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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode

March 09, 2017 / 42:53

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers four murders across two states, a haunted Texas ranch, a man with amnesia found in the desert, and a missing person case.

The first segment details a crime spree by two teenage boys, William Glenn Henry and Davey Lin Crockett, who murdered four people in Texas and Arkansas. The episode recounts the brutal murder of 23-year-old Dina Woodard and her son, followed by the killings of Cecil Morrison and Kenneth Olden. Investigators eventually identified the killers through fingerprints and an earring linked to the crime.

Next, the episode tells the story of a man named Tyler, who was found wandering in the desert near Las Vegas suffering from psychogenic amnesia. After being hospitalized, he began to recover memories of his past, including his real name, Arthur Paul Beal, and his family. The episode highlights his emotional reunion with his mother.

The episode also investigates the mysterious disappearance of prison guard Jesselyn Rich, who vanished after expressing concerns about drug activity in the prison. Allegations of a cover-up and subsequent threats against other guards are discussed, including the suspicious death of inmate Terry Lucas.

Finally, the episode features a haunted ranch in Texas where three men experience terrifying paranormal activities. They report strange noises and sensations, leading to an investigation that suggests psychological effects caused by electromagnetic fields.

TL;DR

Teenage boys commit a murder spree, a man with amnesia is found, and a haunted Texas ranch is explored.

Episode

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[Music]
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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries four people are murdered in
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two different states the suspects are
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two teenage boys three men move into a
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Texas ranch only to find out it's still
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inhabited by a group of hell-raising
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poltergeists a disheveled man stumbles
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out of the desert he has no money no ID
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and he has no idea who he is or where
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where he
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is a father of three vanishes his family
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suspects he was kidnapped some say he
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disappeared on
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purpose our team continues to track
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crimes wanted fugitives and tales of the
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Paranormal perhaps you can help I'm
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Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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[Music]
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Gainesville Texas
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a small town near the Oklahoma
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border on a spring morning 23-year-old
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Dina Woodard and her 1-year-old son
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Corey returned
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home
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hello there somebody
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here why don't you sit on the couch for
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me okay just sit here see I'll be right
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back it's okay
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[Music]
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hello is there somebody
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here
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hello Dina wed was brutally stabbed and
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nearly decapitated with an axe her baby
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was
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spared dena's attacker stole her two
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guns and took her
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car as shocking as it was Dina woodard's
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murder was just the beginning of a
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24-hour Thrill Kill crime spree that
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covered three states and left four
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people dead the killers were two teenage
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boys using Dina Woodward's car The
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Killers drove 75 Mi Southeast to the
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small rural community of Farmersville
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Texas when you have a situation start
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developing like is where the first
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victim is killed then it's Panic time
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they run to get away and then it doesn't
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get any better the more involved they
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become the more killings take place in
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Farmersville The Killers approached the
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home of 85-year-old Cecil Morrison and
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his 62-year-old son Cecil Leonard
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Morrison howdy uh howdy uh could I use
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your telephone what what for uh my car
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broke down your car broke down in the
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the teenagers savagely tortured and beat
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the two men and then shot them both with
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a 22 caliber
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rifle it was not just a quick murder now
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why they felt it necessary to beat the
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old men and torture them like they did
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we do not
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know a neighbor saw two teenagers
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getting into the Morrison's pickup truck
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Dina woodard's car was also
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gone 4 hours later in Saratoga Arkansas
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the boys drove the stolen pickup truck
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into a
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lake and then tossed in Dena woodard's
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guns later that night the young Killers
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walked up to the trailer of their fourth
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victim 29-year-old Kenneth
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Olden he was with his girlfriend Brenda
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Gibson may I help you uh yeah my truck
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broke down do you think you could give
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us a hand Kenny didn't think they was
