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Tonight
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on Unsolved Mysteries.
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For six-year-old Katherine Corzilius, it
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was just a short walk home. But
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something terrible happened on the way.
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Now, the mystery of Catherine's tragic
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death and her past desperate search for
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answers has been chronicled in a song by
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family friend and rock artist John
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Banji. His
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life of crime began when he was just 6
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years old. Now he's considered the best
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cat burglar in America, and he has
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relieved his wealthy victims of $30
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million.
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Beware of the dinnertime bandit,
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the Gulf War, the Oklahoma City bombing,
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the earthquake in Kobe, Japan. According
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to the best-selling book, The Bible
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Code, these events and many others were
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predicted nearly 3,000 years ago.
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Does the ancient text of the Bible
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contain a secret code that charts the
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history of mankind?
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You'll meet a young mother who says she
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needs your help. Several years ago, her
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5-month-old baby vanished. Now, police
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believe it was foul play and she may be
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the key suspect.
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When the police sit across from you and
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say, "We believe you know where your
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daughter is and we believe you know who
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has her," there's a good reason to get
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an attorney.
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Join me for these intriguing stories and
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more. Perhaps you may be able to help
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solve the mystery.
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Even though she was just 6 years old,
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Katherine Croilia seemed to be leading a
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charmed life.
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She lived in an upscale neighborhood
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outside Austin, Texas with her parents
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Nancy and Paul and her brother Chris.
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Her father was a personal manager for
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rockstar John Bonjovi.
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The two families were close and often
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vacation together.
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When Catherine had her first piano
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recital in December of 1995,
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no one could have imagined that she
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would never live to see the first grade
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and that her death would become a tragic
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unsolved mystery memorialized by her
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father's old friend John Bonjodi.
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[Music]
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Tell me it was just a dream. August 7,
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4:15.
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That's when Nancy and Paul Croilius's
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world came crashing down.
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August 7th, 1996 was Paul Corilius's
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birthday. He was working at his office
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in New York City. Nancy and the kids had
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spent the day running errands around
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Austin, picking out a gift for him.
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You know, I think dad's really going to
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like his present.
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I think he will, too. Hey, Chris.
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Catherine, settle down.
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We had been very busy as usual, making
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doing some shopping and taking in some
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uh lunch and some appointments. It was
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extremely hot.
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It uh was very quiet here in our
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neighborhood as it usually is. In fact,
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I I can remark that it it was
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exceptionally quiet that day.
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On the way home, they stopped at the
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community mailbox to pick up the mail.
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It was a ritual Catherine looked forward
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to.
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Nancy knew what would happen next.
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Mommy, may I walk home?
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Sure. I'll see you when you get there.
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Okay.
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It was Catherine's way of saying she was
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a big girl.
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I allowed Catherine to do that because I
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knew she was ready to be more
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independent and she had done it before.
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Nancy and Chris drove home in the
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direction the car was already facing.
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Catherine went in the opposite
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direction, the shorter way home.
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The Corselius family lives here on Elder
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Circle. The community mailboxes are
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located here. Nancy and Chris drove home
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in this direction. Catherine apparently
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followed this route.
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Both of my children had walked home
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together and separately from the
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mailboxes.
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It's a short walk, probably
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less than a quarter of a mile.
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When Chris and I got home, we unloaded
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our car and started putting our packages
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away.
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Mom,
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what?
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Catherine's not back.
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She probably just stopped somewhere
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along the way. Go back up on the road
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and see if you can find her.
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All right.
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He came back in just a very short period
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of time, a few minutes, and he was
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crying and he said, "She's not there,
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Mom." We got in the car and drove right
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next door to our neighbors. I ran down
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the steps to their front door, knocked
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on the door. Their son answered.
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[Applause]
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Hi. Is Katherine here?
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No, ma'am. She hasn't been by here at
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all.
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I believe uh at that moment, Chris and I
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knew that something terrible had
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happened.
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Nancy would find out how terrible just
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minutes later.
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I could tell that she was unconscious,
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but she was breathing. And I knew it was
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too hot to leave her on the pavement.
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I know that it's never a good idea to
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move somebody if you don't know what
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their injuries are, but I just couldn't
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leave her there. And I think having
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driven her to the emergency before,
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knowing the way very well, I felt
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confident that I was able to to drive
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that drive.
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Katherine Corilius had suffered a
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fractured skull. She never regained
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consciousness.
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Catherine was on a ventilator to keep
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her breathing, but she was brain dead.
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It wasn't a matter of her being in a
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coma or being unconscious.
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Uh, her brain had died.
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I arranged for a charter aircraft so I
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could come directly home, but in the end
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it was too late anyway. I arrived at
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12:30 in the morning and I believe she
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was pronounced dead at 11:30 that night,
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the hour before my arrival.
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From the start, everyone assumed that
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Katherine Cosilius was a victim of a hit
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and run. But even as a police searched
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for a driver, a disturbing question
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surfaced. How did Catherine end up in
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the spot where she was found?
