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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 on the surface Reggie De Palma
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was a caring and dedicated fireman in
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reality DePalma was a cynical
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manipulator who used his position as a
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scout leader to prey on vulnerable young
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boys for years a woman named Miriam was
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haunted by erratic frightening images
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from the life should barely remembered
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in time a fragmented portrait emerged -
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two very special people
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Miriam believes helped her survive a
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troubled traumatic childhood based on
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his own confession Michael south of
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Webster Texas was convicted of murdering
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two teenage girls myself has always
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maintained that he is innocent and that
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the confession was coerced by a sadistic
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police chief surprisingly both the local
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sheriff and a state prosecutor believe
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Michaels self story is true
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and from the annals of World War two the
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fascinating legend of the ghost blip in
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1942 a u.s. Navy airship crashed to
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earth in California with no one on board
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for this day the fate of its crew
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remains an unsolved mystery joined
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perhaps you solve a mystery
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her name is Miriam she is 50 years old
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lives in New York and has one grown
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daughter Miriam's husband died in 1984
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and she now does extensive volunteer
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work with other widows and widowers I
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have this vague feeling in July of 1982
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Miriam was seeing a psychologist therapy
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led her down a frightening path filled
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with confusing fragmented images which
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appeared to spring from the depths of
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her memory this image like a mummy was
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the only thing I could liken it to it
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was so terrifying and so frightening and
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I became so petrified by it I didn't
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know what was happening I didn't
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understand what was going on the human
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mind is a vast uncharted universe but
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thoughts and moments and memories lurk
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randomly for 10 years Miriam has been
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piecing together the events of her
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childhood attempting to understand what
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is real and what is not wondering if
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things happened as she remembers them
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her doctors are convinced they did in
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any case Miriam has now embarked on a
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search for two people whom she recalls
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with love and compassion
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Miriam's journey into her past began in
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1983
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once her disconnected memory started to
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break through they simply refused to go
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away I found myself getting up at night
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and sitting on the floor in the bathroom
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and all of these memories started coming
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back of my father attacking me of my
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father being subdued by the police I
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really allowed the images I worked at it
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I let them come and I try to figure out
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what I was seeing and try to understand
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what was happening to me what would
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happen is that she began to become
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subject to flight what she called
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flashbacks these would be images that
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would suddenly come out of nowhere and
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grab her in such a way that she would
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just be paralyzed for the instant that
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it occurred those flashbacks indicated
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that there was a certain amount of abuse
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that went on very early in life that she
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did not have a handle on and there was a
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big part of her that they did not want
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to deal with it I only remembered good
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things about my father and to suddenly
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have a whole new side of him revealed to
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me was a terrible shock and I remember
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saying in therapy I don't want this to
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be true I don't want to believe this
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about my father
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Miriam was an only child her father
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Harry died in 1984 two years and to
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Miriam psychotherapy although he had
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often exhibited erratic behavior
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Miriam's conscious memories of him have
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always been happy ones now however the
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years between her third and fifth
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birthdays began to hotter at the time
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Miriam lived with her mother and father
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in Miami Beach the detail recreations
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you are about to see are based solely on
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Miriam's memories
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somehow your mom he's an expert on
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coconut sir
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I remembered and my father was attacking
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and somehow I guess I kicked him enough
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to hurt him and he put me down or
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dropped me or whatever and I ran and
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wanted to hide from him
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I remember watching from a hiding place
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where he finally left me alone he was
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calling me a dog and a cat he was
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calling me an animal I mean he didn't
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know it was me anymore
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somehow policemen were there my father I
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mean he was ranting he had no idea there
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was anybody there Miriam says that she
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remembers Hospital orderlies with the
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policeman trying to subdue her father
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she assumes they were called by her
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mother I was terrified beyond anything I
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can possibly relate to you I don't know
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how to tell you the terror that I felt
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Miriam has come to believe that her
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father suffered from severe mental
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illness she now feels certain that while
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her mother tried to cope
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Miriam herself was taken away
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when I started having these flashbacks I
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started thinking about mommy and daddy
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and the images that went with my parents
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weren't the images that were popping in
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my mind and I didn't know who these
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people were
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I suddenly realized they were people in
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my life that were important to me and I
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didn't know who they were brought you
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something to eat really afraid I
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remember I was absolutely frightened out
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of my mind slowly I realized that this
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was a safe place that these people were
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kind and they weren't going to hurt me
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and they were loving and I was very
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happy there as a gates of repressed
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memory opened miriam began to believe
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she had once been placed with foster
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parents she was inundated with images of
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warmth and love my foster father had
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white hair and he was a young man it was
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very striking I remember his hands I
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remember that they were strong and
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powerful hands that made me feel very
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safe miriam believes she called her
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foster parents mommy pat and daddy Mike
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Mike was a fireman and Pat sang her to
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sleep with Irish lullabies I remember a
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song called toora loora loora
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all my life I've known this lullaby was
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sung to me
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I just remember being hugged and kissed
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and just playing with mommy pats
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ringlets and the overwhelming sense of
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being loved they thought I was the most
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wonderful child in the world and I
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really delighted in that we have to talk
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to you
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there's some people but unhappy memories
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soon intruded first a serious discussion
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with Mike and Pam Merriam sensed that
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she was about to lose them
