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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries he was a headliner a rich
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famous rap star and someone wanted him
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dead the unsolid murder of Tupac
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Shakur a high-speed crash leaves three
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dead and a troubled young man on the
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Run renowned pathologist Dr sir wet
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believ believes that a young man's death
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rued accidentally may have been
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murder and close encounters with a
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creature known as
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Bigfoot five stories of crime deceit and
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Intrigue I'm Dennis finina and for the
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next hour it's Unsolved Mysteries
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how do you want to make to
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Tupac Shakur a rap music legend by the
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age of 25 he had cut four platinum
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albums and starred in six featur
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films I thought he was a brilliant man
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thought he had a lot of vision a lot of
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foresight he was very creative he was an
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artist you know and at the same time he
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was a
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revolutionist he was a great person he's
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extremely charismatic he was very
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intelligent very business smart very
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funny very warm caring um that was the
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Tupac that I
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knew despite his success Tupac couldn't
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resist the lure of the Streets between
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1991 and 1995 he was arrested eight
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times in 1994 he was shot five times and
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left for dead in the lobby of a
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recording
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studio in 1995 he served 8 months in
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prison for
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rape Tupac's friends say he never
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expected to reach his 25th birthday
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while he was wrong but only by 3 months
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Tupac was gunned down in 1996 and his
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killer has never been
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found Las Vegas Nevada September 1996
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thousands of boxing fans were in town
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for the long awaited match between
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heavyweights Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldin
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at the MGM Grand
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Hotel Tupac Shakur was one of many
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celebrities who attended the fight Maran
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Shug Knight CEO of Shakur's recording
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studio was with
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him this photo of Tupac and Shug was
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taken after the fight as the two headed
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for a dance club they were followed by
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an Entourage of musicians and
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bodyguards Tupac who normally was known
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to pack a weapon as was Suge and many
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people in the Entourage they weren't
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armed that night and everybody said they
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felt
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safe so it was a very festive mood they
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were obviously they're playing playing
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their music loud so they were in a
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partying mood they were flirting with
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women shortly after 11:00 p.m. Tupac and
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Suge pull up to an in section and spoke
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with two unidentified women somewhere
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know that always a
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party the two were looking at the girls
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and talking to them that's what the
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witnesses have told police and that's
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when a white Cadillac drove up on the
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passenger side next to
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Tupac and open
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fire Tupac tried to climb into the back
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seat and didn't make it
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the attackers sped away Shug Knight took
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off in the opposite direction he finally
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stopped in front of a casino a mile
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away Tupac was in critical condition
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shot in the chest hip and hand Knight
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had escaped with only a bullet graze
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across his
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Temple there were thousands of witnesses
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but police say only one person came
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forward
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it wasafu fola one of Tupac's backup
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singers he was riding in the car
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directly behind Suge and
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Tupac he told police that night that he
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could do a photo lineup pick out the
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Gunman from a photo lineup police
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interviewed him briefly took his
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number and he went on his way
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fans gathered outside this Las Vegas
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hospital as Tupac clung to life it was a
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losing battle he died of his gunshot
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wounds on September
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13th initial reports said that Tupac was
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a victim of gang violence this videotape
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was recorded by a hotel security camera
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at the MGM Grant just 3 hours before the
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shooting members of Tupac's Entourage
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are inv involved in a fight Suge Knight
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and Tupac are also there moments later