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Catherine was last seen headed in this
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direction. Less than 10 minutes later,
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she was found here on the opposite side
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of the circle half a mile away.
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The extent of her injuries were such
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that she didn't take a step after she
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received the injury and the point that
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her body was found on Elder Circle is
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not on the path that she walked from the
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mailbox to the house.
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No one could explain it and the medical
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examiner's report would only deepen the
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mystery. He determined that Katherine
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had not died from a hitand-run accident.
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In addition to the head injury, he found
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abrasions on Catherine's left shoulder,
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the small of her back, on her right hip,
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and on both knees. What could have
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caused them?
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The injuries that Katherine sustained
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could have been the result of either uh
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jumping from a moving vehicle, uh being
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thrown from a moving vehicle or falling
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from a moving vehicle. The type of
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injuries that we expect expect in these
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circumstances would have been the same.
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If Catherine did tumble from a moving
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vehicle, whose vehicle was it? And was
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she pushed or did she fall?
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One of the theories that investigators
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proposed was that indeed somehow
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Catherine had jumped on the back of our
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vehicle without NY's knowledge. And uh
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as the vehicle drove around Elder
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Circle, she had fallen off, which was uh
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a way to explain where she was found in
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Elder Circle, which is completely
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opposite of where she would have been on
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her normal route.
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The Corilius family was stunned. Was it
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possible that Nancy was responsible for
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her daughter's death?
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The Corilius has hired their own private
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investigator, Barbara O'Brien.
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She has difficulty with a police
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scenario.
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Now, the problem with that is it's a hot
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August day. This whole car would have
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been very, very hot. There's only one
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place to hold on to all the way up here.
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And the door is the only other place
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down here to hold on to, and it opens
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when you get a hold of it. She also had
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a broken left thumb, and she had a
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splint on her thumb. So, it would have
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been extremely difficult for her to get
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a hold on anything. and her mother would
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have seen her in the rearview mirror.
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For the Croilius family, the implication
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is clear. They believe their daughter
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was abducted and murdered.
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A search of a vacant overgrown lot just
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30 yards from the mailboxes may have
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provided a crucial clue.
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A few days after Katherine's uh death,
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the investigators did bring in the K-9
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unit and search the area. They did pick
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up her scent over in this vacant lot,
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which would indicate that she was coming
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in this direction from the mailboxes,
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taking the most direct route home. The
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scent was lost, however, which tells us
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that this may have been the point where
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she was abducted or the injury took
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place, but she was then later moved
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where she was found by her mother.
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She looked like she'd been laid out
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there for me to find. Her hair was
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smoothed down, her shirt was straight,
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her shorts were straight, her toes were
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pointed straight, her sandals were on. I
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know someone moved her and I know
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someone laid her there for me to find.
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What did happen to Katherine Corsilius
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at August afternoon? A year after her
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death, Catherine lives on in memories.
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Her neighbors on Elder Circle have
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planted a tree and placed a plaque in
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her name.
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Oh no.
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Oh no.
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Tell me it was just a dream.
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August 7,5
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[Music]
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I think if Paul and Nancy's parents knew
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how it happened, perhaps it could help
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them with the closure of this tragic
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event. Nothing that anyone can say or do
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is ever going to bring their daughter
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back to them. But it's twice as hard not
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knowing what happened.
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I think of uh families of people who are
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missing an action. Well, they're not
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here, but what happened to them? And
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that's exactly to a certain extent how I
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feel about our daughter. I had
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Catherine's body, but something happened
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in the last 15 minutes of her life that
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I I don't know what that was.
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He's charming and attractive and maybe
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out to steal your jewels. Have you seen
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Alan Golder?
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[Music]
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He looks like just another tourist. He
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rides tour buses to see the homes of the
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rich and famous. He admires the finer
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things in life, especially if they
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belong to someone else. His name is Alan
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Golder, and his prior profession was
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jewel thief.
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Police believe he's at it again. During
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the daytime, he cases fashionable
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neighborhoods, so at night he can find
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the perfect moment to strike. While he's
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upstairs, the owners of the home are
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downstairs having dinner. Allan is very
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good at what he does. He gets a thrill
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out of what he does. He has no other
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goal in life other than to be the best
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jewel thief that he can be.
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42year-old Alan Golder was arguably the
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best cat burglar in the United States.
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From 1976 to 1980, Golder made millions
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stealing jewelry. He was caught and
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served 15 years in prison. But since his
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release in 1996, Golder may have
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reclaimed his title as a dinnertime
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bandit. Police are seeking your help to
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catch a thief.
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Golder's life of crime began early at
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the age of six. He grew up poor in Long
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Island, New York.
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His father, a career criminal, had
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abandoned the family when Allan was
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three.
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At 16, Golder dropped out of high
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school. Even at that young age, he was
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earning anywhere from a few hundred to
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several thousand dollar a night by
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stealing.
