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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a car crash becomes an
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elaborate cover up for murder and the
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victim's husband becomes a suspect in
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her
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death a man has a close encounter with a
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UFO and is left with a bizarre pattern
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of burns that no one can
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explain an outof contr control driver
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may also be responsible for the murder
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of a
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trucker for over a century Prospectors
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have searched for gold worth millions in
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the legendary Lost Dutchman's mind
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finally one may be about to find it in 3
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days five cases some without endings our
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team is working on them and perhaps you
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can help I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries
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VOR
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Texas it's early Dawn there's been a car
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crash the woman behind the wheel is dead
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her skin cool to the
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touch at first glance it appears to be a
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tragic accident but within minutes
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puzzling details begin to emerge the
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dead woman has no obvious wounds and the
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car is barely damaged soft drinks in the
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front seat haven't even
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spilled a woman's feet are pushed back
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against the seat rather than stretched
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out towards the
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pedals she isn't wearing a seat belt yet
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the crash had not thrown her
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forward being no damage to the interior
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of the vehicle and very little if not
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any damage to the exterior of the
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vehicle and the in deepness of the ditch
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plain to see this was a staged incident
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instead of an accident so at that point
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they thought they had a problem a
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questionable
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death the woman is Kathy pige a wife and
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mother of
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two her home is just a 100 yard from the
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crash
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site when police arrive Kathy's husband
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Steve answers the door who is it vter
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police I'm Sergeant Mosley the vder
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police department are you Mr Paige yes
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Mr Paige you know where your wife's at
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my wife he said well his wife was not
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home and directly looked straight down
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the street towards where the car
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was this about my wife yes it is sir
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sorry to advise you sir we found her
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deceased in her vehicle this morning can
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we step inside the res St seemed to be
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quite upset he began to cry at times and
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at times threw himself on the couch
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crying but yet he would jump right back
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up and we were talking there would be no
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signs of Tears in his eyes this seems
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strange to me was she in a car accident
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sir we don't know all the details we're
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still police immediately focused their
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investigation on Steve Page of course I
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did not kill my wife the evidence
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clearly shows that the perpetrator was
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someone other than Steve
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pige however many people in the small
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town ofor Texas are convinced that Steve
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Paige did have a strong motive to kill
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his wife Paige insists he's
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innocent see what you
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think Kathy and Steve pige had two
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daughters Aaron and Monica they seemed
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like the perfect family but apparently
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the couple had drifted apart in their
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marriage mainly she was uncomfortable
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with who she was or at least that was
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what she explained to me that she didn't
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know who she was she wanted to try to
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find out who Kathy was because of that
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we talked about separating for a short
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period of time and allowing her to
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hopefully find herself
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Kathy's sister Sher disagrees she says
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the marriage was beyond
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repair Kathy was definitely moving on in
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her life at that point um because the
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decision was made for the divorce and
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that in itself having a decision like
