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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13

March 09, 2017 / 42:54

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers the mysterious disappearance of businessman Gary Simmons, the murders of two models linked to a photographer, a triple shooting at a convenience store, and a haunted farmhouse lawsuit.

The first segment discusses Gary Simmons, who vanished after meeting Tom Dixon to purchase a horse for $30,000. Simmons' remains were discovered nearly 20 years later, leading to questions about foul play and a potential bogus horse deal.

Next, the episode examines the cases of two models, Kimberly Pandy Leos and Linda Soic, both found dead in the Angeles National Forest. Investigators suspect a connection to photographer Charles Rathburn, who was later convicted of Linda's murder.

The third story details a triple shooting at a convenience store in Sacramento, where the killer, Eric Ry Leonard, was arrested after a series of cold-blooded murders that left multiple victims dead.

Finally, the episode features a couple suing former owners of a farmhouse they claim is haunted. The court ultimately ruled against them, stating the occurrences were likely not supernatural.

TL;DR

This episode covers a businessman’s disappearance, model murders, a triple shooting, and a haunted farmhouse lawsuit.

Episode

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next on Unsolved Mysteries a businessman
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Forks Over
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$30,000 for a horse and then disappears
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his bones are found almost 20 years
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later what happened two models on two
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different photo shoots are found dead in
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the same area is it the work of the same
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killer six people are murdered all for
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no apparent reason the police are
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baffled who is the killer finally a
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family says that the Farmhouse they just
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bought is haunted so they're suing the
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previous owners what do you think the
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court will
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decide these are stories you won't want
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to miss I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries
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[Music]
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here at Unsolved Mysteries we receive a
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lot of viewer mail one of those letters
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was from a man with an unusual
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request he was experiencing strange
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premonitions which he simply couldn't
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explain they were about a murder and he
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asked us to look into the
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case Independence
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Missouri K I don't get off to S you take
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it Tyrone Rollins was hired as a school
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bus driver from the beginning he had an
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eerie feeling about the Rocky out
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croppings behind the bus
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yard I'd be sitting up in front of my
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bus and I'd feel like somebody watching
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me from behind and I'd look back there
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and there wouldn't be nobody on the bus
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for a while there I just thought I was
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going
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crazy this is strong feeling like some
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pulling inside me wanting me to do
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something and I just couldn't figure out
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what it
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was finally Tyrone gave in he simply had
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to investigate the north side of the
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Hill there he discovered a hidden
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cave that strong feeling was back again
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I knew I had to go in there for some
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reason it was like an amazing adrenaline
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rush just the feeling of being in there
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I didn't know if it was from not knowing
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what was in there when I shine my
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flashlight towards the Rocks you could
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see little tiny specks look like
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crystals so I started examining the
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rocks and it was just then that I Haden
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to glance over and I seen a pair of
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boots was just shocked I just couldn't
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believe what I was seeing dental records
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confirmed that the remains were those of
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Gary Simmons a businessman from Overland
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Park Kansas 25 miles
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away an autopsy showed that he was shot
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in the
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head Tyrone's incredible Discovery
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became a nightmare for the police they
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were confronted with a killing that
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happened 17 years earlier an
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investigation seemed almost pointless
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but the police had no choice Gary
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Simmons was dead and whoever killed him
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was still on the
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loose
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Neil Gary had owned an operated a
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lucrative chain of gas stations his
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hobby was horse trading yeah beautiful
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horse Gary always worked hard I believe
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he got involved in horses in order to
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have a form of relaxation and a means of
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doing something that was fun with his
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family how you doing just got back from
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a show down tuls Oklahoma man I saw some
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of the most beautiful horses I've seen a
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long time is that right to bet anything
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I might be interested in the day before
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he disappeared Gary learned of a prized
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horse for
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sale you know Tom Dixon Tom
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Dixon yeah yeah he had one of the most