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At 21, Alan Golder had found his niche,
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burglarizing the homes of wealthy people
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in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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He thinks he is today's answer to the
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Pink Panther. He's in it for the thrill
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that he gets out of it. As I think about
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things now, in some ways, I'm amazed
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that Allan hasn't come forward just
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because he's missing all these wonderful
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opportunities to be interviewed by
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different TV shows. Between 1976 and
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1980, Alan Golder has some very good
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years.
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It's estimated that he stole at least
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$25 million worth of jewels and gems
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from the richest people in America.
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When you think about the crimes that he
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committed, the ordinary person would
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have said, "Well, with as much money as
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he's gotten, why didn't he stop?" It was
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like an art for him. And in another way,
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it was almost compulsive for him, as if
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he's suffering from some sort of
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compulsive disorder.
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Golder's reputation caught the attention
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of the mob. It happened when he tried to
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fence some stolen jewelry at a shop in
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New York.
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What it turns out is that this
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particular jewel store was a front for
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the Genevvisi family's uh international
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jewel fencing operation. So
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being 19 years old or whatever he was at
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the time, he didn't really know what he
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was getting into at that point. He was
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just trying to sell some jewels. But
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what he did was he was in in fact
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getting in bed with the mafia.
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The mob liked Golder's ambition and took
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him under their wing.
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They wanted to change him into an
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international jewel thief.
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He would go meet them in New York and he
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would hang out with them and they would
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take him out to restaurants. It was sort
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of a pyon thing that went on. I mean,
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they sort of groomed him for the
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business. You have to look for the three
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C's in a diamond. The color, the cut,
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and the clarity. Don't pick me up
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diamonds from from a box on top of the
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dresser. These are never good. Nobody
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keeps expensive diamonds on top of the
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dresser.
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Very closely.
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But it was his relationship with the
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mafia that would lead to Golders's
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downfall.
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In 1978, Golder was being pressured to
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bring in more jewelry.
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He and two other mafia jewel thieves
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were instructed to hit a home in the
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Hamptons.
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It's believed that Golder never carried
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a weapon, but one of his accompllices
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did.
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Allan claims he never even saw the guy.
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that happened in another room, another
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part of the house. And they didn't know
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if they had killed him or not, but they
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found out the next day that the man
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died.
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Alan Golder's life spun out of control.
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He was doing drugs and going through
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money like water.
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Eventually, he was caught.
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Facing a murder charge, he looked for a
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way to reduce his sentence.
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Now, you know that we got you at the
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lever estate two times previous that we
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know of. Now, I need you to tell me
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specific names and specific numbers
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right there on that piece of paper. All
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right.
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In exchange for selling out the mob,
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Golder was given a sentence of 15 years
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to life.
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You can assume that there was a contract
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out on his life. He became a an official
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protective witness. And when he was in
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the entire time he was in prison, he
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was, you know, basically in protective
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custody in prison. He did wasn't housed
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with the regular inmates. He was housed
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with guys that were special cases that
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they had to watch out for so that he
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wouldn't be killed.
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But according to authorities, while in
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prison, Golder continued to sip through
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magazines profiling the homes of the
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wealthy.
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Following his parole in 1996, he tried
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to go straight, or so he said. He even
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had a job in mind, working as a chimney
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sweep. I explained to him there are
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certain employment positions that you
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because of your conviction and your
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criminal history you cannot work and
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entering into people's homes to clean
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chimneys is one of them. Then after that
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he had considered pursuing school. We
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had talked at length as to what sort of
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careers he could choose but he was sort
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of set on going to a gemology school. He
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wanted to study gems.
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Not long after, police had another rash
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of high-profile burglaries on their
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hands. But Alan Golder was not a suspect
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at the time.
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But in October 1997 in Greenwich,
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Connecticut, police believe Golder
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pushed his luck a bit too far.
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[Music]
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Oh my god.
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talk about.
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He allegedly was forced to tie up a
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homeowner and fled in her car.
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[Music]
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Now, police believe the dinnertime
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bandit was back in business. Alan Golder
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apparently went underground.
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We can confirm that in Greenwich, um, in
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23 incidents of burglary, attempted
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burglaries, Allen succeeded in removing
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over $750,000 worth of jewelry from the
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houses that he hid here. In his career,
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Golder has stolen more than $30 million
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worth of jewelry, and police believe he
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has no intention of stopping.
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Alan Golder is wanted on 23 counts of
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burglary and one count of kidnapping.
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[Music]
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coming up. Some say there are codes in
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the Bible that predict major world
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events. You decide if it's true.
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[Music]
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The Bible. For centuries, mankind has
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pondered its mysteries. For many, it's
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the word of God. But journalist Michael
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Drazen is convinced that the Bible may
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hold still other mysteries. His
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controversial book, The Bible Code, hit
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the bestseller list soon after its
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publication in early 1997.
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Drazzen claimed that there is a secret
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code within the Bible. a code that has
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predicted the most important events of
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the 20th century. Here are some
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examples.
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The greatest terrorist event in American
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history, the Oklahoma City bombing was
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encoded with the world's terrible,
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frightening death, and there will be
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terror.
