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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast 40 miles east of Tombstone
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Arizona is a rugged and forbidding
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mountain pass skeleton Canyon
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essentially ago it was a site of murder
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and betrayal outlaws fought over a
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fortune and stolen gold and jewels a
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dazzling treasure which continues to
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tantalize fortune seekers to this day
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March 1990 Fayetteville North Carolina a
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brutal attack leaves a young woman
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disfigured and near death miraculously
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she survived to tell the horrifying
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story police need your help to find her
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attacker a virgin islands vacationers
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paradise in the last several years this
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tropical paradise has been plagued by
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the strange deaths of five local
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residents police believe the killer is a
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devious con man uses phony voodoo
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rituals to trap his prey also tonight a
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gothic tale of wealth and greed an
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eccentric recluse has left behind a four
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million dollar estate and destroyed all
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traces of her past join me you may be
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able to help solve on the street
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st. Croix the US Virgin Islands this
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popular vacation spot attracts more than
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one-and-a-half million visitors in the
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continental United States each year but
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even America's paradise can have a dark
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side
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control mrs. 5-0 echo report the traffic
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accident in Galesburg with November 18th
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1988 just after 9:30 p.m. st. croix
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police are called as the scene of what
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was reported to be a minor traffic
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accident they find a local woman Radha
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Maharaj in the car apparently suffering
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from internal injuries she will later
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died enroute to the hospital less than
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one hour later another body has
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discovered 16 miles away the dead man is
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Krishna death Maharajah Radha's husband
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the investigation revealed three unusual
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clues the clothing worn by both victims
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was saturated with seawater $25,000 in
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cash belonging to the couple had
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vanished and the agent of both deaths
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was cyanide incredibly the Maharajah's
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brought to find the number of cyanide
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poisoning Zhaan st. croix since 1984
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authorities began to suspect that all
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five deaths were linked to voodoo
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this is documentary footage of a voodoo
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ceremony in Haiti contrary to popular
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belief there is nothing inherently
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sinister about voodoo
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it is unique blend of Roman Catholicism
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and African tradition practice
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predominantly in Haiti and Louisiana
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in this ceremony the participants honor
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the spirits of their deceased ancestors
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some of whom they believe have become
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deities many of us mistakenly think of
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voodoo as curses hexes effigy dolls and
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potions but these exist more often in
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the realm of obeah underground form of
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sorcery unconnected to voodoo but common
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in many parts of the Caribbean like all
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forms of sorcery all beer has malevolent
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potential police and st. croix have come
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to believe that the five cyanide
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poisoning on their Island are the work
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of a master con man who practices obeah
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but tries to cloak himself in voodoo
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healers his victims into a vicious web
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of deceit and murder the Virgin Islands
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are an ethnic and religious polyglot
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nearly everyone comes from somewhere
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else
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radha and krishna das maharaj were both
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born in the Caribbean but their parents
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are Democrat from India the Maharajah's
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owned a small grocery store
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Radha's two daughters were her first
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marriage helped run the business we were
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to been very good I mean we probably
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couldn't afford a new car or anything
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like that but we were paying our bills
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and we didn't have food to eat
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and we were all well we were strong and
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healthy and we were all working hard
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especially my mother several months
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before they died the Maharajah's took
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out a loan to enlarge the grocery they
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soon found themselves in a financial
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bind there were very tense and
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especially when I spoke to my mother
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about what they were doing she she
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didn't like for me to acts all those
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things I'm sorry I couldn't meet last
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week yes some emergency had come
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according to their daughters the
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Maharajah's also began receiving daily
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phone calls from a mysterious man yes
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usually I answered the phone and and
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this man would ask to speak to my
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stepfather yeah as soon as I gave it to
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him he would ask me to go outside
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because he had something private to
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discuss yes
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our $25,000 three weeks before the
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Maharajah's died they brought home
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$25,000 in cash borrowed from Radha's
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relatives it's fighting you all right
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she told us that this is what they had
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to pay to the gentleman so I asked so
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well why she said well don't ask me any
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questions by Monday you will know what
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it's all about
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at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Friday
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November 18th two hours before Radha
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would be found near death in her car she
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left home and drove east for her to
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actually go out alone is something very
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strange for me and for her to go out at
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night that is even more strange because
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she didn't ever go anywhere at night
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never 30 minutes later
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Krishna death drove off in the opposite
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direction presumably to meet the
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mysterious man I still don't see why my
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mother and stepfather got involved with
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this man the only thing I could think
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about perhaps is he probably promised
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that if they gave him a certain amount
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of money he would probably give them
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back three or four times the amount
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perhaps no one will ever know exactly
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what transpired that night less than two
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hours after leaving home Rada Maharaja's
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car was coasting gently out of control
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near a local Beach
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inexplicably her dress was soaked
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through seawater she was unconscious and
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near death but there were no outward
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signs of struggle or foul play sixteen
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miles away krishna das maharaj was found
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lying by the side of a beachfront road
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oddly he was played only in a pair of
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shorts which were also saturated with
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seawater once again there were no signs
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of struggle or foul play the police told
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me that they believe that you know mom
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tried to commit suicide probably because
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she and my stepfather had quarrelled
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about something so very big that there
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was no way they could you know patch it
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up that is nonsense autopsies of radha
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and krishna das maharaja revealed they
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had both died from cyanide poisoning
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incredibly two years earlier another st.
