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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast in Arizona a successful real
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estate entrepreneur named Chuck Morgan
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was found shot to death some believe
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this is a contract killing ordered by
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organized crime the only significant
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clues a cryptic twist Morgan scribbled
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on the back of a $2 bill 1965 the South
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was embroiled in the painful Civil
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Rights story in rural Louisiana young
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black deputy sheriff was brutally
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murdered by unknown gunmen today new
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evidence has surfaced and the case
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reopened by the FBI in Tacoma an unusual
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and heartwarming story concerning a
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young epilepsy victim and the dog who
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saved her life as a mysterious sixth
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sense enables some enemies to actually
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predict epileptic seizures this is the
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only photograph that bold bank robber
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who has cruelly committed a series of
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successful holdups without ever being
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identified perhaps it will help you put
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him behind bars
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he'll also tell you how you help shed
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light on the bizarre case of a demented
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arsonist to set fire to a house and
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Kalla see videotape the blaze thanks to
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our viewers two suspects both teenagers
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are now in custody join me once again
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you may be able to help solve the
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mystery
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[Applause]
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Tucson Arizona March 22nd 1977 Chuck
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Morgan left as usual to drive two of his
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four daughters to school riding the
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crest of two sounds real estate boom
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Morgan had become president of his own
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escrow agency and the outside his life
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looked ideal a hard-working businessman
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devoted husband and father but in 1977
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Chuck Morgan had become a potential
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witness in a state land fraud case
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involving a known organized crime boss
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and suddenly on March 22nd Morgan
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disappeared
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three days later Chuck Morgan returned
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home at 2:00 in the morning I was in bed
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and the dog started barking and I got up
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and there was a thump against the back
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door I went to the door and open it
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and there was Chuck and he was missing
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his shoe he had one plastic handcuff
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around one ankle and his hands still had
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gone back to your rooms go back to your
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rooms
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he kept motioning to his throat because
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he had instead of work any torque can
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you're right and he should have his
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videos so I went you got it tablet and
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Hannah
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I'm gonna check he wrote that his throat
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had been painted with a hallucinogenic
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drug and that the drug could drive him
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irrevocably insane
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or destroy his nervous system and kill
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him and he wanted the car moved he
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wanted it moved immediately because he
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said that he didn't want them to know he
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was home he wouldn't tell me who they
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were I'm gonna call the police and I
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wanted to call a doctor and I wanted to
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call the police and he was adamant
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and then he will doubt that that would
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be signing a death warrant for the
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entire family a one-week ruth morgan
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nursed her husband feeding him water
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with an eyedropper before his voice
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returned he began to allude to a secret
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identity agent for the federal
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government
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he wrote they took my Treasury
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identification and that's the first I
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heard of it your treasury ID is missing
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what treasury ID he wouldn't talk to me
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about it he wrote he had been working
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for them for about two or three years
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and that wasn't it
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who is responsible for this bizarre
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kidnapping episode and chuck Morgan's
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life it is possible that Morgan Rielly
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was a secret agent dealing with
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organized crime so he could pass
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information along to the government but
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Morgan may also like so many others in
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Arizona during the 70s have become
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caught up himself on the web of
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organized crime
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Lord by the mild climate in a confused
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and corrupt criminal justice system the
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mafia reportedly established Arizona as
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a narcotics pipeline and a haven for
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swindlers and money-laundering led by
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former New York Don Joseph Bonanno more
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than 500 established racketeers set up
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shop here during the 70s their influence
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began a slew of gangland style killings
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culminating in the slaying of
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investigative reporter Don Bolles
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what made Arizona particularly
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attractive to crime syndicates was a
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unique state law which allowed them to
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buy up land through numbered blind trust
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accounts that way they themselves could
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remain anonymous providing a nearly
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foolproof way to launder money Chuck
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Morgan did real-estate escrow work for
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at least one Mafia family and they may
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also have begun using him to do extra
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work for purchases of gold bullion and
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platinum a more convenient way to
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launder money it is very easy to get in
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over your head and I suspect that over
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the years mr. Morgan was in that kind of
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a situation he was a straight
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businessman who probably got a little
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too close to the flame well the sales
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agreement looks all in order the legal
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description of the parcel the amount he
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was around the edges of a couple of
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fairly large organized crime groups in
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Arizona at that time sells a deal
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the records begin early 73 and it would
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indicate he was doing
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perhaps upwards of a billion with a beef
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bargain escrow work and bullion and
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platinum transactions that only existed
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on paper there was never any gold at
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that level at least and money changed
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hands and moved through escrow accounts
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in Los Angeles and Atlanta banks and
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that's how the monies were legitimized
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Chuck mentioned to me once that there
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was money laundering going on in the in
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this town but nothing that he himself
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was involved in he told me the less the
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girls and I knew the better off we would
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be after his kidnapping Chuck Morgan
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began exhibiting a justifiable paranoia
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he wore a bulletproof vest and insisted
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on driving his daughters to and from
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school he informed a school that no one
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else has authorized to pick the girl's
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up all his precautions were to no avail
