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next on unsolved mysteries Dan Wilson
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began behaving erratically then
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disappeared five days later his car was
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found but he wasn't
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JD method who smooths with her ladies
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smooth enough to make off with nearly a
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half a million dollars of their money
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Anastasia Romanov daughter of the last
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Russian Tsar was supposedly executed
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did she really die
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when Dean Butterfield raised her nice
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until they were forced apart
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when Dean continues to search for her
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sounds intriguing you better believe it
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these are unusual cases that you won't
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want to miss i'm dennis farina and this
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is unsolved mysteries
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100 years ago in st. Petersburg Russia
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there lived the grand duchess named
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Anastasia
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she was the blue-eyed youngest daughter
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observing us the second time the
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wealthiest man in formed Anastasia and
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her three older sisters lived lives of
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glamour and privilege that were the envy
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of all she grew into a rambunctious
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tomboy a jokester and the family clown
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she was the rebel of the Imperial Rome
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her family then on July 17 1918
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Anastasia's royal life came to a violent
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end she was just 17 when her entire
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family was executed along with their
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physician and three servants
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their burial site remained a state
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secret as far as history was concerned
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that was the end of Anastasia and her
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family but it was not the end of her
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story 19 months later a young woman
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appeared on a bridge in Berlin and the
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stage was set for one of the world's
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great mysteries
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eventually the young woman would shock
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the world by claiming that she was none
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other than the Grand Duchess Anastasia
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the debate over her identity has
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continued for decades there is
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absolutely no question in my mind at all
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that the Grand Duchess Anastasia
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survived the assassination of the
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Romanovs in 1918 made it to the west and
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died in the United States as Anna
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Anderson no question at all the woman's
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claim became even more believable years
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later when Russian authorities
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discovered the Tsar's family grave in
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this remote field six hundred miles east
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of Moscow when the bodies were exhumed
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so family members were missing and one
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was most likely anastasia is it possible
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that Anastasia somehow escaped death and
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suddenly appeared on a bridge in Berlin
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it's a story that has captivated our
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imaginations for nearly a century as
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well as igniting a firestorm of
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controversy but now recently discovered
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information may shed new light on this
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fascinating mystery
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Anastasia's father nicholas ii was fated
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to be the last desire of russia in the
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beginning his life was the envy of the
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world an adoring wife Alexandra four
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beautiful daughters the Grand Duchesses
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Olga Tatiana Maria and Anastasia and
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finally a son Alexei heir to the tomb
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but while the Romanovs with the good
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life most of their subjects were started
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in World War one hundreds of thousands
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of desire soldiers didn't have shoes or
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rifles more than a million men were
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killed or wounded finally the people
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rebelled the monarchy eventually fell to
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the radical Bolshevik communist
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the Romanovs were prisoners in their own
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palace until the Bolshevik rebels
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secretly moved them to a remote Siberian
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town 11 months later the entire family
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was executed so it was fun until the
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mysterious young woman jumped from the
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bridge in Germany nearly two years later
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police committed the young woman to a
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mental institution just outside of
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Berlin she gave no information about
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herself and was called miss unknown it
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was months later when she finally said
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that her name is Anna Anderson at her
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first physical examination doctors
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discovered that the woman's body was
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covered with stars
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she began to reveal her own personality
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very slowly she was in her mind in
