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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries an airline pilot vanishes
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leaving a trail of wives children and
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Scandal across the
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country this cab driver is turned into a
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human time bomb and then forced to rob a
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bank a sheriff is shot while on patrol
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before dying he's able to describe his
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attackers are is it enough to catch a
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killer and is there a vast underground
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river in the Dy desert of Nevada a
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former NASA scientist claims satellite
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photos led him to this
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amazing
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Discovery murder missing persons wanted
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fugitives and the Paranormal I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries
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he
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Jack and Caroline lter had known each
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other for two years before they were
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married Jack was a pilot for United
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Airlines Caroline a marine biologist
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then one day Jack vanished Into Thin
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Air I was married to Jack for 6 years
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and we together for eight years and for
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most of those years it was a very happy
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time and over time time I grew more and
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more in love with him which I thought
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was impossible to
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do I tried to understand the fact that
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he was a pilot and yes Pilots are gone
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away from home a lot and so many times
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if he' tell me he'd be home the next day
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and he didn't show up I would cry and be
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in years cuz I planned my weekends for
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him to come
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home for 4 weeks Jack didn't call and
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Caroline had no idea where he had gone
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the situation became more serious when
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their son Jonathan was diagnosed with a
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hernia and needed immediate surgery
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Caroline called the airline to try to
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find Jack when she spoke to his
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supervisor she got news she never
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expected other women had also been
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calling about Jack
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lutter it was a terrible feeling I felt
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very betrayed extremely betrayed and
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after loving him so deeply all these
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years I felt that my love for him had
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been violated I found out that every
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single thing he told me were lies I
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found out that there was many many many
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women in his
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life some of those women were not just
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girlfriends in fact they were actually
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married to Jack letter his deception
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played out in six condos and six houses
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with Six Wives and at least 15
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children letter initially met each of
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his wives through chance encounters one
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of them Fatima fell under his spell on
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an airport bus in Seattle there aren't
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many people on thiss I wasn't thinking
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that he was attracted at all it's just
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that he was very friendly so I was
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looking at him is just seems like a very
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nice person and then he offered his
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phone number and he asked for my phone
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number just a few months later Fatima
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and Jack letter were married in Reno she
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unknowingly became his fifth wife they
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moved to San Francisco where they had
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two children I don't get much
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opportunity to have a social life lutter
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didn't marry every woman that he dated
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Teresa was a common law wife they met in
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Denver had a child and then he moved her
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to Al Paso like his other wives Teresa
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needed a job to make ends
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meet we were going to spend the rest of
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our lives together so I never believed
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he was unfaithful
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and he always said that he always hated
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people that get divorced because he
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doesn't believe in
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divorce once letter disappeared his
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wives began calling each other Teresa
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and Caroline began by piecing together
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the true story of lutter's numerous
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marriages his fifth wife Fatima
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investigated a condominium in San
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Francisco where lutter's grandfather
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supposedly lived there was no
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grandfather but Fatima did find the
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secret stash of Letter's personal
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belongings including explicit sexual
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photos of his many
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wives the whole thing was like a
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nightmare it was really hard for me to
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look at the pictures and it was really
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hurt that I could find out that I was
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not the only woman this man is just