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Tupac followed by Suge can be seen
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hurrying through the
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casino the target of the attack was
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22-year-old Orlando Anderson an alleged
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member of a Los Angeles Street gang the
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Southside Crips it has been rumored that
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Suge Knight was linked to a rival
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gang this be the confrontation that
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triggered Tupac's
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murder anytime someone is popular as
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Tupac Shakur can be killed in front of
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thousands of people after one of the
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biggest events in the world and one of
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the most popular cities in the world
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there is something more to it than just
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some random shooting by some idiot who
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decided to pick up a gun and point at
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Tupac cour it has to be some
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organization or some movement behind
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that
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killing some say this music video by
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Tupac offers a clue to a second
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theory in the months before his death
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Tupac was at the center of a heated
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dispute between East Coast and West
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coast
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rappers there was a rivalry that started
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between Tupac Shakur and artist Biggie
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Smalls and Puffy Combs who is the CEO of
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bad boy Boy
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Entertainment that rivalry between them
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existed because when Tupac was shot at
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quad
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Studios he felt not that Biggie and
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puffy set him up but that they knew that
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it was coming and didn't warn him H you
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alive I mean you say in the video Tupac
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blamed Puffy Combs and Biggie Smalls for
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the attack that nearly killed him in
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1994 please don't kill me it was Buff's
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idea man no one has ever been arrested
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in that
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shooting I ain't going to kill you we
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was homeboys once Pig once we homeboys
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we always
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homeboys just weeks before his death
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Tupac was interviewed on radio station
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KMEL in San Francisco about his East
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Coast
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Rivals while I'm in jail strangers is
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telling me yo you don't know biggy
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homeboy shot you cuz they bragging they
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telling they in jail yo we just got po
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woooooo
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there is another theory perhaps the
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murder was an inside job set up by
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someone close to
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Tupac otherwise how did the gunman know
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where Tupac would be why did he seemed
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to be the only Target and why weren't
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his bodyguards armed at the time of the
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shooting when they had been armed
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earlier in the evening yeah had the
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black be was in front sh driving and why
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with the strips swarming with people was
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no one willing to cooperate with
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police not even his bodyguards were good
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eyewitnesses what I was told by one
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homicide detective was that everybody
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went deaf dumb and blind they were
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surprised because they said these are
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professional bodyguards they're paid to
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guard Tupac yet they didn't see
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anything I don't know I know if he was
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he was driving down the strip I Fula is
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the only witness who came forward but he
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never had the opportunity to view a
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photo lineup of possible
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suspects within a week of this shooting
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he returned to his home in New
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Jersey two months later fola was gunned
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down in the stairwell of a housing
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project was this a random act of
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violence or premeditated murder to keep
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fola from talking to the authorities
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he was their best bet he was right
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behind the car when it happened and he
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said he believed he could identify the
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gunman and now f is dead and they don't
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have that
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anymore Ironically in one of Tupac's
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final videos he seemed to predict his
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own violent
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death cut down in a hail of gunfire by a
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shadowy unknown
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assassin hey
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mad at I don't know if we'll ever know
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who killed Tupac Shakur but I do know
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that there's millions of people that are
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devastated by his
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loss there was a lot of things people
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might consider bad about Tupac but there
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there was a lot of good things about
