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next on unsolved mysteries
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a government scientist plunges to his
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death from a hotel window was it suicide
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or a cia cover-up he's called the
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dinnertime bandit he's stolen over 30
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million in fine jewelry and he always
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strikes at suppertime
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a 14 year old boy disappears from a
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county fair
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some believe that he was killed by local
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teenagers
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and in a story featuring matthew
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mcconaughey in one of his very first
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screen roles a man is gunned down in
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texas
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and his murderer escapes
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five stories of crime deceit and
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intrigue i'm dennis farina and for the
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next hour it's unsolved mysteries
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greenwich connecticut
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he looks just like another tourist
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he rides tour buses to see the homes of
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the rich and famous
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his name is alan golder and he's a
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high-end jewel thief
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during the daytime he cases fashionable
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neighborhoods
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at night he strikes upstairs while the
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homeowners are downstairs enjoying their
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dinners
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allen is very good at what he does
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he gets a thrill out of what he does
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he has no other goal in life other than
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to be the best jewel thief that he can
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be
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they call him the dinnertime bandit and
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he's made millions stealing jewelry from
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the rich
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he's already spent 15 years in prison
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but apparently that wasn't enough to
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stop this one-man crime spree
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golder's life of crime began early at
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age six
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he grew up in long island new york poor
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his father a career criminal abandoned
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family when alan was just three
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at 16 years of age golder dropped out of
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high school but even at that young age
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he was still earning between a few
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hundred to several thousand dollars a
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night by stealing
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by 21 alan golder had found his vocation
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burglarizing the homes of wealthy people
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in greenwich connecticut he thinks he is
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today's answer to the pink panther he's
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in it for the thrill that he gets out of
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it in some ways i'm amazed alan hasn't
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come forward just because he's missing
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all these wonderful opportunities to be
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interviewed by different tv shows
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alan golder had some very good years
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it's estimated that he stole at least 25
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million dollars worth of jewels from the
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richest people in america
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when you think about the crimes that he
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committed the ordinary person would have
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said well with as much money as he's
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gotten why didn't he stop
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it was like an art for him
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and in another way it was almost
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compulsive for him as if he's suffering
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from some sort of compulsive disorder
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golder's reputation caught the attention
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of the mob
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it happened when he tried to fence some
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stolen jewelry at a shop in new york
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city
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what it turns out is that this
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particular jewel store was a front for
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the genovese family's uh international
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jewel fencing operation so being 19
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years old or whatever he was at the time
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he didn't really know what he was
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getting into at that point he was just
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trying to sell some jewels but what he
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did was he was in in fact getting in bed
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with the mafia
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the mob liked golder's ambition so they
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took him under their wing
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he would go meet them in new york and he
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would hang out with them and they would
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take him out to restaurants it was sort
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of a pygmalion thing that went on i mean
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they sort of groomed him for the
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business
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you have to look for the three c's in a
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diamond the color the cut and the
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clarity don't pick me up diamonds from
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from a box on top of the dresser these
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are never good
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but it was his relationship with the
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mafia that would lead to golder's
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downfall
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golder was being pressured to bring in
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even more jewelry
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he and two other mafia jewel thieves
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were instructed to hit a home in the
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hamptons
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it is believed that golder never carried
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a weapon but one of his accomplices did
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alan claims he never saw the guy that
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happened in another room another part of
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the house
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and they didn't know if they'd killed
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him or not
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but they found out the next day that the
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man died
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alan golder's life spun out of control
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he was doing drugs and going through
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money like it was water
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eventually he was caught
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now facing a murder charge he looked for
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a way to reduce his sentence i need you
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to tell me specific names and specific
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numbers right there on that piece of
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paper
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in exchange for selling out the mop
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golder was given a sentence of 15 years
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to life
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you can assume that there was a contract
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out on his life he became an official
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protected witness and when he was in the
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entire time he was in prison he was
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you know basically in protective custody
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in prison he wasn't housed with the
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regular inmates he was housed with guys
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who were special cases and they had to
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watch out for so that he wouldn't be
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killed
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but according to authorities while in
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prison golder continued to sift through
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magazines profiling the homes of the
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wealthy
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following his parole in 1996 he tried to
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go straight or so he said
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he even had a job in mind working
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as a chimney sweep
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i explained to him there are certain
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employment positions that you because of
