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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 were about to see is not a news
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broadcast 1957 at the height of the Cold
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War Army lieutenant Paul clip key was an
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observation pilot for government atomic
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bomb testing almost immediately he began
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to show symptoms of radiation poisoning
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then Paul would keep vanished and was
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declared a deserter did he get lost and
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perish in Death Valley it was Paul
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whippy recruited for a top-secret
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mission
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[Music]
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Tanya coke brick and Richard bocklage
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two lovers a study in contrasts she was
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a promising physician dedicated to her
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career he was a struggling pharmacy
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student with an unpredictable temper and
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a penchant for murder
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in 1936 the depression in the looming
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threat of poverty took gary Rosman from
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his family now Gary's sister Gwen hopes
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you can help find her long-lost brother
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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in March of 1980 dr. Tanya Koch brick
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fell in love with Richard Barnidge she
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was a practicing resident at the Truman
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Medical Center in Kansas City he was a
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pharmacy student at the University of
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Missouri it seems an unlikely match
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Richard was 10 years younger than Tanya
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he had grown up in st. Louis the
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quintessential all-american boy five
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years earlier Tanya had emigrated from
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Yugoslavia to study medicine leaving
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behind all of her friends and family
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like many immigrants Tanya cupric
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dreamed of an America paved with gold
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she was determined to overcome the
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tremendous obstacles of building a
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career in her life in a new country the
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34 she seemed to have achieved the
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American dream except for one thing
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Tanya longed for someone to share her
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life with
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enter Richard bocklage Richard was young
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and dynamic and showered Tanya with
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attention soon after they met he moved
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into Tanya's apartment six months later
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Richard proposed and Tanya accepted
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but her friends had strong misgivings
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about the younger man Tania intended to
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marry I did not totally like him because
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he using her financially and morally she
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was using her for lotta things but using
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her masters Charge Card and was kind of
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using car using everything Richard spent
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more and more time with Tania and less
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time in class midway through his
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sophomore year he fell behind in his
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studies unbeknownst to Tania
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Richard was perilously close to flunking
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out of school he was not real motivated
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he wanted it he wanted it to be a
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pharmacist but you have to want it bad
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enough to devote many many hours to the
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academic study end of it and I'm not
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sure he was willing to do that
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on July 19th 1980 university officials
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notified Richard that he was
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academically ineligible you just go to
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talk to dr. Sam and pull a few strings
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which freedom and the Tonia user
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connections and the admissions
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department to have him readmitted help
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myself how am I gonna do that
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I'm not in school I won't do it I was
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thinking lightly he's down to drugs or
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alcohol because his behavior was
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changing he was kind of wild person
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Richard began to exhibit violent mood
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swings for three weeks
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Tonia tolerated his outbursts finally a
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September second she broke off the
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engagement and ordered Richard out of
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her apartment
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two weeks later Richard Bach bees
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returned to class as if nothing had
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changed one instructor familiar with
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Richards explosive disposition asked the
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assistant dean to speak with him or
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Richard I need to talk to you for a
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minute sure
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could we go out in hallway
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Richard we don't show you being enrolled
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in this class
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well admission said it would take a few
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weeks for the paperwork to consider very
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well David that's something you'll have
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to take up with the admissions oh I know
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the last quarter I had a little trouble
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I'm trying out isn't everything to do
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with your grade fine fine
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Richard oiz gave me the impression that
