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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 tonight on unsolved mysteries
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we continue our examination into New
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York's infamous Son of Sam shootings new
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evidence suggests that the Son of Sam
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killer David Berkowitz was part of a
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satanic cult and murdered six people at
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an inn near Philadelphia the head
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waitress sees a Revolutionary War
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soldier on the main staircase in Jackson
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Mississippi a wealthy woman is kidnapped
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her millionaire husband gives in to the
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kidnappers demands annie heron is still
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missing these intriguing stories all
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need one final clue one final piece of
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information before they can be solved
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perhaps someone watching tonight can
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help perhaps
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for over a hundred years people have
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seen and heard things around the general
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Wayne Inn in Philadelphia that they
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cannot explain a number of different
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ghosts who seem to have an unusual
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agenda of mischief in mind
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located in Merion Pennsylvania the
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general Wayne Inn opened in 1704 and is
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reputed to be the oldest continuously
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functioning in in America Ben Franklin
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visited the end and George Washington
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slept in what is today this dining room
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Edgar Allen Poe wrote part of his famous
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poem The Raven here in 1836 but it is a
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history of hauntings that brings us to
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the general Wayne Inn Barton Johnson is
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the innkeeper and serves as vice
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president of the local Historical
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Society we have had towels thrown all
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over the kitchen we have had adding
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machine problems we've had television
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problems directly attributable to
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something that it's not understandable
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we have had reports of sightings of
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entities ghosts we have had a funny
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incident with a new Cadillac and the
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parking lot outside last year a valet
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walked by a Cadillac parked in front of
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the inn the owner had gone inside and
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had taken his keys with him
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doors were locked windows were all
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closed kid was scared to death and I
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said look calm down these things happen
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around here and just relax and I enjoy
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these ghosts I mean they don't bother me
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at all I think they come up with some
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real clever little things on a busy
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night that's when this entity will start
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and you'll go down the entire side of
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the bar blowing on the back of the girls
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next and the poor guys they really were
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doing nothing and I knew when the first
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one started that it would continue all
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the way down to the end of the bar it
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always did what that happened so often
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and I enjoyed standing back on the other
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side of the bar and watching a hundreds
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of occurrences have happened some very
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minor some more dramatic but there have
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been hundreds of them bart has witnessed
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many ghostly events but is never
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actually seen a ghost
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dave rogers has I was made a day at the
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time and I was we were closing the
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restaurant up for the night
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now he's starting on my way out and I
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looked up I only saw it first but second
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just a head sitting on this chest of
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drawers it didn't register with me right
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away and when I got out into the barrio
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it was like like I had hit a brick wall
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and it just stopped dead in my tracks
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and I started saying I I saw a head I
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saw something I saw a head it was just
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like it happened yesterday I'll never
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forget the details although I just saw
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it for an instant
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other employees have also seen
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apparitions one day Alice Gormley was
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walking through the dining room and I
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heard someone call my name Alice Alice
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so I walked out here to see if it was
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the manager and I saw this apparition
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this person on the on these stairs and
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he was standing on this step and he
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looks so startled and when I said can I
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help you he just disappeared
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local historian J Robert Monty has
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studied the ins history in detail and
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according to him the spectre has been
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seen before over a hundred years ago the
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first written record of a ghost in the
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general Wayne Inn that we came across in
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writing was a report of an election in
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1848 that took place in here a lady went
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down to the basement to get some more
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ballots when she came up she said to the
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lady in charge of the elections I just
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saw a soldier down there in a green
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uniform in recent times there have been
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three new sightings of this soldier
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letting interviewed three witnesses who
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saw the same apparition at different
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times each of them saw the ghost in this
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basement I know the wine-cellar here
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right by the door of the wine cellar but
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each one of them saw the operation this
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is it this is where they found him
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and he stood right there each one
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described the imperfect way the green
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uniform and the yellowish lapel of the
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and the black mustache of a hessian
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soldier of the regiments that were
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occupying Philadelphia at that time