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beautiful purebred appoes I've seen a
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long time raised him from a cat how much
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is he asking for him he's asking $30,000
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for
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[Applause]
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it hi can I help you yeah I'm here to
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see Mr Simmons do you have an
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appointment uh yeah we talked earlier on
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the phone uhhuh and your name please Tom
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Dixon it was the beginning of a
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mysterious encounter which lasted all
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day in which police are still trying to
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peace together excuse me Gary there's a
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Tom Dixon here to see you oh sure hi
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Gary a little while later he left his
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office with Dixon okay uh I'll follow
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you sure it's a great horse you're going
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to love Gary told his secretary that he
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would return shortly but he didn't say
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where he was
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going 15 minutes later he called in and
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asked his secretary to write a check to
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Tom Dixon for
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$30,000 okay 30,000 h hi can I help you
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with something yeah I'm here to pick up
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a check 30 minutes later Dixon picked up
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the check and walked out of the office
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yes he did and um I've drawn up the
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check but you're going to have to get
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Gary's signature on it Dixon then took
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the check to Gary Simmons for his
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signature but no one knows where that
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meeting took
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place later Gary was spotted at a truck
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stop 10 miles from his
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office the owner saw Gary Simmons
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walking back and forth between the
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counter and the
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window he remembers that Gary Simmons
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was alone and there did not seem to be
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anybody with him or waiting with him it
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was the last time anyone saw Gary
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alive just before noon Dixon showed up
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at Gary's Bank Gary Simmons had called
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the president of the bank and had
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informed him that Tom Dixon was on his
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way to cash the check the bank president
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recognized Gary Simmons voice and he did
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not recognize anything unusual in his
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voice to raise his suspicions
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either around 5 hours later Dixon was
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seen at a salvage yard 11 M from the
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bank he was driving Gary's Lincoln
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Continental where did you get that link
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H it's not my car it's something I need
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to get rid of I was wondering if you
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could uh use your machine to sort of
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crush it for me yeah I can make it flat
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for you you want to get rid of it you're
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going to have to melt
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fed's been keeping a real close eye on
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the furnace you got any uh better ideas
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yeah put a brick on the accelerator and
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drive it in the Missouri
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River hey thanks for the advice the
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following day one of Tom Dixon's friends
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dropped him off at a truck stop near
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Kansas City Dixon said that he was
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catching a ride with a CrossCountry
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trucker all right we're ready to go guys
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no one has seen Tom Dixon since 6 months
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went by Gary Simmons Lincoln Continental
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was pulled from the Missouri River less
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than 6 miles from the salvage yard where
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Dixon tried to get rid of it all you had
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was two grown men that had disappeared
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and that happens every day in America it
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was unknown whether they had disappeared
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and not wanted to be found or if Foul
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Play had indeed occurred upon finding
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Gary Simmon's body it became a homicide
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investigation police suspected that Gary
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was the victim of a bogus horse deal
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that Dixon acting alone or with a
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partner stole his money and killed
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him then during the filming of this
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story a new witness came forward oh Gary
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knew a horse that's for sure he knew
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what a good horse was and Roy Hilton is
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a local Rancher he says that he knew
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both Gary Simmons and Tom Dixon he
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claimed that he heard Gary calling his
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office and the bank from the whispering
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Downs horse r
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on the day he
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disappeared
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$3,000 Roy also said that Gary showed
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him the horse that he was buying this
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murder didn't come down over a $30,000
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horse deal it had to come down on some
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black market gas I'm almost positive of
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that because Gary was Simmons was having