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two months after his first disappearance
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Chuck Morgan vanished again
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the last morning that anybody saw him he
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went up to his parents house
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and he was talking to his father and
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told him that if anything happened to
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him there was a letter explaining why
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how and who the letters never surfaced
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nine days after her husband had
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disappeared
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Ruth Morgan received a mysterious phone
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call the caller was a woman who gave
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Ruth a reference from the Bible this
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woman said Ruthie I said yes she said
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Chuck is all right ecclesiastics 12 1
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through 8 and then she hung up the
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passage reason part men are afraid of a
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high place and of terrors on the road
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remember him before the silver cord is
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broken and the Golden Bowl is crushed
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then the dust will return to the earth
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as it was and the spirit will return to
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God who gave it
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two days after Roose cryptic phone
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message her husband's body was
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discovered his bulletproof vest
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ironically in place he had died from a
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single bullet fired a close-range into
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the back of his head the bullet came
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from his own 357 magnum which was lying
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beside him the investigators also found
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a piece of paper with directions to the
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murder site jotted down and Chuck's
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handwriting and a pair of sunglasses
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which definitely did not belong to him
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they made one additional discovery
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apparently Chuck Morgan had clipped the
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$2 bill inside his underwear written on
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the bill were seven Spanish names
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beginning with the letters A through G
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above them was a notation ecclesiastes
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toil with the verses one through eight
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marked by arrows drawn on the bill
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serial number this was the same
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reference the mysterious female caller
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had given to Ruth Morgan on the back of
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the bill the signers of the Declaration
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of Independence were numbered 1 through
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7 and a crude map was drawn the map is
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of some roads that do exist between
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Tucson and Mexican border going out to a
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place called Robles Junction and then
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going south to little town called Sasabe
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a ranch is identified down there where
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there are landing strips it's an area
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that very likely would be involved in
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smuggling and there are some indications
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that if mr. Morgan was involved in some
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movements of real gold that some of it
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in fact may have been coming across from
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Mexico in that fashion
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despite the puzzling evidence many in
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the Sheriff's Department believe chuck
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Morgan's death was a suicide
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they claimed he had shot himself in the
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back of the head there is no way Chuck
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would have committed suicide and if he
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had even contemplated suicide he would
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have left a letter for his girls and for
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me it is not a very normal place to
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shoot oneself as a suicide and bear in
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mind he is wearing a bulletproof vest at
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the time I've never seen in all my years
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as a journalist a fella taking himself
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out in the desert wearing a bulletproof
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vest and shoot himself in the back
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yet I was familiar with the intelligence
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officers of working intelligence for the
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Sheriff's Department at the time I had
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some conversation with them about this
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case they thought it was a homicide and
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gang-related
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they left the Sheriff's Department I
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don't know if they left because of what
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they detected in this case or another
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case or a combination of cases but they
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indicated they were in fear of their
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lives and actually left law enforcement
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two of them left continental US
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two days after Chuck Morgan's death an
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anonymous woman spoke to a member of the
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Pima County Sheriff's Department on the
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telephone she said Chuck had come to
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meet her at a local motel just before he
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died the woman called us up green eyes
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and said she was the same one who had
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called Chuck's wife quoting the passage
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of Ecclesiastes
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green eyes also said that in the motel
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Chuck showed her a briefcase containing
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thousands of dollars in cash
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he claimed the money would buy him out
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of a gang contract that had been put on
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his life how much do you have in there
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hopefully $60,000 where do you need so
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much
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if the information that green eyes
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provided is accurate it is in a very
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perverse sense remotely possible that
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mr. Morgan paid for his own murder
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[Music]
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the theory goes that organized crime put
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the word out that they wanted Chuck
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Morgan dead a hit man then told Chuck
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who came up with the money to buy the
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hit man off but when the two of the met
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in the desert the hit man killed Chuck
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anyway then took his money there is a
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great likelihood that mr. Morgan was in
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fact doing something with the government
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and I think somebody blew his cover and
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I think he got killed I think this was a
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guy who was extremely naive about a lot
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of things the sort of associations he
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suddenly found himself in and maybe was
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even asked to put himself in by people
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in the US government
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three weeks after her husband's death
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Ruth Morgan had two visitors claiming to
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be government officials Jack Richards
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were special agents for the FBI
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they opened and closed their
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identification very fast
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they said they wanted to come in and
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look through the house I never thought
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at the time to ask them for a search
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warrant they never said what they were
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looking for to this day I don't even
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know what they were looking for the two
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men tore loose Morgan's house apart
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searching for something which they
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seemed unable to find because she was so
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rattled Ruth did not take down their
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names no one knows for sure if the two
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men really were from the FBI
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Don Devereaux contacted the bureau to
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get more information on the Morgan case
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when I made a formal Freedom Information
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Act request to the FBI they never heard
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this before despite the fact that they
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obviously opened an investigation
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despite the fact the FBI interviewed mr.
