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next on Unsolved Mysteries a deputy
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sheriff is convicted of killing his
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lover but he claims he is innocent Edgar
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Casey became famous in the 1920s when he
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diagnosed diseases while sleeping was it
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a special gift or was it just
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luck a college student vanishes during a
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party was he murdered or did he simply
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walk
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away for his entire life Tim Harold
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believed that he was abandoned by his
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birth mother then he learned the story
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was a lie and now he wants to find
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her there's nothing like a good mystery
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and guess what they're even better when
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they're true I'm Dennis finina join me
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won't you
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Gorman Maryland
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population 200 it was a typical workday
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for 19-year-old Kathy Ford she was a
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waitress at her family's restaurant The
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Old Mill around 2:00 Kathy received a
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mysterious phone call and she left work
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early she never returned Paul Ferell a
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former deputy sheriff was convicted of
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her kidnapping and
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murder I did not kill Kathy Ford I never
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hurt her in any way they don't have any
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evidence that I did and and I have
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evidence that I made some mistakes and
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I've admitted here that I did make some
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mistakes but I never killed Kathy Ford
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or harmed her in any any way
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whatsoever Paul's conviction was very
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unusual Kathy's body was never found and
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there was no proof that she was actually
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dead in fact two eyewitnesses claimed
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that they saw Kathy almost a year after
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frell was
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convicted Paul frell lived in gourmania
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West Virginia just across the pomac
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river from where Kathy lived Grant
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County Sheriff's Department Deputy frell
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speaking the month before Kathy Ford
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disappeared phoh became a deputy sheriff
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in Grant County he also rented a trailer
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just outside of
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town Paul and Kathy were involved in a
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secret romance even though each of them
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them was seeing another person Paul was
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seeing a local woman with two children
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Kathy was involved with a man named
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Darin Moon we had a lot in common
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because of our backgrounds and the fact
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that you know we both run businesses for
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our families and we talk a lot about how
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some people irritated us we talk about
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that and you know she was had a lot of
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plans but she really couldn't do
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anything either cuz she was stuck there
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running the store for a family her
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family really depended on her okay do
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you know what time sure sure I can do
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that the day Kathy disappeared she got a
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phone call at around 100 p.m. some say
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it was a tip off supposedly the sheriff
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was cracking down on local bars and
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restaurants for selling alcohol to
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miners who was that on the phone I can't
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say he'd lose his job her mother had
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asked her a couple times you know where
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she was going and she said she couldn't
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tell us so Kathy left and went up to her
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house to
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shower and when she come back down she
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was dressed up could you hand me my
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first s sh and that's the last I saw or
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how do I look around 2:00 p.m. Kathy
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drove off in her father's silver
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Bronco at 8:30 that night almost 7 hours
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later Paul phoh met with friends at a
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local bowling Alle there he heard that a
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woman had been calling and asking for
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him I went over the pay phone and made a
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call and Kathy Ford answered real
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quickly there and started saying that
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she wanted to see me that and she seemed
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really upset she was like crying and and
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and just and didn't see him herself you
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I thought her voice was rather slurred
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no I don't want to meet at the trailer
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and she' mentioned that she really
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wanted to see me down at the trailer
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look we can meet uh we can meet at the
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high school in the parking
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lot I'll be right there okay frell says
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he waited for Kathy at the high school
