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tonight on unsolved mysteries in a
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peaceful suburb of Los Angeles a feud
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over a drug debt spirals out of control
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an innocent teenage boy is taken hostage
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and a family is destroyed Jill Biermann
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had a passion for cycling one morning
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she set off for a ride from Bloomington
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Indiana and inexplicably vanished was
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she abducted or was she the victim of a
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tragic accident it began innocently
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enough a selfless good deed by Billy
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Fisher convinced Nancy higher that they
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should become friends
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three weeks later Nancy sat down to
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dinner with Billy and his father soon
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two would be dead and the third missing
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authorities need your help to bring a
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killer to justice
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christen motor ferry came to San
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Francisco for a summer of adventure then
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she vanished did she drown in the
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Pacific or was she lured into the arms
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of a murderer
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join me for these stories of intrigue
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and deception prime ingredients run
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solve mysteries
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Nicke marker which celebrates his bar
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mitzvah with dozens of friends and loved
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ones it would be the last joyous
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occasion before tragedy rips a Markowitz
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family apart the seeds of that tragedy
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lie with Nick's older half-brother Ben
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for most of his life Ben has been in
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trouble and now young Nick is about to
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be engulfed in Ben's world of deceit and
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betrayal Ben owes money to this man
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Jesse James Hollywood who has given his
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notorious name at birth on August 6 2011
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and collect what is owed him one way or
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another
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according to reports Jesse and two of
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his friends cruised the quiet streets of
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West Hills California looking for Ben
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they cannot find him but instead sputnik
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a fateful decision is made
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hey hey hey guys witnesses say that they
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saw the van pull over and there was a
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physical confrontation and that young
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Nick was forced into the van and the van
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left
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on that day he was simply a young man
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who his only problem was he had an older
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brother who had provoked the wrath of
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Jesse James Hollywood the first glance
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Jesse James Hollywood and his friends
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seemed like difficult suburban teenagers
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they grew up in loving middle-class
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homes and were given every chance to
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succeed in life but somewhere along the
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way Jesse allegedly went off truck and
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by chance Nicholas Markowitz crossed
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Jesse's path the result was catastrophic
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now one of them is dead and the other a
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fugitive from justice as a child there
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was no hint that Jesse James's outlaw
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name might turn out to be prophetic
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Jesse and his close-knit group of
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friends would spent countless summer
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days playing baseball while their
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families watched with pride but police
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believe that Jesse the innocent little
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leaguer somehow transformed into a
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big-time suburban drug dealer incredibly
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at the age of 19 Jesse reportedly
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amassed enough illicit profits to buy an
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expensive home and the party began Jesse
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James Hollywood was driving expensive
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cars he was partying with his friends
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nearly a daily basis and he was living a
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rather lavish lifestyle for a young man
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without any legitimate means of
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employment
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less than two miles away but a world
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apart
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fifteen-year-old Nick Markowitz lived
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with his parents Jeff and Susan a Nick
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was a typical teenager he's a likable
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kid every loved Nick he had a great
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sense of humor he was always positive
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and fun to be around but Nick's 25 year
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old half-brother Ben was an entirely
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different story
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according to police Ben was a friend of
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Jesse Hollywood and often bought
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marijuana from him shortly before the
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kidnapping Ben and Jesse had a
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falling-out after Ben refused to pay a
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$1,200 drug debt he's a real little guy
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very obnoxious just the type of guy
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you'd want to take his stuff
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I didn't fear him he was like I just
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said he was just jesse was just a little
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man and I was like $1,200 yesterday I'll
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get you later buddy
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what's going on Ben Jessie where have
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you been
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Jesse James Hollywood reportedly
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confronted been on several occasions I
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told you I will get your money
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alright welcome to my house like this