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Morgan's attorney they were all over
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this thing like a blanket for a while
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but now they've never heard of the guy
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he never existed nope no card no file no
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nothing was Chuck Morgan doing
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undercover work for the government or
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the clues he left behind on the $2 bill
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an attempt to pass coded messages to the
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FBI
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12 years later Ruth Morgan is still
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trying to unravel the strange clues left
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by her husband the passage from
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Ecclesiastes answer while the Sun or the
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light or the moon or the Stars be not
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darkened nor the clouds returned after
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the rain in the day when the keepers of
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the house shall tremble I don't know
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what it means there's a message there
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somewhere I know there is but I don't I
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don't know what it means I think the two
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dollar bill provides the basis for some
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kind of cryptography I think there are
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some the basis of some kind of a code
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there what seems to be missing however
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is the document that the $2 bill would
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unlock I think we need a companion piece
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to really make ultimate sense out of the
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$2 bill
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[Music]
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is there a document that explains the
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mysterious death of Chuck Morgan tying
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all the cryptic clues together where the
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two men calling themselves federal
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agents searching for the document when
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they ransacked the Morgan home for Ruth
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Morgan only one thing is certain he was
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murdered
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somebody held a gun to his head and
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killed him I don't know why I'm I may
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never know why and I probably will never
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have know who but I know somebody did it
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he was the husband of someone he was the
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father of four children was he a good
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guy was he a bad guy if he was quietly
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providing assistance to the US
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government and monitoring the activities
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of one or more major organized crime
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families he wouldn't have fillin he was
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a good guy and they need to know that
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when the segment aired we received
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hundreds of calls relating to Morgan's
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death according to Deveraux who
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continued his investigation many turned
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out to be productive leads three months
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later a draftsman at a Phoenix computer
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company Doug Johnston was found dead in
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his car outside his office Johnston had
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been shot once behind the ear and police
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have suggested it was impossible suicide
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curiously Johnson worked across the
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street from Don Devereaux's office and
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drove a car that almost exactly matched
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Devereaux's in fact Devereaux is now
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convinced the bullet which killed Doug
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Johnston was intended for him I got a
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phone call from a journalist friend of
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mine from Washington DC who had been
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briefed by a high-level CIA official
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that in fact that was a botched hit that
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some people thought they were hitting me
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when they shot the guy across the street
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and in fact there was a still a contract
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outstanding and it was coming around
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again
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but whatever I had done was still a
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problem to someone to other sources in
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the intelligence community of confirmed
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but Don Devereaux that he is a target