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dangerous he thought they was really
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sincere else he would have never
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attempted to help them and when they
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went out through the kitchen door I
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looked out the
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window and that was the last I saw him
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alive The Killers drove away with
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Kenneth Holden in his
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Mustang their destination Milwood Dam 5
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miles away
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the truck should be right over
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there I think the cables are in the back
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okay I'll go ahead and get
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them hey
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man ain't no truck around
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here the teenagers made their getaway in
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Kenneth olan's Mustang
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9:00 a.m. the next day 230 Mi west of
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where Kenneth Olden was killed a farmer
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came across olden's abandoned
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Mustang in less than 24 hours The
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Killers had come full circle they
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started in Gainesville Texas going
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Southeast to Farmersville they then went
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Northeast to Saratoga Arkansas and then
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they finally turned West and went to
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Brown Springs Oklahoma less than 5 miles
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from where their Killing Spree started
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the big question is why would they have
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returned to within 5 miles of where they
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committed the first murder we felt like
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we were dealing with something here in
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our own neighborhood investigators
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lifted several fingerprints from olden's
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car but weren't sure if they belonged to
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the killers the police were also eager
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to find Dina woodard's missing
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Thunderbird we feel like that if we
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could find that automobile or find
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someone with knowledge of what an
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automobile might be that might be the
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clue that solves this case 4 months into
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the investigation a new clue turned up
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Cecil Morrison's grandson found an
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earring that The Killers might have left
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behind in his grandfather's pickup track
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this earring picked a skull being
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carried by a bat and that was another
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key break in this case we later ran a
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photograph of that earring in the
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Gainesville local paper and a young man
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came forward and identified that earring
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as belonging to him
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where did you get the earring a girl
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gave it to me a couple years ago do you
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still have the earring no sir I don't
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what's happened to it I L it to a friend
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of mine a couple months ago the boy Lee
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Renfro told police he had given the
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earring to another boy John calwell at
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the time calwell lived less than 200
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yard from Dina
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Woodard but John's family had moved out
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of the state a month before Dena was
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murdered
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they had given me a lot of earrings and
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I would borrow or take some from them
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every once in a while like whenever I
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didn't have one but as far as that
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earing in particular I have no idea just
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can't remember on the morning of the
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murder spree Witnesses had seen two
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teenage boys who matched the description
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of the killers walking away from the
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cwell house this earring was once owned
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by Lee Renfro he gave it to John calwell
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perhaps take by one of the young Killers
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it turned up in the pickup truck they
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stole from Cecil Morrison authorities
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believed that it could help them solve
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the case this case has got to be solved
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as long as it goes unsolved there's
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still that concern that there's still
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some Killers out there walking the
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streets and who's to say when they might
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decide to strike again and go on another
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crime
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spree
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update we have good news on this case
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two men from Gainesville Texas have been
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identified as The Killers 19-year-old
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William Glenn Henry was arrested after
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investigators matched his fingerprints
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with those found in Kenny olden's
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abandoned car 9 days later Henry's
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accomplished 20-year-old Davey Lin
