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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast April 1986 a raging house fire
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set by an arsonist takes the life of a
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wealthy widow and Aurora Missouri
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five days later Johnny Lee Wilson a
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young [Â __Â ] man confesses to the
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crime and is sent to prison two years
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later another claims to have been
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present at the murder and insists that
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Wilson is innocent
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today the controversy has divided the
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town is Johnny Lee Wilson a killer or a
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victim it had more North Dakota
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Kenneth ng and Curtis hack came to blows
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over a woman in a bar fight the next day
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ng is found dead the police called it an
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accident
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Kenneth Angie's family thinks otherwise
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they'll also introduce you to a most
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unusual artist an English woman who
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seems to have the ability to create
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lifelike portraits of people she has
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never seen in fact people who have been
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dead for years
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incredibly many witnesses swear to the
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uncanny accuracy of her drawings join me
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for another edition unsolved
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I've got a young lad here who went to
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spit it very suddenly I don't know good
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March 1990 two hundred people in
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Clarksville Indiana paid $15 apiece for
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a demonstration by Carl pols a British
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artist with an unusual vision he doesn't
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actually tell me how he was killed for
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years audiences from around the world
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have been mystified by Carl's work and
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often touched by the results of her
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drawings are simple portraits nothing
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fancy but Carl subjects are otherworldly
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people who have been dead for years I
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don't actually see these people I don't
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hear them and I honestly don't quite
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know how I do it I just sense them also
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there is an element of what we call
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automatic control as if somebody takes
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over my hand and gives me a certain
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amount of help in getting the drawings
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accurate with good results obviously
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it's not always good but when we do get
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good results we get quite nice
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likenesses of people's relatives who
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have passed into the world of spirit
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today Carl pores lives in a small town
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in England for the last 40 years she is
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possessed and been possessed by her
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unusual ability the concept of life
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after death has fascinated mankind for
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centuries it is a fascination ripe for
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exploitation by mediums and clairvoyance
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who claim the power to communicate with
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a spirit world
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some are obvious charlatans but others
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display gifts which seem to defy
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explanation during the past four decades
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Carl pols has drawn more than 100
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thousand eerie portraits it could be
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argued that she is nothing more than a
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keen observer of faces but her drawings
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of people she could never have known or
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seen are uncannily accurate and have
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convinced some skeptics that her powers
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could be real
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in 1984 photographer Peter Cook went to
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Carl polled his home in Surrey England
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Peter was on assignment for a national
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newspaper I've always been a pretty
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open-minded kind of person and I was a
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bit skeptical I had heard about people
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speaking with the dead and through the
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dead but when it came to drawing was a
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different matter do you have any
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drawings that you've done Peter and Carl
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had never met before he had no idea he
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was about to become Coral subject and
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Cole just simply asked me to sit down
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next to her and I did and she came up
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with some pretty astounding pictures now
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I've got a little elderly lady here
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coming through she brings me the first
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of the pictures that she started draw
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was my grandmother rounded cheeks as it
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took shape I could see that it was going
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to be somebody that I recognized and my
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stomach was beginning to churn just a
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little because it was my first
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experience of anybody talking about my
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grandmother or any other relation in
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that kind of manner a beautiful rosy
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complexion
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in fact she might even be called rosy
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I'll keep getting the word rosy
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but she's smiling very much would I call
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a country complete
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and what she's showing me now definitely
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confirms that it's a little water back
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where she probably had to get her
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drinking water from according to Peter
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his grandmother's name was many rose
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she did have rosy cheeks and her
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drinking water came from a rain barrel
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it wasn't so much the picture that she
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threw that I recognized so much as the