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your conviction and your criminal
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history you cannot work and
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entering into people's homes to clean
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chimneys is one of them then after that
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he had considered pursuing school we had
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talked at length as to what sort of
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careers he could choose but he was sort
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of set on going to a gemology school he
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wanted to study gems
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and not long after police had another
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rash of high
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burglaries on their hands
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and in october 1997 in greenwich
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connecticut
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police believe golder pushed his luck a
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bit too far
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oh my god
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he allegedly tied up a homeowner
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and fled in her car
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after that
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the burglary stopped
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but
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golder had amassed three quarters of a
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million dollars since his prison release
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and then he disappeared
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he's wanted on charges of kidnapping and
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23 counts of burglary
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update
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000 miles away in antwerp belgium
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alan golder has been arrested after nine
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years on the run
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local police captured the 53 year old
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during what might be his last home
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burglary golder was returned to
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connecticut where he was convicted on
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charges of kidnapping burglary and
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larceny
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he served his time and has been released
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next a respected attorney is trapped in
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an elevator and then murdered
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and later there's something strange
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going on at the general wayne inn
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earlier we told the story of an
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unfamiliar pickup truck that rolled into
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a quiet neighborhood in pasadena texas
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the driver was edward harold bell
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and he was naked from the waist down
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get me the pasadena please real quick
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please
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while dorothy was on the phone to the
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police her son larry went outside to
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prevent bell from leaving oh my god he's
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got a gun oh god he's got to go
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not getting your keys he just shot it in
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the air
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you're not he's shooting larry i see
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blood shooting
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larry
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no time to give me the keys i believe i
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call the police
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and i said please don't shoot him
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and the man just shot him anyway
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and then he turned
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and started running out of our garage
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and larry even with all those bullets in
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him
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was still trying to stop this man
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larry had been shot four times in the
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chest and once in the head with a 22
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caliber pistol moments later his sister
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donna arrived
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i remember i just went over and i knelt
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down beside my brother
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and held his hand to my face
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and i watched him die
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only blocks away the police were already
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pursuing the suspect
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the getaway ended abruptly after the
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gunman turned on the street with no
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accident
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edward harold bell a successful
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businessman was charged with the murder
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of 27 year old larry dickens
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but bell was released on bail less than
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two months after the killing and soon
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vanished without a trace
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update
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15 years after he disappeared we ran the
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story on unsolved mysteries
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a viewer recognized bell as a 10-year
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resident of panama and sent these
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pictures and a letter
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bell was prospecting for gold on land
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that he owned near panama city
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bell was arrested by panama police and
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flown back to houston escorted by fbi
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agents
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waiting for him at the houston airport
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were dorothy lang and her daughter donna
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over a decade after her son had been
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gunned down
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the accused killer shuffled pastor
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shackled in leg and
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handcuffs he got off the airplane he
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seemed so arrogant and it just
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infuriated me
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here they're bringing this murderer back
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and they could never bring back my son
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at least justice will be done
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and i think we'll all be able to go on
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with our lives
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edward harold bell will go on with his
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life behind bars
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he was convicted of murder and sentenced
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to 70 years in prison
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our next story is about an
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execution-style murder a bullet to the
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back of the head of a squeaky clean real
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estate lawyer
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it seemed that he had no enemies no
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skeletons in his closet and no sordid
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past
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so
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what was the motive
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dallas texas
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at 7 am attorney clint blackman arrived
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at his office building
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he bypassed the notoriously slow
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elevator and took the stairs to the
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third floor
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at 7 30 a.m juanita lackey arrived
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without her keys
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secretary roxanne letterman let her in
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oh my god
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i heard
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a lot of screaming and hollering
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juanita said that she thought that there
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was a man in the elevator but all they'd
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really seen was legs and and weren't
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really sure what was there
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oh my god
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it's david merrifield oh no it couldn't
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be
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david murryfield was one of clint
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blackman's colleagues and a partner in
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his law firm
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he left behind two children and a new
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bride of only three months
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ladies what time did you get to work
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his wallet was taken so at first police
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thought it might be robbery
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mr maryfield's wallet was recovered a
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few miles from the crime location
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and