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baby what's important is that we love
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you after hearing the testimony of all
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the parties Miriam then saw herself in a
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courtroom sitting with a social worker a
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real parents as well as Pat and Mike
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were also there clearly Miriam Parton's
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foster parents have provided a good home
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during a difficult period however in
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cases like this we must consider first
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and foremost the best interest of the
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child since the original reasons for
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placement in the foster home no longer
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exist it's the decision of this court
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that Miriam Parton be returned to the
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physical custody of her natural parents
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heart is a journey I was very very
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distraught I did not want to leave them
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as far as I was concerned these are the
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people I wanted to spend the rest of my
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life with
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I really didn't remember about that kiss
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for a very long time actually it didn't
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come until almost the very very end of
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all my memories in fact that was
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probably one of the very last flashbacks
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I had and until I had that memory I
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really felt at a loss and somehow that I
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loved you that was came across and that
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kiss has been enough for me to make
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peace with the loss and to go on with my
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life and just keep their memory in my
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soul and in my heart
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Miriam lived with her natural parents
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until she married at the age of 21 at
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the age of 47 she began her search for
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Mike compat their names were Pat and
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Mike and I think their last name was
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McGuire according to Miriam her mother
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admits that Miriam's father had
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emotional problems and that life was
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often difficult however Miriam says her
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mother denies that she was ever placed
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in foster care which has prompted
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suggestions that Miriam might suffer
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from false memory syndrome and that Mike
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and Pat might never have existed the
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question of whether all of this is made
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up
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certainly arises because it's hard to
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believe that people could be this way
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all right but I can't help but believe
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that this is the absolute truth there
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may be a certain amount of condensation
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and distortion around the edges but
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essentially I think that the story is
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accurate and it was relayed in the
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truthful manner especially since all
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during the relation of this tale Miriam
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was wanting to get out of the treatment
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there are emotional reactions to the
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pieces and to the whole were consistent
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with a real event and not with a fantasy
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and in repeated flashbacks we got the
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beautiful picture of these marvelous
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foster parents and without these months
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with two loving parents she might not
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have survived they gave me a lot they
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saved me from despair and I would like
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them to know that there was a good
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outcome
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I just pray that their lives are
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wonderful and that they've had happiness
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and I hope that I'll get a chance to be
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reunited with them and share with them
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the good things that I have in my life
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Mariam believes that she lived with her
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foster parents in 1945 or 1946 and she
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was between three and four years old she
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remembers their last name as McGuire
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neither records of a court hearing the
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records of foster care from Miriam had
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been found
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however the Dade County Clerk's office
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says this was not unusual in Florida
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during the period right after World War
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two
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along the Pacific coast the hunt is on
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for the [ __ ] submarine that brought the
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water US soil in 1942 the final outcome
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of world war ii was still very much in
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doubt the United States had every reason
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to fear a Japanese invasion of his
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western shores they were known to be
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Japanese submarines operating off the
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coast there had been an attack on an oil
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refinery down in near santa monica los
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angeles there was a great fear that
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there would be more attacks one response
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to the threat was unusual to say the
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least
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the Navy assembled an unlikely fleet of
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12 odd sized blimps to monitor possible
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enemy activity along the California
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coastline the mission of airship
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squadron 32 though critical was largely
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routine and uneventful until August 16th
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1942
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that day an airship on his regular
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patrol made a spectacular descent and
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crashed to earth with no one on board
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incredibly its two-man crew had vanished
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and no trace of them was ever found The
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Legend of the ghost blimp had been born
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it was almost impossible for them him
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not to have been seen by somebody but
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nobody saw him go nobody saw him jump
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and there's no relics of them at all a
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real puzzle
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it is perhaps a stranger's home front
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incident of the Second World War so
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strange
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many remembered as if it happened only
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yesterday throughout the entire war
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airship squadron 32 lost only the two
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men who disappeared on that Patrol fifty
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years later the exact fate is still
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unknown the mystery surrounding the
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ghost blimp remains a subject of endless
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fascination Sunday August 16th 1942 the
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flight of the ghost blimp began like
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hundreds of others had just after 6:00
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a.m. a blimp designated flight 101
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prepared to take off flight 101 spiders
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were 27 year old lieutenant Ernest
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DeWitt Cody and 34 year old ensign
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Charles Alice Adams both were
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experienced and reliable all the more
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reason to wonder about what would occur
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over the next five hours
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lieutenant Cody was a thoroughly
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experienced pilot he had many many hours
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in this particular type of an aircraft
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he was called a very cool determined if
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somewhat taciturn officer Adams had
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flown in the large durables
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and was thoroughly checked out but he
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had never flown in this small blimps and
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this was an indoctrination flight for
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him that Sunday morning aviation
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machinist mate Riley Hill was assigned a
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crew for Adams and Cody that morning but
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just before departure Hill was
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inexplicably ordered to leave the ship
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he'll now believes heavy moisture in the
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air was weighing the blimp down making
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it unwise to take off with three men
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aboard so I got out shut the door and
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locked it closed and they took off
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the flight plan called for the 101 to
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depart Treasure Island
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pass over the Golden Gate Bridge then
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head to the Farallon Islands 25 miles
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off the coast from there the patrol
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would continue north the point raised
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and south along the coast line the first
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leg proceeded without incident an hour
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and a half after takeoff at 7:30 8 a.m.