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problem getting fuel fore stations Roy
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Hilton's testimony complicated and
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already confusing case Gary was
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struggling to save his chain of gas
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stations in the face of saring oil
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prices the year before his
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death Gary closed uh the bar of his
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stations because of lack of gasoline
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after Gary disappeared there was
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numerous rumors that Gary might have
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been involved in Black Market
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gasoline who murdered Gary Simmons and
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why a
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premonition a horse trade gone bad black
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market gasoline there may be only one
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man who knows Tom Dixon
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this Photograph has been aged to show
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how Tom Dixon might look today he is 5'
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8 in tall with brown or graying hair and
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green eyes he may be working as a house
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painter or general contractor if you
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have any information about Tom Dixon or
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the murder of Gary Simmons please log on
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to our website at unsolved.com
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next two beautiful models are found
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murdered 2 years apart could it have
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been the same
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killer in the vast Angeles National
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Forest of Southern
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California two bodies are discovered at
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different
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times both victims appear to be
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models and both were reportedly
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connected to a photographer named
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Charles
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wurn the the similarities are eerie and
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investigators are wondering if this is
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the handiwork of one
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killer Kimberly Pandy Leos was a
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20-year-old aspiring model and
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actress she was married and had a
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14-month-old son she told her husband
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that she had been booked to model at an
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outdoor photo shoot in the Angeles
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National Forest authorities believed she
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responded to an ad in a local
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newspaper Kimber torched car was found
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the following day near the Monte Cristal
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Campground in the
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park a search of the area didn't turn up
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any
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clues detectives were stumped and the
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case went
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cold Flash Forward one year the LA
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County Corner was called to investigate
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human bones that had been found in the
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Angeles National
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Forest using dental records the coroner
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identified the remains as those of
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Kimberly
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2 years later it was a model shoot that
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also lured 27-year-old Linda SOC to
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Angeles National
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Forest Linda was a successful model and
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a former Los Angeles Raiders
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cheerleader her family and friends were
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frantic when a few days passed and no
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one heard from her police began to focus
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on Charles wurn after they found his
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signature on a car rental agreement in
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the area of the photo shoot he claimed
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that Linda soic died in a freak car
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accident during the
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shoot he said he panicked and that he
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buried her days later Rathburn helped
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police find Linda's body it was just 5
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miles from where Kimberly's body had
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been found the corer reported Linda's
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injuries were not caused by a
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car
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update Charles Rathburn has been charged
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with first-degree murder Rathburn was so
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distraught that he tried to kill himself
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before the
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trial he was convicted of first-degree
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murder and sentenced to life in prison
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without the possibility of
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parole with the conclusion of the soc
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murder trial police now focused on tying
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Rathburn to Kimberly's
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murder we do have some similarities
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between the death of Kimberly pandelos
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and Linda sobec we we also have a person
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who has con fored and indicated that
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they saw Kimberly pandelos in the
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company of Charles Rathburn inside a
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Denny's restaurant shortly before her
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murder investigators tried but were
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unable to link Rathburn to the case and
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then they finally got the break they
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needed
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update a new witness came forward with
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information proving that these cases
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although similar were not connected
