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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries late one night an argument
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turns into a deadly high-speed chase for
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a popular Los Angeles
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DJ when a college freshman is brutally
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murdered her mother takes on the case to
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find her daughter's
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killer a dedicated father loving husband
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and aspiring in engineer is gunned down
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by an unknown as oh my God and meet the
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sweetheart swinwood a Charming but
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ruthless con man who steals his victim's
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hearts and then their
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cash cunning deceit and lies maybe you
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can figure out who's telling the truth
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I'm Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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Los Angeles
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California 26-year-old DJ Lee selwin was
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a familiar face at trendy rock and roll
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nightclubs in Los
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Angeles Lee was close friends with many
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rock stars he also hung out with
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motorcycle riders who Cruise the LA
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streets after hours
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but late one night Lee would fight for
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his life the victim of a bizarre
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encounter with a crazed
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killer Lee San was a man who just loved
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the nightlife of Los Angeles however
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simply because he looked different Lee
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and his friends were targeted for murder
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the sad irony of Lee's death is that he
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was only an innocent
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bystander when he first got his
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motorcycle I guess I was probably a
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little bit nervous about it but I knew
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that he was careful and I knew that he
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wouldn't take unnecessary chances he
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wasn't a crazy kind of person and so I
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really didn't worry about
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him early one morning Lee and three
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friends left the Hollywood nightclub
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unaware of the danger that waited for
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them on the street they rode two by two
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Lee and a friend trailing Bob caot and
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another another friend who rode in
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front driving along and all of a sudden
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out of nowhere this truck comes flying
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by me as he comes by he Dives in on me
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laughing Dives in on me I look over mic
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and in La this happens every day every
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day but not so
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blatant the [ __ ] you going what are you
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trying to do I got infuriated cuz he was
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trying to kill me and I'm really close
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to the guy and he starts screaming at me
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and look like a nut drug spear whatever
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psycho then he rolls his window down and
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spits in my
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face anybody get spit in their face CU I
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rate so I punched out his mirror and he
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still spitting at me growling and
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screaming and then he starts reaching
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down like he's got a gun I put my fist
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through his uh driver's window
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as soon as I broke his window he shot
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out of the intersection and he's doing a
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U-turn and mik gu look at you this guy's
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going to kill us he's coming after
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us he just wanted to kill
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me we're flying down the street and I
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see his headlights bearing down on us so
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we choose to go right and as I look back
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he comes flying through the intersection
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screeching bouncing and comes to a
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slightest stop when Lee got to the the
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intersection he turned left the truck
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followed him now Lee was the target of
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the driver's
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rage according to the witnesses they
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were both going anywhere from 60 to 90 M
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hour here you have a young man who is
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known by his friends known by his family
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as a very Peaceable man who purposely
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avoids
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fights and all sudden he's in a
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situation where he's terrorized by
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someone in a car and this ha lasted
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approximately about a 5 Mile Chase with
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this man right on his rear
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end and he chased him until the time
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they actually hit him and drove him into
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a telephone
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pole Lee when he flew through the air he
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flew close to 180 ft before he came to
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arrest
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this is a murder it's a homicide someone
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intentionally took the life of another
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person it's a
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homicide Lee received a massive skull
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fracture in the Collision which led to
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his death I received a call from Cedars
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they said that he was in the intensive
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care and I knew I just
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knew but I don't believe it yet
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it's real but it isn't
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real he was such a big part of my life
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he was my buddy he wasn't just my son he
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was my
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buddy at Le's funeral hundreds of his
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friends came to say goodbye this music
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video was set to an original song
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dedicated to Lee's memory by the rock
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group Little
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[Music]
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Caesar it was amazing to see all these
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people who really cared there's no way
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that that that can be consolation enough
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it was a real tribute to who Lee was by
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how many people were there and how many
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people really have have shown how much
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they
