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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries after a vicious letter writing
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campaign in Circleville Ohio one man is
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dead and another may have been convicted
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for a crime he did not
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commit hundreds of people claim they've
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seen a sea monster in Lake Champlain
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does champ really
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exist it was a brutal and senseless
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murder who could have killed 18-year-old
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Lisa Marine
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Kimmel and could the shroud of Trin be a
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forgery two researchers claim that they
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can replicate some of its unique
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qualities there is just nothing like a
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good mystery and they're even better
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when they're true I'm Dennis finina join
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me won't you
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we received lots of mail from our
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viewers but one postcard stands out from
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the rest in fact it was a threat
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designed to keep us from telling this
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story it reads forget Circleville Ohio
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if you come to Ohio you L sickles will
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pay it signed the Circleville riter but
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we don't scare that easily so here's the
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story
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Circleville
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Ohio a small town 25 Mi south of
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Columbus it's a place that rarely
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attracted outside
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attention but then frightening letters
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started to
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arrive the first letter was received by
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Mary Gillespie a school bus driver
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telling her that the letter writer was
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aware that she was having an affair with
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the superintendent of schools and that
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it had better
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stop in addition to allegations of an
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affair the letter carried an ominous
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threat I know where you live I've been
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observing your house and know you have
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children this is no joke please take it
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serious the envelope was postmarked
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Columbus Ohio there was no return
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address no signature inside and no way
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to tell who sent it
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a week later Mary received another
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letter with a similar
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tone Mary Mary kept the letters to
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herself until her husband Ron received
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one too what's going on all right I
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already got two of these okay and I
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didn't say anything because it's not
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true got why didn't you say something in
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this letter addressed to Ron gie told
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him that if he didn't do something to
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stop this affair that his life would was
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undoubtedly in
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danger the alleged Affair became the
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talk of Circleville the mysterious
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writer understood the power of Gossip
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the next letter was even more
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threatening the be you have had two
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weeks and done nothing make her admit
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the truth and inform the school board if
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not I will broadcast it on CBS posters
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signs and billboards until the truth
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comes out
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Mary and Ron evidently told three people
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about the letters Ron's sister her
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husband Paul fresh hour and Paul's
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Sister movie it was in black and white
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Mary had some ideas about who was
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sending the letters and she had a plan
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we thought we'd scare the guy we did
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four or five letters only you know there
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was no violence in him or anything just
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that we knew who he was and what he was
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doing and we send him the
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letters for a while the plan worked the
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threatening letters stopped and then one
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night hello Ron got a phone call who is
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this no you listen to me we're sick of
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this okay no more letters no more phone
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calls we're sick of the whole thing just
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end it all right the call seemed to
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confirm Ron's suspicions about the
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identity you got it of the letter
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writer he told the children he was going
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out he was going to confront the letter
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writer
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he took his weapon he did not seem to be
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drunk said goodbye to his children and
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went
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out angry and upset Ron hurried to the
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family's red and white pickup even
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though the letter writer had said that
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he was watching
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it within a short distance at an
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intersection that he knew very well he
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lost control of the vehicle hit a tree
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and was
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killed somewhere in between leaving the
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house and hitting that tree his gun had
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fired one shot and there was never any
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explanation for when or how at whom that
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gun could have been
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fired the police eliminated one
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potential suspect and then ruled Ron
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Gillespie's death and
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accident but
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several Circleville residents soon
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received Anonymous letters accusing the
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sheriff of a coverup first of all the
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sheriff agreed with me there was file
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play and then when I contacted him again
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he' changed his attitude completely then
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he was telling me that it wasn't file
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play that it was the suspect had passed
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a polygraph
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test Gillespie had1 16% alcohol which
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would in Ohio be 1 and 1/2 times the
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legal limit most people I've talked to
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said that he was not a heavy drinker and
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we're surprised by that that kind of
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finding was Ron glp's death and accident
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was he really drunk that night and why
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had one bullet been fired from his
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handgun after Ron's death the letters
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kept coming his wife Mary and the
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superintendent of schools eventually
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admitted to a relationship but said it
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began after the letters were sent
