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tonight on unsolved mysteries Brook
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Baker was a reporter for her campus
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newspaper a small-town girl with
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big-time ambitions what was it about her
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life that led to this brutal attack it
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is one of the strangest stories we've
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encountered people who call themselves
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walkins and claim their bodies have been
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inhabited in fact taken over by abating
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spirits could it be that walk-ins are
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walking among us it had all the signs of
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a tragic accident until police found
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evidence of an elaborate setup
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cold-blooded murder now this man stands
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accused of killing his own wife but he
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insists that he is innocent but a
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terrifying accident left Wilma Dru
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unconscious and trapped in her car death
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seemed inevitable then salvation arrived
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in the form of an unknown Good Samaritan
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now Wilma needs your help to thank the
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man who saved her life
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20 years ago a young Korean woman said
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goodbye to a GI husband and her daughter
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then boarded a train and for some
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unknown reason never came back since
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then her daughter has grown up married
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and hopes of someone watching tonight
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can reunite her with her long-lost
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daughter
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery or perhaps you may
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encounter one us simply cannot be
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explained
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every autumn
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thousands of parents send their sons and
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daughters off to college assuming
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they'll be safe and on their way to a
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bright future the parents of a young
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woman named Brook Baker thought exactly
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that they were wrong her campus
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experience proved fatal
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Brook Baker the college sophomore
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stabbed to death in her own bed just
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half a block off campus police in
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Vincennes Indiana started their
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investigation certain the case would be
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solved easily but more than a year later
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Brookes killer remains unidentified okay
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how about the right shoulder obsessed
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with it I can't live without justice for
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Burke I can't go on with my own life
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that's all like a drink more justice who
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killed Brooke Baker of the many theories
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police are pursuing several point to a
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direct link between Brookes life and her
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brutal murder was that angry fraternity
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brothers out for revenge a psychopath
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posing as a potential roommate or
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perhaps Brookes landlord he allegedly
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watched her closely then there's a
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puzzle of Brookes cousin does she know
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something she hasn't told police to me
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the real key in solving this case is
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gonna be when we answer the question who
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was Brooke Baker and what was there
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about her life in the last few years of
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her life that led up to this
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extraordinary conclusion
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Brook Baker was a small-town girl with
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big-city ambitions she planned to be
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somebody a top-flight journalist I had
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been sends University Brooke became very
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active on the school paper and she made
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sure everyone knew it call me back
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please cuz I'm waiting and I need them I
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think one of the things Brooke really
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enjoyed was the power that came from
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being reported on the paper gave her
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certainly recognition visibility on
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campus and I think she enjoyed the
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attention whew 19 year olds make deadly
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enemies Brooke may have been an
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exception in the spring of 1997 she
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heard rumors of a date rape at a
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fraternity party and what after the