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in the wall it was still a small amount
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of money and all of his credit cards so
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i believe had robbery been a motive that
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stuff would not have been recovered
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but as police dug deeper they learned
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that the day before he was murdered
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david received four phone calls from a
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mysterious stranger named sam jones
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he's on the other line right now can i
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take a message
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he asked if he could hold on
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he told me his name was sam jones but he
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wouldn't tell me who he was with or
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what it was concerning hi david i have a
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mr sam jones on the other line he's very
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insistent he wants to talk to you right
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now
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all right put him through
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david spoke to him for i guess
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a little under 10 minutes
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i went up and kind of joked with dave
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and i said well is he trying to sell you
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and david says well he's not trying to
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sell me anything yet
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he says he says he wants to do something
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for me
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david merrifield we discovered during
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the investigation had a notepad on his
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desk which had a calendar on it
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and on february the 9th he had a marking
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there for a name and an appointment that
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he had at 6 30 a.m with
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sam jones
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due to the common nature of the name
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it's my guess it's possibly a fictitious
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name
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had known david and worked with him for
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years and know david's habit and that
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was he never liked to get to work early
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in fact to see him at work before nine
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was just unusual he was he was not an
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early riser he used like to work later
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police theorize that the killer insisted
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on an early meeting in order to get
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david alone
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let's come out to the office
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we think that mr mayorfield entered the
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elevator with another person
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whoever sam jones is it's obvious from
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our investigation lured him to this
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location to do exactly what he did to
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take his life on the elevator that
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morning
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no one ever heard from this man again
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the sam jones we all kind of felt like
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if the man had really come to try to
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meet david
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then he would have probably found him
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would have called later to say we i
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wasn't able to get in the building and
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mr merefield never showed up i mean this
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man just disappeared i think the thing
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that's most disturbing to me is the loss
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of david merefill
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it's also very upsetting that there is
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a criminal out there
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who knows he's out there
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and has not been brought to justice
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this baffling case has stumped
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detectives for years
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if you have any information that can
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help please let us know log on to
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unsolved.com
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next a man has jumped out of a hotel
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window in washington dc
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what's the connection between him
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the cia
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and lsd
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new york city
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in the early morning hours a crowd
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gathered outside of new york's hotel
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statler
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a man had apparently jumped to his death
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from a 13-story window
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the victim was later identified as a
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government scientist named frank olson
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it was 1953 and frank olson left behind
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a wife and three small children
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his sons are now grown up and are trying
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to find out what really happened to
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their father
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this is a story of a government cover-up
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of secret drug testing and in the middle
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was one lone scientist
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why was frank olson killed was he a man
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who knew too little
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or a man
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who knew too much
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frank olson worked at fort detrick
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maryland
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headquarters for the military's
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biological warfare program
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also known as germ warfare
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my father was a research scientist who
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was involved with
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germ warfare
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associated with the so division which
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stood for special operations that was
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the most top-secret
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kind of
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research that was done out at fort
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detrick
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and some of that research was being done
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in coordination with the cia
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two weeks before his death frank went to
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a three-day conference with some of his
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colleagues and came home a changed man
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the weekend after that meeting my father
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was severely depressed he felt that he
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had done something terribly wrong and he
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told my mother that
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he had done something wrong but he
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couldn't tell her what and she asked him
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whether or not
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he had broken security and he indicated
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that he would never do such a thing but
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he felt that he had done something
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terribly wrong
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vincent ruit frank's boss told the
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olsons that he believed that frank was
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on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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just before thanksgiving he took frank
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to new york for treatment
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while in new york frank shared a hotel
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room with dr robert lashbrook a cia
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scientist
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nearly a week passed before frank's
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family finally heard from him i'm gonna
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see a couple of doctors there
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do me a favor
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would you kiss the kids for me
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my father seemed a little uh a little
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more peaceful than he had he made a call
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to my mother to say he was all right
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they went to sleep fairly early about 11
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and the next thing we know from
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lashbrook is that he was awakened by the
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sound of crashing glass
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right
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oh my god
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frank olson was dead at the age of 43.
