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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries Elvis Presley's sudden death
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shocked and saddened the world is it
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possible that the king of rock and roll
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took his own
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life many eyewitnesses claim they saw a
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fiery object fall from the sky and crash
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in the woods near kbur
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Pennsylvania why does the government say
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it never
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happened when a wealthy casino owner
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took turns up Deb his girlfriend and
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business partner become the prime
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suspects and an ordinary trip to the
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corner store ends up in death the son of
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a prominent television
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actor our team is standing by maybe you
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can help solve one of our cases I'm
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Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries join us
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a
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Elvis Presley has been called the
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world's greatest entertainer but on
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August 16th 1977 his life came to a
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shocking
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end at first it was said he died of a
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heart attack later reports blamed a
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massive drug overdose but Presley's own
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stepbrother is convinced that the King's
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death was not accidental he says that
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Elvis Presley committed suicide Elvis
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Presley woke up on the 16th of August
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premeditated planned took and killed
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himself
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deliberately most people absolutely
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refused to believe that Elvis Presley
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would kill himself however David
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Stanley's eyewitness account along with
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the physical evidence makes for a
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compelling case and now both sides of
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this ongoing
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controversy Memphis
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Tennessee drugs were part of Elvis's
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daily routine three times a day on a
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strict schedule nearly a dozen different
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prescription drugs were administered to
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him by members of his Entourage these
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drugs included seol and
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demol insiders say that this dangerous
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cycle of drug use began in 1958 when
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Elvis was drafted into the army and sent
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overseas I went to Germany with him
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after I got out of the Marine Corps Red
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West was one of his closest friends he
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was on guard Duty on the Russian front
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and if you went to sleep and got caught
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asleep you're in trouble so this
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sergeant said take these little things
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here they'll keep you up and wow man it
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started feeling good and uh that's how
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it
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began after the Army Elvis returned to
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his life as an Entertainer Elvis's
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greatest desire was to be a serious
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dramatic actor and this was denied him
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because his management felt that they
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wouldn't make as much money if they put
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him in a dramatic role they wanted him
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to be in the formula so this depressed
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him a great
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deal Elvis was frustrated by lightweight
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movie roles and was overwhelmed by the
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endless demands of his fans he retreated
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into a shadow World behind the Gates of
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his Memphis mansion graceand
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Elvis sort of put himself into a cocoon
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and graceand more or less became a tomb
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for him or a cave to go hide from Life
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the windows were sealed the outside did
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not enter in so his day-to-day touch
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with reality had really been
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removed people say what do you think the
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most difficult part of Elvis Presley's
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life was being Elvis Presley looking at
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a window seeing 10,000 people who think
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you can walk on water walking out on a
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stage and seeing 22,000 and Flash bubs
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going off thinking you are a
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king the combination of High Times on
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tour and isolation at home took its toll
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on Elvis His absences Affairs and drug
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use led to the end of his stormy
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six-year marriage to Priscilla he would
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get himself in a rage over that he would