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croix couple head still striking and
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carmen torres had died under eerily
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similar circumstances in 1986 heads most
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frightened and comment or has owned a
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small neighborhood bar
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like the Maharajah's they took out a
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loan to expand their establishment they
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converted the loan into cash $54,000 you
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gotta go a dusk on September 13th 1986
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ed still and Carmen left home and
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instils pickup truck their daughter
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would lead to recall that her father had
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slipped a small bottle into his pocket
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before he left it was the last time she
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saw her Paras alive
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three hours later Carmen Torres was
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found near death less than half a mile
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from the spot where Radha Maharaja was
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found like Radha Carmen was drenched in
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cedar had died within minutes of being
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taken to the hospital she too was killed
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by cyanide
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heads full stride was found dead in his
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truck on a nearby beach his shorts were
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soaked with seawater
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he had also died of cyanide poisoning
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and the fifty four thousand dollars in
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cash was missing yes comic con diem
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grants police flashed back two years in
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1984 and another cyanide death 38 year
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old Hague Caesar would immigrated to st.
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Croix ten years earlier from Dominica
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police believe that the death of Hague
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Caesar was linked either to obeah or to
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a twisted form of Voodoo on the morning
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of May 24th 1984 a young girl on her way
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to school came upon a car that had
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apparently run off the road behind the
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wheel was Haig seasoned dead he appeared
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to be dead for several hours there was
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no indication of foul play and his
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struggle I think this guy heart attack
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the autopsy was performed the next day
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result of that examination showed that
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he had died from cyanide poisoning we
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didn't know whether he had induced the
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poisoned himself or whether it was given
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by someone else we started talking to
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people and we later found out that he
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had made contact with an individual that
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might be involving moodle what he said
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is that the man had told them that there
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were three large jars of coins buried on
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the property that we want and that the
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coins are being guarded by spirits
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ancient spirits and in order to get
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those coins they would have to get rid
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of the spirits
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and there was a ritual and ceremony that
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went through them in order to do that
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they would need to raise some money
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before his death pig Caesar apparently
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paid $100,000 in cash to an OB who
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claimed he could manipulate voodoo
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rituals to remove the evil spirits
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I can't feel something Jumbo's presence
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really here I can't feel it there's a
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lot of gold on this land when you come
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up with the balance and the money I have
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a portion it'll loosen up the Jumby and
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then you can't get it when they have the
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rest of the money all right don't worry
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about that when I found out about all
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the money he was boring and all the cash
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that he had taken out of our accounts
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and everything without even letting me
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know I really was very angry about it
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shocked over all just shocked that he
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would have taken it so far
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police now believe that on the night he
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died egg Caesar went to the spot where
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the OB live had set a treasure of
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priceless coins was buried the old
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demons lethal scam called for Caesar to
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drink a potion and thus drive away the
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spirits guarding the coins the potion
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turned out to be cyanide there is no way
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of knowing whether Hague Caesar was
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alone when he drank the silently by the
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time his body was discovered the next