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parking lot for 20 minutes but she never
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arrived he had no idea that Cathy Ford's
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parents had already called the police
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and reported her
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missing the next day Kathy's family and
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her boyfriend Darin Moon organized
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search parties and put up posters
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offering a
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reward during the search Darin moon
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talked to Paul Ferell Outside The Old
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Mill Restaurant there was a story going
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around Kathy had been seen the day
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before near Paul's
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trailer Darvin also told frell that
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smoke from some unexplained Source had
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been seen near his trailer to Paul frell
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it felt like an
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accusation so he decided to look around
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for
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himself according to frell he found
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Kathy's burnt out car less than 200 yd
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from his trailer at that point he made a
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critical decision he wouldn't tell
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anyone about the car
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frell says that it was simply a matter
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of fear initial thing was panic I was
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afraid to even go close afraid of what I
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might find maybe and I how do I explain
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this you know she's dead and she's dead
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in my backyard you know and all these
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people were searching and they're
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they're talking about these big searches
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and about the vehicles in in someone's
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backyard and it's in my backyard frell
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says then he made another mistake that
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made him look even more guilty he wrote
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an anonymous letter to the Old Mill
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Restaurant pretending to be
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Kathy the letter said that she had run
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away and that she wanted her parents to
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know that she was safe Ferell even
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enclosed $200 to help pay for the ruined
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Bronco initially he denied sending the
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letter but in court an FBI handwriting
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expert proved that he had written it my
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idea was to stop the search for the
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vehicle to avoid someone from going in
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there and finding that vehicle in my
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backyard or finding what I thought maybe
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a body was back there too you I just
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panicked I did an irrational thing and
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and I don't think it says guilt or
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anything else but it was just something
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I looking back I don't have a real good
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explanation for just that I panck
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finally almost 3 weeks after Kathy
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disappeared Darin Moon and Kathy's
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brother rich found the missing
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Bronco the FBI searched the area and
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found no trace of Kathy body or any sign
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that she was ever there fire and rust
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had destroyed any
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fingerprints because the area around the
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Bronco was relatively uncharred some
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people believe that the car was probably
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burned somewhere
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else Paul frell's trailer was now the
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focus of the
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investigation 8 Days Later FBI agents
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tore up the newly late carpet and Paul
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master bedroom they found traces of
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Blood on the floor wall and
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ceiling the most experts could say about
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the blood was that it was a woman's and
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that it was not inconsistent with the
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blood of Kathy's parents the blood was
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found in such places and in such
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quantities that it was obvious that some
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effort had been made to hide this
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particular evidence linked with the kind
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of search that was conducted the kind of
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efforts that were put forth by law
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enforcement people to find Kathy Ford
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established that Kathy Ford was dead and
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that Kathy Ford was killed by some
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violent act they said we found blood in
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your trailer Mr frell what do you got to
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say about that it's all over the place
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Buckets of Blood in there I said I said
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in my reaction was you know bewilderment
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I said you know I said well maybe uh you
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maybe someone cut their finger you know
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I didn't know what they were talking
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about maybe a speck here I said or that
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trailer's 8 years old maybe there's a
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speck or something the blood analysis
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proved nothing but the engaging