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description she was giving and the names
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and the people that were near her and
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they were pretty astonishing anybody
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who's a skeptic she really I mean they
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better open their eyes cuz I thought
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he's it many Rose died in 1962 Peter
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Cook is positive that Carl had no way of
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knowing what she looked like
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[Applause]
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in the same city in coral also drew
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Peter cooks mother Emily who died in
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1978 Carl certainly has a special gift I
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don't understand why and I have to say
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that cholera sparked me off to
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investigating in in some depth as to the
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possibility of life after death coral
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became aware of her gift just after
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World War two fools her mother suffered
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from severe arthritis nothing else could
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ease her mother's pain Carl took her to
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a spiritualist I must admit I nearly
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died of fright on the spot because the
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medium came to me and said do you know
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you're a psychic artist which I didn't I
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didn't even know what she meant and she
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said well you are an artist which was
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true and she told me one day I'd be a
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very famous medium and I must admit I
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thought she was completely barmy and so
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I began to sit to try and develop the
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gift and eventually within two or three
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years was getting psychic drawings I
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gave up counting how many we'd ever done
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and when I got to 100,000 it just goes
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on and I don't have time to keep records
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a lady almost held her head up so
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straight to join my art contest we were
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just momento Rocco was another witness
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to Carlos powers Karl drew this portrait
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of arraigns
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aunt who died when Lorraine was six
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I have photos that if they're exactly
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the same it sir it's quite remarkable I
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have never met coal in my life it's the
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first time I've I've heard of her
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nevermind meet her and I'm devastated
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shattered I just couldn't believe what I
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saw when people come to me for sittings
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some come out of curiosity some come
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because they're desperate for evidence
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and I hope that I can prove to them that
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there is a life after death it doesn't
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always work but we try his Carl pols
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truly gifted or is she merely a talented
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artist with extraordinary powers of
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perception
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for those who believe Karl poaches
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drawings provide comfort and reassurance
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that there may be life after death
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[Music]
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well I don't find it mysterious at all
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I've come to a stage where to me it's so
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normal so ordinary and I find that life
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becomes more beautiful one would not
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hasten going into the world of spirit
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but it's a beautiful thought that one
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day we're all going to be reunited with
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those people we've loved and temporarily
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been parted from in a moment an
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investigation of a firey murder of a
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wealthy 79 year old widow two different
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men have confessed to the same crime
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every week hundreds of calls are
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received here in our telecenter bunny
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with suggestions for stories several
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months ago one of our producers received
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a startling telephone call from a man in
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prison from his cell he told us that
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before his imprisonment he'd been
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involved in a murder for which another
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man had been convicted his call led us
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into the disquieting case of Johnny Lee
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Wilson a mildly [Â __Â ] young man
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serving a life sentence for the murder
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of an elderly woman what makes this case
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so intriguing is that Wilson had
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confessed to the crime a confession as
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proponents say was coerced and now the
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final appeal of Johnny Lee Wilson
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Warren Missouri population 7,000
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a typical Middle American small town
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everyone knows everyone else
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and everyone in Aurora knew Johnny
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Wilson mildly [Â __Â ] 20 years older
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than IQ of 71 who according to
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psychologists had the emotional
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development of a fourth grader Johnny
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was raised in Aurora by his mother and
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grandmother I'm going down to Rama's for
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some pop okay Johnny was a quiet boy he
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was a home boy he never did cause the
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same trouble but he had problems
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learning disability and we had to have
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special education for him and a lot of
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the kids we thought at school didn't
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treat him you know so good but really
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johnny has always been a happy boy even
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when we knew things maybe were kind of
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bad sometimes he was happy on school
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days Johnny left his bicycle with mrs.