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day less than a mile from his property
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both the obeah moon of $100,000 had
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vanished I knew that he was aware of you
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know Oh beer and voodoo I mean most
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people who live in the islands are I
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thought he was smart enough intelligent
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enough aware enough to know that you
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know it wasn't real when you come up
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with raising the money
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I'm a Porsche
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or all fire deaths at work of a nobleman
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whenever if Seoul was a man who promised
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buried treasure to heungseon
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the same one who telephoned the Maharaja
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was he also the man at school strike and
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common tourists went to meet on the
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night they died only one thing is
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certain the similarities in all three
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cases go far beyond coincidence
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the connection between the Maharajah's
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commenters Elvis Trident and Hayek's
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Issa came from what we theorized is
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someone on in the community that was the
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conduit between this individual and the
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potential victims this person probably
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know these people in the community knows
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the lifestyle and knows the capability
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or the financial the financial status
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it's very hard to understand why people
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would want to cheat and kill and if
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somebody doesn't find him that I don't
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believe that there is any justice in
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this world if somebody doesn't find that
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man
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the man who has murdered five people in
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st. Croix is believed to travel
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throughout the Caribbean and evil into
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the continental United States there are
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rumors that he has been seen in Florida
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he speaks with a heavy French West
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Indian accent
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when we return a legend of an outlaw
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ambushed in the Wild West and a buried
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treasure allegedly worth millions
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who among us has not imagined what it
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would be like to discover a buried
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treasure
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the very thought brings a promise of
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romance and adventure some people spend
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their entire lives searching for
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legendary hidden fortunes
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one such elusive fortune lies in the
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forbidding Arizona desert its legend
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Springs mo notorious tale of desperados
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deception and greed
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stretching 20 miles across Arizona's
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eastern borders a jagged mountain ravine
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whose very name reflects his dark and
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treacherous past skeleton Canyon
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essentially a go thieves and robbers
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from Mexico frequented this rugged
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landscape smuggling stolen riches into
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the United States legend holds it
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somewhere near this mysterious Canton
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plays a buried cache of gold and jewels
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according to son it is a Wild West
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largest unclaimed treasure I spent a
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night in sculpting Canyon about two
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years ago full moonlight and I must
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admit the hair never went down on my
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back once that entire night I just have
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a second sense that there was just too
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much to go on that went on here not to
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be a treasure involved with this somehow
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no I don't believe that there is a
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skeleton Canyon treasure waiting out
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there to be found it's a known fact that
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it's a real treasure this is one of the
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treasures it's absolutely real real
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legend of skeleton Canyon begins in a
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small Mexican village in 1881 a con
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artist named Jim huge learned that a
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gang of Mexican banditos had looted the
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town of Monterrey they were planning to
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smuggle their booty into the United
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States
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Hughes himself was a member of the
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infamous curly bill Brocius gang which
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operated out of Arizona Culiacan was
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able to infiltrate him because he spoke
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fluent Spanish and he found out that the