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carebody know it
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I should have told him I looked to rid
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next to
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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me we friends organized a rock concert
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in his honor with special guest
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performances by Billy Idol and Julian
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lennin the proceeds from the concert
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went to a fund offering a reward to
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anyone who can bring Le's murderer to
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Justice a lot of people take the opinion
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that these guys are motorcycle gang
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members when in fact there was four guys
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out having a good time they happen to
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like to ride motorcycles these people
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weren't doing anything wrong that night
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and they had a right to be out there
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riding their motorcycles and dressed the
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way they were Lee SN wasn't even the man
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who gave him the problem but it didn't
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matter to him who was on the motorcycle
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he had to catch that motorcycle and he
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had to run him
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over it's incomprehensible to me to
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think that we could never find this man
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I can't even imagine that I could live
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the rest of my
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life not
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knowing who did
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this
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update nearly 5 years after Lee Salan
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was murdered authorities were finally
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able to file charges in the case
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one of our viewers provided the
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information that led to the indictment
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of Franklin Legrand
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Perkins already serving time for
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violating his probation Perkins was
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convicted of first-degree murder and was
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sentenced to life in
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prison next when the daughter of an
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undercover officer is found dead it
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looks like a tragic accident but it's
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not
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Anchorage Alaska Just Before
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Dawn 18-year-old Bonnie Craig is on her
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way to school 2 days a week she walks 45
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minutes through the early morning
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Darkness to catch a bus to the
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University of
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Alaska Bonnie Prides herself on always
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arriving early for her 7 a.m. class but
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today she won't make it to
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school later in the afternoon another
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college student is out shooting
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photographs on a hiking trail and she
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makes a sickening Discovery the lifeless
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body of a young woman is floating in a
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creek her remains were located at the
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bottom of a 33t cliff in Fairly shallow
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water it wasn't a place that you would
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normally uh hike along the the Stream to
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get to where she was so she could have
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been hiking and taken a Miss step
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somewhere and slipped and fallen off of
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the
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cliff the following day the victim was
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identified as Bonnie Craig the medical
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examiner said she had drowned but Bonnie
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had also suffered severe head injuries
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probably from falling off a
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cliff they told me Bonnie had died in a
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hiking accident and I was wouldn't
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believe it I still expected Bonnie to be
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coming up to me and apologizing and
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saying I'm sorry Mom it wasn't
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me viewing her daughter's body was
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devastating however when Karen took a
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closer look she was alarmed by what she
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saw her knuckles were bruised and broken
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this is no hiking
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accident there was Defensive wounds on
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her body and I knew that she had been
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attacked it was
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murder authorities however were slow to
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conclude that Bonnie had been murdered
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what few leads they had they kept to
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themselves but Bonnie's mother Karen
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would finally get some help from a local
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television reporter so you can tell me
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anything about cause of death anything
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like that not at this time it was really
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tough for the community to take because
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Bonnie was a well-liked well-known young
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lady I get an official statement we
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talked with Karen several days after
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Bonnie's body was found and at that time
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Troopers still were not releasing much
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information in fact it wasn't until 6
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months later that Karen finally got the
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results of the sexual assault exam I had
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originally asked if she had been raped
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and they told me
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no after fighting to get information
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from them they revealed to me that yes
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Bonnie was was brutally raped and
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murdered the results of the autopsy
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showed that there was evidence of sexual
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activity we can't confirm whether it was
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a sexual assault or whether it was
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consensual
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sex my daughter was recently killed over
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here at mchu Creek kin soon began her
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own search for information about
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Bonnie's death everybody here in town
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put up signs Flyers bumper
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stickers we wanted to make sure that
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until the crime was solved nobody was
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going to forget about
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it Karen was no stranger to
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investigations or criminals she had
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worked undercover as a Reserve officer
