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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a 14-year-old boy disappears
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from a County Fair some believe that he
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was killed by local
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teenagers is our destiny Written in the
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Stars a leading astrologer reveals that
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serial killers might be born to
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murder Angela Maher was a crusader
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against Dr drivers until she was killed
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by one now that driver is a fugitive on
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the run and nine brothers and sisters
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are separated when their mother is
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killed maybe you can help reunite
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them sounds intriguing doesn't it well
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stick around I'm Dennis Verina and for
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the next hour it's Unsolved Mysteries
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in Milwaukee Wisconsin Jeffrey dmer
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lured at least 17 young men to his
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apartment he drugg strangled and
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dismembered each of them in a real life
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chamber of
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Horrors in Los Angeles the nightstalker
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Richard Ramirez invaded homes and
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murdered at least 13 people most of them
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women in New York City David burkowitz
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called himself the son of s and and he
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made Manhattan his personal hunting
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ground he randomly shot 13 people
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leaving six of them
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dead what forces compel these notorious
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serial killers to act is it nature or
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nurture or could their Destiny be
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written in the
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stars astrology is like a road map where
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the planets were positioned at the exact
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moment you were born
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astrology is the science of celestial
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bodies and relationship to an infant and
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then it progresses through their
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life for most of us astrology is just a
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playful diversion in the morning
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newspaper something to be enjoyed but
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not taken too seriously but others swear
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by it perhaps there is something more to
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this study of the
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Stars we asked astrologer Carol Reynolds
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to examine the charts of 19 different
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people she had no idea who they belong
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to however we knew that four of them
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were the birth dates of notorious serial
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killers would Carolyn be able to spot
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which charts Belong To The
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Killers astrological charts divide the
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sky into 12 sections called houses each
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represents a facet of life for example
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the fourth house is home or family the
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eighth house is death the chart is based
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on the position of the planet's sun and
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moon at the moment a person is born
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according to astrologists these
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positions have specific meaning and they
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strongly influence the person born at
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that specific
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time one astrologist Carolyn renold sat
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down to study the 19 charts she was
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given no identifying information Beyond
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date time and place of birth out of the
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19 charts Carolyn selected dmer Ramirez
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burkowitz and Edmund keer as probable
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serial killers if you look at charts
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there's a certain Beauty and Harmony
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where they
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flow and theirs were jumbled and nodded
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and um in all their planets were just
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bumping up against each other causing
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friction and
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trouble in each case Carolyn was never
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told which chart belonged to which
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subject even so she was able to talk
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about specific details relating to the
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Killer's crimes details that prove to be
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remarkably
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accurate for instance in 1988 Richard
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Ramirez pleaded guilty to murder he
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reportedly bragged to a fellow inmate
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quote I've killed 20 people I love all
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that
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blood this was the most obvious killer
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he has in the third house the Sun and
