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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast
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the majestic Himalayas are home to the
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world's highest mountain in 1957 an
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expedition set out to challenge his vast
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wilderness not to conquer Mount Everest
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but to track down the elusive Yeti a
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legendary human-like creature known in
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the West is the abominable snowman 40
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years ago interracial romance in America
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was almost unheard of when John Elias
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and Eleanor Platt fell in love an
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uncaring society forced them apart and
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coerced Delano into putting their baby
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up for adoption in Florida John and
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Virginia constable left home to visit
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their daughter within two hours they
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were dead the innocent victims of an
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alleged drunk driver
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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March 1987 in Buffalo New York the coda
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to a poignant love story is played out
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Eleanor Platte and John Elias are
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finally together again they had fallen
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in love when they were young but the
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ugly barrier of racial prejudice had
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kept them apart for 34 years it was 1953
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Brown versus the Board of Education not
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yet been heard by the Supreme Court a
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full six years after Jackie Robinson
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crossed baseball's color line there were
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just 20 black players in the major
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leagues racial integration was an alien
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concept in most parts of the United
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States Buffalo New York was no exception
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when high school student Elinor plant
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took an interest in John Elias a black
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man 11 years her senior it was by
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definition controversial and certain to
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bring trouble down on both of them have
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you seen him around no I think he's so
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cute I think you're crazy I did I think
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he's older he's looking at me I'll be
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right back
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hi this is for you
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Thanks what's your name Eleanor I'm John
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Elias
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right away I was drawn to him and we
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started talking we met at different
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places and really pretty hot I just was
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fascinated with the feelings that we
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were having towards each other
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and I knew that I was in love with him
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we talked and talked and we developed
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the closer closer relationship and then
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I asked to which he marry me and she
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thought about it and I asked her again
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so finally she decided after Christmas
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that she would leave home and that she
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would move in with me in my apartment
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for Eleanor leaving home was easier said
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than done
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she knew her father would object
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violently nevertheless on December 26
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1953 Eleanor ran away from her parents
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home to begin a life with John Elias
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and I lived with John from a last part
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of December until the 26th of January
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and on the 26th of January I decided I
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was going back home because I surmised
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that I was pregnant at that point she
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decided she wanted to tell her mother of
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her situation because she had been
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missing from home I had warned her
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before that if she went home that there
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would be problems with my friend John
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John Alliance I really want you to meet
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a lot of me I really should
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I said no I'm gonna have his baby
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my husband was a alcoholic and he drank
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and when he was drinking he was not
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himself and in order to keep peace in
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the family and keep my own sanity in one
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sentence the word I had to play ball and
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let him take over to do what he wanted
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to do I know what to do
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I'll call Harry Horton at City Hall
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Harry Horton he'll take care of it
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Eleanor I don't take care I don't want
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you to take care of it she was put into
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a home because that's what they did with
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girls that made mistakes and the Lord
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took care him because they accused him
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of rape and so he was arrested for that