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mathematical Wizardry that was that was
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presented to the jury made that blood
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look like it was Kathy Ford's blood when
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in fact we have no idea whose blood it
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belongs to it's that simple Paul farell
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was formally charged with kidnapping
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arson and
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Murder coming up key Witnesses claim the
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prosecution influenced their testimony
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against Paul farell
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19-year-old Kathy Ford mysteriously
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disappeared after leaving work one
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afternoon Paul Ferell was her secret
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lover when police discovered Kathy's
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burnt out car near frell's home as well
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as blood in his bedroom prosecutors
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charged him with
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murder now it was up to the state to
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prove its case without a body
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frell's trial began a little more than a
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year after Kathy disappeared what was
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your position there a book seller
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prosecutors discovered that frell made
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hundreds of crank sex calls to
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businesses in the
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area he called bookstores and libraries
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in several cities pretending to be a
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doctor he asked these women to read the
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same sexually explant passage it was a
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phone sex type thing to me had nothing
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to do with hurting anyone it would be
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more the same of anyone calling a phone
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sex number just I couldn't afford a
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credit card and I look back and and you
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know it it appear it is wrong and it but
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it was just something that had nothing
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to do whatsoever with with Kathy Ford or
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anything would you state your name
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please Tamila kitsmiller other women
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testified that they had also received
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strange phone calls from a man who asked
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them to meet him in various locations
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yes I did Tamila kitsmiller says that
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while she thought Paul farell might be
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the man who called her she was never
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positive prosecutors prior to the
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original trial date you know they asked
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me not to elaborate on any doubts that I
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had uh that they knew Paul Ferell was
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the caller and they could prove that so
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I you know stated the information
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briefly I did not elaborate on on any
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doubts and I waited for them to prove
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that Paul Ferell was the caller
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and that did not happen
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Tamila also claimed that prosecutors
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told her that frell had been connected
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to a series of murders in Yellowstone
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Park where he once worked they told me
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that he was a sicko and he needed to be
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put
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away I was very influenced by that very
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influenced um you know you have people
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in an official capacity who are telling
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you these things as if they're a fact
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and I waited for this information to
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come out in court and it never did I
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know what we did and I know we did not
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force anybody to say anything other than
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by subpoena them to come to court and
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testify now because of your specialized
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train as the trial progressed the
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prosecution introduced some unusual
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testimony yes an FBI expert said that
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during frell's interrogation he gave
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frell a hypothetical scenario about
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Kathy's murder as frell was talking the
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experts says that he saw science of
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guilt in frell's body language I told Mr
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frell that I believed that maybe
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something had happened such as Kathy
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Ford had taunted him teased him
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something had caused him to lose his
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temper he had responded emotionally as
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opposed to rationally and Mr frell was
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nodding in this regard he said that I
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was basically nodding an agreement when
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I was simply telling him I understood I
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knew what he was saying you I understood
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what he was saying like you're shaking
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your head right there that was an
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admission of guilt that was a confession
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way you shook your head just this is the
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first time ever in the history of
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American criminal Juris Prudence that
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this kind of evidence has ever been
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allowed to go to a jury that I'm aware