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the Moon in the sign of
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Pisces he had five out of seven of the
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worst degrees that you could have and
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one of them was the degree of the
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devil save during his trial Richard
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Ramirez openly admitted to worshiping
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Satan he proudly displayed a pentag man
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a sign of the devil and the palm of his
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left
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hand then there's David burwitz Son of
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Sam when he was arrested he claimed that
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he was instructed to kill by a
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neighbor's dog he said he had no control
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over his own actions without knowing
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that she was reading Burt's chart
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Carolyn came to the same
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conclusion I don't think he had much of
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a choice in this he was born with the
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planets that gave you a potential in in
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a lineup for multiple personality or a
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split
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personality and it's in the house of
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death when Carolyn read Jeffrey D's
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chart she found the subject to be quote
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destructive heartless and cruel Carolyn
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concluded that if he wasn't so evil he
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would be a murder victim himself and
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that's exactly what happened to Jeffrey
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dmer in 19 19994 he was beaten to death
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in
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prison I was also involved in killing
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co-eds because my mother mass murderer
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Edmund Ker's chart was perhaps the most
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revealing of all mostly in the fourth
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house which represents parents and home
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again Carolyn did not know whose chart
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she was
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analyzing there's a lot of activity at
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home and it's all unusual and not good
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automatically I'm thinking something's
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not not right here about what he's doing
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at home the position of the moon is
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pretty much working against that house
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in astrology the Moon is a symbol for
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mother Edmund ker murdered eight women
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six coeds his mother's best friend and
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his mother criminal psychologist Candice
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scrabic is familiar with Ker's
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case it's clear that there is a a very
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mous relationship between Ed and his
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mother from a young child he had
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fantasized killing her the six young
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women that he chose consciously he says
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were women that
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represented women whom his mother had
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said he was not good enough
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for scrabic has interviewed a dozen
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serial killers she believes that they
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are products of both their environment
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and their
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biology that is like a Mars to a Saturn
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while scrap does not adhere to astrology
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she does find carollyn Reynolds
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observations intriguing we brought the
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two of them together to compare notes
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it's interesting there are certain
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Concepts that uh certainly I'm relating
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to in in this particular case I'm most
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interested in trying to come to a better
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understanding of why it is serial
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murderers do what they do
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psychologically of course and as a
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psychologist uh that's probably my bias
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I hope you can understand where I'm from
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the the truth is I honestly don't know
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if there's any value to
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astrology I don't dismiss it I don't
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discount it as a
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valid factor in human behavior I just
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really cannot say one way or the
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other are certain people destined to
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kill the moment they are born or is it
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possible to reverse what astrologist
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Carolyn Reynolds believes is written in
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the stars the star s incline they do not
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impel I think love for example
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transcends everything I think if a
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person had a real strong nurturing
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loving mother and father um