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practicing the same thing that he's
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saying just no meaning to
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it knowing that letter always left his
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car at the airport Caroline took a spare
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set of keys and searched it in the trunk
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she found checks and mortgage receipts
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for various properties he owned all over
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the
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country not only did he have other women
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but he had lied to me about his uh
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financial situation too for him never to
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have supported me at all in all these AG
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years to have borrowed money from me
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only to turn turn around and use my
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money to pay the these mortgage payments
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and I knew that many of these mortgage
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payments were for wives or women living
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in these homes and it was my money that
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he was using to support some of the
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other women that I was extremely angry
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at
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that Caroline packed up lutter's
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belongings filed a missing person's
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report and asked the police to
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investigate her suspicions of
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bamy to me it's unbelievable the farther
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I got into the case the more G I was at
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the the job that this guy had to do yeah
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they just told me I just you never
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missed anniversaries or holidays or
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birthdays or anything for his children
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or his wives it's unbelievable swee pity
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that this man has for detail and his
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abilities to disengage himself from one
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family
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entirely and re-engage himself with
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another family and take up as if he
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hadn't been gone at
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all Jack lud's wife all lived in cities
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on his airplane routes his scam had
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worked perfectly until he was promoted
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and then his routes suddenly changed his
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complex Web of Lies began to unravel L
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vanished and for 6 weeks none of his
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wives heard from
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him then in the middle of the night
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lutter called Caroline he said that he
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was calling from a pay phone inside a
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Cuban prison where he had been held
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captive after being Shipwrecked off the
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Cuban Coast Caroline knew that he was
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lying but she pretended to believe
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him 2 Days Later letter called from the
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airport Caroline had plan to alert the
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Police but that night she decided to
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confront him first hi honey how are you
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she insisted that they talk in a public
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place so they drove through a restaurant
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near the airport I want to talk to
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you and what about these women by the
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end of their conversation Caroline did
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not have the heart to turn jack in
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there's a woman in San Francisco and I
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know there's also this other woman in
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Sao who are they what I saw in front of
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me was a man whose whole life had just
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broken apart and to me he was like a
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wounded cornered
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animal not willing to admit to the
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truth we spent the weekend together and
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on Monday he said he was going to go try
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and Salvage whatever he could with his
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job and I took him to the
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airport L walked down the ramp and out
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of Caroline's life forever and then he
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simply went to one of his other wives
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for 6 months he lived in El Paso with
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Teresa and although she knew about the
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other women she didn't turn him in
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either lutter was fired by the airline
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and then he disappeared
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again I know why Jack has done what he
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has done I know when he did it and for
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how long and I know what the results are
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what I don't know is where he is right
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now that's the
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mystery
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update Jack lutter was finally captured
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at after he was spotted at Los Angeles
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International Airport he was taken to
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Seattle and convicted of bigamy he
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served the sentence of 90 days and was
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released on probation but he disappeared
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violating probation and he failed to
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make Court payments a warrant for the
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arrest of Jack letter has been issued by
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a Seattle Court Jack letter is 6' 2 in
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tall and weighs about 200
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lb if you have seen but please log on to
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our website at
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coming up a cab driver is wired with
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explosives and forced to participate in