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Hessians were German mercenaries who
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frequented the end during the
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Revolutionary War what about the British
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backs unsolved mysteries invited my
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Killeen mayor a paranormal investigator
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to the in my Killeen uses experimental
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research techniques that can separate
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fact from fiction for without evidence
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she refuses to believe that ghosts exist
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starting with the tale floorplans she
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uses statistical analysis to evaluate
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the responses are both skeptics and
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hand-picked psychics who have been
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brought to the scene of the hauntings
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when we bring them into a an
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experimental situation into a haunting
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we ask them to tour the place where
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something has been reported Mike Elena's
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as psychic Paula Rogers to walk through
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the building
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Paula knew nothing about the ins history
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she went through every room and in the
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basement she made a surprising discovery
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I got an extremely strong impression I
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see a young soldier hiding I can still
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see it and he's in a very old costume it
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would probably to be at least 200 years
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I could see if it was a memory him
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crouched there petrifying he seemed to
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have been left behind
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Paula sensed the soldier only several
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feet from the spot where witnesses had
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reported seeing the Hessian coincidence
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or something more you never know what
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they're gonna do and you never know how
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long they're gonna do it one night
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during a local newscast Halloween story
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on the end a number of regular patrons
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gathered in the bar to watch as soon as
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he showed the first scene of the inside
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of this building a whole no flop over
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now no snow perfect picture the whole
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picture started to go very very slowly
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clockwise all the way around 50 people
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in the bar we're looking at this and
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wondering what was going on and they're
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all heads are all turning and the whole
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thing just kept going around until our
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portion was over but it never did that
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before and I never did it afterwards and
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no one else in the whole neighborhood
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had it that way are there ghosts at the
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inn Michael E mayor believes that
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something unexplained is going on but as
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is so often the case cannot prove for
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certain that it is caused by ghosts we
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did get some interesting results I can
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only call them tentative at this point
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but our measures experimental measures
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are measures with random number
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generators and some of our photography
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measures have given us enough of a hint
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that something is actually going on at
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the general Wayne Inn that deserves a
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great deal of further exploration
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I know I saw something I don't think it
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was a figment of my imagination I don't
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think it was a mirage or or whatever you
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want to call it I I saw something that I
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don't believe in ghosts but I know
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they're here they have no other place to
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go and they might as well have a little
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fun and that's exactly what they're
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doing and I don't think they're going
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anywhere either our next story is about
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a modern-day Good Samaritan woman who
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dedicated her life to helping others
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first as a mother and community
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volunteer and later as an advocate for
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children's rights and as a
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court-appointed attorney for criminal
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defendants who could not otherwise
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afford legal counsel two years ago she
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fell victim to the same type of street
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criminal she wants vigorously defended
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after raising three children
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Gretchen Burford embarked on a new life
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in 1979 when she enrolled in law school
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at the age of 41 by 1984 Gretchen had a
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full-time practice in Palo Alto
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California she specialized in criminal
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defense and juvenile law motivated by a
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lifelong concern for the underprivileged
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especially minorities and children it
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appears it's a 418 on you're looking at
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possible time in state prison I think
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justice was really important to my
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mother Jessica and I think that's part
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of the reason she was drawn to a career
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in law she wanted to help people who
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didn't maybe start out with all the
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benefits that her children had Gretchen
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put her heart and soul into defending
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the people and she worked hard with them
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not only just with the legal defense but
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there are a lot of things that she would
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be involved in as far as their personal
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lives
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February 26 1988 was a normal Friday for
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Gretchen Burford late that afternoon she
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left her office and started home for the
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weekend
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the police are unclear on her subsequent
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movements but with the help of computer
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banking logs and eyewitness testimony
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they have sketched out a probable
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scenario they do believe that what
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happened next was a random act of
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violence by an assailant unknown to her
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bank records verify that his 6:30 7:00
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p.m.