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get himself so worked up over it that
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he' begin to take the medications to
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deal with the depression of the rage
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and then suddenly some shows are
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starting to be
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cancelled insiders say that by the
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mid-70s Elvis was so dependent on drugs
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that he required supervision
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24/7 David Stanley and a group of men
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known as the lifers gave him anything he
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wanted we were the ones who were with
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Elvis all the time Elvis needs something
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to eat Elvis needs to be woken up at a
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certain time U Elvis needs his
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medication
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Elvis demanded that every day he receive
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three separate doses of drugs that he
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called attacks each attack contained a
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dangerous combination of pills or shots
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of Valium nebal Demerol qualude and
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second the first attack was usually
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given between 2 and 3
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a.m. after he' take his attack uh with
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attack one he would have a couple of
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cheeseburgers uh
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potatoes attack one effect would get him
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groggy sleeping we would have to watch
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El cuz sometimes he'd be eating and just
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fall asleep with his food in his mouth
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often times choking on his own on his
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own
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food after sleeping for a few hours
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Elvis would receive aack number two that
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would last for several hours now you're
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in the morning hours you know you're
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looking at 10 11 then it'd be a tack
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three which was the same contents of
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attack one and two I mean so you're
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talking by the time you got done let's
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just call it 11 sleeping pills per
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attack that's
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33 let's call it three shots of demal
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per that's nine
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shots and some people would say well
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golly that's that's that's 6 months
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worth that was a nightly
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dose I talked to him about drugs and I
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said you don't need this stuff he said
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nuh you're wrong I do need it and that's
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that's when I threw my hand up and said
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I've done all I can
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do and I was gone shortly
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thereafter David Stanley says that he
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too tried to save Elvis from himself but
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the king didn't welcome his advice man
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I'm telling you right
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now right now now I knew Elvis wouldn't
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have shot me but I knew right then we
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have got a serious serious drug problem
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here Elvis became more and more
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depressed in the weeks before his death
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the despite the millions he'd made Alvis
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was short of money he was overweight and
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in poor health and dreading his next
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tour and in a final humiliation Rock and
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roll's greatest sex symbol was now
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reportedly impotent but perhaps Elvis
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was most upset about a book some former
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employees were about to publish just
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before his next tour this would be the
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first time that the fans saw him
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overweight not looking good with the
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knowledge of what the book contained and
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it was oh my God they'll they'll know
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and he knew the whistle had been blown
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on his clean image and he was terrified
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he can see the God I don't know if it's
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worth going on mentality kind of
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dreading the tour one day I don't want
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to go on a tour they're going to think
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this they're going to think that he was
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just really confused David come last
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time I saw of us he said goodbye to me
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she was crying I love you uh he hugged
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me I'll never ever see you again the
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next time you see me you'll be in a
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higher place in a different
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plane the day Elvis Presley died was
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different than most he ignored his usual
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late night Feast he was given his three
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attack envelopes nearly three dozen
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pills and nine syringes full of drugs at