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come your house what are you smoking huh
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this is your last chance you got that
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after numerous run-ins with Ben Jessie
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reportedly had had enough and on August
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6th he went looking for his former
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friend Nick Markowitz just happened to
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be in the wrong place at the wrong time
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I was making Nick breakfast and went
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upstairs to get him and he was not there
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i paged him and he did not return my
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page I guess I must have paged him a
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hundred times
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I knew something is wrong police believe
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that Nick could not return his mother's
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call because Jesse James had kidnapped
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him
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Nick was purportedly taken to a home in
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Santa Barbara California and restrained
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there he would remain a hostage until
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his brother Ben paid his debt on the
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following day
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witnesses report seeing Nick at the
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Santa Barbara home jesse is not at the
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house Nick is no longer bound nor gagged
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in fact Nick's captors seemed to treat
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him like a guest Nick was free to move
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around the residence young people that
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did come and go from the residence
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although they were told that he had been
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in essence kidnapped by his demeanor
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there he was not acting as they might
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expect someone that was had been
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kidnapped would be acting I personally
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feel that Nick had the expectation that
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at some point in time he would be freed
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don't worry about him he's fine in the
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ensuing days there was no reported
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effort by Jesse James Hollywood to
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exchange Nick for the money Ben
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Markowitz owed him according to
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witnesses
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Jesse realized the situation was quickly
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spiraling out of control he telephoned
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his lawyer for advice at long
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it can't be police believe that Jesse
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came to a disturbing realization if Nick
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was released and told authorities about
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the spontaneous kidnapping Jesse could
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spend the rest of his life behind bars
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we believe that as a result of that
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conversation Jesse came to the
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conclusion that he would be in a better
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situation to kill Nick as opposed to
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trying to return him authorities
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theorize that Jesse then contacted this
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man Ryan Hoyt a 21 year old acquaintance
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who also Oh Jesse $1,200 for drugs in
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this home video taken by Jesse James
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Hollywood he can be heard demanding
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payment from Ryan
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Jesse allegedly offered Ryan a way to
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pay off his debt hey Ryan its Jesse
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listen I got a little proposition for
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you on August 8th police believe that
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Ryan Hoyt and two accomplices led Nick
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Markovitz to Lizards mouth a remote area
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in the Los Padres National Forest Jesse
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James Hollywood was not there
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[Music]
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we were friends
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all of us we were friends and the way
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that it went down
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I feel very responsible for it all I can
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really do is just over thinking in my
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head and you know believing there's many
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nights where I couldn't sleep
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four days later the body of Nick
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Markowitz was discovered an anonymous
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tip from a teenager who saw Nick at the
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Santa Barbara home quickly identified
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several suspects and his kidnapping and
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murder within days police arrested Ryan
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Hoyt and three accomplices for the crime
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all for a pleaded not guilty and remain
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in custody at the Santa Barbara County
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Jail
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but Jesse James Hollywood was nowhere to
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be found
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authorities believe publicity about the
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murder caused Hollywood to flee we don't
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know where he went
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we don't know where he is now but he did
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leave the jurisdiction eventually and he
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returned to the San Fernando Valley area
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but since that time his whereabouts have
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been unknown to us nightmares you wake
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up from this is worse than a nightmare
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[Music]
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they've destroyed me they've gutted me I
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am soulless I am lost
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every evening at dusk Eric and Marilyn
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Biermann perform a quiet ritual
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the candles flame represents the flicker
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of hope that they will solve a
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perplexing mystery that has shattered
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their lives on May 31st mm the 19 year
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old daughter Jill looked forward to
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another morning indulging her passion
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for fitness
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she left their home in Bloomington
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Indiana at 9:00 a.m.