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a bizarre robbery
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scheme Modesto
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California 65 5-year-old Harvey McLoud
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had been driving a cab for 10 years and
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had seen just about everything so he
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wasn't too surprised when a man in a
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turban with a phony beard and mustache
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flagged him down one afternoon it was
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just a normal Fair he did have a turbine
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but we have several of those in Modesto
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so I never thought anything about
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it going up to jamest town hey that's a
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50-minute ride that'll run you $90 I'll
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have to get that up front the passenger
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spoke in a coarse whisper he only had
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about half the fair but he said he could
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pick up the rest at his brother's house
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which was on the way have to stop by my
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brother's place and pick up the
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rest stop by your brother's house all
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right yeah just keep driving
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east we'll take a left right up here lit
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Road that's right he said his brother
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lived on lit road so I didn't think too
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much about it until he told me to stop
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after for a couple of blocks and so I
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stopped the car and turned around and
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here that gun was staring me right in
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the nose do exactly what I tell
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you cut the wires to the radio
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transmitter and get out that
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door so I I just basically thought it
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was a
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robbery but this was no ordinary robbery
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in fact the mysterious passenger was not
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going to take any of Harvey mccloud's
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money he had bigger plans his first step
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was to turn Harvey McLoud
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into a human
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time the gunman chained a black metal
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box with a numeric keypad onto Harvey's
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stomach he ran a wire lead around his
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neck and clipped it shut and then he
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activated the Black
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Box you do exactly what I say and you'll
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be all right you screw up at all you'll
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die the bomb is remote controlled
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all I have to do is dial a number on my
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cell phone you're gone I was terrified
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mine was going 100 Mil an hour and I was
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trying to figure out how am I going to
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get out of
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this 10 minutes later Harvey was on his
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way back to
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Modesto you're going to rob a bank I
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want you to listen to me very
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carefully there's a second bomb in this
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box I want you to take this
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briefcase and the bomb into the B I want
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you to leave the bomb in the bank when
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you're done you understand me yep well
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he kept reminding me that he could set
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this bomb off by his cell telephone and
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me I don't know that much about
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Electronics but what you see you know in
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papers and TV you do about anything with
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electronics nowadays so I
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believe I need to see the bank manager
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uh sorry sir she's unavailable you just
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have a seat I need to see the bank
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manager now it's important sir excuse me
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please just have a seat I need see man I
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cannot wait I I understand that of
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course is there a problem I need to see
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the manager are you the manager I am may
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I help you I thought I was dealing with
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an irate customer because he was
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agitated I proceeded to read the letter
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and about Midway through it it shocked
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me and it upset me did you read this
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look what he did to me I looked around
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the lobby saw how busy we were
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and it was very scary that if I didn't
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do the right thing that all of us could
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be blown up as a result of
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that the bank manager and another
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employee filled the briefcase with the
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exact amount of money demanded in the
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letter
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10 and then Harvey performed a quiet Act
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of
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heroism I didn't want to see innocent
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people get killed like couldn't do much
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about me but I could at least take the
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bomb with me and to protect the other
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people in the bank so I walked out the
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door with
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it in the back of the cab Harvey found a
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list of instructions first he drove to a
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hardware store and parked the cab
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leaving behind the cash and the car keys
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and then he walked half a mile to a pay
