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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
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December 12th 1985 a chartered plane
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went down in flames outside gander
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Newfoundland Canada killing 248 American
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soldiers officially the crash was ruled
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an accident caused by ice on the wing
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but eyewitnesses telev intense fires it
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could not be extinguished and a
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mysterious cache of weapons recovered
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from the wreckage but the Yong GIS have
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fallen victim to a terrorist bomb as a
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child
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Peggy Lloyd was haunted by the elusive
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vision of a brother she barely
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remembered finding the discovery of an
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old snapshot launched Peggy on a
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determined quest for answers perhaps you
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can help end her search for her
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long-lost brother
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the terrible tragedy in Waco Texas has
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focused the nation's attention on the
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scattering of religious coasts across
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the United States in one cult unrelated
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to the Branch Davidian sect Nelson de
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Cloud was seen as a dynamic charismatic
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Messenger of God by his followers
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however according to one member who fled
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the cult
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I'll use his position to demand sexual
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favors from some of the women in this
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congregation also tonight a moving and
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joyous update thanks to our broadcast to
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childhood friends separated for more
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than 30 years been reunited
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join me for these fascinating stories of
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tonight's unsolved mysteries
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[Applause]
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these men were members of the elite
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101st airborne unit of the United States
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Army
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on December 12th 1985 they were among
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248 young soldiers cut down in their
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prime all killed instantly when their
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transport plane crashed at gander
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Newfoundland it was a worst single air
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disaster in US military history
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officially the crisis written off to ice
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in the planes wings but many of the
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young men's families as well as several
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key investigators believe it the true
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cause of the gandered tragedy remains an
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unsolved mystery on December 11th 1985 a
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one hundred and first Airborne left
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Cairo Egypt on a chartered air aware
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dc-8 much like this one they were going
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home to Fort Campbell Kentucky after a
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six-month peacekeeping mission in the
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Sinai following one stop in Germany they
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landed for refueling at the gander
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Newfoundland Airport in Canada an hour
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later just after takeoff tragedy struck
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the dc-8 crashed less than three miles
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from the gander control tower killing
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everyone on board the wreckage was
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scattered over an area 1,300 feet long
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and 130 feet wide almost immediately a
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man purporting to represent the
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terrorist organization Islamic Jihad
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telephoned a US consulate in Algeria to
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claim responsibility nevertheless US
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army officials who arrived in gander
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within hours quickly discounted the
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possibility of terrorist involvement
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later a Canadian Board of Inquiry stated
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that ice on the planes wings had brought
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it down however four of the boar's nine
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members publicly dissented insisting
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that ice did not cause the crash there
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was certainly some kind of an explosion
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and a small explosion had disabled the
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control system that led to the sequence
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of events that led to the disaster but
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what caused that explosion whether it
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for sabotage or whether it was the
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accidental detonation of some kind of
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military equipment that was carried down
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against regulations we really don't have
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a better idea than we had in 1988 the
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dissenters are particularly disturbed by
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the pulverized state of the wreckage
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usually in a take-off crash large
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sections of the plane remain intact
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if any passengers survived a normal kind
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of takeoff accident can be quite serious
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and can involve the fire but basically
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the aircraft isn't completely destroyed
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you usually don't have a huge explosion
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because when the tanks are full it
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doesn't give the fuel a chance to mix
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with oxygen like you need for an
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explosion
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you get an explosion when the aircraft
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crashes with partial tanks and takeoff
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accidents are usually survivable the US
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government claimed there was no evidence
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that an onboard explosion had caused the
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crash
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they steadfastly deny that either
