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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast
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may 9th 1986 Arizona State Prison
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Patrick Michael Mitchell and two cohorts
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staged a daring escape in broad daylight
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since then Mitchell is suspected of
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robbing five banks at nearly 1 million
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dollars and has earned a spot on the
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FBI's ten most wanted list 60 years ago
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in Ohio an 8-year old farm boy was
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disowned by his step parents and left to
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fend for himself during the Depression
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today Victor Shimon is still looking for
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his real family and needs your help from
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Nevada an eerie tale of two families in
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one haunted house one of the families
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claims they took this picture of a
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benevolent ghost the other family claims
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of their spirits tormented them also the
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FBI is asking for your help to track
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down a master contact was suspected of
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brutally murdering his wife and two
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stepdaughters jointly perhaps you can
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help solve a mystery
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December 14th 1987 8:30 a.m.
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nobody man wearing Ronald Reagan masks
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held up a bank in Gainesville Florida
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the bank had not yet open division
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employees were marking in the weekend
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deposits in less than five minutes the
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two robbers made off nearly half a
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million dollars working with similar mos
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the FBI targeted Richard Joseph Landry
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alias Michael garrison Delius Roger
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lanthorn they all turned out to be the
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same man Patrick Michael Mitchell one of
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the most skilled bank robbers in the
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country during the last 15 years is
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heist have netted close to three million
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dollars Patrick Michael Mitchell is an
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escape artist
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master of disguise he changes identities
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like most men change shirts
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each time he robs a bank he wears a
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different comic mask Ronald Reagan
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Richard Nixon even Bozo the Clown the
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FBI believes a master of Mitchell's way
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of thumbing his nose at Authority today
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after 14 bank robberies in the United
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States and Canada and two prison escapes
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Mitchell is a newest addition to the
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FBI's ten most wanted list I guess you
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could best describe him as being
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confident he's even the vane to a
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certain extent and the
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we believe him to have taken the
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prescription drug of retin-a which
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supposedly helps your keeps your
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youthful appearance he's been described
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as having an athletic build
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he likes the ladies he fancies himself
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as a gourmet cook a matter of fact we've
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even recovered some cookbooks from the
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trunk of one of his cars
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so far we've developed at least 25
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different aliases he's used in the past
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11 years in 1983 Patrick Mitchell was
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given a 20-year sentence at Arizona
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State Prison for bank robbery on May 9th
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1986 he and two other prisoners assigned
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a janitorial duties staged a bold escape
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it is a meticulously planned and
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precisely timed by Mitchell himself
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none of the guards notice that the three
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men were missing no alarms have been
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sent
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wearing street clothes had hidden in a
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utility three convicts simply walked
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outside
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a girlfriend of one of the prisoners was
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waiting for them she had been duped into
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believing that the men were on a weekend
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furlough he escaped cut off without a
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hitch
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one of the men would eventually be
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arrested in Atlanta Georgia Patrick
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Michael Mitchell with a third escapee
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Johnny Salazar Stewart headed for
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Gainesville Florida they come into a
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town a month or two in advance they come
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in on several occasions stay at local
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hotels and motels we believe either by
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staking out department stores or armored