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relationships around them that it might
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help them not to act in the negative
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fashion it's a road map and like any
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other road map sometimes you take a
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different route I think it's a lot like
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that next a 14-year-old boy is last seen
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at a carnival and his parents
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desperately want to know why he never
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came
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home Myrtle Point
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Oregon every August the KZ County Fair
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Rose into town for many it's a week-long
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party to Jeremy bright and his close
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friend Johnny it was one of the high
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points of the
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Year normally Jeremy lived 100 miles
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away in Grant's Pass where his mother
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worked but during the week of the fair
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he and his younger sister stayed with
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their stepfather in Myrtle Point on
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Thursday Jeremy and Johnny hung out at
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the
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fair that afternoon Jeremy phoned his
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mother Diane he told her that he was
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having a great time Diane says that she
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made plans with Jeremy in 2 days she
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would come down to Myrtle Point and pick
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him
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up 5 hours later on Thursday night
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Jeremy showed up at a local Tavern owned
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by his grandmother there he met his
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stepfather and asked to borrow some
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money it would be the last time Jeremy
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was ever seen by his family
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yeah you behave
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yourself since that weekend a number of
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rumors have surfaced about Jeremy's
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disappearance his parents and the police
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have come to one conclusion someone in
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Myrtle Point knows exactly what happened
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to Jeremy and they're not
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talking Diane arrived in Myrtle Point on
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Saturday as planned but when she went to
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pick up Jeremy at his stepfather's house
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he wasn't there I went in and on the TV
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set was his house keys from our gr's
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pass apartment and his wallet and his
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new watch that he had told me he'd
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bought I knew when I found those things
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that he was around somewhere cuz he
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wouldn't leave without
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him a few hours later that same night
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Diane was worried enough to contact the
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police at first they believed her son
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had simply run away he did like the fair
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there was the thought that perhaps
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perhaps he was hiding out intending to
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leave with the fair uh people and I've
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explored that possibility in every way
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that I can think of however in this
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particular case I've talked to family
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members and and friends of his that knew
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him well and he was just not from what I
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can learn the type of a kid who would
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have struck out on his
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own and Sunday the fair closed down
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Myrtle Point was buzzing about Jeremy's
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disappearance and gradually conflicting
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stories began to emerge I can get a beer
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according to one RoR Jeremy went to one
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of Myrtle Point's many parties and drank
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a beer laced with a powerful
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drug looking for a beer yeah hey don't
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open another one there's one already
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open right here I I've identified at
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least two and perhaps three parties
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where Jeremy was present that the
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overdose Theory could have occurred at
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it it was reported that Jeremy had a
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heart murmur and uh therefore a
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stimulant of some kind might have uh
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done some bodily damage to him just just
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by his she taking
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it police heard a different story from a
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jailhouse informant he claimed that
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three teenagers showed up at a local
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swimming hole and harassed Jeremy and
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his friends is that a