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story aggressively are you so would you
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describe some of the incidents as if it
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happened to you it would have been very
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easy to work on the story and have
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nobody know about it but members of the
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staff but the word was out everywhere
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and I think the word was generated from
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Brooke I think she wanted people to know
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what she was doing
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at the fraternity where the alleged rape
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had taken place Brookes investigation
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was not welcomed look I can write
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whatever I want about you I'm serious
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and you better watch your back
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you better watch your back she didn't
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worry about who she offended her whose
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toe she stepped on if it was a turret
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that was the truth fraternity members
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allegedly started sending Brooke email
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threatening her if she ran the rape
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story Brooke was unfazed but her mother
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was very concerned I feared for Brookes
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safety all the time and I'd questioned
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her on it and she she'd say if it could
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save one girl from being raped or abused
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she was willing to write the story
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investigate the fraternity the
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harassment allegedly climax one night
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when a truckload of fraternity brothers
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confronted Brooke at a friend's house
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they reportedly called her names and
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shouted more threats
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yet a conflict between Brooke Baker and
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the fraternity ultimately lead to murder
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a few months later Brooke moved into a
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new house where she thought she'd be
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safer the landlord was a campus police
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officer within weeks however Brooke
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allegedly started having trouble with a
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landlord what are you doing in my house
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Luke told her parents she discovered him
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prowling around her house at all hours
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you can't come into my house according
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to her parents
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the landlord once shined a light through
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the windows on another occasion Brooke
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said he came in while she was in the
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shower she felt uncomfortable enough
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that she she told a number of people
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that she just was just generally
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uncomfortable the whole situation what
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happened the night Brooke died did her
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landlord let himself in did an angry
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confrontation escalate to murder
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benson's police also identified a third
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theory of murder only days before her
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death Brooke placed an ad for a roommate
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and the campus newspaper someone who
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wants to come over to Brookes house a
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knock on the door and say hey I'm here
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about your broom I want to be a roommate
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what's Brookes natural reaction gonna be
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in that open the door and let them in
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Brookside may have become an invitation
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to murder police found no evidence of
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forced entry most signs of a struggle
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their most vital clues are several
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samples of DNA to date they have
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interviewed 400 people and tested 52
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against those samples they say parents
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who bury a child never really stop
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reading it goes too hard against the
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heart for Brookes parents however
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answers would at least be a great
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comfort update two years after Brooke
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Baker's death police got their first
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break in the case tragically it came at
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the cost of another life on July 5th
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1999 investigators searched the
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apartment of missing Vincennes college
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student Erica Elaine Norman there they
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found a crime scene eerily similar to
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Brooke Baker's including the identical
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odd characteristic in the bathroom there