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Crockett was arrested after he confessed
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to his involvement in the
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murders later Crockett took
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investigators to a small lake near Cecil
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Morrison's home there they found Dina
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woodard's car buried beneath several
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feet of mud and silt William Glenn Henry
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pleaded guilty to three counts of
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first-degree murder and was sentenced to
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three 99-year terms Davey Lin Crockett
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was sentenced to four 99-year
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terms coming up a man stumbles out of
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the desert with no idea who he is
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on the outskirts of Las Vegas Nevada a
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young man was found wandering aimlessly
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through the desert he was dressed in
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three layers of clothing carried no
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identification and had apparently been
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in the desert for at least 3
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days you okay you okay what happened
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water okay he was rushed to a hospital
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suffering from exposure and extreme
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dehydration can you wiggle your toes for
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me the patient was diagnosed with
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psychogenic amnesia a condition caused
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not by physical injury but by some kind
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of traumatic experience can you squeeze
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my hand
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help while he recovered the hospital
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staff named The Man Tyler authorities in
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Las Vegas could find no missing person
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who matched Tyler's description there
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was no record of his fingerprints with
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the FBI or the
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CIA but doctors did find find two Clues
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evidence of hairline fractures in the
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knuckles of both
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hands and what is believed to be an old
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gunshot wound on his right thigh
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otherwise it's as if Tyler never
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existed during a conversation with a
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fellow patient who was from San Diego
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California Tyler got the Eerie feeling
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that he had once lived there but the
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memories lacked detail until he was
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hypnotized I started remembering a lot
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about the beaches and different things
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around the beaches I also remembered a
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lot about the military bases in San
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Diego there's Coast Guard Airfield right
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across from Lindberg field actually more
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like a hanger I just really got a sense
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of belonging like San Diego was the
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place that I needed to be under hypnosis
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Tyler also vividly recalled flying over
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San Diego he was certain that he knew
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how to Pilot an airplane Tyler felt that
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behind the controls of a plane might
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help trigger additional memories
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accompanied by a flight instructor he
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put his uncanny knowledge of flying to
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the test okay let's try another turn all
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right try to keep that nose level go and
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watch your altimer just make sure it
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stays right the same all the way through
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finally complete control of the plane
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was given to Tyler and he brought it in
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for a landing there we go not bad the
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instructor felt that although Rusty
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Tyler had definitely flown
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before and as time passed there were
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more intriguing Clues although Tyler
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could not remember his own name he could
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dismantle and rebuild a race car
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engine he also had detailed knowledge of
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the bombing mechanism in the Navy's A6
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attack plane but
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why many of these Clues suggest that
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Tyler has some kind of military
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background but no record this man has
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been found in the Navy or any other
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branch of the service I'm really kind of
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at a difficult point in my life right
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now
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where I can't move ahead with myself I
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can't get on with my life I can't do
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anything really I'm almost like an
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illegal alien here I I have no
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identification of any of any form now I
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can't go to work because I I'm not
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eligible for a social security number I
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can't drive a car and I'm starting to
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feel
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more frustrated as the days go by