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for murder and that the next attempt
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will be made to look like an accident
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we'll bring you a full report in this
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intriguing case in the near future
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[Music]
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recently we profiled a story that
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generated more than 1,600 phone calls
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from our viewers a case involved a fire
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that was apparently started by an
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arsonist then recorded on videotape by
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the suspect week's chase this footage is
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from the actual distant a pond on August
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15th 1989 by a Stockton California
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vendor I've never run across anything as
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eerie as this tape it was it frightened
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me as a matter of fact I thought about
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it that night when I went to bed despite
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a frame-by-frame analysis of the video
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investigators were unable to match the
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fire recorded on the tape with any
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suspected arson fires reported in the
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state of California
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the burning structure appeared to be a
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wood frame house perhaps in a rural area
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because fire engines do arrive
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investigators felt certain that
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somewhere a report of the blaze was on
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fire
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I think the person who made this
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videotape and is responsible for the
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fire will without a doubt in my mind
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continue to set fires and the person
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needs to be apprehended and stopped
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before his fire has become more
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destructive
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Update Redwood City California 60 miles
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west of Stockton within minutes of our
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broadcast several viewers Redwood City
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called our telecentre identified the
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location of the house seen burning on
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the videotape as we were sitting here
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and would looked at the film on the TV
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we realized with utter shock that it was
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the house behind us that was on TV and
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our family was scared to say the least
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cuz we didn't realize that the film even
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existed and was those minutes taken my
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mind of all that that was the house that
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was behind us by watching the videotape
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on TV we called in its unsolved
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mysteries and gave only information the
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arson occurred on August 15th 1988 a
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house it was destroyed was under
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construction at the time the day it has
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been rebuilt incredibly on the night of
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the blaze Woodside fire captain Don
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Dillon is also videotaped the fire while
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I was setting up the command post
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directing companies and to extinguish
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the fire I had set up by a video camera
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to film the fire for training
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investigation purposes by comparing
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captain Dylan gist tape with a video
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shot by the arsonist investigators were
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able to confirm beyond a doubt fires
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location some of the calls received led
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us to a 17 year old Woodside youth we
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interviewed that youth through that
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interview it led us to a 19 year old
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Redwood City youth he was arrested and
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interviewed and subsequently admitted
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burning the house taking the video and
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was the one who talked on the video
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our biggest hope was that maybe we would
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find an area or location on the fire we
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never dream that we get the results that
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we did one of the two suspects is
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currently awaiting trial on charges of