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Mana senu told police that her boyfriend
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David ramaker had repeatedly talked
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about Kimberly's murder he also
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threatened to hurt her the same way he
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hurt Kimberly if she broke up with him
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with mana's cooperation the police
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secretly recorded conversations between
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mana and ramaker these calls and other
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evidence led to his arrest ramaker was
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convicted of first-degree murder and
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sentenced to life in prison without the
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possibility of
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parole in Sacramento
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California police respond to reports of
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shots being fired at a convenience store
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44 Ed got a man down at the
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park what we found is that we in fact
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had a triple shooting a customer been
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shot outside the front door two clerks
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have been shot behind the counter and
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looking at the scene uh we had the
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feeling that there probably was very
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little conversation between this shooter
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and his victims and that it appeared he
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walked in the store maybe had not said
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anything to him and simply started
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shooting and they were all head shots
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the one thing that really struck us
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immediately was it was more an execution
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not a robbery it seemed like the primary
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motive for whoever the shooter was in
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that case went in there to kill
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people 35-year-old Steven Anderson a
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store employee was dead Anderson was the
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father of three young
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Sons two other people were mortally
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wounded an employee Zade Ahmad oby and a
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customer 42-year-old Thor Johnson
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Senior investigators had no
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eyewitnesses there wasn't too much to go
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on the Killer's identity was a complete
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mystery none of the victims were gang
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members and very little money was taken
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the detective's first step was to look
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through the cash receipts from the night
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of the
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killings late that evening a woman left
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the store after buying a magazine
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apparently the next customer was the
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gunman he bought two 99
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items his sales were rung up but never
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totaled a customer Thor Johnson came to
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the store just seconds before the killer
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left Johnson was shot in the back of the
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head the biggest feeling we take away
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from that is just that it was very cold
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blooded very
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unnecessary and we were really concerned
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that are we looking for somebody who may
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do this
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again can I help you you want some
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money then exactly one week to the hour
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after the convenience stor murders the
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killer struck again this time he
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targeted a pizza parlor less than one
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mile from the convenience store three
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employees were closing the
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restaurant the victims were 18-year-old
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Sarah Cook and 19-year-old Kyle Reynolds
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two local college students and
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30-year-old Andrea coladangelo once
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again investigators were left with three
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victims but not a single eyewitness
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the second event at the pizza parlor
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only confirmed our worst fears instead
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of any kind of traditional motive murder
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now we were probably dealing with more
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of a psychological motive the obvious
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psychological motive being that here we
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had a guy who killed because he likes to
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kill he was getting a thrill out of
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killing ballistics reports confirmed
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that the same weapon a small caliber
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pistol was used at both murder scenes
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the person committing these crimes has
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little sophistication about weapons uh
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you'd get to feeling that it may be
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someone who may even be a younger person
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borrowing the weapon from uh Daddy's
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nightstand or something of that sort of
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nature
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update after we first broadcast this
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story 22-year-old Eric Ry Leonard was
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arrested for the six
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murders incredibly Leonard tried to
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execute all of the possible
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Witnesses but his attempts failed and
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the people who saw him near the crime
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scene identified him as the
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killer police found a 25 caliber Beretta
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in Leonard's Father's
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House ballistics test proved that this