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Pauline Marx because his classmates
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would often vandalize you know it is
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mrs. March was a close friend of
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Johnny's Granville see you then at 79
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she was a last surviving member of the
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wealthiest family in Aurora and owned
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the town's largest business
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April 13th 1986 they PME
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fire and rescue squads rushed to the
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home of Holly months by the time they
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arrived house was engulfed in flames
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when firemen were finally able to search
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the wreckage they found the charred body
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of Pauline Mart's
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the official cause of death was smoke
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inhalation but the fire was not an
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accident
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mrs. Mart's had been bound and gagged
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rope and duct tape investigators
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concluded the fire was deliberately set
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started with gasoline there was an
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immediate public outcry Pauline marts
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had been one of Aurora's most beloved
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citizens
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five days later anger turned to shock
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the police picked up Johnny Wilson for
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questioning interrogated him for nearly
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four hours and finally arrested him
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after he'd confessed to the crime a
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confession he would later recant I just
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I just made the mistake by confessing to
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it when I didn't do it to this day I
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don't know why that I said I did it you
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know
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it just it just happened I didn't want
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to happen but did I just it was just a
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mistake on my part you know saying that
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I did it when I really didn't it was a
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mistake on my part for the past four
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years the Johnny Wilson case has divided
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the small town of Aurora many believe
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johnny is innocent
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law enforcement officials disagree when
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we requested interviews of the Lawrence
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County Sheriff's Department and the
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District Attorney's Office they insisted
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they had put the right man behind bars
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and declined to participate in the
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broadcast the recreations of court
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proceedings and Johnny Wilson's
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interrogation and confession have been
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filmed word-for-word from official
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transcripts Sunday April 13th 1986 on
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the day of the fire Johnny spent the
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early afternoon at home taping records
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with a friend later he mowed a
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neighbor's lawn when Johnny was finished
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his mother drove him home she and his
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grandmother claimed he could not
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possibly have been at Pauline Marx's
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house when the fire was set they didn't
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get home until about 5:00 o'clock and as
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soon as they got home the neighbor boy
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came back over again tape and he stayed
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until nearly 7:00 and then when they
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left at 7:00 Johnny I put up nine
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posters in his bedroom and then when
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that was done then we about twenty five
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to eight we left her with two letters
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and went up to Rama's got some things
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and then when we came out that's when we
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heard the sirens
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we heard a siren so we went over by and
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saw that this Pauline's house the back
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of the back of the house was engulfed in
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flames
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hey Johnny how's it going not bad 18
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year-old Gary wall was also mildly
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[Â __Â ] he and Johnny were both
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enrolled in a special education program
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at the local high school basically I
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just said hi how are you you know by you
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know and then I went back to the car and
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sit in the back seat that was it
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the next morning Gary Wallace pressure
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arteries no he gave them a completely
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different version to this conversation
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with Johnny mrs. Martin you know tied up
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well you sound like you know something
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about this you tell anybody and I'm
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gonna beat you
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Gary Wong later took a total of six
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lie-detector tests he failed
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all but one
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the morning after Johnny's arrest
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sheriff's deputies went to the Wilson
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home to search for evidence they can't
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to search the house and said they had a
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warrant and searched for me I gave him
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permission to search because I didn't
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think they'd find anything see and but
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they did I mean they thought they did
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they went to his room and just start
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taking things out of drawers and
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cabinets and things that was in there
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the authorities believe that Johnny had
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sexually assaulted mrs. marks deputies
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found women's underwear the bureau and
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Johnny's rule however the family said
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the bureau and clothing belonged to
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Johnny's mother in Johnny's confession
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he admitted to stealing Julie the
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deputies also took costume jewellery
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which Johnny's grandmother's had she
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used for sewing
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finally they found a nearly empty gas
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can which investigators would later say
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is used to start the fire
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Johnny Wilson was charged with
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first-degree murder
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because of his diminished mental
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faculties Johnny was examined to
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determine if he was fit to stand trial
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what you like about high school I was
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the manager for the football team they
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gave me a jacket and everything Jamboree
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friends in school when you're asked to
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evaluate someone's fitness to stand
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trial you look at first whether they
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understand what the charges are against