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gun
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this it's a toy it was at the ja where
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an inmate related to me the information
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that he had heard wherein one individual
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from the Myrtle Point area was Target
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practicing or shooting indiscriminately
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in the water in the area where Jeremy
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was uh was swimming show me what you
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made of
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now that's better Pier is De yeah I bet
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you can I bet you yeah see if you all
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right all right I'm going to try this
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look good in
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man they subsequently took him to a a
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cabin maybe within 10 mies of the Myrtle
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Point area and attempted to nurse him
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back to health uh to no avail that he
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died as a result of that injury either
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from loss of blood or from uh infection
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or what have
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you that uh same Source through the jail
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indicated that his uh body would be
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found within 200 feet of this cabin in a
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in a shallow
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grave police searched the area around
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the cabin but found
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nothing all the rumors were hard to
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handle all of them are hard to think
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about every time I'd hear a new one I'd
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have nightmares for a week or
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so the one that I hope is not what
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happen happened is the one where he
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suffered for 2 weeks before he
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died and they buried his
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body cuz the thought of him suffering
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for two
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weeks just makes me
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sick there were two more strange events
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the night that Jeremy disappeared first
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a sister of Jeremy's friend Johnny had a
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disturbing
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encounter it was Friday Night of the
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fair and it was between midnight and 1
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when we were leaving my sister's
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apartment and we came down the stairs
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and we got to the last stair and we
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almost ran into one of the neighborhood
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guys and he was completely covered in
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blood and I mean it was just all over
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him and it kind of scared me what
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happened to
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you well this he goes oh this this
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happened hours ago and he just laughed
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and then he went into one of the
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apartments
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half hour later Johnny arrived at his
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sister's apartment according to her he
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was visibly upset but refused to explain
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why whether it is just coincidence or
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whether they're directly related to
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Jeremy's disappearance is another one of
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the uh the Mysteries that you still have
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to sort through to try to determine what
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indeed did
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happen the three or four people whose
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names keep reappearing in all the rumors
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and all of the reports they're not
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exactly what anybody would call pillars
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of
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society but as long as these men are out
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on the street they can hurt somebody
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else's child the same as they hurt mine
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and if they did to my son what people
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are saying they did and what they've
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been heard themselves say that they did
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they've got no business on the public
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streets I would just encourage anyone
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especially those people who I feel have
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information that would help this
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investigation greatly to just simply
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have the courage to say yeah I'm scared
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to death but in a case like this my
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being scared doesn't warrant this
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family's
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pain this age progressed photo shows
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what Jeremy might look like today he has
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scars on his forehead and nose and a
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mole on his chin the prime suspect in
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his disappearance recently died in
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prison and there are no new leads