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hiding and the best place to hide was
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this Asylum where no one would come
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looking for her or suspect that she was
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who she was the patient hid her identity
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weld until Clara Pugh third was admitted
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to the same ward a year later I know I
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don't what hurt her teeny bopper which
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is all right we told her you know I had
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such a miracle the two of us
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Clara pew Darth was a devotee as were so
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many people then of the royalty
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magazines and she began to look at
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pictures of the Romanovs
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this picture
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and she began to believe that miss
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unknown bore a striking uncanny
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resemblance to the Grand Duchess Tatiana
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miss unknown didn't confirm or deny
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Clara's claim but when work reached
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members of the Russian nobility exiled
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in Paris
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they sent a representative and Madame
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Tolstoy to meet the young I wanted to
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meet you for myself
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nice car
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later Tolstoy told people that when she
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saw those eyes in the context of the
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rest of the face she knew she was
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looking at one of the daughters of the
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Tsar eventually Anna Anderson told her
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nurses that she was actually Anastasia
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the youngest Grand Duchess school in
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fact she did resemble Anastasia in
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height and age several childhood scars
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and birthmarks also naturally the scars
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could have easily been the remnants of
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the Bolshevik rulers
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four years later Anna was hospitalized
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for surgery Shiraki yard anastasia's
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former nanny came to meet myths unknown
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sure of recognized the grand duchess
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both by her childhood scars and by a
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bone deformity on her right foot
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sure became even more convinced when
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Anna asked her to massage her forehead
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with colonial it had been a favourite
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childhood ritual of Anastasia's known
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only to the two of them by 1927 Anna was
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living with a German Duke and Duchess
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they believe their story though most of
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the surviving Romanovs did not curious
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to see whether Anna was who she claimed
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to be a close childhood friend of
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Anastasia's came to see for himself
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his name was bled Botkin Blair was the
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youngest child of the Tsar's physician
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dr. Eugene Baden
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the doctor had been executed along with
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the Romanov family but glad was able to
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escape one of the childhood gains that
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he and Anastasia had played together was
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that Gleb would draw or would paint a
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watercolor painting of animals dressed
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in human clothing and in human-like
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situations give the picture to to the
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young Anastasia and she then would make
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up a story to explain the action in the
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picture I would like to see the
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yes as she lived through them she
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remembered the stories that she had made
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up years earlier to accompany the
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pictures that they receive because the
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cat was called by life it was the most
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significant recognition of Anastasia in
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her life too
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and Gleb Botkin became as she called him
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her lifelong champion coming up Anna
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Anderson reveals details of what
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happened on the night a woman of family
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was executed
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the official story was that Anastasia
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Romanov daughter of the Czar of Russia
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had been executed along with her entire
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family in 1918
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months later a suicidal young woman was
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pulled from a canal uber later she
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called herself an Anderson but she
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claimed to actually be in a station the
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story she told to a childhood friend of
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Anastasia's was very convincing Anna
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described how she'd been horribly
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wounded during the execution she was
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thrown on a truck with the dead bodies
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of her family and was hauled off to a
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secret burial site at some point the
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truck overheated according to Anna a
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soldier named Alexander Tchaikovsky was
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left to stand guard he realised that
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Anastasia was not dead he pulled her
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from the truck and carried her to safety
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20 years later Gleb Botkin and Anna's