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phone the instruction said the gunman
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would phone with directions for
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dismantling the
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bomb I waited about 5 10 minutes and no
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call came in so I went over and happened
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to look at the telephone and it said no
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incoming calls so then I knew something
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was up so then that's when I called my
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dispatcher and told her what
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happened within minutes the police were
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on the scene and the area was being
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evacuated Harvey McLoud sat alone in the
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eye of the storm
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and they say I looked calm but I wasn't
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very calm inside um I was shaking my
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stomach was rolling and and I had all
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these things going through my mind and I
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just wondering how long I was going to
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be there in this old
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world eventually the bomb squad arrived
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and released Harvey from the device
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x-rays determined that both bombs were
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fakes there's a package back here let's
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get this roped off the robbery had been
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perfectly executed
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almost when the gunman was dropped off
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across the street from the bank there
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were two witnesses that observed a male
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adult that was unusually
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dressed they thought at first that um
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since there was a bank in close
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proximity that possibly someone was
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having a a birthday party and they hired
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this person to do some type of uh gig
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for them inside of the bank when this
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person reached the van he took off a
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turban as well as dark sunglasses and a
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fake beard and mustache and the
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secondary thought that the male witness
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had was maybe this person had just
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robbed a
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bank however the two eyewitnesses were
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unable to provide police with a license
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plate number this case is still unsolved
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the statute of limitations has expired
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on the robbery but not on the kidnapping
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Witnesses describe the suspect as about
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6 feet tall and 160 lb the man has short
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cropped hair that is silver or salt and
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pepper in color if you have any
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information please log on to our website
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unsolved.com
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next a woman who provides shelter for
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homeless dogs is terrorized by a
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mysterious assment
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bonter
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Missouri this 110 Acre Farm is Mabel
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Wood's dream come true Mabel is a dog
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lover so much so that she set up a
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sanctuary in the country for dogs that
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would otherwise have been impounded and
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possibly put to
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sleep she built a $60,000 kennel to
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house her
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115 dogs the dogs were offered for
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adoption but those that didn't find new
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homes lived out their lives on the
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sanctuary Mabel felt that the farm was
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an ideal location because her nearest
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neighbors were over a mile away and
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would not be disturbed by the
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dogs but 18 months after she moved to
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the farm Mabel's peaceful life was
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shattered one night someone broke into
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her
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kennel the Intruder fired at least four
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rounds from a 22 caliber rifle killing
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two dogs and seriously wounding two
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others the next morning when I went up
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to open the kennel I found my dog's dead
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in the beginning I thought oh there's
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been a fight they killed each other but
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as I looked I I realized that they had
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been shot he was shot right in the nose
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it's it's a miracle that he's even
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living because he was laying in a pool
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of blood when I found him I was upset
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about it and I called the sheriff's
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office but I knew there was nothing
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really nothing that could be done at
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that point
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probably police investigated the
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shooting but because the killing of an
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animal is only a misdemeanor the case
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was given a low
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priority after the shooting Mabel hired
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a man named Charlie Jacobs to help out
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around the kennel Charlie moved into the
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guest house and doubled as a Hired Hand
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and night Watchman come there girls for
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two months nothing unusual happened
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Mabel and Charlie settled into a
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comfortable