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Gretchen deposited a check for four
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hundred and forty nine dollars at a
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branch bank four blocks from her office
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in Palo Alto it was a beginning of a
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nightmare and would last for 30
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terrifying minutes
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it's here that we suspect that her
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assailant may have accosted her for the
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first time she may have been the type of
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person who left her car unlocked which
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is what assailants looked for when they
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are stalking their victims she's near a
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walk-up teller at night obviously she
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would be a target for some type of an
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attack Gretchen was was naive about
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about how she handled herself especially
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outdoors she was never really aware of
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what was going on around her the way she
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looked at things I think she looked
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looking people very trusting Lee
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authorities speculate the Gretchen was
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abducted in the bank parking lot some
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five to ten minutes after arriving there
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the next 20 minutes are a complete
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mystery you drive up to go go you can do
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some serious jail time for this we can
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only speculate as to what was going on
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during that 20 minutes she was used to
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this type of person and perhaps was
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trying to appeal to him as to what the
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consequences would be who knows
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we don't know at 7:02 p.m. 25 minutes
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after her first bank transaction
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Gretchen attempted to withdraw money
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from another bank machine three miles
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away this transaction was aborted and
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she requested more cash than she was
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authorized to withdraw police assume
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Gretchen may have been trying to
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discourage her abductor
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where's money we had two witnesses pull
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up behind Gretchen's vehicle the male
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driver saw a struggle going on inside
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the car he saw the driver's door open
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and then it appeared that she was pulled
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back inside
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witnesses have told us that she got out
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of her car screaming he stabbed me he
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stabbed me and helped me and she
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collapsed immediately so the wound was
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it was definitely a one single stab and
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it was fatal police believe that
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Gretchen Berger deliberately caused the
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accident in a desperate attempt to
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escape her car came to rest 150 yards on
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the drive-up teller machine in the
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aftermath two witnesses were able to get
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a clear and detailed look at her killer
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a lady jumped out of the car and
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screaming that she was stabbed and then
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he got out of the car stared me and my
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friend down then he turned around and
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ran within two seconds three seconds he
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was out of sight since the girl hit the
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ground she said she was dead we went for
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her
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step she was lying on the ground and I
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can see a little pool of blood
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she was looking up at me she was saying