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John elias's arrest took place at midday
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in the factory where he worked
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according to Ellenor charges that John
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had held her against her will were
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trumped up because she was still three
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days shy of 18 John was charged with
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second-degree rape and given a nine
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month jail sentence
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I pleaded guilty to the grand jury
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because I did not want to have owner go
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through the ordeal of having to be and a
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trial abroad understand in a way I felt
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that I was protecting her on September
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13th 1954 in a home for unwed mothers
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Eleanor gave birth to a daughter
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Rosemarie the authorities at the home
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had told Eleanor over and over that it
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might be best to give the baby up when I
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had Rosemarie I really didn't want to
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give her up I wanted to keep her and in
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my own mind I couldn't figure out any
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way of keeping her and saw it hurt
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deeply
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come on down Eleanor the day Eleanor had
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dreaded finally arrived Rosemarie was
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taken from her and placed in a temporary
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custody of social services until the
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situation could be evaluated our nurse
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ready now
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I handed my daughter to the social
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worker and she took the baby and in turn
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handed her to the lady that was standing
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mixer I was tore up inside because I
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knew that our surmise that these ladies
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were gonna take her and that I would
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never see her again
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Eleanore immediately re-established
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contact with John had been released in
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jail early for good behavior they were
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determined to get their daughter back
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once again John proposed marriage
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Eleanor eagerly accepted but insisted
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that they tell her parents face to face
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at this point her parents had her
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arrested for failing to obey their
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lawful orders even though she's over the
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age of 18
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Eleanor disappeared I had no idea of
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where she went I could not contact her
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family because they didn't want me at
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their house so after that I asked around
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asked around no one knew where she went
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Eleanor had been sentenced to a
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three-year term and a juvenile detention
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facility however she was told that her
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sentence will be reduced if and only if
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she put Rose Marie up production I was
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naive and I did not know how the laws
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were and I was a scared of my parents I
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was a scared to the social worker and so
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I went ahead and signed the papers not
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knowing what the consequences would be
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in the long run I understand the
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decision regarding adoption is that
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right yes ma'am good because I think
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it's in the very best interest of your
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baby daughter
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now if you'll sign these papers right
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here I was wondering if we could if we
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could wait one more week absolutely not
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now we've discussed this over and over
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again Eleanor the longer you take the
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harder it's going to be on the baby
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self on your parents on everyone
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concerned afterwards I found out that if
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I had read and understood the law more
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that I would not have at had to give her
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up because I was 18 years of age I hope
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that someday you'll realize what a good
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decision you made when I did the signing
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I felt all tore up inside like I had
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died signed my life away and there was
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nothing I could do
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Elinor was released six months after she
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signed the adoption papers I still
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wanted to see John and and get together
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with John and Mary John because I loved
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him
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John was nowhere to be found only later
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did she discover that he had literally
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been run out of town I was continually
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harassed by the police department when I
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was driving my car they would ask me for