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investigators determined that he had
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either jumped or fallen to his death i
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remember as a nine-year-old and actually
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for years after that i was completely
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stumped and dumbfounded by trying to
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resolve that alternative i mean it's a
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big difference between fall or jump and
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i couldn't understand how either of them
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could have occurred
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the night manager of the hotel also
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found frank's death suspicious
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i rushed outside
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to find frank olson's
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eyes wide open looking straight at me
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trying to tell me something
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okay buddy he was definitely trying to
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speak but it was nothing coming out
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but grumbles
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he was in terrible condition and i
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stepped back
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because now i have to find out where he
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came from
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so i looked up the building
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and finally i saw a little movement of a
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window shade and when i concentrated on
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that then i see
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that the window shade was stuck
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through a broken window
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armond took police to room 1018a
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and here is lashbrook sitting on a john
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in his skivvies and the police start to
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question him
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and i heard him say well all i heard was
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a crash
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i walked around the room to look around
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nobody ever jumps through a window they
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open the window and they're going to go
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out not dash or a shade and a sheer
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drape
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you know
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there's no sense to that
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but the olsons weren't told about the
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doorman's suspicions
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they were told simply that frank had a
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nervous breakdown and jumped out of a
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window
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they believed that story for the next 22
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years
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years later a government commission was
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formed to investigate past abuses
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committed by the cia
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the official report made mention of a
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scientist who had plunged to his death
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from a hotel room 10 days after being
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dosed with lsd
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that scientist turned out to be
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frankelson
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over the next year and a half the olsen
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family received a formal apology from
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president ford
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and a check from the government for 750
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000
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the olsens also met with cia chief
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william colby
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as a result of meeting with william
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colby at the cia we were given
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what was supposedly a complete set of
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documents relating to
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the events of the last
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nine days of my father's life we learned
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that he had gone to a retreat in deep
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creek lake
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in western maryland with a group of
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other scientists the principle of the
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meeting was that they were going to be
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discussing ongoing research but in fact
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there were agents in the cia who were