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that finally be resolved in itself was a
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rig relief off her back and she was
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making plans for
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that Steve moved out of the house but
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says his relationship with Kathy
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remained friendly one day she asked them
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to babysit their daughters while she
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went out with her friend she said she
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was going to meet one of her girlfriends
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after work so I went over there she left
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at approximately 11:15 to 11:30 to head
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to Bowmont to meet her
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friend person in the
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car when Kathy's body was found she
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wasn't wearing any makeup or jewelry the
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autopsy showed she had been strangled
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and that her nose was broken there were
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blood stains on her underwear and skin
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but strangely there was no blood on her
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outer
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clothing Kathy Paige was not killed in
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her
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vehicle she was killed at another
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location cleaned up redressed and placed
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back in her vehicle and and after the
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vehicle had been rolled into the
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ditch police reconstructed Cathy's Final
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hours they learned that she'd had sex
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shortly before she died
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Kathy did not meet her girlfriend but
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instead spent the evening with a male
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lover he freely admitted that on the
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night Kathy died they had sex at a motel
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goodbye
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thanks he came to the police station he
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gave us a statement and also voluntarily
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gave us a polygraph examination which he
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passed with flying
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colors the autopsy confirmed that Kathy
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did have sex on the night she died
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the results also revealed that whoever
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Kathy slept with had a
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vasectomy however that didn't match
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Kathy's secret lover but it did match
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her estranged
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husband he had had sex with Kathy the
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night she died and claimed it was before
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she went
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out come on she was getting ready she
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just got out of the shower I approached
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her about sex and we had sex before she
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left before she got dressed
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even I personally don't believe that
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that happened she wouldn't have been
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with Steve before being with another man
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um she hadn't been with Steve in a long
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time he's already sleeping on the
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couch for Kathy's family there is only
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one possible scenario it all began with
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two phone calls I was talking to a
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sister-in-law of Steve's and she said
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that she knew for a fact that Steve made
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two phone calls
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Steve called this one number and uh the
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girl answered and he hung up and then
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the second phone number was called and
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they said the name of the hotel and he
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hung up and so he already knew where she
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might be or
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was I feel like she came in that night
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and come in the back door after she done
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parked the car and he was asleep sitting
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in a chair in the front room and when
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she went on in the bathroom and changed
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clothes took a makeup off took a jewelry
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and all off and he heard it probably in
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the bathroom
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and he got up and demanded sex with her
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or whatever got in a
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fight Kathy's family believes the fight
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escalated Steve raped
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Kathy then strangled
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her then Steve realizing what had
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happened he wants to redress her if you
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look at the violent crime profile it
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fits into a tea you know the remorse she
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want to redress you don't want them to
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be found naked or bloody so there was an
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attempt to clean her up and redress her
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but things were forgotten for instance
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her jewelry and her
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socks reason it comes down on me is