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I'm dying I'm gonna die I said you're
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just bleeding and you're gonna be fine
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such a you know relax and I held her
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hand she looked up at me her eyes roll
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back and her eyes closed and it kind of
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I guess her life ended right there when
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I arrived at the scene Gretchen had
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already been transported to an emergency
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room yeah female stabbing victim we have
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a perimeter set up I almost immediately
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started processing her vehicle for any
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evidence looked inside and saw a Paisley
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baseball hat in the rear passenger
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compartment that just seemed out of
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place later confirm that that did not
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belong to her and it's unknown how that
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got in her car so we assumed that it
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belonged to our suspect the next day
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authorities recovered the murder weapon
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a butcher knife with an eight-inch blade
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it was found in a driveway one block
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from the scene but provided no
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additional leads the investigation next
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focused on the unusual hat found in
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Gretchen's car a check with the
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manufacturer revealed that only two
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stores in the area stocked this item
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even though all attempts to connect the
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Paisley hat with a suspect have failed
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police are convinced it holds the key to
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solving the case
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I think it's ironic that that my mother
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would have gone on helping you know for
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years probably that she had only just
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started her law career that she had so
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much to give and was giving so much and
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in helping so many people and that it
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was you know it was just ended by
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somebody who had no idea who she was or
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what she was or you know ability to care
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about her
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last week examined the Son of Sam
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shootings that took place in New York in
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1976 and 1977 investigative reporter
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Maury Terry believes that the Son of Sam
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did not act alone that he was part of an
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organized conspiracy that carried out a
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year-long reign of terror in New York
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City the Son of Sam shootings began on
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July 29th 1976 in 8 separate incidents
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six people were killed and seven
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seriously wounded all of the shots were
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fired by 44 caliber revolver police
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created composites from eyewitness
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accounts of the shootings the difference
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in appearance suggested more than one
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suspect but on August 10th David
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Berkowitz was arrested and confessed to
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all of the Son of Sam shootings
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investigative reporter Maury Terry
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gathered evidence that indicated that
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more than one man was involved the
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general perception among the public for
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years had been that David Berkowitz was
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a lone gunman the facts and the evidence
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not speculation two facts in the
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evidence say otherwise Terry found major
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discrepancies and eyewitness accounts of
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the last shooting that support his