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arson investigators believe that between
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them the two suspects may also be
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responsible for as many as 25 arson
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fires in the Redwood City area over the
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past three years
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[Music]
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in the early 1960 the American South was
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at a crossroads Selma Birmingham in
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Greensboro were just a few of the
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battles with a desire for racial
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equality became adamak
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segregation starting to crumble blacks
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and whites faced off intense often
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violent confrontations
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[Music]
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in Washington Parish Louisiana the black
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community began to push for integration
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of the Sheriff's Department in response
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to black deputies were appointed on June
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1st 1964 46 year old David Creed Rogers
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and 34 year-old O'Neal Moore became the
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first black law enforcement officers in
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Washington Parish just a great day
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knowing my husband was the first Negro
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deputy he got in his car and he turned
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his um ready on and reported he and we
00:23:22
were just typical ha ha ha
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at that time feelings were running very
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high very high and people some people
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not all people was against the blacks
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taken apart in any part of law
00:23:39
enforcement or anything a year later a
00:23:45
deputy sheriff O'Neal Moore was gunned
00:23:47
down while on duty and a racially
00:23:49
motivated attack on June 6 1965 Moore
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was laid to rest an unheralded martyr of
00:23:57
the civil rights struggle his killer was
00:24:00
ever identified
00:24:03
mores partner Creed Rogers lost an eye
00:24:06
on the attack but survived I would like
00:24:11
to know who did it for my sakes and
00:24:14
everybody else to know who their
00:24:16
neighbors are I know I would want to
00:24:19
live next door to anybody black or white
00:24:22
whatever was dirty enough to do
00:24:25
something like that
00:24:27
today southerners are justifiably proud
00:24:29
of the enormous strides made by both
00:24:31
blacks and whites and putting the past
00:24:33
behind them but 25 years ago times were
00:24:36
different black deputies that use O'Neal
00:24:38
Moore and Creed Rogers are not allowed
00:24:40
to confront whites much less arrest them
00:24:42
but despite the fact that they were
00:24:44
working in a white world that barely
00:24:46
tolerated their presence while Neyland
00:24:48
Creed persevered they promised
00:24:50
themselves that they would not let the
00:24:52
community down
00:24:53
[Applause]
00:24:57
it was a night of June 2nd 1965
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[Music]
00:25:09
after a year on duty O'Neal entreated
00:25:11
come to expect harassment so they were
00:25:14
not surprised on a pickup truck began to
00:25:16
tailgate
00:25:19
Lisa better thank you see you get the
00:25:21
whole Duchy wake up and we got home
00:25:23
Peter's here about two miles north of
00:25:26
horn adore we so fun on the left of the
00:25:30
road so we made a u-turn yeah spectre-5
00:25:37
woody there is she
00:25:39
[ __ ] it now what do you think tell it
00:25:44
ain't nothing but old trash but come on
00:25:47
we checked the fine so it was just a
00:25:51
trash fire wasn't no danger so we made a
00:25:54
u-turn in a seated on South and his
00:26:00
truck had pulled over to the right
00:26:03
and as we passed them truck pull out
00:26:06
begin the phone
00:26:10
it appeared to be a darkroom black I
00:26:14
noticed you've had a white grill and the
00:26:17
rebel pay on the front so as we headed
00:26:23
south it's continued
00:26:27
[Music]
00:26:44
when the car hit the tree and they pay
00:26:47
still shooting and evidently the last
00:26:51
shot cut him it's not over on me hearing
00:26:57
the shots a local resident lander the
00:26:59
accident
00:27:00
he found O'Neil more dead and Creed
00:27:03
Rogers badly injured
00:27:05
he stood God until police arrived
00:27:12
chief deputy sheriff Doyle holiday
00:27:15
arrived a few minutes later he began an
00:27:18
investigation that would consume the
00:27:20
next several months when I got up there
00:27:24
I found anybody O'Neill more dead
00:27:28
deputy Creed Rogers all shot up a black
00:27:33
truck Creed he described the tro
00:27:35
recognizing right down to the last
00:27:37
detail you're gonna be okay and I
00:27:40
immediately put out an APB on that truck
00:27:43
in less than about 30 or 45 minutes they
00:27:51
called me from my office and told me
00:27:53
that they had apprehended a truck of
00:27:55
that description in Tylertown
00:27:57
Mississippi the truck fit the
00:28:02
description to a tee of what Creed had
00:28:06
told me with the exceptions of the side
00:28:08
radius there were no side rails on the
00:28:11
truck at the time of apprehension the
00:28:14
truck was stopped just 20 miles from the
00:28:17
scene of the shooting the driver was
00:28:19
arrested but was soon released on a 25
00:28:22
thousand dollar bond the charges were
00:28:24
later dismissed needle lack of evidence
00:28:28
suspicions naturally focused on the Ku
00:28:30
Klux Klan but the local chapter
00:28:32
immediately denied any involvement
00:28:35
racial tensions increased Washington
00:28:39
Parish the sheriff refused to give in to
00:28:41
the pressure O'Neal Moore was replaced
00:28:43
by another black deputy it really been
00:28:47
accomplished anything because when they
00:28:51
was trying to get rid of creed and
00:28:54
O'Neill it didn't frighten them that
00:28:57
just give others more mo get up and go