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car services they then determine when
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and where they will make their hit the
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way I see it our car gets there between
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15 and 20 now watch him go in the fall
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of 1987 Patrick Mitchell and Johnny
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Stewart began planning a robbery in
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Gainesville
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Mitchell rented a self storage unit with
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a good view of both the bank they
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intended to rob and the armored car
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company that served the bank
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Mitchell pretended to load and unload
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boxes from the storage unit while he
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observed the routine operating movements
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of the armored car company
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Patrick Mitchell never went inside the
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bank himself instead he said Johnny
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Stewart to scout the interior actually
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it's a pretty good idea this individual
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after they open the account has a
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legitimate reason for being in the bank
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so there will be no questions for an
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individual an individual who has an
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account they're walking around looking
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around and conversing with the different
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customers and employees he can also be
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there when deliveries are made by the
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armored car services possibly where you
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can see actually what they're doing and
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how they're doing it after the
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deliveries are made 7:30 a.m. a day of
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the robbery
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Mitchell Stewart meet at the self
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storage facility
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750 am the bank employees begin filing
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in to prepare for business hours
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the bank will open in 1 hour and 10
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minutes 8 a.m. the armored car leaves to
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pick up deposits from several nearby
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stores 810 the Gainesville Police
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operator receives a bomb tell me what
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time it's gonna go off is target a
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junior high school in Northeast and
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Wayne Police District is the bank hello
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8:22 the armored car guards arrive at
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the bank swelling as total deposits on
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hand a $300,000
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simultaneously patrol cars are
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dispatched to the site of the bottom 32
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blocks from the bike police now believe
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that Patrick Mitchell owned in the false
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alarm is a diversionary tactic 825
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million Mitchell is Stuart make their
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move
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[Applause]
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where are the money bags that the
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armored truck just hopped out
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I was thinking he's either done shoot
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somebody or he's gonna take someone
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hostage I was very frightened
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I remembered laying on the floor in the
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back I kept thinking I'll never see my
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husband or my children again I started
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to cry I remember thinking that I was he
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was gonna shoot me in the back
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[Music]
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this is the bomb nobody move but it
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won't go off
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as the two men flee Mitchell drops a bag
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containing $28,000 nevertheless there
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take for the day as nearly half a
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million dollars a bomb is a phony man it
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buys valuable escape time
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8:40 a.m. a woman who works at the
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storage facility sees Mitchell drive
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away black full of clothes hung across
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the backseat it is the last sighting of
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Patrick Michael Mitchell engagement
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two months after the Gainesville robbery
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Johnny Salazar Stewart was apprehended
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despite his innocent plea he was tried
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and convicted for his role in the
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robbery in his today serving a 40-year
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sentence a year after the robbery
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Patrick Mitchell's Cadillac was found
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abandoned in a storage facility in
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Tallahassee 150 miles from Gainesville
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the car was clean of evidence but
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Mitchell did leave nine cookbooks in the
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back seat during the last two years
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Mitchell has been cited in Texas Georgia
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and Alabama however he is Canadian and
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authorities believe he could have
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returned to Canada his last known alias