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lawyers went to court to prove that Anna
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Anderson was actually Anastasia and to
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claim a portion of the Romanov fortune
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Anna's attorneys based their arguments
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on the points of similarity between the
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Grand Duchess and Anna Anderson experts
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analyzed photographs of both women's
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ears the match impressed even Anna's
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most bitter critics various scars and
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birthmarks also matched handwriting
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samples were analyzed and found to be
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identical
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the case dragged on for decades Anna
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became more and more eccentric and
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reclusive she was almost totally
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uncooperative both with her own
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attorneys and with the courts finally in
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1967 the German High Court issued a
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decision there was not enough evidence
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to prove Anna's claim the court didn't
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state however that the death of grand
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duchess anastasia could not be
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considered a verifiable historic fact
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Anna Anderson died in 1984 having never
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proven her claim but that wasn't the end
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of the story on July 12th 1991 the
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skeletons of the Romanov family were
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discovered in a mass grave near the site
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of their execution at least most of them
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were found missed his second idea we did
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luli in the grave there was supposed to
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be eleven bodies but only nine the two
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missing skeletons but we could
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the Russians invited American forensic
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expert dr. William maples to examine the
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remains hoping to determine which
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skeletons were missing we looked at the
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remains we photographed the remains we
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measured the remains and for each of the
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nine skeletons we determined age sex
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race we determined that the Czar was
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most likely there bodied 7iz czarina we
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had the family physician dr. Botkin and
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we had three of the daughters but I
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don't believe any of the three daughters
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could be young enough to beat Anastasia
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who was 17 years one month at the time
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of the shooting also missing were the
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remains of alexey desires only son it
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was the absence of Anastasia's body
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however which once again fueled the
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theory that Anastasia had somehow
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managed to escape death by execution
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whether she could have survived that
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night I seriously doubt it as forensic
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scientists looking at the objective
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evidence that we have we don't have any
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evidence that anyone would have survived
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the damage to the remains was was pretty
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profound eight years later DNA
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on the bones and the grave proof that
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five of the bodies were members of the
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Tsar's family comparison with a sample
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from Anna Anderson showed what many
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already believe Anna Anderson was not a
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member of the Romanov family
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this evidence put her to rest but it
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still didn't explain why Anastasia's
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remains were missing from the grave
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however the official gota wick account
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offers some clues about what may have
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happened the report states that on the
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night of the execution desire was
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ordered to wake up his family he was
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told that they were in danger and had to
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be moved for their own protection
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the girls were given half an hour to
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dress and carefully raced under corsets
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a fortune and precious stones and gems
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had been sewn into the lining the
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Romanovs along with Gleb Botkin father
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and three servants were led into the
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cell they were told to pose for a family
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photograph that would prove to the world
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that they were still alive and then
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abruptly the Bolshevik officer in charge
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read the orders for executions inside
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its core I see you where I was
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shooting the bullets pounds of Grand
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Duchess and return to them they did not
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know that in corsets of Grand Duchess
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the Serena hid their jewels and jewels
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protected them they decided that God
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protected them in say a little and they
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immediately began became crazy and
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dissolved our shooting began
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the Bolsheviks loaded all the bodies
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onto a truck however on the way to the
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secret burial site the truck got stuck