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Tupac and we had yet to see all the good
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things that I believe could have came
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out of
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tup H one day I'll be back I
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if you have any information about the
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murder of Tupac Shakur please log on to
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our website at unsolved.com
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coming up an accidental death may prove
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to be a coverup for murder but first a
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stroll in the forest becomes a close
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encounter with Bigfoot
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Mount Hood
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Oregon the Tranquility of an Aline
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spring day is Shattered by a mant copy
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contact team I understand your latest
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coordinates we're closing in on The
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Fugitive 25 volunteers push forward in
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line the helicopter above is equipped
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with a thermal imaging system called
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Fleer forward looking
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infrared okay here's our Target 2.5
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attention ground units you're closing in
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on The
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Fugitive but this manh Hunt is actually
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a training exercise even The Fugitive is
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a
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volunteer a standing for The elusive
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legendary creature known as
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Bigfoot Bigfoot Yeti
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Sasquatch no matter what this Beast is
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called many believe it is the missing
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link between ape and
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human attention ground unit fugitives at
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4539 the training exercise was organized
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by Adventurer Peter burn and a group
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called The Bigfoot research
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project we don't want to capture it we
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don't want to shoot it and the ultimate
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find you as far as we're concerned would
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be to do something like what Jane
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Goodall did in other words to find one
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uh see if we can communicate have it
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lead us to others and then bring in um
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um the right people totally responsible
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people bring in scientists and show them
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what we found and um document the whole
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thing of
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course until now the evidence of Bigfoot
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has consisted mostly of amateur
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photographs and home movies that
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supposedly show the creature in the wild
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and plaster casts of large humanoid
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Footprints but when we ask if Bigfoot is
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really real there is one other type of
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evidence that must be considered
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eyewitness accounts from people who
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claim to have actually seen this
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legendary
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creature Todd n says he was on
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demolition Maneuvers with his National
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Guard unit when a distant movement
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caught his
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eye I can distinctly see three large
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black figures I would estimate the
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largest one to be between 8 and 9 ft I
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could very plainly see they were upright
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on two legs and and during that entire
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time they were all three of them were
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standing on two
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legs another sergeant walked up to me
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and said zes did you see what I saw down
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at that second Rock
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quy and not to be made a fool I said
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well I don't know what did you see uh he
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followed with well for lack of a better
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word what I saw were three large hair
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covered big
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feet one about here is that they are
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nocturnal and that when they're seen in
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the daytime it's a result of disturbance
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of some kind in this case there was a
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National Guard excise with explosions
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and immediately after the explosion
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three of these things were seen they
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were seen by him seen by another man a
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very credible
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story in a remote Forest to the north
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another sighting so do you guys want to
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come along with me up there you're going
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ahead okay when Elmer frach took his
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family to a forest near the Canadian
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border he came home with one of the most
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amazing Bigfoot sightings on
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record Elmer was a part-time prospector
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he had just started taking ore samples
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when he realized he wasn't
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alone hey you on the
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hill I thought at first I had triggered
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an avalanche of some type until I saw a
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big black hairy Mass right behind all of
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those rocks and
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twigs and at that time I kept thinking
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in my mind I've got to find a way to
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scare it and I fired a shot above its