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routine and then one night Charlie was
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in his kitchen when he noticed a bright
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orange glow through the
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window what the hell the Cel was on
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fire the fire bar on
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fire by the time Charlie reached the
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kennel it was engulfed in flames inside
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were 60 dogs they had no no way to
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escape that was awful Flames are real
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high there are a few yipes every once in
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a while the place is on fire I mean it's
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like a
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Inferno Charlie managed to pull only one
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dog from the Flames but could do nothing
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to save the others
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there was no reason for the kennel to
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burn because the kennel was so new the
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great deal of it was green
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Lumber I knew it had to be arson because
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the dogs were blazing which they would
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not have done without something put on
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13 the fire was so intense that it set
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off smoke alarms in homes over a mile
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away have you had any problems with
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anyone recently no haven't have you
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noticed anybody around the property that
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as I watched the kennel come down to the
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ground and realized that my dogs were
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all dead I just didn't realize why
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anyone would do
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that there just wasn't anything left
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except a few scraps of metal in the
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concrete the local volunteer fire
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department began an investigation
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we wanted to clean off the debris of the
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the barn to get a look at the
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floor we start to see a pattern that's
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called
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Spalding spalling occurs when a
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flammable substance is ignited on
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concrete the extreme heat causes the
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concrete to crack or erode this pattern
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is not normal in a fire it l to to the
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assumption that the fire was set with a
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flammable liquid
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we believe that night that the suspect
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entered the building through the door
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they used normally to get between the
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two rolls of
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pins he entered the building poured A
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flammable liquid Down the Walls as he
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went in the hallway led to a bigger open
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area at the far end he continued pouring
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the
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wall at that point there's probably when
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he lit it and then he took
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off 100 yd from where the kennel once
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stood police found a tire track in the
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mud left out in a hurry this track and
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the spalling patterns burnt into the
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kennel floor are the only evidence
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police have in this case let ready to we
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don't have any Le don't have any
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suspects that haven't been eliminated
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most of the people that you find in this
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part of the country are dog lovers we
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have dogs we have hunting dogs we care a
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lot about our dogs there's people in
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this County who would shoot you a whole
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lot quicker over their dog than they
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would to
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away within 10 months of the fire Mabel
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had built a new
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kennel Our concern for Mabel safety is
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an ongoing thing we keep an ey on that
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lady we keep an eye on her
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property despite this protection the
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harassment continued someone spread
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Nails across Mabel's driveway her house
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was shot at twice finally a warning was
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painted on Mabel's property it said
00:24:18
quiet or die there we go what we do but
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mael stood her
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ground I thought about it and I decided
00:24:28
this was a perfect Farm it's it's very
00:24:30
pretty I've got the creek which I love I
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decided I am not going to leave it is my
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farm I bought it paid for it and I'm
00:24:39
staying the person who burned down
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Mabel's kennel has never been caught and
00:24:44
the case is still open if you have any
00:24:47
information please log on to our website
00:24:50
at unsolved.com
00:24:55
next controversy surrounds a former NASA
00:24:58
scientist who claims he's found a vast
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untapped water supply in the middle of
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the Nevada
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desert deep in the desert of
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Nevada in
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1927 a prospector named Earl D was lured
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to this unforgiving Wilderness by an old
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Indian legend
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it told of a secret Cavern leading to an
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underground river that sparkled with
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nuggets of gold earldor was just crazy
00:25:37
enough to believe that he could find
00:25:41
it according to a story Earl later
00:25:43
published he and a friend eventually
00:25:45
found the secret opening and squeezed