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was Johnny grant I think it's imperative
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that we find Patrick Michael Mitchell
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because I don't believe that he'll be
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stopping with the Gainesville robbery
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based on his previous activities in the
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past eleven years and his hit frequency
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I believe that it's not if he's gonna
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hit but when he's gonna hit
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next the poignant saga of a little boy
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torn from his family during the
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Depression perhaps you could help
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reunite him with his brothers and
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sisters dillonvale oh ohio 1929 the
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darkest days of the Great Depression for
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an eight year old farm boy named Frank
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the hard times common to all Americans
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were especially cool
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I had the chickens to feed and the grass
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to cotton chores to do and of course I
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was busy I didn't mind that so much
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except I'd like to benefit afterward
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both or as far back as he can remember
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Frank's hardships what beyond his
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thankless children have you fed the
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chickens yet what have you been doing
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you're such a lazy boy this whole barn
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has to be clean this new hair was I went
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so hungry the smell of food made me sick
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no supper for you I wasn't allowed in
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the house sleep at the barn most of the
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time or with the dog I was bitter angry
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and very upset young man say the least
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by age 9 Frank's life had completely
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disintegrated his parents informed him
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that he wasn't even their son and
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ordered him off the farm and out of
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their lives
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Frank was told that his real Paris
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didn't want him either they had turned
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him over to the state welfare department
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just days after he was born
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Frank was left to fend for himself he
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had no family and no idea who he really
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was
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the search for a missing family and
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one's true identity can be a difficult
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ordeal many times years of research and
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with disappointment and the dust-covered
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files of some County Record Department
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but those who do succeed the solution
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can sometimes be more painful than the
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quest on a child discovers he was
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abandoned by parents who simply didn't
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care this was a fear that haunted nine
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year old Frank who searched for the
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truth that lasts more than half a
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century after being put out of his home
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Frank was shuffled from state
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institutions to foster families and back
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again I was a ward of the state of Ohio
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I ate the soup kitchens
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I stole food off in front of stores just
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a nod I was not a thief
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I didn't know anything about my parents
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I was told all types of stories like the
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family deserted me I just was lost Frank
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Frank
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as a teenager Frank's troubles continued
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did you hear my question did you read
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your homework class believes that his
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birth parents had willfully abandoned
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him left Frank dispirited and aimless
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Frank this is the third time in two
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weeks you're going to stay after school
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and write the entire chapter on pronouns
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until you finish what at 16 his life
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took an unexpected turn a concerned
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social worker confirmed that Frank was
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not his real name he had been born
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Viktor Shimon the counselor also made a
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promise if Frank applied himself in
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state in schools his real parents would
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be in the audience when he received his
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diploma they told me my name was Victor
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Shimon I had a family that he would see
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that my parents and that would be there
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on my graduation day and I buckled down
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went to work the day Frank had worked so
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hard for finally came he was going to
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meet his real offender
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Frank asked that he officially be
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graduated Victor shiner is the first