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them and the science are they able to
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reason and make their own decisions
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about whether to enter a plea are they
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able to decide whether they want to
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testify in their own behalf at a trial
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are they able to help their attorney by
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giving him a consistent account of what
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happened
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and in those particular range of skills
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I did not think Johnny was cause of the
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stand trial I used to work at the
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hardware store Johnny when the police
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arrested you did they ask you anything
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about Miranda rights yeah I think so do
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you know what Miranda rights are yeah
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what are they
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what's the difference between right and
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wrong
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johnny was ultimately examined by two
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psychiatrist and a psychologist and two
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of the three judge that he was incapable
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of understanding the court proceedings
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however the third the court appointed
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psychiatrist determined that he was fit
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to stand trial
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johnny told his court-appointed
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attorneys he was in assisting however
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based upon his confession testimony of
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Gary wall and other evidence
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his attorneys advised him to plead
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guilty to avoid the death penalty by
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pleading guilty Johnnie lost his right
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to a trial by jury because he had given
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a confession his attorneys told him that
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it would be very likely that you would
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get convicted
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if this went to trial and they also told
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him that this judge was very likely to
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give him the death penalty based on
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prior cases that had gone before this
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judge and so what he understood was if
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he went to trial and he was found guilty
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that he would die what is your
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understanding of why you're here this
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afternoon plead guilty why are you
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pleading guilty Johnny I don't know
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pardon this recreation of Johnnie's hero
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has taken verbatim for the court
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transcripts just a first-degree murder
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but that's what you're beating guilty -
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why are you wanting to enter such a plea
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I don't know the so-called plea of
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guilty should have been stopped about 60
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seconds after it started the judge asked
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Johnny if he knew what he was doing and
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Johnny Wilson said no I don't understand
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why I'm here I don't understand what's
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going on and the judge said do you want
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to plead guilty to this charge and
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Johnny said no I don't want to plead
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guilty to it at that point the circuit
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judge sort of said gentlemen court's
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adjourned this case will be set for
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trial in two weeks I expect everyone to
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be here and be ready for trial I'm not
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going to take this plea of guilty but he
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didn't the judge went further continued
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to cross-examine Johnny and finally
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accepted the plea of guilty was
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voluntarily entered and will accept your
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plea and pronounced sentence upon your
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plea of guilty in this cause the court
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sentences you to life imprisonment in
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the custody of the Missouri Department
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of Correction
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rooks Danziger Johnny Wilson was
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immediately remanded to the Missouri
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State Penitentiary
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ten months later at a prison in Kansas
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this man confessed that he knew who
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killed Wally Mart's
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and it wasn't Johnny Wilson and we
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return we examine evidence which has led
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many to believe that Johnny Lee Wilson
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is innocent
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in 1986 Johnny Lee Wilson mildly
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[Â __Â ] twenty-year-old confessed to
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the murder of Pauline Mart's was
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sentenced to life imprisonment two years
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later in February 11th 1988 convicted
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felon Chris Brown fee confessed to
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participating in the same crime Braun
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Field was and still is serving a life
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sentence in Kansas for accessory to
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murder
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once I found out that they had a
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[Â __Â ] boy that they'd before spending
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confessing to the crime and stuff I just
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kind of got feeling sorry for him and
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then I found out he was raised by his
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grandmother and mother you know and I
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was raised by my grandmother's [Â __Â ] I
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had a lot of feelings toward probably
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what they felt and it was it was just
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such a situation to me it was so cut and
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dried that they had the wrong man I just
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stopped shouldn't be any problem you
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know to tell him I got the wrong man
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look at it and release the board
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according to Chris Brown she/he and an
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unnamed accomplice at the tipped off of
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Pauline Mart's kept a great deal of
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money in her home
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[Music]
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they broke into the house
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[Music]
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hey sonic just relax
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come on just watch it
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Oh
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where's Ramona a lady huh according to
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brown they ransacked the house mrs.
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Mart's was bound and gagged
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Brown field and as a country's decided
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to burn down live so that no evidence
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would be left of the sea
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Broadview says he was outside when as a
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couple started the fire
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[Music]
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let's get on it let's go on back simply
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clear out brownfield claims he later
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tried to go back inside to save mrs.