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however the case is still open if you
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have any information about The
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Disappearance of Jeremy brigh please log
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next meet three American children who
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seem to channel the thoughts of the Dead
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reincarnation has never been
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scientifically proven yet the belief has
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persisted for thousands of years among
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the most fascinating accounts are those
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involving children ordinary kids who
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seem to have information they are either
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too young to know or to
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understand Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania on the 4th of July Carol
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Balman was watching fireworks with her
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5-year-old son Chase when he suddenly
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became very
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frightened not only terrified he was
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hysterical he was crying and screaming
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and I had to take him home and I thought
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that that was very unusual because he
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had never responded to fireworks that
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way
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before over the next few months Chase's
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fear of explosive noises
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intensified all right Chase I want to
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try something close your eyes and relax
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for help Carol turned to a friend who
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was a HP no
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therapist breathe out
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slowly now I want you to think of a
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sound that frightens you the
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hypnotherapist had hardly begun when
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Chase suddenly seemed transported to
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another place and another town a
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battlefield during the American Civil
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War there's lots of
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smoke there's a war going
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up I was
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shocked he started curling up in my lap
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as if he were afraid and I could feel
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him trembling as he described what it
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was like with gunfire all around him and
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what it was like to be crouching behind
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a rock I could feel
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him crouching in my
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lap Chase experienced A Rush of vivid
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images he saw himself in the heat of
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battle struck by a bullet his wrist
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shattered soldiers dragged him to a
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field Hospital the wound was bandaged
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and he was sent back to the front line
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and served in a cannon
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crew Chase said he saw himself walking
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back into battle and he was killed
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behind the cannon he he died very
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suddenly I was amazed because it sounded
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so true and so real and so plausible I'm
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looking down on Valley at that point in
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Chase's life when he was five I knew
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what he watched on television because we
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carefully regulated it he watched Sesame
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Street and Mr Rogers period And I never
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had read books to him about the Civil
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War as far as I could tell there was no
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way he could have known that chase later
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drew his memory of the cannon that he
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helped load Civil War Buffs have found
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the details surprisingly accurate in my
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opinion uh it's rather remarkable that
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the child having not H had any sort of
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background or experience and viewing
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scenes from the Civil War uh his
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placement of the horse and the wagon and
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the artillery piece is pretty consistent
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with the m of Transportation of Cannon
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during the Civil
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War Carol Balman is a professional
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writer she was so intrigued by her son's
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experience she started researching a
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book on children's past lives as it
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turned out there was plenty of
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material at the time Leah was little
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over two she's about 2 and 1/2 years old
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and we were driving near our home it was
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winter time she was about 2 and 1/2 she
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was in the back seat in her car seat
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where she always
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was and uh we were driving down a hill