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was water running the bathtub and I knew
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right then that it was the same person
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who had committed the murder of Brooke
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Baker
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Erica had last been seen leaving a local
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restaurant with a man by the name of
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Brian Jones he was immediately brought
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in for questioning when we interviewed
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Brian Jones it turned out that he was a
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roommate of an individual that was
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seeing Brooke Baker and within the last
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couple weeks of her death Brian Jones
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consented to give a sample of his DNA it
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linked him conclusively to the murder of
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Brooke Baker and Jones was arrested when
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Erika Norman's body was found two weeks
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later Jones struck a plea bargain he
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admitted to killing Erika and in
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exchange prosecutors did not seek the
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death penalty in the Brooke Baker trial
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on December 14th Brian Jones was
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sentenced to life in prison without the
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possibility of parole
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Brian presented himself to me as someone
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that would have not stopped that case
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has stopped a serial killer in my
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opinion
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next meet some people who claim their
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bodies have been taken over by someone
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else's soul Paris a brooding artist and
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teacher nearly dies in a hospital during
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a near-death experience he has a
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nightmare vision of hell
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he survives and becomes a minister in
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his church the experience forever
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changes his life during a thunderstorm a
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self-centered bully is struck by like
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180 thousand volts nearly killed him
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when he recovered he began having
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psychic experiences and he's changed as
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violent ways becoming a hospice
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volunteer these individuals say
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near-death experience has made the
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behave like different people tonight
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we'll tell you about a group who say
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they really are different people
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they call themselves walk-ins they say
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their bodies have been taken over by
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other spirits it sounds unbelievable but
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that a recent convention in England 500
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people claiming to be walk-ins showed up
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is there any truth to their strange
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tales I began to feel that I had to
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change my name and this happens very
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often to walkins and I didn't know why I
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felt like a stranger in a strange land
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I didn't fit here I didn't understand
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this world I didn't understand how it
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worked the doctor patted me and he said
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young lady you gave us quite a scare and
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I said oh I'm not who you think I am
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those who believe say it's not
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possession it's an even trade of one
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soul for another and they say it could
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happen to any one of us for Karen parish
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the routine life of a housewife in the
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South would lead to the extraordinary
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experience of being a walk-in Carol had
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five children with a sixth on the way
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during childbirth in 1958 doctors gave
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Carol a shot on sodium pentathol to ease
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her pain Carol had an allergic reaction
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to the drug and her lungs collapsed all
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right we've got an anaphylactic shock
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nurse let's get some oxygen going she
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was on the edge of death let's do an IV
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bring in an IV stat suddenly I wasn't
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there it was just like I had been
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totally engaged in that struggle and the
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next thing it's cool
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I'm floating and I look down and and you
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hardly know that that's you
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Carol watched her baby be born then she
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says her soul entered a tunnel of light
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where she felt she wasn't alone she