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of the evidence that I killed or
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kidnapped Kathy for there's no evidence
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there and they know it and that's why
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they had to use the body language that's
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why he had to make up a complete
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fabrication of that blood evidence you
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know cuz he had no evidence against
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me additional evence evidence against
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frell came from his neighbor Kim Nelson
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her home had a clear view of his trailer
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she told prosecutors that she had heard
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screams coming from the trailer on
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several different occasions even before
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phoh moved in she testified that one day
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she heard banging a gunshot and a woman
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scream coming from the trailer today
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however she says prosecutors distorted
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her account yes sir well I told the cops
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that the only thing I heard was
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screaming and gunshots which is normal
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what be and that really I didn't know
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nothing about Paul F killing anybody I
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didn't see nothing or hear anything Kim
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says that before the trial she signed a
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statement typed up by the prosecutors
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without reading it she later discovered
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that the statement said that she had
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heard screams on a specific day when in
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fact she never mentioned a specific
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day saying that if I didn't say what was
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on this paper that I could go to jail he
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goes that if uh that Paul gets loose or
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he gets freed he' come back and do harm
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to my kids and me no one in my presence
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nor I had any time ever tried to force
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her to say anything I mean I I would
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have been to totally out of my mind to
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have done that to a witness what was the
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nature of the screaming you heard it was
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a terrifying scream she answered the
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questions she answered the questions
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honestly and I'm still convinced that
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she was telling the truth I think what's
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happening to her now is that she's just
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become involved in the aftermath of this
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whole thing and this refusal on the part
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of of some of the family members and
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some of the community to believe that
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Paul phoh is guilty ladies and gentlemen
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of the jury have you reached the verdict
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in this
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case yes we have Paul was found guilty
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of kidnapping murder and arson he was
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sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in
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prison the court acted properly in what
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it did council did what they had to do
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Paul frell got a fair trial basically
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the jury did what it had to do and that
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is it did Justice and convicted Paul
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farell journalist Martin Yan has
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reinvestigated all the aspects of this
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case I don't think that was proved
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certainly Beyond a reasonable doubt that
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Paul frell killed Kathy Ford yance says
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that he has found two witnesses who are
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positive that they saw Kathy a year and
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a half after she disappeared the
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witnesses lived near Kathy's Hometown
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but they were traveling through
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Tennessee over there doesn't she remind
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you of
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somebody what impressed him was she
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seemed to be disturbed at the appearance
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of this couple that she recognized them
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also and when the waitress came over she
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asked what he thought was a rather odd
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question for a restaurant right off a
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freeway you seem to be strangers here
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where are you from when she went back
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she whispered something to this woman
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who looked like Kathy Ford and she
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looked at them again and ran for the
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kitchen well Kathy's we we know Kathy's
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deceased U we uh we would have heard
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something from her with within a week if
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she was able to call or or get word to
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us in some
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way Paul frell appealed his conviction
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twice to the West Virginia Supreme Court
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but the court denied his appeals and
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ordered Ferell to finish serving his
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sentence he was finally released after
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serving 18
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years next the amazing Edgar Casey many
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believe he could diagnose a complicated