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explosives or ammunition had been
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carried as carnold eyewitness reports
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McEnroe airport however cast doubt on
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the government's position the 101st
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airborne waited for eight hours while
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they were transferred to a larger plane
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in the process the duffel bags of 41
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soldiers were left behind on the tarmac
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to make room for several large wooden
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boxes many believe the boxes contain
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some type of classified weapons at the
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gander crash site one of the rescue
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workers Harvey day says he saw five
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wooden boxes sir that's as far as you
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can go decided to walk down to see what
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was in this area I had of a ten feet
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from it and this military guy who walked
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up towards me he said when I stopped and
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looked and I saw what people are
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beginning to say it didn't exist I saw
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five large wooden boxes they were black
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bit burnt from the fire and I saw harms
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rifles and I saw things like missiles a
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little metal boxes did look like
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ammunition boxes and it was our pile of
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very neatly into this corner very just
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want to see what's desert you don't have
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to see anything this is official
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military business if you don't leave
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I'll have you removed by force from the
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premises in addition they recalls one
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unusual hot spot resulting from the
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crash
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there's two firefighters and they had a
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continuous stream of water onto this
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pile and I thought a very peculiar and I
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walked over to one chap and I asked the
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Benedicta water way is as flared back up
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again and I said we've got to do this he
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sent till he said it burns out he said
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it cools down tilt it to the point we
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can remove what's there within weeks
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Harvey Day and several other rescue
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workers began to complain of health
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problems to some the symptoms sounded
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suspiciously like radiation poisoning I
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think we had over 30 who describes some
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type of malady or sickness as a result
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of the crash and they range from liver
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problems to what people thought were
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heart attacks and just general illnesses
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and this is what was checked out and it
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got to be rather scary according to one
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unnamed source the United States
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government allegedly sealed his crash
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investigation records for a period of 70
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years however several government
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agencies including the Department of
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Defense the National Transportation
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Safety Board deny that any such records
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exist
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we know that this the files on the
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gander incident would not be sealed for
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70 years if it were simply ice we know
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that there had to be something very very
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politically embarrassing that could have
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been very harmful to the Reagan
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administration that had to be covered up
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as one family member put it she wants to
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know if her family member died
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protecting this country or if he died
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because our government was protecting
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itself
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in the early 1980s the United States
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government had begun illegally selling
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arms to Iran in a covert and Byzantine
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operation now known as iran-contra the
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operation ostensibly aimed at freeing
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American hostages on the Middle East
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through was apparently in jeopardy at
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the time of the gander crash the
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Security Council I assumed that the
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president was just a few days before the
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crash Colonel Oliver North Warren in at
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least two separate memos that the United
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States risked quote a renewed wave of
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terrorism a u.s. reversal now could
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ignite Iranian fire the hostages would
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be our minimum losses whatever happened
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in gander I believe would have either
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caused political embarrassment or an
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international incident or both and
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whatever the reason was for the cover-up
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in 1985 still exists today
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US government investigators did appear
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to be behaving strangely first off the
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crash site was bulldoze within three
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months a highly unusual practice the US
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Army says it was done simply to
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discourage souvenir hunters secondly the
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remains of the plane were quickly
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disposed of buried in a dump again
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highly unusual procedure as a rule
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downed airplanes are virtually
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reassembled in order to study the crash
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one of the young men who lost his life
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at Gander was 23-year old sergeant James
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Douglas Phillips the only son of dr.