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her job did not begin until noon she had
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plenty of time to first enjoy the sport
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she loved best Jill treated a bike ride
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like a workout she took it pretty
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seriously and she wanted to ride hard
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and her friends have told me that going
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for a bike ride with Jill was not very
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much fun because they couldn't keep up
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Jill had just completed her freshman
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year as a business major at Indiana
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University her family and friends
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describer is the epitome of a fun-loving
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all-american girl
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12 hours later Eric and Marilyn became
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alarmed when Jill failed to return home
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its way after dark it's very late
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it's cold outside and I was alternating
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between being sad or worried or maybe
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even angry thinking why would she do
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this why would she go off and not tell
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us what she's up to
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I mean just all those mixed emotions I
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don't know what to think it was then
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that we both were really I think
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terrified as to just what might have
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happened to her
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Jill Biermann had vanished without a
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trace
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Bloomington Police and the FBI received
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over 3,000 tips but what happened to
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jill is still unknown
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authorities believe she might have been
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abducted although there was no evidence
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to support that conclusion they also
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thought she may have been the victim of
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a hit and run accident but if that were
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true where was her body the
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investigation yielded many clues but no
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answers news of Jill's disappearance
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spread quickly throughout Bloomington
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two days after she vanished townspeople
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by the hundreds joined investigators in
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an exhaustive search local cycling clubs
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trace the roots Jill may have taken they
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had groups of people not only searching
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the roads but about a hundred and fifty
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feet or so off on each side of the road
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in the woods and the ravines and the
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areas along several of the roads and
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places that we know that jail-like tried
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despite the massive effort no trace of
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Jill was found but the same day the
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search began a vital clue surfaced a
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resident of Bloomington step forward
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reporting that he had retrieved an
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abandoned bicycle two days earlier the
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same day Jill had disappeared only later
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when news about Jill broke did he
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realizes significance the bicycle serial
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number enabled police to confirm that it
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was Jill's
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investigators search the area
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surrounding where the bike was found but
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they found nothing the location raised
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their suspicions
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Jill was last seen south of her home
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riding in a southerly direction her bike
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was ten miles northwest of that site
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that's not a route that she would have
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been on that day that's about ten miles
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away it's through town it's through a
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great deal of traffic and Jill hated
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riding in any kind of traffic she just
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she wouldn't ride in the traffic she's
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not with the bike and the bike is
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somewhere she would not have ridden and
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this isn't making any sense this is even
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more mysterious and more scary now
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because now I don't know what to think
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three days after Jill vanished the
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mystery deepened a digital radio was
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found neatly placed in the parking lot
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of a Bloomington Church it was the same
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model in color as one that Jill usually
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took with her when she cycled
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at the moment the radio was found a
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churchgoer in the parking lot witnessed
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a pickup truck that investigators viewed
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with suspicion there's no indication
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that that pickup truck was related to
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the Walkman however we've attempted to
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try and find the not only the pickup
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truck but certainly that the individual
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driving and we've been unsuccessful in
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doing that ten days later a young woman
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Jill's age was involved in an attempted
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abduction just three miles from where
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Jill's bike was found
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we certainly believe that dude there
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could be a correlation between the event
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and Aliceville and Joe's disappearance
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is it possible that the same assailant
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who is still unidentified also targeted
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June we've had any number of theories in
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this and certainly one of those theories
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is that Joe was targeted and that they
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placed the bicycle in an area different
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from where she was last seen in an
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effort to try and at least lead us away
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from the area in which she was in fact
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abducted the possibility that Jill was
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abducted seemed more plausible when news
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broke a year later about another female
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cyclist in Kentucky a motorist struck
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her and tried to drag her into his car
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before he was chased away by a witness a
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police artist made this sketch of the
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suspect but whether this man also
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attempted to abduct Jill is unknown
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the only other theory investigators
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consider possible is that Jill was a
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victim of a hit and run accident we
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believe that it was certainly possible
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that that Jill was struck by a group of
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people who were high on drugs alcohol
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involved that these folks panicked and
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instead of leaving her or trying to get
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help for her
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they put her and the bike in a vehicle
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and and took her
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the hit and run theory however is flawed
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by one perplexing detail the damage that
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Jill's bicycle was minimal still
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investigators say it is possible that
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Jill was not struck while riding but
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after she dismounted to rest or make
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repairs ultimately however what happened
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to Jill remains unknown
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it's one of the hardest things about
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this whole situation is the not knowing