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through
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it he described a treacherous 3500t
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descent into a murky underground Canyon
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where they found the legendary River
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Earl said they explored for 4 days they
00:26:04
followed the river for 8 Mi and found
00:26:06
vast amounts of gold what he's
00:26:10
describing is something like the world's
00:26:12
largest natural underground slle where
00:26:15
light rocks are carried away by the
00:26:17
water and the heavier minerals like your
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gold your Platinum Group Metals rare
00:26:22
earths would be settling out and
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concentrating so it's almost kind of a
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too good to be truth thing Earl claimed
00:26:30
that the rich black sand contained 100 o
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of gold per cubic yard but Earl had one
00:26:37
very big problem someone else owned the
00:26:40
land at the entrance to the cavern Earl
00:26:43
thought that he could find another way
00:26:45
in so he decided to close the original
00:26:50
opening but Earl never did find another
00:26:52
entrance to the underground river others
00:26:56
would follow in his path but the local
00:26:58
location of the legendary River seemed
00:27:00
lost
00:27:04
forever decades later a former NASA
00:27:07
scientist named Wally Spencer was
00:27:10
examining photographs of the Nevada
00:27:12
desert taken from
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space he spotted what he believed was an
00:27:17
ancient river Channel bone dry for 500
00:27:21
million years he believed that plants
00:27:24
would have flourished along such a river
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and over millions of years may have
00:27:29
decomposed into crude
00:27:31
oil power Wall-E built a prospecting
00:27:35
device from common laboratory
00:27:37
instruments he based his design on two
00:27:41
simple
00:27:43
facts first the Earth naturally emits a
00:27:47
low level of
00:27:48
radiation second a large subsurface pool
00:27:52
of liquids such as oil will block this
00:27:55
radiation Wall-E believed that as m
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radiation detector could find a hidden
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reservoir of
00:28:03
oil with the help of his wife and son
00:28:06
Wall-E put it to the test for 3 weeks
00:28:10
they bounced across the Sands waiting
00:28:12
for the device to react whoa barely stop
00:28:16
stop hold it hold it we went off scale I
00:28:18
don't know something happened we went
00:28:19
totally off scale he was hoping for oil
00:28:21
but further testing indicated that they
00:28:24
had actually found water perhaps the
00:28:27
same river Earl door had talked about
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half a century
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before it was very disappointing when we
00:28:35
found out it wasn't oil because once we
00:28:36
started Ming it looked like the river
00:28:39
and everybody says hey you found the
00:28:41
river you didn't find a pocket of oil
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very disappointing but it was so large
00:28:47
that it had to be
00:28:49
exciting Wally estimated the flow could
00:28:51
be an incredible 17 billion gallons a
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day there is enough water for 170
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gallons a day for 100 million
00:29:03
people now that has got to be something
00:29:06
that is extremely of interest to the
00:29:09
Western United States to Nevada to our
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nation as a
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whole in Nevada water is as precious as
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gold Wally Spencer was certain that he'
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discovered a Priceless Resource One that
00:29:23
promised to make him rich but Wally soon
00:29:26
found himself in a bureaucratic stand
00:29:28
off with the state of
00:29:30
Nevada Nevada law required that anyone
00:29:33
drilling for water had to First apply
00:29:35
for a permit and that meant revealing
00:29:38
the river's location before doing so
00:29:41
Wall-E asked the state officials to
00:29:43
guarantee that he would receive a
00:29:45
finder's fee even though the state would
00:29:48
own any water that he found however
00:29:52
authorities insisted that Wall-E apply
00:29:54
for a drilling permit just like anyone
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else no no promises no
00:30:01
guarantees if I filed for Appropriations
00:30:04
permit it could be denied on any kind of
00:30:06
whimsical notion the state has like not
00:30:09
in the best interest of the people or
00:30:11
not in the best interest of the state
00:30:13
they would own it I would have nothing
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there's nobody going to try to Rob him
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of his water rights there might be other
00:30:19
speculators out here that try to might
00:30:21
also claim but he has priority if he
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files the proper documentation and a
00:30:25
lawyer can help him do that you really
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think it's necessary to do Wally and his
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wife Beverly were concerned that others
00:30:32
might try to steal the secret of their
00:30:35
find they asked two experts to scan
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their house for
00:30:40
bugs according to WALL-E the
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sophisticated equipment picked up a bug
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on the phone
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line you see this kind of thing we're
00:30:49
talking
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about Wally and Beverly also say that
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the investigators found a high-tech
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listening device
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hidden in their living
00:31:01
room they were trying to probably find
00:31:03
out the location we never discuss the
00:31:06
location of the water it's not in our
00:31:09
vocabulary so I don't know who did it I
00:31:13
don't know why they did it but they
00:31:15
haven't gained from it scientists who
00:31:18
have worked with Wally believe that he
00:31:20
is totally credible though Nevada state
00:31:23
officials question his account he has
00:31:26
never revealed his technology he can't
00:31:28
show where the water's coming from he
00:31:30
can't show where the water's going and
00:31:32
he won't reveal the location so it's not
00:31:35
a lot different than the guy that's
00:31:37
walking around the desert with a willow
00:31:39
stick dousing for water or the guy
00:31:41
that's walking around the crust of the
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Earth with a turquoise bead on a gold
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chain witching for
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water Wally's one of the true scientist
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problem solvers that you can run into
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he's the type of guy that doesn't run to
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the textbook to pull out the equation to
00:31:56
solve the problem he takes Newton's
00:31:59
equations and he deres what he needs out
00:32:02
of them to solve the problem so he's a a
00:32:04
true scientist you know I'd like it to
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be true I mean I I don't think you'll
00:32:08
find anybody in Nevada that wants to
00:32:11
find Water Resources like uh like w has
00:32:14
described but you have to be practical
00:32:16
at the same time and the way to be
00:32:17
practical is just simple questions Wally
00:32:20
what have you found with that technology
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and the second thing is let me see
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it up
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Wally Spencer died in 2003 his wife
00:32:32
Beverly has since filed 16 water rights
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applications which are still pending
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Beverly remains convinced there are 20