00:29:01
about them it really it really give him
00:29:03
more courage they wouldn't gonna get the
00:29:05
black deputies off of the sheriff's
00:29:07
department because it was it wasn't any
00:29:10
time after that until the sheriff called
00:29:13
me one day and told me to go and hire
00:29:16
another one well we can't get on the
00:29:18
floor first thing in the morning
00:29:20
during holiday continued to pursue his
00:29:22
investigation two weeks after the
00:29:25
shooting the violence came to his home
00:29:27
after I got to talking to the sheriff I
00:29:30
went over and sit down on the couch
00:29:32
that's when the shot right hollered get
00:29:36
out I grabbed my gun and laying on the
00:29:39
table and when I was door fire
00:29:44
they immediately took off you might have
00:29:50
been stepping on somebody's toes I don't
00:29:52
know but I don't know why they picked me
00:29:56
out singled me out because even had they
00:29:59
backed me down which they didn't they
00:30:02
still had the FBI and state police to
00:30:04
contend with the local population
00:30:08
refused to cooperate with the FBI or
00:30:10
local authorities despite a $25,000
00:30:13
award from the governor of Louisiana
00:30:15
the case was deemed inactive in 1967
00:30:22
25 years ago
00:30:25
the Klan was so strong that the people
00:30:29
would not open their mouths they would
00:30:31
not give you a lead on anything for fear
00:30:34
of their house being burnt or some
00:30:36
member of their family being hurt or
00:30:38
something to that effect
00:30:40
back then they didn't move anything to
00:30:42
do with the FBI the State Police or the
00:30:45
local police in June of 1987 the FBI
00:30:53
field office in New Orleans was
00:30:55
contacted by one informant and received
00:30:57
letters from two other anonymous sources
00:30:59
they claimed to identify the people
00:31:02
responsible for O'Neil Moore's murder as
00:31:05
a result of this new information and the
00:31:07
case was reopened one of the two letters
00:31:10
is very specific on identifying
00:31:13
individuals that were within the pickup
00:31:16
truck and the getaway route of the
00:31:19
pickup truck involved we have looked at
00:31:22
the three individuals specifically
00:31:24
mentioned in this anonymous letter have
00:31:26
interviewed their families or anyone
00:31:28
that may be associated with these three
00:31:30
individuals let me write this down now
00:31:33
what did you say the FBI does not
00:31:34
currently have enough information to
00:31:36
make any arrests however they do believe
00:31:39
that the killers belong to the Klan
00:31:42
we feel that it was members of the Ku
00:31:45
Klux Klan that took part in this
00:31:48
shooting but they did it on their own
00:31:50
they didn't allow other individuals to
00:31:54
have knowledge of what they were going
00:31:55
to do
00:31:58
[Music]
00:32:01
it has been 25 years and so Neil Moore
00:32:04
and his partner took their last bride
00:32:05
together
00:32:09
Creed Rogers refused to be frightened
00:32:12
away from this chosen career and in 1988
00:32:15
he retired as a full captain in the
00:32:17
Washington Parish Sheriff's Department
00:32:25
that'll be with me forever who who could
00:32:28
have done that
00:32:29
you know if when people try to kick in
00:32:33
your head and did anything to them why
00:32:35
that never leaves you mind sometime you
00:32:38
wanted to still out there still won't
00:32:40
betray it's a it's a bad feeling I think
00:32:47
that a lot of people that was involved
00:32:49
back then are getting on up in years
00:32:52
like myself and they don't want to go
00:32:54
face the Almighty with that on their
00:32:57
conscious and I think before the final
00:33:00
day somebody's gonna get it off of their
00:33:02
chairs the death of O'Neill Moore was a
00:33:07
crime against every American
00:33:10
that his killers are still at large
00:33:12
after 25 years as a further affront
00:33:15
their capture will not ease the pain
00:33:18
felt by O'Neill's family and friend but
00:33:20
it will certainly prove that while
00:33:22
justice may not always be blind it does
00:33:25
have a long
00:33:27
[Music]
00:33:38
when we return a story of a remarkable
00:33:41
dog who helped save the life of an
00:33:43
epilepsy victim by predicting her
00:33:45
seizures our next story is a unique and
00:33:57
heartwarming mystery it deals with a
00:34:00
bond between people and animals the
00:34:01
amazing sixth sense some animals possess
00:34:03
when it comes to helping and protecting
00:34:05
their owners Minneapolis Minnesota
00:34:11
December 4th 1984 2:00 a.m. 15 minutes
00:34:16
earlier a drunk driver had run a red
00:34:18
light collided with a car driven by 19
00:34:20
year-old Victoria doroshenko Victoria
00:34:27
was left unconscious suffering from
00:34:29
multiple head injuries before the
00:34:33
accident I had a perfect light for a
00:34:35
teenager after the accident I lost
00:34:37
everything
00:34:38
[Music]
00:34:39
I lost my job I was in and out of the
00:34:43
hospital so many times that there was no
00:34:45
way that I could even function with a
00:34:47
normal life I felt really lost I felt
00:34:49
like somebody had taken away my life for
00:34:52
what life I have it after the accident
00:34:55
Victoria was plagued by headaches and
00:34:58
periodic blackouts a year and a half
00:35:00
later she moved to Tacoma Washington
00:35:02
hoping to put the accident and her
00:35:04
injuries behind her then in August of
00:35:09
1986 while she was already hospitalized
00:35:12
Victoria suffered a violent seizure the
00:35:15
symptoms were cleared Victoria had
00:35:18
epilepsy let's get her on her side in
00:35:24
her automobile accident brain cells had
00:35:26
been damaged disrupting normal activity
00:35:29
and causing seizures for Victoria what
00:35:34
Knossos was grim well my seizures were
00:35:38
at their worst I was having up to 24 a
00:35:40
day big ones and in between the big ones
00:35:44
I was having about ten little ones the
00:35:50
doctors didn't think that I was gonna
00:35:51
live very much longer
00:35:52
[Music]
00:35:54
the severity of Victoria's seizures left
00:35:57
her completely incapacitated she fell
00:35:59
often re-injuring her head which only
00:36:01
induced more seizures she was confined
00:36:06
to a wheelchair and required
00:36:07
round-the-clock care because Victoria's
00:36:12
lungs filled with fluid during and after
00:36:14
the seizures death was a constant threat
00:36:18
her situation seemed hopeless
00:36:22
take care of yourself I couldn't do
00:36:25
anything I couldn't leave the house when
00:36:27
I did leave the house I had to have
00:36:28
enough people around me that could pick
00:36:31
me up for carrying me if need be or
00:36:34
whatever if I was having a seizure
00:36:35
I had to be strapped in just somewhere
00:36:37
because the seizures were so violent
00:36:39