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Douglas Phillips a pathologist
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disillusioned by the official reports
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dr. Phillips and his wife zona formed an
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organization called families for truth
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about gander they requested several
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scrap sections from the dc-8 and were
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surprised when the government sent them
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an expert hired to analyze the scraps
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claimed the outward puckered edges
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showed that a blast had indeed occurred
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inside the plane
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I think the airplane exploded in midair
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and then went down and hit the ground
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with a gigantic fireball ensuing upon
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hitting and the fuel ignited but there's
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no doubt in my mind that there was a
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fire or an explosion while the plane was
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still in flight
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dr. Philips turned up one final chilling
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fact autopsies revealed that many of the
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dead soldiers at a significant amount of
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carbon monoxide in their bodies the
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toxicology report showed that the
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victims had indeed read in carbon
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monoxide prior to the plane hitting the
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ground and exploding this had to be from
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a detonation a fire or explosion onboard
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the craft I guess the thing that bothers
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me the most is there are people out
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there living ordinarily ordinary day
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life going about their business and
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their jobs and they know what happened
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and they won't tell us and they won't
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help us in 1990 a congressional hearing
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on the ganda disaster was convened in
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Washington DC while the committee did
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criticized the government's lackluster
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post crash investigation he stopped
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short of recommending a full-scale
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reinvestigation the families of the dead
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men are left to wonder why and how their
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sons husbands and brothers really died
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next a woman discovers that her
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long-lost father was a circus clown with
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a broken heart
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during the Second World War more than 16
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million American men and women were
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called upon to serve the country
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inevitably many families would not
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survive the stress of wartime separation
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twenty-eight-year-old leaked early lloyd
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was one of those whose marriage was a
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casualty of the war effort our Curley
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was in the service his son and two
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daughters lived in Oroville California
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with a woman who ran a boarding house
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for children at the time Peggy Lloyd was
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three years old
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her sister 4 and their little brother
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Arthur - one day in 1944
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Curley's wife arrived at the boarding
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house she was accompanied by the man she
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would marry when her divorce was final
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um I've come here I want to take my
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children just the girls are not Arthur
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Peggy and her sister went to live with
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her mother and the man who was to become
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their stepfather
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Peggy's brother Arthur was left behind
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[Music]
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PEGI logu up being told that her father
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had deserted the family and questions
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about her brother were ignored or
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brushed aside she began to wonder if
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arthur had ever even existed until a
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quiet summer day in 1948 I climbed up
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into the attic and crawled along kind of
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looking at things and in the back was a