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without knowing whether she's alive
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without knowing where she is
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I missed that smile I miss her laugh
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it's a nightmare
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that just keeps going on
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every night we light the candle on the
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front doorstep and it stays lit all
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night until the next morning it kind of
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a beacon of hope and just as a reminder
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that Jill is still missing
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and every day we pray that that's going
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to be the day that we find you
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[Music]
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so did we just pick up the phrase in the
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park 21 year old Nancy hire a 19 year
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old Billy Fisher met by chance in 1986
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Billy first saw Nancy on a train heading
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it in New York City she had become lost
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and was on the verge of tears
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Billy stepped forward and volunteered to
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escort Nancy back home to Hicksville
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Long Island the two began a close
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friendship Nancy thought Billy was a
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really nice guy she did say to me you
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starting to look at me like a girlfriend
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kind of thing and I don't like him that
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way but she didn't want to hurt his
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feelings because he was so nice on a
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stormy night three weeks later Nancy
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received a call from Billy alrighty I'll
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talk to you later
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febre wonder if I'll actually be able to
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follow those directions she told her
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sister Debra that Billy had asked for a
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ride home from his father's house in
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Southampton despite the weather
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Nancy decided to repay Billy's earlier
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act of kindness I don't really think you
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should be going out was whether Nancy
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and I said I can't believe you're gonna
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drive in this weather you don't even
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like to drive at night and she says well
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he's done so much for me that I'm gonna
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just go alrighty I'm all ready to go
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you look great thank you
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Nancy's mother Joan was also concerned
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about her daughter driving during a
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storm as I saw my daughter drive away I
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was a little fearful myself worry just
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mother's worry that's enough
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Lancey higher set off into the downpour
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for the hour and a half drive to
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southampton her friendship with Billy
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Fisher would soon lead to tragedy an
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unsuspecting Nancy hire was heading
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straight into another family's conflict
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one that was about to turn violent Billy
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Fisher had cystic fibrosis a
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degenerative respiratory disease and was
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overwhelmed with medical bills he was
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seeking money from his estranged father
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who'd abandoned the family 15 years
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earlier what followed next was a chain
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reaction of ill-fated events ultimately
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put Nancy higher in the wrong place at
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the wrong time
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[Music]
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at the time Billy Fisher met Nancy he
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was swamped in debt and increasingly ill
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hi may I speak to William Fisher please
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he decided to ask his father William for
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help even though the two hadn't spoken
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in over a year he was employed by a
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well-to-do car dealership in Manhattan
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Lynn City New York was making a very
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high salary the investigation determined
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that he began and had been using cocaine
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extensively to the point that it
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affected his performance at his place of
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employment Billy's father invited his
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son to visit for the weekend and
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discussed the money situation Billy how
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you doing okay come on I'm not gonna
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bite you
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nobody knows how Billy got to South
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Hampton
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but a day after arriving he called Nancy
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hire to take him home
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[Music]
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that night Joan higher waited anxiously
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for Nancy to return I was pacing the
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living room constantly at the front door
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looking out the window the clock was
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going 12 o'clock 1 o'clock 2 o'clock I
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kind of figured she's a responsible girl
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she might have had to stay over cuz of
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the weather or the time of night but
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then I still kept hesitant because I
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said she would never not call me yes
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well I know she's 21 but could you
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please
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the next morning still no call Joan
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began to panic the police could not help
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Nancy had not been gone long enough to
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be declared missing okay mom I know she
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left directions and a phone number
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around her somewhere I don't know where
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she left it running out of options
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Joan and Nancy's sister Debra rummage
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through her bedroom wait here it is
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Fisher
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ah yes hello this is Nancy hires mother
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Joan mr. Fisher yes I'd like to know if
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my daughter came out there last evening
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yeah she was here I cooked the roast we
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had some drinks and dinner and for you
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young lady he said we had dinner he said
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and I gave them something to drink
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nice to see his son and they went out
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after that well listen you both take
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care and drive safely
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he said oh they probably just went
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somewhere he says or Billy somewhere and
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Nancy somewhere else
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if I hear anything I'll give you a call
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he seemed very forthcoming that he was
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concerned about his own son we were
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thinking at that point that young Billy
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had taken her somewhere and done
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something
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another day passed with no sign of Nancy
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and Joan filed a missing-persons report
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but with no proof of foul play that was
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little the police could do so June
00:27:04
turned back to the last person who saw
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her daughter she repeatedly called
00:27:09
William Fisher who became increasingly
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confrontational mr. Fisher could you go
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over step by step exactly what happened
00:27:17
that evening look like I told you before
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they came over he would fly off the
00:27:22
handle and tell me let the police handle
00:27:25
this I have no idea where these kids
00:27:27
went and he was getting very very
00:27:30
hostile over the phone goodbye
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so I kept getting more suspicious of mr.