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head and it turned just slightly and
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then proceeded to walk down the trail as
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though I wasn't even
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there and as it walked away from me it
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took perfect humanlike strides down the
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trail only like a giant man
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this thing had crouched down at the end
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of the trail and it picked up a rock the
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size of a basketball and was using it to
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bang against the other rocks that again
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made a slight sideways turn just enough
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to see me out of the corner of his
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ey I was scared and I wanted to get out
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of there I kept running down the
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Hillside and the thing was in Hot
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Pursuit the whole
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way I don't think it was a Chase I think
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possibly it was what we call a
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demonstration
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charge if it truly was a Bigfoot that he
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saw and it was simply saying to get out
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of here this is my
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territory but eyewitness accounts alone
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are not enough evidence to convince the
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Skeptics and I'm amazed through all the
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years and that various people that have
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been hunting Sasquatch through the years
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have not really found any what we call
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Bone or dental evidence of the creature
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uh that to me would be very
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satisfying you can talk to people who
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lived out here 50 years never found a
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dead bear never found a dead cougar a
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dead deer maybe but when something dies
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it's eaten just as in East Africa when a
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8 ton elephant dies in 72 hours it
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completely disappears this is Nature's
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Way does a species of apik creatures
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roam the Pacific Northwest the
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eyewitnesses we interviewed are
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convinced that Bigfoot is
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real and they hope that the scientists
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will soon take
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[Music]
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notice what I saw there was a living
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creature and not some figment in my
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imagination modern science hasn't
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absolutely proven by a dead object that
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this thing exists but I tell you quite
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frankly I've seen one I know it exists
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and there is no doubt in my
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mind coming up was it a death threat or
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a possible prison sentence that sent
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Fred Russell on the
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run on a previous broadcast we told you
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about two masked men who broke into the
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home of a woman named Becky Wood they
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seemed to know right where her safe was
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hidden but they didn't have the comat
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open the safe the men found Becky
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upstairs give me
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combination I've never felt so helpless
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okay take it off the whole time he's
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screaming where's the combination
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where's the combination tell me the
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combination to sa because beggy didn't
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know the combination the robbers took
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the entire safe which contained $18,000
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in cash they also grabbed jewelry worth
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$220,000
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and then drove off in her
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car when Becky's jewelry turned up in a
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pawn shop it was traced to a man named
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Gary
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Noble police soon learned that Gary
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Noble's brother Ted had once worked for
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Becky's family by then the noble
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Brothers had dropped from sight they had
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made statements that they had no tension
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of being taken alive if confronted by
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law enforcement
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uh the way we entered our warrants is
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with Extreme Caution on the two of
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them
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update after our broadcast the caller
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reported that Gary Noble was working at
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a construction site in Nashville
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Tennessee 500 mil from Becky's
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home they sent an agent out there and as
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he was pulling in Gary was pulling out
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he got caught in traffic and by the time
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he caught back up with the car there
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were two people in the car they got into
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a Chase eventually they ended up having
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to Ram the car in order to get Gary and
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Ted to stop and then he placed him under
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arrest the brothers were arrested after
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18 months on the
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run I was shocked that it all came
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around like it
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did and I hope
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someday they learn what fear is
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and I hope they get what's coming to