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theory of more than one gunman
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eyewitness Tommy Zane I was parked just
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in front of the victim's car and he got
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a good look at the gun no I didn't think
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it was David Berkowitz then and I don't
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think it's him now and thankfully I
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don't think it's him a yellow Volkswagen
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had been spotted leaving the crime scene
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it may have contained one or more
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accomplices to the shooting
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columnist Jimmy Breslin received a
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letter from the Son of Sam in this
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letter there were cryptic references to
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the quote 22 disciples in hell and a
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wicked King wicker John Wheaties the
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rapist and Suffolk Eater of young girls
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was also mentioned the letter was signed
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the Son of Sam underneath was a satanic
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symbol Maury Terry believes that the
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breslin letter was sent not by Berkowitz
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but rather by a satanic cult that
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operated in Berkowitz's Yonkers
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neighborhood he also believes that
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Berkowitz was a member of the cult that
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it was this group that planned and
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executed the Son of Sam attacks David
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Berkowitz lived in a seventh floor
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apartment in Yonkers down the hill was a
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street named wicker could this be the
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king wicker mentioned in the Breslin
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letter wicker Street was near the home
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of another character believed to be
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mentioned in the letter
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John Wheaties I learned that the John
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Wheaties rapist and suffocate ur alias
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of the killer in the present letter was
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not really an alias at all but it was
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the name of a real person that person
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was John Carr who was the real-life Son
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of Sam car John Kahrs nickname was
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Wheaties and I learned this within a day
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of the arrest and from then on I became
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deeper and deeper involved in the case
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trying to locate John Carr this is the
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face of John Carr and these are the
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composite drawings of the 44 caliber
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killers Maury Terry believes that there
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is a resemblance between these two and
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John Carr Terry Trek John Carter Minot
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North Dakota where he had worked as a
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mechanic at a local Air Force Base
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though he lived in Minot during the mid
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70s car frequently commuted to New York
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during the time of the Son of Sam
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attacks from my experience John Carr was
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a mixed up drug addict
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he was hanging around with the group of
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people that were on the other side of
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the law all the time John Carr many many
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months before Berkowitz was ever
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arrested had talked about his friend
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Berkey to his friends out in Minot North
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Dakota John Carr was a friend of a
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confidant of an an associate of David
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Berkowitz on February 17th 1978
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six months after Berkowitz's arrest John
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Carr was found dead in his girlfriend's
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Minot apartment when I first walked in