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Mary kept her job driving the school bus
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but now the letter writer had begun
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putting up signs along her bus
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route Mary's daughter was being targeted
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for Mary gpie it was finally too
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much she ripped the sign down much to
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her surprise behind the sign was this
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box and string and also another post
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that was attached to the Defence
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post she took it into the bus and she
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opened it up there was a small
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pistol when she looked closer Mary
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realized that it was a crude booby trap
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designed to fire the gun at her
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investigators discovered that someone
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had tried to rub the serial number off
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the gun but when lab tests were able to
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read it accurately the case took on an
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incredible
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turn next police discover the surprising
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identity of the gun's
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owner for more than 7 years the
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Circleville letter writer continued to
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threaten Mary Gillespie then the threats
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became deadly when Mary was almost
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killed by a crude booby
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trap the police learned from tracing the
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serial number that had belonged to
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Mary's brother-in-law Paul fresh hour he
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had just split up with his wife Ron
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Gillespie's sister I admitted the gun
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was mine but I hadn't seen it for a long
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time I'd had no reason to to check up on
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her anything and I don't know when it
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come up missing I really don't know what
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happened to it and I told him that and
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that's you know that's the truth that's
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how it
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was Sheriff Dwight Radcliffe asked Paul
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to take a handwriting test
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Paul agreed he would give me an actual
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letter and ask me maybe do the envelope
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part just as near as I could in the
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envelope and then on some he would take
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the actual letter out and have me to do
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them as near as I could on the letters
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and I did them because I knew I wasn't
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responsible for the
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letters that is not the proper way to
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test to see if someone has a certain
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writing style because if they're copying
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from a letter they're going to try to
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emulate the style and the experts said
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said that the testing was improper so
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they didn't really say that these
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letters were written by Paul fresh hour
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they said that they could have
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been the sheriff also searched Paul's
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Garage he turned over all the evidence
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he gathered to the courts he called in
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the prosecutor and told the prosecutor
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that was my writing on the booby trap
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and then the prosecutor is the one that
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actually told me that that uh there was
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booby trap found and I was under arrest
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for attempt to murder placed on a
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$50,000 cash uh
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Bond Paul fresh hour was put on trial
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for the attempted murder of his
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sister-in-law Mary Gillespie he wasn't
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charged with writing the threatening
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letters but they were used against them
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as crucial evidence what you're about to
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hear is taken from transcripts of the
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actual testimony and did you explain to
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the handwriting analyst how you went
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about obtaining the samples yes I did it
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is my opinion that the handwriting on
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the envelopes documents and postcards
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were printed by the same person it being
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the known handwriting or hand printing
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of Paul fresh hour have you at any time
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suspected the defendant of being the one
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responsible for writing these letters
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and putting these signs up not at first
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Mary began to suspect Paul fresh hour
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after a tip from a surprising source and
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his wife came to see me and indicated it
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might be a possibility and can you look
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at this Paul's boss testified that fresh
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hour hadn't come to work the day the
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booby trap was found even though fresh
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hour had a salad Alibi for almost the
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entire day he never took the stand in
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his own defense it was a decision he
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would come to regret we the jury find
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the defendant Paul L fresh hour guilty
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of attempted murder
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I couldn't believe it I I was just in
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shock I can't blame the jury because the
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jury didn't hear all the evidence but I
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was just I I I just couldn't believe it
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I was really in shock Paul freshh hour
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was given the maximum sentence for
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attempted murder 7 to 25 years everyone
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assumed that he had written the
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Circleville letters everyone figured
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that they would stop when Paul was in
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prison and everyone was wrong they were
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being received all over a large area of
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Central Ohio so a lot of people couldn't
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understand how Paul freshire could be
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mailing all these letters from prison
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Paul was placed in solitary confinement
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so the letters would stop but they still
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continued all of them were postmark
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Columbus even though Paul was in prison
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across the state in Lima full scale
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investigations work conducted twice
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possibly three times during which Paul
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fresh hour was put into isolation and
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the warden of the prison he was in
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during one of these investigations then
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wrote a letter to Paul's wife saying
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that as far as he was concern it was
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impossible for Paul to be writing these
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letters and sending them from prison you
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go into a single man cell and and that's
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it you know it's nothing in there with
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you no pencils no papers no nothing for
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s years Paul fresh hour was a model