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anything that happened was not his fault
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it was just that he could not cope with
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the fact that this was his
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responsibility then again he just you
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know he just couldn't believe that this
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was happening to him increasingly
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desperate Richard wrote to the
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admissions office begging school
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officials to reconsider his case on
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September 18th to 3 p.m. the admissions
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committee convened to determine
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Richard's fate the decision was
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unanimous please take care of that as
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soon as possible
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Richard's appeal was denied and a
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secretary was ordered to call him with
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the news
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hoping to avoid a confrontation the
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committee quickly dispersed at 3:45 two
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professors spotted Richard driving
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towards the dean's office they
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immediately headed in the opposite
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direction
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Montez roamed the hallways searching for
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the Dean of Admissions under his arm he
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carried a large manila folder some
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witnesses fear that it concealed a
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weapon Dean Ian when will you be back
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okay
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three hours later Tania Cole brick
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returned to her apartment after work
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by the time police and paramedics
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arrived
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Tonya Cole prick was dead she had been
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shot three times in the head with a 45
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automatic I came out and I heard the
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first gunshot and I turned and he just
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he shot her two more times
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there was a witness at the scene and she
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saw this man walk up to the side of the
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doctors car and shoot her three times in
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the face she recognized him as being the
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man that dated dr. Cooper Richard Bach
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much later during the investigation we
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found out that mr. bocklage had
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purchased a 45 caliber handgun himself
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and when we checked his residence to see
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if the weapon was there we found out it
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was gone authorities launched an
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immediate search for Richard Buckley six
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days later Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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found Richard Caron Thompson Manitoba
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Canada more than 900 miles north of
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Kansas City
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Richard was seen by two area residents
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he then dropped from sight I personally
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think he's back in the United States I
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think he would have gotten tired of
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being that far north with no family and
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that's that's not his style his style
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was a little bit faster a little
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flashier a little looser and that might
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have been okay for a year or two but I
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think he's back I think he's back here
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somewhere
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two months after tanya was murdered her
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parents in Yugoslavia notified police
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that they received an unsigned letter
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postmarked September 16th 1980 two days
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before the murder
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the envelope was addressed in Richard
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Bach bitch's handwriting the letter was
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a vengeful diatribe which took the tone
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of a terrorist manifesto dear Caprica
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Tonya capric has been executed in Kansas
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City Missouri
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she has caused so much grief anguish and
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turmoil to so many Americans that this
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act was necessary her execution was
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inevitable at the time of Tonya's murder
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Richard bocklage was 24 years old he is
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six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds this
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computer age photograph shows how he
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might look today at the age of 34 next
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the haunting story of an army lieutenant
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who mysteriously vanished his commanding
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officer believes he was on a secret CIA
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mission
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[Music]
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August 17th 1958 Death Valley California
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temperature 120 degrees Fahrenheit
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forty-two miles in the nearest town a
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fishing game warden is surprised to come
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across an abandoned car the keys are
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still in the ignition there is no sign
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of foul play
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the car is registered to lieutenant Paul
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quid key of Fort Ord California nearly
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400 miles away the army stated whip he
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had been missing for five weeks and in
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fact has been declared a deserter
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surprisingly Paul whip he had always
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been considered a perfect soldier and no
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one could understand why he would choose
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the desert his post I don't think Paul