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gang was coming back to skeleton Canyon
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the reports that I read the myriad of
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books and the treasure magazines as far
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back as 1964 reported the treasure to be
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worth anywhere from 2.5 million dollars
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all away and I've seen the reports of it
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being worth up to eight million dollars
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Hughes wrote back to Arizona and told
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his cronies of the treasure they made
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plans to ambush the smugglers
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the Estrada gang had come out of Mexico
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through Sonora and we're going to what
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was later to become known as skeleton
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Canyon and they were about a mile to two
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miles in there's on the other side right
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outside of an area called Devil's
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kitchen
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the Mexicans offer amounts
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in the contraband being scattered all
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over the canyon and in order to stop the
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mules from scattering and taking the
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loot with them their gang the curly bill
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Brocius gang or shooting the Mules
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the outlaws now had their treasure but
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without mules he had no way of moving it
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out of the canyon part of the loot was
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divided up on the spot
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the rest was buried to be retrieved
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later but two members of the gang had
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different ideas swing hunt and Billy
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grounds were fairly good friends and
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they decided that while the rest of the
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gang was out in the local bars in Gale
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evil or Shakespeare or Tucson or
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wherever they went
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spending their money ill-gotten fortune
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that they would double-cross the gang
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and come back into the canyon according
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to legend they were able to find a
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Mexican teamster talked him into
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bringing his team and horses into
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skeleton Canyon and removing the
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treasure and of course he was later
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killed because they wanted to keep them
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the new hiding place as a secret I feel
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very sure in my own mind that it's very
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likely that the treasure is still buried
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within the vicinity of skeleton Canyon
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probably no more than 30 miles away
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fearing retribution from their ex
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partners swing hunt and Billy growls
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went into hiding
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he found a desert cave where they
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remained for nearly four months during
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this period Billy Grounds penned a
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number of letters to his sister Maggie
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in San Antonio Billy wanted her to know
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where the treasure was hidden should
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anything happen to him Billy said we're
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venturing out once a week to give the
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letters to a passing stagecoach
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treasure hunter fern Hamel claims to
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have seen and copy portions of nine of
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the levites he refused to show us his
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copies would agree to divulge their
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contents and in the letter state it told
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about the cave and how long they were on
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the road they moved all night with the
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treasure from from dark until sunup
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before they stopped the bury it and then
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they went to the cave one the letters
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he's writing to his sister he said
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there's a cave at the mouth of the
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canyon
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I found that cave and he goes back 80
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feet and we even dug in the cave and
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found no ropes that was varied in there
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and one of the things in the letter it
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said he firmer look out you can see the
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turf growing back over where we buried
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the treasure down in develop
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I have found all the clues that there is
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in the letters every one of them when I
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once found the right place to look where
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everything fit and everything is there
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so I know the treasure is I'm there
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where it's at
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it's there Billy Grounds who is supposed
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to have written the letters was a 19
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year old Texas cowboy Rustler type who
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had migrated from Texas to Arizona it's