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disease
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while in a deep psychic
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trance 27-year-old Kathy kamora visited
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her opthamologist after having some
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minor vision problems she was horrified
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when her doctor told her she had optic
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neuritis a severe inflammation of the
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optic nerve she was told that she would
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probably go blind it was a very
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frightening experience they said I
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wouldn't run out right away and and buy
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a white cane but it's very serious and I
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was scared I mean I suddenly realized
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that there was a possibility that I
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could go blind there is no known cure
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for the disease so K Cathy chose to look
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for an alternative treatment she found
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the Doctor Who was familiar with the
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mysterious methods of a man named ed
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edar
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Casey Edgar Casey became famous in the
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1920s as a diagnostician even though he
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had absolutely no medical training in
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his lifetime Casey made more than 9,000
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diagnosis or readings as he liked to
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call them while in a deep self-induced
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trance even though Edgar Casey died in
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1945
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many practitioners still follow his
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teachings some people dismiss the cures
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as a lucky coincidence or the power of
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suggestion but try telling that to the
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people who believe that Casey's methods
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actually cured
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them my father was a very ordinary
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person he liked the garden he liked the
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fish we had Gardens wherever we lived he
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taught Sunday school I mean in everyday
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life uh you wouldn't know him from
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anybody else it was only when he was
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asleep that he had extraordinary
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ability Edgar Casey discovered his
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mysterious ability when he was just 13
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years old a borderline student one day
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he fell asleep on the top of his
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spelling book when his father later quiz
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him Edgar could spell every word in the
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book and he even knew the page numbers
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where each word appeared cattle from
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that time on all he had to do was sleep
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on his books at night and uh he moved
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along very rapidly whether it was
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spelling or math or history or whatever
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and he became a exceptional student
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rather than an average student when
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Edgar was 23 he suddenly lost the
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ability to speak doctors couldn't
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explain or cure his condition as a last
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resort Edgar's parents convinced him to
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see a hypnotist his family physician
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attended and recorded the session in
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exact detail when Edgar awoke from a
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deep hypnotic sleep everyone was shocked
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he spoke for the first time in a year he
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started to talk and say yes we have the
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condition as a constriction to the
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throat uh some uh constriction of the
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blood flow so we will correct it and
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when uh laye the Hypno just told him to
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wake up he set up and coughed up a
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little blood and he could
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talk and I think that was probably the
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first reading though it was on
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himself Casey doctors convinced them to
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diagnose other patients who had not
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responded to traditional medicine but
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within a short time he became
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disillusioned when people tried to
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exploit his abilities at the end of some
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of the readings people would start
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asking him questions about who was going
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to what horse was going to win a race uh
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what was going to happen in the
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commodity of the stock
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market results of a ball game and when
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he found out what had happened or what
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people were doing he said I'm giving it
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up Casey stopped doing his psychic
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readings got married and moved to
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Alabama where he worked as a
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photographer by 1914 he had two sons
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Edgar Evans and Hugh Lynn when Hugh Lynn
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was just 8 years old he was seriously
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injured in a dark room explosion the
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local doctor was not hopeful the doctors
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examined him and said well we think
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we're going to have to take out one eye