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because I really feel this needs to come
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to an end I do need to find out who I
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am when this segment first aired one of
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our camera Crews joined Tyler and some
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of his friends in Las
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Vegas
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update within minutes of the broadcast a
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man called us here at Unsolved Mysteries
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and said that he was Tyler's father now
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we quickly contacted Tyler and he began
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to fill in the missing pieces of his
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past yes sir sorry uh it took so long
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but everything that that I was looking
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to cross referenced and we have located
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your family for you you have yes I have
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located your dad and your mother and
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your wife where you've been separated
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from for since February of 1990 um
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they've informed me that you also have
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two children and your wife lives in Iowa
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your mother lives in Iowa and your dad
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lives in Idaho okay so I want to give
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you some phone numbers here so you Tyler
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learned that his real name was Arthur
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Paul Beal but he went by Paul he was 23
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years old and before he got amnesia he
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lived in Boise idah a few minutes later
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a nervous Paul Beal called his mother a
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person he could not even
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remember hello may I speak with Mrs Beal
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this is Mrs Beal this is your
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son how are
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you you sound great
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I've waited so long to hear you
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[Music]
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talk I miss
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you I'm scared I bet you
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are I don't remember you the emotional
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phone call lasted close to 20 minutes
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I'll help you you be strong okay and
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I'll talk to you real soon okay okay
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honey bye
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bye their reunion was both emotional and
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awkward Paul still had no recognition of
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his own
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mother I don't remember you you
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will it'll it's strange being with Paul
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and his not remembering anything about
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me not knowing who I am I just I want to
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push everything into his head make him
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remember everything I want to
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reinforce happy thoughts good
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memories I just want him to know I love
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him we all love
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him even looking at Family Photos didn't
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jog Paul's memory this is probably the
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most horrifying nightmare that anybody
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could go through losing an identity
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losing every ounce and fiber of a
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person's life and then 9 months later
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have it given back to you or have it
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presented to you but you still don't
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don't have it and I give anything in the
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world to remember right
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now next allegations of murder and a
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cover up inside one of America's largest
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prisons for women
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Frontier prison in California is one of
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the largest penitentiaries in America
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for
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women its maximum security Wing houses
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some of the state's most dangerous
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female
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offenders but it is the alleged criminal
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activities of some guards and
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administrators that have drawn the most
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attention it began with the mysterious
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disappearance of Frontier guard JN Rich
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some former Prison employees believe
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that jessyn was silenced because of what
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she knew about a prison drug ring run by
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other guards jessyn Rich was a
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35-year-old divorced mother of two while
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working at frona she had maintained a
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straight A average in criminology
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courses at
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night at the time of her disappearance
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jesselyn had reportedly grown concerned
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about drug dealing inside the prison
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walls you want to dance oh jeline was
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last seen at a country western bar she
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and a friend Marilyn Alton were joined
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by two male acquaintances and work and
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school see that's your problem you got
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to get out more and live life that's
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what it's all about there and all of a
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sudden she sits very still and looks