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their usual times but Elvis left them
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untouched Ginger Alden Presley's
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girlfriend was the last person to see
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him alive all Ginger I'll going go read
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according to reports around 9:30 a.m.
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Elvis got out of bed and went to the
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bathroom to
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read and a few hours later that's where
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they found his
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body paramedics were already there by
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the time David Stanley
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arrived I looked and saw Elvis in the
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fetal position and knew he was
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gone first thing I said is you son of a
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I knew right there and then at that time
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that Elvis said I am out of
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here David says that he found all three
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attack envelopes and several demeral
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syringes nearly empty he believes that
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Elvis took all three attacks at once
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purposely to end his
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life the official autopsy found that
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Elvis died of an irregular heartbeat due
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to severe cardiovascular
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disease I don't think there's any
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evidence that there was a tremendous
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amount of drug abuse or anything misuse
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I Dr Kevin moridan has studied the
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official Corner's toxicology report I
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know there's been a lot of theories and
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there's been a lot of conjecture there's
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always a debate uh that kind of adds to
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the Mystique of of Elvis but he didn't
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die of an overdose he he died of some
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event probably cardiac in origin I'm
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telling you what I know and the fact is
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that much medication will kill you and
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Elvis knew
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that I know him like a book I know he's
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religious and I know what he would do
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and what he wouldn't
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do and he would not kill himself
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purposely exactly how did Elvis Presley
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die this controversy May one day be
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settled Elvis's father Vernon Presley
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reportedly commissioned a private off
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autopsy after the official report was
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completed exactly what those doctors
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found is still unknown at Vernon
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Presley's request the results will
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remain sealed until the year
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2027 next what was the fiery object that
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fell from the sky near kbur Pennsylvania
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and why does the government deny they
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even found it
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December
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1965 a brilliant light stre through the
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sky over Canada and it was also seen
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over the Northeastern United States
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thousands of eyewitnesses reported
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seeing its Trail which was visible for
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hundreds of miles in every
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direction in kbur Pennsylvania 40 m
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southeast of Pittsburgh Rob Landy and
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his brother Ray were outside riding
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their Brees we were riding up the road
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and we just happened to look up into the
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sky and we saw this thing coming over
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the top of the
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trees it just glided right across the
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sky like across the Horizon of the trees
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it scared us we were just like in awe
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you know as we watched it and and it
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disappeared
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and we ran you knew what an airplane
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looked like you knew what a helicopter
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looked like and that didn't look like
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anything we had ever seen before and the
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angle that it was that was coming in I
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mean you you knew that it was it had to
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hit the
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ground 3 miles away another local boy
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Randy overly also saw the
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object I was playing by a criek at the
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time and heard a deep hissing noise and
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I looked up in the sky and saw an object
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coming at me from a pretty good distance
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away it flew right over top of
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me and no higher in the air than 200 ft
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and was going no faster than a small
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airplane would
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go neevan and naen Culp were also
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playing outside when the object flew