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probably going to lose a sight in both
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of them and um a brother
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said Daddy give me a
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reading for Casey it was the ultimate
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test he hadn't done a reading in years
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could he now save his own son from a
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life of
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blindness he described uh an application
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for the eyes that included tanic acid
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well that was unheard of at the time and
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the doctors thought it was too strong
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but they thought he was going to lose
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his eyes anyway so they wouldn't hurt to
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try it and when they first put it on
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well Ulin said this must be daddy's
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medicine it doesn't
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hurt it seemed like a Miracle Within 6
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weeks Ulin sight was completely back to
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normal word of the boy's recovery spread
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and soon Casey was
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famous in the 1920s he moved to Virginia
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Beach and opened a center over the next
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20 years Casey received thousands of
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requests for readings he felt like he
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couldn't refuse people so he started
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doing two and three and four and five
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and it got up to I understand nine or 10
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a day and it was just too much for him
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near exhaustion Edgar Casey suffered a
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massive stroke he died on January 3rd
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1945 leaving behind more than
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120,000 Pages documenting his readings
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his work continues to offer hope to
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those in search of cures that have
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eluded modern medicine Kathy anray exam
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when Kathy kora's optic neuritis was
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diagnosed she went to Dr John Pagano a
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chiropractor in New Jersey who had
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studied Edgar Casey's readings for 30
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years Casey was very specific on what
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areas of the spine to adjust the fact
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that uh Casey suggested this certain
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procedure for eye problems does not not
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mean that he specifically diagnosed it
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as optic neuritis he talked about vision
00:24:02
problems blindness and that's what I
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approached that not as optic neuritis
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Kathy's eyesight was restored within 7
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Days Dr Pano believes that Casey's
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treatments are responsible for her
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recovery but Skeptics
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disagree I think much of the casy
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material is based upon illusion and I
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think there's a placebo effect here at
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work often if you believe
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that someone is going to cure you you
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give them white sugar pills they might
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be cured so the power of the mind can
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have a powerful effect I do believe in
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the power of the mind and um I tried to
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will the sight back before I had gone to
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Dr Bano and um it didn't work and it was
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only after I had gone to Dr Bano and
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after he had adjusted my neck that um
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that the site came back so how can the
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unique light of Edgar Casey be explained
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the medical world refuses to endorse
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Casey's methods yet at the same time it
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is
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unwilling to dismiss
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them coming up a popular college student
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goes to an allight party the next day
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his keys and artwork are found in his
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car and he has disappeared
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the University of Idaho sits in the
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picturesque rural setting of Moscow
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Idaho little out of the ordinary happens
00:25:44
here so when a local University student
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suddenly vanished the town was in shock
00:25:50
people don't disappear around here
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murders don't happen you know I can name
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them on on one hand and the last 20
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years at 25 will Hendrick seemed very
00:26:02
happy about where he was headed he was
00:26:05
well-liked in the drama department and
00:26:07
had a good job on campus some believe
00:26:10
his disappearance may be related to the
00:26:12
fact that he was openly gay but for now
00:26:16
all we know for sure is that he
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disappeared after a college
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party that evening began with hard work
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will and his partner of 5 years Jerry
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were REM modeling their kitchen well
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Katie's party's tonight we're going
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right will decided he wanted to go to
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Katie's party I'm just I'm too tired I
00:26:36
didn't want to go I wanted to go to
00:26:37
sleep come on and at about midnight he
00:26:40
said okay I'm going to go and I'll uh be
00:26:43
home in a few hours I'll see you in a
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few hours hey Katie when will arrived
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there were two parties in full swing on
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the third floor were mostly former
00:26:53
athletes from the local high school at