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was the gun used in all six murders
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Leonard was convicted on multiple murder
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charges and sent to death row where he
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remains
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today next debris from an ancient ship
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is found Frozen in a Turkish Glacier
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some believe that it's part of Noah's
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Ark we've all heard of Noah's Ark it's
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one of the best known stories in the
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Bible and while some people say that
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it's only a tale others insist that it's
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not only true but that there is proof
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they claim that physical evidence of
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Noah's Arc has been found on Mount arat
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Mount
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Ararat according to the
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Bible the area where Noah's AR came to
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rest after the great
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storm it's a desolate area Rising above
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the headwaters of the Tigris
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River in recent years several
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Expeditions have explored the Ararat
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mountains and Incredibly two separate
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teams believe that they may have found
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the Ark in two different locations just
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17 mil miles
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[Music]
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apart one of the sites is on Mount
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ararat's northeast side under a
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permanent 23 squ M
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Glacier a Turkish businessman named
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George hakopian said that when he was a
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young boy in 1906 he saw noark wedged in
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a melted part of the glacier Hagopian
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described the vessel to archaeological
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illustrator Alfred Lee he said it looked
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like a long box it's rectangular
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and the the corners were kind of rounded
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a little bit the the sides sloped in
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slightly the roof he said was basically
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flat with just a slight pitch to it and
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there was a stair kind of apparatus at
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one end his uncle hoisted him up onto
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this ladder and he walked on up onto the
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roof and there all the way down the
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middle of the roof he saw these
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holes and he stuck his head in and it
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was dark he shouted and his voice echoed
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and re-echoed inside it was Hollow
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George agopian went back a couple years
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later saw the same thing but ice and
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snow were beginning to cover it up again
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17 years later Alfred Lee met Ed Davis
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who was station in Iran with the United
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States
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Army Davis said that he also had seen
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the
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ark when Ed Davis started talking the
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hair on the back of my head just stood
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up because I could like hear an echo of
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George Hagopian from years before Ed
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Davis's setting occurred in roughly the
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same area as George hopan however when
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Davis saw what he thought was the ark it
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had broken into
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two we waited a while and the fog kind
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of lifted and it Shone
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through kind of a
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funnel and it showed the Ark in the end
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you could see in the end of it and we
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saw both parts you stand there with your
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mouth wide open Ed Davis described three
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decks inside and large cages on the
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bottom deck smaller cages on the second
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deck and on the roof a venting system
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with many holes so that you could see
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how the light and ventilation can go
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clear to the bottom deck in this
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illustration Alfred Lee reconciled the
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two accounts the intact AR is George
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Hagopian sighting in 1906 and below are
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the two pieces described by Ed
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Davis although Hagopian and Davis
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weren't able to pinpoint the exact
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locations their stories intrigued
00:22:12
amateur archaeologist Don
00:22:15
shaki I can't think of anything more
00:22:17
exciting that I could be doing in my
00:22:19
lifetime than having a small part in
00:22:21
seeing this whatever it is verified and
00:22:25
we have good reason to believe it's
00:22:27
there's something there we we got we got
00:22:29
to prove
00:22:30
it Don shaki launched an expedition to
00:22:33
mount aret after studying classified us
00:22:36
satellite
00:22:40
photos for 3 Days Don and his guides
00:22:44
climbed up the Mountain's South Side our
00:22:47
whole goal was to get to the spot over
00:22:49
the top down the glaciers to this
00:22:52
particular location and verify what the
00:22:54
satellite information had told us the
00:22:56
Turkish government prevented them from
00:22:58
traveling to the north side so ahed a
00:23:02
Turkish guide continued on by himself
00:23:05
Ahmed crusted Mount aret and started
00:23:08
down the North Slope at an elevation of
00:23:10
nearly 16,000 ft he spotted something
00:23:14
half buried in the
00:23:16
snow from a distance of 300 y he took
00:23:20
this
00:23:21
photograph which seems to show the end
00:23:24
of a rectangular object with a peak roof
00:23:27
he came back and and I said is anything
00:23:30
showing he said a coup a coupe and I
00:23:33
said what are you talking about I me a
00:23:34
coup a coup like a chicken cou oh he
00:23:37
kind of had a pointed top and he said
00:23:39
that you could see the outline of it in
00:23:41
the side he said in all of my years he
00:23:45