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described it as a near-death experience
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but then something even stranger
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happened I stood there and in that light
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it began to tell me things it was like a
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whole flow of information just came into
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my mind and and this love and this
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wisdom just permeated wave after wave of
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understanding wisdom richness this float
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into me Carol wasn't expected to live
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but she says her body was given new life
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we did with a different soul the old
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Carol was gone and a new identity had
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taken Olivia life I saw young Carol move
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off into the care of some other beings
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I'm not who you think that I am it's
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okay as I look at each person their eyes
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just the veil comes over their eyes and
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I turned my head toward the wall and big
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tears started coming in my eyes and down
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my cheeks and I thought how will I ever
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get anybody to believe me who's gonna
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listen
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from then on Carol says everything about
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her life changed
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she began having out-of-body experiences
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one day I was nursing the baby and I
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found myself standing in the door
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looking at myself and immediately
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thought oh that's happening to me again
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when I thought that I popped back
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together and it passed and I tried to
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talk about that to my family her husband
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said she was insane her doctor tried to
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put her on valium I'm not taking it
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anymore
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why not it's not good for the baby
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Carol the doctor said you've got to take
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that medicine the new Carol made radical
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changes in her life Phil I am NOT taking
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the medicine anymore she started school
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to study bookkeeping she got a job and
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eventually became a manager at a local
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bank Carol believes her new identity was
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a threat to her husband a firefighter he
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left her in 1967 the years after the
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experience and before I was really doing
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what I consider to be my spiritual life
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at my lifework were very lonely I was
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lonely for other people that valued the
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things that were so meaningful to me
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in 1965 Carol began to study
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metaphysical religion it led to her
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becoming a minister at the light of
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Christ Community Church she remarried
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the timid southern girl had blossomed
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into an outspoken leader there was no
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way she could be the same person
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Carol realized she was a walk-in I
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believe young Carol went as all
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do into tender hands to care for her and
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help her reorient herself to the world
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of spirit the idea that life is ongoing
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and if you are you always will be
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that's the piece that I think is so
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important partly it's important because
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we would live life more courageously if
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we really believe that an exchange of
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souls is it really possible a woman
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named sherry claims it happened to her
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she was a high school principal while
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visiting a friend in Wyoming
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sherry says her old soul was exchanged
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for another sherry began to feel
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disoriented she asked her friend who was
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a metaphysical healer to lay her hands
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on her suddenly the room began to change
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there was a glow of golden pulsating
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energy the core of the energy just
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punched right into the base of my spine
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raised up on my knees and sat immersed
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in this colorful light and found myself
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wanting to just flow with it and and
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dance with it with my hands and my arms
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later Sherry's friend said she had