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them Ted and Gary Noble both plad guilty
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to all charges each received a sentence
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of 3 to 15 years in prison they serve
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their time and have been
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released Pullman
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Washington headlight came right right
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into the driver's side
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[Applause]
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window and that's pretty much the last
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thing I
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remember and then I woke up about 10
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minutes later I glass my eyes like
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reason couldn't really see much just
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because of all the
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glass and uh just kind of looked around
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and kind of clicked to me that there's
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no way everybody could have made it out
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of there and saw saw my friends on the
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road it was ugly
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that's real
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ugly Matt Wagner survived a horrific
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forcar accident but three of his friends
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were not so lucky Brandon
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Clemens Ryan senson and Ryan's
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girlfriend Stacy Marl were all killed
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instantly Stacy was my daughter Stacy
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gret and Marl she was 21 going to turn
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22
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a student at Washington State University
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and just one of the most beautiful young
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ladies I ever
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knew police believe that 22-year-old
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Fred Russell caused the accident by
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driving recklessly he was charged with
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three counts of vehicular homicide and
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four counts of vehicular
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assault do I believe that that accident
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was caused primarily by my son I don't
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I think there were a lot of causes and I
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think there were a lot of people
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responsible for what happened on that
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road that
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[Applause]
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night was Fred Russell innocent of the
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charges against them well this tragic
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case divided the town of Pullman
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Washington into two Waring camps and
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then suddenly Fred Russell
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disappeared right big guy investiga
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piece together Russell's activities in
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the hours just before the deadly
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crash I think that I will have a Dr
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several witnesses claim that they saw
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Russell and his friend Jacob McFarland
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drinking at a local bar I'm driving I'm
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driving Russell and McFarland were seen
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leaving the bar at about 10
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p.m. they turned on to a two-lane
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Highway Russell was driving
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wo pick it up this is ridiculous lady
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pick it up police reports state that
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Russell got stuck behind a slow moving
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vehicle lady you're moving at like 10
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miles in hour a son of and even though
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he was in a no passing zone Russell sped
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up and tried to pass the car at 90 M an
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hour police believe that his Chevy
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Blazer first struck a Geo Prism heading
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in the opposite
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direction and then the Cadillac carrying
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Matt Wagner and six of his best
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friends three were dead three others
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critically
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injured but Russell and McFarland walked
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away with minor
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injuries what that 2 hours after the
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accident Russell's blood alcohol level
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was tested at a nearby
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hospital it measured
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.12 well above the legal
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limit later Russell was arrested at his
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home we believe that he poses no Flight
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Risk Fred Russell was released on a
00:24:51
$5,000 bail and allowed to remain free
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until his
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trial oh that was pretty hard to take
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you know when you lose your three
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friends if feels like somebody murdered
00:25:02
him kind of feel like the guy should be
00:25:04
behind bars right away and he shouldn't
00:25:06
be able to be out be out in public
00:25:08
anymore that the bail is so low as to be
00:25:11
nothing other than a slap on the wrist
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is almost insulting to victims and their
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families Fred's legal team prepared for
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his
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defense they filed a motion disputing
00:25:25
the blood alcohol findings and question
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whether he was really responsible for
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the
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accident I was shown toxicology reports
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of the deceased driver of the Cadillac
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that indicated there were drugs and
00:25:38
alcohol in his system I was shown
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toxicology reports of other occupants
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that showed that there were drugs and
00:25:45
alcohol in their systems as well uh meth
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and marijuana there was absolutely
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nothing in the system of the deant that