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lieutenant Cody at radioed squadron
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headquarters at Moffett Field positioned
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4 miles east to the farallon's
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standby 4 minutes later Cody called
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again those were the last words ever
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received in flight 101 when it came time
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for further explanation and we didn't
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get it we just assumed well that was
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negative and they had went on their way
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then it came time for the hourly
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position report and that didn't come in
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and the second one didn't come in and
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that's when we began to feel that
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something was grossly wrong and we just
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could not believe that our radios
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weren't working because we had good
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radio crew and machinery was working
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after more than three hours of radio
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silence personnel at Moffett Field grew
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increasingly alarmed frantic attempts to
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contact the blimp went unanswered any
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word yet no sir
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no communications from the crews since
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the report at 7:42 I'm investigating
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suspicious oil sir yes sir
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finally a message was received but not
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from flight 101 let's get a team over
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there right away
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the blimp had come ashore just south of
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San Francisco flight 101 had
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inexplicably drifted eight miles off
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course
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there was a swimmer there a man called
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mr. Capel via who was standing ready to
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go into the water and all of a sudden he
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saw this huge gray mass just coming
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right at him
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remember this thing is 47 feet wide and
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it wasn't too high off the water and he
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watched it come in he had dragged him
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suil along the sand at the water's edge
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then hit a little sand knoll it bounced
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up into the air and then slid up a
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little bit of a canyon and then hit
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rather heavily on the side of the canyon
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and this knocked off what turned out to
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be depth charge relieved of the weight
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the LA then soared up into the overcast
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again and out of sight of this mr. Capel
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via and began to drift inland I guess
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with the winds over Daly City
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the rapidly deflating blimp was seen by
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hundreds of people bunny Gillespie was
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16 years old at the time I was on the
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way home from Sunday school and I saw
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this big grey thing coming in over what
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I thought was going to be right over
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Templeton Avenue oh and I saw this thing
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coming in through the sky I was very
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surprised as were a lot of other people
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because things like that just didn't
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happen in Daly City flight 101 was
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quickly losing altitude
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and in danger of becoming entangled and
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powerlines
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the blimp was on a collision course with
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the steep hills and Daly City one
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woman's house almost became the point of
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impact it was a mrs. Appleton she said
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that all of a sudden this huge behemoth
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had settled and scraped across the top
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of her roof and she said - sounded like
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chains dragging but the entire house was
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blacked out because of the size of this
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thing and she raced to the front window
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wondering wondering what the world was
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going on and she saw the rest of it the
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gondola hit the cross-arm break off part
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of the mechanism there and gradually
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settled down to the ground
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I missed the actual landing of the thing
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but when I got there was just one great
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big gray monster with the gondola
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jutting up into the towards the tops of