have never seen anything like it he said
00:23:47
there's some artifact there Don shaki
00:23:49
believed that AMT might have glimpsed
00:23:52
the remains of Noah's Ark shaki returned
00:23:55
to the states and took the photograph
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the forensic anthropol ologist Dr Jim
00:24:00
Ebert it certainly does not look natural
00:24:03
it looks very strikingly man-made to me
00:24:07
uh what I see uh when I look at this is
00:24:10
something that stands out from the rest
00:24:12
of the uh terrain and that is a what
00:24:16
looks like a solid uh structure you'll
00:24:19
never know until you get up there and
00:24:22
can see it and stand next to it shaki
00:24:26
returned to Mount Ararat and studied the
00:24:28
mount M from the air unfortunately the
00:24:30
site was now covered by
00:24:33
snow shaki stopped his search but
00:24:36
remained convinced that he might have
00:24:37
found the resting place of Noah's Ark
00:24:40
others disagreed we've been told for
00:24:43
years that the Noah's Ark is on top of
00:24:45
Mount arat because that's what the Bible
00:24:47
says and that's not what the Bible says
00:24:49
uh the Bible says the ark came to rest
00:24:51
uh on upon the mountains of aat that
00:24:54
word is in the plural David fossil was a
00:24:57
former Merchant Marine officer and
00:24:59
Merchant Salvage expert he believes that
00:25:01
the ark was buried here a full 17 Mi
00:25:05
south of Mount Ararat fossils teams
00:25:08
searched the area and discover traces of
00:25:11
iron which do not appear to be natural
00:25:16
deposits every 20 to 30 in uh
00:25:19
approximately we have the remains of an
00:25:21
iron fitting or an iron pin of sorts
00:25:23
that are still there in the soil and
00:25:25
discernible well this is uh one of uh 5
00:25:28
400 iron fittings uh that we've located
00:25:31
of course we haven't pulled them all out
00:25:32
of the boat uh it's been it's been cut
00:25:34
in half by a diamond saw scanned by
00:25:37
electron microscopes at Los Alamos
00:25:39
National Laboratory and um this
00:25:41
particular iron fitting is 94. 84%
00:25:45
man-made rod iron looking at the mound
00:25:48
from above the iron deposits form a
00:25:51
distinct pattern of intersecting lines
00:25:54
which fossil believes is the framework
00:25:56
of the arc the bolts length is 515 ft
00:26:00
and the width averages 85 ft the same
00:26:03
measurements recorded in the Bible given
00:26:06
the shape of the thing and the size of
00:26:07
the thing and where where they found it
00:26:09
I mean if it walks like a duck and
00:26:10
quacks like a duck until somebody finds
00:26:12
something else uh what else could it
00:26:15
possibly be but Noah's
00:26:16
Arc are the metal fittings remnants of
00:26:19
Noah's
00:26:21
Ark some have suggested that David
00:26:24
fossil found the remains of an ancient
00:26:26
Mongol Fort others say it's a geological
00:26:30
formation however the Turkish government
00:26:33
has declared the mound the official site
00:26:35
where no is Arc rests the man who is in
00:26:39
charge Professor Sali Bak tutan uh who
00:26:42
is also a geologist he says it's it's
00:26:45
Noah as Arc 200% it is not a geological
00:26:48
anonyyymous
00:26:58
more exploration and Analysis before
00:27:00
we'll know the answer but for now noark
00:27:04
remains an intriguing and Elusive
00:27:07
unsolved
00:27:08
[Music]
00:27:12
mystery next a 21-year-old college
00:27:15
student is missing after a night of
00:27:18
partying who's responsible for her
00:27:20
disappearance
00:27:30
one spring afternoon in kusada
00:27:33
Louisiana Carol and Luke long received a
00:27:36
call from a friend of their 21-year-old
00:27:39
daughter Wendy good listen I have
00:27:41
Wendy's car I just want to know how to
00:27:42
get it back to you guys where's Wendy
00:27:45
hie honey Wendy drove to sheveport to
00:27:48
shop and to party with her friends for
00:27:50
the
00:27:51
weekend her parents expected her home by
00:27:54
Sunday
00:27:55
afternoon instead they received the news
00:27:58
that Wendy had
00:28:01
disappeared I thought you was with you
00:28:04
no I haven't seen her since Friday night
00:28:05
we called the police and told them that
00:28:07
we thought something had happened to
00:28:09
Wendy and that's where it all started
00:28:12
somebody knows where Wendy's said and we
00:28:15
just want to find her so bad Wendy long
00:28:19
had taken a semester off from college
00:28:21
and planned to return in the fall at the
00:28:24
time of her disappearance she was living
00:28:26
with her parents one of her flaws may
00:28:29
have been that she's too trusting she
00:28:32
thought everybody she met was her
00:28:34
friend she was one of those people that
00:28:36
made friends with
00:28:39
everybody
00:28:41
sweetie shortly afternoon Wendy left her
00:28:44
parents home driving her own car and
00:28:46
headed to shreport 50 mi from
00:28:50
kusada on the way she picked up two
00:28:52
friends from
00:28:54
nakatosh after an afternoon of shopping
00:28:57
the three picked up another friend Tommy
00:29:00
who lived in the shreport area nothing
00:29:03
how's it going later that evening they
00:29:05
arrived at a Shri Port
00:29:08
party there was drinking at the party uh
00:29:11
and I'm told that Wendy had quite a bit
00:29:13
to drink that
00:29:15
night so that when it came time for them
00:29:19
to take Tommy back home she didn't want
00:29:21
to drive in fact she didn't want to go
00:29:23
with them at all she decided to stay
00:29:25
where she was are you okay to drive her
00:29:28
two friends that she came to shreport
00:29:30
with drove Tommy back to where he was
00:29:32
staying at the
00:29:33
time after dropping Tommy off Wendy's
00:29:36
friends got into
00:29:39
trouble their statement is that they
00:29:40
went to get some food and they were
00:29:43
stopped by a state trooper and one of
00:29:46
the friends was arrested for
00:29:48
DBI and taken to the Benton jail Tommy
00:29:52
told the police that he was concerned
00:29:53
that Wendy might be stranded at the
00:29:55
party so he drove his own car back to to
00:29:58
the party and picked Wendy
00:30:01
up on the way to kushat he stopped for
00:30:04
gas and a qut of
00:30:08
oil when he came back out of the the gas
00:30:12
station Wendy was talking to two young
00:30:15
men in a black Chevy truck hey Tommy
00:30:18
come here this is Mike and
00:30:20
zance Tommy said that it appeared that
00:30:23
she knew them and Wendy told Tommy at
00:30:26
that point not to worry about it that
00:30:28
she was going to go with them and they
00:30:29
were going to get her home are you sure
00:30:31
you know these guys I yes I'm sure I
00:30:33
know these guys I will get home
00:30:36
okay just go
00:30:38
home all right Tommy said that that was
00:30:41
the last time that he saw
00:30:45
Wendy Tommy agreed to take a polygraph
00:30:47
test which he
00:30:50
passed Tommy did extremely well on the
00:30:53
polygraph uh the polygraph examiner
00:30:55
himself was very impressed with him
00:30:58
and the details that he could remember
00:31:01
at that point they decided that it would
00:31:03
be beneficial to hypnotize Tommy to see
00:31:07
what else he could remember under
00:31:09
hypnosis Tommy provided a more detailed
00:31:12
description of the black Chevy pickup
00:31:14
truck and the two
00:31:18
men a police artist produced these
00:31:21
sketches but no one came forward to
00:31:23
identify
00:31:25
them on the day after Wendy vanished her
00:31:28
ex-boyfriend claimed that he received a
00:31:30
message from Wendy on his answering
00:31:32
machine hey Mark this is Wendy this is a
00:31:36
really bad connection hear me hello he
00:31:39
said that the it sounded like she was on
00:31:41
a cell phone and he didn't hear
00:31:44
everything that she said he did clearly
00:31:47
hear uh the words this is Wendy he said
00:31:50
the rest of it was very staticy and he
00:31:52
erased the
00:31:54
message at that time he didn't even know
00:31:56
that Wendy was Miss missing Wendy Long's
00:32:00
missing person's case is filled with
00:32:02
many more questions than
00:32:04
answers a key question involved another
00:32:08
of Wendy's ex-boyfriends just tell me
00:32:10
who you were with last Friday night
00:32:13
there are quite a few reports that
00:32:15
indicate that there was some physical
00:32:17
violence in between them
00:32:21
no the thing that concerns me about
00:32:25
Wendy's exboyfriend
00:32:28
is the fact that another girlfriend of
00:32:30
his came up missing years prior to this
00:32:35
and that she was never
00:32:37
found but Wendy's ex-boyfriend
00:32:39
apparently had an alibi the boyfriend
00:32:42
cannot be placed in shreport anytime
00:32:45
that Friday or
00:32:47
Saturday um I consider him to be suspect
00:32:52
only because of the prior things that
00:32:54
happened for Wendy Long's parents the