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bunch of boxes
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[Music]
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so I was playing this particular group
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of boxes and I found this picture
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when I looked at the picture I just I
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knew that it was Arthur now and I
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couldn't say that that was a memory it
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was a feeling it was like he looked like
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me he was the right age it just felt I
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knew that it was Arthur what are you
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doing look it's Arthur my brother then
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that proves it he's my brother she took
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the picture from me and it went away and
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I never saw the picture again and I
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still never got an answer but of course
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in my mind I just knew and so I guess
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that I just grew up believing that
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wherever my father was Arthur was
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Peggy's life at home grew increasingly
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difficult at the age of nine she was
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sent to the first in a series of foster
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homes and boarding schools she married
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in 1958 at age 17 and raised four
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daughters of her own over the years
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Peggy remained in contact with her
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mother but never learned anything more
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about her brother or father finally in
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1983 Peggy presented her mother with a
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picture fell genealogical chart as a way
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of once again bringing up the subject of
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Arthur and curly first one starts with
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1879 you look right here look at me I
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was an adult now and she didn't have to
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be so afraid of what I did and perhaps
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she would give you that information and
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feel like enough time had passed that
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she could do that I forgotten that one
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but you know mom there is still
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something missing
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I still don't have any information about
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my own father Peggy don't start with me
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again please we just want to know where
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he was born mom in the end Peggy's
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mother relented and reluctantly revealed
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Curly's birthplace Lindsey Oklahoma
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thanks the next day I called there on
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the phone and I put an ad in their local
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weekly newspaper asking if anybody knew
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his whereabouts or Arthur's and it was
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from there that things began to happen
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the family secrets of nearly 40 years
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were unlocked with stunning speed just
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nine days after placing the ad Peggy
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received a letter from an aunt
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Velma Lloyd who was married to Curly's
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brother Velma had included her phone
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number and Peggy immediately called her
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newly discovered relative hello may I
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speak with Velma Roy wait please I found
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while I was talking to her on the phone
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I was like flipping through the rest of
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the letters and there I saw this one
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that had him when those return address
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stamps on it that said curly and cue
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clown alley Spokane when I saw the
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letter from my dad it's like I felt like
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my heart stopped it was a mixture is
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like I was really excited I'm really
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emotional I started crying but I was
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really frightened I didn't know anything
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about my father I thought well what if
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what he says in the letter is I don't
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want anything to do with you but of
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course I just overcame that in and I
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opened the letter and the letter said my
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beloved daughter how thrilled I am to
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hear from you it was like it's