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The great Coobe earthquake in Japan that
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killed more than 5,000 people was
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encoded with the words earthquake fire,
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Coobe, Japan, and the year that it took
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place, 1995.
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The Gulf War is encoded with the words
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Hussein, enemy, scuds.
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Ever since there was a Bible, people
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have been searching for secret hidden
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messages in the Bible. I can tell you
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that there is no doubt that the Bible
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code does exist and that it does detail
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events that took place thousands of
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years after the Bible was written.
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In September of 1994, Michael Dzn
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persuaded an intermediary to hand a
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letter to Israeli Prime Minister Yitsak
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Rabbine.
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Mr. Prime Minister, an Israeli
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mathematician has discovered a hidden
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code in the Bible. The only time your
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full name, Yak Rabin, is encoded in the
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Bible, the words assassin that will
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assassinate cross your name. That should
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not be ignored. I think you are in real
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danger, but that the danger can be
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averted.
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14 months later, Prime Minister Yitsak
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Rabin spoke at a peace rally in Tel
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Aviv.
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It was the last speech Rabbine would
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ever give. As he left the podium that
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night, he was gunned down by an
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assassin.
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Is it possible that this event was
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foretold nearly 3,000 years ago?
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The Torah. It is said to be the word of
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God brought down from Mount Si by Moses
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and incorporating the first five books
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of the Old Testament. Hebrew scholars
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maintain that the Torah predates the
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birth of Christ.
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[Music]
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Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1938.
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Rabbi HMD Viceman discovered the first
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known example of Bible coding in the
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modern era.
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The word Torah was spelled out when he
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skipped every 50 letters in the book of
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Genesis.
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Skipping the same number of letters in
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the books of Exodus, Numbers, and
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Deuteronomy brought the same result.
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Coincidence? The odds were against it.
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[Music]
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Over the next 50 years, advances in
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computer technology led to the next
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major breakthrough in cracking the Bible
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code.
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Israeli scientists Doron Witdom and Eli
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Yahu Rips became intrigued by Vice
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Mandal's work. They used a computer
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program called a skip code to find words
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and patterns in the Hebrew text of the
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Torah. A skip code tells a computer to
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start with any letter of a text and then
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skip through the letters at chosen
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intervals. In his book, Michael Drosen
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uses this example to show how it works.
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If you skip every three letters of this
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sentence, it would look like this. You
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are left with a new sentence. In this
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case, the encoded message is read the
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code.
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The Israeli mathematicians ran a skip
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code searching for the names of 34
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prominent Jewish rabbis spanning the
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last 1100 years. Amazingly, all the
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names were found embedded in the book of
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Genesis. When the computer found the
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encoded names of the rabbis, it also
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found nearby their Hebrew dates of birth
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or death.
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The scientists ran the search again with
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a new list of rabbis. The results were
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the same. According to Michael Drazn,
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the odds of finding the dates with the
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names were 10 million to one.
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When these findings were published, they
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aroused the attention of researchers
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around the world, including Harold Gans.
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Gans is a former senior cryptologic
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mathematician, a codereaker at the US
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Department of Defense.
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Uh, when I first heard about it, I
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dismissed it as simply ridiculous.
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Gans wrote his own computer program to
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test the validity of the code and had
00:25:45
identical results. Then in close
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proximity to the rabbis, one of whom was
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a distant relative, he found the encoded
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names of cities.
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He later learned that these were the
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same cities where the rabbis had either
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been born or died. The odds here were
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more than a million to one.
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I set out to prove that it was nonsense.
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Instead, I ended up proving that in fact
00:26:08
it was true. I must admit, I felt a
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chill go up my spine when I when I saw
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it corroborated.
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Journalist Michael Drosen took the
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research a step further. Using the
00:26:19
existing skip code programs, he searched
00:26:22
for the names of historical figures. The
00:26:24
results were tantalizing, but not
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entirely convincing at first.
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I did not fully believe the Bible code
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was real until the day that Yakraine
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was assassinated.
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The one time his name appeared in the
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Bible, the words assassin will
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assassinate ran right across his name.
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Drosen embarked on his own ambitious
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research into the mysteries of the Bible
00:26:55
code. He now included a wide range of
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history's most important personalities
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and pivotal events. If Dzen is correct,
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everything that follows was predicted
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nearly 3,000 years ago.
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According to Drosen, Adolf Hitler is
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encoded with the words Nazi and enemy,
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evil man, and slaughter.
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Pearl Harbor is encoded with the words
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destruction of the fortress,
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World War, and December 7th.
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According to Drosdn, Watergate is
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encoded with Nixon. And who is he?
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President, but he was kicked out.
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In the case of the Oklahoma City
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bombing, Drozen claims a code is
00:27:41
surprisingly accurate. He says it
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includes the name of the building that
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was blown up, the Mura building.
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the date and time of the attack
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and even the name of the man convicted
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of the crime, Timothy McVey.