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meeting with them who decided that
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they were going to
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give them each a dose of lsd
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without their knowledge or consent and
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then see what their reaction was
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anyone for a drink the olsens learned
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that the lsd was slipped into an
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after-dinner liqueur by either sydney
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gottlieb head of the cia's technical
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staff
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or by his deputy
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dr robert lashbrook
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the cia worried that the soviet union
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might use lsd on captured agents
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cotley believed that his test would
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prepare american spies for that
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possibility
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thank you sydney yeah just what i needed
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the latest drinks were served to eight
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of the ten scientists present
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some of them including frank olson were
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not warned about the test
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within an hour the lsd
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took effect
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are we all feeling a bit strange
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when gottlieb told the group that their
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drinks had been spiked with lsd frank
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olson got very angry
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wait a minute we're having an experiment
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here you put a drug in our drinks yes
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yes we're in the middle of the next
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experiment we understood that my father
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uh was quite agitated and was having a
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serious confusion
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with separating reality from
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from fantasy
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then
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frank made his fatal trip to new york
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supposedly suffering from a nervous
00:23:06
breakdown
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well frank how are we feeling today i
00:23:11
feel lousy doctor
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frank was taken to see dr harold
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abramson an lsd expert who worked
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extensively with the cia it's been
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continuing for about a week look at me
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please you were saying that you weren't
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resting very well is that improving no
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i'm not resting i haven't been able to
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sleep for over a week accompanying frank
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were robert lashbrook and frank's boss
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vincent ruit frank sit down i don't want
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to sit down i can't sit down
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frank remained in new york and he made
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repeated visits to the doctor's office
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someone has been following me
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it's impossible to deduce what was
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accomplished in those meetings and you
00:23:48
certainly don't see any any indication
00:23:50
that a treatment process was occurring
00:23:52
you can suspect that some kind of
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assessment process was going on the
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purpose of which was more to
00:24:00
protect the cia's interest than it was
00:24:02
to help my father
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one of the nights that my father was up
00:24:05
in new york
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he was having delusions that he was
00:24:08
hearing voices and
00:24:10
in the middle of the night he woke up
00:24:12
and went
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and threw all of his identification out
00:24:16
and his money all right get rid of all
00:24:18
my money my identification
00:24:21
apparently the pattern continued in the
00:24:23
immediate aftermath of frank's death
00:24:25
for some unexplained reason robert
00:24:28
lashbrook never phoned for help however
00:24:31
he allegedly did make a disturbing call
00:24:33
which was overheard by the hotel
00:24:35
operator
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in those days you know all the calls
00:24:40
were manual
00:24:42
you call the operator and you tell her
00:24:44
what number you want and she would dial
00:24:46
it for you and then she'd listen to see
00:24:48
that you got connected
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when the man in the room
00:24:54
called this number
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he said well he's gone
00:24:58