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undescribable Peggy was surprised to
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learn that for many years both before
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and after the war her father was a clown
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with Ringling Brothers and other smaller
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circuses in 1955 curly had even
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performed within five miles of Peggy's
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home in Southern California but they
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would not see each other until Peggy's
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43rd birthday in 1984 this home video
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was shot at Peggy and curlies
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long-awaited reunion
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the Spokane Washington it was the first
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birthday Peggy had spent with her father
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since she was three years old suddenly I
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had a grandfather and aunts and uncles
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and cousins and just this whole world of
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family
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and they just all acted like I'd been
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there my whole life like they'd always
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spend my family yeah it's just a
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wonderful thing the celebration was
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perfect in every way but one Peggy's
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brother Arthur was not with the family
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but finally Peggy was able to learn what
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had happened to Arthur since she last
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saw him in 1944
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for four years Arthur had traveled with
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a circus watching his father perform in
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towns and cities across America Curley
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had no idea where his ex-wife and his
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two daughters were living hey prissy
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monkey you real good in the show today
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at first Curley believed that circus
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life would be rewarding for his young
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son Curley himself that joined the
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circus when he was nine and saw nothing
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wrong with her itinerant life his
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friends advised him otherwise the circus
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people told him that Arthur needed to be
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in school Arthur needed a home
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stability real parents and a family that
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he could grow up with in one place and
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that the circus life wasn't a good home
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for him yes after much soul-searching
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Curley reached a painful decision he
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sought out a Catholic priest in Logan
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Utah where the circus was performing in
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the fall of 1948 Church can find him a
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home
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I appreciate take care of yourself okay
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thank you Father
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thank you buddy your son Arthur
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hey I want you to carry yourself okay
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all right and uh this man here he's
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gonna take care of you'd be good
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remember everything daddy told you okay
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all right
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your long
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[Music]
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artha was six years old when curly gave
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him up for adoption fifteen years later
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curly would receive two letters from his
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son but neither contained Arthur's
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adopted last name or his return address
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the letters have been mailed from
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Colorado Springs Colorado
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I tried Colorado Springs I didn't find
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anything there I seem to be at a loss
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and when my dad became really ill it was
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like I have to find Arthur I have to
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find him before he dies look at you just
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a mess just a mess curly and I had seven
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really wonderful years of friendship
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yeah we became really good friends and
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we talked about Arthur a lot he really
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felt really sad about it and he felt
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really guilty about it only got one
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worker we have wonderful daughter
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I will find him sorry