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time we used his real name
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Victor Shimon
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I thought my parents were in the
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audience they would hear the name and
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they would receive
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[Applause]
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nobody showed up Andy Robinson and what
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turned out to be the sorriest days of my
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life
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I wrote to these Bureau of charities
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welfare departments state of Ohio and
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the answer they got that I received that
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nothing could be found they knew very
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little and that my family had just
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disappeared without a trace so I gave up
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[Music]
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at a complete dead end Victor had no
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choice but to move ahead with his life
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in the 1950s he married Eleanor Kel
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started a family of his own for 34 years
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Victor all but abandoned the hope of
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finding his family but in 1984 Victor
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learned of an organization in
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Reynoldsburg Ohio called
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reunite a support group for people
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searching for lost loved ones an old
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school chum told me about this group and
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I thought well what have I got to lose a
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little bit of time I can spare that so I
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went and I was very amazed my name is
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Victor Shimon I was born September the
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5th 1921 in Alliance Ohio Victor told
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the group the story of his child other
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my that evening he met amateur
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genealogist Rose Murphy searching for
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them this man has spent his entire life
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60 plus years without any knowledge of
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his history and I couldn't believe that
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that could be true and it just it
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wouldn't cost credence to everything I
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believe in because I think everyone has
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the right to their history Rose Murphy
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was determined to find Victor's family
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and solve the puzzle which had eluded
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Victor his entire life she began sifting
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through a labyrinth of State adoption
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records County Welfare files and old
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newspapers incredibly less than a week
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later she discovered the obituary of a
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Hungarian immigrant named Lena Sherman
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Lena had died in 1921
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just hours after giving birth to her
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11th child the baby's name Victor and I
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contacted a Hungarian language professor
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he said that he would venture to guess
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and would probably be right that the
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family name was actually Simon a common
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Hungarian family name but pronounced by
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a Hungarian spoken person and heard by
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an English ear would be spelled as
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Shimon or Shimon or any other forms of
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spelling depending upon the person
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hearing it within 20 minutes I had
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located Victor's original birth
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certificate
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that had sit here for 64 years they
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hadn't caught it because they're
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searching for it as the shimon family
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rather than the simon family information
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found in the obituary and birth
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certificate enabled rose to reconstruct
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the events surrounding Victor's birth
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Victor's father Dan Simon had worked for
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the railroad reliance Ohio just 100
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miles from where Victor had grown up
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just before Victor's birth a tragic
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series of events was set into motion
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that would separate him from his family
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[Music]
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[Music]
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bones and Dan Simon's ankle were
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shattered he was rushed to the hospital
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[Music]
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that afternoon Dan's wife Lena went into
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labor push that's it gotta help me I can
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imagine a tremendous struggle going on
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physically as well as emotionally in
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that room as Molina gave life to Victor
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and lost her own in the process
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I will fear no evil for thou art with me
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thy rod and thy staff according to her
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obituary mr. Selim was taken from the
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hospital to the field north with this