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deserted it was completely out of
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character for Paul or do such a thing he
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was a loyal American soldier devoted to
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his work I think the army knew exactly
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what happened to him and he was part of
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a big smokescreen cover-up the strange
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and unsettling account of Paul whip key
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began at Pennsylvania State University
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where he was an ROTC honor graduate
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in 1954 after basic training he was
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granted a coveted slot at army pilot
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school in July of 1956 Lipke was posted
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to Fort Ord California two years later
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he was assigned the duties of captain
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even though he remained a first
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lieutenant in rank
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Paul was quite worried about his own
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capability if he had the leadership
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ability and if he could take care of
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this job or perform in an improper
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manner he studied a lot and he spent
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many hours at night trying to learn the
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job and to do a good job which he seemed
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to undergo a personality change he
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became withdrawn and somber he also
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began to suffer several upsetting
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physical symptoms which may have been a
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result of a temporary duty assignment in
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the summer of 1957
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[Music]
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Paul spent two months at cap desert Rock
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Nevada as an observation potted for
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government atomic bomb tests in that
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role he was exposed to radioactive
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fallout he soon noticed unusual blotches
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on his skin several months later back at
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Fort Ord he had to have all of his teeth
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extracted
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[Music]
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July 10th 1958 late in the afternoon
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Lipke left born he said his destination
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is Monterey California less than a mile
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away
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[Music]
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Paul whippy never returned to the base
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the next morning he was listed absent
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without leave after 30 days he was
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declared a deserter
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the following week his car was found in
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Death Valley army investigators traced a
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gasoline receipt found in the car to
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Mojave California 145 miles from Death
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Valley Lipke at purchased gas there on
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July the 11th the day after he left
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four-door
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[Music]
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the evening before Lipke had signed the
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guest register at White's motel and
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apparently spent the night the next
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morning he drove out of Mojave and
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banished the army concluded that Paul
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whippy had broken under the stress of
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his new assignment wandered off into the
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desert and without food or water
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perished the army report made no mention
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of Paulette Vicki's physical symptoms
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his body was never found and Paul's
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brother Carl whippy immediately began to
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investigate on his own more than 30
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years later he is still trying to piece
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together the truth about his brother's
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disappearance
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[Music]
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on the very morning Paul turned up
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missing two soldiers stripped his room
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at Fort Ord everything was removed
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including Paul's personal belongings
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regulations state that the next of kin
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or legal representative must be notified
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before packing belongings and they
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didn't notify us at that time I was very
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suspicious of this action as soon as I
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discovered this had taken place
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four weeks after Paul cookie disappeared
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a rancher driving through Death Valley
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saw his car it was driven by a man in
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military uniform
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Paul Wicky left Fort Ord wearing
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civilian clothes when the car was found
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a week later a pile of cigarette butts
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was beside it
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Paul Lipke did not smoke also troubling
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to whip keys family was the fact that
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the army did not mount a search for
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Paul's body until nine months after his
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car was found and it was only by
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accident that Carl Hickey heard about
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the car at all
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the only way that I learned about it was
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due to a unofficial call to an enlisted
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man at Fort Ord a half an hour he called
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back very excited and he said this is
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classified information and requested
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that I did not tell anyone where I had
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received this information after I was