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changed her husband knew something was
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very different especially when she
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explained that she had a new name I'm
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Joe I think some of my most difficult
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moments were were when I would have a
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certain something come up and I needed
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some help for instance and usually in
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the past I could you know give a little
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shout or something and somebody to come
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and help me
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and with Joelle I'd say okay let's go
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and it's kind of like I'm waiting to
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hear and nothing there's a different
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response that was something to get used
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to it so things are changing ideas
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besides helping her husband come to
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terms with her new identity there were
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other problems as well mundane tasks
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became nearly impossible
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SOLAS a hypersensitivity to energy
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fields around people energy fields
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around things so to go into a
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supermarket see the energy fields here
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all the thoughts that were so difficult
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to stay focused on what my task was I
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tried to narrow my task down to five to
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ten items so I could get through that
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express line as quick as possible
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overtime Juelz says she managed to
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accept her new identity as did her
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husband and daughter it's as though
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there are two chapters in our lives as a
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family there's the before and there's
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the after and in many ways our life as a
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family started after my mother
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experienced the walk-in
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a lot of the healing that wasn't able to
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take place before did after we're so
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much stronger as a family unit Joelle
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now dedicates herself to educating
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others about her walk-in experience I
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travel the country I traveled the world
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speaking to different groups of people
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doing private counseling sessions with
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people I'm an author one of the
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beautiful memories that came from sherry
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was her ability to teach was her ability
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to speak to people I've taken that
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aspect and I've just taken it to the
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next phase are the stories of walk-ins
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valid
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can one so truly enter the body and
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replace another that is ready to move on
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the people we have met tonight and many
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others do claim a new spirit a positive
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spirit resides inside them a spirit that
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has changed their lives for the better
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when it comes to walkins perhaps that is
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all we need to know next judging by the
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family photos
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Steven Cathy page at a storybook
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marriage but when Cathy turned up dead a
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grieving husband became the prime
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suspect
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it was early dawn on May 14th 1991 when
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police and Vidor Texas discovered the
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wreck the woman behind the wheel was
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dead her skin cool to the touch the
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first glance a tragic accident but
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within seconds anomalies began to emerge
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the dead woman had no obvious wounds and
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the car was barely damaged soft drinks
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in the front seat hadn't even spilled
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the list grew longer the woman's feet
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were pushed back against the seat rather
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than stretched out toward the pedals she
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wasn't wearing a seat belt yet she had
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not pitched fully being no damage into
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the interior of the vehicle and very
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little if not any damage to the exterior
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the vehicle in the deepest of the ditch
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plane to see this was a stage two
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instant instead of an accident so at
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that point they thought they had a