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Katie's party on the second floor were
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friends from the theater
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Department because of the two different
00:27:02
worlds that were kind of colliding that
00:27:05
night my concern was that there could be
00:27:08
a possibility for some sort of
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Confrontation since well has no problem
00:27:12
being open with how he is and with every
00:27:16
opinion okay okay I'm a little worried
00:27:18
about Karen okay I don't like that guy
00:27:21
that night will was concerned about
00:27:23
another friend Karen Karen was having
00:27:26
trouble with her boyfriend who was at
00:27:28
the party on the third floor go
00:27:30
downstairs good I'll cause you a SC let
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me go I'll push you all I want let's go
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with me there were times when if he'd
00:27:37
had a bit to drink he'd get belligerent
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if somebody yelled a slur at him he'd
00:27:42
respond he'd take the
00:27:44
bait by 2:30 a.m. Karen had gone home
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leaving Katie to keep will from getting
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into trouble I'm going upstairs no
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you're not yes I I want to go upstairs
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you don't Katie left to make sure that
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Karen got home safe
00:27:59
when she returned will was gone
00:28:03
will will Katie noticed Will's car was
00:28:07
still parked out front and just assumed
00:28:09
that he had gone upstairs by the next
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morning his car was also gone it was
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about 11:30 12:00 when I called Katie
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and I said can you wake will up and send
00:28:21
him home we've got some stuff to do
00:28:23
today and she said well he's not here he
00:28:25
didn't stay here last night and I
00:28:27
started calling around to all the
00:28:28
theater students trying to find out if
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he'd gone to somebody else's house
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continued drinking passed out on their
00:28:34
couch and um nobody had seen him he
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called about 7:30 Sunday
00:28:39
evening and I he was concerned and I was
00:28:42
immediately concerned it was
00:28:44
Winter and my initial concern was
00:28:47
hypothermia when will hadn't shown up by
00:28:49
Monday morning his friends began to
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search for him find anything nothing
00:28:54
down here let check over a big break
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came when they found his car parked on a
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downtown Street found I did Jerry Will's
00:29:03
partner was surprised to find that it
00:29:05
was unlocked and that will had left his
00:29:07
portfolio inside the car portfolio that
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portfolio carried all of Will's artwork
00:29:14
his drawings his makeup sketches um
00:29:18
everything that was important to him was
00:29:20
in that portfolio on the dashboard were
00:29:23
his work keys from the
00:29:25
University here his keys right here we
00:29:28
did go through the car with a fine Toth
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comb with uh with crime lab folks uh
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there weren't any um blood or any hair
00:29:36
samples that weren't Wills uh there
00:29:38
wasn't anything in there that would
00:29:40
indicate that any kind of Bou play
00:29:42
occurred at least in the car finding the
00:29:44
car only raised more questions about
00:29:46
Will's disappearance some of his friends
00:29:49
thought it was possible that perhaps
00:29:51
will just left voluntarily to start a
00:29:54
new life will had a lot of trepidation
00:29:57
about school and I I think he shared
00:29:58
that with me because we had that in
00:30:00
common sometimes you just get
00:30:02
overwhelmed and his comment was you know
00:30:05
I'd like to tour the country i' just
00:30:06
like to take off someday and I was like
00:30:09
Wow and not tell anyone no I you know
00:30:12
not even your parents you know what
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about what about your commitments said
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no I'd just go I spent probably about a
00:30:19
year hoping praying that he had walked
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away because the alternative was he was
00:30:26
dead my hype hypothesis I guess you
00:30:29
should say is that something happened
00:30:31
and it got out of control and it
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probably didn't mean to happen but then
00:30:36
whatever happened got covered up simply
00:30:39
because it was it became so huge I could
00:30:43
see that this might have been a
00:30:45
possibility that he ran into somebody
00:30:47
that didn't like G's and they did him in
00:30:53
we did interview all of the folks on the
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top floor and did not get indication
00:30:58
from any of them that they had done
00:31:00
anything other than just talked to well
00:31:03
uh subsequent to our initial contact
00:31:06
with them those individuals on the top
00:31:08
floor um took a polygraph and all of
00:31:10
them did pass the polygraph Jerry
00:31:13
believes that Will's car offered the
00:31:15
best
00:31:17
Clues I found out that there was mud
00:31:21
caked on the inside wheel wells of the
00:31:23
car so there was no reason for mud to be
00:31:27
caked on the inside of to the wheel
00:31:28
wells and then the other odd thing was
00:31:31
that somebody had moved the seat all the
00:31:35
way to its far back position uh
00:31:38
indicating to me that a large person may
00:31:40
have been the last person to drive
00:31:42
Will's
00:31:43
car Jerry was desperate for answers he
00:31:47
pursued a theory that someone they both
00:31:49
knew might have crossed Will's path
00:31:52
early that January morning 2 months
00:31:55
before will disappeared Jerry had fired
00:31:58
a van driver who worked for his shuttle
00:32:00
service the man got angry and used a
00:32:04
sexual slau get off the property I don't
00:32:07
want you here again he subsequently went
00:32:10
to work for a Long Haul Trucking
00:32:13
outfit and on the morning of Will's
00:32:16
disappearance at approximately 4:30 5:00
00:32:20
in the morning he checked out a
00:32:22
refrigerated truck from the dispatch in
00:32:25
Lewiston 30 Mi south of here
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there is a coincidence there in that the
00:32:32
last time will was seen was about the
00:32:35
time this driver would have been going
00:32:37
to
00:32:39
Lewiston we have had a number of
00:32:41
sightings across the country that people
00:32:43
call us out and say hey we have seen
00:32:45
will we have checked each and every one
00:32:47
of those calls out and they have not
00:32:49
proven to be a will we have checked out
00:32:52
hundreds of leads put in hundreds and
00:32:54
hundreds of hours on this particular
00:32:57
case and as far as absolute facts that
00:33:00
we can lay down on a piece of paper to
00:33:02
show what may have happened we are no
00:33:05
closer than we were on day one I don't
00:33:08
know that it that it's important to find
00:33:10
him because if he's dead and I believe
00:33:13
that he is I know where he's at but I
00:33:16
think having a body can really
00:33:20
definitely put some
00:33:23
closure
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update more than two 2 years after will
00:33:29
disappeared two Hunters found his skull
00:33:31
and Jawbone in a rural area outside of
00:33:34
Moscow Idaho no other remains were
00:33:38
found the cause of death could not be
00:33:41
determined but police believe will was
00:33:44
murdered they also suspect that will
00:33:46
knew who his attacker
00:33:49
was if you have any information about
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00:34:00