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informed that Paul was a deserter I
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called six Army Headquarters and I was
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inquiring about his status that I found
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it almost unbelievable that he would be
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classified as a deserter you know I was
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curious what was the basis for it and I
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was quickly and promptly advised that
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Charlie forget this the case has been
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closed and I would recommend that you
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don't carry it any further
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and either in essence I was told to shut
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up and dry up and blow away in 1957
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Lieutenant Colonel Lewis was a captain
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on stationed at Camp desert rock he
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recalled the day he saw two men in plain
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clothes talking to Paul Lipke and
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another officer on the way the airfield
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would morning there was two visitors on
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the airfield over talked with Paul I
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noticed that they had gone directly to
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the airfield as to the reported
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operation which was required for a
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purpose of security so I asked him for
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their identification
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excuse me gentlemen had you seen that
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sign over there yes sir this is a
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restricted area
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have any identification yes we do they
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showed me their military identification
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cards and the picture did verify the to
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work it's okay is everything all right
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here yes sir carry on Luis did not note
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which government agency the two men
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represented but over the next few weeks
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he often saw Paul Whitley talking to the
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same two men but a lieutenant would
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people would come in after they had
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departed you could feel and sense a
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rigidity and his personality traits in
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his mannerism what is everything okay
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everything's fine sir sure sure
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finally I asked him Paul is there
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something that is wrong something you
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need to explain and he said no I'm fine
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I had no problems years later Luis
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realized there could have been a logical
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explanation for wikiz association with
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the men during that era there was a
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tremendous amount of nationwide
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recruiting conducted by the CIA and with
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Paul's qualification lieutenant with
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qualification he would been an
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exceptional candidate for such an
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assignment January of the year
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disappeared he told me during a
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telephone conversation that he was going
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to be going on an assignment that he's
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gonna make a name for himself before he
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could tell me what it was he was
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interrupted by some officers moving in
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the proximity of his desk and he could
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no longer talk to me about the subject
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[Applause]
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i theorize that paul was recruited into
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a army CIA joint program it was going
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along at that time when Paul left for
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Turkey drove to the town of Mojave
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California and checked into White's
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motel it's a possibility that he was met
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there by farming and intelligence agents
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or the CIA and transported to Southeast
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Asia possibly from Edwards Air Force
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Base which is nearby Carl whippy
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theorized that when Paul left on his
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secret assignment he turned his car over
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to the military who kept it for four
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weeks before driving it into the desert
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I think the army took his car out to the
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desert to get rid of it out of sight out
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of mind
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if they would just say yes he died on a
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secret assignment we would live with
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that we're all loyal American citizens
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and our family and we would buy that and
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see well the army tell us what happened
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there will be no peace in our family
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there is a final puzzling twist to the
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saga of Paul 15 one of Paul's closest
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friends lieutenant Charlie guests had
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served with him at Camp desert rock and
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again at Fort Ord guests disappeared in
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an airplane 11 days after Paul had
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vanished just over a year later guesses
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remains were found near a crashed plane
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northwest of Death Valley curiously the
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wreckage showed a different serial
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number from the plane guests had taken
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off in in 1982 the army board for
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correction of military records met to
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review Paul hickeys case and found no
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basis to support his status as a
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deserter two months later the board