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contributed in any way either to the
00:25:54
Collision or to their subsequent death
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I think that the accusation by Greg
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Russell that is clearly intended to
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Cloud the issue of his son's
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responsibility in this case is
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sinful the community was outraged Fred
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Russell and his supporters claim that he
00:26:20
started to receive threats you're going
00:26:22
to go to prison for a long time you
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worthless piece of trash you're a
00:26:25
scumbag you're a loser you're gutter
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trash the death threats that he
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indicated that he received were two
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phone calls in July early July every
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person you've killed I hope someone put
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the bullet in your head I hope if your
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mom's still alive her throat's cut and
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then we received information that a card
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was left at the front doorstep um of of
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the residence that he was at um
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indicating that he wouldn't live to see
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his
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trial 4 weeks after receiving that
00:26:55
threat Russell disappeared
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a few days later local newspapers
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received copies of a letter signed by
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Fred
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Russell in part it
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read I left because I had no choice
00:27:10
since the first day after the tragic
00:27:12
accident horrible things have been
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printed about me now people are so
00:27:17
enraged that they would rather see me
00:27:18
dead than receive a fair trial I
00:27:21
maintain my innocence but my life has
00:27:23
been repeatedly threatened so I cannot
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stay
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update after more than 5 years on the
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run Fred Russell was captured in Dublin
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Ireland acting on information from the
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US Marshals Irish police arrested
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Russell in a Dublin clothing store he
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was working at the store as a security
00:27:48
guard he was brought back to the US for
00:27:51
trial Russell was found guilty on three
00:27:54
counts of vehicular homicide and three
00:27:56
counts of vehicular assault assult he
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received the maximum sentence 14 years
00:28:02
and 3 months in prison he served its
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time and has been
00:28:08
released next forensic testing by noted
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pathologist Dr Sarah wck reveals that
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the accidental death of a college
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student may have actually been murder
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Dr sah wet is a top forensic pathologist
00:28:34
a real life CSI investigator he has
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worked on thousands of cases but there's
00:28:40
one case that continues to haunt him the
00:28:43
death of a 20-year-old college
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student it was on a Wednesday evening
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that authorities found the body of Jack
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Davis
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Jr he was stalled at the bottom of a
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stairwell at a Pennsylvania college
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campus Jack was last seen the previous
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Friday at a party with some of his
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fraternity
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Brothers Jack's body was autopsied by a
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local
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pathologist the results were sent to
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County coroner Thomas streams who
00:29:21
determined that Jack's death was
00:29:25
accidental the body was not in disarray
00:29:28
from a fight there was no signs of
00:29:30
defensive wounds uh as as a struggle
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there were no drag marks there was just
00:29:34
nothing un remarkably about the
00:29:38
body the scenario was that Mr Davis
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wandered down into the stairwell in an
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intoxicated
00:29:44
State perhaps to urinate collapsed in an
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unconscious
00:29:49
State vomited inhaled the vomit us into
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his
00:29:53
lungs which therefore then subsequently
00:29:55
caused his death
00:29:58
the official report concluded that Jack
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died early Saturday morning several
00:30:03
hours after he had
00:30:05
disappeared incredibly it appeared that
00:30:08
his body stayed in the stairwell for
00:30:10
nearly 5
00:30:12
days I couldn't believe or comprehend
00:30:16
that that he could have died that way
00:30:18
and I was told that was uncommon
00:30:22
occurrence um I found it hard to believe
00:30:28
as Jack's family grieved their doubts
00:30:30
about the official findings began to
00:30:33
grow and then a local reporter began to
00:30:36
publicly question the coroner's
00:30:39
ruling finally Jack's family turned to
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Dr
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we before I got into the medical aspects
00:30:46
of the case I was just puzzled as a
00:30:48
matter of Common Sense How could a body
00:30:50
have been lying outside on a college
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campus in the early fall for five or
00:30:56
more days unseen un noticed by
00:30:58
anybody the other thing that puzzled me
00:31:02
was I thought gee why would a young man
00:31:05
in the early hours of the morning walk
00:31:08
15 Steps then a landing and another five
00:31:11
steps to
00:31:13
urinate I remember when I went to
00:31:15
college and I remember uh what young men
00:31:19
will do if they have to urinate
00:31:20
especially if they are inebriated not
00:31:22
too many people have that kind of of
00:31:25
discretion and um personal sensitivity
00:31:29
so you see that did not fit either we've
00:31:32
managed to get a a copy of the
00:31:34
toxicology report almost immediately Dr
00:31:38
W found discrepancies in the toxicology
00:31:42
report Jack was drinking heavily on the
00:31:44
night he supposedly died yet absolutely
00:31:47
no alcohol was found in his
00:31:50
blood whatever level you have at the
00:31:52
time of your death will be the level
00:31:54
that will be found later
00:31:56
on in order for for him to have wound up
00:31:59
with no alcohol in his blood at the time
00:32:01
of his death he would have had to have
00:32:02
been alive for about 30 hours the fact
00:32:05
then that there was no alcohol in his
00:32:08
blood indicates to me that he did not
00:32:11
die at that time when they theorized he
00:32:14
had fallen down the
00:32:16
steps Dr wet found other evidence as
00:32:20
well Jack was clean shaven Friday night
00:32:23
when he was last seen But when his body
00:32:25
was found there was Heavy stubble on his
00:32:28
face and one final discrepancy the
00:32:32
autopsy slides of Jack's lungs prove
00:32:35
that choking on regurgitated food did
00:32:38
not cause his
00:32:40
death if you're going to list that as a