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overhead and crashed in a wooded Ravine
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half a mile away this ball like fire com
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through it's something that I've never
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seen before and never seen
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since seen the smoke then at that time
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down in the hollow
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there that Ravine may have been the end
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of the object's Journey but for the
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residents of cburg the mystery had just
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begun so what did fall from the sky that
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December evening well for the first time
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I Witnesses have agreed to tell the
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story of a night they will never forget
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the kelp farmer is located less than a
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mile from cburg Village the Ravine runs
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east to west for 800 yd cutting across
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several Farms the object appeared to
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have crashed here more than a half a
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mile from the cp's
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home within minutes Pennsylvania state
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troopers descended on the CP Farm it
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went down over there by now there was no
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smoke and the light was fading search
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teams were called in to locate the
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actual press
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site just keep going straight you get to
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that road make a right later volunteer
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Fireman Jim ma located the site from an
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Overlook above the Ravine but it didn't
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look like a plane crash to him we went
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up this road and came to the brow of a
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hill and stopped and down to the right
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in holla were these blue flashing lights
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you see that
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light what is that it wasn't Searchers
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down in the woods with flashlights or
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anything it was a real bright blue real
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bright like a electric
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welder the the flashes seem to be timed
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at what intervals I don't
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know at that point the Troopers decided
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to close the area off close the roads
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off so he brought the two of us that was
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with him back to the fire
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station a call went out to all the local
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fire departments and more than 30
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volunteer firemen were dispatched from
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the kbur
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station James romansky was with a search
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team that actually found the crash
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site what is
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that I don't
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know here was this humongous metal
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object half buried in the ground about 6
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7 8T around and it was every bit of 8 10
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12 foot
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long and to me the object looked exactly
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like a fresh egg corn that you pick off
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of a tree there was no wings there was
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no Motors there was no
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propellers there was no identification
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whatsoever that identified as a aircraft
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that I would
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know there was a bumper on the bottom
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part of it on that bumper there was what
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I call it looked to me like the ancient
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Egyptian hieroglyphics it was markings
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like stars and shapes and figures and
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circles and lines and what it was I
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don't know to this day I've never seen
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anything like it so we're all standing
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around this thing wondering what in the
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heck it could
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be and finally here come two men down
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through the woods gentlemen you must
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leave the
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area the site is quarantined we taking
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and they took look at the object and
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immediately told us to leave we are in
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charge we're taking command get out of
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here so we left there and by the time we
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got back down here to the fire hall I
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mean this place was wall toall
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military an hour later military
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authorities took over a farmhouse near
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the Ravine owned by Lillian Hayes
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clks are
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here well the military was coming in and
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out of my house all evening they were
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making a lot of phone calls and they
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were standing around in groups talking
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uh that's a Roger we believe we've
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located the Ravine I have no idea who