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Mart's
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it was too late
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two men at the sea
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alaa news of Priss brownfields
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confession was made public the town of
00:25:36
Aurora was thrown into turmoil one group
00:25:40
of citizens banded together and erected
00:25:42
this billboard shortly thereafter it was
00:25:45
firebombed by a Malone party
00:25:49
the sheriff believed Chris brownfields
00:25:52
confession was part of an elaborate
00:25:53
escape plan and discounted it
00:25:57
Chris Brown feel is a cold-blooded
00:26:00
murderer he has killed senior citizens
00:26:03
before using the exact mo in the same
00:26:07
manner that mrs. Mart's was killed noted
00:26:12
Missouri attorney D Wampler was hired to
00:26:14
represent Johnny and reopening a case
00:26:17
Walter became convinced the Johnny's
00:26:19
confession have been Coors it's the
00:26:21
first time the state of Missouri has
00:26:23
ever put a third grader on trial for
00:26:24
murder Johnny Lee Wilson was at a movie
00:26:28
theater on the night that he supposedly
00:26:30
confessed and they tricked him into
00:26:32
going with them to the police
00:26:34
headquarters he had lost a billfold
00:26:37
several days earlier and they came and
00:26:39
asked him to go to the police station
00:26:41
and he thought that he was going because
00:26:43
they had found his billfold jari did you
00:26:46
lose a wallet yeah we found it we got it
00:26:49
down at the police station if you come
00:26:50
down and identify it you pick it up
00:26:52
taking it home okay his mother and
00:26:55
grandmother were not told that they were
00:26:58
going to question him that evening John
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is there any possibility that you are
00:27:04
involved in this no what if I told you I
00:27:08
thought you was a police interrogation
00:27:10
weekend at 8:30 p.m. and was concluded
00:27:13
just after midnight what if I told you
00:27:15
you was seen at that fire before it
00:27:17
started all right say I wasn't the word
00:27:20
spoken in his scenes are taken verbatim
00:27:22
from transcripts of a police tape
00:27:24
recording what would you do if we
00:27:27
brought in a witness in here in this
00:27:29
chair and he said here and looked you
00:27:32
right in the eye and said John you was
00:27:34
there before that fire started they are
00:27:37
and that kept on saying
00:27:39
well we know you did it we know we got
00:27:41
we got a witness saying that you told
00:27:44
him you told him you did it and after
00:27:49
that you know I I just remained maintain
00:27:53
my innocence I said I didn't I didn't I
00:27:56
didn't do it I don't know who did I
00:27:59
didn't do it
00:28:00
murders what you're in here for three
00:28:02
they startled us start yelling saying
00:28:06
well we know you did it you don't tell
00:28:08
us that you did it so we just get this
00:28:10
all wrapped up so when all go home
00:28:12
didn't know she was tied up how'd that
00:28:14
information get out there's a whole
00:28:16
bunch of people out there that night
00:28:18
that came up with information that she
00:28:20
was tied up the language use was so
00:28:22
aggressive I'm an ordinary individual
00:28:25
might have done at that point what's the
00:28:26
end the interviewer asked for their
00:28:27
attorney but being a fairly young young
00:28:32
man who was limited intellectually and
00:28:35
no prior experience with the criminal
00:28:37
justice system and the emotional
00:28:39
stability of an eight or nine year old
00:28:42
they're not gonna know to say get out of
00:28:45
my face stop talking to me you know I
00:28:47
don't I didn't do it and you know I've
00:28:50
already told you that I want to end this
00:28:51
he didn't think he had the permission in
00:28:53
this he didn't know it get in the
00:28:54
interrogation I wasn't fine model of
00:28:56
that how you know too much why'd Gary
00:28:58
make up something like that on you he
00:29:00
mad at you Dan of the jintan at the end
00:29:03
interrogation he he forced my head back
00:29:06
and that's that's when I said okay okay
00:29:08
I did it
00:29:10
but when I really didn't that's that's
00:29:11
when I like what besides her rope was
00:29:14
around her ankles the interrogation
00:29:16
contains the deputies pressed for
00:29:18