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the room it was a ghastly sight
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obviously the guy had sat on the edge of
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the bed put the gun in his mouth and
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pulled the trigger my first interview
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with his live-in girlfriend at the time
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she told me that he must have just taken
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his own life
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the next day same person new interview
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whole new story John Carr had to have
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been murdered he was wanted by the
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police in New York for the Son of Sam
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killings he was afraid for his life and
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I fully believe that John Carr was
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murdered through interviews with cars
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friends and the police officials in
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North Dakota the picture emerged of John
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Carr being heavily involved in satanic
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cult activity both in Minot North Dakota
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and in Westchester County New York where
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he spent part of his time it involved
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blood drinking urine drinking the
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ritualistic sacrifice of animals
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specifically German shepherds all sorts
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of a very horrible activity that certain
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satanic cults get into the satanic
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symbol found on the Breslin letter
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directly under the signature of Son of
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Sam was also found inscribed on cars my
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nut phonebook one of cars my nerd
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acquaintances was a man named Phil
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Falken Falken accidentally walked in on
00:25:32
John Carr and a companion performing a
00:25:35
satanic ritual Phil Falcon told us that
00:25:39
he walked into his own house one night
00:25:41
in North Dakota and found John Carr and
00:25:45
another friend of cars part of the
00:25:46
circle in the act of ritualistic Lee sac
00:25:49
facing an animal right into Falcons
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house and phil falcon also told us that
00:26:00
john car belongs to a very very violent
00:26:03
satanic cult prison sources who knew
00:26:06
Berkowitz told Maury Terry that
00:26:08
Berkowitz had been introduced to this
00:26:10
cult by John Kahrs brother Michael in
00:26:13
1975 Michael car ended up inviting
00:26:19
Berkowitz to attend of what he called a
00:26:21
floating coven party and Berkowitz came
00:26:24
in and attended the party and
00:26:26
symbolically not literally but
00:26:28
symbolically the 44 was put into his
00:26:30
hand that night that's how he got in -
00:26:33
into the cult scene at 4:00 a.m. on
00:26:37
October 4th 1979 over two years after
00:26:41
Berkowitz's arrest Michael Carr was
00:26:43
killed he was driving at a high rate of
00:26:46
speed when he crashed into a light post
00:26:48
on New York's West Side Highway he died
00:26:53
just 18 months after his brother
00:26:59
conclusive proof that Berkowitz knew
00:27:01
both John and Michael car came during
00:27:03
two of his depositions on October 25th
00:27:06
1978 when asked point-blank whether he
00:27:10
knew John Karr he answered yes in
00:27:14
another deposition taken on January 19th
00:27:16
1982 Berkowitz was asked if the cars
00:27:19
were part of a satanic cult he also
00:27:22
answered yes when asked whether the
00:27:26
brothers were killed to ensure their
00:27:27
silence Berkowitz again responded yes
00:27:32
Maury Terry believes that the death of
00:27:35
the cars may have been engineered by the
00:27:37
quote 22 disciples of hell mentioned in
00:27:40
the Breslin letter he also believes this
00:27:45
is a satanic group that held the rituals
00:27:47
in Hunter Meyer Park located just one
00:27:49
mile from Berkowitz's apartment on
00:27:56
August 11th 1977 the day after
00:27:59
Berkowitz's arrest two young boys led
00:28:02
police to a grave
00:28:03
contained the bodies of three German
00:28:05
shepherds two of them have been
00:28:09
strangled with chains one had been shot
00:28:11
in the head
00:28:12
at least ten other slaughtered dogs had
00:28:15
been found in the park area we received
00:28:19
information that groups of people who
00:28:21
are tired themselves and black or
00:28:24
dark-colored robes with hoods were
00:28:27
chanting carrying on subtypes of rituals
00:28:31
on the aqueduct the rear of on Tamiya
00:28:34
Park subsequently authorities did find
00:28:37
some remains of dogs and the information
00:28:41
that we had was that this group of
00:28:43
people were sacrificing animals in a
00:28:47
satanic ritual I got a call from a young
00:28:51
boy in Yonkers fifteen year old high
00:28:53
school sophomore wanted to know if I
00:28:55
knew that there was a satanic cult that
00:28:57
was meeting in on tomorrow Park in
00:29:00
Yonkers and killing dogs and so I met
00:29:03
him down there it's just just about a
00:29:05
mile from Berkowitz's residence and he
00:29:07
took me around to various spots and
00:29:09
under Meyer Park me where the cult was
00:29:12