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Fisher
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ten days after Nancy's disappearance in
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a parking lot two miles from William
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Fisher's house police responded to a
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report of an abandoned car giver Nancy
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higher Czar's it comes back to that
00:27:59
missing girl Nancy hire see if he could
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pop the trunk oh my god
00:28:04
sorry get back here oh my god they're
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located in the trunk of the car was a
00:28:12
young Billy Fisher a second body was
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located on anything and that was young
00:28:16
Nancy the autopsy reported that Billy
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had been shot 18 times the vast majority
00:28:25
of those rounds were in the head at
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close range
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Nancy's autopsy revealed that she had
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been stabbed twice with a very long a
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sharp instrument at that same time
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neighbors report a strange activity at
00:28:40
the Fisher home apparently William was
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remodeling his master bedroom at 3:00
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a.m. in the morning well you can see
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it's been freshly painted police secured
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a search warrant for the Fisher
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residence
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slight indentations were observed in a
00:29:02
section of the wall and it was removed
00:29:04
so we fine here - 22 caliber bullets
00:29:09
were recovered a single strand of hair
00:29:12
was fused to one of the bullets it was
00:29:14
identified as Billy Fisher's
00:29:19
that established that this was the crime
00:29:21
scene additional testing established
00:29:23
that there was a large amount of blood
00:29:25
splattered all about the halls of the
00:29:27
hallway consistent with an individual
00:29:33
Nancy being stabbed in that area
00:29:35
immediately outside to miss the bedroom
00:29:38
well what does that mean
00:29:41
that means the evidence clearly
00:29:43
implicated William Fisher but the sheer
00:29:45
brutality of the killings obscured his
00:29:47
motive
00:29:48
well everybody works to pay the bills so
00:29:50
watch it's not enough what could have
00:29:52
caused Fisher's even a man with plenty
00:29:54
to loot enough to shoot his son 18 times
00:29:57
on the murder a complete stranger afford
00:29:59
to live here if I don't work why don't
00:30:02
you help me could an argument have
00:30:08
broken out of her abilities financial
00:30:10
problems just the same as always it's
00:30:12
always about money isn't it it's you you
00:30:15
you constantly Nancy who's only in the
00:30:23
house because of an act of kindness was
00:30:25
now a witness to murder I can't imagine
00:30:33
a parent killing their own child and
00:30:38
then taking someone else's child that
00:30:42
they don't even know anything about
00:30:44
I just can't still today believe that
00:30:50
anything could happen like this police
00:30:54
sought a warrant for murder against
00:30:56
William Fisher but before could be
00:30:58
issued Fisher disappeared his car was
00:31:02
found abandoned at JFK Airport
00:31:04
police later discovered he had taken a
00:31:07
second mortgage out on his house in
00:31:08
excess of $100,000 William Fisher has
00:31:13
evaded arrest on murder charges for
00:31:15
nearly two decades
00:31:21
William Peter Fisher is 57 years old 5
00:31:24
feet 11 inches tall and 185 to 200
00:31:28
pounds these Asian hands photos depict
00:31:32
what Fisher may look like today
00:31:34
he wears expensive clothing drinks
00:31:37
heavily and may have fled the country
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San Francisco California
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eighteen-year-old Kristen Mota ferry
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enjoys a summer of adventure account
00:31:58
each honor student she is 3,000 miles
00:32:00
from her home in North Carolina the
00:32:05
extended visit is a dream come true for
00:32:07
a young woman eager to explore life on
00:32:09