00:32:42
cause to death you've got to find food
00:32:45
particles deep down inside the small uh
00:32:48
terminal air passageways and that wasn't
00:32:52
present the other thing about the
00:32:54
autopsy that really stood out for me was
00:32:57
that the head had not been examined the
00:33:00
pathologist who did the
00:33:02
autopsy had not opened up the cranial
00:33:06
vault at that time we all agreed as a
00:33:09
family and with Dr wack that the um body
00:33:13
needed to be
00:33:16
exed it was the only way we would find
00:33:18
out the true cause of
00:33:21
death when I opened up the skull I found
00:33:24
three fractures three areas of skull
00:33:27
fracture with significant bleeding
00:33:29
overlying the brain it's a blood clot
00:33:32
it's a pulling of blood and um that was
00:33:36
the quer death which had never been
00:33:38
appreciated because the head hadn't been
00:33:39
examined in the first autopsy yeah you
00:33:42
could come in all f with the university
00:33:44
official Dr W examined the stairwell
00:33:47
where Jack's body was found was some
00:33:50
students saw him first then and reported
00:33:52
them to the campus that's correct I
00:33:54
realized that that body could not have
00:33:57
accidentally fallen or been thrown from
00:34:00
high up because he would have had
00:34:03
eggshell depressed type fractures
00:34:05
similarly it did not appear that he had
00:34:07
stumbled down the steps because there
00:34:10
was no pattern of abrasions and bruises
00:34:14
and so that did not
00:34:16
fit there were approximately 200
00:34:19
students in rooms overlooking the
00:34:21
stairwell during the days Jack
00:34:23
supposedly lay below right down you can
00:34:27
see clearly you certainly can see
00:34:29
directly there and average
00:34:32
height
00:34:33
thanks in spite of the unobstructed view
00:34:36
not one person reported seeing the
00:34:41
body there was one final problem with
00:34:44
the official finding of accidental death
00:34:47
during the 2 days before Jack's body was
00:34:49
found heavy rain fell on the
00:34:52
campas Jack's clothes were not
00:34:56
wet I would say it is more likely that
00:34:59
Jack Davis died elsewhere or was injured
00:35:02
elsewhere and then was placed at the
00:35:04
bottom of those steps I base this upon
00:35:07
the known
00:35:08
facts Dr wet is not alone reporter
00:35:12
Marlene Brennan theorizes that Jack may
00:35:15
have been in a feud between two rival
00:35:19
fraternities some students report that
00:35:21
there were up to five fights that night
00:35:24
and it could be possible that he was
00:35:26
involved in one of them and he was
00:35:27
injured and someone didn't know what to
00:35:31
do with him so they kept him somewhere
00:35:33
thinking that he might get better or
00:35:35
whatever and he didn't and then they
00:35:37
moved him into the
00:35:39
stairwell I believe somebody out there
00:35:41
does know something and I'm hoping that
00:35:44
um perhaps with continuing inquiries by
00:35:47
the family and friends perhaps through
00:35:50
the presentation of this show that
00:35:52
somebody May step
00:35:56
forward Dr
00:35:58
is convinced that someone who attended
00:36:00
Indiana University of Pennsylvania knows
00:36:03
what really happened to Jack Davis Jr
00:36:06
perhaps the time has come to set the
00:36:09
record
00:36:10
straight if you have any information
00:36:12
about this case please log on to our
00:36:15
website at uno.com
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next two Sailors and a boat worth nearly
00:36:24
A4 million doar disappear from a quiet
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00:36:38
Waterway Goose Creek South
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00:36:46
Carolina a speeding car with three men
00:36:49
inside is pull over on a desolate Road
00:36:52
leading to the local
00:36:54
marina I approached the vehicle on a
00:36:57
driver side and said good evening could
00:36:59
I see your license and registration at
00:37:03
that point I got virtually no response I
00:37:07
figured maybe he didn't hear me so I
00:37:08
asked him again sir could I see your
00:37:11
license and registration
00:37:14
please the person in the back seat said
00:37:17
something in a foreign language which I
00:37:20
think was Spanish the driver then
00:37:22
responded by pulling out a what turned
00:37:26
out to be a passport
00:37:28
your Pap work D sir I told him to slow
00:37:31
it down and be careful he never said yes
00:37:34
or thank you the two guys in the front
00:37:37
seat never spoke a
00:37:40
word the next morning officer Banger was
00:37:43
surprised to learn that the two men in
00:37:45
the car he had stopped were French
00:37:47
Sailors who were supposedly missing at
00:37:49
Sea they were the focus of an intense
00:37:52
month-long search by the Coast
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Guard the men were 37-year-old ye
00:37:59
Emmanuel Pon and 24-year-old luren Erna
00:38:04
they were hired to deliver a french-made
00:38:06
sailboat to its new
00:38:10
owners the two Sailors embarked on a
00:38:13
2500m voyage from Anapolis Maryland to
00:38:16
guadaloop in the West
00:38:18
Indies their vessel was a
00:38:20
state-of-the-art Antigua catamaran worth
00:38:25
$200,000 the boat was the most
00:38:27
sophisticated of its kind it was
00:38:29
outfitted with high-tech radar a
00:38:31
satellite tracking unit and electronic
00:38:34
navigation equipment the Antigua's
00:38:37
unique construction made it Unsinkable
00:38:40
and virtually undetectable to
00:38:42
radar it was a perfect vessel for
00:38:45
transporting weapons or
00:38:48
drugs Eve Emanuel and lauron plan to
00:38:51
sail down the Chesapeake Bay around Cape
00:38:55
Hatteras and then parallel the east East
00:38:57
Coast before heading to their final
00:38:59
destination
00:39:02
guadaloop the Coast Guard was notified
00:39:04
when the Antigua failed to arrive on
00:39:07
schedule me out 9:00 we searched for a
00:39:09
little over 2
00:39:11
weeks we also alerted all the Cutters
00:39:13
and aircraft who search throughout the
00:39:15
Caribbean every day for other things
00:39:17
never saw one sight of the vessel it
00:39:20
never showed up I've never seen it
00:39:23
since the Coast Guard discovered that
00:39:26
the Antigua was cited a number of times
00:39:28
several miles off course in the intra
00:39:31
Coastal
00:39:32
Waterway the Waterway is a protected
00:39:35
Inland passage that stretches from New
00:39:38
England through
00:39:39
Florida nobody can explain what the boat
00:39:42
was doing there have you seen this this
00:39:46
boat and these two guys two of Eve
00:39:48
emanuel's friends flew in from France to
00:39:50
South Carolina to launch their own
00:39:53
investigation they began by retracing
00:39:56
the catamaran route
00:40:00
the first up was a bridge 90 Mi north of
00:40:03
Charleston South Carolina Hi how are you
00:40:07
we are looking for this French boat
00:40:10
disappeared on the waterway in November
00:40:12
the bridge tender remembered seeing the
00:40:14
two missing
00:40:16
Sailors he said there was a third man on
00:40:19
the
00:40:20
boat a third person is not supposed to
00:40:23
be on board the fact Greg Flynn is a
00:40:26
local yachtsman who who helped in the
00:40:29
search something
00:40:31
happened that uh had not been planned
00:40:35
for the mysterious third passenger was
00:40:38
cited by at least five different
00:40:40
Witnesses each reported that the man did
00:40:43
not seem threatening leading to rumors
00:40:45
that perhaps one or both of the
00:40:47
Frenchmen had been involved in stealing
00:40:49
the boat but their families and friends
00:40:52
do not accept that
00:40:55
theory as you
00:41:00
truly Emanuel is not the type of person
00:41:02
who would do something like that he was
00:41:04
training someone he didn't know
00:41:05
beforehand and felt responsible both for
00:41:08
the boat and for lauron it's it's
00:41:10
impossible that if Emanuel would have
00:41:11
involved lauron in some dangerous
00:41:14
Adventure even if it meant making
00:41:16
enormous sums of
00:41:20
money Jean Eve lenck is convinced that
00:41:24
the stranger hijacked the Antigua but
00:41:26
did not know how to sail
00:41:30
it if the purpose was simply to steal
00:41:32
the boat they would have just killed
00:41:34
Emanuel and Laur thrown them overboard
00:41:37
there must have been a reason for
00:41:38
keeping them alive and logically that
00:41:41
seems to be just to keep the board
00:41:46
going were the two French Sailors held
00:41:49
against their will or did they though it
00:41:51
seems unlikely fool everyone and make
00:41:55
off with a $200,000
00:42:00
price if you have any information about
00:42:03
this case or any of the other cases we
00:42:05
profiled tonight please log on to our
00:42:08
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