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the houses it was huge miraculously no
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one was injured as a blimp came to rest
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in the middle of the street
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almost immediately daily city officials
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are on the scene or Navy personnel
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arrived they were stunned to discover
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that there was no sign of lieutenant
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Cody or ensign Adams
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apparently the blimp had piloted itself
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straight into downtown Daly City
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a search of the gondola left
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investigators perplexed the door was
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latched open a highly unusual in-flight
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position the safety bar normally used to
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block the doorway was no longer in place
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a microphone hooked to an external
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loudspeaker dangled out of the gondola
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the ignition switches were still on the
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radio was still on and working nobody
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had touched my fuel valves they were set
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up just exactly the way that I'd left
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them we still had another six hours of
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fuel it's two life jackets out of the
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three that were normally carried aboard
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were missing but there was no other
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equipment that was gone the machine gun
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was still layer' the other flares there
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were three other flares were still there
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the
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expandable life raft was there and one
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more life jacket there was nothing
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missing
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lieutenant Cody's cab lay on the
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instrument panel
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the missing lifejackets indicated the
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crew had put them on before takeoff as
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regulations required a locked in heavily
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weighted briefcase containing top-secret
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codes was still in place It was as if
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Cody and Adams had opened the door and
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simply stepped out into thin air
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the Navy investigation revealed that
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flight 101 had been seen by several
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ships and planes between 7 and 11 a.m.
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some of the eyewitnesses reported being
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close enough to make out Cody and Adams
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in the gondola in each instance
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everything about flight 101 seemed
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normal
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speculation on the fate of the two Navy
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Airmen ran rampant some people believe
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that Cody and Adams had spotted an enemy
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submarine when they descended to
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investigate they were taken prisoner
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one outrageous rumor suggested that the
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Pirates were involved in a lover's
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triangle with an unknown woman one had
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murdered the other in a jealous rage the
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story went and then fled when the l8
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reached land the Navy finally settled on
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the most plausible theory there had been
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an accident onboard perhaps caused by a
00:27:17
mechanical malfunction presumably one of
00:27:20
the men had climbed outside the gondola
00:27:22
to correct the problem and run into
00:27:24
trouble when the second man tried to
00:27:26
come to his aid both fell to their doom
00:27:29
a year later along his 17th 1943
00:27:36
lieutenant Ernest DeWitt Cody and ensign
00:27:39
Charles Alice Adams were officially
00:27:41
declared dead and the mystery of flight
00:27:43
101 passed into legend
00:27:52
after the crash the l8 was patched up
00:27:55
and put back into service by the Navy
00:27:57
ultimately the blimp became part of the
00:27:59
Goodyear fleet during the 1960s and 70s
00:28:02
it was seen by millions of sporting
00:28:04
events few of them had any idea that the
00:28:07
stately craft circling overhead was a
00:28:10
fabled ghost blimp
00:28:14
next a respected community leader goes
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into hiding after he is convicted of
00:28:19
statutory rape and sexual assault
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00:28:30
perhaps the most disturbing crimes and
00:28:33
those that betray the trust of children
00:28:35
in 1981 a group of teenage girls in
00:28:39
Danbury Connecticut were betrayed by a
00:28:41
respected community leader Reggie De
00:28:44
Palma was a 12 year veteran of the
00:28:46
Danbury fire department an advisor to a
00:28:48
local Explorer Scout Post but behind the
00:28:51
facade of respectability DePalma was a
00:28:54
time bomb just waiting to explode in
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1978
00:29:02
Reggie De Palma had organized the
00:29:04
Explorer post an affiliation with the
00:29:06
fire department
00:29:08
his girlfriend Connie was co-leader when
00:29:12
the group quickly became a popular
00:29:13
after-school activity when I first
00:29:17
joined the truth my impression of Reggie
00:29:19
and Connie we're that they were very
00:29:22