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my license my registration my license my
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registration Tenniel harassment type
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thing I did not see owner any more after
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that because I left town where I could
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get a decent job and start settling down
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after that ordeal
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Elinor would never have another child
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because of complications resulting from
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Rose Marie's birth Elinor was forced to
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undergo a hysterectomy at the age of 22
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eventually the pain of her shattered use
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subsided in 1977 Elinor married Stephen
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Wozniak and together they raised four
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foster children
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John Elias was married also he and his
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wife had two children a boy and a girl
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in 1987 John began a search in earnest
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for his lost daughter Rosemarie along
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the way he located Elinor with the
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blessing of both of their spouses John
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and Eleanor resolved to find their
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daughter if my daughter is watching this
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Earl Rosemarie I want you to know that I
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do love you and your father loves you
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and that's why we're working together to
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find you there's so much we want to
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explain to you and to tell you that we
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really do care and we really did care at
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the time I hope that we would be
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successful in finding this child who's
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been gone for all of these years who was
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literally taken away from us by the
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forces of the law and at that point even
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though we don't want to interfere with
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her life we just like to know her
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whereabouts how she is and how she D
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came out John and Eleanor Search came to
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an end the night of our broadcast one of
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you are now Myra Pennsylvania recognized
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a long-lost daughter as one of his
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co-workers Sally Riley one of my
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co-workers called me on the phone and
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he's hysterical and he's going were you
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watching unsolved mysteries and I said
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no and he said you're not gonna believe
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this and I said what do you mean I'm not
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gonna believe this he said they're
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looking for you and I said what do you
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mean they're looking for me he says your
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mother and father were on TV looking for
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you
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two weeks later Sally and her fiance
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traveled to New York and introduced her
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children to Eleanor and John for the
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first time
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when I first saw my parents I was it I
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was kind of flavour guested or in awe I
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really don't know the word I'm looking
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for but it just you had to stare at him
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because you know it's like I'm a part of
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them unless a person has gone through it
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there is no way to describe the feeling
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that a person has once they find their
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child that's been adopted I had carried
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an imaginary picture in my mind of how I
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thought she would look all I needed I
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had a form but I didn't have a face when
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she stepped out of a vehicle I had a
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face and that was a good feeling the
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very special reunion was arranged by
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Dominic telesco director of the Center
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for reuniting families John was just in
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awe looking out the window his daughter
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that they had never seen he had never
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seen her so it was very very happy we're
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very touching very emotional for John
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Salley and Eleanor the reunion marked
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the beginning of an emotional healing
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process that was long overdue I want to
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make it as much as possible as a
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mother-daughter situation and I want to
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try to make up for some of the years
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that I have missed sin the same way with
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the grandkids but they're growing up to
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be teenagers I want I've missed a lot of
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that and I'd like to share what I have
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left with them I'm just go ahead I have
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a very extended family now and that
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everybody is accepting me and I'm
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accepting them and it just it feels
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really good
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[Music]