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because I'm the
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husband I'm the estranged husband to
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make it even worse and because of her
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actions I am being blamed for her
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actions she was out seeing another guy
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so therefore it could only have been me
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I must have found out somehow how
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according to the police and became enr
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aged and committed
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murder Steve has his own theory about
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who killed his wife okay yeah yeah I
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received threats on the phone that the
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same thing that happened to my wife
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could happen to me there was a certain
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person here in Bowmont that was bandied
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about as a person who may have been
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involved it's a very prominent family uh
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an Italian family even
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uh to let you know that they're
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considered part of the Bowmont
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Mafia the murder of Kathy pige has never
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been
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solved however Kathy's family won a
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wrongful death civil suit against Steve
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Pig and police still consider him a
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person of interest in this
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case if you have any information please
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log on to our website at unsolved.com
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next a man in Canada claims he had a
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frightening encounter with a
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UFO people who claim to see UFOs
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typically don't have any evidence to
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verify their stories but the eyewitness
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that you're about to meet came back with
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more than a tall tale the evidence of
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his encounter was actually burned into
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his body
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Steven melac and his wife came to Canada
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from Poland after World War
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II Steven was an industrial mechanic in
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a local cement
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plant he was also an avid rock
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collector I love nature I love birds
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animals every weekend I usually travel
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go to the out in the country and
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snooping in the rock
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one weekend he was prospecting in the
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Hills East of Winnipeg when he was
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suddenly distracted by a noisy flock of
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geese I notice two cigarette like shape
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Kinks with the hump in the
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middle I said what the hell is
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that one stay in the
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air and the other one is coming down
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down
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down I start looking for Marks NASA or
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something written on it no nothing I
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didn't see anything on it but still I
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was thinking that
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probably experimenting vehicle from
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United
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States Steven made this sketch of the
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strange craft just after it
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landed I do remember one description
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that he gave at the time he said that
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the skin of the craft the outside of the
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craft was Flawless Stan mlac was only 10
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years old at the time it was as though
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you had milled out of a solid block of
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steel this disc this saucer with the
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Dome on top Steven told his son that
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after a few minutes the door of the
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craft slowly
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opened when the gate opened there was a
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G kind of shy talk like a like a kids in
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problem or
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something as he drew closer to the door
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the light was so bright that he had to
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snap down the visor on his safety
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goggles then after a few moments the
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door suddenly shut
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Steven says the craft then rotated
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counterclockwise it knocked them
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backwards and his shirt caught on
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fire after igniting with the fire the
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craft lifts up 30 to 40 ft and
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vanished and then I decided say said now
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is the time for me to buzz off from
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here so I started going and shock Steven
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headed back towards his car he was
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nauseous and vomited several
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times disoriented he checked his Compass
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trying to find his way Southeast to the
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road the needle went