nice people so it was just never even a
00:29:25
question that you would not trust them
00:29:27
with anything I mean you just tell them
00:29:29
confidential things and you would really
00:29:32
feel like you would trust them all the
00:29:33
time and go to them if you needed help
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00:29:41
by 1981 the explorer posts had grown to
00:29:44
include 15 girls and 10 boys they met at
00:29:48
the fire station regularly and were
00:29:50
drilled in life-saving and rescue
00:29:51
techniques Reggie was supervisor of
00:29:56
danbury's ambulance service and the
00:29:58
scouts training was often interrupted by
00:30:00
emergency calls the post members
00:30:09
idolized Reggie De Palma and he soon
00:30:11
became a virtual hero especially to the
00:30:14
girls
00:30:20
it's kind of hard to describe Reggie
00:30:23
Reggie was a lot of fun Reggie and his
00:30:26
girlfriend Connie
00:30:28
they were easygoing people they were
00:30:31
easy to talk to if you had a problem
00:30:33
they really wanted you to open up to
00:30:37
them and get close to them and you know
00:30:40
they were good at getting people's trust
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in 1981 the Explorers organized a
00:30:50
Halloween haunted house to raise money
00:30:52
for an upcoming camping trip it was a
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night which would burn itself into
00:30:57
Terry's memory zero 13 and you still
00:31:00
don't have a boyfriend have you ever
00:31:03
gone all the way with a boy balloon
00:31:06
well I'd like to teach you about that
00:31:08
because I'm your friend are you my
00:31:11
friend
00:31:15
I thought that he was concerned with me
00:31:19
and you know how I'd you know handle it
00:31:22
because we were at that age and you know
00:31:26
I took it as like a fatherly concern and
00:31:28
you know something that you know he
00:31:31
wanted to not be a part of but helped
00:31:35
with Connie came up to me and said you
00:31:44
know we have to go get some things you
00:31:46
know why don't you come with me
00:31:48
and we you know promptly went back to
00:31:50
the house where regem was waiting we
00:31:58
went back to the apartment and you know
00:32:00
she said why don't you go shower and you
00:32:02
know get some of this makeup off so I
00:32:04
did didn't think anything of it when I
00:32:06
came out it all happened
00:32:18
hey money
00:32:22
yeah we're just watching some TV that
00:32:24
night Reggie forced Terry to have sexual
00:32:27
intercourse while Connie watched
00:32:30
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00:32:32
tragically Terry was not Reggie to
00:32:34
pama's first victim nor would she be his
00:32:37
last I was 13 years old and I did not go
00:32:44
immediately to my parents or the
00:32:46
authorities because at that age I don't
00:32:49
think that you have any understanding
00:32:50
even what's going on you just feel a
00:32:53
terrible amount of humiliation of guilt
00:32:56
what did I do wrong to cause this to
00:32:58
happen I don't know what to do I can't
00:33:01
believe he did it over the next year
00:33:03
Reggie De Palma continued to sexually
00:33:05
abuse girls in the Explorer post
00:33:08
finally they began to confide in one
00:33:10
another
00:33:11
I mean I've been back but I can't go
00:33:17
back anymore one of the girls had gotten
00:33:20
upset about something and started
00:33:22
talking and it just started snowballing
00:33:24
because as soon as she said something
00:33:25
then the next person and everybody
00:33:27
started coming forth and then we all
00:33:29
realized that we weren't alone that
00:33:30
we're all in this group together and
00:33:32
that together we could try to stop this
00:33:34
we have to tell somebody okay are you
00:33:39
gonna do it we'll go with you if you
00:33:42
want yeah will you tell
00:33:45
I'll tell my mom one of the girls
00:33:54
mothers came to the police station to
00:33:56
report what her daughter had told her so
00:34:00
detective Benjamin and I were assigned
00:34:02
to investigate this and I spoke with all
00:34:05
the girls involved and he spoke with all
00:34:06
the boys at that point you know I was
00:34:10
still very young in high school trying
00:34:12
to deal with all this it was not an easy
00:34:14
thing to just discuss with someone to
00:34:16
tell them she was very supportive she
00:34:19
was very nice and helped me through it a
00:34:21
lot so what I need to know is did you
00:34:24
ever have occasion to be alone with with
00:34:28
regi yeah
00:34:32
there was one time when I was at his
00:34:35
apartment okay
00:34:36
so what happened once you got to the
00:34:39
apartment keep me some wine
00:34:43
and how much wine did you have pink
00:34:49
glasses every glass of wine
00:34:51
three okay right off the bat one night
00:34:55
when I heard this the stories that these
00:34:57
girls told I felt myself betrayed and I
00:35:01
don't even know Reggie these girls were
00:35:06
so devastated over what had happened to
00:35:10
them that I had nightmares
00:35:13
it was the details of what they were
00:35:16
telling me made me feel such a rage
00:35:19
towards this man I had to get him rested
00:35:24
as soon as possible
00:35:26
why just tell me what's going on Russ
00:35:29
five counts of child molestation Reggie
00:35:32
you're the right to remain silent you
00:35:34
understand you have a right to an
00:35:37
attorney
00:35:38
do you understand if you waive that
00:35:40
right anything you say or do will be
00:35:41
used against you in a court of law if
00:35:43
you understand on the same day Reggie
00:35:45
was arrested his girlfriend Connie was
00:35:48
questioned she believed in him so much
00:35:51
she would have done anything for him and
00:35:55
she felt so insecure about their
00:35:58
relationship that she even went this far
00:36:02
to do these things with these girls for
00:36:05
Reggie just over a year after his arrest
00:36:13
Reggie DePalma went to trial on nine
00:36:15
counts including two counts of statutory
00:36:17
rape and five counts of risking injury
00:36:20
to a minor terrible night you didn't
00:36:25
tell someone about what happened why
00:36:28
particularly you didn't tell your
00:36:29
parents I thought I thought that they
00:36:33
would think less of me and that maybe it
00:36:36
was my fault too and Reggie had told me
00:36:40
not to tell anybody
00:36:42
Reggie - Reggie DePalma the first day
00:36:45
during the trial was obvious that he did
00:36:48
not believe the girls had the courage to
00:36:51
testify against him he felt he still had
00:36:54
sufficient sway over them that they
00:36:56
would crumble on the witness stand after
00:37:00
the first witness was able to testify
00:37:02
against him certainly then his
00:37:05
confidence had to waver and of course
00:37:07
after a third girl had testified he must
00:37:10
have decided that he would be better in
00:37:13
parts unknown
00:37:19
after the fifth day of the trial
00:37:22
Reggie De Palma who was out on bail left
00:37:24
Danbury to visit his mother she was
00:37:27
hospitalized at New Haven Connecticut 38
00:37:29
miles away although his car was found in
00:37:33
the hospital parking lot De Palma never
00:37:35
showed up in his mother's room a
00:37:37
fugitive warrant was issued for his
00:37:39
arrest
00:37:41
the trial continued without him and on
00:37:44