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probably of a questionable death the
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woman was identified as 34 year old
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Cathy Paige she was a wife and mother
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she lived at 450 Greene Street
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curiously just a hundred yards from the
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crash site Cathy's husband Steve
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answered the door
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I'm Sergeant Mosely the Vidor Police
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Department are you mr. Paige yes mr.
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Paige knew where you wife said he said
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well his wife was not home and directly
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looked straight down the street towards
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where the car was
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it's about my wife yes it is sort
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advisory sir we found her deceased in
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her vehicle this morning can we step
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inside the resident discuss this matter
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still you seem to be quite upset he
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began to cry at times and it times
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through his self on the couch crying but
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yet he would he would jump right back up
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and we were talking there would be no
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signs of tears in his eyes this seems
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strange to me we've seen a car accident
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so we don't know all the details
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I met Madan police concentrated their
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attention on Steve page six years later
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he is still the prime suspect for page
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those years have been an ordeal barely a
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day passes that he doesn't fend off
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accusations that he killed his wife the
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mother of his children of course I did
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not kill my wife the evidence clearly
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shows that the perpetrator was someone
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other than Steve page is this the face
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of a killer
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many people in the small town of iter
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Texas are convinced it is they are
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certain only Steve pays out both the
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opportunity and motive to murder his
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wife Kathy her family claims he would be
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in prison today his personal
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relationships with police officials had
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not dirtied the investigation
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Steve patience says he is innocent
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tonight we'll examine both sides of this
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controversial case Kathy and Steve page
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had been married for almost 13 years
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they had two daughters 12 year-old Erin
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and seven-year-old Monica they seemed
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like a perfect family but according to
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Steve he and Kathy had drifted apart and
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she was no longer happy with her role as
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Steve's wife mainly she was
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uncomfortable with who she was for at
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least that was what she explained to me
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that she didn't know who she was she
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wanted to try to find out who Kathy was
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because of that we talked about
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separating for a short period of time
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and allowing her to hopefully find
00:25:25
herself
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Kathy sister Sherri disagrees
00:25:30
she says the marriage was beyond repair
00:25:33
Kathy was definitely moving on in her
00:25:36
life at that point because the decision
00:25:39
was made for the divorce and that in
00:25:41
itself having a decision like that
00:25:42
finally be resolved and itself was a
00:25:44
Brooke relief off her back
00:25:46
and she was making plans for that Steve
00:25:49
moved out of the house but he says his
00:25:51
relationship with Kathy remained
00:25:53
friendly the next day Kathy asked him to
00:25:57
babysit their daughters while she went
00:25:58
out with a friend Kathy was getting
00:26:01
ready when Steve arrived she said she
00:26:06
was gonna meet one of her girlfriends
00:26:07
after work and so I went over there she
00:26:13
left at approximately 11:15 to 11:30 to
00:26:17
head to Beaumont to meet her friend
00:26:20
Charlotte was the friend's name
00:26:23
by 4:15 a.m. Kathy page was dead but her
00:26:27
body was found she wasn't wearing makeup
00:26:29
or jewelry the autopsy showed she had
00:26:32
been strangled her nose broken her eye
00:26:35
blackened there were bloodstains on
00:26:37
Kathy's underwear and skin a stranger
00:26:40
not on her outer clothing Kathy page was
00:26:43
not killed in her vehicle she was killed
00:26:46
at another location cleaned up redressed
00:26:48
and placed back in her vehicle in after
00:26:52
the vehicle had been rolled into the
00:26:53
ditch and there was more
00:26:56
sometimes shortly before Kathy page died
00:26:59
she had engaged in sexual activity was
00:27:02
that mysterious someone Kathy's killer
00:27:06
police soon learned that Kathy had not
00:27:09
gone to meet her friend Charlotte and
00:27:10
had instead spent the evening with a
00:27:12
boyfriend in a motel in Beaumont Texas
00:27:14
about 10 minutes from fighters the
00:27:17
boyfriend acknowledged that he and Kathy
00:27:19
made love that night he came to the
00:27:23
police station gave us a statement and
00:27:26
also voluntarily gave us a polygraph
00:27:30
examination which he passed with flying