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and the Sun was shining and all of a
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sudden I hear this little voice in the
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back seat pipes up she goes
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mommy this is just like where I
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died what I was little shocked uh you
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know I'm thinking what is she talking
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about I was a little horrified that
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she's even thinking about death at that
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that age it shook me enough that I
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pulled off the
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road
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sweetie what did you just say I was
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driving in the car it fell off the
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bridge and I was in the bar there was a
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feeling that came over me of this was
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really important that this is big news
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like the basement is on fire you know
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kind of something that you really want
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to pay attention to and that it was a
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different moment from any conversation
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that we had had previously well who
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drove the car I was big I could e the P
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I was driving she said that basically
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she fell off the bridge and she fell
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into the water and she said I fell out
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of the car I could feel the rocks on my
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head and I could look up and see the
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bubbles going up and she said I could
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see the light on the shiny
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bridge I don't think she could have
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possibly made it up uh she didn't watch
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any television she didn't really go to
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any movies she wasn't exposed she could
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not have possibly had a frame of
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reference for this
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experience my son Blake taught me a very
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spiritual lesson that we have lived
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before and will probably live again and
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i' I've got no doubt that this is what
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happened Blake what's the matter Colleen
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Hawkin son Blake was only 3 years old
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when he told his mother a frightening
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story who hit you with the truck a man a
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man hit you with a truck were you
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outside I thought that I would trick him
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in a way to see to see if he had his
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facts right and so I said oh this
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happened on TV right and he said no it
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happened in the street he was getting
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irritated with me at this point because
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he knew his facts and he felt I should
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know what happened
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also some experts believe there's a
00:23:48
perfectly rational explanation for all
00:23:51
of these episodes all kids fantasize to
00:23:54
a certain degree and so the chances that
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they'll come up with something startling
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and unusual in that kind of a rich rich
00:24:01
fantasy life was very high I got hit by
00:24:04
and when you look at it that way these
00:24:05
cases fall apart there are lots of
00:24:07
prosaic explanations for how they could
00:24:09
possibly know this information without
00:24:11
it necessarily coming from a past
00:24:14
life however the parents of the children
00:24:17
involved are convinced those memories
00:24:19
are not only real but are also
00:24:24
beneficial I believe that remembering
00:24:27
past lives can be very healing for the
00:24:29
child it can help them leave the past
00:24:31
behind and move on into present reality
00:24:35
and I think it can be marvelously
00:24:38
healing for the adults too it can give
00:24:40
them new insights into who their child
00:24:42
is as a soul and will give them a
00:24:44
completely different perspective on life
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and
00:24:51
death next two women swap ID cards in
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the hospital and one takes the other's
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baby and now that baby has grown up and
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she wants to find her birth
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00:25:10
mother in a previous episode we told you
00:25:14
the story of Carla Downey Carla grew up
00:25:17
in a happy close-knit family but never
00:25:20
felt that she fit in the whole time I
00:25:23
was growing up I always knew that there
00:25:25
was just something not right mainly
00:25:27
because of the difference between
00:25:28
between my brother and I he had blue
00:25:31
eyes and blonde hair and it was Curly
00:25:34
and you know I had straight dark hair
00:25:36
dark eyes Olive complexion and it was
00:25:39
just obvious to me even that we just
00:25:43
weren't
00:25:45
alike it was not until her father's
00:25:48
death that Carla finally got some
00:25:50
answers this belonged to your dad and he
00:25:52
wanted you to have it in her father's
00:25:55
briefcase she found documents which
00:25:57
prove that that the father and mother
00:25:59
who raised her were not her natural
00:26:03
parents Carla learned that the year that
00:26:05
she was born her mother Mildred Graham
00:26:08
had met a young woman named Mary an
00:26:11
immigrant from Belgium Mary was single
00:26:14
and Pregnant and knew that she couldn't
00:26:16
care for a child so the two women
00:26:19
switched ID cards in the hospital her
00:26:23
name is mild Graham in doing the switch
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Mildred's name was listed on the birth
00:26:29
certificate as Carla's mother and soon
00:26:32
after the birth Mary just
00:26:36