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haywire Steven made his best guess at
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the right direction 9 hours later he
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finally arrived back home in
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Winnipeg he was badly burned and still
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disoriented which left doctors
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baffled at that point in time the
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diagnosis if you can call it that was
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Burns and sure they were Burns yes heat
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caused
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Burns what they couldn't diagnose and
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didn't have a clue about was what
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appeared below the chest on the abdomen
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the exact same pattern of holes that was
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on the grid on the side of the craft in
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the same in the same rows in the same
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number appeared as red spots on his
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lower abdomen red
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dots Steven was released from the
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hospital but his nausea continued and
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his body had a strange odor of burning
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sulfur there was this sulfur ozone
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electric burning motor stink about him
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it's like he's carrying Aura the smell
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wherever you walked and you got close to
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you you could you could smell this
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nothing bad showers wouldn't take it out
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that lasted for
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weeks Steven was tested for radiation
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poisoning the results were
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negative no one could explain what
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caused the strange burns on his body or
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the sulfur
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odor the Physicians were actually unable
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to determine many of mik's ailments they
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knew for example he was physically
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thermally burned his chest was burned
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and singed but the pattern lower down on
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his chest was very very unusual it was
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eventually determined that it was a
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chemical burn not a radiation burn
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although he did have some symptoms that
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might have suggested that some people
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that some sort of radiation effects
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might have been
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involved 6 weeks after the encounter
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Steven and a friend went looking for the
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site Bob come quick after several hours
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they found a burnt out Circle the same
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size as the craft Steven had seen it was
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more than 30 ft
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wide this is it I knew it I told you on
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this Barren patch of rock was a circular
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ring of vegetation dead pine needles
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dirt leaves that sort of thing the rock
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had been swept clean except for this
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ring which was surrounding this
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area they also noticed that a few of the
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trees appeared to have dead branches as
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if something had either come in and and
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touched them or brushed by them with a
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an intense heat or some other
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effects within days a team of experts
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from the United States working with the
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Royal Canadian Air Force converged on
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the site they took measurements
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cataloged soil samples and checked for
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radiation the levels appeared quite High
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and the health department considered
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quarantining the
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area later however they discovered that
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the high level were caused by an
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unrelated vein of radium which ran under
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the entire
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region n this is my colleague Dr Shaw
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he's a radiologist meanwhile Stevens
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Burns suddenly flared up
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again his doctors remained
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puzzled after every 3 months my Burns
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were coming back showing up again and
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burning
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and burning and vomiting to this day you
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can if you let you can press into his
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skin and feel subcutaneous scar tissue
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in the form of those burns on his chest
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which he playfully calls his buttons and
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it's there you cannot deny this this is
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there cracks one year after Steven's
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close encounter he and a friend return
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to the
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site so where is it is it in this crack
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just about Center a little north of
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Center the guer counter Rose very very
