severely
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tested August 13th the day of the fourth
00:25:30
appearance a local government official
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offered to take the three children to
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the
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C Lucia and her cousins were whisked
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away to a government prison 9 miles from
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Fatima the town official was convinced
00:25:54
that the children's Vision was a hoax
00:25:57
and he was certain that he could extract
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the truth from Young
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Lucia the children were held and
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tormented for 3
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days outside the Prison Walls their
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family and friends gathered to express
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their
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outrage in spite of the harsh tactics
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10-year-old Lucia kept her promise to
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the lady from Heaven officials admitted
00:26:42
their failure and the children were
00:26:45
finally allowed to return
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home according to Sister Lucia the lady
00:26:51
from Heaven appeared a fourth time and a
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fifth just as predicted as the date for
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the sixth appearance approached
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excitement built coming up startling
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eyewitness accounts of the legendary
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Miracle
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at October 13th
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1917 the day of the long awaited miracle
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was wet and miserable thousands
00:27:21
descended on
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FAA these photographs show some of the
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estimated 70,000 people who gathered
00:27:29
with the hope of witnessing a Divine
00:27:31
Vision many had come from hundreds of
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miles away soon after Lucia arrived at
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the kova area the rain suddenly stopped
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the huge crowd included both the curious
00:27:45
and the
00:27:46
faithful a handful of reporters from the
00:27:49
major newspapers squeezed in among them
00:27:52
the local priest fearing a public Fiasco
00:27:55
that would embarrass the church was one
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of the most V local
00:28:19
doubters the crowd grew silent as Lucia
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began to speak although to onlookers it
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appeared that she was talking in to thin
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[Music]
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air eyewitnesses reported that the sun
00:28:50
began to move and Rays of multicolored
00:28:53
light were seen shooting across the sky
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then suddenly the sun seemed to
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fall the crowd went silent until the sun
00:29:07
abruptly reversed course and returned to
00:29:10
its rightful place in the
00:29:12
sky the miracle of the son of Fatima is
00:29:15
certainly the most spectacular physical
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manifestation uh physical miracle that
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has been associated with our lady she
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had to manifest her um presence in a
00:29:25
grand manner in a very convincing and
00:29:27
spectacular manner
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because it was important that people all
00:29:31
over the world should believe uh what
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she had
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said according to Witnesses the amazing
00:29:38
display lasted for 12 minutes people as
00:29:42
far away as 600 mil from FMA reported
00:29:45
seeing the event and yet some
00:29:47
eyewitnesses at the coova claim they saw
00:29:50
absolutely nothing out of the
00:29:53
ordinary but for some Skeptics the
00:29:56
spectacular Accounts at Fatima were real
00:30:00
Aina D Ela the editor of A government
00:30:03
controlled newspaper became a believer
00:30:06
that
00:30:08
day at the hour foretold the rain ceased
00:30:11
to fall the dense mass of clouds parted
00:30:14
and the sun began to whirl around in a
00:30:17
wild and violent dance with such lovely
00:30:20
glowing colors passing successively over
00:30:22