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almost past me to the front door jine
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and I look at her and her eyes Drew wide
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and uh fearful
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looking but I didn't look to the door I
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just for for some reason just didn't
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turn
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around I'll be right back use the
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ladies as she uh turns around the corner
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to go down the hallway to the bathroom a
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gentleman appears to me out of the side
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of my eye going directly behind her and
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that's the last I see her ever jeline
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Rich literally vanished Without a
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Trace her family and friends launched an
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allout search to them it seemed out of
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character for jessyn to abandon her
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children and to scrap her career
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aspirations her family believes that she
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was kidnapped and possibly
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murdered but police say they had no
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evidence to support that
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theory they made light of it called us
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just distraught relatives suggested that
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my sister had just ran off on a fling
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with some person which is totally absurd
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it just was unheard of Gary tore apart
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his sister 's house searching for Clues
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when he sifted through jessel's trash he
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found evidence that her knowledge of
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illegal activities at the prison put her
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life in
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danger and inside in the plastic bag
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were there many many pieces of paper
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torn up very very small I picked up a
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few of these and I could tell that it
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was my sister's writing or printing and
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they were uh apparently notes or letters
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to a friend of hers a coworker and I
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figured that I would take them home and
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sort them out
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later the letter had been written to
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another guard at Frontier scrolled on
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the margin of the last page was jyn's
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Haunting recital of an apparent threat
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she had received from the coworker that
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anyone interfering with drug activities
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would be taken care of at the time this
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letter was the only concrete evidence
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indicating that JN had met with Foul
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Play the case went cold
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3 years later an inmate named Terry
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Lucas told the guard that she had
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information about JN Rich she said that
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she was being threatened by other guards
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to keep
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quiet and she tells me that she's got
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information she knows who was involved
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in the disappearance of JN rich I can
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give you all the evidence you
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need the next morning Betty Thompson
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went to se Terry in the prison infirmary
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where she was recovering from a cancer
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biopsy Terry
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when I walked over to touch her I
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noticed that Terry was
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dead I went out of the cell and I went
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down to the nurses station and I told
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them what of what I had seen um the
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coldness of the room that she was not
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covered her breakfast tray had not been
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touched and the nurses told me they
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would take care of
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it Betty said that Terry's body stayed
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in the cell for a full 3 days before the
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County coroner's office was called
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[Music]
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according to Thompson an official from
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the coroner's office was mystified by
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what he found Betty says there were
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Blades of grass in Lucas's hair and
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multiple bruises on her face ears neck
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and lower arms her right arm appeared to
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be
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broken he is saying that he see sees
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evidence that she was suffocated with
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the pillow that had been under her arm
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that appeared to be broken Betty
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Thompson said that after the official
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met prison administrators in Lucas cell
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he had a sudden change of heart and he
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told me that we were not going to call
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it murder and we were not going to say
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that she was laying there dead for 3
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days we were going to in fact say that
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she was actually laying there only 2