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it was like he said to me Peggy I don't
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know about Arthur
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I'm so sorry about Arthur but I know
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that you'll find him somehow I believe
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that I know that we will
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leak early lloyd died in 1991 at the age
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of 77 he was comforted at least in some
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measure by Peggy's promise to continue
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searching for Arthur this is one of only
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two known photographs of Arthur Franklin
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Lloyd when the picture was taken
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Arthur was 2 years old that blond hair
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yes blue eyes would today be 50 years
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old I have to find Arthur I have to find
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him to say you have a family you have
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someone not just myself but all of
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Curly's family who love you and want you
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and we want to know you
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but we returned a young woman accuses a
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spiritual leader of rape authorities
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need your help to find him Tim this is
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Julie what are you doing it's late
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shortly before midnight on September
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17th 1992 a young woman named Julie
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Cooper made an impassioned phone call a
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cry for help - Tim Santee a virtual
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stranger whom she had met only once when
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he repaired the satellite dish on the
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farm where she lived Julia told me bits
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and pieces of what had gone on but I'm
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still not aware of the whole story and
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I'm thinking well you know it's no big
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deal nobody's gonna catch us we
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tentatively set the time for 1:15 in the
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morning I drove up to the corner before
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you get to the road down to her house at
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1:13 I waited for two minutes and drove
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down there and she was crouched down in
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the grass with a trash bag full of
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clothes
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oh she was very very nervous and very
00:26:29
afraid that you are the wearers of way
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Julie Cooper told Tim sandy that for 16
00:26:37
years she'd been trapped in a religious
00:26:38
cult called the de Cloud family the
00:26:41
family nearly 30 men women and children
00:26:43
lived together in a compound far removed
00:26:46
from the outside world in some ways that
00:26:50
account family resembled the Branch
00:26:52
Davidian sect the religious caught led
00:26:54
by David Koresh and Waco Texas that
00:26:57
group lived in a fortified compound
00:26:59
where a two-month standoff with federal
00:27:01
agents recently ended in tragedy David
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Koresh's group was just one of an
00:27:08
estimated 2,000 religious cults which
00:27:10
have sprung up throughout the country
00:27:12
many are headed by self-proclaimed
00:27:14
Messiah who with absolute authority on
00:27:18
Julie Cooper finally escaped from under
00:27:20
cloud family she began to make
00:27:22
accusations which paint a horrifying
00:27:24
picture of life within the commune the
00:27:26
most chilling allegations focus on the
00:27:28
leader of the cult Nelson de Cloud
00:27:33
Nelson de Cloud is an ex-police officer
00:27:36
from Raytown Missouri a suburb of Kansas
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City his family as he calls his
00:27:41
followers had actually been founded by
00:27:44
his father Forrest a cloud around 1968
00:27:47
before Forrest died in 1988 Nelson
00:27:51
ascended to the role of spiritual leader
00:27:54
so new Buddhist followers to an isolated
00:27:57
farm in Liberty Missouri nearly all
00:27:59
family members were encouraged to change
00:28:02
their last names to the cloud literally
00:28:04
of the clouds and welcomed him into the
00:28:12
temple to class praise the Lord praise
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the Lord
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today's lesson from revelations 13 open
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your Bibles please Nelson thought that
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he was God son not really that he was
00:28:32
Jesus Christ but that he was one of
00:28:34
God's sons and that he couldn't do any
00:28:37
wrong
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and I said unto him Sir Nelson had a
00:28:41
very booming voice his eyes were like
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these are they which came white blue
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ting with legislation and that scary
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robes and made them white in the blood
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of the Lamb praise the Lord
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[Applause]
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Julie Cooper was just 6 when her family
00:28:59
joined the cult in the mid 70s who
00:29:04
claims she eventually learned that the
00:29:06
cloud expected perverse almost repulsive
00:29:08
forms of devotion from his followers
00:29:10
holiday when she was 10 Julie says the
00:29:14
cloud forced her to watch him have sex
00:29:16
with a female member of the family he
00:29:24