disappeared I just have this need to
00:26:38
find Mary I want to be in the same room
00:26:40
with someone I
00:26:42
resemble uh I I want my
00:26:44
mother I want somebody that I've been
00:26:47
looking for for a long
00:26:50
time
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update on the night of our broadcast
00:26:55
Carla found Mary she rushed to Maryland
00:26:58
to meet her mother and her extended
00:27:00
family including her two sisters and a
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00:27:08
nephew you know I see it come I knew it
00:27:12
was her I couldn't believe it and all I
00:27:15
could say was car
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car and I ran out the door and she ran
00:27:21
almost fell out the car I think and
00:27:24
uh we couldn't do nothing else but hold
00:27:26
each other and cry
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when I saw her for the first time I just
00:27:34
can't describe that feeling it's uh home
00:27:37
at last uh I can breathe
00:27:40
again just the happiest moment in my
00:27:42
whole life you
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know just the happiest moment of my
00:27:47
whole
00:27:49
life this is your grandfather and your
00:27:51
grandmother and this it's like a miracle
00:27:54
and grandmother I couldn't believe it I
00:27:55
could I couldn't believe it for the
00:27:56
longest IIs this this is not happening
00:27:59
to us it only happens to other people
00:28:01
that they find somebody they're looking
00:28:03
for not us but yet it happened to
00:28:05
us when I found out that my mom was
00:28:09
alive and healthy and okay that was just
00:28:14
the best news in the world but then the
00:28:17
extra bonus was I have two sisters and a
00:28:20
nephew so it's uh it's a happy ending
00:28:24
it's a fairy tale come true
00:28:29
thanks to our Unsolved Mysteries viewers
00:28:31
Carla is now getting to know her mother
00:28:34
her two half sisters and their families
00:28:37
she calls the whole experience a fairy
00:28:39
tale come
00:28:45
true Scottdale Arizona thanks
00:28:49
21-year-old Angela Maher was home from
00:28:52
college to celebrate her mother's
00:28:54
birthday on Friday night she told her
00:28:57
mother that she had to pick up a friend
00:28:59
who needed a
00:29:01
ride around that same time 31-year-old
00:29:05
Gloria shules was leaving a local
00:29:08
bar shoes had been
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drinking there was a knock at the door
00:29:22
it was the police officers and they said
00:29:24
that there had been an accident
00:29:28
and my question was was my daughter
00:29:33
okay and they said
00:29:39
no Angela had suffered massive blood
00:29:42
force trauma to her head by the time
00:29:45
paramedics were able to cut her out of
00:29:47
the car it was too late laor shoes
00:29:51
survived she had a broken jaw but she
00:29:54
was still able to answer questions ma'am
00:29:57
have you had anything to to drink
00:29:58
tonight yeah obviously too much test
00:30:01
later revealed traces of marijuana in
00:30:04
schulz's system and a blood alcohol
00:30:06
content of
00:30:08
.15 nearly double the legal limit the
00:30:12
tragic irony of Angela death is that she
00:30:15
was active in the Crusade against
00:30:17
driving and drinking she had even helped
00:30:20
establish a chapter of students Against
00:30:23
Drunk
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Driving being involved with sad means
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that you just care enough to be a really
00:30:29
good friend uh if any of you ever got
00:30:32
into a situation where you needed a ride
00:30:34
home um you could just give me a call
00:30:36
and I would come and get you no
00:30:37
questions asked you're probably
00:30:40
wondering why you're holding these
00:30:41
balloons well if everyone that has a
00:30:43
Black Balloon could go ahead and release
00:30:47
it these balloons signify the number of
00:30:50
people that were killed in drunk driving
00:30:51
accidents in Arizona last
00:30:54
year by releasing this white balloon it
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signifies hope that this will never
00:30:59
happen to one of
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us what's really an awful irony is that
00:31:03
the night that my sister was hit she was
00:31:05
on her way to pick up a friend who had
00:31:08
called from a bar here in Phoenix for a
00:31:10
ride home my sister felt strongly enough
00:31:13
that you know if she knew she was going
00:31:14
out with friends and that they were
00:31:16
going to
00:31:17
drink she would not drink so she could
00:31:20
drive everybody home and make sure that
00:31:22
that everybody got home safe and
00:31:25
sound always she always want wanted to
00:31:28
be the designated driver that's why she
00:31:30
would always take our car and she'd
00:31:33
always just answer us by saying mother I
00:31:36
want to make sure I get
00:31:38
home your honor it is the state's
00:31:40
position that a bond should be set in
00:31:42
this matter in an amount Gloria sches
00:31:44
was arraigned on charges of manslaughter
00:31:46
and reckless endangerment schules was
00:31:49
represented by a prominent attorney
00:31:51
experienced in handling drunk driving
00:31:54
cases she wasn't AR rained until 4 and
00:31:57
A2 weeks after the accident she's never
00:32:01
spent a day in jail she kept her
00:32:04
driver's
00:32:05
license she went on every day like
00:32:09
nothing happened at this point Miss schs
00:32:13
I'm going to release you under the
00:32:14
supervision of the pre-trial Services
00:32:17
Agency of this court and this will
00:32:19
include drug monitoring to the Maher's
00:32:22
dismay Gloria shoes was released without
00:32:25
being required to post bond the judge
00:32:28
did stipulate however that she submit to
00:32:30
drug testing three times a week and that
00:32:33
she report to the court by phone once a
00:32:36
week thank you your honor may we be
00:32:38
excused yes it was the beginning of
00:32:41
months of frustration for Angela's
00:32:44
Family Gloria's attorney received six
00:32:47
trial postponements shules was allowed
00:32:50
to leave the state on three different
00:32:52
occasions despite the prosecutor's
00:32:56
objections more than a year after
00:32:58
Angela's death a pre-trial hearing was
00:33:01
finally
00:33:04
scheduled when I didn't see her sitting
00:33:06
in the courtroom all I could think of
00:33:08
was where was she had she
00:33:12
skipped we discovered that she had
00:33:14
missed six drug testings I need to talk
00:33:16
with
00:33:17
theol the fact that Gloria Schultz ran
00:33:20
definitely affected my mother and I the
00:33:23
healing that goes along with grieving
00:33:26
and mourning somebody you love it just
00:33:28
hasn't happened there's no
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00:33:34
closure geniality she was bubbly
00:33:38
friendly full of life and
00:33:40
vitality and always
00:33:44
smiling I had a young lady that was
00:33:46
polished and educated personable and
00:33:50
loved life and this woman took that away
00:33:53
not only from me but from everybody else
00:33:55
who touched Angela's life
00:33:59
Gloria shes is wanted for manslaughter
00:34:02
she is 5' 5 in tall and when last seen
00:34:05
weighed 115 lb she has red hair and
00:34:09
green eyes if you have any information
00:34:13
please log on to our website at UNS
00:34:15
south.com
00:34:18
next a woman searched for her brothers
00:34:21
and sisters who were sent to different
00:34:23
families after their mother was murdered
00:34:38
Toledo
00:34:39
Ohio after being married for 17 years