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who they telephoned there was no calls
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turned up on my bill notify NASA put
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them on standby the village of cburg had
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been invaded first from the sky then by
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the United States no
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winter next you will hear several
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eyewitness accounts of what went into
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the Ravine and what came
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out a ravine near kbur Pennsylvania
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a mysterious object fell from the sky
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and the military immediately closed off
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the
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area they began a top secret recovery
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operation 19-year-old Bill Weaver was
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one of the many curious Spectators who
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tried to catch a glimpse hey what's
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going on down there I looked down in
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there myself I seen there was a
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something down in there that had bright
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lights on it but I couldn't see the
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object
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itself uh some time later I seen a van
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type truck pull up there there was some
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men dressed in Moon suits we called them
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at the time and they had a light colored
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box roughly 5T
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Square They carried it down into the
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Ravine the Box seemed too small to hold
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the object itself maybe there was
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something inside the object that the
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military wanted to remove hey what's
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going on down there you'll have to leave
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the area now
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they told me unless I moved my car and
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got out of there that they would
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confiscate my
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car back at the kbur fire station Jim
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romansky and the other volunteers waited
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for
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orders we looked up here comes this Jeep
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down over the hill with its red light on
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it and right behind the jeep was a large
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flatbed
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truck and on the back of the flatbed was
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this covered
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object and out down Road they went where
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they went I have no
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idea whatever came down in kbur that
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night is of high importance to the
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military agencies the most mysterious
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thing about the whole case is the fact
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that after 25 years the government still
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refuses to give us any actual
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information on what
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occurred Stan Gordon interviewed dozens
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of kbur eyewitnesses and has examined
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several
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theories astronomers who looked into the
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case at the time basically felt that the
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object in question was a bll line which
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was a very bright Fireball type meteor
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but we now know that thing basically was
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coming down from the tip of Ontario and
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appeared to made about a 25° turn toward
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the East near Cleveland Ohio and the
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interesting thing is now that the new
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data suggests that the object made a
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turn towards the South and then the
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object made another turn towards the
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village of kbur where it was proceeding
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into there towards the Northeast within
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several miles of the crash site multiple
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witness tell us that this object was
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coming in at a very very slow speed of
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descent meteors do not make control
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turns they do not come in at a slow
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speed like this and uh they in fact do
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not Glide in which this thing apparently
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did my personal opinion what landed in
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kbur at night was a a capsule of some
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kind uh from where whether it was one of
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ours or a foreign I have no idea 2 1 Z
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another theory is that the object was
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space debris the government has always
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monitored not only us space activity but
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also launches from other
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countries going back into the records we
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have from NASA and documents we have
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from other agencies they apparently have
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no loggings for any type of space debris
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on that date and the time of this
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observation so we also have to look to
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the other possibility could this deed