that I would throw myself around and get
00:36:42
in injure myself I wasn't awake most of
00:36:44
the time when I was awake I was really
00:36:47
depressed I didn't want to I didn't
00:36:49
really want to live Victoria would find
00:36:52
help in an unlikely place the Prodi
00:36:54
Correctional Center for Women prison 25
00:36:57
miles outside Tacoma there the state of
00:37:00
Washington has set up a special program
00:37:02
[Music]
00:37:05
under the guidance of a professional the
00:37:07
inmates trained dogs rescued from the
00:37:09
pond as companions and aides for the
00:37:11
handicapped the dogs learn to open and
00:37:14
closed doors pick up a telephone
00:37:16
receiver hold wheelchairs fetch things
00:37:20
like clothing and hair brushes in 1987
00:37:24
Victoria heard about the program and
00:37:26
went to the prisoner
00:37:28
it was a decision that would save her
00:37:31
life I was hoping for a dog that could
00:37:34
help me in my daily living skills and I
00:37:36
was real lonely I didn't have the life I
00:37:38
didn't have a social life so I thought
00:37:40
maybe that a dog would help when
00:37:44
Victoria arrived for her interview
00:37:45
inmate trainers are working in the room
00:37:47
with two dogs both golden retrievers one
00:37:50
of the dogs have been chosen for
00:37:52
Victoria that day when I was out of the
00:37:55
program I ended up having a major
00:37:58
seizure and the dog that they're
00:38:04
originally training for me just walked
00:38:06
away from me in didn't care the second
00:38:12
dog in the room was named as Harley
00:38:13
defied his trainers commands and did
00:38:16
respond
00:38:19
when Vicki started seizuring and Harley
00:38:22
went to her and laid down with her you
00:38:25
know everybody in the room was astounded
00:38:28
you know the dog was doing what we had
00:38:31
hoped he could learn to do before we
00:38:35
ever hoped he could learn to do it he'd
00:38:37
somehow knew when I woke up from my
00:38:40
seizure I woke up and and his head was
00:38:43
laying I mean he was looking at me like
00:38:45
all sad and he knew something was wrong
00:38:47
as soon as I pissed our patent time I
00:38:49
think you realized that everything was
00:38:50
okay he started we're gonna stay and it
00:38:52
was from there on I knew that that was
00:38:54
my dog and I knew it was gonna work he
00:38:57
was he was my partner from then on no
00:39:01
one could explain my Harley responded to
00:39:03
Victoria during her seizure the prison
00:39:06
program had discovered another dog which
00:39:08
showed a special sensitivity to
00:39:10
epileptics again with no explanation why
00:39:14
do certain animals appear to establish
00:39:16
this immediate sympathetic bond for the
00:39:19
medical community this question is an
00:39:20
intriguing one for Victoria Dora Cinco
00:39:23
it was a question of life and death
00:39:27
[Music]
00:39:30
once Holly was with Victoria full-time
00:39:32
or anxiety diminished the frequency of
00:39:35
receivers decreased dramatically
00:39:38
Victoria's doctors allowed her to resume
00:39:40
classes at a local Community College
00:39:44
Holly was victorious constant companion
00:39:48
I was at Tacoma Community College and I
00:39:51
was walking across campus and he all of
00:39:54
a sudden started acting real funny he
00:39:56
didn't want to cooperate he didn't want
00:39:58
to he didn't want to listen to me
00:40:00
[Music]
00:40:11
Carly was a real laid-back dog
00:40:15
he wasn't rambunctious like that or
00:40:18
rambunctious so when when he started
00:40:20
acting that way I really didn't know
00:40:21
what was happening
00:40:23
excuse me can I sit down here yes
00:40:25
[Music]
00:40:31
thank you I'm not feeling so uh do
00:40:34
something for you no I just want to sit
00:40:36
here for a while
00:40:40
Harley calm down once Victoria was
00:40:42
safely inside a classroom five minutes
00:40:47
later she had a major seizure amazing
00:40:53
it appeared to Victoria and two others
00:40:55
present but Harley had somehow known
00:40:57
Victoria was going to have a seizure is
00:41:00
barking and strange behavior had been a
00:41:02
signal for her to go to a safe place
00:41:05
when I realized Harley come to take my
00:41:07
seizures ahead of time it was so
00:41:09
thrilled I knew that I was saved it
00:41:11
changed my life completely after his
00:41:16
first prediction Harley never failed a
00:41:18
warn Victoria when a seizure was coming
00:41:20
on illness exhibited the same aberrant
00:41:23
behave giving Victoria 15 to 45 minutes
00:41:26
notice before the seizure was about to
00:41:28
strike so after that the bond and the
00:41:32
trust and the love and the dependency
00:41:35
grew and grew and grew until there was
00:41:38
no comparing it we were each other we
00:41:41
became like one a shadow
00:41:44
Harley changed Victoria's life
00:41:46
dramatically she now felt comfortable
00:41:48
enough to leave her house whenever she
00:41:50
wanted she began to interact with other
00:41:52
people again if she had a seat Harley
00:41:56
always stayed by her side he sense
00:41:58
danger kept her away from traffic if a
00:42:00
seizure was coming on for the first time
00:42:03
since her accident
00:42:04
Victoria enjoyed the comfort and
00:42:06
security of a normal life
00:42:08
modern technology and physicians doctors
00:42:11
and none of us can predict when a
00:42:13
seizure will occur or how many seizures
00:42:14
the person will have these drugs can
00:42:17
they can detail beforehand when a
00:42:20
seizure will occur they can warn the
00:42:22
person which is an incredible phenomenon
00:42:25
so that the person can feel safe they
00:42:27
can be safe they can have the comfort of
00:42:29
having a drug with them at all times
00:42:30
because the anxiety of having a seizure
00:42:33
is with someone all the time
00:42:35
I can never never repay him or show the
00:42:42
devotion I have for him from what he's
00:42:44
done for me in June of 1990 Harley
00:42:49
became ill veterinarians could do
00:42:51
nothing and in July Harley died there's
00:42:57
no words to describe how I felt about
00:42:58
Harley he gave me a life and that's a
00:43:01
life is is more than you could ever give
00:43:04
anybody
00:43:07
the epilepsy institute has received
00:43:09
reports of 15 other dogs to seem to be
00:43:11
able to predict epileptic seizures six
00:43:14
of these animals came from the Prudie
00:43:16
Correctional Centre for women no one can
00:43:18
explain why certain dogs seem to have an
00:43:20
innate sensitivity to epileptics for the
00:43:23
victims of epilepsy whose quality of
00:43:25
life is so greatly improved by these
00:43:27
dogs no explanation is necessary they
00:43:30
are happy to accept this particular
00:43:32
unsolved mystery at face value
00:43:36
next the story of a crook who pulled off
00:43:39
a series of daring bangle finally he has
00:43:42
been captured on film on September 19th
00:43:56