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officially changed whipped key status
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and deserter to died in the line of duty
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Carl Hickey hopes it's someone watching
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tonight served with his brother at Camp
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desert rocker fort ord
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and as knowledgable shed light on Paul's
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mysterious disappearance
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next a woman's quest to find a long-lost
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brother she has not seen for more than
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50 years perhaps you can help
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[Music]
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Catherine Bickford is 19 years old when
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she fell in love with Andrew Ross a man
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twice her age
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it was 1932 at Lake Placid New York the
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height of a Great Depression rossman cut
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a dashing romantic figure rugged
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outdoorsman made his living hunting and
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trapping in the Adirondack Mountains
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despite I was telling you about Oh
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Andrew it's beautiful Catherine knew
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that Andrew was not the marrying kind
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but she is in love and nothing else
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mattered
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for that time and place Catherine and
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Andrews relationship was certainly
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unconventional they never married but
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lived together and had two children a
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daughter Gwen and a son Gary
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sadly family life and responsibilities
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proved too much for him he left
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Catherine when Gary was still an infant
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Catherine went to work as a waitress to
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support her children but was often made
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to feel ashamed of being an unwed mother
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however one family the winch's who had
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known Catherine from childhood never
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wavered in their support suffer the
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little children to come to me and do not
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forbid them for of such is the kingdom
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of heaven
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in the winter of 1935 Katherine had her
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son Gary baptized despite local gossip
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the winch family went to the baptism and
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stood by Catherine amen
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this is Gary Bickford the newest member
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of the family of God by the time of
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Gary's baptism catherine was in deep
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financial trouble after the ceremony she
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took florence the winch's daughter aside
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what is it Catherine what's wrong and I
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can't even get back into getting any my
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stuff until I get work what are you
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going to do my uncle owns a restaurant
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and screwin Lake and he said I could
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come there and work for him but I can't
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take Gary with me would you like us to
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keep him for a few days Catherine found
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herself facing the most difficult
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decision a mother could ever make she
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had to earn a living to provide for her
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children even if it meant being
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separated from them
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looks like we're all set ready to go
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daddy Catherine wants to know if we can
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take him Gary for a few weeks is that
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okay Oh
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few weeks sure several days later
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Catherine left Lake Placid to take the
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job at her uncle's restaurant secure in
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the knowledge that Gary would be well
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cared for by Florence and her family
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Catherine's daughter Gwen who was three
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years old went to live with Catherine's
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mother and father
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three years past
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Katherine visited whenever she could
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throughout this period when stayed with
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her grandparents and Florence Lynch took
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care of Gary Florence and my man were
00:25:49
great friends and when my mother left my
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brother with Florence I think she felt
00:25:55
that it was a temporary thing and that
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she would get herself together and be
00:25:59
able to support the family you know but
00:26:03
it never really worked out that if there
00:26:05
were really difficult times times were
00:26:07
very hard and Kathryn was two hours away
00:26:13
working and she couldn't get there it
00:26:17
wasn't something that she didn't want to
00:26:19
do it was something that circumstance in
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1939 when Gary was three County child
00:26:27
welfare officials contacted Kathryn she
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signed papers which she thought would
00:26:31
allow floors to continue in the role of
00:26:33
foster parent in fact the papers gave
00:26:36
the county authorization to put Gary up
00:26:39
for adoption when they told me that he
00:26:43
was ready for adoption I tried to adopt
00:26:46
him but I wasn't married at the time and
00:26:48
in those days you couldn't adopt your
00:26:50
child unless you were married so then my
00:26:54
mother and father tried to adopt him
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they were too old
00:26:57
there was a age limit at that time so we
00:27:03
were we had very good neighbors and the
00:27:06
neighbors took up a petition at that
00:27:08
time and asked the county if I could
00:27:12
keep him and of course that was unheard
00:27:14
of so I couldn't I couldn't keep him
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[Music]
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finally the early spring of 1939 a
00:27:25
County welfare worker informed
00:27:27
Florence's family that Gary would be
00:27:29
taken away for adoption she gave them no
00:27:31
idea of when or where
00:27:33
Florence began to prepare Gary for the
00:27:36
journey
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[Music]
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this