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But not everything in the code is gloom
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and doom. Drosna notes that Shakespeare
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is encoded with McBth and Hamlet.
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The Wright brothers are encoded with
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airplane
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and the phrase man on the moon appears
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with spaceship and Apollo 11.
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But there are those who questioned
00:28:17
Rosn's claims.
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Humans are pattern-seeking animals. We
00:28:22
look for cause and effect relationships
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in our environment, meaningful ones.
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Michael Shurmer is a publisher of
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Skeptic magazine. He believes a Bible
00:28:32
code is an example of self-fulfilling
00:28:35
prophecy.
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The Bible code is nothing more than a
00:28:39
form of seek and you shall find. Whether
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you're using the Bible or the
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dictionary, the yellow pages, some other
00:28:45
novels. All you need is a long string of
00:28:48
uh letters and then you can run your
00:28:50
computer skip code sequence program and
00:28:53
come up with all kinds of things.
00:28:55
Michael Drazen disagrees. He says he ran
00:28:58
the skip code program on several books,
00:29:00
including Toltoy's epic novel War in
00:29:03
Peace. He claims he found nothing of
00:29:05
significance.
00:29:07
Drosen is convinced that the secret code
00:29:09
is exclusive to the Bible.
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Every major figure in world history I
00:29:14
have looked for, every major event in
00:29:17
world history I have looked for has been
00:29:20
encoded accurately in remarkable detail
00:29:24
in the Bible.
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To date, Drosen says he has uncovered
00:29:28
hundreds of encoded references to
00:29:30
historical persons and events.
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What then are we to make of the dire
00:29:35
predictions he believes a Bible code
00:29:37
makes for our future?
00:29:40
The most terrible warning that's encoded
00:29:43
in the Bible is of a possible nuclear
00:29:47
world war within the next 10 years.
00:29:51
The words world war and atomic holocaust
00:29:55
are both encoded in the Bible with the
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same two years, the years 2000 and 2006.
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I'm not calling that a prediction,
00:30:07
but a warning. That's what I think the
00:30:10
Bible code really is, a series of
00:30:13
warnings of dangers we can prevent
00:30:17
if we take the warnings seriously. Well,
00:30:20
now wait a minute. You can't prophesize
00:30:23
the end will come, the end might not
00:30:25
come, the end might be delayed, or the
00:30:27
end might not come at all. You've now
00:30:29
made all possible predictions, which is
00:30:31
no prediction at all. That's not
00:30:32
prophecy.
00:30:34
The Bible code, as far as I'm concerned,
00:30:37
does not predict anything. It warns us
00:30:41
of possible dangers. It doesn't give us
00:30:44
one predetermined future, but all of our
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possible futures.
00:30:50
Mr. Drosdn is a journalist. He is
00:30:52
reporting on a very complex mathematical
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work of world-renowned mathematicians.
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He has not used scientific methodology
00:31:00
and his actual conclusions are logically
00:31:03
unound.
00:31:05
It is far better in my mind to sound a
00:31:09
false warning than to fail to warn of a
00:31:13
real danger.
00:31:16
People sometimes say to me, "Where's the
00:31:18
good news in the Bible code? Why all
00:31:21
these predictions of terrible
00:31:23
catastrophes?"
00:31:25
And I say, "The good news is that some
00:31:29
intelligence cared enough about us to
00:31:33
encode the Bible and leave us these
00:31:36
warnings so that these dangers could in
00:31:39
fact be prevented.
00:31:47
Teenagers may run away. Toddlers may
00:31:49
wander off. But if a baby disappears,
00:31:52
more often than not, foul play is
00:31:54
involved.
00:31:55
A couple in a suburb of Tampa, Florida,
00:31:57
claims someone took their baby,
00:31:59
kidnapped her in the dead of night. Only
00:32:02
one thing is certain. The baby is
00:32:05
missing.
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November 24th, 1997.
00:32:10
Marlene Eisenberg says she got up
00:32:11
shortly after 6:00 that morning and went
00:32:13
into the kitchen.
00:32:15
And I noticed the laundry room door to
00:32:18
the garage is opened and I'm like, "Wow,
00:32:22
what's that doing open?" And I just run
00:32:25
to the first bedroom and I look in
00:32:28
Sabrina's crib and she was gone. And I
00:32:31
was just like, you know, I was
00:32:32
hysterical. Steve, you know, Sabrina's
00:32:34
missing. Sabrina's gone.
00:32:37
Sabrina, Steve and Marlene Eisenberg's
00:32:39
third child, barely 5 months old, had
00:32:42
vanished, taken from her own crib.
00:32:46
The Eisenberg's home was now a crime
00:32:49
scene.
00:32:50
This frightened a lot of people,
00:32:53
terrified a lot of young parents. It was
00:32:55
chilling for people who lived in that
00:32:56
community. It was a quiet, safe, out of
00:33:00
the way place. And then a baby
00:33:02
disappears.