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have been in an extraterrestrial
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spacecraft this is a copy of the
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official Air Force record of the cburg
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incident Stan Gordon obtained it through
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the Freedom of Information
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Act the report indicated that there was
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quite a lot of interest by government
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agencies as to what the object may have
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been there were memos there and requests
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for information from Houston Space
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Center from NORAD from the Air Force
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command post the Pentagon even the
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chairman of the office of emergency
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planning requested information the
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official Air Force explanation was that
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it was likely a
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meteor basically what it goes on to say
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is the fact that the search was caught
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off around 2:00 a.m. and that nothing
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was found but evidence indicates
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something indeed was found at the site
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the military's idea of finding nothing
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is completely false there was something
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down in that Ravine that night there was
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something that glowed an awful bright
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light and they took something out of
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there at
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night many eyewitnesses reported seeing
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a military Convoy coming out of the
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Ravine at the end of the Convoy was a
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flatbed truck with a large covered
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object on the back John Hayes was only
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10 years old when the truck rumbled by
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his bedroom
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window what was on the back of it I have
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no idea it was about the size of a
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Volkswagen Beetle from the distance I
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was at gentlemen you must leave the area
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the site is quarantined according to
00:23:32
Stan Gordon eyewitnesses identified the
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military unit as the Air Force's
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662 radar Squadron based in Pittsburgh
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Gordon believes the unit was part of a
00:23:43
top secret operation investigating
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UFOs there is no entry at all for
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December 9th of
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1965 in the December of log of all
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activities for that Squadron that tells
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us that somebody apparently want to keep
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all information associated with the
00:24:01
unit's involvement in that site away
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from public information we can see the
00:24:06
fact that the government has not told us
00:24:08
everything they know about the keur
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case official reports that the military
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and the government put out as far as I'm
00:24:16
concerned are a bunch of bull if this
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thing was a
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meteorite then why didn't they just
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bring it out and say here it is let the
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reporters take pictures of it let the
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firemen see let the people in this area
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see it why the big mystery either one we
00:24:33
dealing with some highly Advanced space
00:24:35
probe probably of a foreign nation that
00:24:38
appears to be very highly technical for
00:24:41
what we knew about
00:24:43
1965 or the possibility exists that we
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may indeed be dealing with an
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extraterrestrial
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spacecraft next in Las Vegas a
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multi-millionaire turns up dead was it
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an overdose or a case of
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murder we recently told you the story of
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Casino multi-millionaire Ted bignan he
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was found dead in his mansion by his
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girlfriend a former exotic dancer named
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Sandy Murphy he's just not breathing I
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don't know
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at first his death appeared to be either
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an accidental drug overdose or
00:25:34
suicide but almost immediately murder
00:25:37
became a strong
00:25:40
possibility the prime suspects Ted Ban's
00:25:43
business partner Rick tabish and Ted's
00:25:46
26-year-old girlfriend Sandy Murphy who
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were rumored to be having an
00:25:52
affair less than 36 hours after Ted's
00:25:55
death Rick tabish was arrested as he dug
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up $4 million in silver that bignan had
00:26:01
stashed in the Nevada desert tabish was
00:26:04
later released on
00:26:10
bail a private investigator hired by the
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bignan family discovered that Rick
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tabish called Sandy Murphy just 8
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minutes before she dialed
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911 and an autopsy found that drugs were
00:26:24
not the cause of Ted Ban's death based
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upon on my experience and based upon uh
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the interviews I've conducted I
00:26:34
personally believe that Ted bion's death
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was a
00:26:38
homicide several months later Sandy
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Murphy was