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with the Anchorage police wearing a hood
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and mask to conceal her identity Karen
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would nod silently to identify those who
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had sold her
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drugs I was involved in what I thought
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was minor drug buys I had gone out five
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or six times and bought crack for the
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anguage police
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department Karen you got a sec a few
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months after Bonnie's death Karen
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learned that her undercover work may
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have jeopardized her daughter's
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life Karen was approached by an
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acquaintance who claimed to have
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information about Bonnie's murder these
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guys at the other table according to
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Karen the man said that her family had
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been targeted on the orders of a local
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drug
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La he told me that her murder was
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ordered by this this drug lord because
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it was a message to the Anchorage Police
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Department to back
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off habon was murdered the day after the
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people that I identified as drug
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dealers were released from jail right
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thanks for see me detective thanks have
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a seat Karen gave this information to
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the lead investigator of Bonnie's murder
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but she was not satisfied with his
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response just say it's a call he said
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this was a retribution killing for the
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undercover work I did with the Anchorage
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Police Department wait wa who's his
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Source when I gave him all the details
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he just kept asking where you getting
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this information I said it was from
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somebody who did not want to be
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identified are you going to help me here
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who's your Source I'm not going to
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reveal my source to you and I told him I
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wouldn't reveal my source he told me
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well then you're hindering your
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daughter's investigation and I'm not
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going to investigate this lead and to
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this day I don't know what they've done
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and probably will never know what
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they've done as far is investigating
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that lead the fact that she feels that
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we may not have uh investigated uh
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thoroughly enough or followed up on her
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confidential informance lead I don't
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believe to be true we followed up all
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the leads and if she believes that we
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haven't it might just be that we haven't
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filled her in on every single thing that
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we've
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done a full year after Bonnie's murder
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the case took an unexpected turn when
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Karen was contacted by one of Bonnie's
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teachers
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hello yes she really felt that there was
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this one particular student that may
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have been involved in the
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murder what kid according to Karen the
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teacher became suspicious when she read
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the students class Journal which made
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references to the date of Bonnie's
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murder September
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28th his journal was incredibly violent
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filled with anger and he specifically
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said that September 28th was going to be
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a very tough day that he was going to be
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put to a
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test the teacher also told Karen that on
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the morning Bonnie was murdered the
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student in question was absent in was
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class this morning I'm sorry I just
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overslept he was wet like he had just
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gotten out of a shower and she said it
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smelled like he had just poured a whole
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body botle of cologne on
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himself after the murder his journal
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became more peaceful there wasn't the
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anger yet he knew that there was a
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student that had just died and there was
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no references to Bonnie's murder
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detectives investigated the student but
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quickly ruled him out as a suspect DNA
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evidence recovered from a Bonnie at the
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scene did not match uh DNA evidence
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collected from the student at the
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college I immediately told them that
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didn't seem right to rule him out
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because of DNA because there could have
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been more than one person there was two
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people it didn't have to be his DNA
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Karen then uncovered more disturbing
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information that particular student did
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have a assault charge against him and he
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had been bailed out of jail by a young
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man who had been involved in another
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murder I found it very surprising when I
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when I saw the bail slip who bailed um
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this student this potential suspect out
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of jail the student and several other of
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his friends were involved in a fatal
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shooting here several years
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ago it doesn't sound like the type of
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group that a student who was up and up
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would have been involved with I do
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believe that he could have been the
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murderer despite their disagreements
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both Karen and investigators do agree on
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one thing
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the key to this mystery might rest with
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Bonnie's morning
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routine a young lady who was a neighbor
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of hers who was a paper delivery type
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person saw her around 520 walking down