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next authorities need your help to
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capture an accused drunk driver
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[Music]
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March 3rd 1991 just outside Kissimmee
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Florida local authorities converge on
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the scene of a deadly highway accident
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it is a tragedy played out every day all
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over the country a drunk driver has lost
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control of his vehicle and claimed
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innocent victims in this case an elderly
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couple 71 year old John Constable and
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his wife Virginia aged 69 they had been
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married for 45 years it is a tragic fact
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the 22 thousand Americans are killed by
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drunk drivers every year it is a bitter
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reality that many of those who drive on
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intoxicated to survive the terrible
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accidents they caused all too often
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victims become faceless statistics
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except for the people who lost someone
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they loved on Sunday March 3rd 1991 we
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John and Virginia constable left
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Davenport Florida to visit their
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daughter Linda in Jacksonville a
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three-hour drive away
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you call Linda I can talk to her just
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before we laugh she's all excited at
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12:35 p.m. the constables were still
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just a few miles from their home heading
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north on County Road 545 we say travel
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nearly every day
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just ahead traveling southbound and
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approaching a sharp curves a pickup
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truck driven by James White a house
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painter and handyman no one knows what
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time he started drinking or how much he
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consumed
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[Music]
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[Music]
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by 1243 p.m. 8 minutes after the
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accident the Highway Patrol and rescue
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teams had rushed to the area
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John Constable had died at the instant
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of impact his wife Virginia was
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suffering from massive internal injuries
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as she was being evacuated
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trooper Eugene booth the Florida Highway
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Patrol arrived at the scene I'd direct
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my attention to mr. white who was the
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single arch but in the pickup truck and
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he was placed in the ambulance and I got
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in the back of the ambulance with him at
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which time I could smell odor of
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alcoholic beverage okay I'm gonna
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request the paramedic take a blood
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sample from you the results of the blood
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tests would later reveal that James
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White had a blood alcohol level of point
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two two more than twice Florida's legal
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limit of point one Oh white was taken to
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Kissimmee Memorial Hospital 12 miles
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away mrs. constable was medevacked to a
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trauma center in Orlando nearly every
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organ in her body had been ruptured she
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died just over an hour later at 2:06
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p.m. it got to be 4:30 5 o'clock so
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finally I called the Florida Highway
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Patrol I was getting very concerned
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about them being so late and then the
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Florida Highway Patrol officer pulled in
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our driveway and I didn't think anything
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of it because we had placed a call then
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he probably wanted some information to
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find them thank you for answering our
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calls all right unfortunately I'm here
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to advise you that mr. and mrs. cosbo
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were involved in a serious accident
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earlier this afternoon okay all right he
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said that there had been an automobile
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accident and
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there was a fatality are you sure yes
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sir I'm sure I just remember asking
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which one I never dreamed it would have
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been both of them and after that I don't
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remember anything it's a common thing in
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our profession to investigate accidents
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with duis involved and more so than not
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we found a lot of them to where the
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innocent people are killed in the and
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the people that had been drinking
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survived James Point had suffered a
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fractured jaw a broken ankle and three
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broken ribs his jaw was wired shut and