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in the mud and the officer in charge
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decided to dispose of the bodies on the
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spot
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it was reported that in order to confuse
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anyone who might locate the grave
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two of the bodies were burned and the
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charred remains buried separately the
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other nine are buried together
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a few meters away update nearly two
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decades after the Romanov burial site
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was located a second grave was found
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nearby the remains buried there proved
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to be those of Alexei and Maria Romanov
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Azar's family was now complete it turns
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out that Anastasia's remains had been
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among those on earth in 1991 but without
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the last two Romanov children scientists
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hadn't been able to make a positive
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identification and now we finally have
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proof
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Anastasia's survival was after all a
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myth
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next a devious con Juan preys on lonely
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women taking the first their hearts
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there
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be careful who you fall in love with
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that's the lesson learned by nearly two
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dozen women who got involved with a
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smooth talking con man named JD method
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in a romantic little restaurant in
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Golden Colorado well Peggy Peterson was
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getting to know JD method after meeting
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him through a person when Peggy was a
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single mother and businesswoman
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know something I learned in Vietnam JD
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was a very charming person and a nice
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person and a fun person and someone with
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some professional credentials he just
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knows the answers to just about
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everything he's intelligent and you just
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enjoy his company he could talk about
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any subject he knows about a little bit
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of everything in essence he would
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interview these women he would talk to
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them he would find out what they were
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about their idiosyncrasies what they
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liked what they didn't like what their
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style of life was have a few more credit
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cards one of the things that we found in
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our investigation was the methods
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ability to get his victims to extend
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their credit through the use of credit
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cards and not just one but get a lot of
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credit cards and even get a lot of the
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same kind of credit cards $15,000 just
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like that his actual goal of course was
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for me to have so much credit that he
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could ultimately draw cash against
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himself or get me to you know with his
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various so it
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face that he had in his life you know as
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long as I had all these cash advances
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that I could draw well that was more
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money that he could borrow they got
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lucky to meet Rick all right Peggy
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method works slowly until his victims
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trusted him completely
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I noticed that nice-looking Camaro over
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there what's the story on that one
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JD you'll love that $1,500 private owner
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pulled it down for it for $500 down oh
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is that right see peg there you go if I
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had $500 cash I can buy that car today
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sell it tomorrow for $1,000 profit have
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a thousand bucks in my pocket
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yeah hey what else you got there I got a
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nice clean method was so good that the
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women would offer to invest without even
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being asked
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I had already survived him doing several
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car deals over the weeks that we have
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been dating so I wrote him out a check
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for $500 I'm not gonna take your money
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hey no I mean it's not a matter of the
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money it's playing the game he toured
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the check up and he said I wouldn't take
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money from you
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and I so you know I mean check was torn
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in half I didn't think anything about it
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the very next day listen honey I need
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your help this afternoon method told
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Peggy that his uncle was seriously ill
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and needed immediate surgery he
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explained that his money was tied up
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with investors and that he was terribly
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embarrassed to ask for further okay well
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you know what could I do
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I mean I already I've already committed
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myself that I could let him have $500
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and you know what could I do I can't say
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well yesterday I had $500 to loan you