and the man on the other end said well
00:25:00
that's too bad
00:25:02
and they both hung up
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i mean what's more suspicious than that
00:25:06
you don't have to be a genius
00:25:08
to figure out that there's something i
00:25:10
miss
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because who said hamlet said there's
00:25:14
something rotten in denmark i mean i
00:25:16
knew there was something rotten
00:25:18
at the pennsylvania hotel that night
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in 1993 frank's widow alice passed away
00:25:26
erica nils had their father's body moved
00:25:29
to rest beside her
00:25:30
but before frank was reinterred they
00:25:33
asked a forensic scientist to perform an
00:25:36
autopsy
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quite frankly we had no idea what the
00:25:39
condition
00:25:40
of the remains would be after 41 years
00:25:43
we were delighted
00:25:45
that the remains were in
00:25:47
perfect condition for our analysis
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as part of his investigation professor
00:25:54
stars and his colleagues went to the old
00:25:56
hotel statler
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the first thing the professor looked for
00:25:59
was evidence that frank had indeed
00:26:02
smashed through a window
00:26:04
the medical examiner in new york who did
00:26:06
an external examination back in 1953
00:26:10
said there were multiple lacerations on
00:26:11
the face and neck there were none
00:26:14
soon after that finding was made public
00:26:16
lashbrook changes his story which he's
00:26:19
held to for 40 years and suddenly now
00:26:21
starts saying that he can't remember
00:26:22
whether the window in fact was open or
00:26:24
closed
00:26:25
at some point
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he had to hit some glass
00:26:29
i cannot believe
00:26:30
that he wouldn't have gotten cuts in the
00:26:32
lower extremities
00:26:34
of his body on the front of the legs we
00:26:37
don't find any cuts
00:26:39
after years of research and
00:26:41
investigation the olsen family has
00:26:43
become convinced that frank olson was
00:26:46
murdered by agents of the u.s government
00:26:49
the olsen family believes frank was
00:26:51
silenced because he had become extremely
00:26:54
critical of illegal top-secret programs
00:26:57
and policies of the cia and u.s
00:27:00
government with which his own research
00:27:02
group was deeply involved frank olson's
00:27:06
family hopes that someday the entire
00:27:09
story
00:27:10
will be exposed
00:27:13
if you have any information please log
00:27:16
on to our website at unsolved.com
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[Music]
00:27:21
next playful poltergeist at the general
00:27:24
wayne inn
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do ghosts really exist
00:27:33
and if they do is it possible that some
00:27:36
might even have a sense of humor
00:27:39
well guess who have stayed at the
00:27:41
general wayne inn certainly think so
00:27:50
just east of philadelphia in marion
00:27:52
pennsylvania is the general wayne inn it
00:27:55
opened in 1704 and since then a lot of
00:27:58
american history has passed through
00:28:00
these halls ben franklin visited here
00:28:04
george washington slept in what later
00:28:06
became this dining room
00:28:09
and in 1836 edgar allan poe wrote part
00:28:12
of his famous poem the raven right here
00:28:17
but the guests who caused the biggest
00:28:19
stir are the ones who have been haunting
00:28:21
these halls for the past 100 years
00:28:24
we have had reports of sightings of
00:28:28
entities ghosts we have had
00:28:31
a funny incident with a new cadillac in
00:28:34
the parking lot outside
00:28:36
that incident began when a valet walked
00:28:38
by a cadillac parked in front of the end
00:28:42
the owner had gone inside and took his
00:28:44
keys with him
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00:28:49
doors were locked windows were all
00:28:51
closed the kid was scared to death and i
00:28:54
said look calm down these things happen
00:28:55
around here and just relax
00:28:58
i enjoy these ghosts i mean they don't
00:29:00
bother me at all i think they come up
00:29:02
with some real clever little things for
00:29:04
god's sake what are you doing
00:29:06
what the hell are you doing like on a
00:29:08
busy night that's when
00:29:11
this entity will start
00:29:14
and he'll go down
00:29:15
the entire side of the bar blowing on
00:29:17
the back of the girl's neck and the poor
00:29:20
guys they really were doing nothing
00:29:22
now i knew when the first one started
00:29:24
that it would continue all the way down
00:29:26
to the end of the bar it always did
00:29:28
did you do that do what no on the back
00:29:31
of my neck it happened so often that i
00:29:33
enjoyed standing back on the other side
00:29:35
of the bar and watching
00:29:38
hundreds of occurrences have happened
00:29:41
some very minor some more dramatic but
00:29:43
there have been hundreds of them
00:29:46
bart has witnessed ghostly events but
00:29:48
has never actually seen a ghost
00:29:51
others have
00:29:53
i was made her d at the time and i was
00:29:56
we were closing the restaurant up for
00:29:57
the night
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and i was starting on my way out and i
00:30:01
had looked up
00:30:03
i only saw it for a split second
00:30:06
it's just a head sitting on this chest
00:30:08
of drawers
00:30:09
it didn't register with me right away
00:30:12
and when i got out into the bar area it
00:30:14
was like like i had hit a brick wall and
00:30:17
it just stopped dead in my tracks and i
00:30:19
started saying i i saw a head i saw
00:30:21
something i saw a head
00:30:23
it was just like it happened yesterday
00:30:25
i'll never forget the details although i
00:30:28
just saw it for an instant
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other employees have also seen
00:30:33
apparitions
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one day alice garnley was walking
00:30:37
through the dining room
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and i heard someone call my name
00:30:41
alice alice
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so i walked out of here to see if it was