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broken ago the father being totally
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unable to care for the child
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woof replace the child for foster care
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and in fact indicated in their records
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that the father agreed to that foster
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care only with great regret well here he
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is strong and healthy boy his name is
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picked it he decided to call me Frank
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Frank I feel very strongly that his
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father returned to welfare after yubico
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operated and was out of the hospital and
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such at all you have my son Victor Simon
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I want my son back he could very
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possibly have been told we don't have
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anybody by that name which they didn't
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have they had a Victor Emmanuel Shimon
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they didn't have a Victor Simon in their
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records
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[Music]
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Victor Shimon can take comfort in
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knowing that he was not truly an
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unwanted child but rather a victim of an
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unlikely conspiracy of events however
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several pieces to the puzzle of his life
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are still missing I hope that I meet
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some member of my family to know that
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I'm along I want to know what happened I
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want my children to have their side of
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the family i chronicles brothers sisters
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and so on I just want to see somebody
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and talk to somebody that I belonged
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[Music]
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when we return a brutal attack leaves a
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mother and her two daughters dead a
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woman's husband wanted for murder
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[Music]
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Las Vegas city of big dreams and high
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rollers this desert town has attracted
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every kind of crook and con man
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however during the last decade dry
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climate and limitless entertainment have
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also begun to attract a large retirement
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community Frank Allen a Los Angeles
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businessman bought his dream a time at
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home in 1986 it was located in elegant
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gated community ten miles from downtown
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Las Vegas
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[Music]
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as a temporary measure he rented the
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house to another family maintaining a
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room for himself as well for his
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frequent business trips to Nevada but
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Frank Allen had no idea that Joe Smith
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the man who was renting his house had an
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unsavory past Joe Weldon Smith who
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called himself a real estate investor
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had a long history as a con man had had
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once been convicted of attempted grand
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theft he lived in the Nevada house with
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his wife Judith and her two daughters
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from a previous marriage 12 year-old
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Kristi and 20 year-old Wendy
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on October 6 1993 Kalyn expected to have
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the house to himself Joe Smith has said
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that he and his family would be out of
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town for a few days instead of a restful
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weekend Alan had stepped into a
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nightmare
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now I locked the door behind me and went
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up at the top of the steps and unlocked
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the bedroom and went in I started
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undressing took off my jacket shirt tie
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and suddenly stopped in my track and
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said something is wrong I said I don't
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know what it is but something is wrong
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[Music]
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Joe I grabbed him at the wrist on that
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arm his right arm and that's when I
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shook him and I said Joe what in the
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hell are you trying to do and then it
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was clear to me that he was trying to
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murder me
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coming down the steps I said now I've
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locked myself in with these double dead
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bolts and I don't have time to reach for
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a key so I ran across the four years
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into the living room dining room and
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sure enough he went the opposite
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direction to hit me up in the kitchen
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and I doubled back for the front
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I still didn't think I had time to
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fumble for key so I went straight
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through the door he stood in the door
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and glared at me and then walk back