details you know and I know just thank
00:29:24
come on John thank you
00:29:28
well what are some of the things that
00:29:29
could be used my handcuffs I think no no
00:29:34
we're on gas Bureau a scared kid you
00:29:38
know sometimes you'd lie to get out of
00:29:40
trouble and essentially when he gave his
00:29:43
confession I think he may have been
00:29:44
lying to get out of trouble the
00:29:47
immediate trouble at the moment which
00:29:49
was a couple of angry detectives you
00:29:52
know questioning pretty vigorously they
00:29:54
just simply said if you'll tell us what
00:29:56
we want to know we can all go home and
00:29:58
he was just acting like a child that has
00:30:01
a that has brain damage and he thought
00:30:04
okay I'll tell them what they want to
00:30:05
know and then we'll all go home
00:30:09
but Johnny did not go home
00:30:15
but at the end of the confession they
00:30:16
they slapped the handcuffs on me and
00:30:18
walked me out the door and drove me to
00:30:20
Melbourne and locked me out that's
00:30:22
that's why that's why I bosses nine
00:30:25
going home over over something that I
00:30:27
think just run my life
00:30:31
I said I'd said to my jail cell you know
00:30:33
just
00:30:35
thank you I didn't do this you know
00:30:40
bottom line on
00:30:42
I just wanna go home former sheriff's
00:30:46
deputy Dustin told her began studying
00:30:48
the evidence on his own he came to
00:30:51
Johnny's defense as I got into the
00:30:55
reports I observed that what was being
00:30:59
said about Johnny Wilson by the
00:31:00
Sheriff's Department and other
00:31:01
investigative agencies and what was
00:31:03
substantiated by evidence were not the
00:31:05
same thing
00:31:08
Toder discovered that the costume
00:31:10
jewelry taken by investigators from the
00:31:12
Wilson home belonged to Johnny's
00:31:14
grandmother the underwear they found
00:31:18
belonged to Johnny's mother and there
00:31:21
was another gas can found at the crime
00:31:23
scene which was never entered into
00:31:25
evidence the more I observed the less
00:31:29
evidence I could find there just I never
00:31:32
did find anything that could tie Johnny
00:31:33
Wilson to the case one surprising piece
00:31:38
of evidence which was discovered at the
00:31:40
crime scene was a battery-operated stun
00:31:42
gun in his confession Kris brownfield
00:31:50
mentioned losing a stun gun during the
00:31:52
robbery and a weapon which he described
00:31:54
was identical to the one found at the
00:31:56
scene it had never been publicized that
00:32:00
a stun gun had been used in this crime
00:32:04
Chris Brown filled in his confession was
00:32:07
the first one who ever mentioned the
00:32:10
stun gun
00:32:10
he described the stun gun and drew a
00:32:14
picture of it that was identical to the
00:32:17
stun gun that was eventually found at
00:32:19
the crime scene Johnny Lee Wilson didn't
00:32:22
even know what a stun gun was he was
00:32:24
asked about it he thought a stun gun was
00:32:27
an electric razor
00:32:30
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00:32:32
on may 8th 1989 Dee Wofford presented a
00:32:36
motion in Circuit Court requesting the
00:32:39
Johnny Wilson be given a jury trial the
00:32:43
motion was denied the judge ruled that
00:32:47
Johnny was competent when he pled guilty
00:32:49
the Chris Brown field was not a credible
00:32:52
witness brown field had refused to
00:32:55
testify in person at the yield how would
00:32:59
the state of Missouri suffer from giving
00:33:02
this poor little boy a trial that
00:33:04
probably would only take two or three
00:33:05
days I couldn't see that there's any
00:33:08
harm or damage in it and he should have
00:33:10
been given a trial in my opinion today
00:33:17
Johnny Wilson is still serving his life
00:33:19
sentence he has been placed in
00:33:22
protective custody because prison
00:33:24
officials believe he would not be able
00:33:26
to protect himself or the general prison
00:33:28
population
00:33:30
Johnny will be eligible for parole when
00:33:33
he is 70 years old justice has been very
00:33:39
difficult to find in the Johnny Wilson
00:33:41
case it's one of those cases perhaps
00:33:44
there's only one in a thousand where an
00:33:47
innocent man is doing time in the
00:33:50
penitentiary and Johnny Lee Wilson is
00:33:52
innocent and if he had a trial he would
00:33:55
probably be acquitted I don't think the
00:33:57
jury would deliberate more than an hour
00:33:59
before they acquitted him and it's a