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hours and that the cause of death was
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actually um complications due to
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diabetes Thompson says that one of her
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superiors demanded that she change her
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report on Terry Lucas's death according
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to Thompson she was subjected to threats
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and intimidations for 6 hours there was
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one high administrator that even made
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the comment that the same thing that
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happened to jesselyn Rich could easily
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happen to me at that point in time I
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broke down and
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cried I hadn't told anything what Terry
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Lucas had said and for him to bring up
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JN rich and her
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disappearance it said why Terry Lucas
00:22:25
had died it had definitely had something
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to do with
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that Thompson says she finally gave in
00:22:33
and signed a false report that had been
00:22:35
typed for her but I added on the bottom
00:22:38
that I had signed the document under
00:22:40
duress and the document was untrue to my
00:22:44
knowledge that document was ripped up
00:22:47
another one was retyped saying the
00:22:50
similar things that were on the first
00:22:51
document and that my my signature was
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forged Betty Thompson claims that lady
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she received a threatening phone
00:23:03
call infirmary officer Thompson Thompson
00:23:06
if you don't learn to do things in the
00:23:08
proper manner you'll end up dead
00:23:10
alongside some muddy
00:23:12
ditch the following
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day Thompson had a scary encounter have
00:23:18
you been receiving threatening phone
00:23:19
calls what are you talking
00:23:21
about like you might be found dead in a
00:23:24
ditch one night the her in the back of
00:23:26
my neck just stood straight up I was abs
00:23:28
absolutely petrified because I knew that
00:23:31
she knew what they were saying to me and
00:23:33
that she was part of whoever was
00:23:35
threatening
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me Thompson says the menacing calls
00:23:39
continued for 7 months
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[Music]
00:23:45
then Betty immediately called the police
00:23:48
who arrived at her home moments later as
00:23:51
I was upstairs filing a police report
00:23:53
about this the shooting a phone call
00:23:57
came in and I picked up up the phone it
00:23:59
was a male voice and he said next time
00:24:01
we won't miss eventually the Scandal was
00:24:04
the subject of several front page
00:24:06
articles that appeared in the yorge
00:24:08
County Register these articles supported
00:24:10
Insider accounts of drug dealing and
00:24:14
Corruption that year Betty Thompson and
00:24:16
five other guards testified before State
00:24:19
Senate hearings on the alleged defenses
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at Frontier
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prison officials at frona declined to be
00:24:27
interviewed for this story
00:24:29
however a spokesman for the California
00:24:31
Department of Corrections told us quote
00:24:35
I'm not saying the things people are
00:24:36
alleging didn't happen there's just no
00:24:39
evidence to support them
00:24:43
unquote next a remote Texas ranch where
00:24:47
the owners claim that some boisterous
00:24:49
demons are driving them out of their
00:24:52
minds
00:24:56
[Music]
00:25:00
previously we brought you the story of
00:25:02
Michael swango a medical doctor wanted
00:25:05
for murder as a medical student Michael
00:25:08
swangle used his Hospital internship to
00:25:11
secretly kill when mysterious deaths
00:25:13
happened on his watch Hospital officials
00:25:16
got
00:25:18
suspicious and when co-workers became
00:25:20
ill they thought swango was poisoning
00:25:23
them swango represents the ultimate
00:25:26
betrayal We Trust doctors we put our
00:25:28
lives and health in their hands and
00:25:31
swango help himself out as someone who
00:25:32
was willing to help but in fact he was
00:25:34
looking to hurt using various aliases
00:25:37
Michael swango spent years on the run
00:25:40
when police began to close in he fled to
00:25:42
Zimbabwe Africa soon after authorities
00:25:45
issued a warrant for swango's arrest for
00:25:48
the only thing they could fraud he had
00:25:51
lied on a federal job
00:25:54
application
00:25:56
update Michael SW o has been
00:26:00
captured he was running from Africa to
00:26:02
Saudi Arabia but had to stop in the US
00:26:05
to renew his Visa at O'Hara Airport in
00:26:08
Chicago a customs agent ran his name
00:26:11
through the computer found the warrant
00:26:13
and he was
00:26:14
arrested nothing compares to swango the
00:26:18
unbelievable strange motives that he had
00:26:20
and the length of time for which he did
00:26:22
it the number of times he got away with
00:26:24
it I mean nothing compares while serving
00:26:26
time on the fraud charge Federal
00:26:28
prosecutors worked up a murder case
00:26:30
against swango that could put him away
00:26:32
for life we had to prove that there was
00:26:35
a homicide normally that's not a problem
00:26:37
in a murder case you have a dead body
00:26:39
there's a bullet there's a stabbing
00:26:41
there's a strangling beating in this
00:26:43
case the people had been had passed on
00:26:45
and it had been assumed that they died
00:26:47
naturally in the end exuded bodies
00:26:51
toxicology tests an eyewitness and even
00:26:54
swango's own Diaries helped prosecutors
00:26:57
build an airtight case we can tell from
00:27:00
Michael swango's writings that he simply
00:27:04
liked to kill people for him the thrill
00:27:08
was doing the killing and getting away
00:27:10
with it and that's why it was difficult
00:27:11
to establish a pattern with him because
00:27:14
he was something of an opportunistic
00:27:16
killer he would kill whenever he had the
00:27:19
chance to kill Michael swango pled
00:27:22
guilty to four counts of murder but it's
00:27:25
impossible to know just how many people
00:27:27
he has actually killed swango was sent
00:27:31
to our nation's highest Security federal
00:27:33
prison in Colorado he is serving three
00:27:37
life terms without the possibility of
00:27:44
parole everybody loves a good ghost
00:27:47
story and the three Texas Cowboys you're
00:27:49
about to meet have a great one their
00:27:52
ghost won't be satisfied until it has
00:27:55
scared the life out of everyone
00:28:01
in Texas Hill Country three ranchers
00:28:03
took over a 3,000 acre spread with plans
00:28:06
to turn it into a hunting
00:28:09
Reserve little Furniture furn while
00:28:12
fixing up the place the partners lived
00:28:15
in the main building a four-bedroom
00:28:16
house built in the
00:28:19
1950s
00:28:23
paint from the very first night the men
00:28:26
discovered that they had some company
00:28:30
it sounded as if when it started it was
00:28:33
like off in a distance and each time it
00:28:35
would make a step you could hear the
00:28:37
individual steps that they would make in
00:28:39
my mind you know I I didn't want to
00:28:41
consider the fact it might be a ghost or
00:28:44
something of that
00:28:46
nature almost every night there was
00:28:48
something new crashing footsteps
00:28:50
thunderous blows on the walls or
00:28:52
ceilings the men say they never saw a
00:28:54
ghost but they claim they heard plenty
00:29:00
I immediately picked a pistol up and I
00:29:03
jumped to my feet it was so loud it