meeting we saw the satanic graffiti very
00:29:15
sophisticated graffiti at the time and
00:29:17
took me throughout the park
00:29:23
I saw the remains of probably two or
00:29:26
three German dead German Shepherds right
00:29:28
there at that time and he took me along
00:29:30
the aqueduct literally the gutters of
00:29:33
NYC from the Breslin letter and showed
00:29:36
me where they had set up an altar an
00:29:38
altar they had they place the altar
00:29:40
board right over here in between the
00:29:43
trees and we had to call - we knew where
00:29:46
it was meeting and we could tie it right
00:29:48
- YES on a Sam case and the Son of Sam
00:29:51
letter it was a very significant
00:29:52
development in a case you'd like to see
00:29:55
your cases resolved with a conviction or
00:29:59
an acquittal or no case or whatever but
00:30:02
it's when you have these constant doubts
00:30:03
who else was involved were there others
00:30:06
involved in to what extent will they do
00:30:09
it again you see that becomes the the
00:30:12
overriding concern
00:30:14
if there is someone out there who was
00:30:16
involved in the Berkowitz cases in the
00:30:19
killing of a number of people in the
00:30:21
wounding of a number of people and that
00:30:23
person is bent on doing the same thing
00:30:25
again
00:30:26
than the public's in jeopardy and so
00:30:28
certainly I would like to have that
00:30:29
solve and get that person out of the way
00:30:32
cult activity has continued around under
00:30:35
Meyer Park since the Son of Sam killings
00:30:37
while we were filming to local residents
00:30:40
told us he had witnessed a satanic
00:30:42
ceremony in 1987 about a year and a half
00:30:46
ago me and my cousin were watching TV
00:30:48
and we saw a car headlights go banyak
00:30:51
what I passed when my cousin took a
00:30:53
flashlight and I took on a baseball bat
00:30:54
and walked up through my yard onto the
00:30:57
aqueduct path then this has been about
00:31:00
fifteen or thirty people and it was one
00:31:02
guy and he must have been like the head
00:31:04
chant there was something cuz he was
00:31:06
chanting aloud if nobody other people we
00:31:11
just froze we didn't know what to do but
00:31:13
we've never encountered something like
00:31:14
this before
00:31:17
we both decided to get out of it we
00:31:20
didn't want to get seen because you
00:31:21
don't know what people like that'll do
00:31:26
but I think it would serve the public
00:31:27
interest for us to know if in fact a
00:31:30
cult does exist if in fact they engage
00:31:34
in satanic activities if in fact
00:31:36
sacrifice is part of that activity if in
00:31:39
fact human life is the sacrificial
00:31:41
aspect of that activity and how it's
00:31:44
impacting upon life in our respective
00:31:47
communities the Queens District Attorney
00:31:50
would like to question the individuals
00:31:51
that matched these composites they would
00:31:54
also like to locate the yellow 1971
00:31:56
Volkswagen noticed at the scene of one
00:31:58
of the Son of Sam attacks his license
00:32:00
ends with the letters G you are or G V R
00:32:07
if Maury Terry is correct the satanic
00:32:11
group responsible for the Son of Sam
00:32:12
attacks is still alive still meeting as
00:32:15
still recruiting new members if there's
00:32:18
last claim is true certainly that is the
00:32:21
most disturbing thought of all next the
00:32:25
story of a Mississippi million
00:32:27
Spratly searching for his kidnapped wife
00:32:28
the ransom money has been paid Annie
00:32:31
Laurie Heron is still missing in this
00:32:43
house Jackson Mississippi that 71 year
00:32:46
old Robert Harold but of the wealthiest
00:32:48
men in the state his wife Annie Laurie
00:32:51
Herron is 72 a devoted wife and mother
00:32:54
she's well beloved and extremely active
00:32:57
in the social and civic life of Jackson
00:32:59
on July the 26th Annie Laurie Herron was
00:33:03
kidnapped
00:33:08
good morning 12 days later Robert hare
00:33:12
and Clara press carcase at his hangar
00:33:14
the kidnapping was linked to one of
00:33:16
Harry's businesses I wanted to make a
00:33:18
personal plea to the kidnapper my name
00:33:22
is Robert Harry
00:33:23
my wife Amal I was taken from our home
00:33:26
over ten days ago my children and I have
00:33:29
done everything humanly possible to
00:33:31
obtain her release like any business man
00:33:35
I've made decisions which may appear to
00:33:39
others as unfeeling but those
00:33:41
appearances are just not true
00:33:44
moreover those business decisions were
00:33:47
mine not my wife's she had absolutely
00:33:51
nothing to do with my children I appeal
00:34:04
think my mom all the time and I'm sure
00:34:07
my daddy does too
00:34:09
there's no real way to quantify what
00:34:12
this how enormous a tragedy an ordeal
00:34:15
this has been to him and to the rest of
00:34:17
the family annie laurie herons
00:34:20
kidnapping was unusual rather than
00:34:23
simply insisting on money for himself
00:34:24
the kidnapper left a note naming 12
00:34:27
people who meet felt were owed money by
00:34:29
one of robert herons companies and
00:34:31
should be paid back it is Robert herons
00:34:34
desperate hope that someone watching
00:34:36
tonight will come forward with
00:34:37
information that will lead him to the
00:34:39
woman he loved
00:34:40
woman he married 48 years
00:34:46
when Robert Herren came home from work
00:34:48
on the afternoon of July the 26th he was
00:34:51
alarmed to find that his wife was not in
00:34:53
the house after checking with friends
00:34:57
and family he called the police to
00:35:00
report her missing
00:35:01
I'll wait right here for you officer
00:35:03
thank you
00:35:04
then mr. heron made an alarming
00:35:06
discovery a note apparently left by a
00:35:11
kidnapper lay by his front door the note
00:35:15
said do not call the police however mr.
00:35:19
herring had notified the police prior to
00:35:22
the note being discovered responding to
00:35:25
mr. Harris missing-persons report police
00:35:27
arrived at the scene and found that it
00:35:29
was now a kidnapping connected in some