her own Monday June 23rd begins like any
00:32:18
other day
00:32:19
a 7:00 a.m. she arrives at the upscale
00:32:21
Crocker Galleria she has taken a job at
00:32:25
a coffee shop to pay for a photography
00:32:27
course at UC Berkeley as always she's
00:32:32
eager to explore the city at the end of
00:32:34
her shift according to the new friends
00:32:36
she had met perhaps too eager she wanted
00:32:40
to come to the big city and find some
00:32:42
excitement but it seemed to be coupled
00:32:47
with a naivete maybe are not a real
00:32:54
understanding of
00:32:56
how the big city works
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at three o'clock Kristen leaves a coffee
00:33:04
shop then disappears without a trace
00:33:11
Kristen Morrow fairies dream summer in
00:33:13
San Francisco lasted only three weeks
00:33:15
the police would be frustrated by
00:33:18
tantalizing leads that went nowhere a
00:33:20
mysterious blonde woman seen with
00:33:22
Kristen Page is inexplicably torn from a
00:33:25
diary and an anonymous phone call
00:33:27
directing them to a shadowy figure who
00:33:29
may know what happened the mystery is a
00:33:32
nightmare not only for the police but
00:33:34
also for Kristen's parents Bob and Debby
00:33:41
Mota Ferry wasted no time after they
00:33:44
learned Kristen had vanished the
00:33:46
following day they flew the 3,000 miles
00:33:49
from North Carolina when we found out
00:33:54
that she had disappeared we were just
00:33:55
shocked we couldn't eat we barely spoke
00:34:00
we just were just even having trouble
00:34:04
breathing when you are faced with a
00:34:09
situation like this you really don't
00:34:13
know how strong you can be you can
00:34:17
either crawl in a hole and die and give
00:34:19
up or you can fight and I think we there
00:34:23
was no choice for us we were going to
00:34:25
fight for our daughter
00:34:28
but finding Kristin would be a
00:34:30
formidable task
00:34:31
like many missing-persons cases it was
00:34:34
difficult even knowing where to start
00:34:37
you don't have a crime scene you have no
00:34:41
witnesses you can't even establish that
00:34:44
a crime has occurred and you just kind
00:34:46
of build on little pieces of information
00:34:49
hunches whatever you can come up with
00:34:52
and see if you can put the puzzle
00:34:55
together one of the first pieces of the
00:34:59
puzzle it was a sighting of Kristen by
00:35:01
one of her co-workers 45 minutes after
00:35:04
her shift ended she was seen in the
00:35:06
Crocker Galleria with a blonde woman she
00:35:09
thought that was kind of strange because
00:35:11
she never really stuck around
00:35:13
work as soon as she checked out she was
00:35:15
gone and they were very close together
00:35:18
like they were hanging out together
00:35:21
talking together definitely with each
00:35:23
other and so we've made a lot of effort
00:35:26
to try to get the blonde woman to come
00:35:28
forward identify herself and we appealed
00:35:31
a number of times through the media but
00:35:34
never got a response to all our and
00:35:37
peels to the blonde woman to come
00:35:38
forward with few leads the police took
00:35:43
an unusual step a bloodhound attempted
00:35:46
to retrace Kristin's path from the
00:35:48
coffee shop the day she vanished when we
00:35:51
were downtown I could tell he was on a
00:35:53
trail he knew exactly where he was going
00:35:55
every turn was perfect
00:35:57
the police could not be certain however
00:36:00
that this was a path Kristin took the
00:36:02
day she disappeared that could have been
00:36:04
Arad Kristin had previously traveled
00:36:06
without incident he then led us up to
00:36:10
Geary Street heading out towards lands
00:36:13
and beach Kristin's co-workers had told
00:36:17
police that on the day she vanished she
00:36:19
talked to visiting lens and beach we
00:36:23
then got down to the beach area and came
00:36:25
to a point where the trail seemed to
00:36:27
have stopped a chilling possibility
00:36:31
revealed itself that's a very
00:36:34
treacherous part of the San Francisco
00:36:37
water line numerous people each year are
00:36:41
washed off the rocks
00:36:42
and are never seen again so that was a
00:36:46
distinct possibility that she had in
00:36:48
fact fallen into the ocean we really
00:36:52
don't believe that's what happened to
00:36:54
Kristen it's a very tourist oriented
00:36:58
area there's always people around if she
00:37:01
had fallen into the water somebody would
00:37:04
have seen something if Kristin did not
00:37:08
suffer a tragic accident what became of
00:37:10
her ABC 7 a startling twist to the
00:37:16
mystery occurred 17 days after she
00:37:18
vanished
00:37:19
an anonymous male telephone and a San
00:37:22
Francisco TV news Ruiz he said Kristen
00:37:25