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unlikely to me that he would have been
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writing home detailed letters about hey
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we robbed these Mexicans and we've
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buried this huge treasure here's how to
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find it Maggie was Billy groans sister
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and she her and a man had spent two
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years living in a cave out there looking
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for this treasure and we found this vase
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in a cave it says Maggie on it
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1885 World's Fair so I know that was
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Billy groans sister that was there
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looking for this treasure for two years
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she spent there washed 19th 1882 the
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chef's posse cornered Billy grounds and
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swing haunted a remote desert outpost
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in the ensuing shootout Billy was killed
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swing was seriously injured in Tombstone
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swing Hut revealed a secret location of
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the treasure to his uncle he drew up a
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detailed map they can space swing later
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managed to escape only to be killed in
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an Indian attack it seems to me that
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it's another typical treasure hunting
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yarn it's always somewhat removed from
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the original documents we never get to
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see the map we never get to examine it
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for its genuineness or see if it's in
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matches up with any handwriting samples
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we might have Burnham who claims to have
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seen a map made by his wing hunts uncle
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the map shows the canyon and it shows
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the where the cave is
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everything matches but I think the
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treasure now on account of the
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earthquake in in 1886
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I think the treasure is around 20 feet
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deep part of the mountain caved off on
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it and so we got billions of tons of
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rock to mine we don't know right hard to
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dig it
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today even though there are a great many
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skeptics the legend of buried treasure
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and skeleton Canyon continues to attract
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fortune hunters from around the world
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I think the skeleton Kenyan treasure
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this is a very plausible story from the
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standpoint that every time it would rain
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somebody's skull would show up our bones
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of a mule would be exposed or another
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coin would become evident and compared
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to a lot of other stories it's got a lot
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more plausibility than I would say the
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Lost Dutchman mine for instance it is
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possible that there's a skeleton Canyon
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treasure out there to be found somewhere
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but the initial reports given by the
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Mexican government given in the local
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press indicate that there was a very
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small amount of money taken which would
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have been spent very very quickly with
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us I don't think there was a treasure
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given historical sources to to hide and
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thus for 20th century Americans to find
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when I find the treasure I'll stop
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looking for it that's it we'll be even
00:26:10
when I'll stop because I know it's real
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this treasure is real and I know I found
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the right place where it said everything
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is for his real
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is there a treasure buried beneath the
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foreboding walls in skeleton Canyon or
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is it merely another fable leftover from
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the days of the Wild West in over 100
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years of scouring the region treasure
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hunters have unearthed the multitude of
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bleached bones and a handful of Mexican
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coins they are convinced they are the
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remnants of the ambush and skeleton
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Canyon although people have searched for
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the elusive treasure for years at this
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time it is illegal to dig in the area
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when we return a terrifying story of a
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woman attacked and run along a highway
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in North Carolina
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March 22nd 1990 business route 95 just
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outside Fayetteville North Carolina
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State Troopers Chris do and one night
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stop to compare notes during a routine
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patrol about two minutes in the
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conversation lady walked down the woods
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about 75 yards away and started towards