00:27:31
colors however the autopsy report
00:27:35
included one more critical detail
00:27:37
Kathy sex partner had had a vasectomy
00:27:40
the boyfriend had not that met Kathy
00:27:44
must have had sex that night with
00:27:45
someone else
00:27:47
could that man have been Steve page he
00:27:51
had had a vasectomy several months
00:27:53
earlier when police questioned him he
00:27:56
admitted having sex with Kathy but
00:27:58
claimed it was before she went out that
00:28:00
night
00:28:03
she was getting ready she just got out
00:28:05
of the shower I approached her about sex
00:28:07
and we had sex before she left before
00:28:10
she got dressed even I personally don't
00:28:13
believe that that happened she wouldn't
00:28:15
have been with Steve before being with
00:28:17
another man she hadn't been with Steve
00:28:20
in a long time he's already sleeping on
00:28:22
the couch help coming over to take care
00:28:26
of the kids was more of a kind of
00:28:30
gesture for him to be around his kids
00:28:31
not for him to be around Kathy but
00:28:35
Kathy's family there is only one
00:28:36
possible scenario a deadly scenario
00:28:39
sparked when Steve discovered two phone
00:28:42
numbers one belonged to Kathy's friend
00:28:44
Charlotte the other to the motel in
00:28:47
Beaumont I was talking to a
00:28:50
sister-in-law of Steve's and she said
00:28:52
that she made for a fact that Steve made
00:28:54
two phone calls Steve called this
00:28:56
Charlotte of this one number and the
00:28:59
girl answered and he hung up and then
00:29:01
the second phone number was called and
00:29:03
they said the name of the hotel and he
00:29:05
hung up and so he already knew where she
00:29:08
might be or what I feel like she came in
00:29:12
that night come in the back no we're
00:29:14
actually gonna park the car and he was
00:29:15
asleep sitting in the chair in the front
00:29:17
room and when she went on in the
00:29:18
bathroom and changed clothes there's a
00:29:20
makeup oh look a jury and all off and he
00:29:23
heard it probably in the bathroom
00:29:26
and he got up and the man who sex with
00:29:29
her or whatever I got in a fight Kathy's
00:29:32
family believes a fight escalated Steve
00:29:35
page raped Kathy in the process he
00:29:38
strengthened then Steve realizing what
00:29:42
had happened he wants to redress her if
00:29:44
you look at the violent crime profile it
00:29:46
fits him to a tee
00:29:47
you know the remorse she wants to
00:29:49
redress you don't want them to be found
00:29:50
naked or bloody so there was a de tempt
00:29:54
to clean her up and redress her but
00:29:57
things were forgotten
00:29:58
for instance her jewelry and her socks
00:30:02
the reason it comes down on me is
00:30:04
because I'm the husband
00:30:06
I'm the estranged husband to make it
00:30:10
even worse and because of her actions I
00:30:13
am being blamed for her actions she was
00:30:18
out seeing another guy so therefore it
00:30:21
could only have been me I must have
00:30:22
found out somehow according to the
00:30:25
police and became enraged and committed
00:30:28
murder
00:30:30
Steve Paige has his own theory on the
00:30:32
identity of Kathy's killer yeah I
00:30:35
received threats on the phone that the
00:30:39
same thing that happened to my wife
00:30:40
could happen to me there was a name of a
00:30:43
certain person here in Beaumont that was
00:30:46
bandied about as the person who may have
00:30:48
been involved it's a very prominent
00:30:50
family an Italian family even to let you
00:30:56
know that they're considered part of the
00:30:58
Beaumont mafia
00:30:59
[Music]
00:31:17
next a frightening accident a woman on
00:31:21
the brink of death but timely rescue by
00:31:24
an unknown Good Samaritan September 7th
00:31:34
1995 dusk on a four-lane highway near
00:31:37
Ocala Flordia 48 year old Wilma Drew was
00:31:42
just a mile from home she had driven up
00:31:45
this hill hundreds of times but this
00:31:48
night disaster was lurking a few miles
00:31:51
away a car had entered the highway going
00:31:54
the wrong way now it was headed straight
00:31:56
for Wilma at 55 miles an hour david
00:32:03
vitter tow was driving right behind
00:32:05
Wilma as we were approaching the crest
00:32:09
saw headlights approaching us and the
00:32:12
minute the lights came into view I
00:32:14
immediately tried to get over in the
00:32:16
right-hand lane to avoid a collision
00:32:18
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00:32:20
I automatically just in my gut knew that
00:32:29
somebody was gonna be there
00:32:31
[Music]
00:32:34
David raced to help the victims the
00:32:37
driver and passenger the wrong-way car
00:32:39
seemed to be moving Wilma was not she
00:32:44
was pinned in her car the steering
00:32:47
column wedged up against her chest the
00:32:49
driver's window was open but the other
00:32:52
windows and all the doors were jammed I
00:32:59
decided to run back the truck to grab a
00:33:01
tire tool try to pry the door open or
00:33:03
whatever I could do to try to get into a
00:33:05
sister possibly better another Good
00:33:08
Samaritan Matthew honey also stopped to
00:33:11
help the two men didn't know it but
00:33:14
Wilma's neck had been broken cutting off
00:33:16
her air passage Wilma was suffocating
00:33:20
all the doors are jammed from from the
00:33:23
impact her driver's side window is
00:33:27
busted out on the driver side door so
00:33:29
that's all we could do is reach through
00:33:31
there and we couldn't break the windows
00:33:34
off so we were trying to get someone who
00:33:37
has something that could break the
00:33:38
window David tried flagging down helped
00:33:44
a tanker truck stopped remarkably the
00:33:48
driver seemed to know exactly what to do
00:33:50
and how to do it
00:33:59
stand back
00:34:03
after I busted the window he climbed in
00:34:06
into the back seat and reached over and
00:34:09
lifted and held when Wilma's head up
00:34:15
Wilma took a breath Matthew and David
00:34:26
struggled to lift the steering column
00:34:27
off Wilma's chest the trucker meanwhile
00:34:31
kept her neck motionless it seemed like
00:34:34
hours but the ambulance arrived 10
00:34:36
minutes later
00:34:40
[Music]
00:34:54
he's ready to let go and come out of the
00:34:56
car okay I'm not letting go until you
00:34:58
put a brace around her neck and the
00:35:00
paramedic was just insistent that he let
00:35:03
go of her head and got out of the car
00:35:04
and the the man would not like overhead
00:35:07
until I held it while he got out and the
00:35:11
paramedic got in Willmar was stabilized
00:35:19
in the midst of the commotion no one saw
00:35:22
the truck driver leave no one had a
00:35:24
chance to get more than a glimpse of
00:35:26
what he looked like
00:35:28
Wilma's husband came upon the crash
00:35:30
scene a short time later
00:35:34
when I saw the vehicle in my mind nobody
00:35:37
could have lived through it I remember a
00:35:41
lady asked me if that was my car and I
00:35:44
said yes and my wife's dead and she says
00:35:47
no she isn't they just you know left
00:35:49
here where they're in the helicopter it
00:35:52
would take 11 operations on nearly a
00:35:54
year to begin to repair the damaged
00:35:56
Wilma's right leg had nearly been torn
00:35:59
in half her left ankle was shattered her
00:36:02
brainstem was so damaged that it caused
00:36:04
permanent double vision and the c2
00:36:07
vertebra and Wilma's neck was completely
00:36:09
severed the neurosurgeon told us that