asked me to have sex with him and I
00:29:26
didn't want to I didn't what I want you
00:29:28
to do Julie and what God wants you to do
00:29:30
you understand me all right I guess he
00:29:33
was so far in didn't he couldn't do any
00:29:35
wrong kind of deal it didn't matter to
00:29:39
him now you listen to me do you know how
00:29:41
old Mary was when she had Jesus 14 years
00:29:45
old 14 years old now you think about
00:29:47
that there's nothing wrong with that if
00:29:50
you put me out just like wooded area I
00:29:52
didn't have any food and jacket or
00:29:55
anything like that I'll know when to
00:29:59
come back God will tell me when to come
00:30:01
back
00:30:04
according to Julie she stood in the
00:30:06
field alone and shivering for eight
00:30:09
hours before Nelson took her back to the
00:30:11
compound this obedience
00:30:15
there is a sinner amongst us and I am
00:30:20
deeply troubled Judy says that another
00:30:24
member of the family was publicly
00:30:26
humiliated the clown about his coolies
00:30:29
disobey my words she has chosen to
00:30:32
disobey God's he was gonna make an
00:30:37
example of her in front of me in front
00:30:39
of others College penance that's enough
00:30:43
to scare and he knew that I was already
00:30:44
scared ourselves I felt like it was my
00:30:51
fault because here she tried to stand up
00:30:56
for me and I wasn't giving in and maybe
00:31:02
if I had given in earlier he would have
00:31:04
done this
00:31:08
they found me you know and he says well
00:31:13
are you ready now but of course you know
00:31:16
after all that had happened I said yes
00:31:21
Julie Cooper claims she became a virtual
00:31:23
prisoner in the compound forced to serve
00:31:26
as one of the clouds unwilling sex
00:31:28
partners when she was 15
00:31:31
Judy says she made her first attempt to
00:31:33
escape after everything had happened to
00:31:36
me everything was going on I decided to
00:31:39
run away you know I just couldn't take
00:31:40
any more Judy's absence did not go
00:31:45
unnoticed Nelson the cloud immediately
00:31:47
organized search parties to comb the
00:31:49
area
00:31:54
Julian stop right where you are you hear
00:31:57
me boy you stay right there stop right
00:31:59
there pick me up handcuffed me and took
00:32:16
me back I was just scared of him of what
00:32:20
would happen to me
00:32:21
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00:32:32
according to Judy she was ordered to
00:32:35
disrobe and later she was severely
00:32:38
beaten offer your shirt
00:32:45
Nelson switched me burn my clothes from
00:32:49
my shoes and it was like a symbolic
00:32:53
thing after that he always kept me with
00:32:57
him I always had to sleep with him and
00:32:59
his in his bus in his area he wouldn't
00:33:03
let me out of anybody's sight I always
00:33:06
had to be watched so that's one thing
00:33:10
that really kept me on edge you know and
00:33:12
kept me from ever trying to run away cuz
00:33:14
I was afraid someone would see me seven
00:33:18
more years past Julie Cooper remain
00:33:22
feeling stripped of her freedom and
00:33:23
dignity waiting for one more chance to
00:33:26
escape then in the fall of 1992 the
00:33:29
opportunity arose at Nelson's request
00:33:33
Judy contacted a satellite dish
00:33:35
repairman numerous calls followed until
00:33:38
finally Tim santi made his appearance at
00:33:41
the de cloud commune as I pull into the
00:33:45
driveway I see several cars I see a lot
00:33:48
of kids running around and the first
00:33:49
impression that I get is it you know
00:33:51
this has to be some type of sister Julie
00:33:56
could I interrupt you just a second this
00:33:58
is Tim he's the man from the satellite
00:34:01
company when I got into the office I
00:34:03
guess I sort of more or less recognized
00:34:05
Julie's because I had built up a rapport
00:34:07
with her on the telephone and in the
00:34:09
weeks preceding to me coming up there
00:34:10
and doing the service call Julie was
00:34:16
very meek in as much as she wasn't as
00:34:19
outgoing as she was on the phone that
00:34:21
she seemed stifled or held back because
00:34:24
of some some other reason than than
00:34:27
anything obvious brother Nelson this is
00:34:31
our brother in god Nelson declawed
00:34:33
Nelson I'd like for you to meet Tim when
00:34:37
Tim was introduced to Nelson she didn't
00:34:41
show him in a respect he didn't think of
00:34:43
her as anything or anything and that
00:34:47
made me feel good it made me feel like I
00:34:50
could trust in someone I could actually
00:34:51
talk to this person and he could
00:34:53
understand me over the next couple of
00:34:56
weeks afterward
00:34:58
I had asked her out for a date and she
00:35:01
had seemed like she was willing but was
00:35:03
not that there was something that was
00:35:06
holding her back well he had asked me
00:35:08
out and of course I told him that I
00:35:10
couldn't go and I couldn't go for a year
00:35:12
you know wouldn't be able to get out for
00:35:13
a year that was just the way of putting
00:35:15
him off and seeing if he was willing to
00:35:17
go on with trying to wear me down
00:35:20
in the course of our conversations on
00:35:22
the phone we had she had come up with a
00:35:25
plan that she had that she would need to
00:35:26
sneak out at night undetected I called
00:35:31
him up missed' I'm gonna go tonight well
00:35:34
he made a time in 1:15 in the morning
00:35:36
you know sure enough 1:15 hit he was
00:35:39
there after I left I was afraid they
00:35:47
would take me back
00:35:49
it would beat me do something to my mom
00:35:55
I'm still afraid that he is torturing my
00:35:58
mom in some way for what I've done
00:36:02
at dawn nelson de cloud went looking for
00:36:05
julie allegedly masquerading as police
00:36:09
officers Nelson and another family
00:36:11
member drove to Tim Sandy's address hey
00:36:17
Julie where is Julie
00:36:22
[Music]
00:36:24
fortunately for Jude the address
00:36:26
belonged to Tim's brother 10 Tim and
00:36:29
Judy just a few yards away sound asleep
00:36:32
in the house next door the next day Ted
00:36:50
came up to me and said what the hell's
00:36:51
going on here
00:36:52
two strange people had come into his
00:36:55
home looking for me like I you know like
00:36:59
I was a criminal or something and that's
00:37:04
when Julie had told us the whole thing
00:37:06
of what was going on why did you want to
00:37:09
run away she had also alluded to the
00:37:12
fear that any man that was physically
00:37:14
able from that group would probably come
00:37:16
and try to get hurt and they raped me
00:37:19
and I can't stay there anymore how long
00:37:23
that's when we decided to put
00:37:25
restraining orders against anyone who
00:37:26
was physically able to abduct her I
00:37:30
never want to go back ever when you
00:37:36
first get out you feel kind of you don't
00:37:38