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today I don't method found another
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victim will call her a minute
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at the time Amelia's son was selling his
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car so he could buy a pickup truck
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method told the million he'd like to
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help and that he could sell the car and
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for an additional four thousand dollars
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could make a great ride on a new pickup
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you got the title we do it's all signed
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taken care of okay
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okay you both sign it over to me that's
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good and then four thousand cash
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got it it's all we name I told him I had
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some questions about the car and was
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feeling anxious about the whole
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situation since I didn't know him very
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well
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he was saying to me you know how could I
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possibly doubt him at some point in the
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conversation you know I had said
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something to the effect that for all I
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knew he could be a con artist and his
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immediate response was Emilia you could
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be a con artist for all I know that's
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how it got started first it was a little
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amount and then it would get bigger and
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then bigger and bigger and eventually it
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would get into the tens of thousands of
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dollars Linda I need your help on this
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deal method worked on winning Weaver for
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two months
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then get her for the big money so what
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I'm asking for is a small loan fifteen
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thousand dollars to get those have
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fifteen thousand dollars do it for you
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and me
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okay good girl it happened so fast that
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I didn't realize what was coming across
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until afterwards I'm gone oh my god what
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is going on you know he was so good he
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hit and ran and he's doing it to all his
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victims three months after he met Peggy
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Peterson method ran the same scam on her
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listen dear I need about ninety six
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hundred bucks oh man that's a lot of
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money JD but that chili beans compared
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to what my assets are his rationale is
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always that well I'm gonna pay you back
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next week I'll have my money next week
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I'll pay you right back that night you
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know I was just sleeping soundly I was
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sleeping like a brick and at 2:30 in the
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morning I just said all tougher right in
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bed I'd like Goddard slapped me upside
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the head with a 2x4 and realized what
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had happened to me I knew Jerry for 11
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months during that period of time he in
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one way or another extorted over $70,000
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in Amelia's case method also waited
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three months before setting up the big
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score I don't know about taking the
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equity out of my home well Amelia it
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would only be a short-term you know if
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it'd make you feel more comfortable I've
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got a promissory note a promissory note
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yes it's a legally binding contract that
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insures you that I'll pay you back
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exact so Jerry I no problem with the
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promissory notes was that JD method
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would fill out the promissory note
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backwards he would make himself the
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payee and he would make the victim the
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maker so that when you read the
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promissory note it said that she owed
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him $30,000 $40,000 whatever the amount
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that was involved with that particular
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victim as mr. method was starting a
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relationship he would either be in the
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middle or the end of another
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relationship
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and as the previous relationship began
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to end he was in the process of
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beginning to get money from the new
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relationship
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I don't believe JD method knows the
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difference between truth and reality
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anymore I think that he has built his
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life on lies for so long that he doesn't
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even know the truth anymore I think he
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he probably believes all of the glop
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that he shovels off on women update two
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years after he conned
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Peggy Peterson JD method was apprehended
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in Beaverton Oregon local police got a
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tip from a woman who claimed that she'd
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lost $2,000 to a man she'd met through a
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personal ad in the newspaper
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police staked out the man's home and
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arrested him when he returned he would
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soon be revealed as JD mythic inside the