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direction of the bar and I drove my car
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up to the guard gate and said to the
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guard call the police there's a man in
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my house
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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ten minutes later local police arrived
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at the house expecting to find Joe Smith
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still inside they quickly made their way
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from the living room to a downstairs
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bedroom they thought they had cornered
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Joe Smith hiding under a blanket instead
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they were confronted with a tragic scene
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twelve-year-old Christy Kong's miss
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deputy announced that she had been
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strangled and bludgeoned to death
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it was obvious that she had been dead
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for quite some time she had several
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wounds to the face into her head in the
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next bedroom they forcefully on her dad
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also and that's when Wendy Cox was found
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laying beside the bed she had
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approximately 32 wounds to get another
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one and hands defensive wounds to her
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hands and she had also been strangled
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officers went upstairs searched the open
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rooms the game room and so forth and
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then went to the master bedroom and
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heard that the doors were closed they
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entered that bedroom and that's when
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they found you the Smith lying in the
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bed
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Judah Smith Joe's wife and mother of the
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two girls had also been bludgeoned to
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death
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police later determined by the
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coffee-room victims have been dead for
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approximately 18 hours
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hello two hours after the bodies were
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discovered Smith telephoned his wife's
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daughter and lost Joe he denied all
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involvement in the murders Joe what's
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going on it's after 4:00 in the morning
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are you sitting down yeah approximately
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4:30 in the morning yep on October 6
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call her on the phone told her that her
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mother and sisters had been murdered and
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he had killed one of the people that did
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their killing and knew who the other
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ones were where are you it doesn't
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matter where I am right now you just
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have to believe I had nothing to do with
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it I don't kill myself who did it I know
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who they are and I'm gonna kill them
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I my opinion it was a ruse by mr. Smith
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to get support from Judah Smith's family
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members and make them believe that he
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was not involved in the killings Joe
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Smith fled in a gold Lincoln Continental
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with vanity Nevada license plates
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reading Smitty too he is wanted on three
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counts of murder and one count of
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attempted murder with a deadly weapon
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Smith is fifty years old six feet tall
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and weighs a hundred and sixty pounds he
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has brown hair and brown eyes he may be
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working in real estate
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police are still puzzled by what appears
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to have been a motiveless crime by all
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accounts of Smith's marriage was a happy
00:28:21
one though Joe Smith was in dire
00:28:23
financial straits he was not named in
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his wife's will nor did he have life
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insurance policies for her or her
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daughters authorities believe Smith may
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now be somewhere in the southwestern
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United States or Mexico
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just minutes after we profile Smith's
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case an anonymous viewer called our
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telecenter to report that the fugitive
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was living near Los Angeles California
00:28:47
Smith was hiding out at this motel but
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managed to escape before he could be
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apprehended once we establish that Joe
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Will and Smith was in the Los Angeles
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area we focused our attention to his
00:29:00
brother Willie we know that he had close
00:29:02
contact with after five days of
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surveilling this brother
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we established where the suspect was
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residing 20 minutes later Joe Weldon
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Smith was arrested at another local
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motel where he was registered under an
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assumed name inside Smith's room
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detectives recovered several credit and
00:29:23
identification cards Smith told police