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he was admitted to the intensive care
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unit his relatives who lived in the area
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became a constant presence at the
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hospital
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you get a lot of pain by Wednesday night
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three days after the accident White's
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condition had improved considerably hey
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where y'all going just out for a walk
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okay
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visiting hours are over if you can have
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him back in 30 minutes his family
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apparently was walking him a little bit
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each day and third day and apparently
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they kept right on walking
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it is believed that James White and some
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of his relatives left the hospital by an
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unguarded rear door they have not been
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seen since only later did the
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authorities discover that white had a
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long history of drunk driving arrests
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there was only one real clue to go on a
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driver's license issued to white in
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North Carolina local authorities in
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North Carolina were sent to the address
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shown on his license and no person by
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that name that was living there and
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hadn't lived there so I don't know if he
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was just using that as an address to get
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a driver's license or or what he is Ana
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bitumen Durr he is done this before
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and he has a long arrest record he just
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here in the state of Florida and he just
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has no remorse for the human life
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[Music]
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I just continuously go over there
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accident other day it's just something
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that never lose me trying to imagine
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what they had gone through
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[Music]
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update burlington vermont
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james white has been arrested following
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the broadcast of unsolved mystery we
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received some 200 phone calls about
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James White and his whereabouts two days
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after the unsolved mysteries broadcast
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we got the phone call we were waiting on
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James White was spotted by someone who
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had seen the program up in Burlington
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Vermont he was seen in a bar and he was
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arrested and taken into custody up there
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he's very glad to get him off the road
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to think that he's not gonna kill
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someone outside it's a terrible thing
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what he did
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be sure to stayed there and he should
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have faced the music two weeks after he
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was captured James White was returned to
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Florida were you scheduled to stand
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trial on all charges white who has two
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prior convictions for drunk driving
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could receive a maximum sentence of 30
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years in prison
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[Music]
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next the search for the Yeti a
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mysterious half-man half-ape said to
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live in the remote Himalayas
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[Music]
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the Himalayas extend through southern
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Asia forming an almost impassable
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barrier between China and India it is a
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vast windswept land site of the world's
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highest mountain and one of his most
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enduring mysteries for centuries
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the Sherpa people who are native to the
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Himalayas have told frightening tales of
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a strange half-man half-ape called the
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Yeti one of the first people to come
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across as an Englishman and he talked to
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the Sherpas and they said it has a very
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bad smell it has a powerful odor and he
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said he described it later later as an
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abominable odor and when this went
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through the channel and eventually going
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into the English newspapers
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it became the abominably smelling man
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and so the smelling part was dropped it
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became the abominable man and eventually
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the abominable snowman that's how the
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name came about the abominable snowman
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the perfect Hollywood villain he was
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monstrous almost comical and impossible
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to take seriously
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[Music]
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it is difficult to imagine that a
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creature like the abominable snowman