00:33:06
How could a baby just disappear? The
00:33:08
Eisenbergs had left their garage door
00:33:10
open overnight. The interior door may
00:33:13
also have been left unlocked, but there
00:33:16
were no clues about an intruder.
00:33:18
Who took baby Sabrina?
00:33:21
Got some debris down here. Let's go
00:33:22
ahead.
00:33:23
Marlene Eisenberg says the investigation
00:33:25
suddenly took an unexpected turn. She
00:33:28
and her husband became prime suspects.
00:33:32
No forced entry, no ransom note. We
00:33:35
think you had something to do with the
00:33:37
disappearance of Sabrina.
00:33:40
Why don't you just tell us where Sabrina
00:33:42
is?
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To me, it was the most unbelievable
00:33:45
thing I could have ever heard. And you
00:33:47
know, I was like, I have no idea where
00:33:49
Sabrina is. I have no idea who took her.
00:33:52
That's why you're here. Help. You know,
00:33:55
find her.
00:33:58
Deputies removed a number of items from
00:34:00
the Eisenberg home, including Sabrina's
00:34:02
crib and bedding. They were sent to the
00:34:05
FBI lab at Quantico for analysis.
00:34:09
As a search for baby Sabrina continued,
00:34:12
the Eisenbergs taped a public appeal
00:34:14
pleading for her return.
00:34:17
This morning, someone came into our home
00:34:20
and took our baby Sabrina Page out of
00:34:23
her crib. The plea might have inspired
00:34:25
sympathy for the Eisenbergs. It did not.
00:34:29
Some people felt they were guilty of
00:34:30
something. Some people felt that they
00:34:32
were involved in some way in Sabrina's
00:34:35
disappearance.
00:34:37
The day after Sabrina vanished, the
00:34:39
media taped the Eisenberg smiling as
00:34:41
they left their home. Public opinion
00:34:44
counted it as another strike against
00:34:46
them.
00:34:48
A lot of people in the community saw
00:34:50
that clip and saw Steve smile and they
00:34:52
saw Marlene with a quick flash of a
00:34:55
smile and they jumped to conclusions.
00:34:57
They said, "Why would these people be
00:34:58
smiling? There must be something wrong
00:35:01
here."
00:35:02
Are you withholding any information?
00:35:03
The Eisenbergs voluntarily took a
00:35:05
polygraph test.
00:35:08
Did you help take your daughter from
00:35:09
your home that night?
00:35:10
No.
00:35:11
Do you have any knowledge of your
00:35:13
daughter's current location?
00:35:14
No. In Marlene's case, the results are a
00:35:17
matter of debate.
00:35:18
Did you help?
00:35:19
They told me it was inconclusive and
00:35:20
they told me that they expected it to be
00:35:22
that because I was hysterical and you
00:35:26
know everything and uh my baby's gone
00:35:29
and you know they would expect that.
00:35:32
Are you lying about your daughter's
00:35:33
disappearance?
00:35:34
The sheriff's office insists Marlene
00:35:36
Eisenberg's polygraph results were not
00:35:38
inconclusive,
00:35:40
but officials won't say whether she
00:35:42
passed or failed.
00:35:45
No,
00:35:46
I don't give a damn about the Hillberg
00:35:48
County Polygraph.
00:35:50
Shortly after Sabrina disappeared, the
00:35:52
Eisenbergs hired an attorney. To some,
00:35:55
it was another sign of their guilt. The
00:35:57
Eisenbergs say the police left them no
00:36:00
choice.
00:36:01
When the police sit across from you and
00:36:03
say, "We believe you know where your
00:36:05
daughter is and we believe you know who
00:36:06
has her." There's a good reason to get
00:36:09
an attorney.
00:36:12
Months passed and still no trace of the
00:36:15
baby.
00:36:16
The police held several press
00:36:18
conferences fairly early on in the case
00:36:21
and told the reporters that in fact they
00:36:23
had evidence and that we should just
00:36:25
hang on, that they were processing the
00:36:27
evidence and that it would be
00:36:28
forthcoming. Uh that was almost a year
00:36:32
ago and I've not seen any of that
00:36:34
evidence to date.
00:36:36
The police declined to comment on any
00:36:38
evidence in this case, including the
00:36:40
results of tests done in the FBI lab at
00:36:43
Quantico.
00:36:44
Unfortunately, most of the leads bring
00:36:46
us back to a dead end and that comes
00:36:49
brings us back to this community and we
00:36:51
feel that the answers to this crime are
00:36:53
within this community.
00:36:55
Our policy has always been that we don't
00:36:58
list people as a suspect unless we have
00:37:00
enough to charge them. We have not ruled
00:37:02
the Eisenbergs out. they um have failed
00:37:06
to assist us in some ways and it makes
00:37:08
it more difficult to rule them out as a
00:37:12
um having some involvement in the case.
00:37:16
The Eisenbergs continue to maintain
00:37:18
Sabrina was kidnapped.