the sun's surface over the years the
00:30:25
Miracle at Fatima became the subject of
00:30:28
considerable debate some dismissed the
00:30:31
events as a textbook case of mass
00:30:34
hysteria but others interpreted the
00:30:36
large number of eyewitness accounts as
00:30:39
credible evidence that a miracle had
00:30:43
occurred today a basilica stands where
00:30:46
Lucia and her cousins claimed to have
00:30:48
seen the lady from heaven in
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1930 the Catholic Church recognized the
00:30:54
events at Fatima as a miracle Worthy of
00:30:59
belief Lucia's younger cousins both died
00:31:02
during a worldwide flu epidemic within
00:31:05
three years of the Visions many believe
00:31:09
their deaths fulfilled the lady's
00:31:10
promise that the children would soon be
00:31:13
called to Heaven soon after her cousins
00:31:17
passed away 14-year-old Lucia santush
00:31:21
retreated to the safety of a Convent for
00:31:24
most of her life she remained behind
00:31:26
cloistered walls
00:31:28
Lucia died in 2005 at the age of 97 the
00:31:34
day of her funeral was declared a
00:31:36
national day of mour in
00:31:40
Portugal over the decades Fatima's call
00:31:43
to the faithful has grown even more
00:31:45
powerful the tide of pilgrims has
00:31:47
swelled from the thousands who joined
00:31:49
Lucia in
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1917 to several million in recent years
00:31:55
even those who remain skeptical of
00:31:58
Miracles are mystified by the events at
00:32:01
Fatima and the 10-year-old girl whom
00:32:03
many believe was chosen to be God's
00:32:08
messenger while there were some who
00:32:10
admired me and considered me a saint
00:32:12
there were always others who called me a
00:32:14
hypocrite and a
00:32:16
sorceress they are all
00:32:19
mistaken I am not a saint and I am not a
00:32:22
liar only God knows what I
00:32:26
am sister Lucia promised the Virgin Mary
00:32:29
that she would never reveal the secret
00:32:32
prophecy the Vatican also insisted that
00:32:35
she not speak about her experience
00:32:37
without permission sister Lucia took the
00:32:40
Secret of Fatima to her
00:32:44
grave next a millionaire who became a
00:32:47
father during a youthful love affair
00:32:49
tries to find his long lost daughter the
00:32:52
heir to his fortune
00:32:58
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00:33:04
we recently featured the story of WB
00:33:06
Mack McDonald a self-made millionaire
00:33:09
who was searching for his long Lost Heir
00:33:12
a child whom Mack had seen only once
00:33:15
more than 50 years
00:33:18
before Pomona California
00:33:23
1948 when Mack was 18 he fell in love
00:33:26
with a 16-year-old girl named Mary Helen
00:33:29
Carr but her mother disapproved of their
00:33:32
relationship and threatened to have mac
00:33:34
arrested if their romance
00:33:37
continued so he decided to leave
00:33:42
town 3 weeks later Mary Helen ran away
00:33:45
from home to join Mac in
00:33:48
Houston had a new neighbor you did
00:33:51
pretending to be husband and wife the
00:33:53
young lovers moved in together but their
00:33:56
happiness didn't last long just a
00:34:00
minute you who is it I don't know Mac
00:34:02
received a call from a friend who said
00:34:04
that the police were on their way to the
00:34:09
apartment authorities carried warrants
00:34:11
charging Mac with statutory rape that's
00:34:14
fine that's fine I'll call
00:34:18
you mack made his escape with no time to
00:34:22
spare I was devastated again they jerked
00:34:27
her back to to uh
00:34:31
California and I hadn't I had no way of
00:34:33
contacting her
00:34:36
again A year had passed and Mac returned
00:34:39
to California for a new job one evening
00:34:42
he and a friend stopped off at a
00:34:44
drive-in in Long Beach
00:34:48
ma
00:34:52
Mary Mack was shocked to learn that he
00:34:54
was a father he visited Mary Helen and
00:34:57
met his child for the first and only
00:35:01
time fearing that police were still
00:35:03
looking for him he left after only 5
00:35:06
minutes he never even learned if the
00:35:09
baby was a boy or a
00:35:13
girl Mack is now a wealthy businessman
00:35:16
and wants to find the child that he'd
00:35:18
left
00:35:19
behind I feel that the youngsters
00:35:21
entitled to my estate and I'd want that
00:35:25
youngster to know that I love them and I
00:35:28
want him to have the
00:35:31
best the night of our broadcast M
00:35:34
McDonald learned that he had a daughter
00:35:36
named Sherry the long awaited news came
00:35:39
from a viewer in Texas Mary Helen Carr
00:35:43
Sherry's
00:35:45
mother one week after the story aired
00:35:48
Mack arrived at Sherry's home in Denver
00:35:53
Colorado
00:35:55
no come on in
00:35:59
it's hard to describe the feeling that I
00:36:02
had for my daughter when I opened the
00:36:03
door and she was there and I was able to
00:36:06
hold her he said I don't want to hold
00:36:09
you at this point in my life to find
00:36:11
that there is someone who is my father
00:36:13
and who wants to establish a
00:36:14
relationship with me it's just
00:36:16
emotionally very
00:36:18
traumatic I just try to come to the
00:36:20
realization that it really was my father
00:36:22