00:35:32
way to robert herons business dealings
00:35:35
john you need to take a look at this
00:35:39
robert heron put these people back in
00:35:42
the shape they was in before they got
00:35:45
mixed up with school pictures the
00:35:47
demands in the note were very vague l
00:35:49
made several demands of mr. heron
00:35:52
concerning certainly individuals listed
00:35:55
in there who were allegedly harmed by a
00:35:59
company of which mr. heron was president
00:36:03
Heron had been president of school
00:36:05
pictures a company that sells franchises
00:36:08
to photographers throughout the United
00:36:10
States to produce portraits of
00:36:12
schoolchildren between 1981 and 1983 in
00:36:17
an effort to collect outstanding debts
00:36:19
school pictures file lawsuits against 12
00:36:22
franchise owners in eight states
00:36:24
including Florida
00:36:28
on the day of Annie Laurie herons
00:36:30
kidnapping neighbors had reported seeing
00:36:33
vehicles have seen out of place in the
00:36:35
neighborhood
00:36:37
we had calls from various people that
00:36:41
there had been two particular vehicles
00:36:43
that had been seen in that neighborhood
00:36:45
one of which was a pickup truck and the
00:36:49
other was a white cargo van the cargo
00:36:53
van at a Florida Clayton police
00:37:00
discovered that the twelve people on the
00:37:02
kidnappers list for the same 12-seat
00:37:04
bicycle picture they resided in eight
00:37:07
different states but they were all sued
00:37:09
through the Hinds County Court in
00:37:11
Jackson Mississippi
00:37:12
their names were easily available to the
00:37:15
general public and County Court records
00:37:17
this means that the kidnapper need not
00:37:19
have been one of the twelve people on
00:37:21
the note it's possible at these 12
00:37:25
people had absolutely nothing to do with
00:37:27
this abduction but however you can't
00:37:29
rule out the fact that maybe somebody
00:37:31
especially they had the knowledge of
00:37:33
screwed pictures and it's an operation
00:37:35
could have been involved with it no
00:37:39
specific ransom demand was contained in
00:37:43
the letter we assumed it was a ransom
00:37:46
note and we wanted to comply we wanted
00:37:49
to do everything we could to get mother
00:37:51
back school pictures was requested to
00:37:54
look into their files on these twelve
00:37:57
people the transactions were reviewed
00:37:59
and letters were of course sent out to
00:38:03
these twelve people trying to determine
00:38:06
what damages that that they had what did
00:38:10
they want at that point we didn't get a
00:38:16
response except from several them saying
00:38:18
we don't want anything
00:38:21
eight days after his press conference
00:38:23
Robert Haran received a letter you
00:38:25
recognize the handwriting it belonged to
00:38:28
his wife Annie Laurie we had hit a very
00:38:32
low ebb prior to August 15th and that
00:38:36
was the day that we received a letter in
00:38:38
mother's handwriting and it basically
00:38:41
fled with Daddy again to comply with the
00:38:45
demands and to please save her this gave
00:38:51
us quite an emotional lift because it
00:38:53
meant that mother apparently had
00:38:55
survived the initial struggle but it
00:38:57
still was extremely vague as to what we
00:38:59
were to do at that point daddy in order
00:39:03
to do something to show our a good faith
00:39:06
effort to comply with these vague
00:39:07
demands instructed his attorneys to
00:39:10
check these roles and find out how much
00:39:13
school Pictures had sued these twelve
00:39:16
individuals for Robert Haran seniors set
00:39:20
out checks totaling nearly 1 million
00:39:22
dollars to the people on the list half
00:39:26
of the checks have been returned more
00:39:30
than four months passes Annie Laurie
00:39:32
Herron was abducted from her home and
00:39:34
neither her family know the authorities
00:39:36
has had word from her or the kidnapper
00:39:38
since the letter they received on August
00:39:41
the 15th
00:39:43
it's been our sincere desire from the
00:39:45
very beginning from the moment of the
00:39:47
kidnapping that we do everything
00:39:49
possible to comply with these demands we
00:39:51
won't mother back it's not our intention
00:39:55
to question the motive of these peoples
00:39:57
at this point whatever they want we want
00:40:00
to give it to them so we can get mother
00:40:02
back that is our very paramount concern
00:40:04
[Music]
00:40:08
update last month
00:40:11
dupin alfred win the 65 year old lawyer
00:40:13
was arrested by the FBI and florida on
00:40:16
charges relating to the abduction of
00:40:17
annie laurie harris when was one of the
00:40:20
12 men named in the ransom note left at
00:40:22
the Haren home also less than one month
00:40:25
before the kidnapping he had allegedly
00:40:27
purchased a van which matched the
00:40:28
description of a vehicle seen in the
00:40:30
Herren neighborhood the woman told the
00:40:33
FBI that Wynn had promised her five
00:40:35
hundred dollars to travel from Florida
00:40:37
to Atlanta Georgia and mail a letter for
00:40:39
just 16 days after Annie Laurie Heron
00:40:42
was kidnapped he had a German illa
00:40:44
envelope inside was the letter wrapped
00:40:46
in a gray linen napkin when instructed
00:40:49
her not to look at her touched the
00:40:51
letter but to deposit the letter in a
00:40:53
mail slot she had to ease the napkin off
00:40:55
and she was able to observe the writing
00:40:57
on the envelope later she identified a
00:40:59
photograph of the envelope Robert hare
00:41:01
had received from his wife as a 1 xi @
00:41:04
mailed in Atlanta
00:41:07
[Music]
00:41:30
thank my mom all the time and I'm sure
00:41:34
my daddy does too
00:41:35
there's no real way to quantify what
00:41:38
this how enormous a tragedy an ordeal
00:41:41
this has been to him and to the rest of
00:41:44
the family
00:41:44
[Music]
00:41:58
for every mystery there is someone
00:42:00
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
00:42:03
that someone is watching perhaps it's
00:42:05
you
00:42:09
[Music]
00:42:31
[Applause]
00:42:35
[Music]