00:32:57
nightmare that began with a single phone
00:32:59
call continued we've had people call and
00:33:02
said that they've been praying for us
00:33:04
and praying for Wendy I'm just trusting
00:33:07
God to answer our prayers and to lead us
00:33:10
to wherever windy might
00:33:12
be
00:33:14
update 5 months after Wendy's
00:33:17
disappearance a surprising
00:33:19
development Tommy whose real name is
00:33:21
Robert
00:33:22
Stewart was arrested for check fraud
00:33:27
police asked more questions they focused
00:33:29
on the inconsistencies in the story that
00:33:31
he had told about the last time that he
00:33:33
saw Wendy long investigators said that
00:33:36
Robert Stewart Alias Tommy eventually
00:33:39
broke down confessed to the murder and
00:33:41
pinpointed the location of Wendy's
00:33:44
body Stuart pled guilty to the rape and
00:33:47
murder of Wendy long and was sentenced
00:33:49
to life without the possibility of
00:33:56
parole next
00:33:58
it seemed like the classic English
00:34:00
Farmhouse an oasis of peace and quiet
00:34:04
and then the nightmare
00:34:06
[Music]
00:34:14
began in the beautiful English
00:34:18
Countryside sits Lowe's Cottage a 250y
00:34:22
old farmhouse that some say leaves its
00:34:25
guests with an impression that is quite
00:34:29
haunting it's very frightening we we
00:34:32
think the place is haunted we've seen
00:34:35
ghosts we've had articles thrown about
00:34:37
we've seen candles move all the time the
00:34:40
inside of your stomach's churning up uh
00:34:44
expecting something to happen even when
00:34:46
it's quiet you're still on edge The
00:34:49
Smiths are not only scared they're also
00:34:52
angry they're suing the former owners
00:34:54
for selling them a haunted house and the
00:34:57
former owners are counter suing they say
00:35:00
the Smiths are making the whole thing up
00:35:02
so they don't have to pay for the house
00:35:05
and now a court must decide is the house
00:35:09
really
00:35:11
haunted Andrew Smith and his wife Josie
00:35:14
moved their family to an old farmhouse
00:35:17
in the village of upper
00:35:19
Mayfield they thought that it would be
00:35:21
the perfect place to raise their two
00:35:23
children in
00:35:25
the about 6 weeks after moved in we
00:35:28
noticed things happening but if you
00:35:30
stand over here it's really cold you'd
00:35:34
walk into our bedroom when the
00:35:35
temperature would be a couple of degrees
00:35:36
lower than the rest of the house
00:35:38
definite temperature drop the rooms you
00:35:41
could never really see the ceiling there
00:35:43
was always this hazy it was always hazy
00:35:46
but the former owners two sisters who
00:35:48
grew up in the cottage say that they
00:35:51
never experienced anything out of the
00:35:54
ordinary our parents myself and myself
00:35:57
sister never saw any ghosts or heard any
00:36:01
strange noises or anything associated
00:36:04
with the Paranormal I don't think it's
00:36:06
haunted I would lived there for about 25
00:36:10
years never saw anything heard
00:36:13
anything but the Smiths insisted that
00:36:17
living there was a
00:36:19
[Music]
00:36:24
nightmare you get this feeling when
00:36:26
you're in the room that if this thing
00:36:29
was a person with its little finger it
00:36:31
could flick you straight across the room
00:36:34
one night we stayed awake till about
00:36:36
3:00 in the morning then we just fell
00:36:37
asleep through exhaustion and within
00:36:39
minutes of us falling asleep I felt this
00:36:42
pressure on my throat strangling
00:36:50
[Applause]
00:36:52
me when Josie was being strangled that
00:36:56
was that's what you call Fe that was
00:36:59
that made my hair shoot straight up one
00:37:02
night I was in the kitchen that was
00:37:05
downstairs it was about 8:00 at night
00:37:07
and I turned around and I saw this young
00:37:10
girl she had the old gathered top with
00:37:13
the body on the gathered skirt and I
00:37:16
thought oh there's somebody outside it
00:37:19
wasn't until I thought about it that I
00:37:21
realized I could see the window frame
00:37:22
through her the former owner Sandra
00:37:25
padmore says no way
00:37:28
that's rubbish absolute rubbish we never
00:37:31
saw any Ghosts no unusual happenings
00:37:34
there was nothing flying around rooms
00:37:37
there was no vile smells and
00:37:39
Mists nothing at
00:37:41
all the Smiths however were worried that
00:37:45
they were up against some sort of demon
00:37:48
we have requests that come from uh
00:37:51
individuals who are very deeply upset to
00:37:53
people who have buildings that causing
00:37:55
them problems you know various smells
00:37:58
apparitions anything really that is to
00:38:00
do with the
00:38:01
supernatural Lowe's Cottage comes out
00:38:05
fairly near at the top of the list of
00:38:06
this The Smiths then asked the Reverend
00:38:09
marford to bless their home to R this
00:38:12
house of all evil after the Vic could
00:38:13
bless the place the house just lit up
00:38:18
everywhere it just seems so
00:38:21
light when when you see the reaction to
00:38:24
a prayer in the house that's when you
00:38:27
kind of really amazed and there's no two
00:38:30
ways about it there's definitely
00:38:32
something The Smiths believe the Vicar's
00:38:34
prayers would finally bring them peace
00:38:37
but later that
00:38:41
[Music]
00:38:46
evening doing I don't know perhaps you
00:38:49
left the timer
00:38:51
on switch it off me
00:38:55
okay then the Smith's talk to their
00:38:58
neighbors so you're the young couple
00:39:00
that's taken over L's
00:39:03
Cottage this is a story about that cage
00:39:06
you know the Smith soon found out that
00:39:09
everyone else in town seemed to know
00:39:11
about the tragic history of Lowe's
00:39:12
Cottage except for
00:39:15
them during the 1860s a milkmaid named
00:39:19
Elaine Herring lived in the cottage with
00:39:21
her lover Joseph
00:39:26
Phillips the Smiths checked the town
00:39:28
records and discovered that indeed the
00:39:31
young couple really had existed Elaine
00:39:34
was murdered by her
00:39:37
employer and died in the cellar of
00:39:39
Lowe's cottage which is now the
00:39:41
kitchen when Joseph Phillips heard about
00:39:44
Elaine's death he hung himself in
00:39:47
despair or so The Story Goes The Cottage
00:39:50
isn't taunted the cottage has no
00:39:53
reputation in Upper Mayfield of being
00:39:54
haunted or in ashborne for that matter
00:39:57
it's all untrue there's no record
00:39:59
whatsoever of Elaine Harring and Josie
00:40:02
Phillips ever living at Lowe's Cottage
00:40:04
then local newspapers began writing
00:40:06
stories about the hauntings as a result
00:40:09
the bank refused to refinance their
00:40:11
house saying that the publicity had
00:40:13
decreased the home's value so the Smiths
00:40:16
filed a lawsuit against Susan Melbourne
00:40:19
and Sandra
00:40:21
pador had we known any of this any of at
00:40:25
all we wouldn't have bought the place we
00:40:27
wouldn't have stayed clear of it we
00:40:29
should have been given the choice if
00:40:31
anybody had bought our house instead of
00:40:33
us with a weak heart I'm sure it would
00:40:34
have killed them the Two Sisters thought
00:40:36
that the whole thing was ridiculous
00:40:39
absolute rubbish nothing happened at
00:40:41
Lo's Cottage Mr Mrs Smith are have come
00:40:45
up with this story about the ghost um to
00:40:48
try and get out of
00:40:52
pain The Smiths hired two paranormal
00:40:56
investigators to videotape their home
00:40:58
they'd hop to get evidence to support
00:41:00
their case the investigators used a
00:41:02
night vision camera and placed two
00:41:05
candles to capture evidence of a
00:41:08
haunting suddenly the lower candle
00:41:11
tumbled down the stairs and the other
00:41:14
candle flew through the
00:41:17
air was well literally scared to death
00:41:20
we didn't know what to think what to do
00:41:23
but you just definitely got the presence
00:41:25
that there was somebody with you they
00:41:26
definitely not imagining it because
00:41:29
we've had the
00:41:30
experience we definitely believe that
00:41:33
they should have told us the house is
00:41:35
haunted we have got to tell people if
00:41:37
anybody should anybody in their right
00:41:39
mind want to buy our house we have got
00:41:41
to tell them what has happened and the
00:41:42
fact that it's haunted and I think the
00:41:44
same should apply to
00:41:46
them
00:41:47
update the court battle went on for
00:41:50
years finally the arguments concluded
00:41:53
and the English judge reached the
00:41:55
verdict in less than 5 minutes he ruled
00:41:58
against the
00:42:00
Smiths he concluded that the unearthly
00:42:02
happenings were most likely the work of
00:42:04
a person and not a ghost since then
00:42:07
there have been no reported ghostly
00:42:10
sightings
00:42:28
[Music]
00:42:47
[Music]