next a veteran journalist searches for
00:34:02
his mother who supposedly left him in a
00:34:05
garbage can when he was just a few days
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old Tim Harold is a veteran journalist
00:34:18
he's covered thousands of stories but
00:34:20
solving his own personal mystery has
00:34:23
been his toughest assignment
00:34:30
hi Bill Tim her over Channel 13 News
00:34:32
it's so
00:34:32
frustrating to know that here I am I can
00:34:36
go out and get good stories I can break
00:34:38
stories I can do great interviews I can
00:34:42
get nominated for emies I can win Awards
00:34:46
but I can't find my mother Tim was
00:34:49
raised by a woman named Helen harell she
00:34:52
never made a secret of the fact that Tim
00:34:54
was adopted or the tragic details of his
00:34:57
early
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life uh she told me that she had found
00:35:04
me abandoned in a garbage can behind
00:35:06
Barnes Hospital in St Louis before she
00:35:08
worked as a nurse and that when she
00:35:10
found me um I was very sick I had a
00:35:13
birth defect known as a cleft pallet and
00:35:16
a hair lip and uh she took me in and uh
00:35:21
had a plastic surgent repair
00:35:23
that uh I also had rheumatic fever which
00:35:28
was a heart problem where I had a heart
00:35:31
murmur as well and she took care of
00:35:34
that Helen somehow managed to adopt him
00:35:38
at a time when choosing to be a single
00:35:40
parent was almost unheard of she always
00:35:43
was concerned that there was never a
00:35:45
male force in my life so she made sure I
00:35:48
was in military school she made sure I
00:35:49
was in the YMCA she made sure I was in
00:35:52
little league and she went to these
00:35:53
things with me I mean she went to the
00:35:55
Little League games with me she went to
00:35:56
the YMCA with me me uh she took the role
00:35:59
of being father and mother but then came
00:36:02
the day when Tim wanted to know more
00:36:04
about his past
00:36:06
mom
00:36:08
yes what happened to my mother she and
00:36:12
your father were low class trashy her
00:36:16
favorite term for them was white trash
00:36:17
no way of taking care of you I just
00:36:19
hated my birth mother I thought my God
00:36:21
how could a a human being just throw
00:36:23
away a baby particularly one who had a
00:36:25
physical defect and and and just throw
00:36:27
him in the garbage like it was a piece
00:36:29
of garbage I mean that just gnawed away
00:36:31
at me and as I got into journalism as I
00:36:34
did stories about mothers who abandon
00:36:36
their children you know I I always
00:36:38
lumped my birth mother in with them and
00:36:40
they were always usually people that
00:36:42
were low class that uh that had no
00:36:45
caring for their children and I would
00:36:46
always identify my birth mother with
00:36:48
those those people when Tim was in his
00:36:51
late 20s he got a job at a Los Angeles
00:36:54
newspaper by then he was married and had
00:36:56
a son of his own and that summer Tim
00:37:00
received a phone call city desk may I
00:37:04
speak to Tim Harold speaking who's
00:37:06
calling this is your mother excuse me
00:37:10
what are you talking about my mother's
00:37:11
at home this is your mother your real
00:37:15
mother it came right out of the blue
00:37:17
like a bolt of lightning I mean I've
00:37:19
been through riots I covered things in
00:37:21
Vietnam but that just was the most
00:37:23
emotional thing that I've ever had in my
00:37:25
life to to get that phone call
00:37:28
don't you think it's a little late to
00:37:29
suddenly be taking an interest in my
00:37:30
life I'm sorry about what I did to you
00:37:33
but there are things you don't
00:37:35
understand all of a sudden all the
00:37:37
hatred just exploded I said how could
00:37:40
you how could you throw me away like I
00:37:43
was a piece of
00:37:45
garbage how could you do that and uh she
00:37:49
said well you don't understand I said I
00:37:52
don't want to understand I'd like to see
00:37:54
my grandson there's no way you're ever
00:37:56
going to see my son son all the emotions
00:37:59
just flowed out of me the uh City editor
00:38:02
who was working there looked at me and
00:38:03
he says my God what's wrong you look
00:38:05
like you seen a ghost and I told him I
00:38:08
have later that day Tim told his adopted
00:38:11
mother about the call and she became
00:38:14
quite upset you're not going to try and
00:38:15
see her are you of course not I have no
00:38:18
interest in seeing her or my father I
00:38:20
told him to stay away from my family
00:38:22
Helen's reaction convinced him that he
00:38:25
was making the right decision to keep
00:38:27
his birth mother out of his life a
00:38:30
couple of years later Helen died Tim got
00:38:34
divorced and then remarried and even
00:38:36
though he was happy with his life Tim
00:38:39
couldn't shake the feeling that
00:38:40
something was
00:38:42
wrong on a trip back to St Louis Tim and
00:38:45
his wife tried to locate his birth
00:38:47
mother through adoption records but he
00:38:50
was told that the files were
00:38:52
confidential she said adoptions in in
00:38:55
Missouri are
00:38:56
confidential and we played sort of a
00:38:58
game of uh 20 questions if you will she
00:39:02
says think Bay Area I said San Francisco
00:39:05
she says no a little further south and I
00:39:08
said San Jose she said yes she says
00:39:12
think relative of your mother of your
00:39:16
adoptive mother couldn't think of who
00:39:18
that would be listen I'm going to go get
00:39:20
a cup of
00:39:22
coffee seems silly to put this away just
00:39:24
to get it out again later
00:39:28
I'm going to be gone for about 5 minutes
00:39:30
in those 5 minutes Tim learned that
00:39:33
Helen had lied about every detail of his
00:39:36
life his birth mother was not some
00:39:39
cold-hearted stranger who had thrown him
00:39:41
into a garbage can she was apparently
00:39:45
Helen's own niece and she had given Tim
00:39:48
up only because she had to went through
00:39:51
me like a jolt of electricity the only
00:39:54
thought in my mind was is I really
00:39:56
wanted to find her now
00:39:58
I really wanted to say look I didn't
00:40:00
know and I am so sorry Tim learned that
00:40:04
Helen's niece was just 18 when he was
00:40:07
born his father had just gotten out of
00:40:09
the army and was in no position to be
00:40:11
both a husband and the father they gave
00:40:14
Tim to Helen and quietly walked away um
00:40:19
may have lived in the St Louis area back
00:40:21
in 1947 or so I have to find this woman
00:40:25
even if it turns out that she has died
00:40:28
uh I'd want to go to the Grave I'd want
00:40:30
to talk to
00:40:31
her I didn't give her an opportunity to
00:40:34
explain uh here I am a journalist I'm
00:40:36
supposed to be fair I'm supposed to be
00:40:37
even-handed I'm supposed to listen to
00:40:39
both sides and I would even give my real
00:40:40
mother the opportunity to explain what
00:40:43
happened
00:40:45
um I I I to this day I'm very worried
00:40:49
that I don't have that
00:40:53
opportunity
00:40:55
update when we aired this story
00:40:57
a private investigator named Alice Simon
00:41:00
from Scottdale Arizona was watching she
00:41:03
volunteered to help Tim with a search
00:41:06
and within one week she had found Tim's
00:41:09
mother Tim's birth mother Muriel Gartner
00:41:13
lives in Campbell California she
00:41:16
gathered her entire family to welcome
00:41:18
Tim and his son Adam home at last I'm
00:41:23
not going to cry
00:41:24
you there's always been the hole an
00:41:27
empty hole though I've had a lot of
00:41:29
other kids in a Wonderful Life great
00:41:32
kids but it it feels like this hole is
00:41:35
beginning to feel fill in now this is
00:41:38
your brother Joe Joe how are you welcome
00:41:41
it's just the most amazing feeling in
00:41:42
the world to know that I've got this
00:41:44
family and that I'm going to be a part
00:41:46
of this family and and that they're
00:41:48
going to be a part of my life and I mean
00:41:50
I just can't tell you what the feeling
00:41:51
is like he's just one of us and and it
00:41:54
felt that way from the very beginning
00:41:55
when he called me he said hello Mom and
00:41:57
I said hello son and that was it when we
00:42:01
went to hang up he said can I call you
00:42:03
again tomorrow mom I've been wanting to
00:42:04
call my mom for a long time and I cried
00:42:06
and he cried
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