October 25th 1983 Reginald DePalma was
00:37:48
convicted on seven counts and sent to
00:37:50
sin absentia to 21 years in prison he is
00:37:54
still at large and has never served a
00:37:56
single day behind bars his victims are
00:38:00
now adults but the chilling effects of
00:38:02
abuse linger there are times when I'll
00:38:07
psych myself out like if I'm leaving
00:38:09
work late or you know when I was in
00:38:12
college if I was walking back to the
00:38:14
dorms or something late at night that I
00:38:16
was like you know he's out there
00:38:18
somewhere you know he could be watching
00:38:20
me right now when I think about the fact
00:38:24
that he's still out there somewhere is
00:38:25
very upsetting the first of course to
00:38:28
all of us the injustice that we feel
00:38:30
because he is not paying for the crimes
00:38:32
that were committed and then again the
00:38:35
fear for other people out there that he
00:38:37
could be harming individuals all over
00:38:38
again and put them all through this
00:38:40
living hell
00:38:41
[Music]
00:39:03
when we returned a convicted killer
00:39:06
claims he is innocent and at least one
00:39:08
prosecutor believes he is telling the
00:39:10
truth
00:39:11
[Music]
00:39:29
in the past we presented a number of
00:39:32
final appeal cases dramatic profiles of
00:39:35
men and women who claim they have been
00:39:37
wrongfully convicted of a crime they
00:39:41
were saying that they knew that their
00:39:43
baby had been poisoned by either me or
00:39:45
my husband I was devastated I was blown
00:39:48
away I just could not believe that they
00:39:51
could even think I mean Ryan was my
00:39:53
world
00:39:55
in 1989 Patti Stallings was arrested for
00:39:58
poisoning her five-month-old son when
00:40:01
the baby died she was charged with
00:40:03
murder and later convicted unfortunately
00:40:08
we can't undo the suffering that the
00:40:10
starlings have endured and I apologized
00:40:14
to them both personally and for the
00:40:16
state of Missouri after our broadcast
00:40:18
Patti Stallings was released from prison
00:40:20
and exonerated when doctors determined
00:40:23
that her son Ryan had actually suffered
00:40:25
from a rare genetic disorder I
00:40:30
absolutely did not commit the robbery or
00:40:33
the shooting under police office
00:40:35
I'm a musician and artist I'm not a
00:40:37
criminal
00:40:39
Tony Miller spent eight and a half years
00:40:42
in prison for robbery and assault
00:40:44
today Miller is a free man the charges
00:40:47
against him have been dropped after his
00:40:50
story aired a viewer who had been an
00:40:52
eyewitness to the crime contacted the
00:40:54
court Miller's conviction was overturned
00:40:57
thanks in part to the witness a sworn
00:40:59
statement that Tony was not a guilty
00:41:02
party
00:41:02
I am innocence is a phrase that echoes
00:41:06
through every cellblock in every prison
00:41:08
in America almost always it is an empty
00:41:11
claim little more than jailhouse
00:41:13
posturing but as you have just seen
00:41:15
those three words do sometimes carry the
00:41:18
ring of truth a few cases like our next
00:41:21
one deserve a second look January 3rd
00:41:28
1972 two boys out fishing on Taylor
00:41:31
Bayou near Webster Texas found evidence
00:41:33
of a tragedy it was a skull of a young
00:41:47
girl
00:41:49
six weeks later police discovered the
00:41:51
rest of her bones along with the remains
00:41:53
of another young woman Don ttle records
00:42:02
identify the two girls as 14 year old
00:42:04
Rhonda Renee Johnson 15 year old Sharon
00:42:07
Shaw who had been missing since a
00:42:09
previous summer the cause of their
00:42:12
deaths could not be determined five
00:42:15
months after the bones were found police
00:42:17
arrested 23 year-old Michael self a gas
00:42:20
station attendant with below average
00:42:21
intelligence self was charged with two
00:42:24
counts of murder 20 years later he is
00:42:28
still in prison convicted of a crime he
00:42:30
swears he did not commit
00:42:32
I did not kill Sharon Shaw in Renee
00:42:36
Johnson
00:42:37
it was just all behind politics wanting
00:42:41
a conviction that was in just somebody
00:42:45
to play the patsy
00:42:51
imagine that you're a jury member in a
00:42:53
murder trial the defendant has confessed
00:42:55
twice and you vote to convict him later
00:42:59
you discover that confessions were
00:43:00
allegedly coerced by two police officers
00:43:02
used a kind of rough justice physical
00:43:06
and psychological intimidation as it
00:43:08
turned out those two police officers
00:43:10
were criminals themselves it may seem
00:43:13
incredible but Michael self claims that
00:43:16
he was a victim of just that scenario
00:43:19
[Music]
00:43:22
Rhonda Johnson and Sharon Shaw
00:43:24
disappeared on August 4th 1971 they were
00:43:27
last seen heading toward the Jericho
00:43:29
surf and ski shop in Galveston Texas 20
00:43:32
miles south of Rhonda's home town of
00:43:34
Webster police immediately launched an
00:43:39
exhaustive investigation there was a
00:43:41
great deal of community pressure to find
00:43:43
the girls pressure intensified by the
00:43:46
fact that Rhonda was a granddaughter of
00:43:48
a prominent Webster City Councilman put
00:43:52
in many hours many hours night and day
00:43:55
I'm trying to find out what happened to
00:43:56
these girls when they disappeared but I
00:43:58
kept coming up to some loose ends I was
00:44:01
getting closed I thought firm dented
00:44:04
they would disappear all my leads would
00:44:07
just disappear in late May of 1972 the
00:44:13
Webster City Council hired a new police
00:44:16
chief
00:44:16
Don Morris Morris and his assistant
00:44:19
chief tommy deal came from the Traffic
00:44:21
Division of the Texas Department of
00:44:23
Public Safety son I'm glad you're with
00:44:24
us I know I can count on you yes sir the
00:44:28
hunt for Rhonda and Sharon has been
00:44:29
going on fruit Lissie for ten months but
00:44:31
within three weeks of taking office
00:44:33
Morris got a tip on a suspect seems to
00:44:36
me a few years back a boy named Michael
00:44:39
self Glenn price another City Councilman
00:44:42
suggested Tommy deal check known sex
00:44:44
offenders and mention Michaels selfs
00:44:46
name self had been arrested twice and
00:44:49
peeping tom incidents I know you do a
00:44:51
good job Tommy
00:44:52
I'll give it a whirl in back
00:44:57
[Music]
00:44:59
June 9th 1972 at 5:00 a.m.
00:45:03
assistant chief Tommy D and officer
00:45:05
Herman Morgan stopped by the gas station
00:45:07
where 23-year old Michael self worked
00:45:09
the night shift
00:45:10
say look here Mike you got ESP yeah I
00:45:16
got ESP right that's right and I can
00:45:21
tell you exactly what you're thinking
00:45:23
right now you're thinking about two
00:45:27
girls I didn't know what to girls he was
00:45:33
talking about my wife and I had been
00:45:35
separated
00:45:37
and I was dating a girl and I thought
00:45:41
that's who he was you know talking about
00:45:43
that's only what I can thank you later
00:45:49
that morning Michaels self voluntarily
00:45:51
went to the police station detective I
00:45:55
knew I hadn't done anything I just went
00:45:58
ahead and agreed to meet him there no
00:46:01
Mike I want you to answer some questions
00:46:03
for me I want you to tell us if you've
00:46:06
ever seen either one of these girls