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arrested both she and Rick tabish were
00:26:45
tried for the murder of Ted
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bignan the prosecution presented
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incriminating statements made by both
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tabish and Murphy in the weeks leading
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up to the murder medical testimony
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stated that that Bion was actually
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suffocated in my experience um the
00:27:03
amount of drug that uh that Mr Binion
00:27:06
had in his
00:27:08
system could cause death but the great
00:27:11
majority of people who had that amount
00:27:13
would not
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die the most damning evidence was a
00:27:17
videotape of Sandy Murphy taken the day
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after Ted bion's
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death this is my personal property okay
00:27:25
it was a
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gift but leave it so that Jimmy doesn't
00:27:29
throw she's hardly a grieving Widow in
00:27:32
this videotape she is narcissistic
00:27:35
possessive angry she is unpleasant we're
00:27:39
taking this for certainty because this
00:27:41
is too valuable to leave in the
00:27:44
house okay leave it just take a video of
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it make sure you count the pieces
00:27:48
there's two pieces here and two pieces
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here you see a cold Steely self-centered
00:27:54
woman who is concerned with nothing but
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her own possessions the video played a
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strong uh role in characterizing for
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this jury exactly who Sandra Murphy
00:28:04
was Sandy Murphy and Rick tabish were
00:28:07
convicted of murder burglary and Grand
00:28:09
Larson and were sentenced to life in
00:28:14
prison
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update after an appeal all the
00:28:18
convictions were overturned at a retrial
00:28:22
both Sandy Murphy and Rick tabish were
00:28:24
convicted only of the robbery charges
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tabish who was already serving time for
00:28:29
unrelated crimes was given a sentence of
00:28:32
up to 10 years in prison he served his
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time and has been released Murphy
00:28:38
received the sentence of 1 to 5 years
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but was released for time already
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served actor Dennis Cole has appeared in
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dozens of television shows like The
00:28:53
Young and the Restless Fantasy Island
00:28:56
and the Fall Guy if life was scripted
00:28:59
like a Hollywood movie Dennis's son Joe
00:29:02
might have followed in his footsteps but
00:29:04
29-year-old Joe Cole was murdered and
00:29:07
his killer is still
00:29:10
unknown there's not a day that goes by
00:29:13
that uh I don't think about him and you
00:29:16
know we've always shared things it's
00:29:18
like I I've done a lot of new things and
00:29:21
it's like I have no one to call up and
00:29:22
say hey Hey Joe guess what happened here
00:29:24
and he would do the same thing with me I
00:29:26
mean it's like a part of your heart
00:29:27
would just taken and pulled
00:29:32
out Venice
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California this beachfront community is
00:29:37
the scene of a yearr round Street party
00:29:41
for decades the area has been home to
00:29:43
writers and artists and
00:29:46
musicians Joe Cole an actor and a
00:29:49
photographer fit right in it was here in
00:29:53
Venice that Joe was documenting the
00:29:55
lives of homeless Vietnam veterans
00:29:58
Cole's longtime friend hen Rollins a
00:30:01
writer and a lead singer of the Rollins
00:30:02
band helped with the
00:30:05
project those men you see talking to
00:30:07
themselves standing next to pay phones
00:30:09
on
00:30:10
streets he would bond with these people
00:30:14
where they wouldn't give you the time of
00:30:15
day they would tell the story of their
00:30:17
lives to Joe what do you mean it's a
00:30:20
great
00:30:20
flick he shoot Rollins and Cole often
00:30:23
shopped at an allight Market just the
00:30:25
block from their house on a cool
00:30:28
December night they were returning home
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as usual with their bags of groceries
00:30:33
cabbage come on okay back grand back
00:30:36
down don't look at me don't look at me
00:30:39
within 1 second you are going from the
00:30:43
90 millionth trip to the grocery store
00:30:46
home two two guns in your face don't
00:30:50
look at
00:30:53
me one Robber shoved Rollins to his
00:30:56
knees the other forced Joe to the ground
00:30:59
the guy who was on me said if you yell
00:31:01
or if you scream I'm going to blow your
00:31:03
head off and I said okay 40 bucks this
00:31:06
is it that's all you got that's all you
00:31:08
got get up get up get him in house go to
00:31:09
your house go your and at that moment
00:31:12
what I thought was going to happen was
00:31:14
we were going to be marched into the
00:31:16
house and executed while they robbed the
00:31:19
place at their
00:31:22
Leisure I heard feet scuffling on the
00:31:26
front porch and then I heard
00:31:30
gunshots and then my legs took
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off I did not know the state that Joe
00:31:43
was in I I didn't even hardly remember
00:31:46
leaving the
00:31:48
house all of a sudden I was at a phone
00:31:50
and I called the police and told them
00:31:52
what I thought had
00:31:54
happened lb ruffy the police arrived
00:31:58
within minutes but Joel Cole was already
00:32:01
dead and The Killers had vanished into
00:32:04
the night my partner and myself have put
00:32:07
in thousands of hours interviewing
00:32:11
hundreds and hundreds of
00:32:15
people criminals always talk they talk
00:32:18
to other people somebody knows something
00:32:20
out there that happened uh to Joe
00:32:25
Cole when someone died in this way it's
00:32:29
not just the loss of a life there's a
00:32:32
mother there's a father you know and
00:32:34
then all of us the friends who lost this
00:32:37
fantastic person and you never recover
00:32:40
from it all the way you always carry
00:32:42
some of it in you and it it brecks you
00:32:43
year after a
00:32:45
year the only Justice that can be done
00:32:47
here is to get those guys or guy off the
00:32:51
street so they don't do it to your
00:32:52
friend or your sister or your
00:32:55
parent or your child
00:33:01
the suspect is 5'1 and weighs 165 lb if
00:33:06
you have any information about the death
00:33:08
of Joe Cole please log on to our website
00:33:11
at unsolved.com
00:33:13
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next a woman is murdered and a police
00:33:19
chief is on the Run
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a quiet farming town in Nebraska is not
00:33:35
the place you'd expect to find a pretty
00:33:37
young divorce a to settle and that's why
00:33:40
neighbors were surprised and puzzled
00:33:43
when 34-year-old Anna Anton moved in it
00:33:47
turns out that Anna had a little
00:33:51
secret there was no rational reason why
00:33:54
she would move
00:33:56
here people don't move to Lions Nebraska
00:33:59
unless they have a job or family or
00:34:02
they're returning to a small Hometown
00:34:04
and she didn't have any of
00:34:06
those Anna had injured her leg so she
00:34:09
couldn't drive her new friends were
00:34:11
willing to help out good morning good
00:34:13
morning Anna oh nice to see you Serv
00:34:15