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us staggering the other trooper had a
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set of binoculars and he looked our
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through the binoculars and saw that she
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appeared to be injured she had blood on
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her shoulders and she was coming in our
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direction
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well I've run get your blanket I laid
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her on the ground and the other trooper
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went to his car and called for an
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ambulance and shortly thereafter a
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hamlets arrived and transported the lady
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to the hospital
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the young woman had been shot once in
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the face with a 12-gauge double-barrel
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shotgun her left jaw was completely
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shattered and she was unable to speak
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she carried no identification it was not
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until 10 hours later when her condition
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is stable that she was able to write
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down her mother's name and telephone
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number police discovered that the young
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woman was from winston-salem North
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Carolina 120 miles away detective Ken
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vision of the winston-salem Police
00:28:48
Department worked on the case with
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Fayetteville detectives this is getting
00:28:51
too hard on him you just put stop to
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what unless you know they cannot talk
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she can only write I also want to warn
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you that her injuries were massive I
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want to prepare you for what you're
00:29:03
gonna say okay okay
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good morning brought two fellas in to
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see ya effective he did take a stand
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when he introduced us to her we
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conducted probably a 30 minute interview
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with her that was probably the most
00:29:23
severe injury I've ever seen for a
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person that survived do you know where
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the liquor store was where you stopped
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the victim seemed to remember everything
00:29:33
so she did not yet speak she wrote down
00:29:36
detailed descriptions of the attack and
00:29:38
her attacker working with her a police
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artist created this drawing it's
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important letters man record
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because he is not rational he's very
00:29:54
dangerous and he may harm someone else
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this toy depicts a brutal senseless
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crime it may not be easy to watch
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however police fear that if a man
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responsible is not apprehended he could
00:30:08
strike again the young woman who was
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victimized courageously agreed to be
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interviewed because she has requested we
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not use her real name we will call her
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Debbie on the morning of March 22nd 1990
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Debbie made a large cash withdrawal from
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the First Union Bank in winston-salem
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she left the bank at 9:40 a.m.
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Debbie told police that the man forced
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her to drive to a liquor store three
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miles away
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the keys the keys the man would inside
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the bike whiskey holding Debbie's car
00:31:02
keys and watching her like a hawk
00:31:09
Debbie was petrified with fear the man
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had threatened to kill everyone in the
00:31:14
liquor store if she tried to make a run
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for it
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start the Braille
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a man ordered Debbie to take Interstate
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40 heading east and 421 south toward
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Fayetteville for nearly four agonizing
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hours he threatened her life dry cap
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bragged that he had once killed a man in
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New York Debbie journey was a living
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hell
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although at the time he just wouldn't
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talk to me at all and when he judged he
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was very abusive very angry it got worse
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as time on because he was drinking auto
00:32:05
the liquor and he would just get more
00:32:08
angry and more irrational and I got more
00:32:13
afraid knowing I could not reason with
00:32:15
him about three miles north of
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Fayetteville a man forced Debbie to pull
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off the road get out
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at almost that same moment state trooper
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Ron Knight noticed the gray station
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wagon I was gonna cross over and check
00:33:10
the vehicle and just about this time I
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met a speeding vehicle traveling south
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on i-95 business so I turned and pursued
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after this vehicle
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Debbie was beaten and sexually assaulted
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then left for dead
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the next day Debbie station ID will be
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found about 300 miles away in Hamilton
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County Florida just south of the Georgia