00:46:08
before some said he recognized the girls
00:46:11
but did not know that her night Johnson
00:46:15
to his surprise he was immediately taken
00:46:17
into custody Rancho that's right Cuffy
00:46:20
why we are putting you under arrest Mike
00:46:29
Mike you know we already know you kill
00:46:36
those two girls we got the evidence come
00:46:39
on I didn't have nothing to do with
00:46:41
killing no girls while Seth was being
00:46:44
questioned another police officer Jerry
00:46:46
Mitchell's stopped by to observe
00:46:48
Mitchell new self and says self was not
00:46:51
at all nervous at that stage of the
00:46:52
interrogation what happened somebody
00:46:54
code doing something like Mike looked
00:46:57
relaxed easy-going kind of laid back you
00:47:00
know grinning and I don't know that it
00:47:03
ever really sunk in at that time
00:47:06
what he wasn't being involved in he got
00:47:09
something to tell us well like I said I
00:47:12
ain't done nothin ain't broke no law
00:47:17
don't you need to be on patrol Mitchell
00:47:21
left the room according to self chief
00:47:23
don morris then took personal charge of
00:47:25
the interrogation and the tone changed
00:47:28
radically not what is he innocent you
00:47:34
gonna sit back favorite I want you go
00:47:39
home and take a nap what you were about
00:47:40
to see is based on Michael selfs
00:47:42
recollection
00:47:46
Don Morris started asking me questions
00:47:49
why I kill these girls
00:47:53
I told him I didn't know what he was
00:47:55
talking about see a lot of innocent
00:47:58
people Michael you don't look like one
00:48:01
of them tell me about the girls
00:48:05
don't know what you want me to tell you
00:48:07
about the girls he said that he wanted a
00:48:10
confession I wouldn't leave until he got
00:48:13
one
00:48:15
me about the girls I don't know nothing
00:48:18
about no girls I done told you I think I
00:48:22
go around up some stray dogs
00:48:23
thank you careful
00:48:29
I said don't you have a guilty
00:48:30
conscience for doing this having to look
00:48:33
Lloyd Johnson in the face and I'd tell
00:48:38
him but I didn't know what he was
00:48:39
talking about he had me against the wall
00:48:43
my hands are behind my back he's posting
00:48:48
this nightstick and my stomp and said he
00:48:52
was going to get a confession
00:48:55
you tell it he was more or less a mad
00:48:59
man about it I was crying I was upset he
00:49:10
took his gun opens the cylinder and
00:49:13
takes you by bullets and stands him on
00:49:17
in ragasiyam I was most scared I was
00:49:28
anything I didn't know what was going
00:49:30
you know what to say closed it they spun
00:49:40
the chamber he points his gun like this
00:49:43
and says he's gonna blow my brains out
00:49:45
if I don't sign a confession
00:49:58
he'd already beat him half to death
00:50:02
poke him in the stomach and I could see
00:50:04
that he was meant what he said and I
00:50:07
asked him what do you what do you want
00:50:08
me to sign he tells me that he'll tell
00:50:14
me what to write less than an hour after
00:50:22
Jerry Mitchell left the room he returned
00:50:24
self now seemed upset and visibly shaken
00:50:31
my opinion kind of being led in the
00:50:33
sequence of events of how he wanted it
00:50:35
Rizza
00:50:36
[Applause]
00:50:38
I've seen you know about half a page of
00:50:41
writing on there by the time it was all
00:50:43
over I think they had to rewrite that
00:50:46
one something wasn't right in it not
00:50:50
being part of the investigation I really
00:50:53
wasn't privy to all the details of it
00:50:55
why isn't nowhere for us but how do you
00:50:57
know that they rewrote the confession
00:50:58
several times selfs confession however
00:51:02
did not fit the known facts of the
00:51:04
girl's disappearance one glaring
00:51:06
instance the confession said self dumped
00:51:09
the bodies at a place called El Largo 20
00:51:11
miles from the Taylor Bayou where the
00:51:13
bodies are actually found selfs
00:51:15
appellate attorney Jerry bernburg points
00:51:18
out other discrepancies
00:51:20
there's the statement in here that what
00:51:23
he did was in essence he choked one of
00:51:25
the two girls there was no evidence of
00:51:28
the breaking of some very tender bones
00:51:30
in the neck that necessarily would have
00:51:32
been damaged if in fact he had choked
00:51:34
one of the girls to death there is this
00:51:38
claim that he went to Sharon Shaw's
00:51:41
house well Sharon Sean's family
00:51:43
contradicts that says she wasn't home
00:51:45
that day that didn't occur there's the
00:51:49
statement that the girls were hanging
00:51:51
out of the window and hollering as they
00:51:52
were all driving in the car and yet Dave
00:51:54
Colburn did this very thorough
00:51:56
investigation and nobody saw the two
00:52:00
girls that night or anybody else driving
00:52:02
down the road hollering waving and
00:52:04
screaming I had statements from two
00:52:06
girls signed by their parents as a
00:52:10
witness that they talked to Sharon Shaw
00:52:13
ray Johnson in Galveston between eight
00:52:16
and nine o'clock there's no conceivable
00:52:19
way that Sharon Shawna Johnson has got
00:52:21
another ID and been in Webster riding
00:52:25
around with Michael or itself at the
00:52:27
time they've gotten this confession
00:52:30
three days after Michael selfs arrest he
00:52:33
went against his original attorneys
00:52:34
advice and agreed to take a lie-detector
00:52:36
test
00:52:38
is your first name Michael yes sir a
00:52:42
coding a Jerry bernburg police asked
00:52:45
self about more area murders yes between
00:52:48
July 1971 and February 1970 tuned seven
00:52:53
of the young girls and one young boy had
00:52:55
been found murdered in a four County
00:52:57
area that included Webster do you know
00:52:59
who caused the death of the two girls
00:53:03
yes the course of giving him the
00:53:05
polygraph exam they say well now we've
00:53:07
got this statement that you gave last
00:53:09
Friday where you confess to killing
00:53:11
these two girls is it true he says yeah
00:53:13
and the live detector says no it's not
00:53:15
it's not true at all yes sir after
00:53:20
taking the polygraph self says he was
00:53:22
still so afraid of Chief Morris but he
00:53:24
agreed to sign a second confession it
00:53:27
did not mention any of the other murders
00:53:28
but did contain a new version of the
00:53:31
deaths of Rhonda and Sharon in the first
00:53:35
confession self said he struck Sharon
00:53:37
Shaw with his fists and shoved the girls
00:53:40
bodies into a culvert in the second self
00:53:43
claimed he hit Shaw with a coke bottle
00:53:45
and dumped their bodies in the Bayou the
00:53:48
second confession also says self
00:53:50
stripped the murdered girls of their
00:53:52
clothing and toss it out along the
00:53:53
highway however clothing was found with
00:53:57
the remains along with an unidentified
00:53:59
set of car keys and a crucifix worn by
00:54:02
Sharon Shaw
00:54:05
there was a slight difference in the two
00:54:08
written
00:54:09
but all I had to do was for offer in
00:54:12
evidence the confession I want to go
00:54:15
with and if the facts the outline facts
00:54:20
tended to support the elements of this
00:54:23
confession that's all I needed if the
00:54:26
jury believed two weeks after selfs
00:54:34
arrest to Harris County sheriff's