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dramatically at that point they scooped
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out almost half a Jar full of what
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appeared to be molten rock or molten
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metal of some sort quite
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radioactive according to Ed Barker the
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material was an extremely rare grade of
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silver it was coated with pitch blend
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ore which contained both radioactive
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uranium and
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radium why would particles and metal
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fragments of this size and radioactivity
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have been missed by all previous
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investigators and this is one mystery
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that we don't have definite answers to
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this day I'd like to think that one
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day we'll get a letter from the US
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government and it'll say we have the two
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craft in a hanger over here and we were
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experimenting with them at the time
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sorry and I'd want to go and see them
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and I'm sure Dad would too and that
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would be great
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what would be worse is to have this
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thing dragged to a point and drag on
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where it's never
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explained Steven mlac and his wife
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remained in Manitoba until his death
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over 30 years after his
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encounter The Unexplained burn marks on
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his chest never went away no matter what
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others said Steven died believing he had
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seen something not of this Earth
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next a highway stalker may be connected
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to the coldblooded murder Long Haul
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trucker Chandler
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Oklahoma and Anonymous caller reports a
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body lying beside a phone booth at a
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highway rest stop
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authorities arrive to find the man has
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been
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murdered coins are scattered all around
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his
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body the dead man is Dwayne mccorkendale
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a 27-year-old truck driver and father of
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twin girls he has been killed by a
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single shotgun blast fired at close
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range the apparent motive
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robbery if Dwayne had been killed in an
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accident I could have stood it a lot
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better it seemed so ironic that he was
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killed for
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money when the last thing a trucker will
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do is carry very much for that very
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reason every day thousands of big rigs
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roll across the highways of America CB
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radios are their Lifeline to the rest of
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the world but for Dwayne mccorkendale a
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casual conversation over the airwaves
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may have signed his death
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warrant double wh headed back to Kanas
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City come on back Dwayne's final run
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began like any other he left Detroit
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Michigan headed for Oklahoma City laugh
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the two baby girls waiting for me back
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there mccorkendale made a regular run
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bringing parts to an Oklahoma City
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Automobile
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Plant we have no reason to believe
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anything was different that
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night he enters the turnpike he's given
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a a ticket with the time on on it and
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through that ticket we're able to
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determine that he made no other stops he
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drove directly from the turnpike gate to
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the rest
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area other truckers reported that late
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in the afternoon Dwayne told him he was
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pulling over at the Chandler rest stop
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to call his wife yeah I'm going to pull
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over here at this rest and call her wife
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see how things back at home we'll catch
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you on the other side we see you later
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it's double we going byebye we theorized
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that someone had been listening to him
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on the CB uh and actually followed him
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into that rest area or perhaps was
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already there waiting for
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him it looked like he was walking up to
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the telephone perhaps counting change
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out in his hand since there was change
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there at the base of the phone booth and
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was killed as he stepped up to make the