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house authorities found papers and
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documents used by method to pull off his
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scams jerome david method was convicted
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on three counts of theft and sentenced
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to 16 years in prison he served his time
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and has been released next the bizarre
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story of a soft-spoken man who suddenly
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lost at work and mysteriously vanished
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the same day
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in Spokane Washington and the ASC
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machine tool company 35 year old man
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Wilson was a reliable worker though
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recently divorced
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he remained devoted to his two children
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and his Bible study then one day damn
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with it every time I try to get my work
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did you come down here and give me a
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hard time about dance Boone was shocked
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by the outburst
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that manager were concerned and they
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told men to take some time off and come
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back whenever he felt ready but Dan
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never returned
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five days later on a remote highway 700
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miles from Spokane Sheriff Tony Harbaugh
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spotted a car abandoned on the side of
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the road when the car was found the
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doors were unlocked in fact one of the
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doors was ajar check for keys and the
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keys were not in the vehicle when it was
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found there were a few miscellaneous
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items one of which was a Bible length on
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the front he had a Bible on this Daniel
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Wilson inscribed in the front of it
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sheriff Carbaugh traced Carlson we
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conducted both ground and aerial
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searches it's my belief
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Daniel Wilson was in the area in in any
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of the area that we covered we should
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have found him at that time there was no
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reason for Dan's car being abandoned in
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the middle of the Montana Prairie his
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mother Darlene no longer the two of his
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cousins went to Miles City to talk to
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the sheriff
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and get some answers there was nothing
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wrong there and there was usual eyes in
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my mind that he would just walk away
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from the car and just take off if
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certainly was not an area where you
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would expect a person would stop and
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take a walk
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Dan's family thought he might have been
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heading to Colorado to visit other
00:30:05
relatives he had made the trip from
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Spokane to their home in Longmont many
00:30:12
times before Dan normally followed the
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interstate 90 through Billings Montana
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to Colorado but this time he headed east
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instead and drove 150 miles into the
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sparsely populated area where his car
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was found
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how had Dan straight so far off course
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and such a familiar route his mother
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suspect foul play I know that he did
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pick up hitchhikers if he felt he could
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give somebody a ride he would I'm
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concerned that maybe he was not the
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person that Park
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Montana that it could have been somebody
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else
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Dan's mother and cousins were determined
00:31:09
to unravel the mystery they went back to
00:31:12
Spokane where they found his home a
00:31:14
complete wreck room his luggage his
00:31:21
clothes and an uncashed paychecks were
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all still in the house
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the family left spoke and more puzzled
00:31:32
than ever
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Darlene and Ernie's blended drove Dan's
00:31:35
car under trip home and something
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they've both developed sore throats and
00:31:42
a painful burning sensation in their
00:31:44
eyes
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at home they had the car inspected well
00:31:51
it's what we have here is a bulky
00:31:53
muffler on the car it could be allowing
00:31:56
exhaust gases to enter into the interior
00:31:59
of the car I would say the car would be
00:32:01
unsafe to drive it appeared that a
00:32:04
carbon monoxide leak in the muffler
00:32:06
might have caused our Rheem and Aventis
00:32:08
physical symptoms Dave had been driving
00:32:11
that same car every day for over a year
00:32:14
perhaps he inhaled carbon monoxide
00:32:17
whenever he drove chronic exposure to
00:32:21
carbon monoxide can cause an Petite can
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cause definite changes in personality
00:32:27
confusion can cause permanent loss of
00:32:31
function of the brain intellectual
00:32:33
ability memory as well as severe
00:32:36
personality changes resembling psychosis
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I feel it's not impossible that down you
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made a decision to disappear and start a
00:32:47
new life it was under a great deal of
00:32:50
pressure he had not had a happy life
00:32:53
since coming to Spokane but I feel the
00:32:59
possibilities are small due to the fact
00:33:02
he was so devoted to his children and he
00:33:04
felt the children needed him so badly I
00:33:07
feel that whatever has happened is
00:33:10
something beyond his control
00:33:14
it could be most anywhere then we
00:33:17
wouldn't be able to locate him or he
00:33:20
wouldn't be able to locate us update
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nine years after Dan Wilson disappeared
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authorities found his remains just five
00:33:34
miles from where his car was abandoned
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it was determined that he had died of
00:33:39
exposure no foul play is suspected
00:33:42
why then could that place the park and