know what you are to do you know how to
00:37:40
stop things and that was just the first
00:37:43
step for me just to keep him away
00:37:45
because I knew they had brought people
00:37:48
back before they had gone away and beat
00:37:51
them and stuff and I was afraid
00:37:52
something like that would happen to me
00:37:54
last Thursday I called my friend Tim to
00:37:58
come pick me up detective Duane Wiersma
00:38:02
of the Clay County Sheriff's Department
00:38:04
had long been suspicious about the cult
00:38:06
please what happened when he brought
00:38:10
Julie Cooper in for questioning she
00:38:13
provided a detailed and harrowing
00:38:14
account of her entire childhood I was
00:38:18
abused
00:38:19
I believed Julie from the beginning
00:38:23
beautiful protective B's we had a hard
00:38:28
time trying just to focus on the charges
00:38:30
that of a rape at the time because
00:38:32
there's so many other things that could
00:38:33
have been he could been charged with
00:38:37
before an arrest warrant could be issued
00:38:39
Nelson declawed ordered the women and
00:38:41
children to load their possessions out
00:38:43
of four converted busses Nelson then
00:38:46
took them away from the condo the other
00:38:48
men departed a week later the cloud
00:38:51
family has not been seen since it's not
00:38:56
an everyday occurrence where you up on a
00:38:57
religious group led by such a powerful
00:39:00
individual as Nelson to cloud we believe
00:39:05
they're still together because Nelson
00:39:06
feeds off the power of being in control
00:39:08
of a group if he doesn't have the group
00:39:10
then he has no power I want Nelson to
00:39:13
get caught because it's not fair to
00:39:16
anyone else that's up there my mom and
00:39:20
dad they they need to know that he isn't
00:39:25
the Messiah
00:39:28
you can't do things on his own and think
00:39:30
he could get away with it he's not above
00:39:34
that there's a criminal what he was
00:39:40
doing was wrong
00:39:40
[Music]
00:39:46
after our broadcast several viewers
00:39:48
Masson Angelo Texas a small town 500
00:39:51
miles from the clouds old headquarters
00:39:53
in Missouri call to say they had seemed
00:39:55
to clouds wife in the area the coat had
00:39:58
apparently settled in this farmhouse
00:40:00
when state and local agents converged on
00:40:03
the scene the cloud kicked out the
00:40:05
screen of the upstairs window in an
00:40:07
attempt to escape the deputies
00:40:09
approached him and he tried to wrestle
00:40:12
with a few of them briefly there are so
00:40:14
many law enforcement officers though
00:40:15
that he didn't that didn't last very
00:40:17
long they put the handcuffs on him and
00:40:19
escorted him out of the building
00:40:22
Nelson declared was booked at the local
00:40:24
County Jail and later extradited to
00:40:26
Liberty Missouri to stand trial on for
00:40:29
criminal counts including forcible rape
00:40:31
and sodomy since they rested Nelson the
00:40:34
cloud other former members of the group
00:40:37
have come forward willing to testify
00:40:39
about things they witnessed when they
00:40:42
were members of the group no Santa Cloud
00:40:45
is currently out on bail
00:40:47
thanks to twenty five thousand dollars
00:40:48
raised by followers a trial is scheduled
00:40:51
for November 16th 1993 if convicted on
00:40:55
all charges Nelson the cloud could spend
00:40:57
the rest of his life in prison I feel
00:41:00
confident now that I can have a normal
00:41:02
life after seeing him caught knowing
00:41:06
that it can be done
00:41:10
for Julie Cooper her long ordeal is
00:41:13
almost but not quite over she still has
00:41:16
to testify the clouds upcoming trial
00:41:19
however this courageous young woman has
00:41:21
already found a happy ending to her
00:41:23
story
00:41:24
last summer Julie became engaged to Tim
00:41:26
sandy a man who helped her escape
00:41:30
[Music]
00:41:41
next a dramatic reunion a woman finds a
00:41:45
long-lost best friend who helped her
00:41:47
overcome the trauma of polio recently we
00:42:00
featured the moving story of Judy Davis
00:42:02
he was stricken with polio as a young
00:42:04
girl Judy was searching for her best
00:42:07
childhood friend Becky Terry the two
00:42:12
girls had been wrenched apart back in
00:42:14
1958 when Becky's family moved away Judy
00:42:19
and Becky had met on the first day of
00:42:21
junior high to the other students Judy
00:42:26
her braces and crutches was an unnerving
00:42:28
sight she was often the object of
00:42:30
curious stares but one girl was
00:42:33
different one girl offered Judy the
00:42:36
precious gift of unconditional
00:42:37
friendship
00:42:38
[Music]
00:42:47
Becky's friendship to me meant that I
00:42:50
was able to be accepted by the other
00:42:54
students in the school and it made me
00:42:58
feel like I was more like everyone else
00:43:01
and that there was no difference between
00:43:04
us and at the age of 12 that meant a lot
00:43:09
and it still means a lot during our
00:43:15
special live broadcast last winter Judy
00:43:17
waited anxiously at her home in Tucson
00:43:19
Arizona hoping that Becky would be found
00:43:22
- everyone's joy they were reunited by
00:43:25
phone while the program was still on the
00:43:27
air
00:43:28
[Music]
00:43:34
three months later Becky and her husband
00:43:37
flew from their home in West Virginia to
00:43:39
meet Judy and Tucson if he hadn't
00:43:46
stopped jumped out anyway hosting their
00:43:50
sickening that yard I couldn't like this
00:43:51
leader finding Becky and telling her
00:44:00
what off what she meant to me was really
00:44:03
important and I didn't want life to end
00:44:06
without being able to tell her that she
00:44:10
hasn't changed that much maybe we're a
00:44:12
little fat or you know but we love it
00:44:15
good friends yeah that's the one thing I
00:44:19
always loved about Becky she accepted me
00:44:20
for the way I was and I still feel that
00:44:23
way
00:44:26
happily Judy and Becky's reunion had
00:44:29
none expected PostScript as girls in
00:44:32
junior high school they shared a very
00:44:33
special friend his name was David major
00:44:37
David had first been Becky's boyfriend
00:44:39
and later on Judy's during our live
00:44:42
broadcast David contacted our telecenter
00:44:44
and left his phone number on the day of
00:44:47
their reunion Judy and Becky just had to
00:44:49
call him back now the circle was at last
00:45:33
complete so the two girls who taught
00:45:36
David major how to kiss took their
00:45:38
husbands out to celebrate the renewal of
00:45:40
a very special friendship a toast to old
00:45:44
friends and new ones yeah
00:46:03
thank you for joining us and please join
00:46:05
us next time for another edition of
00:46:07
unsolved mysteries
00:46:08
[Music]
00:46:37
[Applause]
00:46:40
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