00:32:41
million acre feet of water running under
00:32:44
the Nevada desert beginning in British
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Columbia and emptying into the Pacific
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Ocean is there a huge river flowing
00:32:53
beneath the desert in Nevada while some
00:32:55
say the idea is far-fetched
00:32:58
Wall's family believes it is only a
00:33:00
matter of time before they'll find
00:33:08
water next a police officer is shot in
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Cold Blood and a bullet hole in a burnt
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out car leads police to the
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killer Lee County Virginia
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in the early morning hours patrolman
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John Martin a 17-year veteran of the
00:33:34
sheriff's department is making his
00:33:36
regular rounds when he notices something
00:33:41
unusual 604 to
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Jones go ahead 604 I'll be checking a
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park vehicle out at the Western Lee
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County Health
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Clinic John Martin reported to our
00:33:55
dispatcher in Jonesville at 250 8 a.m.
00:33:58
on the morning of November 4 that he was
00:34:01
checking a car parked behind the Lee
00:34:03
County Health Clinic in y Virginia this
00:34:07
vehicle just pulled out on me and then
00:34:10
he came back and said that the car was
00:34:12
moving out on him and then he was
00:34:14
stopping it about halfway down the
00:34:17
driveway and that was the last
00:34:19
transmission that John Martin ever
00:34:23
made authorities believe that he left
00:34:25
his patrol car and approached the driver
00:34:27
ever to question him see your operator's
00:34:30
license
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00:34:51
please when I arrived at his location I
00:34:54
found officer Martin lying in the
00:34:56
driveway of the clinic
00:34:58
when I got to him he told me Doug I've
00:35:01
been shot and I'm hurt bad I contacted
00:35:03
the dispatcher and had a rescue squad
00:35:07
dispatched I knew the point when I found
00:35:10
him he was probably critically injured
00:35:12
and it was very important that I be able
00:35:14
to maintain the scene and to be able to
00:35:16
get what information I could from him
00:35:18
while he was conscious did you see who
00:35:20
did it or did you get a description of
00:35:22
the vehicle he was in his mid 20s had a
00:35:26
most t i' ask him about the automobile
00:35:28
and about the tag he could not read the
00:35:31
registration numbers from the tag but uh
00:35:34
he was able to give me a rough
00:35:35
description of the vehicle as a Buick
00:35:37
light brown or tan 1970 to 1977 perhaps
00:35:42
one of the large
00:35:43
Buicks Martin was able to give officer
00:35:46
Parson's one final piece of information
00:35:49
about the license plate it read Land of
00:35:52
Lincoln the motto for the state of
00:35:55
Illinois did you shoot into the car or
00:35:57
shoot any one yes I shot at the
00:36:01
vehicle he had advised me he had emptied
00:36:04
his gun into the
00:36:05
car I checked his weapon and it was
00:36:08
empty he had fired all six rounds from
00:36:10
his
00:36:11
revolver Martin was rushed to the
00:36:14
nearest hospital 22 Mi away he had been
00:36:17
shot three times doctors removed one 44
00:36:21
caliber bullet from his body but he
00:36:23
lapsed into a
00:36:25
coma 3 days later
00:36:28
John Martin
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00:36:33
died he was laid to rest with full
00:36:36
honors hundreds of local residents and
00:36:38
police officers from seven states came
00:36:41
to pay their final
00:36:43
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00:36:49
respects I just thought it wouldn't
00:36:52
happen to
00:36:53
him we had talked about it but it don't
00:36:56
feel real
00:36:59
out of this we're hoping that we can
00:37:01
possibly catch whoever done it that's
00:37:03
our main priority right now that's all
00:37:06
we
00:37:09
want the next day police in Effingham
00:37:12
Illinois impounded a stolen car burnt
00:37:15
almost beyond
00:37:16
recognition inside they discovered
00:37:18
evidence that indicated that this was
00:37:21
the car used in John Martin's killing
00:37:24
the key a bullet hole in the driver's
00:37:27
side door
00:37:30
authorities uncovered information that
00:37:32
linked a 24-year-old man named David
00:37:35
Wayne Mills to the car when Mills
00:37:38
arrived home he was
00:37:40
arrested during questioning Mills
00:37:43
revealed the location of the 44 caliber
00:37:46
pistol ballistics confirmed that it was
00:37:49
the gun that killed John
00:37:54
Martin
00:37:55
update a jury found David Wayne Mills
00:37:59
guilty of first-degree murder in the
00:38:01
shooting of John Martin during the trial
00:38:04
Mills claimed that an accomplice fired
00:38:06
the Fatal shots but the jury didn't buy
00:38:09
it David Wayne Mills was sentenced to
00:38:11
life in prison plus 15
00:38:19
years on a previous broadcast we
00:38:22
profiled a young English woman named
00:38:25
dilia
00:38:26
fani when deia was 18 years old and
00:38:29
unmarried she gave birth to a baby and
00:38:32
named her Michelle deia's father
00:38:35
insisted that she stay at a Convent
00:38:37
until her baby was
00:38:39
adopted 2 weeks after Michelle was born
00:38:42
deia's parents visited the convent D
00:38:46
hoped that once her father saw the baby
00:38:48
that he would let dilia keep her but he
00:38:51
wouldn't even look at his
00:38:53
granddaughter in the end deia had no
00:38:56
choice but to give give up Michelle for
00:39:00
adoption you've only got 30 minutes to
00:39:02
say goodbye what you try to do is look
00:39:06
at her face to burn the impression into
00:39:09
your mind but you're feeling her body
00:39:13
because that was the last time you going
00:39:14
to see
00:39:17
her one minute I had a baby next minute
00:39:21
it was
00:39:23
gone two photographs were all that deily
00:39:26
had to remember Michelle and she never
00:39:29
stopped trying to locate
00:39:31
her deia eventually learned that her
00:39:34
daughter had been renamed Laura an
00:39:37
adoption official agreed to send her a
00:39:39
note that dilia had written in the brief
00:39:42
message deia asked Laura to watch her
00:39:44
story on Unsolved Mysteries on a chilly
00:39:48
spring evening in 1964 deia F sat in her
00:39:52
face in New York Mills New York on the
00:39:54
evening of our broadcast deia's daughter
00:39:57
Laura Franklin was
00:40:00
watching that was just the way they did
00:40:02
things they just there she is left the
00:40:05
responsibility to go when I found out my
00:40:08
birth mother was searching for me it was
00:40:10
pretty touching to know that she had
00:40:11
looked that far um to try to find me if
00:40:16
you have any information please call our
00:40:18
toll-free number after the broadcast
00:40:20
Laura contacted our phone center and
00:40:23
asked to be put in touch with dilia
00:40:27
a few weeks later Laura her husband
00:40:29
their two children and many friends
00:40:31
assembled to greet deia after a long
00:40:34
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00:40:37
flight it was a lot of anticipation a
00:40:39
lot of what she going to think when she
00:40:41
sees me and um what is she going through
00:40:44
right
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00:40:55
now God
00:41:00
she was everything and more that I'd
00:41:03
expected absolutely
00:41:07
everything she's a beautiful
00:41:09
girl proud of
00:41:12
her before Laura's adoptive mother died
00:41:15
she had shared all she knew about
00:41:17
Laura's background dilia and Laura could
00:41:20
now fill in the remaining gaps in the
00:41:23
nearly 30 years of family history
00:41:27
finding my birth mother now I don't
00:41:30
think has really changed my life as much
00:41:32
as it has probably enhanced it because
00:41:34
now I can find out some about my past
00:41:36
and my history and things that I never
00:41:37
thought that I would ever find out
00:41:40
about I can't replace her mother but I'd
00:41:44
like to think that I could be pretty
00:41:48
close this reunion was only the
00:41:51
beginning Laura and her family also made
00:41:54
plans to travel to England to spend time
00:41:56
with de IA and her many other new
00:42:01
relatives many of the other cases are
00:42:03
not yet resolved if you have any
00:42:06
information about any of the stories
00:42:08
profiled on this program please log on
00:42:10
to our website at unsolved.com
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