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her street another gentleman who had
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seen Bonnie a couple of days prior in
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the area of the bus stop saw her again
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that morning and that was about the last
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time that we have a confirmation of
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anybody definitively uh seeing Bonnie
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alive was around 620 20 that morning one
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neighbor reported seeing an unknown car
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in front of Bonnie's house early that
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morning and someone called the police
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tip line claiming to have seen Bonnie
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that same morning talking to two men in
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a
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vehicle could someone have been lying in
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wait for Bonnie Craig Karen intends to
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do everything that she can to keep the
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investigation
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alive until the crime is solved it just
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keeps going through your had that
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somebody else's child will end up
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murdered and raped
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also so until this crime is solved you
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can't give
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up
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update nearly 13 years after Bonnie
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Craig's death police finally made an
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arrest a DNA match LED them to Kenneth
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Dion who was on probation for robbery at
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the time of the murder he was later
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convicted and sentenced to life in
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prison no one knows exactly what
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happened to Bonnie between the time she
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left home and the time that her body was
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found later that day but as a result of
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Bonnie's case Alaska lawmakers have
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passed a bill making DNA samples
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mandatory for all felons in
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[Music]
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custody coming up your tips help put a
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serial rapist behind
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bars New York
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City we recently profiled the story of a
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single woman who was attacked in her
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apartment David gauze the resident
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handyman hey what are you doing forced
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his way into her apartment raped her and
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then threatened her with an ice
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pick the woman called 911 as soon as her
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attacker left but gauze disappeared
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before police
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arrived police later discovered gauze
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had a long list of Prior offenses he was
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also wanted for raping a woman in Long
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Island New York 1 month
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earlier gauze dropped out of sight for
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almost 5 years 5 years of Torment for
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his
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victim I know that he's raping other
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women and I know that other lives are
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being
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destroyed I'd like to see him off the
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streets I'd like to see him put away
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forever
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update after our broadcast viewers in
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the small town of laurenburg North
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Carolina recognized David Gau and called
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our phone center Gau had been living
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there 4 years under the Alias of David
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Johnson Gau was married and was working
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as a handyman he was arrested within a
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week of our broadcast and sent back to
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New York part of the healing of a rape
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victim is the person being apprehended
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and her getting her chance to gain her
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power back I was happy that for the
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victim's sake that after 5 years she now
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gets a chance for justice in the court
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system David Gau was convicted of seven
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charges including rape and sodomy he was
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sentenced to 40 years behind
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bars Matt and Denise Flores had it all a
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loving marriage a beautiful little
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daughter dreams of a full happy life
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dreams that would vanish in an instant
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when Matt was gunned down in Cold Blood
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he was just
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26 Fort Stewart Georgia
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when Matt married Denise leage their
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friends called it the wedding of the
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century Matt was a second lieutenant in
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the Army who later served with honor in
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Operation Desert
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Storm Once Matt came home to Fort
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Stewart in Georgia he and Denise started
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a
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family few months after his daughter
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Danielle was born Matt began a promising
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career with a computer company based in
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California's Silicon Valley he traveled
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there for a brief training
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program it was our our new start in life
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as a family us making decisions instead
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of the military this was his dream come
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true he he finished with the military
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he' done everything right and now he had
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landed the per the job of his
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dreams it was Matt's ninth day of
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training for his new
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job that morning he arrived at work and
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parked in a space in the middle of the
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lot nearby another employee sat
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listening to a talk show on her car
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radio Chris Chris
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taking when a gunshot rang out she moved
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to
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investigate oh
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God the female witness realized that
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he'd been shot and then ran to another
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person for help and then also ran to a
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shuttle bus to try and get somebody to
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call 911 and ask for more help help me
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approximately four or five uniformed
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officers responded immediately including