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that he was in the process of creating a
00:29:28
new identity at the time of his arrest
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Joe Smith indicated to me that he had
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seen the last airing of the unsolved
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mystery program he also told me that it
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was very tough being a fugitive and he
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always knew that someone be knocking at
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the door one day is kind of glad it's
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all over at this point
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next former residents claim that this
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house is harmed but are the spirits
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friendly evil just a figment of
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overactive imaginations in the tiny
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hamlet of fish Springs Nevada stands a
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120 year old Kansas town farmhouse it
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was originally built next to a graveyard
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in Virginia City and has been moved
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three times some people find it very odd
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that the house has managed to survive
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for more than a century others believe
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the explanation is simple
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they say this house is haunted I'd like
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to see it destroyed I think it is a
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center point for spirits the house is
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something keeping it alive and I'd like
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to see it burn to the ground
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I've always loved older homes and I'm
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fascinated by them by their building and
00:31:04
and the fact that they have so much
00:31:06
history that they've withstood all that
00:31:08
time I just feel like they have the
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memory of
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just like people they can remember the
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past and things that have happened there
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there's something about haunted houses
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that even the most skeptical among us
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finds difficult to resist perhaps it's
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because they bring back childhood
00:31:35
memories of things that go bump in the
00:31:37
night or perhaps he just liked a good
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ghost story this is a tale of two
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families at Kelsey's and their offenses
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both families believe they had
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supernatural encounters while they lived
00:31:47
in the Nevada house but the end result
00:31:50
would be very different for each is this
00:31:52
a story of a congenial and well-meaning
00:31:54
spirit is it the tale of a fearsome
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poltergeist or is it simply a tale you
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no doubt have an opinion of your own the
00:32:06
Kelsey family bought the house on their
00:32:08
second 1978 100 years to the day after
00:32:12
the man who built it had died from the
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beginning there was something eerie
00:32:17
about the house I felt like we had
00:32:20
gotten more than we bargained for and I
00:32:23
wouldn't walk through the house in the
00:32:24
dark at all for feared that I was gonna
00:32:26
run into something something that wasn't
00:32:29
supposed to be there
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just as you're getting to sleep he would
00:32:38
hear footsteps walking up and down the
00:32:40
stairs what's wrong my husband would
00:32:44
tell me that he heard a swishing noise
00:32:46
like the rustle of the old chiffon
00:32:48
skirts was how he described it sounds
00:32:51
like swishing we got really scared or I
00:32:54
did anyway thinking that either there
00:32:56
really was something happening in the
00:32:58
house or we had just seen too many scary
00:33:00
movies and my imagination was running
00:33:02
wild because it was an old house
00:33:08
the Kelsey's daughter Jennifer who is
00:33:10
then four years old had an even more
00:33:13
bizarre experience
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I just woken up first for some reason
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away and everybody rolled over and I
00:33:22
looked at my bedroom door and I saw this
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little boy if he looked when she was sad
00:33:29
and the man he just looked like he was
00:33:34
really concerned and I was just only
00:33:36
there for a few seconds but then it just
00:33:38
like disappeared I was worried they
00:33:41
didn't look familiar to me at all but
00:33:42
the way they were looking at me just
00:33:44
seemed like they knew me it's just
00:33:46
really weird
00:33:48
for some reason I keep thinking that the
00:33:50
levitation was the same night but I saw
00:33:53
him is for some reason I just combined
00:33:55
the two together and remember right but
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I just remember laying there and my bed
00:33:59
seemed like the whole bed mystic
00:34:01
floating after Jennifer told me what had
00:34:06
happened I was very scared that things
00:34:10
were starting to happen that not aren't
00:34:13
supposed to happen normally and I told
00:34:16
my husband about it and he asked me if
00:34:20
she was actually levitated and I said
00:34:22
from what she was saying that's what it
00:34:23
sounded like Jim and Susan Kelsey often
00:34:29
heard strange footsteps approaching
00:34:31
their daughter's bedroom they were
00:34:33
concerned for her safety
00:34:36
in desperation but Kelsey's decided to
00:34:39
call in the local man Daniel Martin who
00:34:41
had a reputation as a psychic when I
00:34:45
first talked to mrs. Kalsi she was more
00:34:48
concerned confused because she didn't
00:34:52
understand what was happening
00:34:54
after visiting the house Martin returned
00:34:57
to his home and put himself into a deep
00:34:59
trance incredibly Martin says that while
00:35:03
he was in the trance he met the Kelsey's
00:35:05
ghost
00:35:07
I contacted an entity appeared to me as
00:35:12
a as a sailing man very much that's what
00:35:14
came to my mind he had the mustache and
00:35:16
at that time I asked him who are you and
00:35:21
he told me his name was Samuel and he
00:35:24
told me at the time that the purpose his
00:35:26
purpose there was to protect the child
00:35:28
and he was there not to harm anybody
00:35:32
when I explained to him that he was
00:35:34
frightening the family and Samuel
00:35:38
promised not to do these things in the
00:35:39
future not to frighten them by doing
00:35:42
frightening things to them Jennifer
00:35:45
asked me she said does that mean he's
00:35:47
going away and I said I don't know and
00:35:50
then a couple weeks later things had
00:35:52
quieted down and she asked me if he had
00:35:54
moved away and I said I didn't know and
00:35:56
she said well I don't think he did she
00:35:58