00:29:06
sounded just like wooden chair has been
00:29:08
kicked just Plum across the
00:29:10
[Music]
00:29:13
floor there wasn't a cheer moved all the
00:29:16
cheers were right in
00:29:18
place there was nothing turned over
00:29:23
anywhere this thing whatever it is it
00:29:26
was almost as if yeah it would not let
00:29:29
you rest it was almost as if they wanted
00:29:31
to keep you awake all night just about
00:29:33
the time you would doze
00:29:35
off
00:29:37
Johnny it said
00:29:39
Johnny and I looked around my room was
00:29:42
eyes
00:29:44
cold cold chills running down me and I
00:29:47
was just shivering under the sheets you
00:29:49
know looking around you know I'm
00:29:50
thinking to myself man another night
00:29:53
Bobby woke up sensing someone next to
00:29:56
him I don't know it probably 2 3:00 in
00:29:59
the
00:30:00
morning side of my bed just mashed Plum
00:30:03
down I mean really went down like
00:30:05
someone had stepped on the side of it
00:30:07
with her foot or sat on the side of it
00:30:10
which really scared me because he had
00:30:11
never done it
00:30:13
before Mike Richards had a similar
00:30:15
experience equally as
00:30:18
disturbing approximately 3 or 4:00 in
00:30:20
the morning my right knee it woke me up
00:30:23
I mean it was it was pain like I've
00:30:25
never felt before it was actually like
00:30:27
somebody sitting on my
00:30:29
knee I went to roll off the bed but my
00:30:32
right leg stayed in the same position it
00:30:35
was and I looked I couldn't see nobody
00:30:37
sitting on it cuz you know you can't
00:30:39
roll off off the bed you know cuz
00:30:40
somebody's got you pined down you know
00:30:43
so all I could do was you know hey I
00:30:46
raised my other leg up and started
00:30:48
waving it across my leg you know like
00:30:50
you know get off whatever it is you know
00:30:53
it stopped and I could get off of bed
00:30:55
you know and the minute I got up and
00:30:57
walked around it it felt
00:31:03
fine anything you let me know okay okay
00:31:07
finally some relatives of the men paid a
00:31:09
visit to check out the hauntings for
00:31:11
themselves you're
00:31:13
right I guess I don't know what I really
00:31:16
expected I guess I expected to just hear
00:31:19
a little bump and and that there'd be
00:31:21
some logical explanation for it but what
00:31:24
I heard that night no man or animal
00:31:26
could have made before we went to bed
00:31:29
Susie and I decided that if I heard
00:31:31
something I was to nudge her and if she
00:31:33
heard something she was going to nudge
00:31:34
me well we were nudging each other
00:31:36
pretty
00:31:39
quick Kelly yeah did you hear that
00:31:47
yeah it sounds like something on ceiling
00:31:51
walking oh
00:31:53
my
00:31:55
SS oh to the wall through the wall
00:31:59
through the this went on for hours we
00:32:01
heard whistling that was um started off
00:32:05
very faint grew to very very loud then
00:32:08
bam bam bam banging in the walls like
00:32:11
something caught up in the walls I mean
00:32:13
I thought the ceilings were going to
00:32:15
cave in it was so loud
00:32:18
go that night I didn't hear anything but
00:32:21
there was no doubt by the expression on
00:32:23
their face he had definitely been put
00:32:25
through something you know that night
00:32:27
and they just said it's time to go I
00:32:28
said well you want me to cook breakfast
00:32:30
no it's time to go let's go you
00:32:33
know we we was out here pretty quick to
00:32:37
find out what might be happening at the
00:32:39
ranch house we brought in noted
00:32:42
paraschiena
00:32:49
of radioactivity and changes in the
00:32:53
electromagnetic fields in the area first
00:32:56
of all we recorded a a number of Sonic
00:33:00
effects from bangs to Booms to a milder
00:33:05
sounds um the most striking of these uh
00:33:09
was associated with a sudden increase in
00:33:12
the magnetic field uh in the house Dr Ro
00:33:16
believes the noises came from a physical
00:33:18
phenomenon called the Peltier effect he
00:33:21
says this can occur when water seeps
00:33:23
between the underground slabs of
00:33:25
limestone the resulting re action not
00:33:28
only produces real noises but also
00:33:30
creates an electromagnetic field that
00:33:33
may affect human brains making people
00:33:35
imagine all kinds of things these
00:33:38
magnetic fields affect the human brain
00:33:41
because the human brain is a conductor
00:33:43
and this electric current produces
00:33:45
striking psychological
00:33:47
experiences that only happen in the
00:33:50
mind a trick of the mind not to those
00:33:54
who've heard it all I can say is come on
00:33:56
over and we'll fix you up uh it won't
00:34:00
take long we'll make a believer of
00:34:04
you next AJ bro was a popular family man
00:34:08
who no one ever thought would leave his
00:34:11
hometown but he did and was never seen
00:34:24
again H
00:34:26
Louisiana pop population
00:34:30
31,000 AJ bro had lived in hom his
00:34:33
entire life raised three daughters and
00:34:36
worked in the same clothing store for
00:34:38
more than 30 years my dad came off as
00:34:41
being very friendly he was extremely
00:34:44
nice anybody and everybody that knew him
00:34:47
knew that if they needed something that
00:34:49
he was there to help them 4 years AJ had
00:34:53
battled a drinking problem which led to
00:34:55
an arrest for drunk driving but a J
00:34:57
seemed to have conquered his demons and
00:34:59
had been sober for 8
00:35:02
years who like take care of the food
00:35:04
almost every evening he could be found
00:35:06
at the Easy Does It Club a support group
00:35:08
for people with drinking problems AJ
00:35:11
prided himself on being available at any
00:35:14
hour of the day or night to assist those
00:35:16
in need once he got involved with the
00:35:21
program it changed his whole life he
00:35:24
became even more responsible and more
00:35:27
dependent
00:35:28
and more trustworthy and more of a
00:35:31
friend because he was involved with more
00:35:33
people the close ties AJ had to his
00:35:36
community made it seem impossible that
00:35:38
he would just suddenly
00:35:42
disappear one night around 8:15 p.m. AJ
00:35:45
was seen leaving the Easy Desert
00:35:48
Club hello AJ how you doing fine a half
00:35:52
hour later he stopped at a convenience
00:35:54
store to buy a quart of milk he told the
00:35:56
cashier that he was on his way home
00:35:59
where he lived with one of his daughters
00:36:01
he never got there okay I'll see you
00:36:06
later 2 Days Later AJ's Car was found
00:36:09
abandoned in a park across the street
00:36:12
from the club I show this as your
00:36:13
father's car this is it I immediately
00:36:16
thought Foul Play because it just
00:36:18
wouldn't be like him to park his car
00:36:21
where everybody could find it and
00:36:22
everybody knows him and disappear but
00:36:25
there were no signs of Foul Play The
00:36:27
only Clues were AJ's wallet and
00:36:29
checkbook which were found tucked under
00:36:31
the front seat of his
00:36:35
car the entire town was mystified what
00:36:39
happened to AJ bro soon a number of
00:36:43
witnesses came forward they all claim to
00:36:45
have seen AJ after he
00:36:50
disappeared on the same day that AJ's
00:36:53
Car was found a local resident Kenneth
00:36:55
pelan says that he ran into AJ outside a
00:36:58
convenience store in hom hey AJ how's it
00:37:02
going okay it was a strange situation
00:37:05
for me to see him then cuz he just
00:37:07
didn't look the same as he always
00:37:10
did he was wearing like a flannel shirt
00:37:13
something like a lumberjack style and
00:37:15
the pants were loose fitting Brown very
00:37:17
loose fitting it wasn't nothing neat and
00:37:19
he was wearing some old tennis shoes so
00:37:21
that struck me as wrong because all the
00:37:24
times I've known him since 7 years old I
00:37:27
have never seen him with his hair out of
00:37:29
place or not dressed up neat AJ was
00:37:32
nervous it was like he was being watched
00:37:35
Kenneth pelan also saw a red compact car
00:37:39
parked in
00:37:40
front I noticed the car and they had
00:37:42
three guys still sitting in it but then
00:37:45
the engine was running and he was on the
00:37:47
phone looking towards their
00:37:49
way and when I came back out AJ was gone