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when we would go by the railroad station
00:27:52
to go to church or go to the store and
00:27:54
think he was afraid of the Train I
00:27:56
suppose because it made a noise it was a
00:27:59
steam engine so in order that he
00:28:01
wouldn't be afraid of it I took him up
00:28:03
to the Train the conductor the sauce and
00:28:06
I was talking to Gary about the Train
00:28:08
and it wouldn't hurt you
00:28:09
the conductor said come on out to the
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Train
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[Music]
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we went on to the train and I sit in a
00:28:23
seat with him the Train didn't go
00:28:25
anywhere I was sitting there but I don't
00:28:27
think he was afraid of the Train after
00:28:29
that do you mind if we sit here a while
00:28:34
I didn't talk to Gary at all about him
00:28:36
leaving I never told him that he might
00:28:39
be going away now I could see maybe I
00:28:43
should have but but at that time I I
00:28:46
didn't I never told him that he was ever
00:28:48
gonna leave
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eight days after Gary's fourth birthday
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the child welfare worker returned one
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morning at nine o'clock the social
00:29:02
worker drove and came into the house and
00:29:05
said she was going to take him I always
00:29:10
thought that that she wouldn't come and
00:29:12
that one way or the other we would keep
00:29:15
him either Catherine or our family would
00:29:18
keep him but of course that didn't
00:29:22
happen that won't be necessary and I
00:29:30
said well could he take a toy no he
00:29:34
couldn't
00:29:35
so with that she just took him by the
00:29:38
hand and the car was down in front of
00:29:40
the house and she took him I think now
00:29:45
as I look back on at that Gary thought
00:29:48
he was just going for a ride with
00:29:50
somebody that he was he was coming back
00:29:53
I don't think he ever thought he was
00:29:54
gonna leave
00:29:59
by the time Florence was able to contact
00:30:01
Katherine it was too late
00:30:03
Gary had already been taken to New York
00:30:05
City eventually Catherine and her
00:30:08
daughter Gwen were reunited at a 1984
00:30:11
Katherine died she never had a chance to
00:30:14
tell Gary how much she loved him well I
00:30:18
felt a real desire to find my brother in
00:30:21
that I wanted to express to him how much
00:30:27
guilt my mother had experienced through
00:30:31
her life because of this loss and to
00:30:35
maybe be able to fill in some of the
00:30:37
feelings that she had toward him and
00:30:40
still carried on word even to her death
00:30:42
and I thought well I could give this to
00:30:46
him
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on her behalf I think it's about the
00:30:52
last thing I can do for her
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[Music]
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Guerry Bickford was born in Saranac Lake
00:30:59
New York on June 6th 1935 his brown hair
00:31:03
and brown eyes on Gary's birth
00:31:06
certificate his first name was probably
00:31:08
spelled with two R's and his last name
00:31:10
may have been listed as Rosslyn
00:31:13
[Applause]
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[Music]
00:31:22
when we returned the perplexing case of
00:31:26
a missing midnight his family believes
00:31:28
he was murdered
00:31:41
st. Croix the US Virgin Islands a lush
00:31:44
tropical getaway known as the American
00:31:46
paradise in 1984 Jim Rice a wealthy and
00:31:53
successful contractor came to the island
00:31:55
of st. Croix with his wife as starting
00:31:57
to build their dream house and live the
00:31:59
good life but two years later the
00:32:04
marriage was crumbling in July 1986 Jim
00:32:14
planned to fly to San Francisco for
00:32:16
shoulder surgery a story refused to
00:32:18
accompany him so Jim Rice was scheduled
00:32:21
to make the trip alone now police
00:32:24
believe he never made the trip at all
00:32:26
[Music]
00:32:29
my dad was scheduled to arrive on July
00:32:33
29th and he never showed up at my house
00:32:36
never called from the airport or we just
00:32:39
never heard from him again Jim Rice was
00:32:43
a man's man he played football in
00:32:45
college and was a highly decorated
00:32:47
bomber pilot during the Second World War
00:32:49
through his construction business Jim
00:32:51
amassed a sizable fortune worth nearly
00:32:53
two million dollars in 1970 Jim Rice met
00:33:00
Astarte Davis and was instantly
00:33:01
captivated Jim turned his life upside
00:33:04
down and left his first wife to marry
00:33:06
Astarte he proved to be a tumultuous
00:33:09
Union marked by business failures
00:33:11
separations reconciliations and finally
00:33:14
a studies imprisonment in 1982 for
00:33:17
bankruptcy fraud yet through it all Jim
00:33:20
Rice remained loyal to a start II then
00:33:23
three years after Jim vanished a star
00:33:26
tear ice also disappeared
00:33:29
she was born esta Belle Hoyt but as an
00:33:33
adult changed her name to Astarte after
00:33:35
a primitive goddess of love she had
00:33:37
three grown sons from a previous
00:33:39
marriage which ended in divorce she
00:33:44
seemed to make my dad happy and I was
00:33:47
happy for him and I figured he saw
00:33:50
something in her that I didn't see and
00:33:54
as long as he was happy then that was
00:33:57
okay
00:33:58
in 1979 geminus toddy moved to Kona
00:34:01
Hawaii and eventually started a charter
00:34:04
fishing business two years later while
00:34:08
Jim was out of town a starry Sun Noble
00:34:11
was cleaning their boat when it was
00:34:12
rocked by an explosion noble was
00:34:14
seriously injured but recovered by good
00:34:17
fortune or design a story just happened
00:34:20
to be near the dock at the time well
00:34:24
there was a large debt on the yacht and
00:34:26
they carried insurance on the yacht
00:34:29
Noble indicated that he was just aboard
00:34:32
cleaning the ship which is kind of
00:34:34
strange because it was like 2 or 3
00:34:35
o'clock in the morning of the strange
00:34:37
time to be cleaning a boat using
00:34:39
gasoline and the yacht caught on fire
00:34:42
and he said it was just purely an
00:34:45
accident but there was sufficient cause
00:34:49
for the authorities back there and
00:34:50
Hawaii to charge both Astarte and Noble
00:34:53
with the arson of the yacht after the
00:34:56
explosion Jim and his daddy separated
00:34:58
both returned to California as Dottie
00:35:01
and her son were never extradited back
00:35:02
to Hawaii for trial in April 1981 a
00:35:06
story filed for bankruptcy a year later
00:35:09
she was charged with altering official
00:35:11
court documents she was convicted and
00:35:13
sent to federal prison
00:35:17
when Jim visited a starti in prison she
00:35:20
convinced him that she had mended her
00:35:21
ways and they reconciled after her
00:35:27
release in 1983 geminus Dottie moved to
00:35:30
st. Croix in the Virgin Islands and
00:35:32
built their dream house on an isolated
00:35:34
bluff overlooking the Caribbean he got
00:35:39
down to st. Croix and expected to build
00:35:42
this dream house and a start he was
00:35:44
going to go straight I'm not getting any
00:35:49
trouble and I think that he found out
00:35:53
that she was not rehabilitated on July
00:35:58
20th 1986 Jim phoned his daughter Kathy
00:36:01
in the States and told her that he would
00:36:03
be flying to California for a shoulder
00:36:05
surgery in a week he never arrived
00:36:09
Jim disappeared around the end of July
00:36:13
in 1986
00:36:14
Kathy kept trying to reach him by
00:36:17
telephone and was totally unsuccessful
00:36:19
for about two weeks when she finally was
00:36:22
able to reach his home in st. Croix she
00:36:24
talked to a starti and at that time a
00:36:27
start he had told her that Jim had run
00:36:29
off with a woman from Australia few days
00:36:36
later when she talked to a starti the
00:36:38
story was that Jim had gone on an
00:36:41
airplane and flown from st. Croix to
00:36:43
Miami so he had two completely different
00:36:45
stories and later on a start he denied
00:36:49
that either these things had occurred so
00:36:51
we know that right from the beginning
00:36:54
she lied about what had happened to Jim
00:36:56
and how he how he disappeared
00:37:00
two months later Kathy Clemens hired
00:37:03
Dennis Shara a private investigator to
00:37:05
look into her father's disappearance I'm
00:37:08
looking for a gentleman by the name of
00:37:09
James risin Cheryl came across a customs
00:37:13
declaration dated July 28th 1986 the day
00:37:17
Jim was to leave for California on the
00:37:20
form
00:37:20
Jim Rice's signature appeared to have
00:37:22
been forged Sharon notified the FBI we
00:37:33
noted that Jim supposedly had flown on
00:37:37
an airplane on July 28th 1986 from st.