00:54:36
deputies checked him out of jail on the
00:54:38
pretext of buying him a hamburger
00:54:41
afterwards they drove him to places
00:54:43
mentioned in the confessions and took
00:54:45
pictures of him at each location it was
00:54:48
presented in court as a third confession
00:54:50
he didn't confess a third time he went
00:54:54
on a ride with two police officers who
00:54:56
had illegally checked him out of the
00:54:58
jail to drive him around to take
00:55:00
pictures to get evidence for a trial
00:55:01
they didn't discover anything new while
00:55:08
self was awaiting trial he was visited
00:55:11
by Dave Coburn who was by then Chief of
00:55:13
Police and nearby Cleveland Texas at the
00:55:21
time he looked very depressed and very
00:55:24
distraught you know when I walked in and
00:55:26
I asked him he said he didn't do it and
00:55:29
I asked him what had happened and he had
00:55:33
told me about Don Morris threatening him
00:55:36
with this billy club and poking him
00:55:44
started pulling out five bullets one at
00:55:47
the time when he made that statement to
00:55:49
me I knew what he'll come down because a
00:55:53
year prior
00:55:55
I witnessed Don Morris taking one shell
00:56:00
out of his revolver hiding it
00:56:02
placing five shells in front of a
00:56:04
prisoner and playing Russian roulette
00:56:07
with that prisoner threatening him and
00:56:08
there's no doubt in my mind that he did
00:56:11
that to Michael or itself and when he
00:56:13
came to the trial I was prepared to go
00:56:16
in and make statements and I was never
00:56:18
caught I don't know whether he did the
00:56:21
Russian Roulette number bottom line all
00:56:25
three confessions are consistent I
00:56:27
killed the girls polymer consists on May
00:56:35
15 1973 Michael self was convicted of
00:56:38
murder and sentenced to life in prison
00:56:40
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00:56:42
three years later the town of Webster
00:56:44
was shocked when Don Morris and Tommy
00:56:46
deal were arrested for bank robbery they
00:56:50
were members of a gang of robbers that
00:56:51
had been sticking up banks as far back
00:56:53
as 1972 five months before Michaels soft
00:56:57
was arrested in early 1976 Don Morris
00:57:02
was sentenced to 55 years tommy deal to
00:57:05
30 years
00:57:06
both were eventually parole itami deal
00:57:09
returned to robbing banks and is now
00:57:11
back in federal prison
00:57:14
jerry bernburg petitioned the court to
00:57:16
get Michael self a new trial after an
00:57:19
extensive evidentiary hearing and just
00:57:21
nine days before oral arguments the
00:57:23
defense got what looked like a gift from
00:57:25
heaven
00:57:26
it's been bugging me for a long time I
00:57:28
just wanted to get it off my chest
00:57:30
Sharon Shaw and Renee Johnson I'm the
00:57:32
one who killed how did you kill on April
00:57:34
2nd 1980 a man walked into the police
00:57:37
station and Taylor Lake Texas
00:57:39
he told George Karimun state prosecutor
00:57:42
Douglas O'Brien that he not Michael self
00:57:45
had murdered Rhonda Johnson and Sharon
00:57:47
Shaw what she used to kill him with
00:57:50
exactly doctors O'Brien represented the
00:57:53
state when self appealed his conviction
00:57:54
but now believes self is innocent what
00:57:57
you do with their bodies after you kill
00:57:59
them I basically got the impression from
00:58:00
him that what he wanted to do was to get
00:58:03
it off his chest
00:58:04
and confess to the fact she didn't kill
00:58:06
the girls but at the same time not give
00:58:09
information which would allow
00:58:11
prosecution of him where'd you put their
00:58:14
bodies in the water I don't know it was
00:58:17
beside where the car was I mean they
00:58:18
didn't want to go through with it on a
00:58:19
date and it was like I tied him up with
00:58:22
this this black cord and I tied him up
00:58:24
and I just thought put him in the water
00:58:25
his account of how he killed him or
00:58:27
whatever was very vague and disjointed
00:58:30
but he did mention that he used a cord
00:58:32
in which to tie the girls bodies down
00:58:34
when he put him into the water the
00:58:36
statement by this individual indicated
00:58:39
that he had tied their feet with black
00:58:41
cord something Michael self had never
00:58:43
mentioned not found in any statement by
00:58:45
Michael self that was the secret fact
00:58:49
that the police had held back all these
00:58:51
years this guy knew it that guy was out
00:58:55
of his gourd
00:58:58
he was he was a I don't know why I came
00:59:01
forward I think he was unbalanced I
00:59:03
don't remember exactly what I did all
00:59:06
right I don't remember exactly what he
00:59:08
talked about was anything that could
00:59:10
have been picked out of the newspaper
00:59:11
and even then he had there's no question
00:59:15
my mind just this person who came
00:59:18
forward was just all these people who
00:59:21
like to confess the crimes individuals
00:59:24
clearly a very troubled person with some
00:59:27
flights to psychosis but he knew the
00:59:31
girls he lived in the same apartment
00:59:34
complex with one of them and the most
00:59:36
important thing of all he knew about the
00:59:39
black cord
00:59:41
despite the surprise confession and the
00:59:43
credibility gap created by the criminal
00:59:46
activities of Morrison deal Michael
00:59:48
selfs conviction was upheld
00:59:51
they have no qualms burying evidence
00:59:53
whatsoever nothing to tie him to any
00:59:56
murders are to even being seen with
00:59:59
these girls except this which is not
01:00:03
worth papers wrote on legally speaking
01:00:06
he's innocent just from a standpoint
01:00:09
that number one I don't think his
01:00:11
confessions were voluntarily entered
01:00:13
number two I don't think there's any
01:00:14
corroborating evidence concerning those
01:00:16
confessions he was the type of
01:00:20
personality that was easy prey for Don
01:00:23
Morris that was easy prey for Tommy deal
01:00:27
it's easy prey for bank robbers parading
01:00:29
as police officers and that's what
01:00:32
happened if you were trying today
01:00:36
naturally some of these areas would be
01:00:38
clarified these particular points were
01:00:40
talking about
01:00:42
we could buy a can and spend more time
01:00:46
and send better investigators out and
01:00:50
and make our decision as to whether
01:00:53
prosecutor on
01:00:56
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01:01:20
next Wednesday on the season premiere of
01:01:22
unsolved mysteries for five years Bruce
01:01:25
Kelley has been haunted by fragmented
01:01:27
images of a life not his own the life
01:01:30
that apparently ended on a doom
01:01:32
submarine during World War two
01:01:34
is Kelly's story a remarkable case of
01:01:37
reincarnation there is ever another more
01:01:39
rational explanation in Chicago a young
01:01:43
boy was victimized by a hit-and-run
01:01:45
driver his family needs your help to
01:01:48
find the man they believed was
01:01:50
responsible and thanks to tips from you
01:01:53
our viewers a fugitive cult leader
01:01:56
wanted on criminal charges in Missouri
01:01:58
has been arrested join me next Wednesday
01:02:03
for the dramatic season premiere of
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unsolved mystery
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