00:33:45
whether he was alone remains a mystery
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next a 22 year search for a lost child
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ends with a touching reunion thanks
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Santa Maria California Glenn Dean
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Butterfield was about to meet the newest
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addition to her family her niece Kelly
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when Dean's brother bob was in the Army
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and was being shipped to Germany he and
00:34:28
Kelly Ann's mother had separated and
00:34:30
neither one could care for the baby the
00:34:32
army plan to put Kelly Anne in an
00:34:34
orphanage but aunt London wouldn't here
00:34:37
so she went up the chain of command
00:34:40
straight to the office of the president
00:34:43
about two days later the base commander
00:34:47
at Fort Campbell Kentucky called me and
00:34:49
said that anybody that got that legs to
00:34:51
keep a kid out of an orphanage that the
00:34:53
army would give my brother grant and
00:34:55
leave to bring her to me once Bob gave
00:34:58
custody of Kelly Anne to his sister he
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seemed to lose all interest in her
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Glenn Dean was on her own
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or I didn't hear from him for a long
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time I mean a real long time
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my name is probably maybe three years
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we'll say three years and he just kind
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of like disappeared you know Callahan
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spent those years happily growing up
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with Glenn Dean and her two daughters
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we just thought of her as a little
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sister cuz we got her she was a baby
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she's real tiny so she was no different
00:35:35
than my sister Vicki
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except for more fun she liked her horse
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she liked riding horses she liked she
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just did everything anybody's normal
00:35:47
can't do me no different than em except
00:35:49
they were a little older you know I mean
00:35:51
she just happy-go-lucky then out of the
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blue
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Bob suddenly reappeared unannounced and
00:36:02
moved in with Wendy he still showed
00:36:05
little interest in being a father but
00:36:08
things changed quickly when a young
00:36:10
woman named kitty moved into the same
00:36:12
apartment building less than a week
00:36:16
later Bob moved in with Kitty and then
00:36:21
without saying a word to Glenn Dean he
00:36:23
decided to take Callahan with him hey
00:36:26
Kellyanne
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like they moved her out after by going
00:36:31
knowing this woman for a day or two and
00:36:33
I just went into hysterics over what I
00:36:36
mean you know this is my kid with the
00:36:42
help of the police Brendan got Kellyanne
00:36:44
back
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but the Battle of the child was just
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beginning within a few months when Dean
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says Kelly and change she became an
00:36:56
unhappy confused little girl Christmas I
00:37:00
just don't understand he wants me to
00:37:03
call mommy
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your Uncle Bob wants me to call him
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daddy the situation became even worse
00:37:14
when Bob's suit blending for custody and
00:37:17
I've just had a nice long chat with
00:37:19
Kelly and my chambers she's a very
00:37:22
bright intelligent child she really
00:37:25
wants to stay with Glenn Dean he's very
00:37:28
happy where she is so happy I find for
00:37:32
the respondent the judge said that Kitty
00:37:34
and Bob could have visitation rights six
00:37:38
months we will review the situation they
00:37:41
would see or when they weren't supposed
00:37:43
to they would talk to her tell her
00:37:46
things
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it just kept her in a world of little
00:37:51
confusion you know I mean you think of a
00:37:53
little girl five years old or four to
00:37:55
have five years old and it's made a
00:37:57
confusion
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you know it got to the point that I was
00:38:11
so concerned about our mental well-being
00:38:12
you know for when she got older and
00:38:15
everything that I decided I needed to
00:38:18
keep her away from my brother Bob and
00:38:20
kidding you want to start a war you just
00:38:22
started one let's go
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as much as she wanted to keep Kellyanne
00:38:29
Glen Dean felt that it was impossible
00:38:31
she could think of only one other option
00:38:34
Kelly Ann's birth mother Marian Marian
00:38:38
was in the Air Force
00:38:39
she had remarried and had two sons
00:38:42
blendin believe Marian could provide the
00:38:44
stable environment that Kellyanne needed
00:38:47
because that you want to give up custody
00:38:49
to this lady but I do think it'd be best
00:38:55
for Killian the judge agreed to the plan
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of life
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soon after Glen being kissed Kellyanne
00:39:02
goodbye and left her with her new family
00:39:05
I miss you so much I love you my child I
00:39:14
mean this was my child and I couldn't
00:39:17
believe that I lost her that I didn't
00:39:19
have her anymore
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I sure miss you the last time when Dean
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spoke to Kelly Ann she was just six
00:39:29
years old she told me she missed me and
00:39:32
she loved me and I told her I loved her
00:39:34
and you know it was like a kind of not a
00:39:37
real long conversation but just you know
00:39:40
I felt wonderful when I talked to her
00:39:43
when Glenn Dean called again the line
00:39:46
was disconnected
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that's that at her on a desperate search
00:39:49
that after 22 years still had not turned
00:39:53
up a single clue during that time when
00:39:58
Dean and her brother Bob patched up
00:40:00
their differences they even worked
00:40:02
together to try to find Kelly Ann until
00:40:04
Bob's death in a farming accident
00:40:07
Glenn Dean continued the search alone
00:40:11
it hasn't been one day went by since I
00:40:15
gave her a rough time I've thought of
00:40:16
her a dozen times and wondered is she
00:40:19
okay does she need anything is she happy
00:40:22
did I do the right thing did I do the
00:40:25
wrong thing
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I just wish I knew update
00:40:33
within minutes of our broadcast the
00:40:36
viewer called to let us know that
00:40:38
Kellyanne was married and the mother of
00:40:40
two young children Kellyanne and Glenn
00:40:42
Dean spoke on the phone that very
00:40:44
evening and made plans to get together
00:40:48
the reunion took plenty to Anchorage
00:40:51
Alaska 2,000 miles to the north
00:40:54
Kellyanne was stationed at Fort
00:40:56
Richardson where she was the specialist
00:40:58
e4 United States Army
00:41:06
it feels wonderful I just can't believe
00:41:08
I found it all these years I've pitched
00:41:13
her like she's still six mammaries oh I
00:41:15
never could imagine her grown up hearing
00:41:22
from her again yes it has filled gaps in
00:41:24
my life that I have felt like you know
00:41:28
there's part of my life missing you know
00:41:30
where is it you know and I always feel
00:41:32
like I'm looking for something but you
00:41:36
know to know that she's cared about me
00:41:38
and loved me all these years
00:41:39
it's a very good feeling to help fill
00:41:44
the gaps when being brought along dozens
00:41:47
of family photographs I've never been
00:41:50
happier I got all my kids now I know
00:41:54
where they're all at all my grandkids I
00:41:58
don't have any need nothing else in life
00:42:01
now
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