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a field supervisor paramedics and fire
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also responded immediately but they were
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not able to revive him and he was
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pronounced dead at the scene Matt had
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been shot once in the back of the head
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at Point Blank Range he probably never
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even saw his killer and Incredibly no
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one else did either even though there
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were more than 20 people in the parking
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lot at the time
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they said that he was assassinated
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basically I couldn't believe what I was
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hearing thinking this this is not
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happening this is not happening he was
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never involved in anything in terms of
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drugs gambling uh fooling around any of
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the things that you would think would
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lead to being murdered nothing we
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couldn't find anybody that didn't like
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Matt everybody we met he was somebody
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you'd be proud to have as a son or a
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brother this does not make
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sense there were several security
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cameras covering the parking lot but the
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killing took place just out of their
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view in a blind spot one of the cameras
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did however give the police their best
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lead what you're about to see is a
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precise Recreation of what the tape
00:24:52
reveals about 20 minutes before the
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shooting there was a two-door sport
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model Ford Explorer
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that came into the parking lot and
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parked in one of the parking stalls
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facing directly into the camera lens a
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few seconds later a two-door white Ford
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Probe came in the same Lane that Matt
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would take later the Explorer backed up
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followed the white probe the Ford Probe
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could look something like Matt's renle
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which was a white Chevy
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Corsica about 4 minutes before the shoot
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shoting we see that same Explorer
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exiting the parking lot and then about 3
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minutes before the shooting we see the
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vehicle come back into the parking lot
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and go in the direction of where the
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shooting
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occurred at 8:12 a.m. 2 minutes before
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the shooting two cars enter the lot one
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is driven by the female eyewitness the
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other by Matt Flores at 8:14 the murder
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takes place just out of camera range 20
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seconds later the Ford Explorer is seen
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leaving the parking lot for the last
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time if somebody were to watch the
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videotape and see the activities of the
00:26:08
vehicle that morning and to see it leave
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right after Matt was shot they certainly
00:26:13
could say that the vehicle was stalking
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Matt that
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morning the Explorer initially followed
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a car that looked just like Matt's
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Sergeant teal believes that the murder
00:26:23
may have been a case of mistaken
00:26:26
identity perhaps somebody to that
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parking lot that morning
00:26:30
to do harm to somebody else and they got
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the wrong person look at the flowers
00:26:37
this whoever did this to him I want them
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to know what they've
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taken hi Grandpa one minute life was
00:26:46
great we had everything and the next
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minute I was
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shattered I don't think she remembers
00:26:54
them anymore she was too
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little I plan on showing her all the
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videos that we have so she knows what
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kind of a daddy that she had but at the
00:27:04
same time she won't know what it feels
00:27:06
like for Daddy to hug
00:27:09
her hi are you wa I lost everything that
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day this case is still open and
00:27:16
authorities hope that someone will come
00:27:18
forward with a new lead so far the best
00:27:22
clue is still the Ford Explorer
00:27:24
videotaped in the parking lot the
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vehicle is a twodo sport model
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manufactured between 1991 and
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1994 it has a distinctive black trim on
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its lower
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panels if you have any information about
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the death of Matt Flores please log on
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next a mysterious cancer outbreak
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targets children in a small Nevada town
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Fallon
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Nevada population
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8,000 for many who live here it seemed
00:28:14
like the perfect place to raise a
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family but there was something terrible
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happening to some of the children in
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this small town you goof
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bger all began with Dustin gross where'd
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you get this bruise I fall off of my
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back when I was giving him a bath I
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noticed bruises on his back and his arms
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and I asked him what was he doing um why
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did he have these bruises and he told me
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he was playing uh with his friend on the
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big wheels and I thought okay that makes
00:28:48
sense that's where the bruises come
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from any what you doing home uh well
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he's been tired all day but then the
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next day my husband had noticed a lot
00:28:57
more bruises and brought it up to my
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attention I saw he had bruises all over
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his body his arms his legs his stomach
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his back and little red blood specks on
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the surface of his skin and I knew that
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um something was wrong at that point
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you're going to feel all better Brenda
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took Dustin to the local hospital and he
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was immediately transferred to UC Davis
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Medical Center the doctor told us that
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Dustin had leukemia
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I knew what leukemia was I knew it was a
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cancer but I didn't actually realize how
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severe the type of childhood leukemia
00:29:37
Dustin had can be fatal he was given
00:29:40
aggressive chemotherapy you want to take
00:29:43
your pills seeing him lie there so