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call
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whoever was involved in this killed
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mccorkendale just shot him in the back
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and he was dead before he
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ground then checked him to see if he had
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any money on him any valuables at
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all people like that are to us scary
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because those type of people in our
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minds are very likely to do it
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again we got the only items missing were
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Dwayne's keys and his
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wallet investigators estimate the
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Killer's total take was no more than
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$25 early on in the investigation our
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leads were thin one of the things that
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the agent started doing is he started
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putting notices in the trucker magazines
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across the United States and the call
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started coming
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in within days several truckers called
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investigators about a brown Ford Pino
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equipped with a CB
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radio time of the mccor Andale death we
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have reports that the pinto was driving
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very erratically on the highway uh
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trying to cut 18 wheelers
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off hey man what do you think you're
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doing trying to get somebody hurt out
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there well you don't know who you're
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messing with good buddy we'll drive
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anyway we won't hey man ain't no way to
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B come on now behave out here you going
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to get somebody hurt so we've already
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killed one trucker and we'll kill
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another if you stay our way and when the
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truck driver would call them on the CB
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they were abusive they they said that uh
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leave us alone or or we'll do to you
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what we did to to this other trucker 3
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weeks later authorities received a call
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from another trucker who reported a
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strange encounter he had the day before
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the murder while he was having lunch at
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a rest stop he was approached by a young
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woman L you got any dope you can let us
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have really need something she looked
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kind of trashy I mean it looked like she
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had been on something and she was just
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awful shaky he might be my friend we um
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we've been down in Texas visiting some
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friends we're trying to get back to
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Alabama can you can you help us find the
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road to get there I kind of turned to
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reach to get a map and next thing she's
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got her hold the front half inside the
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truck we just need a few Bo I really
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need about that time this Brown penel
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pulled up and then she jumped down off
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the truck and they took
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off the next day just 13 Mi south on the
00:24:57
same Highway Dwayne mandelle was gunned
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down after I read that article I thought
00:25:05
maybe I'm lucky that I didn't get out of
00:25:07
the truck otherwise I might have been
00:25:09
the one that would have got
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shot while we have no way of knowing if
00:25:14
the pinto was actually involved in this
00:25:16
or not it is without a doubt our
00:25:18
strongest lead and we have got to locate
00:25:19
the pinto and ultimately the people to
00:25:21
talk to them to see if if nothing else
00:25:22
we can eliminate them from this from
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this
00:25:26
situation today authorities are no
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closer to finding the Pendle and Dwayne
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mccor canel's killer than the day he
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died the occupants of the penno are
00:25:37
described as a white male and a black
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male sometimes accompanied by a white
00:25:46
woman if you have a tip that could help
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solve this case please visit our website
00:25:51
at unsolved.com next
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legend of the Lost Dutchman's mind it's
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worth millions of dollars in gold and
00:26:03
it's just waiting to be
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found Arizona Superstition Mountains a
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desolate Wasteland but Legend has it
00:26:20
that these mountains contain the richest
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deposits of gold in
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America the Lost Dutchman's
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mine the exact location of the Lost
00:26:32
Dutchman's mind remains a mystery it was
00:26:35
supposedly discovered by a German
00:26:37
prospector more than a 100 years ago
00:26:40
today all that L gold would be worth
00:26:44
over
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$200
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million Jacob Waltz was a student of
00:26:53
Mining and he knew what he was doing the
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old-timers were very very St to the fact
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of geology they knew what they were
00:27:01
looking for if you're going to go out in
00:27:03
these mountains anywhere and look for