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actually exists
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most of us dismiss him as a fanciful
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legend but for the native shippers of
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the Himalayas the Yeti is very real and
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very much alive their belief is shared
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by a number of Western explorers most of
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them have never seen a Yeti but remain
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convinced as such animals do wrong the
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high plateaus of the Asian wilderness
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in the 1920s Western man began to
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sending upon the Himalayas over the next
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30 years numerous expeditions were
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launched in the hopes of conquering
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Mount Everest at 29,000 feet the world's
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highest peak with each expedition came
00:27:04
more stories of strange human-like
00:27:06
creatures who lived in the mountains
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then in 1951 world-renowned mountaineer
00:27:12
eric shipton came across a curious set
00:27:14
of tracks the first clear evidence that
00:27:17
the Yeti might in fact be real the
00:27:21
photograph of the Shipton footprint is
00:27:23
very big piece evidence because it
00:27:26
showed toes individual toes it showed a
00:27:28
squat square footprint which a lot of
00:27:31
the other expeditions had found but not
00:27:33
had good photographic equipment with
00:27:35
them the footprint photograph my Shipton
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was 13 inches long and eight inches wide
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Shipton was certainly was not made by a
00:27:44
man or an ape his discovery sparked
00:27:47
renewed interest in finding a Yeti in
00:27:51
1957 a millionaire Texas oilman named
00:27:54
Tom slick and a colorful Explorer named
00:27:57
Peter Byrne set off for the Arun Valley
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in northeastern Nepal a rugged hostile
00:28:02
region where temperatures often fall
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below zero
00:28:08
Tom's liqu believed that there were a
00:28:11
lot of interesting biomedical problems
00:28:14
that needed to be solved he felt if he
00:28:16
could find a missing link that would
00:28:19
unlock some of the mysteries of medicine
00:28:22
for humans so he really began looking
00:28:26
because he thought it was a hybrid
00:28:28
animal something in between Apes and man
00:28:30
the missing link
00:28:32
Tom slick interest in the beginning was
00:28:35
to find out if the Yeti were really
00:28:37
there and that's the reason he came on
00:28:39
the first reconnaissance I had been
00:28:43
hearing about the Yeti for years ever
00:28:45
since I was a child but I think that
00:28:47
what eventually convinced me that they
00:28:50
were there was meeting with the Sherpas
00:28:51
and talking with them face-to-face
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namaste namaste
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the Sherpas viewed the Yeti as a real
00:28:59
living creature not as a mythical
00:29:02
creature it definitely called my hairy
00:29:04
man that lived out there separate from
00:29:05
them it gene on the first expeditions we
00:29:09
took along with us 8 by 10 pictures of
00:29:12
chimpanzee gorillas a primitive man and
00:29:14
so on
00:29:15
yo yo yo yo John huh I know
00:29:22
does he understand what we want here and
00:29:24
they used to point to the primitive man
00:29:26
and say that's the idea in fact they
00:29:28
thought we had a picture of the Yeti
00:29:30
when they saw that the Sherpas described
00:29:34
the Yeti to us always as being a man
00:29:38
like inform about 5 foot 6 5 foot 7 5
00:29:42
foot 8 not but not very large and
00:29:44
covered with hair totally covered with
00:29:46
hair walking upright the face was bare
00:29:50
of hair at the palms of the hands that
00:29:51
sort of thing by the third week of the
00:29:58
expedition slick and burn decided to
00:30:00
split up to cover a wider search area
00:30:03
each was to make his own startling
00:30:06
discovery our main find on that first
00:30:10
reconnaissance was two sets of
00:30:12
footprints the set of footprints that I
00:30:14
found we'd started out from our camp in
00:30:18
the early morning and we simply chose a
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mountain and I came across a line of
00:30:23
footprints I'll say
00:30:26
what is that it's not bad
00:30:31
there's no callers what is it then baka
00:30:35
Yeti you're sure
00:30:36
Yeti baka Yeti PA mr. Peter Yeti in
00:30:45
Peter burns photograph the alleged Yeti
00:30:47
footprint is on the left it dwarfs the
00:30:50
boot print of one of the expedition
00:30:52
members seen on the right sub Tom so Tom
00:30:59
what is it in another part of the valley
00:31:03
at Nell evasion of 12,000 feet Tom slick
00:31:06
and his Sherpa guys discovered a similar
00:31:09
set of tracks the significance of a of
00:31:13
the prints that Tom slick found is that
00:31:16
they were in mud and whereas snow will
00:31:19
distort with heat and with wind and so
00:31:21
on mud will not he only saw two or three
00:31:25
because it's very hard to track in that
00:31:27
stuff in fact he was lucky to find him a
00:31:32
plaster cast was struck and shipped to
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the United States to be analyzed the
00:31:38
footprint measured 10 inches long and 7
00:31:40
inches wide it had some of the same
00:31:42
characteristics of the footprint
00:31:44
discovered by Eric Shipton six years
00:31:46
earlier it was a short squat almost
00:31:49
square type of footprint and I sent it
00:31:52
to the various physical anthropology
00:31:54
experts around the country and what they
00:31:58
usually determine ours that came back
00:31:59
was unique but we don't know what it is
00:32:03
the discovery of the footprints made
00:32:06
headlines around the world slick and
00:32:08
burn began preparing a second expedition
00:32:11
determine not only to see a Yeti but to
00:32:14
capture one
00:32:16
in February of 1958 Peter Byrne returned
00:32:20
to the Himalayas to embark on an
00:32:21
exhausting four month Trek Tom slick
00:32:24
financed the operation but remained
00:32:26
behind three months into the expedition
00:32:29
Byrne hit the jackpot he met a Buddhist
00:32:33
monk with a remarkable story to tell
00:32:37
you've been looking for a Yeti you like
00:32:42
scotch this this old man and one evening
00:32:45
while we were sitting there and having a
00:32:46
drink and talking he he said to me he
00:32:49
whispered he said you know that up in
00:32:51
the temple we have a hand of what Yeti
00:33:00
and he said would you like to see it and
00:33:03
I said yes so we went back up to the
00:33:05
temple we went into the top part of the
00:33:09
temple and he showed me this hand about
00:33:12
the size of human hands cut off at the
00:33:14
wrist I considered it very significant
00:33:18
and I took some pictures of Dmitri some
00:33:21
flash pictures I asked the lamb of
00:33:25
course and could I have it and he said
00:33:27
no he said it must never leave the
00:33:29
temple here if it leaves the temple
00:33:31
various calamities will befall the
00:33:33
temple and the community and so on I
00:33:35
asked him if I could have a part of it
00:33:37
and he said no burns photograph caused
00:33:41
an uproar among the members of Tom slick
00:33:43
scientific team the alleged Yeti hand
00:33:46
was unlike anything they had seen before
00:33:48
opinion was divided was it human was a
00:33:52
tape or was it an entirely new species
00:33:59
the fall of 1958 found Peter burned back