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lethargic and so
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lifeless I think that that's probably
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the hardest thing that I've ever had to
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deal with it was not easy
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within weeks of Dustin gross's diagnosis
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two more local children were also found
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to have
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leukemia even at that point I was just
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thinking it's just coincidence it's just
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a terrible coincidence but it's a
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coincidence but then shortly after the
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third then we got a referral for a
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fourth Barbara de Braga feared she was
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looking at an epidemic it appeared to be
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what experts call a cancer cluster she
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requested a State
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investigation as the state launched an
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inquiry the disease struck victims
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number five and
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six a couple of days after there was a
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seventh case
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diagnosed this started to to kind of
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make the hair on the back of my neck
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stand up a little bit it was it was a
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frightening time we have a series of
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questions we want to go over with you Dr
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Todd began looking for a common
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denominator shared by all the victims
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how is the water supplied to that house
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as it
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it's a well well okay but interviews
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with the parents produced no answers and
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new cases continued to
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appear Zack beerley was the ninth child
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diagnosed with
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leukemia when I heard I was number nine
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in a cancer cluster at that time my
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child was so ill that all I could think
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about was how do I get out of this mess
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with a healthy
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child Tammy Beardsley opened her house
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house to Scientific
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investigators there was a team of people
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that came into our home and vacuumed
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took death samples air quality samples
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water samples biological testing blood
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tests they found no answers inside the
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homes and turn next to the environment
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starting with the water
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supply the one thing that makes this
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community sort of Stand Out is that they
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have one of the highest rate
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of naturally occurring arsenic in their
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water supply of any place in the
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nation researchers also found mercury in
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a nearby lake and several canals places
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where children were known to play there
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were other
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possibilities pesticides had
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contaminated nearby Farms underground
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Atomic Testing during the 60s had left
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traces of
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radiation but scientists failed to leak
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any of these factors to the cancer
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cluster working on this really is like
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trying to do a gigantic jigsaw
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puzzle what we can say is that in fact
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we likely will not have the complete
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puzzle put together at the end of this
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investigation there was one other
00:32:50
possibility Fallon is located 10 mi from
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a naval air station used to train
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fighter pilots the jet fuel contains
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Benzene which is known to cause
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cancer there is a pipeline which
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transports jet fuel the pipe comes right
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through and underneath Fallon and and
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winds up at the Fallon Naval Air Station
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we wondered was there fuel getting into
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the water supply but we didn't find any
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evidence that the water had been
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contaminated with jet
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fuel there's a a fear inside of me and
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I'd like to find out what's making
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children become diagnosed with leukemia
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here before I bring another child into
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the
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world after 2 years of intensive
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chemotherapy Dustin gross had his end of
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treatment party his cancer was finally
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in
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remission I am worried for my family and
00:33:50
my other children and for Dustin still I
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will never give up on pushing the
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research to find what has caused
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childhood leukemia and a cluster in this
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community obviously the more research
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and continued research is going to get
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us closer and closer and I feel that we
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will find it um but we cannot let
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up all told 16 children developed
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leukemia in a span of 5 years then for
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the next 5 years not a single new case
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was reported but a cluster of 10
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childhood leukemia cases was reported in
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in Sierra Vista
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Arizona experts believe that ground
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deposits of cobalt and tungsten may have
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caused the outbreak in Fallon they've
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asked for our help in locating other
00:34:40
towns with these same
00:34:44
conditions if you know of one please log
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on to our website at unsolved.com
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next a cunning Casanova uses different
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aliases to con lonely women out of their
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life
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savings police have nicknamed him the
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sweetheart swindler why well because he
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victimizes middle-aged divorcees and
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widows one victim a woman from Missouri
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will call Sarah has agreed to describe
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her short 5-day encounter with the
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sweetheart swindler
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it all began with a phone