00:34:02
shame that he never got a chance to
00:34:04
prove his innocence all I want somebody
00:34:07
to believe me you know you know just
00:34:10
that I didn't do this
00:34:15
in September of 1990 an appeal was heard
00:34:18
before the Missouri appellate court
00:34:20
Johnny's appeal for a trial who was
00:34:22
denied once again
00:34:25
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00:34:41
when we return a man is found dead in
00:34:44
his garage the morning after a barroom
00:34:46
brawl accident foul play
00:34:52
[Music]
00:34:58
October 4th 1988 3:30 p.m. what did you
00:35:03
find when you first came
00:35:05
police led more North the court all
00:35:07
again an investigation into the death of
00:35:09
a local auto apparently an hour earlier
00:35:14
the body of 27 year old Kenneth Enki had
00:35:16
been discovered in his own garage by his
00:35:18
uncle the cause of death massive carbon
00:35:21
monoxide poisoning initial indications
00:35:24
pointed to a probable suicide Kenny had
00:35:29
too much going for him to be committing
00:35:31
suicide you know that was way too far
00:35:36
you know he didn't have any trouble so
00:35:39
it would bother him that much almost
00:35:43
immediately bits of evidence began to
00:35:45
cast doubt on the suicide Theory a fully
00:35:48
loaded 22 caliber rifle was lying six
00:35:50
feet from angee there was a small pool
00:35:53
of blood on the floor
00:35:53
but no marks on the body and no sign of
00:35:56
a struggle even more puzzling the fuel
00:35:59
tank of the truck in the garage was
00:36:01
nearly full and the ignition had been
00:36:03
turned off if Kenneth ink he had in fact
00:36:05
committed suicide by an ailing carbon
00:36:08
monoxide then who turned off the trucks
00:36:11
engine the investigation into Kenneth's
00:36:17
Angie's death was stymied his family
00:36:19
vehement Lee insisted that suicide was
00:36:21
out of the question but if there was
00:36:23
foul play involved who could have had a
00:36:25
motive and the opportunity to commit the
00:36:27
crime within 12 hours of police found a
00:36:31
potential suspect who had both motive
00:36:32
and opportunity
00:36:37
- am huncles bar on the main street of
00:36:40
ed more bike losing time only two
00:36:43
customers remain Kenneth Angie and
00:36:45
Curtis heck another auto repair man I'm
00:36:51
taking you home tonight are you going
00:36:54
away Curtis do you really are a [Â __Â ]
00:36:57
Barney I want to talk to you go home
00:36:59
with me your head and thought me neither
00:37:02
one of us are mama dolly I mean I was
00:37:05
rolling around on the floor or a sling
00:37:06
and a bunch of dumb stuff there was some
00:37:10
punches thrown back and forth but nobody
00:37:11
really got hurt and uh at one point I
00:37:15
got him down on the floor and I and I
00:37:17
held him down there and I told him I'm
00:37:18
gonna let you up and I said when I let
00:37:21
you up I want you to just walk out the
00:37:22
door and I let him up and then he did go
00:37:27
out the door
00:37:29
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00:37:33
moments later Kenneth's inky retaliated
00:37:36
I heard the crash out front and I and I
00:37:50
knew what it was as soon as I heard it I
00:37:52
seen my pickup out there it had been
00:37:55
broadsided I thought about just
00:37:57
forgetting the whole thing but more I
00:37:59
thought about it I thought me and Kenny
00:38:03
were both body men and he had just
00:38:05
annihilated my pickup so I thought if
00:38:09
I'm gonna have to fix my vehicle then
00:38:11
he's gonna have to fix his
00:38:13
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00:38:17
approximately one hour later heck in the
00:38:19
barmaid a ride a 10 G's home Angie's
00:38:22
truck was parked in the driveway
00:38:31
[Music]
00:38:40
I heard a noise coming from the garage
00:38:43
it's a groaning sound so I went around
00:38:46
to the back door and I opened up the
00:38:49
door and I went in and only told my crap
00:38:53
don't you
00:38:59
[Music]
00:39:00
I should have realized you know that
00:39:03
there was something wrong with him but I
00:39:04
didn't I was mad at him anyway any other
00:39:07
time if I'd have seen somebody on the
00:39:09
floor morning and groaning I certainly
00:39:11
wouldn't have left him there but you
00:39:13
know the guy just smashed my pick up all
00:39:15
the pieces and I had I figured he was
00:39:19
sick from drinking so I figured go ahead
00:39:21
and spend the night on the garage floor