00:34:43
Wanda vest and her husband James had
00:34:46
nine children six boys and three girls
00:34:50
for the children life was predictable
00:34:53
and
00:34:54
secure we would eat dinner every night
00:34:57
together at the table my mother would
00:34:59
have everything done before my father
00:35:00
got off work my mother sat at one end my
00:35:03
father sat at the other end and the kids
00:35:04
sat on the sides and um I think that was
00:35:07
something that was really important to
00:35:09
my father you know that the family be
00:35:12
together at dinner time and sit there
00:35:13
and eat we would go to church on Sundays
00:35:16
we would get up on the stage of the
00:35:17
church and sing with my mother because
00:35:19
she played the accordion um we would
00:35:21
sing at home together we would have fun
00:35:25
it it was typical American family life
00:35:28
that you see on Le de
00:35:30
Beaver but there was a dark side to this
00:35:34
cozy family life James was a heavy
00:35:38
drinker more and more often he was too
00:35:40
drunk to work gradually family dinners
00:35:43
were replaced by Family
00:35:46
confrontations I remember on one
00:35:48
occasion my father coming home looking
00:35:50
for his Bott of liquor and my mother had
00:35:53
hid it so he couldn't find it no I
00:35:55
didn't you HD that bottle Wanda you
00:35:57
probably probably drank it I didn't
00:35:58
drink the bottle it was a full bottle
00:36:00
this morning where the hell is it and he
00:36:02
got really upset and wanted his liquor
00:36:04
and when my mother went and give it to
00:36:06
him he was beating her
00:36:08
up and he was hitting her and choking
00:36:10
her and so my brothers would go over
00:36:14
there and try to get him off of her I
00:36:16
was always more quiet and
00:36:20
Afraid Wanda finally had enough abuse
00:36:24
she insisted that James move out of the
00:36:26
house and then and filed for divorce
00:36:29
Wanda had a little work experience so
00:36:32
the best that she could do to support
00:36:34
her nine children was to wait tables and
00:36:37
to 10 bar at a local
00:36:39
Tavern late one night James staggered
00:36:42
into that Tavern where Wanda worked it
00:36:45
was only her 34th
00:36:48
birthday according to Witnesses James
00:36:51
had been drinking heavily get out of
00:36:55
here what are you doing
00:36:58
doing put the thing
00:37:00
down Put the gun down Jim put it down
00:37:05
what the GU
00:37:09
down 1 hour later James was arrested at
00:37:12
a nearby T minutes after killing Wanda
00:37:16
he had swaggered in and announced that
00:37:18
he had just shot his wife and needed a
00:37:20
drink he later pleaded guilty to
00:37:23
first-degree murder and was sentenced to
00:37:25
life in prison he died there 9 years
00:37:30
later think I felt more cheated than
00:37:33
anything I remember my little sister
00:37:35
tried to touch my mother and I pulled
00:37:37
her hand back and then she went up there
00:37:39
and I guess she touched her cuz she came
00:37:41
back and she goes [ __ ] why is mama so
00:37:45
cold and I couldn't answer her I didn't
00:37:47
know what to say so I just sat her down
00:37:49
on my lap and just held her there thou
00:37:52
preparest in one violent moment James
00:37:55
vest had destroyed his entire family
00:37:58
within days of their mother's funeral
00:38:00
the vest children were sent to live in
00:38:03
separate
00:38:05
homes I think for some reason I felt we
00:38:07
had enough family that some kind of way
00:38:09
we would all be kept together but I was
00:38:12
wrong it was like nobody wanted us we
00:38:14
were taboo you know to to be around us
00:38:17
would be to remember what happened to
00:38:18
have to accept it and they didn't want
00:38:20
that so to me we were punished for what
00:38:23
my father did because we weren't even
00:38:26
allowed to of each
00:38:28
other the oldest boy James Jr was taken
00:38:32
in by his grandmother Shireen and her
00:38:35
brothers Russell Kenneth and Wayne were
00:38:37
placed in foster homes her sister Kendra
00:38:41
and the three youngest children eth Dawn
00:38:43
and Kevin were put up for
00:38:46
adoption excuse me do you have any spare
00:38:49
change Shireen was just 14 years old
00:38:52
thank you the loss of her family marked
00:38:54
the beginning of a cycle of despair 3
00:38:58
months after her mother was murdered
00:39:00
Shireen ran away from her foster
00:39:03
home sometimes I would sleep in the
00:39:06
apartment building
00:39:07
hallways and a couple times I slept
00:39:11
outside it was cold I was scared I had a
00:39:15
backpack that had some clothes in it I
00:39:16
use that for a pillow you lay there and
00:39:19
halfway sleep and hope that no one comes
00:39:22
around eventually Shireen managed to
00:39:25
escape the streets she went went to
00:39:27
business school found a job and got
00:39:30
married with the love and encouragement
00:39:32
of her new family Shireen began to
00:39:35
search for her missing brothers and
00:39:37
sisters that she had not seen in 11
00:39:40
years it took Shireen less than 2 months
00:39:43
to find four of her brothers 2 years
00:39:46
later she was reunited with her oldest
00:39:49
sister and then finally made contact
00:39:52
with her youngest sister and
00:39:54
brother but Shireen is still looking for
00:39:57
one of the vest children her brother
00:40:00
Heath he was just 6 years old when the
00:40:03
family was
00:40:05
separated I actually had a dream one
00:40:08
night that there was all nine of us in a
00:40:09
room and I was actually going Jimmy
00:40:12
counting them all down the line and I
00:40:14
couldn't believe it it's like something
00:40:17
that you want but it's just Out Of Reach
00:40:19
he'll never get it but I will not take
00:40:22
no for an answer cuz I just know that
00:40:26
I'm going to get them all together
00:40:29
[Music]
00:40:31
update shireen's dream of finding her
00:40:33
brother finally came true Heath was
00:40:36
watching our broadcast in Ohio and
00:40:39
quickly flew in for a reunion with five
00:40:41
of his siblings they hadn't seen each
00:40:44
other in over 17
00:40:46
[Music]
00:40:46
[Applause]
00:40:48
[Music]
00:40:52
years I was I was really excited I just
00:40:54
wanted to get out of the car you know I
00:40:56
was thinking you know who am I going to
00:40:57
hug first you know and I didn't want
00:40:59
anybody to start balling or anything you
00:41:01
know I just wanted to get out and hug
00:41:03
everybody at once
00:41:05
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00:41:06
basically uh when I heard Heath was
00:41:08
found I was actually kind of
00:41:12
numb I thought it would take
00:41:15
months I didn't know that people would
00:41:17
just call in and it would be that easy
00:41:20
um I'm glad it was
00:41:22
because it's been a long
00:41:25
wait meeting everybody it's changed my
00:41:27
attitude a lot it's picked up my
00:41:29
attitude because uh know I had that uh
00:41:31
unwanted feeling and uh I I never really
00:41:34
knew why but now now since uh they found
00:41:37
me I have that wanted feeling now and uh
00:41:40
it's a good it's a good feeling cuz uh I
00:41:42
never really
00:41:43
knew you know Finding Heath and this
00:41:47
reunion is the first day of a new
00:41:50
beginning I know when we all leave here
00:41:53
that we're all going to leave here
00:41:53
differently it's going to be better for
00:41:55
all of us
00:41:58
happily for Shireen and her siblings
00:42:01
this case has been solved but if you
00:42:04
have any information about any of the
00:42:06
other stories in this program please log
00:42:09
on to our website at unsolved.com
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