00:34:03
in London he and Tom slick met with
00:34:06
members of the scientific community to
00:34:08
discuss the latest findings we were
00:34:11
having lunch Tom slick myself dr. Osmond
00:34:16
Hill and the subject of the hand came up
00:34:18
now mind you it wasn't a call dr. hill
00:34:23
said you've got to get the hand do you
00:34:25
think you could get to see the Yeti hand
00:34:27
again I learned I mean I yes I'm quite
00:34:31
sure I could yeah I have thought he'll
00:34:36
who was a brilliant scientist reached
00:34:38
down to the table and pulled out him a
00:34:40
brown paper sack and he said there you
00:34:43
are I take it that's not dessert doctor
00:34:47
very funny no my point is we could
00:34:55
replace the Yeti and for this human one
00:34:58
what do you think I'm not quite so sure
00:35:02
I could replace the entire hand but
00:35:06
maybe a finger
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by the next year Peter Byrne had
00:35:13
returned to the Himalayas to carry out
00:35:15
the plan
00:35:15
he gained access to the monastery by
00:35:18
inviting the monk to partake of another
00:35:20
bottle of fine scotch
00:35:22
I cut the finger off and I replaced it
00:35:26
with the human finger it took quite a
00:35:29
long time to wire the whole thing
00:35:31
together and put it all back together
00:35:33
and put it back in the box and nobody
00:35:37
ever knew anything about it and
00:35:38
everything everybody actually was
00:35:39
perfectly happy they still had their
00:35:41
hand it still had its fingers the thumb
00:35:45
was brought back to London where it
00:35:47
became the focus of a detailed
00:35:48
examination it was sent to me and I sent
00:35:52
it to some of the 20 experts which I
00:35:55
thought should look at the hand and they
00:35:57
were about equally divided whether it
00:35:59
was human or whether was some type of
00:36:02
primate known or unknown dr. aaga Gino
00:36:06
placed a tissue sample in an envelope
00:36:07
and tucked it away in his desk quite
00:36:09
remain for more than 30 years in 1960
00:36:15
television personality Marlon Perkins
00:36:17
and Sir Edmund Hillary the Conqueror of
00:36:20
Mount Everest launched a Yeti search of
00:36:22
their own they came back convinced that
00:36:25
there was no such animal as the Yeti
00:36:28
even the descriptions of the can be
00:36:31
explained by they were essentially over
00:36:39
there to debunk it most of the members
00:36:40
of the Hillary expedition didn't believe
00:36:42
in Yeti to start with so they went over
00:36:44
there and they found bare skin so that
00:36:46
was Yeti and then they debunked it they
00:36:48
looked at the pam boucher and said wow
00:36:51
this has got wires on it you know that
00:36:53
obviously had wires on it because of
00:36:55
Tom's like expedition had taken parts of
00:36:57
it and wired it up again so everything
00:37:00
they came across to the Hilary
00:37:01
expedition they said there is no Yeti so
00:37:04
you know none of us were surprised when
00:37:06
they came back and said yet he doesn't
00:37:07
exist
00:37:11
interest in the Yeti began to wane then
00:37:14
on October 6 1962 Tom slick died in a
00:37:17
plane crash
00:37:18
his partners subsequently abandoned the
00:37:21
hunt for the elusive Yeti but the
00:37:23
sightings continued I had made camp at
00:37:27
16,500 feet when out of the darkness a
00:37:31
very loud piercing call began that
00:37:33
sounded like nothing I'd ever heard
00:37:35
before it moved around it circled our
00:37:39
campsite it would get closer it would
00:37:41
get farther away it would call
00:37:43
intermittently and the call was always
00:37:45
very loud and very piercing and very
00:37:48
frightening I was on a distance of 10
00:37:51
meters so it was my impression it's
00:37:54
bigger than me it was quite hairy and
00:37:57
strong with short legs and the face was
00:38:03
a little bit more white or clear and
00:38:07
then the body with the body was quite
00:38:08
dark dark brown black hair long long
00:38:13
hair and he has quite a lot of hairs on
00:38:16
the on the on the on the head I have to
00:38:18
leave it open that I do not know what
00:38:20
the bomber nose snowman is but I feel
00:38:23
there is a very good chance probably
00:38:26
50/50 that's something resembling the
00:38:29
thing they're looking for it does exist
00:38:32
during the course of filming the story
00:38:35
unsolved mysteries learned of the piece
00:38:37
of tissue doctor ago Geno had set aside
00:38:39
30 years ago the sample was analyzed at
00:38:43
the University of California's molecular
00:38:45
evolution lab the results were
00:38:47
inconclusive but seemed to indicate that
00:38:50
the tissue probably came from a human
00:38:52
hand the problem with something as vague
00:38:56
as the Yeti is that almost any results
00:39:00
you have can be fitted into the into the
00:39:03
theory so I'm sure that most believers
00:39:06
will say well this is great this proves
00:39:08
that the Yeti is some sort of subhuman
00:39:10
species I think that's what we've always
00:39:13
thought that it wasn't an animal that it
00:39:16
wasn't an upright walking ape because
00:39:18
apes don't walk upright anyway that it
00:39:21
was
00:39:22
a hominid form the human form of
00:39:24
sometime
00:39:26
do the Himalayas conceal one of the
00:39:28
great mysteries of the 20th century
00:39:30
providing a safe and isolated haven for
00:39:33
a distant relative of man or is the Yeti
00:39:36
simply a fanciful myth the creation of a
00:39:39
primitive people and an imaginative
00:39:41
group of explorers it seems impossible
00:39:46
in this day and age we might discover an
00:39:49
entirely new species of animal however
00:39:52
we must remember it was only seventy
00:39:54
years ago that the giant panda China was
00:39:56
first observed in the wild by Western
00:39:58
man until then it too was regarded as
00:40:01
nothing more than a mythological
00:40:02
creature next the ashes of an unknown
00:40:09
woman are discovered on an isolated
00:40:11
California island
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all of us have known people live their
00:40:24
lives outside the mainstream adhering to
00:40:26
their own rules marching to the beat of
00:40:28
a different drummer in life we find
00:40:31
their eccentricities fascinating but
00:40:34
often when a deeply private person dies
00:40:36
he leaves behind an unsolved mystery dr.
00:40:43
Carrie Stanton who died in 1987 was just
00:40:46
such a man Stanton a lifelong bachelor
00:40:49
it was a sign of a wealthy California
00:40:51
family he graduated from medical school
00:40:54
at Stanford University and practiced as
00:40:57
a pathologist in New York City in 1957
00:41:01
when he was just 34 years old
00:41:03
dr. Stanton left New York he returned to
00:41:06
California to run the family cattle
00:41:08
ranch
00:41:12
it was not a typical wrench
00:41:14
stampy's family owned nine-tenths of
00:41:17
santa cruz island a 62,000 acres the
00:41:20
largest of California's Channel Islands
00:41:23
when dr. Stanton's parents died he took
00:41:26
control of the ranch Kerry Stanton was
00:41:29
very protective of Santa Cruz Island he
00:41:33
used to say that this island was not his
00:41:35
it was just a responsibility that was
00:41:37
handed down to him from his parents
00:41:41
dr. Stanton lived in virtual solitude in
00:41:44
the main ranch house though he welcomed
00:41:46
houseguests you know that the care was
00:41:52
coming tomorrow at 5:00 in the morning
00:41:53
to pick up cattle perhaps you can help
00:41:56
me with that I can really use your help
00:41:59
as a years past
00:42:01
Stanton developed a rigid sometimes
00:42:03
quirky schedule that she expected all
00:42:06
visitors to abide by dinner was always a
00:42:14
semi-formal affair which began precisely
00:42:16
at 7:30 p.m. the weekly menu never
00:42:20
varied the same five main courses were
00:42:23
rotated in sequence throughout the year
00:42:27
at the stroke of 8:30 dr. Stanton and
00:42:30
his guests repaired to the living room
00:42:32
for coffee and the only dessert ever
00:42:34
served oatmeal cookies dr. Stanton
00:42:39
retired for the evening at precisely
00:42:41
9:00 p.m.