00:39:24
according to the official police report
00:39:26
this is the last time Kenneth Anger was
00:39:29
seen alive
00:39:30
I believe that Kenneth engi when he was
00:39:33
in the garage and it became cool started
00:39:36
the vehicle sat there and waited for
00:39:39
Curtis heck to come to the garage for
00:39:41
the confrontation that was bound to
00:39:43
happen
00:39:45
realizing that something is happening to
00:39:47
him at this point I believe he turned
00:39:50
the vehicle off that was in the garage a
00:39:52
pickup started to head for the door and
00:39:56
didn't quite make it to the door before
00:39:58
he collapsed time passed and he died
00:40:05
waiting for Curtis hang
00:40:09
Angus uncle Richard Nygard disagrees
00:40:12
with the police I think Kenny was a
00:40:16
little bit smarter than that just start
00:40:18
a vehicle up and leave it running in the
00:40:20
garage while he was still in there he
00:40:23
might have started it up just so he
00:40:26
could move it and probably run his own
00:40:27
vehicle in and run that one Holland
00:40:32
my god believes that ng heard her
00:40:35
kicking his truck
00:40:37
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00:40:42
he feels that the two men had another
00:40:44
confrontation inside the garage
00:40:49
he fell the Honan
00:40:52
probably
00:40:53
was knocked unconscious Curtis shut the
00:40:57
door and walked away and then realized
00:40:58
the truck was running and come back and
00:41:00
went in and shut it off
00:41:10
with a sealed garage that was still
00:41:12
enough carbon monoxide fumes in there
00:41:14
did still do so via
00:41:16
the autopsy does not indicate that there
00:41:19
was any assault on that body and I don't
00:41:21
believe there was it doesn't make me
00:41:24
very happy to know that I was the last
00:41:25
person to see him alive and walked out
00:41:27
the door left him there but I had
00:41:29
absolutely no reason to to think that
00:41:33
there was any carbon monoxide involved
00:41:35
because there was a vehicle in his
00:41:37
garage there was a friend of his pickup
00:41:39
in the garage but it wasn't running and
00:41:42
I don't remember seeing any smoke in the
00:41:46
garage I don't remember I think I would
00:41:48
have noticed that several puzzling
00:41:52
questions continue to loom over this
00:41:54
case did Kenna think he started the
00:41:56
truck to keep warm until the inevitable
00:41:58
arrival of Curtis heck eggy was a
00:42:01
trained mechanic and certainly knew the
00:42:02
lethal possibilities of running an
00:42:04
engine in a small enclosed space unless
00:42:07
alcohol had completely impaired his
00:42:09
judgment but if a drunken angee did
00:42:12
start the truck and was overcome by
00:42:13
fuels how could he have had the clarity
00:42:16
of mine to cut the ignition but be
00:42:18
unable to reach the door just 15 feet
00:42:20
away and finally if it was not engi who
00:42:25
turned off the ignition and who did and
00:42:28
left him on the floor to die we believe
00:42:32
that the death occurred from a lethal
00:42:35
dose of carbon monoxide and that there
00:42:38
was no criminal foul play involved the
00:42:41
family wants to continue the
00:42:43
investigation as to theories which
00:42:45
they're certainly entitled to but law
00:42:47
enforcement has officially closed this
00:42:49
case it just doesn't seem to be a
00:42:52
clear-cut answer to it and there's been
00:42:54
a lot of stories and rumors and and it's
00:42:58
it's been and just it's been hell on
00:43:00
everybody is what it's been and I'd like
00:43:02
to see an answer to it someplace I don't
00:43:06
think they'll ever have a you know the
00:43:10
final that says this is exactly what
00:43:13
happened
00:43:14
I don't think they ever will you know
00:43:16
there's just there's too many loose ends
00:43:28
on our next unsolved mysteries few
00:43:31
people of Warwickshire England mourned
00:43:33
the demise of Dorothea Allen an
00:43:35
eccentric recluse and corset
00:43:36
manufacturer who mysteriously destroyed
00:43:38
all traces of her past Dorothea left no
00:43:42
will and her four million dollar estate
00:43:44
will simply pass on to the government
00:43:46
unless her heirs can be found join me
00:43:50
next week for another edition unsolved
00:43:54
mystery
00:43:58
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00:44:20
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00:44:24
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