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call hello oh hi this is Jerry gamble
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calling you remember me uh no uh we we
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met last year in a restaurant you were
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two friends this gentleman called me and
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he said that he had met me and that he
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was calling to see if I would go out and
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have dinner with him how would that be I
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was divorced at this time
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and I wasn't in the habit of dating so
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it sounded kind of pleasant and this is
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one reason why I agreed to go have
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brunch the next morning I've been
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divorced for a long time and I raised my
00:36:09
children myself so I work very hard
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Sarah didn't remember where she had met
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Jerry before she simply enjoyed the
00:36:16
conversation and soon he had completely
00:36:19
won her over I didn't think you were
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interested at all I'm glad we were
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finally able to get together well I
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didn't know anything about you or who
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you were I enjoyed the brunch and we
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decided to kind of spend the day
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together Jerry told Sarah that he was in
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the jewelry business and did a lot of
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traveling he said that he was a widower
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and very lonely he needed someone to
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share his life with traveling from one
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luxury hotel to another and dining at
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the best restaurants he confessed to
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Sarah that she was just the type of
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woman that he was looking
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for I want wanted to believe him in all
00:36:59
these bright beautiful pictures that he
00:37:01
painted life really hasn't been easy for
00:37:04
me you know was really nice to think
00:37:06
that I'm maybe would be able to relax to
00:37:09
travel to have all these nice things and
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I wouldn't have to work to me this was
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very appealing one of the goals I made
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for myself before I die is to visit all
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50 Jerry took Sarah and her daughter
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Ellen out to dinner Ellen was skeptical
00:37:24
but Jerry soon won her over too
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look at those rings and those stones
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aren't those gorgeous Ellen here just
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try on that little cocktail
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ring it's not so little I'd say well
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compared to some of the other Stones I
00:37:40
have it is may I try one more well sure
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go ahead that's what jul for it's to be
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worn look at that that's a real diamond
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don't break it you can't hurt it it's
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indestructible it's a
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diamond Jerry made no sexual
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advances but the day after he and Sarah
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met
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he was already making their marriage
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plans he asked her to go with him on a
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road trip which would be followed up by
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their wedding something I need to ask a
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favor of you I've got some checks coming
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from the East Coast they should be Jerry
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told Sarah that he would soon be
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receiving several checks and that one
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would be made out to her so that she
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could pay her bills before they left
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Sarah had no way of knowing that Jerry
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had stolen the checks from one of his
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former girlfriends and then made it out
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to sah
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himself late the next afternoon Jerry
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rushed Sarah to the bank telling her the
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check had just arrived at the last
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minute he asked her to take out some
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cash for him yes I'd like to deposit
00:38:43
this and I'd like to withdraw
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$3,000 ma'am this is an out ofate Check
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Yes I'm going to have to get my
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supervisor's approval coming in at that
00:38:53
time East Coast banks are closed I uh
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look to the check saw that it was made
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the Sarah she was a good customer and
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she was insistent the check was good so
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I went ahead and okay the check for her
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you have a good day thank you we were
00:39:09
going to Nashville and he was going to
00:39:12
get my engagement ring there then we
00:39:13
were going to go on forther East and
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when we met up with his daughter and son
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then we were going to get
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married that same afternoon just 4 days
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after they had met Jerry and Sarah were
00:39:32
on the road to Tennessee in Sarah's car
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Jerry had invited Sarah's daughter Ellen
00:39:38
to go with them M were 5 minutes early
00:39:42
don't worry about in mice Jerry said
00:39:44
that he had a business meeting and asked
00:39:46
Sarah and Ellen to meet him in a hotel
00:39:48
lobby
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afterwards he never showed up right
00:39:53
there we waited around the hotel and
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after a couple hours
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I realized that we had been
00:40:01
taken I was angry truly I was
00:40:05
angry I really didn't know what to
00:40:09
do back in Missouri Sarah found out that
00:40:12
the check Jerry had given her was no
00:40:14
good she had been conned out of
00:40:17
$3,000 after she went to the local
00:40:19
police to file a report they discovered
00:40:22
that Jerry had been using the same scam
00:40:25
all over the country
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since I started my case I believe he's a
00:40:31
suspect in at least 22 other cases in as
00:40:34
many as 15 different states
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unfortunately probably only a third of
00:40:39
the cases get reported due to the to the
00:40:41
victims being embarrassed we think he
00:40:43
locates victims primarily through
00:40:45
newspaper articles or
00:40:49
advertisements we've known that on
00:40:51
occasion he has access Lonely Hearts
00:40:53
clubs or mailers you have to understand
00:40:57
that that is all he does he's very very
00:41:00
good at it that's how he makes his
00:41:01
living and one shouldn't particularly be
00:41:04
embarrassed by being pulled in by this
00:41:06
type of scam and and I mean a lot of
00:41:08
women in my line of work but I never
00:41:10
know whether they're interested in me or
00:41:12
they're just after my jewelry well I'm
00:41:14
an attorney and I'd like to see him
00:41:16
stopped I'd like to see him pay for it I
00:41:19
mean I know how I feel from all
00:41:22
this it's a very devastating feeling
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update the sweetheart swindler has been
00:41:33
captured police in canosia Wisconsin
00:41:36
arrested a man calling himself Robert
00:41:38
cook after he romanced a woman and then
00:41:41
conned her out of
00:41:44
$1,000 at the time of Cook's arrest
00:41:47
police recovered a dozen fake IDs all
00:41:49
issued in different names from different
00:41:53
states the sweetheart swindler was
00:41:56
positively identified as Alfred Barett a
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Canadian national he was convicted of
00:42:03
bank fraud bank larsy and Interstate
00:42:06
transportation of stolen Securities he
00:42:09
served his time and has been released
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