00:37:22
I believe that somebody came into our
00:37:24
home and just took her. It had to be
00:37:27
someone who wanted a baby so bad and
00:37:30
they couldn't have one themselves or
00:37:32
they needed money so bad that they would
00:37:34
want to sell her.
00:37:36
It could be that somebody just watched
00:37:38
Marlene and I and and saw our habits of
00:37:41
occasionally leaving the garage open,
00:37:42
knew we had a baby, or it could have
00:37:45
been somebody that knew us casually
00:37:49
and then through others knew our our
00:37:52
habits. So it, you know, anything is
00:37:55
just pure speculation.
00:37:59
Update. In September of 1999, a federal
00:38:03
grand jury indicted Marlene and Steven
00:38:05
Eisenberg on charges of conspiracy and
00:38:08
lying to investigators about the
00:38:09
disappearance of Sabrina.
00:38:12
Two years later, a judge threw the
00:38:14
indictment out by lambasting prosecutors
00:38:16
for misrepresenting the strength of
00:38:18
their case. The US attorney has agreed
00:38:21
to reimburse the Eisenbergs for the cost
00:38:23
of their legal counsel.
00:38:27
[Music]
00:38:42
31-year-old Lee Carter Jr. was a kind of
00:38:45
guy who always tried to do the right
00:38:47
thing. But on the morning of July 28th,
00:38:50
1993,
00:38:55
it seems doing the right thing got Lee
00:38:58
Carter Jr. killed.
00:39:00
A bomb placed under the seat of his
00:39:02
Porsche, parked outside Carter's home,
00:39:05
ended his life instantly. For members of
00:39:08
Carter's family, the loss has been
00:39:10
unbearable.
00:39:11
There's been no closure of any kind. I
00:39:14
wake up in the morning, he's the first
00:39:16
thing I think about. I go to bed at
00:39:18
night. I'd say most of the time it's the
00:39:19
first thing I'm thinking about, the last
00:39:20
thing I'm thinking about.
00:39:23
Who would want to kill Lee Carter Jr.?
00:39:26
Police in Carter's upstate New York
00:39:27
hometown have a suspect. They would like
00:39:30
your help in finding him. They believe
00:39:32
he is a dangerous killer, a man they
00:39:35
suspect is an enforcer for an outlaw
00:39:37
branch of the Hell's Angels motorcycle
00:39:39
gang. The man's name is Rick Valley. And
00:39:43
if you happen to know him, be careful.
00:39:48
[Music]
00:39:52
In the early 1990s, police believe led
00:39:55
the angels in a battle for control of
00:39:57
drugs and prostitution along the US
00:39:59
Canadian border. Police alleged valley's
00:40:02
job was to kill people who double
00:40:04
crossed the biker gang.
00:40:08
Lee Carter Jr. had been approached by
00:40:10
associates of Rick Valley who wanted to
00:40:12
use his home as a safe house.
00:40:15
It is alleged that Valley and the gang
00:40:17
had plans to smuggle 54 kilos of cocaine
00:40:20
from the United States into Canada.
00:40:23
Carter's home was close to the border.
00:40:25
Disgusted. That's right.
00:40:26
Carter went to the police and agreed to
00:40:29
act as an informant. The drug deal was
00:40:31
quickly thwarted and Rick Valley was
00:40:33
charged with conspiracy to import
00:40:35
cocaine.
00:40:37
My son didn't get into detail on it to
00:40:39
me at all. He did tell me he was working
00:40:41
with the state police. He told me he was
00:40:43
helping him and I started to ask him
00:40:47
what it was about and he said it best
00:40:50
that I didn't get involved in it. That
00:40:52
what he was doing was with them and was
00:40:54
on the up and up with the law.
00:40:56
Before the case could go to trial, Lee
00:40:59
Carter Jr., the main witness, was
00:41:01
eliminated.
00:41:03
Police believe Rick Valley, a known
00:41:05
demolition's expert, planted the bomb
00:41:07
that killed him.
00:41:09
Rick Valley obviously made the decision
00:41:12
that if he took out the witness, had the
00:41:15
witness killed, then there was nobody to
00:41:17
testify him against court, the drug
00:41:19
charge would have to be dismissed, which
00:41:21
in effect is what happened.
00:41:24
2 days after Carter's murder, with a
00:41:26
star witness against him dead, the drug
00:41:29
charges against Rick Valley were
00:41:30
dropped.
00:41:33
[Music]
00:41:35
Two years passed. During that time, New
00:41:38
York state and Canadian authorities
00:41:40
gathered enough evidence to charge
00:41:42
Valley with Carter's murder. Valley was
00:41:45
arrested in Canada and was awaiting
00:41:47
extradition to the United States.
00:41:50
While in custody, Rick Valley had his
00:41:52
jaw broken in a jail house fight.
00:41:56
Over the next few weeks, he was treated
00:41:58
at a local hospital where two guards
00:42:00
would always accompany him.