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state line
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authorities in Fayetteville investigated
00:34:16
the crime scene Ron looks like we might
00:34:19
have some gloves here their search
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turned up a dark blue pea jacket and
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brown cloth gloves Debbie told
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authorities he had been warned by the
00:34:31
man who attacked her
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the navy blue p jacket and the brown
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cotton work gloves that were recovered
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at the fayetteville crime scene had a
00:34:39
strong odor of some type of petroleum
00:34:41
product about them we think we're
00:34:44
looking at a person that works around
00:34:46
that type of a product it could possibly
00:34:48
be a mechanic somebody works with greasy
00:34:51
grimy motors that kind of thing possibly
00:34:54
even some air dries a fuel or heating
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oil type truck
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Debbie's assailant was about 5 feet 10
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inches tall and weighed between 150 and
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160 pounds he appeared to be in his mid
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30s and wore his hair close-cropped
00:35:10
although he abandoned his car in
00:35:12
northern Florida authorities believe he
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could be anywhere in the United States
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I feel like until they find him I'm
00:35:20
going to continually feel like he's
00:35:22
there he's out there and he he I know
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it's so unlikely going to he will find
00:35:29
try to find me but it's that fear of him
00:35:34
being there and then he also might hurt
00:35:37
someone else from the beginning after my
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sister was shot we knew that we we
00:35:45
wanted her to be careful as far as just
00:35:48
you seeing herself we wanted her to be
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with her doctor and for him to be
00:35:54
alongside when she you saw herself for
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the first time after this a friend
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happened to send a mylar balloon that
00:36:02
she tied to the foot of her bed and
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in the back of this mylar balloon she
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saw herself actually by mistake one day
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and was alone when this happened I feel
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like you have two choices you can just
00:36:22
lie down and cry and die or you can live
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and go on who you are and I have so much
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to live for
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I have three children I have a family
00:36:34
and I have such good friends that there
00:36:38
is no reason for me to to just feel
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sorry for myself and do nothing
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debbie has had extensive plastic surgery
00:36:47
and doctors hope they'll soon be able to
00:36:49
restore her shattered jaw this is the
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jacket he was wearing it is navy blue
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wool size 42 with a belt in the back the
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jacket is not US Navy issue police have
00:37:03
physical evidence that will enable them
00:37:05
to make a positive identification should
00:37:07
a suspect be located
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when we return the bizarre saga the
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mysterious recluse of the unclaimed
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fortune she left behind
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[Music]
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Heavenly Father we commit the body of
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our dear sister Dorothea to be consumed
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by fire
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ashes to ashes on a dreary January day
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in 1990 and the tiny English village of
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Sutton under break your laugh a
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notorious mysterious woman was laid to
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rest it was rumored that Dorothea
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wealthiest most famous resident of the
00:37:54
county and thus danced with Fred Astaire
00:37:56
the way at dinner with Gary Cooper but
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when she died at 89 it will be five
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people came to mourner Amy
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in her prime Dorothea Allen was
00:38:09
considered a great beauty by all
00:38:11
accounts she was devoted to her husband
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Robert
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he died in 1965 and the couple was
00:38:16
chalice when Dorothea died she left no
00:38:20
will only an intricate mystery
00:38:24
the saga of Dorothea l boasts a plot and
00:38:26
characters rivaling any Dickens novel a
00:38:29
most intriguing character Dorothea
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herself she had a quirky mystique a
00:38:34
wealthy business executive beauty you
00:38:37
hobnob with movie stars yet to some she
00:38:40
was a shrew mistreating the people who
00:38:43
worked for her and hoarding money like a
00:38:45
miser her four million dollar fortune
00:38:47
remains unclaimed because Dorothea had
00:38:50
extensive ties in this country some
00:38:53
thinker errors may be right here in the
00:38:55
United States
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after Dorothea's death the British
00:39:04
government had assigned investigators to
00:39:06
search her manor house in an effort to
00:39:08
locate the rightful heir but they found
00:39:10
instead was evidence of a woman who had
00:39:13
attempted to obliterate all traces of
00:39:15
her past I spent a lot of time going
00:39:20
through drawers and cupboards trying to
00:39:22
find anything that would give me clues
00:39:24
as to who this woman was and quite
00:39:27
frankly I found very little we found her
00:39:30
passport which had pages ripped from it
00:39:33
and of course these are the pages that
00:39:34
that gave us all the information we
00:39:36
might have needed when we we got
00:39:40
upstairs
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we found dressing rooms absolutely
00:39:44
stashed with the most amazing clothes
00:39:46
and shoes I don't think I've ever seen
00:39:48
as many pairs of women's shoes in one
00:39:50
place we look through photograph albums
00:39:54
and all the images have been pulled out
00:39:56
of the albums and someone had taken a
00:39:58
pair of scissors and cut off the heads
00:40:01
and so we couldn't identify anyone it
00:40:04
was disappointing and and frustrating
00:40:06
because at that stage no one had a clue
00:40:09
who she was
00:40:12
Dorothea Allen and her husband Robert
00:40:14
had always been elusive people intensely
00:40:17