1987 well-dressed man entered a Spokane
00:44:00
Washington Bank may I help you stand up
00:44:03
and move away from the desk quickly
00:44:09
both back away from the counter free
00:44:12
plea don't touch any alarms do exactly
00:44:15
as you're told you get over here with
00:44:18
the others no tricks no fast moves
00:44:23
robbery is kind of in control seemingly
00:44:26
prepared for any eventualities take them
00:44:28
out slowly even show the terrified Bank
00:44:31
I have a reason a nice counter they mean
00:44:33
that he would know if they managed to a
00:44:35
lisp oh no way I'll know about it
00:44:36
Boop robbery ignore the easy money
00:44:40
sitting in the tellers drawers
00:44:42
instead he ordered everyone into the
00:44:44
vault hurried out in his first run he
00:44:49
stole more than $100,000 hariya it was
00:44:55
over in less than five minutes the
00:44:57
robber left no fingerprints behind and
00:45:01
managed to avoid being photographed the
00:45:04
reason for that is the way he very
00:45:06
quickly got control the situation
00:45:08
prevented any photographs from being
00:45:11
obtained between this first bank robbery
00:45:15
in September of 1987 and the present he
00:45:18
has robbed four more banks here in in
00:45:21
Spokane using very similar method on
00:45:28
August 30th 1988 the Bandit stole 14
00:45:31
thousand dollars from another Spokane
00:45:33
bank and received an unexpected bonus
00:45:35
[Music]
00:45:37
me a dye pack was given to the robber
00:45:40
which went off very shortly after he
00:45:43
left the bank within seconds of him
00:45:45
leaving the bank
00:45:50
obviously that caused the commotion on
00:45:52
the street and a witness did observe
00:45:54
that commotion as a result of that saw
00:45:57
him get into a vehicle and make his
00:45:59
escape after another robbery in November
00:46:04
of 1988 bank employees are able to help
00:46:06
create composites of the bandit
00:46:08
but these sketches were no substitute
00:46:11
for photographs amazingly he had still
00:46:14
managed to avoid the omnipresent bank
00:46:16
cameras but on June 6 1989 when he paid
00:46:21
a visit to Spokane horizon Federal
00:46:23
Credit Union his luck changed this time
00:46:26
frightened but resourceful bank tellers
00:46:28
stood up to threats we said hi and he
00:46:32
said hi and he walked up to the counter
00:46:34
and pulled out his gun and put on
00:46:38
sunglasses at the same time and then
00:46:41
told us that he wanted to go into the
00:46:43
vault get there he had one of the girls
00:46:46
hold the bank when I got the money I put
00:46:49
the money in a bank and he told us to
00:46:52
empty out the teller drawers he went to
00:46:54
one drawer at a time and when we were
00:46:57
emptying that the amount that we you
00:46:59
know pulled all the money out and
00:47:01
there's a bill trapped underneath you
00:47:03
know some of the bills and he pulled we
00:47:05
pulled the money out from underneath the
00:47:06
belt wrap which triggered the alarm
00:47:09
not only was a silent alarm activated
00:47:12
but the bank's surveillance camera was
00:47:14
also triggered for the first time robber
00:47:18
was captured on film I was really scared
00:47:22
when I pulled the bill trap I thought if
00:47:24
this guy knew that I pulled it I'm in
00:47:26
trouble and I just knew that I had to do
00:47:29
it though it was nothing else I could do
00:47:34
getting a photo in this robbery was a
00:47:37
big step forward for us in our
00:47:40
investigation up till this point all we
00:47:42
had were were witness descriptions of
00:47:45
the bank robber now we have an actual
00:47:46
photograph and a very good photograph to
00:47:49
work with to help us identify him it did
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result in us linking him to three
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additional bank robberies as a suspect
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in Tucson Arizona so that was again a
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major step forward in determining that
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the scope of what he's been doing as
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well as an aid to identification the
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robber appears to be between 35 and 45
00:48:10
six feet to six feet two inches tall and
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weighs between 200 and 220 pounds he
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seems tanned and healthy and the FBI
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believes he may live in the southwest
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commuting to banks in the Pacific
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Northwest in order to protect their
00:48:26
employees the horizon Federal Credit
00:48:28
Union has transferred those involved in
00:48:30
the holdup to new locations and have
00:48:32
redesigned their internal security
00:48:34
meanwhile the robber has been busy since
00:48:37
1987 the elusive robber is allegedly
00:48:39
held up at least nine banks six in the
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Pacific Northwest and three in the
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southwest
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his last known heist was in April of
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1990
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unbeknownst to him this time he was
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captured on videotape these are still
00:48:55
frames taken from the videotape at 10:30
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a.m.
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a bandit strolled into a Tacoma
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Washington bank and walked out with a
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substantial amount of cash next week on
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unsolved mysteries the tragic story of
00:49:20
Norman Ladner a 17 year old Mississippi
00:49:23
boy who died from a gunshot wound to the
00:49:25
head
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but police say suicide the parents say
00:49:29
murder in Santa Fe New Mexico the legend
00:49:34
of a miraculous staircase built in a
00:49:36
tiny Chapel by a mysterious and unknown
00:49:38
carpenter for over a century visitors
00:49:41
have been dazzled by his handiwork and
00:49:43
baffled by his identity in Oklahoma a
00:49:47
brutal murder took the life of truck
00:49:49
driver Dwayne mccorkin Dale perhaps you
00:49:52
can help identify his killers for every
00:49:56
mystery there is someone somewhere who
00:49:58
knows the truth perhaps that someone is
00:50:01
watching perhaps it's you
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