says I think he's up in the attic
00:36:00
counties became convinced that they're
00:36:03
ghosts
00:36:03
Sam England was a spirit who meant them
00:36:05
no harm three years later in 1981 they
00:36:10
moved to a more modern house nearby the
00:36:12
old home was leased to a potential buyer
00:36:15
by now the Kelsie's had three children
00:36:18
including an infant son when my son was
00:36:26
seven weeks old I had taken some
00:36:28
pictures of him and I'd run out of flash
00:36:30
and I had the rest of the roll of film
00:36:31
to use up and so I decided to try to get
00:36:34
the pictures taken of him anyway and I
00:36:37
propped him up on the love seat next to
00:36:39
the lamp and some stuffed animals around
00:36:41
him and proceeded to take the rest of
00:36:43
the roll of film figuring there should
00:36:45
be enough light when I went to pick the
00:36:50
pictures up I opened him up and I pulled
00:36:52
him out and there was a man on the first
00:36:55
picture
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and I thought these aren't my pictures
00:36:59
so I went through them and after that
00:37:01
initial picture everything in there the
00:37:03
role was of my son and I checked my
00:37:06
negative and the man was on it the only
00:37:11
way I can explain that photograph is
00:37:14
that it is of Argo Samuel because my
00:37:16
daughter had told me about three weeks
00:37:18
earlier that she felt that he had moved
00:37:20
with us and I didn't believe her and I
00:37:23
just saw the picture of a minute was his
00:37:26
way of telling us that he had in fact
00:37:28
moved with us that was the only
00:37:29
explanation there was the mysterious
00:37:33
photograph became front-page news and
00:37:35
fish springs interestingly nobody in
00:37:38
town recognized the man in the picture
00:37:42
unsolved mysteries brought in
00:37:44
photographic expert Vernon Miller to
00:37:46
analyze the snapshot I can't say
00:37:50
precisely how this image was formed
00:37:52
there's not enough evidence the image is
00:37:56
three-dimensional and has reflected
00:37:59
qualities
00:37:59
where the skin is tight against the
00:38:01
skull it's brighter and there's
00:38:02
highlights there a manifestation of the
00:38:05
ghost is usually thought of as
00:38:07
transparent or self illuminant and this
00:38:09
is definitely reflected light I detected
00:38:12
lines horizontal lines across the
00:38:17
in conclusion I would say that Samuels
00:38:20
ghost was made off of a large television
00:38:23
screen the picture of Samuel is not a
00:38:27
fake there's a lot of things that can't
00:38:30
be explained and I just think this is
00:38:32
one of them I know I can't explain how
00:38:34
somebody came out in my picture that
00:38:36
wasn't there when I when I snapped it
00:38:39
the Kelsie's insists they have never
00:38:41
photographed their television screen
00:38:43
could the picture be a simple accident
00:38:46
even a hoax or could it really be a
00:38:49
ghost for 15 months the new tenants of
00:38:54
the fish Springs house reported nothing
00:38:55
out of the ordinary but then in October
00:38:59
of 1989 the house was rented to another
00:39:01
family
00:39:05
Steve and Mona Robison knew nothing
00:39:07
about the houses ghostly past soon
00:39:10
Howard the Robinson family was caught up
00:39:12
in the middle of its very own ghost
00:39:14
story
00:39:15
I felt that there was ghosts in the
00:39:19
house but then I kept telling myself no
00:39:21
and things started happening more and
00:39:25
more the footsteps the bangs I'd bring
00:39:30
it up to Steve once in a while and he
00:39:33
would say no there's got to be some
00:39:35
reason why all this is happening you
00:39:39
know it's an old house we even thought
00:39:43
about pipes you know we thought of all
00:39:45
kinds of things
00:39:47
the Robinsons became extremely concerned
00:39:50
when their 11 year old son Garret began
00:39:52
to have frightening experiences
00:39:58
I started hearing voices upstairs like
00:40:02
indoors walk-in bangs and stuff
00:40:09
after I heard the laughing I went up to
00:40:11
the top of the stairs herself was scared
00:40:15
dog cuz I heard his footsteps turday
00:40:23
walking around the wings
00:40:29
I started coming three different three
00:40:33
different voices higher one
00:40:37
I barely ran out the door when I got out
00:40:44
I nose inside my driveway there was all
00:40:48
this banging you know the screen door
00:40:50
and then so as I looked over to the
00:40:56
window and I saw this old guy didn't get
00:41:00
his very nose with a smoky friend like a
00:41:05
real mean one like it could be me
00:41:09
six-year-old miles was the next child to
00:41:12
fall under the spell of the house got
00:41:21
lifted up pretty high
00:41:25
and I didn't know what was happening
00:41:30
I just got lifted up Wyatt told my
00:41:36
husband then that I didn't want to live
00:41:39
there and he said well he goes they're
00:41:43
not gonna hurt us he wasn't afraid
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00:41:49
finally Mona Robinson reached the end of
00:41:52
her rope my husband and I were getting
00:41:57
ready to go to bed and I couldn't sleep
00:41:59
and I could hear bangs in the hallway
00:42:03
like coming down the stairs then all of
00:42:06
a sudden I heard right behind my bed and
00:42:09
a man's voice call me [ __ ]
00:42:17
it was a bad voice mad angry I thought
00:42:25
you know that she was going nuts but at
00:42:30
the same time I believed her she refused
00:42:35
to go to bed she was always afraid and
00:42:37
once we got into bed the noises at start
00:42:40
so she'd stay up all night long I
00:42:44
thought what they were trying to try me
00:42:46
crazy I would never believe anybody that
00:42:51
told me what has happened to me I
00:42:54
wouldn't believe I do believe now
00:42:59
because we had it happen to us you never
00:43:01
believed anything like that until it
00:43:03
happens to you January 31st 1990 bobbins
00:43:09
has moved out of the house less than
00:43:11
four months after they had moved in the
00:43:14
Cal C's who still owned the house once
00:43:16
again called in Daniel Martin
00:43:19
once again he put himself into a trance
00:43:22
once again he claimed he met ghosts this
00:43:26
time different ones that time I
00:43:33
encountered three entities two men and
00:43:36
one woman my first impression is when I
00:43:39
approached these entities were that they
00:43:41
were of the Virginia City ere are back
00:43:43
in the old days these entities were not
00:43:47
destructive they were just cantankerous
00:43:49
kind of a rowdy little gang of
00:43:52
troublemakers had been and still was
00:43:55
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00:43:56
martin says he asked the spirits to
00:43:58
leave the house but it was too late to
00:44:00
do the Robinsons any good they were
00:44:02
already settled in a new home far away
00:44:05
from hauntings and poltergeists
00:44:11
most of us this sucker sounds incredible
00:44:13
that Kelsey's in the Robinsons take it
00:44:15
very seriously it is interesting to note
00:44:18
that last year the Kelsey sold the house
00:44:20
to a couple with two children who bought
00:44:22
with full knowledge of the stories of
00:44:24
spirits and haunting the new owners have
00:44:26
been in the home for eight months and
00:44:28
have reported no unusual phenomena
00:44:30
perhaps ghosts like many other things
00:44:33
exist only in the eye of the beholder
00:44:35
perhaps on our next unsolved mysteries
00:44:48
for a lonely Widow Mary Kessler is like
00:44:51
a dream come true
00:44:52
charming elegant and cosmopolitan he has
00:44:55
a perfect qualities for potential
00:44:56
husband and a master con man his
00:44:59
elaborate schemes have allegedly netted
00:45:01
more than $150,000 in at least four
00:45:04
vulnerable women authorities are
00:45:06
convinced that his list of victims is
00:45:08
much longer and still growing
00:45:11
join me for our next edition bonne saw
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mysteries
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