00:42:43
during all the years he lived on the
00:42:45
island he rarely deviated from his
00:42:47
routine good night for dr. Carrie
00:42:58
Stanton santa cruz island was heaven on
00:43:01
earth
00:43:01
he established a private cemetery
00:43:03
exclusively for those who have been
00:43:05
intimately associated with the island
00:43:08
stanton even had his parents bodies
00:43:10
exhumed cremated and reburied in the
00:43:13
little cemetery by 1987 there were 14
00:43:18
graves surrounding the ranch chapel on
00:43:20
December 8 of that year a total rose to
00:43:23
15 dr. Carrie Stanton was dead at the
00:43:27
age of 64
00:43:30
dr. Stanton left the entire ranch to the
00:43:33
Nature Conservancy the Conservancy in
00:43:36
conjunction with Santa Barbara County's
00:43:38
agricultural Commission and other
00:43:39
environmental agencies worked to
00:43:41
preserve the island in his pristine
00:43:43
State on April 27th 1990 the deputy
00:43:52
agricultural commissioner discovered an
00:43:54
old metal box in a shed on the ranch
00:43:58
what do you think and I looked in the
00:44:03
box and it was full of ashes and I
00:44:05
recognized the ashes as being those of a
00:44:09
human human remains no one on the island
00:44:16
knew anything about the mysterious ashes
00:44:18
Larry Gillespie the Santa Barbara County
00:44:21
coroner found a few intriguing clues a
00:44:24
snap like clothing fastener manufactured
00:44:27
in the 1940s several false teeth from
00:44:30
the 50s and a diamond studded platinum
00:44:33
ring dating from before World War two
00:44:35
later tests on the bone fragments would
00:44:38
yield more information we believe that
00:44:41
it's an elderly female victim based upon
00:44:43
the findings of the arthritic changes of
00:44:45
the bones and the characteristic of that
00:44:47
one particular wrist bone that appeared
00:44:50
to be female
00:44:52
was dr. Carrie Stanton the keeper of a
00:44:55
deep dark secret it seems unlikely
00:44:58
Stanton had a reputation as a compulsive
00:45:01
archivist who meticulously labelled
00:45:03
everything it is very unlike Carrie
00:45:08
Stanton to have the loose end in
00:45:12
particular of human remains left on
00:45:16
Santa Cruz Island it's not something
00:45:18
that he would do who is a mystery woman
00:45:23
of Santa Cruz Island all that his knowns
00:45:26
as she died sometime after World War two
00:45:28
at an age past 50 she suffered from a
00:45:31
slight arthritic condition and wore a
00:45:33
platinum and diamond eternity ring the
00:45:37
Santa Cruz Island foundation doesn't
00:45:39
know what to do with her and we very
00:45:42
much would like to do the right thing
00:45:43
and find a place where she belongs
00:45:46
and if it's on the island we would like
00:45:48
to see that she's added to the cemetery
00:45:50
if she belongs here we want to do the
00:45:54
right thing to make sure that these
00:45:55
ashes receive a final resting place
00:45:58
which is appropriate
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next week marks a very special milestone
00:46:16
for unsolved mysteries the broadcast of
00:46:19
our 100th episode an unprecedented two
00:46:22
hours show you'll see a fascinating
00:46:24
array of intriguing mysteries and recent
00:46:26
updates join me next Wednesday for this
00:46:29
memorable celebration the hundredth
00:46:31
episode unsolved mysteries
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