00:37:41
Croix to Miami
00:37:42
in fact the airplane ticket had been
00:37:46
bought by a person using the name of Jim
00:37:49
Rice and in fact the people who actually
00:37:51
flew on that flight were a star T star T
00:37:54
Sun noble and Noble's girlfriend private
00:38:01
investigator Denis Shara also discovered
00:38:04
that a week prior to Jim scheduled
00:38:05
flight to San Francisco a star T had
00:38:08
filed documents which gave her control
00:38:10
of Jim Rice's entire estate probably the
00:38:22
key document was a power of attorney in
00:38:25
a star DS named investigation however
00:38:28
showed that this original power of
00:38:30
attorney was in the name of Jim's
00:38:32
daughter Kathy Clemens and the Astarte
00:38:35
had done a cut-and-paste job on the
00:38:37
document and inserted her name in in its
00:38:40
place I feel because Jim would have
00:38:45
known that his assets were beginning to
00:38:48
be changed or taken away from him that
00:38:51
Jim's disappearance had to happen in
00:38:54
that 12 out of our period from the time
00:38:56
that he last spoke the Kathy to the
00:38:58
following morning when the documents
00:39:00
were presented to the notaries
00:39:02
hi ladies no no if you had a chance to
00:39:05
look at all the shirts and everything
00:39:06
yet the jacket is really great
00:39:08
our investigation showed that just days
00:39:10
after Jim's disappearance all of his
00:39:13
personal effects his tools his truck
00:39:16
were all sold in a garage sale that was
00:39:19
conducted at the house and sold by a
00:39:21
starti and Noble Davis four months later
00:39:28
Cathy Clements received a typewritten
00:39:30
letter from Australia's signed by Jim
00:39:32
Rice once again
00:39:33
Jim's signature appeared to have been
00:39:35
forged and one other discrepancy cast
00:39:37
doubt on the letters authenticity the
00:39:43
most important thing was the fact that
00:39:45
the letter throughout contained the
00:39:47
words I am put together we know that
00:39:51
from letters which we can attribute to a
00:39:53
star T that that was a grammatical error
00:39:56
that she frequently used I just thought
00:39:59
that was the cruelest thing anybody
00:40:00
could do B to write a letter to a family
00:40:05
of a missing person posing as that
00:40:10
person still being alive giving an ounce
00:40:14
of false hope I just thought that was so
00:40:18
cool
00:40:19
Cathy Clements and Dennis sure are
00:40:22
convinced that Jim Rice was murdered and
00:40:24
that his body lay somewhere beneath the
00:40:26
blue waters of the Caribbean and that a
00:40:28
star T rice may hold the key to solving
00:40:31
the mystery
00:40:33
in January 1989 Astarte rice was charged
00:40:36
with bank and mail fraud because of her
00:40:38
attempt to seize Jim Rice's assets
00:40:40
she was released on bail and disappeared
00:40:45
in 1991 a start a Davis rice was
00:40:49
arrested in Santa Barbara California
00:40:51
because Jim Rice's body had never been
00:40:53
found
00:40:54
authorities were unable to charge her in
00:40:56
his death though the FBI still considers
00:40:59
her a prime suspect Astarte did however
00:41:02
plead guilty to bank and passport fraud
00:41:04
in the United States and in st. Croix
00:41:06
and served the first portion of her 15
00:41:08
years sentence and a medium-security
00:41:10
prison in California in 1997 Astarte was
00:41:15
transferred to the minimum security
00:41:17
federal prison camp in Dublin California
00:41:19
to complete the rest of return a year
00:41:22
later taking advantage of the lighter
00:41:24
security Astarte Davis rice simply
00:41:27
walked out of the facility she was
00:41:30
present during the morning count at
00:41:32
approximately fought between 5:00 and
00:41:33
6:00 a.m. then during the course of the
00:41:36
day there was a fire drill conducted
00:41:39
which resulted in another prison camp
00:41:40
being conducted at 10:00 a.m.
00:41:42
she wasn't scheduled to work that day
00:41:44
and so is the timeframe between the
00:41:47
first count in the second count that she
00:41:48
had the opportunity to leave the
00:41:49
facility she's very cunning she's smart
00:41:52
she's intelligent and she's very danger
00:41:54
she'll use anyone deplete their
00:41:56
resources and she's been suspected of
00:41:58
being involved in the disappearance of
00:42:00
people
00:42:13
[Music]
00:42:26
for every mystery there is someone
00:42:28
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps is
00:42:32
you
00:42:33
[Music]
00:43:01
[Applause]
00:43:04
[Music]