00:30:45
the manager
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and i saw this
00:30:49
apparition this person
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on the on these stairs
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and he was standing
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on this step and he looked so startled
00:31:01
and when i said can i help you he just
00:31:04
disappeared
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[Music]
00:31:08
historian jay robert menti has studied
00:31:10
the n's history in detail he says that
00:31:13
this specter was seen over a hundred
00:31:16
years ago the first written record of a
00:31:19
ghost in the general wayne inn that we
00:31:21
came across in writing was in a report
00:31:23
of an election in 1848 that took place
00:31:26
in here
00:31:28
a lady went down to the basement to get
00:31:30
some more ballots when she came up she
00:31:33
said to the lady in charge of the
00:31:35
elections i just saw a soldier down
00:31:38
there in a green uniform
00:31:40
in recent times there have been three
00:31:42
new sightings of this soldier three
00:31:44
witnesses saw the same apparition at
00:31:47
different times each of them saw the
00:31:49
ghost in this basement
00:31:52
each one described the imperfect way the
00:31:56
green uniform and the yellowish lapel of
00:31:59
the and the black mustache of a hessian
00:32:01
soldier of the regiments that were
00:32:03
occupying philadelphia at that time what
00:32:06
about the british barracks room upstairs
00:32:08
we invited michaelene mayer a paranormal
00:32:10
investigator to the end
00:32:13
michaelin begins her investigation with
00:32:16
detailed floor plans
00:32:19
then she evaluates the responses of both
00:32:22
skeptics and hand-picked psychics who
00:32:24
have been brought to the scene of the
00:32:26
hauntings when we bring them into a an
00:32:29
experimental situation into a haunting
00:32:31
we ask them to tour
00:32:33
the place where something has been
00:32:35
reported micheline asked psychic paula
00:32:37
rogers to walk through the building
00:32:40
paula knew nothing about the inn's
00:32:42
history she went through every room and
00:32:44
in the basement she made a surprising
00:32:46
discovery
00:32:50
i
00:32:50
got an extremely strong impression i see
00:32:54
a young soldier hiding i can still see
00:32:57
it
00:32:58
and he's in a very old costume we're
00:33:00
probably talking at least 200 years
00:33:03
i could see if it was a memory him
00:33:05
crouched there petrifying he seemed to
00:33:08
have been left behind
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[Music]
00:33:13
at the general weighed in the ghosts
00:33:15
check in but they don't check out
00:33:18
one night during a local newscast
00:33:20
halloween story on the end a number of
00:33:22
regular patrons gathered in the bar to
00:33:24
watch johnson has had a number of these
00:33:27
the whole picture started to go very
00:33:29
very slowly
00:33:31
clockwise all the way around
00:33:34
and all
00:33:35
50 people in the bar
00:33:37
were looking at this and wondering what
00:33:39
was going on and their all heads are all
00:33:41
turning
00:33:42
and the whole thing just kept going
00:33:44
around until our portion was over
00:33:48
but never did that before and i never
00:33:49
did it afterwards and no one else in the
00:33:51
whole neighborhood had it that way
00:33:55
so are there ghosts at the end
00:33:59
ask the innkeeper
00:34:01
i don't believe in ghosts but i know
00:34:03
they're here
00:34:05
they have no other place to go and they
00:34:07
might as well have a little fun and
00:34:08
that's exactly what they're doing
00:34:10
and i don't think they're going anywhere
00:34:12
either
00:34:12
[Music]
00:34:15
next a 14 year old boy is last seen at a
00:34:18
carnival and his parents desperately
00:34:20
want to know why
00:34:22
he never came home
00:34:34
myrtle point oregon
00:34:37
every august the cous county fair rose
00:34:40
into town
00:34:41
for many it's a week-long party
00:34:44
to jeremy bright and his close friend
00:34:46
johnny it was one of the high points of
00:34:49
the year
00:34:51
normally
00:34:52
jeremy lived a hundred miles away in
00:34:54
grants pass where his mother worked but
00:34:57
during the week of the fair he and his
00:34:59
younger sisters stayed with their
00:35:00
stepfather in myrtle point
00:35:03
on thursday jeremy and johnny hung out
00:35:06
at the fair
00:35:09
that afternoon jeremy phoned his mother
00:35:12
diane he told her that he was having a
00:35:16
great time
00:35:17
diane says that she made plans with
00:35:19
jeremy in two days she would come down
00:35:22
to myrtle point and pick him up
00:35:27
five hours later on thursday night
00:35:30
jeremy showed up at a local tavern owned
00:35:33
by his grandmother
00:35:35
there he met his stepfather and asked to
00:35:37
borrow some money
00:35:39
it would be the last time
00:35:41
jeremy
00:35:42
was ever seen by his family
00:35:46
you behave yourself
00:35:48
since that weekend a number of rumors
00:35:50
have surfaced about jeremy's
00:35:52
disappearance
00:35:53
his parents and the police have come to
00:35:55
one conclusion
00:35:57
someone in myrtle point knows exactly
00:36:00
what happened to jeremy
00:36:02
and they're not talking
00:36:05
diane arrived in myrtle point on
00:36:07
saturday as planned
00:36:09
but when she went to pick up jeremy at
00:36:11
his stepfather's house
00:36:12
he wasn't there
00:36:14
i went in and on the tv set
00:36:17
was his house keys from our grants pass
00:36:20
apartment and his wallet
00:36:22
and his new watch that he had told me
00:36:23
he'd bought
00:36:25
i knew when i found those things that he
00:36:27
was around somewhere because he wouldn't
00:36:29
leave without him
00:36:31
a few hours later that same night diane
00:36:34
was worried enough to contact the police
00:36:37
at first
00:36:38
they believed her son had simply
00:36:41
run away
00:36:42
he did like the fair
00:36:44
there was the thought that perhaps he
00:36:45
was hiding out intending to leave with
00:36:47
the fair
00:36:48
people and
00:36:50
i've explored that possibility in every
00:36:52
way that i can think of however in this
00:36:55
particular case i've talked to
00:36:58