00:27:05
gold you really want to go to places
00:27:07
where gold has been found superstitions
00:27:09
would be an exception you wouldn't go in
00:27:10
there but Jacob Waltz did Prospect in
00:27:14
those rugged mountains and apparently
00:27:16
struck a rich vein of
00:27:21
gold when Waltz was 80 years old he
00:27:25
decided to hide his mind to protect it
00:27:28
he dug a hole 6 feet deep at its
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entrance he then laid in two rows of
00:27:33
logs and topped them with the dirt and
00:27:39
Stones Walt who was nicknamed the
00:27:42
Dutchman bragged that you can drive a
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pack train over the entrance to the mine
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and never know that it was
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there several months after Walt closed
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up the mine he got pneumonia and was
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taken to the home of his friend Julia
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Thomas on his deathbed he told her there
00:28:04
was gold from the Mind stash under his
00:28:07
bed he said that's what I've been living
00:28:09
on all these years he took out the box
00:28:12
they opened it and their comment was my
00:28:15
God that's rich he said it's a vain he
00:28:18
said there's enough in sight to make
00:28:20
millionaires out of 20
00:28:22
men the Dutchman gave Julia and a local
00:28:25
minor Reinhardt Petr only Clues to the
00:28:28
mines location the northwest corner of
00:28:31
the Superstition Mountains take the take
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the trail
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in he died before he could give them a
00:28:39
map that showed the exact location of
00:28:42
the
00:28:45
mine soon after waltz's death Julia
00:28:48
Reinhardt Petr and his brother Herman
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searched for the mine using the vague
00:28:53
Clues Waltz had given
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them he said the settings Sun Shines
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into the entrance to by mine and
00:29:01
Glitters on the gold so it must have
00:29:03
faced to the West he said you take the
00:29:06
first gorge on the South Side from the
00:29:08
West End of the range he said that you
00:29:11
can see Weaver's needle to the south
00:29:14
from above my
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mind they went in there for almost 5
00:29:18
weeks they came out without any gold and
00:29:21
this was noted in the Arizona Republican
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in 1892 in fact they called it the queer
00:29:27
quest in to
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go Julia invested everything she owned
00:29:33
into the Expedition but she returned
00:29:36
broke she never again set foot in the
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Superstition
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Mountains Herman Pat trash accused his
00:29:43
brother Reinhardt of getting Jacob's
00:29:46
directions wrong they never spoke
00:29:49
again Reinhardt continued to search for
00:29:52
the mind but when he realized he would
00:29:54
never find it he took his own life
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almost 100 years later a modern-day
00:30:03
treasure hunter claimed he found the
00:30:07
mine his name was Walt gazler head chef
00:30:11
at the builtmore hotel in Phoenix Walt
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used Clues handed down from Jacob's
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deathbed and spent years looking for the
00:30:20
legendary M nice to meet you have a seat
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thank you when his health began to fail
00:30:26
Walt contacted two Prospect s Bob Corbin
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who was then the Attorney General of
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Arizona and Tom cinor a local
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historian he wanted to get together with
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me so that we could perhaps go with him
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and continue looking for the mine and
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with his directions after he had died
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and he gave me his notes as well as a
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map as to where his Camp was and where
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he believed the mine to
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be two months later Walt called Tom he
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was very excited and claimed that he had
00:31:01
finally located the Dutchman's M Tom how
00:31:04
are you doing wal Gast called me on
00:31:06
Sunday evening he said I'm going to the
00:31:08
mine I know exactly where it is I just
00:31:12
can't possibly break away in the morning
00:31:13
you and Corbin have to
00:31:15
go Walt gastler was convinced that the
00:31:19
mine existed from the clues that he had
00:31:21
some of those Clues he would not
00:31:23
reveal and the next morning his wife
00:31:26
took him out to the trail head and dro
00:31:28
him all see you in 3 days Walt hiked
00:31:32
alone into the superstitions never to be
00:31:34
seen alive
00:31:38
again his body was founded 3 Days Later
00:31:42
an autopsy proved he had died of a heart
00:31:47
attack I'm Colin yes I'm Roland gastler
00:31:50
how you doing Roland one month after
00:31:52
Walt's death historian Tom cinourn had a
00:31:56
surprise visitor and he check was Rowan
00:31:58
gastler Walt gastler son she said well
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you know my dad found the lost Dutchman
00:32:03
in the superstitions and he got out a
00:32:05
piece of gold showed it to me Bo that
00:32:07
stuff really looks good it looked very
00:32:08
similar to the gold that allegedly came
00:32:11
out of the LOF du mine where did this
00:32:13
come from came right straight out of my
00:32:16
dad's backpack Bob Roland insisted his
00:32:19
dad had found the lost man he wanted to
00:32:22
retrace his father's steps and he took
00:32:24
back Walt's old maps and notes
00:32:28
yes that is my dad you're his son you're
00:32:31
the one that should go
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to two months
00:32:36
passed Tom never heard whether Roland's
00:32:39
search was
00:32:41
successful one night after giving a
00:32:43
lecture Tom was approached by another
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stranger Mr cinor yes hi I'm Roland
00:32:49
gastler I've been this claimed that he
00:32:53
was Roland gastler I think my jaw
00:32:55
dropped 10 foot to the ground it wasn't
00:32:57
the same guy I said I ought to ask you
00:32:58
for driver's license or something I said
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you're the second rolling gastler I've
00:33:02
run into in the last couple of months
00:33:05
sure looks like you're Roland gastler
00:33:07
yes sir after meeting two Roland gers I
00:33:10
wondered who was really Roland gastler
00:33:13
I'm yes it appeared the first Roland
00:33:15
gastler was an impostor he apparently
00:33:19
wanted Walt's Maps so that he could find
00:33:21
the mine
00:33:23
himself but where did he get the gold
00:33:26
ore sample it came right straight out of
00:33:28
when Walt died the sheriff's report
00:33:31
listed a backpack among his belongings
00:33:34
but the real roling gastler never
00:33:37
received it Don shade the man who found
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Walt's body also remembered seeing the
00:33:43
backpack and he noticed the stranger in