00:37:52
the car was
00:37:55
gone had I known he had been missing
00:37:58
uh he would have been found then because
00:38:00
I knew who he
00:38:02
was soon after Ken pelan called the
00:38:05
office I received another call from a
00:38:07
witness who said that he saw AJ in a car
00:38:10
with three other gentlemen it was a red
00:38:12
uh small compact car on a rad route
00:38:15
about 8 miles out of
00:38:17
town um he waved to AJ
00:38:20
bro but AJ bro did not weigh back and
00:38:23
it's very uncharacteristic of AJ not to
00:38:25
weigh back he didn't think of anything
00:38:28
of it because he didn't know AJ was
00:38:30
missing it makes me think that
00:38:34
definitely somebody knows something if
00:38:36
both of these gentlemen who know him
00:38:38
from a good while back one a lot longer
00:38:40
than the other have seen him we know
00:38:43
that they know what he looks like and
00:38:45
they both saw him in the same color car
00:38:48
with three men in it I'm I'm pretty much
00:38:51
convinced that somebody somewhere knows
00:38:54
something then 2 weeks later a chilling
00:38:58
handwritten note came into the police
00:39:00
station it read AJ bro he was drunk at
00:39:03
the time self-inflicted gunshot W
00:39:06
stomach drawring cotton sack put in by
00:39:10
friend rolled over steep grassy byou
00:39:13
Bank near
00:39:15
Dan the note was signed
00:39:18
Helen just so happen where we found a
00:39:21
car that that described that area so we
00:39:24
called the Sheriff's Office water Patrol
00:39:26
units in and they dredged uh both sides
00:39:29
of the dam on three different occasions
00:39:31
but weren't able to find
00:39:33
anything four weeks after AJ disappeared
00:39:36
a woman named Christy Bud was sitting on
00:39:40
the front porch of her house in Lockport
00:39:42
Louisiana I saw a van pass up and down
00:39:45
the street two times so I forget whoever
00:39:47
was in the van was evidently lost then I
00:39:50
saw him reach over the driver's seat
00:39:53
into the middle of the van and he picked
00:39:55
up a bag I didn't what was in it till he
00:39:58
got to my porch and as he walked to me
00:40:01
he looked really nervous and he was
00:40:04
shaking uh you he wanted to know if I
00:40:08
wanted to buy some frozen fish and I
00:40:09
told him no and I smelled alcohol on his
00:40:12
breath and he looked homeless kind of
00:40:15
straggly okay thanks
00:40:18
anyway and as he got I'd say 10 ft from
00:40:21
me he turned around and glanced at me
00:40:26
and that's when it hit me that I saw
00:40:28
that man on a missing person fly in the
00:40:30
post office I have a picture here I like
00:40:33
you look of AJ bro this pict Christy
00:40:35
looked through photographs of AJ at the
00:40:38
police station I was almost certain that
00:40:41
that was the man that had approached me
00:40:43
while I was on my porch and that's what
00:40:45
I told the detective that I was 99.9%
00:40:48
sure that that was Mr bro AJ bro uh is a
00:40:53
recovering
00:40:54
alcoholic and if he did start drinking
00:40:57
the again and there's all sorts of
00:40:59
things that could have happened he could
00:41:00
have had a blackout uh and not remember
00:41:02
who he is AJ's Family refuses to believe
00:41:06
that he has turned to alcohol once again
00:41:09
or that he disappeared by choice because
00:41:12
AJ's wallet and checkbook were found in
00:41:14
his car they're convinced that he was
00:41:16
abducted when I think back to the fact
00:41:19
that his car was found at the park I'm
00:41:22
wondering if he may have seen something
00:41:26
or heard something that he wasn't
00:41:27
supposed to see or hear what really
00:41:30
happened to AJ
00:41:32
bro was he kidnapped was it a blackout
00:41:35
or was it something else police now
00:41:39
think the handwritten note about AJ
00:41:40
shooting himself was just a prank AJ bro
00:41:44
this time is still listed as a missing
00:41:46
person we have no evidence of Foul Play
00:41:49
uh but of course we have no evidence
00:41:51
that he just got up and left either so
00:41:53
we really don't know what happened to AJ
00:41:55
AJ bro is 5 ft 11 in tall and weighs
00:41:58
approximately 155 lb he has brown eyes
00:42:02
and brown hair if you have any
00:42:05
information on AJ bro or any of the
00:42:08
other cases we've presented log on to
00:42:10
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00:42:27
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  • 75
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  • 70
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Episode Highlights

  • Dina Woodard's Murder
    Dina Woodard was brutally stabbed, sparking a 24-hour crime spree that left four dead.
    “As shocking as it was, Dina Woodard's murder was just the beginning.”
    @ 02m 35s
    March 09, 2017
  • Tyler's Mysterious Amnesia
    A young man named Tyler is found wandering in the desert with no memory of his identity.
    “I can't get on with my life; I'm almost like an illegal alien here.”
    @ 12m 36s
    March 09, 2017
  • Paul Beal's Reunion
    After months of amnesia, Paul Beal reconnects with his family, but struggles to remember them.
    “I don't remember you.”
    @ 15m 19s
    March 09, 2017
  • Michael Swango: The Doctor Who Killed
    Michael Swango, a trusted doctor, turned into a murderer, betraying the trust of many.
    “Swango represents the ultimate betrayal.”
    @ 25m 23s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Disappearance of AJ Bro
    AJ Bro, a beloved community member, vanished without a trace, leaving many questions behind.
    “What really happened to AJ bro?”
    @ 41m 32s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • This case has got to be solved.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
  • I miss you, I'm scared.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
  • This is probably the most horrifying nightmare that anybody could go through.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
  • Swango represents the ultimate betrayal.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
  • AJ bro was a popular family man who vanished.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
  • What really happened to AJ bro?
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Thrill Kill Spree02:40
  • Desert Amnesia09:48
  • Emotional Reunion15:10
  • Prison Corruption16:46
  • Ultimate Betrayal25:23
  • Mysterious Disappearance34:04
  • Chilling Note38:58
  • Unsolved Mystery41:49

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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 8, Episode 7
March 09, 2017
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42:31
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 8, Episode 7
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 8 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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45:47
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 8 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
March 09, 2017
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42:42
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
July 26, 2021
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42:51
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 11
March 09, 2017
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42:54
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 11
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5
March 09, 2017
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42:53
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 1 - Updated Full Episode
July 26, 2021
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42:53
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 1 - Updated Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 18
March 09, 2017
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42:50
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 18
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 19
March 09, 2017
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42:55
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 19
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 15
March 09, 2017
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42:50
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 15