00:42:03
During the course of his visit, he had
00:42:06
uh consistently set up where he would
00:42:08
take a shower around 8:00. Uh at this
00:42:11
particular point, uh he had been on the
00:42:13
phone and indicated to one of the guards
00:42:16
that uh he would like the guard to wait
00:42:20
there because he was waiting for an
00:42:21
important phone call from uh his
00:42:23
attorney. Uh he then went to take a
00:42:25
shower with the other guard.
00:42:28
As the both of them entered the shower
00:42:30
room, uh the one guard was accosted.
00:42:35
What took you out?
00:42:36
With the help of an accomplice, Valley
00:42:38
escaped. It's the last time anyone has
00:42:41
seen Rick Valley.
00:42:43
My gut sense is that he's out of the
00:42:45
country uh and that he's gone someplace
00:42:47
else and has probably established a new
00:42:49
identity. Obviously, we'd love to have
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somebody call us and tell us or Rick
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Valley is in this house right now having
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dinner. Uh, and I can assure you that uh
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within moments uh we'd uh we'd be there
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and uh get him into custody.
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When I think of uh Richard Valley, uh I
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think of an individual that thinks
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nothing of taking life, thinks nothing
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of uh anyone else whatsoever. He is it
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and that's all. He has no values.
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It would help considerably to know that
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at least the individual wasn't out there
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living high in the hog while he has
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taken someone else's life.
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Next, the hunt for an escape convict
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ends thanks to one of our viewers.
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On a previous broadcast, we asked for
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your help in finding a ruthless killer
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who'd escaped from an Oklahoma prison.
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Michael Wayne Brown was able to elude
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law enforcement authorities for over 15
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years. But thanks to an unsolved
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mysteries viewer, Brown is now back
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behind bars.
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When he was only 18, Michael Wayne Brown
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and another teenager were in the middle
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of burglarizing an insurance office when
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an employee stopped by to pick up a
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file.
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Give me the gun. Turn around.
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Brown was put on death row for murdering
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Richard Sullivan. However, that sentence
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was later commuted to life without
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parole.
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Michael Wayne Brown had served nine
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years in the Oklahoma state prison
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system when his luck began to change. A
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lonely widow named Donna Moses began
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writing him letters as part of her
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church group's attempt to help convicts
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find spiritual comfort.
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But these pen pals quickly became
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something more.
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She was lonely. She hadn't had anybody
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for a very long time. and she needed
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that companionship, you know, someone
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someone, you know, to talk to her about
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things and show her love and affection.
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And that's what she got from him.
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Do you, Michael Brown, pick this woman
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to be your
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less than 3 months after meeting Brown,
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Donna Moses married him?
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I do.
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In November of 1984, Brown was
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transferred to a minimum security
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prison. It was a perfect opportunity,
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and he wasted little time. Michael Wayne
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Brown and another inmate jumped a 4-foot
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fence and raced for freedom.
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Authorities believe that Donna Moses
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Brown drove the getaway car. Within a
00:46:00
year, the second convict was captured.
00:46:03
For 15 years, authorities received
00:46:05
numerous tips about the whereabouts of
00:46:07
Michael and Donna Brown. And then
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finally, one paid off.
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Update. In 1999, an alert unsolved
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Mysteries viewer chanced upon a
00:46:19
photograph from our website.
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I couldn't believe it. Um, it looked
00:46:24
like him, but my mind said it's not him,
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but the picture said it was him.
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Greg knew Donna and Michael Brown as
00:46:30
Linda and Kenneth Gter. The Genters
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owned a video store in the quiet suburb
00:46:35
of Ketling, Ohio. In fact, Greg's wife
00:46:38
worked at the store.
00:46:41
You'd never know he was a murderer. You
00:46:43
would never know that. Um, like I say,
00:46:45
he was like an icon of the community.
00:46:47
Everybody liked him. The kids would come
00:46:48
in there and high-five him. He'd give
00:46:50
him candy and super nice guy.
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Coincidentally, about 15 minutes after
00:46:55
spotting the photos on the Unsolved
00:46:57
Mysteries website, Greg received a phone
00:47:00
call from Kenneth Gter.
00:47:02
The phone rings and it was him and he
00:47:05
was asking my wife to work that night. I
00:47:07
told him that I seen a guy on the
00:47:08
computer that looked like him and I
00:47:10
said, "Michael Wayne Brown." and he kind
00:47:12
of got quiet for a minute and he says,
00:47:13
"Well, Greg, everybody has a twin, so I
00:47:16
left it at that."
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Realizing that he had been recognized,
00:47:19
Brown quietly dropped from sight. But
00:47:22
knowing that the FBI was one step behind
00:47:24
him, he turned himself in.
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Brown is serving the remainder of his
00:47:30
sentence at the Oklahoma State
00:47:31
Penitentiary in Mallister, Oklahoma.
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Authorities view Donna Brown as a hless
00:47:37
victim of her husband. She was never
00:47:39
charged with any wrongdoing in
00:47:41
connection with Brown's escape.
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For every mystery, there is someone
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somewhere who knows a truth. Join me for
00:47:56
the next edition of Unsolved Mysteries.
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