00:33:46
the area that day there was another man
00:33:49
in the area at the time when Tom cinor
00:33:52
later gave us a description of the man
00:33:54
that came to him and showed him some
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gold it jibed up with the man that we
00:34:00
saw in here some believe that the fake
00:34:04
Roland gastler was in the mountains when
00:34:06
Walt died and stole the backpack with
00:34:09
its precious ore i' like to believe Walt
00:34:11
found it he spent so many years looking
00:34:13
for it and the last thing he would have
00:34:15
done in his life before he died would
00:34:17
have found the Mind I'd like to believe
00:34:18
that when Jacob Waltz died he left a
00:34:22
trunk of gold and a list of Clues he
00:34:25
also started the legend with which has
00:34:28
captured the dreams of three generations
00:34:31
of treasure
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Hunters I have good reason to believe
00:34:35
that the Dutchman's Legend could be true
00:34:37
I've seen the ore that was under his bed
00:34:39
when he died I've seen the assay report
00:34:42
on it and a today's gold prices that ore
00:34:45
would be worth over $2.2 million a ton
00:34:48
it's the richest gold ore I've ever seen
00:34:50
in my life and I've seen a lot of gold
00:34:53
door this could have been gassers trick
00:34:56
in the trail cuz Superstition Mountains
00:34:58
have been reclassified as a federally
00:35:01
owned Wilderness Area if the mine were
00:35:04
found today by the fake Roman gastler or
00:35:07
anyone else all the gold would belong to
00:35:11
the
00:35:12
government this does not prevent modern
00:35:15
Prospectors from still searching for the
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Lost Dutchman's Gold
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Mine next a pretty co-ed goes for a
00:35:25
morning bike ride and never
00:35:38
returns Bloomington
00:35:43
Indiana 19-year-old Jill Burman leaves
00:35:46
her home after
00:35:47
breakfast she doesn't have to be in
00:35:49
class until noon so she heads off for
00:35:52
her morning
00:35:53
ride Jill treated a bike ride like a
00:35:56
workout she took it pretty seriously and
00:35:58
she wanted to ride hard and her friends
00:36:01
have told me that going for a bike ride
00:36:04
with Jill was not very much fun because
00:36:06
they couldn't keep
00:36:08
up Jill is a business major at Indiana
00:36:13
University everyone describes her as a
00:36:15
funloving All-American Girl I filed her
00:36:18
purse later that day Jill's parents
00:36:21
become alarmed when she doesn't return
00:36:23
home it's way after dark it's very late
00:36:27
it's cold outside and I was alternating
00:36:30
between being sad or worried or maybe
00:36:34
even angry thinking why would she do
00:36:36
this why would she go off and not tell
00:36:38
us what she's up
00:36:40
to it was then that we both were really
00:36:43
I think terrified as to just what might
00:36:46
have happened to
00:36:48
her Jill Berman had vanished police
00:36:52
thought she might have been abducted or
00:36:54
that she had been the victim of a hit
00:36:56
and run accident but there were no signs
00:36:58
of Foul Play and no body there were just
00:37:03
no
00:37:05
answers news of Jill's disappearance
00:37:07
spread
00:37:11
quickly soon hundreds from the community
00:37:14
joined investigators in their
00:37:17
search local cycling clubs traced the
00:37:20
routes that she may have
00:37:22
taken they had groups of people not only
00:37:25
searching the roads but about 15 50 ft
00:37:27
or so off on each side of the road and
00:37:31
the woods and The Ravines and and places
00:37:33
that we know that Jill like to
00:37:35
ride despite their massive effort
00:37:38
Searchers found no trace of
00:37:43
Jill but then a vital clue
00:37:46
surfaced a resident of Bloomington
00:37:49
reported that on the same day Jill had
00:37:51
disappeared he had found an abandoned
00:37:54
bicycle the serial number identified it
00:37:57
as Jill's
00:37:59
bike investigators searched the area
00:38:02
where the bike was discovered but they
00:38:04
found nothing authorities were
00:38:08
puzzled Jill was last seen headed south
00:38:11
but her bike was found 10 mies Northwest
00:38:15
of her home that's not a route that she
00:38:18
would have been on that day that's about
00:38:20
10 Mi away it's through town it's
00:38:24
through a great deal of traffic and she
00:38:27
wouldn't run in the
00:38:29
traffic we've had any number of theories
00:38:31
in this and certainly one of those
00:38:33
theories is that Jill was targeted and
00:38:36
that they place the bicycle in an area
00:38:40
different from where she was last seen
00:38:42
in an effort to try and uh uh at least
00:38:45
lead us away from the area in which he
00:38:47
was in fact
00:38:48
abducted she's not with the bike and the
00:38:51
bike is somewhere she would not have
00:38:53
ridden and this isn't making any sense
00:38:56
this is even more more mysterious and
00:38:59
more scary now because now I don't know
00:39:01
what to
00:39:02
think the day after the bike was found a
00:39:05
Walkman radio mysteriously turned up in
00:39:08
the parking lot of a local church it was
00:39:11
the same model and color as the one Jill
00:39:13
usually took with her while
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cycling at the same moment the Walkman
00:39:19
was found an eyewitness saw a suspicious
00:39:22
pickup truck leaving the parking
00:39:25
lot there's no indication that that
00:39:27
pickup truck was related to the Walkman
00:39:30
however we've attempted to try and find
00:39:32
the um not only the pickup truck but
00:39:34
certainly the the individual driving it
00:39:36
we've been unsuccessful in doing
00:39:38
that a year later in Kentucky a female
00:39:42
cyclist was almost
00:39:45
abducted a driver intentionally hit her
00:39:48
and then tried to drag her into his car
00:39:51
but he was chased Away by a witness a
00:39:53
police artist made this sketch of the
00:39:56
suspect authorities believe he may have
00:39:59
been involved in Jill's
00:40:01
disappearance another theory is that
00:40:04
Jill was the victim of a hidden run
00:40:07
accident we believe that it was
00:40:09
certainly possible that that Jill was
00:40:11
struck by a group of people who were
00:40:12
high on drugs alcohol or both that these
00:40:15
folks panicked and instead of leaving
00:40:17
her or trying to get help for her they
00:40:21
put her and the bike and a vehicle and
00:40:24
and took her
00:40:27
however there was very little damage to
00:40:29
Jill's bicycle perhaps Jill was not on
00:40:33
her bike when she was hit that's one of
00:40:35
the hardest things about this whole
00:40:38
situation is the not
00:40:42
knowing without knowing whether she's
00:40:44
alive without knowing where she
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00:40:49
is I miss that smile I miss her
00:40:53
laugh it's a nightmare that just keeps
00:40:56
going on
00:41:01
every night we uh light the candle on
00:41:04
the front doorstep and it stays lit all
00:41:07
night until the next
00:41:09
morning kind of a Beacon of
00:41:13
Hope and just as a reminder that Jill is
00:41:16
still
00:41:17
missing and every day we pray that
00:41:21
that's going to be the day that we find
00:41:22
you
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00:41:30
update 3 years after Jill Burman
00:41:33
disappeared her remains were found in a
00:41:36
remote area outside of
00:41:39
Bloomington it took another 3 years for
00:41:42
authorities to piece together a case
00:41:44
against John R Meyers who lived just 3
00:41:48
miles from where Jill's bike was
00:41:52
found he apparently had become upset
00:41:55
with his ex-girlfriend and took his
00:41:57
anger out on
00:42:00
Jill a jury found Meers guilty of
00:42:03
murder he was sentenced to 65 years in
00:42:08
prison
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