thank you very much God bless you have a
00:34:17
nice day
00:34:18
now Anna appeared to be a very religious
00:34:21
person she had very high morals and did
00:34:24
not drink she went to church
00:34:29
daily she could find a
00:34:31
ride Shirley edcom lived across the
00:34:34
street from mana and as they became
00:34:36
friends Anna began to confide in
00:34:40
her want me to put these away for you
00:34:43
she told me that her ex-husband had been
00:34:45
involved in some large drug bring and
00:34:49
that she had testified against him and
00:34:52
other members of this drug ring and she
00:34:55
was afraid that he was going to harm her
00:34:57
she did tell me that she'd chosen that
00:35:00
apartment because the police chief lived
00:35:03
right above her and she thought of her
00:35:05
ex-husband ever did find her that he
00:35:07
would be lary about bothering her
00:35:08
because of the police car parked out in
00:35:12
front one day when Shirley brought some
00:35:15
groceries over to Anna's apartment she
00:35:17
was surprised to find the back door was
00:35:19
locked Anna she tried again later that
00:35:23
evening but there was still no answer
00:35:25
Anna had disappeared as mysteriously as
00:35:28
she had arrived I hope you don't mind
00:35:31
letting me in I'm really worried about
00:35:33
her it's not like her to just disappear
00:35:35
Shirley asked for help from police chief
00:35:37
Greg web who lived
00:35:40
upstairs we went in thinking we probably
00:35:43
find Anna had fallen and there was no
00:35:46
sign of
00:35:48
her here it is when Shirley found Anna's
00:35:50
phone book Chief web offered to call her
00:35:53
friends maybe one of them had seen her
00:35:56
my job okay few hours later he called me
00:35:59
and said that he had called those
00:36:02
numbers in the book but uh she wasn't at
00:36:04
any of those
00:36:07
places Days Later Anna's body was found
00:36:10
in a remote
00:36:11
field she had 238 caliber bullet wounds
00:36:14
in her body since the crime scene was
00:36:17
outside Lion's jurisdiction the Nebraska
00:36:20
state patrol was called
00:36:22
in upon observing the surroundings
00:36:24
around Anna it was very apparent that uh
00:36:28
she did not circum her death there that
00:36:31
the body had been
00:36:32
moved how you doing Mike hi an autopsy
00:36:36
later revealed that Anna's blood alcohol
00:36:39
level was 22 surprisingly high for a
00:36:42
woman who supposedly did not
00:36:45
drink the note that an gave when Jerry
00:36:47
creger interviewed Shirley she told him
00:36:50
that Anna seemed afraid of her
00:36:52
ex-husband within a short period of time
00:36:54
we were able to determine that Anna's
00:36:57
ex-husband did have an alibi and he was
00:36:59
not involved in any drug activity and I
00:37:02
just couldn't understand why Anna would
00:37:04
fabricate this
00:37:07
information knowing that Chief Webb
00:37:09
lived upstairs kriger questioned him
00:37:12
about Anna how long did you do it he
00:37:14
learned that they had been intimately
00:37:16
involved Chief Webb was now a suspect
00:37:19
okay re let's go over here by the chair
00:37:21
and work her way back okay 2 days after
00:37:24
Anna's body was found creger and lab
00:37:26
technicians search for blood in Anna's
00:37:29
apartment Greg web was upstairs in his
00:37:32
apartment at the same time there were
00:37:35
times that we would hear somebody
00:37:37
walking or moving
00:37:39
upstairs it did sound as though he might
00:37:42
have been
00:37:43
listening the police use a special
00:37:45
chemical called luminum it makes drops
00:37:48
of blood glow in the dark even if they
00:37:50
have been washed away or are small and
00:37:53
Faded we found traces of blood in the
00:37:56
living room in dining room area of an
00:37:58
Anton's apartment look at that look at
00:38:02
that the trail of blood just outside of
00:38:05
Anna Anton's door was quite heavy the
00:38:08
trail then led up the stairs to Greg
00:38:10
Webb's apartment right here right here
00:38:13
at the top of the step okay my main
00:38:16
concern at that particular time was uh
00:38:19
attempting to obtain a search warrant
00:38:21
for Greg Webb's
00:38:24
apartment during the police
00:38:25
investigation Greg Webb left his
00:38:28
apartment the next day he withdrew
00:38:30
$3,000 and then
00:38:34
disappeared 5 days later armed with a
00:38:37
search warrant investigator creger
00:38:39
searched the chief's apartment don't you
00:38:41
go ahead we did find a mop that did have
00:38:44
a trace of blood that was later shown to
00:38:47
be the same type as Anna Anton's Jer you
00:38:50
want to take a look at this in the
00:38:51
bedroom closet the police found a
00:38:53
military style coat with several spots
00:38:55
of blood these stains match the blood
00:38:58
type of Anna Anton to the lab package it
00:39:01
and label it okay once I started
00:39:03
checking into Anna Anton's background I
00:39:05
had learned that she had two separate
00:39:07
lives one live down here in Lions
00:39:10
Nebraska where she was very religious
00:39:13
and then the other up in Arnold's Park
00:39:14
where she would refer to as a bar Floy
00:39:18
hi an you get better looking every day
00:39:20
well thank you this is where an Anton
00:39:23
and Greg web had met this is Greg web
00:39:26
he's chief of police at line
00:39:27
Nebraska Greg and Anna became friends
00:39:30
when Anna told him that she was looking
00:39:32
for a place to live web suggested that
00:39:34
she move into an empty apartment in his
00:39:37
building I think Anna Anton moved here
00:39:40
with the anticipation that uh her and
00:39:43
Greg web uh may have something in common
00:39:46
and possibly maybe even eventually U
00:39:49
getting together and maybe even marriage
00:39:51
Anna was infatuated with web but she
00:39:54
soon learned that he had another
00:39:56
girlfriend Anna seemed to be preoccupied
00:40:00
with the fact that Greg had this
00:40:04
girlfriend she talked about laying in
00:40:07
bed at night and hearing them upstairs
00:40:10
making love and it bothered
00:40:15
her I believe an Anton's death could
00:40:18
have resulted from a fight that might
00:40:20
have occurred due to the fact that an
00:40:23
Anton had found out about this other
00:40:25
woman and confronted GRE web about this
00:40:28
give me
00:40:31
that it was learned that during the
00:40:34
following day in the early morning hours
00:40:36
Greg Webb was seen carrying something
00:40:38
from his house out to the trunk of his
00:40:40
car and it was learned later that what
00:40:43
he was carrying was actually an
00:40:48
Anton the police believed web removed
00:40:51
all of Anna's clothes and then carefully
00:40:54
washed her body before he carried her
00:40:56
from the apartment
00:40:58
I feel that Greg Webb might have thought
00:41:00
that he had committed the perfect crime
00:41:03
in the way he had disposed of the body
00:41:05
and also to the fact that uh he would
00:41:08
have known about uh an Anton's
00:41:12
ex-husband a warrant was issued for the
00:41:14
arrest of Greg Webb charging him with
00:41:17
first-degree
00:41:19
murder
00:41:23
update an alert viewer in Orlando
00:41:26
Florida recognized web as a man that he
00:41:28
knew as Jim Weber a construction worker
00:41:32
when I was watching it and they showed
00:41:33
Greg I mean it looked just like the guy
00:41:35
I knew as Jim and I knew him as Gregory
00:41:38
James Weber and he went by Jim Weber so
00:41:41
uh I just put the two together like I
00:41:42
say it just looked just like him so it
00:41:44
was quite a shock Florida had faxed me
00:41:47
uh photographs of the driver's license
00:41:49
that was issued under Gregory James
00:41:51
Weber and once I did see the photographs
00:41:54
I knew that that was Gregory John web
00:41:58
faced with a charge of first-degree
00:42:00
murder Webb pled to A reduced charge of
00:42:03
manslaughter he was sentenced to 7 to 18
00:42:06
years in prison and was released after 8
00:42:09
years
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