standing there and I just you know does
00:36:24
he does he look like me does he act like
00:36:27
me I have all these things I need to
00:36:28
learn about
00:36:31
him the fact that I didn't stay and
00:36:34
fight the battle it's most unfortunate I
00:36:38
don't believe I would do it that way
00:36:40
again however yesterday unfortunately
00:36:43
can't be
00:36:45
redone no matter how you look at it he
00:36:48
left my mother with a with a tiny baby
00:36:50
you know and I have to deal with that I
00:36:53
have to deal with the fact that I have a
00:36:54
father who loves for me who is raised me
00:36:57
who's cared for me but I believe there's
00:37:01
enough room in this family for everyone
00:37:03
and I sincerely mean
00:37:05
that M McDonald's search for his
00:37:08
long-lost daughter has come to an end
00:37:11
and he is determined to never lose touch
00:37:13
with her
00:37:14
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again Ashboro North
00:37:24
Carolina James Donald King a convicted
00:37:27
murder murderer is released from prison
00:37:30
King has served only 6 years of a life
00:37:33
sentence for killing his wife but is
00:37:35
granted an early parole for good
00:37:38
behavior prosecutors in nearby
00:37:41
Greensboro challenge the parole board's
00:37:43
ruling they argue strongly that King is
00:37:47
a vicious killer and his early release
00:37:49
could have deadly
00:37:54
consequences James King grew up in
00:37:56
Greensboro North Carolina the oldest of
00:38:00
12 children he was an honor student and
00:38:03
a senior class president at his high
00:38:05
school King got to hang it around the
00:38:08
wrong crowd the man we'll call Gordon
00:38:10
was a high school classmate of James
00:38:12
King he is now an undercover law
00:38:15
enforcement agent these guys that he was
00:38:18
hanging around with had been in uh
00:38:19
trouble with the law in the past and I
00:38:22
think they had a lot of influence over
00:38:26
him 20 years years later King was a
00:38:29
different person he was an angry man in
00:38:32
a dismal marriage he and his wife
00:38:34
Shirley fought
00:38:38
constantly I need to talk to you I need
00:38:41
to talk to you why you keep turning your
00:38:42
back on
00:38:44
me
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[Music]
00:38:48
don't oh my baby shley king died
00:38:52
instantly James King was found by the
00:38:55
police the next morning less than a mile
00:38:58
away sound asleep in a
00:39:02
car King played guilty to first degree
00:39:05
murder and was sentenced to life all
00:39:08
right break time during his first four
00:39:11
years in jail King was a model prisoner
00:39:14
and then while working on a chain gang
00:39:17
he made a bold split-second
00:39:20
decision man run down
00:39:28
King stayed on the run and avoided
00:39:30
capture for 9 years police finally
00:39:34
received the tip that he was working as
00:39:35
a janitor in
00:39:38
Boston he was arrested without incident
00:39:41
and returned to prison in North
00:39:44
Carolina two years later the parole
00:39:47
board made a startling decision based
00:39:50
upon King's productive life and his
00:39:52
law-abiding Behavior while he was an
00:39:55
escaped convict they ruled that he was
00:39:57
eligible for early release due to
00:40:01
Goodtime credit when I learned of the
00:40:04
attempts to have Mr King parole I wrote
00:40:07
a letter to the parole board strenuously
00:40:10
objecting to him even being considered
00:40:13
for parole I didn't feel serving six
00:40:16
years on life sentence for first-degree
00:40:18
murder was anything close to
00:40:21
sufficient in spite of the objections
00:40:24
James Donald king became a free man once
00:40:27
again
00:40:28
again less than a year after his parole
00:40:32
King married Gloria Cornelius a nursing
00:40:35
home worker with three children from a
00:40:37
previous marriage within a few months
00:40:40
the destructive pattern of his first
00:40:42
marriage began to repeat itself where
00:40:45
have you been I've been working working
00:40:48
you're 2 hours late King was drinking
00:40:51
heavily and began to physically abuse
00:40:53
Gloria don't touch me finally she walked
00:40:58
out on
00:41:00
him 3 months later Gloria was playing
00:41:03
bingo with friends in Downtown
00:41:06
Greensboro at midnight king showed up
00:41:10
Gloria I need to talk to you I don't
00:41:12
have anything to say to do come on I
00:41:14
really need to talk to
00:41:16
you I'll be
00:41:21
back 30 minutes later Greensboro police
00:41:24
found the body of Gloria King she had
00:41:27
been shot five
00:41:29
times once again James Donald King was
00:41:33
on the
00:41:34
run when I heard that Gloria had been
00:41:37
killed and that King was the suspect I
00:41:41
felt that the parole board was the main
00:41:44
culprit because if they had followed the
00:41:47
rules and guidelines of the court system
00:41:51
properly Glory may still be
00:41:56
alive after date James King was arrested
00:42:00
in Dayton Ohio thanks to a tip from one
00:42:03
of our viewers at the time he was
00:42:05
working in a metal foundry James King
00:42:08
was tried and convicted of first-degree
00:42:10
murder and sentenced to death
00:42:15
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