had been murdered he went into a very
00:37:29
long description of who he said killed
00:37:32
her and he told me that there were two
00:37:35
women and he named them and he said that
00:37:38
Kristen had been killed as a result of a
00:37:40
lesbian love affair that went wrong
00:37:43
detectives tracked down the two women
00:37:45
named by the caller but determined they
00:37:48
did not know Kristen and had nothing to
00:37:50
do with her disappearance we then asked
00:37:53
these people who has a grudge against
00:37:56
you who would want to see you go through
00:38:00
this and each person separate and
00:38:02
independent gave the name of John
00:38:06
alright so I made the phone call so what
00:38:08
John who asked us not to use his last
00:38:11
name told police that two women were his
00:38:13
girlfriend's employers he claimed they
00:38:16
were harassing her at work to get back
00:38:19
at them he said he phoned in the false
00:38:21
tip he said he got the idea when he saw
00:38:24
TV news coverage about Kristen and he
00:38:27
knew nothing about the case beyond what
00:38:29
he saw on television Megan still the
00:38:32
police suspected there was more to
00:38:34
John's story they investigated his
00:38:38
background and discovered disturbing
00:38:40
allegations of previously abusing women
00:38:42
the next step was to determine whether
00:38:45
he had any connection to Kristen police
00:38:48
say that John met women largely through
00:38:51
personal ads come on there it is right
00:38:54
here I bet you this one did check it out
00:38:56
previously they had found an ad and
00:38:58
Kristen's apartment they think she might
00:39:00
have placed if you read it sounds like
00:39:04
it could be Kristen it'sit's all the
00:39:06
kind of things she was interested in it
00:39:08
was his photography walking the city
00:39:12
music art it was all the kind of things
00:39:16
that Kristen was there to do if the ad
00:39:21
had brought Kristen and John together a
00:39:24
baffling piece of the puzzle could now
00:39:26
be seen in a new light
00:39:28
John we were told used other women
00:39:32
to lure women to himself so we felt that
00:39:37
perhaps this blonde woman could have
00:39:39
been a plant to draw Kristin to this
00:39:43
John the police uncovered more troubling
00:39:48
pieces of information from the women
00:39:50
John allegedly abused one of them
00:39:53
claimed he made an alarming reference to
00:39:55
Kristin now you even know what I did to
00:39:59
Kristin it's what makes me do it to you
00:40:01
I never made a statement like that John
00:40:06
agreed to do an interview with us on
00:40:08
condition that we not reveal his face
00:40:10
and alter his voice the reason she made
00:40:12
that statement she was angry that I was
00:40:14
leaving San Francisco I was leaving her
00:40:17
and I wonder anymore
00:40:20
she's very angry very bitter one more
00:40:25
troubling coincidence was discovered at
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the home of John's girlfriend her diary
00:40:29
was missing several pages pages covering
00:40:32
the same time period Kristen had been in
00:40:35
San Francisco we asked her why is this
00:40:40
the way it is and she told us that John
00:40:45
had torn the pages out and said that
00:40:48
some of the stuff that was in there
00:40:49
could come back to hurt him despite such
00:40:55
disturbing pieces of information police
00:40:58
say they have no clear evidence that
00:40:59
John had any involvement in Kristin's
00:41:01
disappearance also John says he has
00:41:04
taken and passed a polygraph examination
00:41:06
conducted by a reputable expert at the
00:41:10
very least this John made a stupid
00:41:13
stupid mistake by making this phone call
00:41:17
to the TV station but if he is more
00:41:21
involved then we still need to find out
00:41:23
those answers and we still need to keep
00:41:25
after him until we find out whether or
00:41:29
not he's guilty I never met Kristen I
00:41:32
never saw her there's absolutely no
00:41:35
connection to Kristen and I in any way
00:41:38
wanted it was wrong I wish had never
00:41:41
made that call but I did and I just want
00:41:47
to tell the parents of sorry am I really
00:41:49
really sorry for what I did
00:41:52
Kristin moto ferry had come to San
00:41:54
Francisco embracing a future full of
00:41:56
promise what shattered that future
00:41:59
remains a mystery for her parents the
00:42:02
search for answers continues we owe this
00:42:07
to her we owe this to ourselves and we
00:42:10
owe this to her sisters
00:42:12
someone stole Kristin's dreams and
00:42:16
that's not fair
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join us for our next edition of unsolved
00:42:34
mysteries
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