private he had kept their backgrounds
00:40:19
shrouded in mystery even those who knew
00:40:22
them best knew little about their past
00:40:25
the Allen's had made their fortune
00:40:27
manufacturing plain surgical courses for
00:40:30
women then adding frills lace ribbons
00:40:33
and bows to make the coarsest more
00:40:34
feminine the decorated corsets sold like
00:40:37
hotcakes Dorothea oversaw every detail
00:40:41
she had an eye for beauty and she
00:40:44
certainly used it yeah she made that
00:40:47
Factory a great success she was an
00:40:50
absolute perfectionist she would count
00:40:53
the stitches to the edge on everything
00:40:56
that was done there should be 12
00:40:58
stitches
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211 Dorothea was a very nasty piece of
00:41:06
work she ran her servants ragged from
00:41:09
what I can gather I also think she
00:41:12
didn't pay very well to her employees
00:41:14
and ran quite a strict regime she
00:41:18
demanded people walk out of her office
00:41:20
backwards
00:41:22
she was probably quite a ruthless
00:41:25
businesswoman she had a business plan
00:41:28
she was gonna make herself rich and when
00:41:30
she got herself rich she was going to go
00:41:32
out and spend it and enjoy it
00:41:34
she spent very freely they went on the
00:41:39
Queen Mary in great experiments all over
00:41:43
the world there are a few pictures but
00:41:47
show them on the Queen Mary at a time
00:41:49
when they weren't able to stop pictures
00:41:51
being taken the rest of the time
00:41:53
photographs they just wouldn't Blair
00:41:54
allowed them to be taken
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at Christmas the Allens entertained only
00:42:06
those employees would reached a specific
00:42:09
productivity corner a select few were
00:42:11
actually allowed to speak to the Alice
00:42:13
who felt free to indulge the revolutions
00:42:16
of gravity they used to be like royalty
00:42:27
really serve a nor before in 1965 Robert
00:42:35
Allen died after a long illness
00:42:37
Dorothea's whole life had been built
00:42:39
around her business and her husband he
00:42:42
seemed unable to cope with his death I
00:42:45
think she could always count on your
00:42:47
support and when he went she felt had
00:42:49
proffered gone I suppose and she just
00:42:52
went to pieces frankly oh she was very
00:42:54
very upset they had absolutely thought
00:42:57
the world of one another
00:42:58
and she was very much affected after the
00:43:04
death of mr. Allen one of her habits was
00:43:06
to get his cigars and light them and
00:43:08
leave them burning in the hall and in
00:43:10
the library so that she got the
00:43:12
atmosphere of him still being there
00:43:17
Dorothea began to neglect her business
00:43:20
and the American parent company burger
00:43:22
brothers finally forced her out she
00:43:24
spent more and more time alone after an
00:43:27
accident in her Rolls Royce Nora Thea
00:43:30
Allen never left her estate again
00:43:35
no one was allowed in there and she
00:43:38
lived with a gardener and a housekeeper
00:43:41
in in once the room in the kitchen as
00:43:49
her health began to fail Dorothea became
00:43:51
obsessed with eliminating all traces
00:43:53
ever passed according to her lawyer she
00:43:58
mutilated photographs of herself and her
00:44:00
husband
00:44:00
she destroyed the page in her passport
00:44:03
to contain her place and date of birth
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On January 4th 1990 Dorothea Allen died
00:44:14
in bed she had been a recluse for more
00:44:17
than 20 years steadfastly refusing to
00:44:20
make a will
00:44:23
well she told some people that she
00:44:26
thought people had seen much money
00:44:27
anyway and therefore they didn't need to
00:44:29
be left money in a will but then she
00:44:32
would have known that the state would
00:44:33
come in and take the money and I
00:44:35
wouldn't have thought anyone would want
00:44:36
to leave money to the government so she
00:44:39
had to have something to hide and she
00:44:40
wanted she mistakenly thought that by
00:44:43
not leaving a will she will be able to
00:44:46
disguise her life after she died there
00:44:50
appeared to be no record of when or
00:44:52
where Dorothy Allen was born or even
00:44:54
what her maiden name had been then a
00:44:57
smallpox vaccination certificate
00:44:58
surfaced all at Dorothea's birth date
00:45:01
was listed as January 21st 1901 her last
00:45:05
name for Kison finally there seemed to
00:45:08
be a clue to Dorothea Allen's true
00:45:10
identity she told me her name was
00:45:14
Ferguson and several times she told me
00:45:18
that and that she was born in Scotland
00:45:22
well I'd like to know where the name
00:45:24
Farkas in' comes from i think that this
00:45:27
is some red herring that's been put
00:45:29
forward fairly early on there is no
00:45:34
Dorothea Ferguson that fits in either
00:45:38
ten years either side of the alleged
00:45:40
date of birth investigators could fight
00:45:43
absolutely no record of a female British
00:45:46
citizen named Farkas n' born anywhere
00:45:48
near Dorothea's date of birth my own
00:45:52
personal theory is that Dorothea was a
00:45:56
woman of lowly birth that she was a
00:45:58
seamstress or perhaps a barmaid if it is
00:46:01
true that she did come from humble
00:46:03
background then I think it's probably
00:46:04
something she would want to keep quiet
00:46:07
another theory is that she and her
00:46:10
sister were born in Berlin at the time
00:46:13
of the problems with Germany they got
00:46:15
out at the right time Dorothea was
00:46:17
educated at an Ursuline convent in
00:46:20
Belgium
00:46:21
found her way to either this country or
00:46:23
America I think the true story is that
00:46:28
she met in the 1920s Robert Lang Will
00:46:32
Allen in the north of England he was
00:46:35
married and I think they fell in love he
00:46:38
left his wife and child and set up home
00:46:40
with Dorothea Allen they then had to
00:46:42
carry on the charade of being a married
00:46:45
couple and as she got older she became
00:46:48
more convinced that the infidelity would
00:46:51
come out and wanted more and more to
00:46:53
protect it
00:46:56
we think she was married in America we
00:46:59
think Connecticut but we don't know when
00:47:01
and we assumed that she married Robert
00:47:04
Allen but we're not sure there are
00:47:06
theories that Robert and Dorothea were
00:47:08
brother and sister that is something you
00:47:10
want to keep very quiet because
00:47:12
obviously incest is is punishable by law
00:47:17
is it possible the Dorothea Robert Allen
00:47:20
a brother and sister rumors from their
00:47:23
stab indicated that they always slept
00:47:25
apart if the sibling theory is almost
00:47:28
impossible to prove
00:47:29
Robert Alice backyard as nearly as
00:47:32
obscure as Dorothea's who was this
00:47:37
mystery couple did they have some dark
00:47:40
secret to cover up or will they simply
00:47:43
obsessed with wealth and possessions cut
00:47:46
off from their fellow human being
00:47:53
[Music]
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[Music]
00:48:14
in 1966 Navy medic mark Dennis was
00:48:18
reported killed in action in Vietnam but
00:48:21
when this photograph appeared four years
00:48:22
later his family believed he had
00:48:24
survived and been taken prisoner
00:48:26
today there is compelling evidence that
00:48:29
the body buried and mark Dennis's grave
00:48:30
may not be his Dorothy Izod a Canadian
00:48:35
housewife has photographs that have
00:48:37
confounded skeptics are the evidence of
00:48:40
life beyond the stars for another
00:48:42
ingenious deception also we'll bring you
00:48:46
an update on the capture of one of the
00:48:47
FBI's 10 most wanted criminals thanks to
00:48:51
our viewers a suspected serial child
00:48:53
molester is now in custody join me next
00:48:56
week for another edition unsolved
00:48:59
mysteries
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