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Episode Highlights

  • The Mysterious Disappearance of Gary Simmons
    Gary Simmons disappears after a horse deal, leading to a chilling discovery years later.
    “I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
    @ 03m 10s
    March 09, 2017
  • Execution-Style Murders
    A convenience store shooting leaves three dead, raising fears of a serial killer.
    “It seemed like the primary motive for whoever the shooter was... was to kill people.”
    @ 14m 46s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Search for Noah's Ark
    Expeditions claim to have found Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, igniting intrigue and excitement.
    “I can’t think of anything more exciting than having a small part in seeing this verified.”
    @ 22m 21s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Search for Noah's Ark
    David Fossil believes he found remnants of Noah's Ark buried south of Mount Ararat.
    “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...”
    @ 26m 09s
    March 09, 2017
  • Wendy Long's Disappearance
    A college student goes missing after a night of partying, leaving her family desperate for answers.
    “Somebody knows where Wendy's at and we just want to find her so bad.”
    @ 28m 15s
    March 09, 2017
  • Haunted House Lawsuit
    The Smiths sue former owners over undisclosed haunting experiences in their new home.
    “Living there was a nightmare.”
    @ 36m 17s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13
  • This murder didn’t come down over a $30,000 horse deal.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13
  • It seemed like the primary motive for whoever the shooter was... was to kill people.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13
  • If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13
  • Somebody knows where Wendy's at and we just want to find her so bad.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13
  • We definitely believe that they should have told us the house is haunted.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13

Key Moments

  • Eerie Premonitions02:20
  • Haunting Discovery03:10
  • Bogus Horse Deal08:41
  • Execution Murders14:46
  • Noah's Ark Expedition22:21
  • Noah's Ark Discovery24:59
  • Wendy Long Missing27:58
  • Haunted House34:22

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May 22, 2019
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45:17
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 16
March 09, 2017
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42:48
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 16
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 20
March 09, 2017
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42:51
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 20
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
March 09, 2017
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42:42
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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42:53
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 12 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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42:54
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 12 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 6 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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42:52
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 6 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 17
March 09, 2017
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42:53
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 17
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 19
March 09, 2017
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42:55
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 19
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 12
March 09, 2017
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42:52
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 12
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 15
March 09, 2017
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42:50
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 15