00:36:13
the break that she sustained is called
00:36:14
the hangman's break and it's typically
00:36:18
what would happen in the old days in the
00:36:20
West when somebody would drop from a
00:36:21
gallows the way the body would pull and
00:36:23
jerk at the end and what he told us was
00:36:27
he's never seen anybody survive that
00:36:29
injury that she's the only one he's ever
00:36:31
seen surviving and he can't understand
00:36:33
why she's still alive and that was kind
00:36:37
of eerie
00:36:37
I consider myself extremely fortunate
00:36:41
and I've never really questioned why me
00:36:47
I mean I don't know why it happened to
00:36:49
me but I know that there is a purpose
00:36:51
for it and it's even peculiar that I've
00:36:57
never experienced any anger I'm just
00:37:00
very thankful to be alive
00:37:04
the neurosurgeon said it was a miracle
00:37:07
that he didn't actually kill her in the
00:37:09
process of lifting her head she pretty
00:37:11
good but that he just he did it exactly
00:37:14
right and had he done it any different
00:37:17
it wouldn't work he gave the doctor
00:37:21
something to work with and he just saved
00:37:25
her life and gave her back to us
00:37:30
she is not the same person physically
00:37:33
that she was there she has limitations
00:37:37
there's very little that she can do she
00:37:39
tires easy and she has different
00:37:42
sensations in her hands like she can't
00:37:44
tell heat and cold and but no I consider
00:37:47
myself the most worst person in the
00:37:49
world to have her back thank you just
00:37:54
really seems so insignificant as far as
00:37:57
the way we feel about the gratitude we
00:38:01
have that someone would take the time to
00:38:03
get involved and to do all he did for me
00:38:08
and then just disappear
00:38:13
[Music]
00:38:26
next a young woman would like your help
00:38:30
to find her mother who disappeared 20
00:38:32
years ago a beautiful bride a handsome
00:38:44
groom a fairytale wedding except for one
00:38:48
sad detail the mother of the bride is
00:38:52
missing she vanished from her daughter's
00:38:54
life 23 years ago and never returned
00:38:58
she's still my mother and I still love
00:39:01
her as a mother just this year just to
00:39:07
know that she's okay
00:39:11
but the father of the bride
00:39:13
Robert Wortman has always been there for
00:39:16
his daughter Stella Wortman hunt he has
00:39:19
raised her since she was three and he
00:39:21
believes that his former wife would have
00:39:23
cherished her daughter's special day and
00:39:26
more she's missed so much of Stella's
00:39:31
life you know slumber parties chicken
00:39:33
pops graduations and stuff like that
00:39:35
there is no need for her to miss any
00:39:37
more Stella is now in her late twenties
00:39:41
her mother disappeared in 1975 Stella
00:39:46
often lies awake at night and wonders
00:39:48
why did her mother walk out of her
00:39:50
family's life in 1972 Stella's father
00:39:56
robert Wortman was a 22 year old serving
00:39:59
in the Air Force in Seoul South Korea he
00:40:02
fell in love with a 20 year old Korean
00:40:04
woman named Oakshott Robert nicknamed
00:40:07
her sunny I realize now we're both from
00:40:11
two different cultures and both of us
00:40:13
were very young at the time despite the
00:40:16
odds against them the couple married
00:40:18
they welcomed their new baby a year
00:40:20
later she was named Stella after Roberts
00:40:24
mother
00:40:26
the new family relocated to Tokyo Japan
00:40:29
Robert was to be stationed there for the
00:40:32
next four years I remember my mom she
00:40:35
worked at ice-cream parlor and this was
00:40:37
when I was about three that's basically
00:40:41
that all I remember
00:40:42
sunny worked on the base to help support
00:40:45
them life was good at least for the
00:40:48
moment
00:40:54
her mother took on a second job working
00:40:56
nights as a waitress
00:40:57
sunny seemed to live a double life she
00:41:01
was rarely home my dad said that she
00:41:06
hung around people who were kind of into
00:41:10
the wrong things weren't really
00:41:11
family-oriented and he believes that you
00:41:15
know she just wanted to be around those
00:41:17
people all the time that that basically
00:41:19
came first for her tensions between
00:41:24
husband and wife continued to drive them
00:41:27
apart finally they agreed Estella should
00:41:30
spend time with Roberts relatives in New
00:41:32
Jersey like most people we had some
00:41:37
family problems and stuff and tried to
00:41:40
work them out I thought it'd be best to
00:41:44
get her into a more stable family some
00:41:46
which I brought her back to the United
00:41:47
States to my mother's grandma Robert
00:42:01
returned to Japan hoping to patch up his
00:42:03
marriage and bring Sonny back with him
00:42:06
to America Robert and sunny worked out
00:42:10
their differences or so it seemed they
00:42:13
were ready to transfer to New Jersey to
00:42:15
be with Stella
00:42:16
but there was one hitch so you'll be
00:42:19
back in the 19th yes I just need a
00:42:21
couple weeks Sonny said she wanted to
00:42:24
see her family in South Korea one last
00:42:26
time
00:42:31
but Robert had no idea that his wife had
00:42:34
other plans in mind she was about to
00:42:37
walk out of his life and Stella's
00:42:39
[Music]
00:42:42
what would motivate a mother to leave
00:42:44
her child without even saying goodbye
00:42:46
why would she keep this terrible secret
00:42:49
from her husband
00:42:51
those very questions haunts tell it to
00:42:54
this day I want to be able to ask her
00:42:57
why she didn't show up for the day when
00:43:00
she was supposed to come with my father
00:43:01
to New Jersey why Sonny disappeared
00:43:05
remains a mystery
00:43:08
Robert eventually remarried and had
00:43:11
another daughter Stella adored her
00:43:14
stepmother but often struggled with her
00:43:16
own identity
00:43:18
I know being oriental you know that I
00:43:20
had a mom who was oriental I knew back
00:43:22
in the back of my mind that I had a real
00:43:24
mother somewhere just didn't know who
00:43:26
she was or where she was I thought about
00:43:30
her and I did miss her like on Mother's
00:43:32
Day I would think about her on my
00:43:33
birthday I would think about her and it
00:43:35
would cost my mind like did she ever
00:43:36
think about me but in 1985
00:43:45
Stella received a surprise in the mail
00:43:51
out of the blue Sonny had sent her
00:43:54
daughter four dresses and a stuffed
00:43:56
animal
00:44:03
oh that's nice yeah it made me feel
00:44:08
really really good it felt good to know
00:44:10
that she's still thought about me that I
00:44:12
crossed her mind remember I cried every
00:44:17
time I held the stuff animal I would
00:44:18
just cry and hold it and go to sleep
00:44:20
with it and just snuggle it and just
00:44:23
take it everywhere I went
00:44:26
now there's an extra incentive for Sonny
00:44:28
to reunite with Starr she could meet her
00:44:33
grandson six-year-old Darius it's time
00:44:37
to forgive and forget she probably has a
00:44:39
new life I do too but uh
00:44:41
Stella's part of our life so you know
00:44:44
life's too short let's enjoy the time we
00:44:46
have left join us next time perhaps you
00:44:57
may help solve a mystery
00:44:58
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00:45:11
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[Applause]
00:45:37
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