family members and and friends of his
00:37:00
that knew him well
00:37:02
and he was just not from what i can
00:37:04
learn the type of a kid who would have
00:37:06
struck out on his own
00:37:09
on sunday the fair closed down
00:37:12
myrtle point was buzzing about jeremy's
00:37:14
disappearance
00:37:15
and gradually conflicting stories began
00:37:19
to emerge
00:37:22
according to one rumor jeremy went to
00:37:24
one of myrtle point's many parties and
00:37:26
drank a beer laced
00:37:28
with a powerful truck
00:37:31
we're looking for a beer
00:37:33
hey don't open another one
00:37:35
there's one already open right here
00:37:37
i've identified at least two and perhaps
00:37:39
three parties where jeremy was present
00:37:41
that
00:37:42
the overdose theory could have occurred
00:37:44
at
00:37:44
it was reported that jeremy had a heart
00:37:46
murmur and therefore a stimulant of some
00:37:49
kind might have
00:37:51
done some bodily damage to him just just
00:37:54
by his sheer taking it
00:37:57
police heard a different story from a
00:37:59
jailhouse informant he claimed that
00:38:02
three teenagers showed up at a local
00:38:04
swimming hole and harassed jeremy
00:38:07
and his friends is that a gun
00:38:10
what this
00:38:13
it's a toy
00:38:14
it was at the jail where an inmate
00:38:16
related to me the information that he
00:38:18
had heard wherein one individual from
00:38:21
the myrtle point area was
00:38:24
target practicing or shooting
00:38:25
indiscriminately in the water in the
00:38:27
area where jeremy was uh was swimming
00:38:29
tell me what you're made of now
00:38:34
that's better here's a deer yeah i bet
00:38:37
you can't you think so yeah
00:38:40
all right all right i'm gonna try this
00:38:41
look good in it
00:38:45
[Music]
00:38:46
[Applause]
00:38:52
they subsequently took him to a a cabin
00:38:55
maybe within
00:38:57
10 miles of the myrtle point area and
00:38:59
attempted to nurse him back to health to
00:39:01
no avail that he died as a result of
00:39:04
that injury either from
00:39:05
loss of blood or from
00:39:07
infection or what have you
00:39:14
that
00:39:15
same
00:39:16
source through the jail indicated that
00:39:18
his
00:39:19
body would be found within 200 feet of
00:39:22
this cabin in a in a shallow grave
00:39:26
police searched the area around the
00:39:28
cabin
00:39:29
but found nothing
00:39:33
all the rumors were hard to handle all
00:39:34
of them are hard to think about
00:39:36
every time i'd hear a new one i'd have
00:39:38
nightmares for a week or so
00:39:41
the one
00:39:43
that i hope
00:39:44
is not what happened
00:39:46
is one where he suffered for two weeks
00:39:48
before he died
00:39:50
and they buried his body
00:39:53
because the thought of him suffering for
00:39:55
two weeks
00:39:57
just
00:39:58
makes me sick
00:40:02
there were two more strange events the
00:40:04
night that jeremy disappeared
00:40:06
first
00:40:07
a sister of jeremy's friend johnny had a
00:40:10
disturbing encounter
00:40:12
it was friday night of the fair and it
00:40:15
was between midnight and one
00:40:18
when we were leaving my sister's
00:40:19
apartment
00:40:21
and we came down the stairs and we got
00:40:23
to the last stair
00:40:24
and
00:40:25
we almost ran into one of the
00:40:27
neighborhood guys
00:40:28
and he was completely covered in blood
00:40:31
and i mean it was just all over him and
00:40:33
it kind of scared me what happened to
00:40:35
you
00:40:37
well this he goes oh this this happened
00:40:40
hours ago and he just laughed and then
00:40:41
he went into one of the apartments
00:40:44
a half hour later johnny arrived at his
00:40:47
sister's apartment according to her he
00:40:50
was visibly upset but refused to explain
00:40:54
why
00:40:56
whether it is just coincidence or
00:40:58
whether they're directly related to
00:40:59
jeremy's disappearance
00:41:01
is another one of the
00:41:03
mysteries that
00:41:04
you still have to sort through to try to
00:41:06
determine what indeed did happen
00:41:10
the three or four people whose names
00:41:12
keep reappearing in all the rumors and
00:41:15
all of the reports
00:41:17
they're not
00:41:18
exactly what anybody would call pillars
00:41:20
of society
00:41:22
but as long as these men are out on the
00:41:23
street they can hurt somebody else's
00:41:25
child the same as they hurt mine and if
00:41:27
they did to my son what people are
00:41:30
saying they did
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and what they've been heard themselves
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say that they did they've got no
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business on the public streets
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i would just encourage anyone
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and especially those people who i feel
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have information that would help this
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investigation greatly to just simply
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have the courage to say yeah i'm scared
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to death
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but in a case like this
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my being scared doesn't warrant this
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family's pain
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this age progressed photo shows what
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jeremy might look like today
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he has scars on his forehead and nose
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and a mole on his chin
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the prime suspect in his disappearance
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recently died in prison and there are no
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new leads however the case is still open
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if you have any information about the
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disappearance of jeremy bright please
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log on to our website at unsound.com
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