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prisoner but when he became eligible for
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parole the board rejected his request
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based on the volume of letters still
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being
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sent a few days after his hearing Paul
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himself received a sadistic letter from
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the phanthom
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writer now when are you going to believe
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you aren't going to get out of there I
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told you 2 years ago when we set them up
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they stay set up don't you listen at
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all when journalist Martin y reviewed
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the sheriff's investigative file he
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uncovered evidence never mentioned at
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the
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trial Mary gaspie told the sheriff one
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of the other bus drivers told her that
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she had been driving that same road
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about 20 minutes before Mary gaspie
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found that booby trap at exactly that
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site
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and when she went by that very same
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intersection there was a yellow El
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Camino park there a large man with Sandy
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hair was standing there when he saw her
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come he turned around and acted like he
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was going to the bathroom or something
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uh but seemed also to be avoiding any
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kind of
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identification the description of the
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individual does not fit Paul fresh hour
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at all
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and Paul had a very solid Alibi for this
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time there was no attempt at all to
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follow up on that
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lead and if they had as I say they would
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have found that another possible suspect
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in this case had a brother who had a
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yellow El
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Camino Paul fresh hour was finally
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granted parole after serving 10 years to
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this day he maintains his innocence and
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he's sure that the real Criminal is
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still at large I'd really like to see
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some really look at this case on the
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letters reopen the letter part of it and
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get in find out who wrote the letters
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I'd also like to see someone look into
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to this to my former brother-in-law's
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death look I you know that's that's not
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my family anymore and you know that's my
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past I'm not even going to look back at
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it I've got a new family and a new
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future but I still would like to see
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someone look at that accident real close
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uh in the letters the circle Ville
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letters finally stopped but many
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questions remain who actually wrote the
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letters was Ron Gillespie's death an
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accident or murder and who made the
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booby trap found by Mary
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kesie if you have any information
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regarding this case please log on to our
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website at unsolved.com
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next the incredible story of A Primitive
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sea creature that might live in the
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depths of Lake
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Champlain Tales of a giant sea creature
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living in Lake Champlain date back to
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the time when Native Americans lived in
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the
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area over the years many have come to
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believe that the creature is real there
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have been hundreds of reported sightings
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and the locals have even given it a name
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champ I up around Sandra mancy grew up
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near Lake Champlain when she was a child
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her grandfather teased her with scary
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tales of the legendary sea creature
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grandfather told us all about champ and
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when we would go fishing he would say to
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us if you don't sit down and behave in
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the boat I'm going to throw you over and
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Champ's going to eat you of course we
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didn't believe leave a word of it it
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wasn't anything that we really believed
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in it was just a a
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threat many years later Sandra her two
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children and her fiance Tony were on a
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vacation near Lake Champlain hey just be
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careful we stopped at this one place and
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the children were down further on the
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beach having a great time and Tony
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decided to go back to the car and get
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the camera I'm going to find want find a
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really good and I'm looking out at the
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lake and the lake started
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churning my first thought was scuba
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divers but then it's too much it would
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be too big of a group of scuba divers
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but then fish there's some very large
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sturgeon and big Walley in Champlain so
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I thought well it's a very very large
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school of fish and then the head and the
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neck came up out of the water and then
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the back
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and I watched it turn its head and neck
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and look around and when it first came
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up its mouth was open and I could see
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water coming out of the mouth and I'm
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feeling like I shouldn't be there
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because to me this thing should have
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been extinct 30 million years ago and
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even then I'm not frightened I'm in
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total awe and very calm and then Tony
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came back and he saw it heidy get out of
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the water get out out of the water right
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now come on get out and he got all
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panicky screaming and hard get up here I
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don't know come on get up and he
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screamed at me to get back there so he
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held me up the bank and and when he did
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he handed me the camera and I turned
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around and it's still there and I picked
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up the camera and took one
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shot when Sandra saw the pictures she
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had taken she was certain that it was
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champ she was equally certain that no
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one would believe her so she threw away
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the negative and kept the photo crazy
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all stuff I've been telling you about
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finally Sandra had the snapshot blown up
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into an 8x10 in print she contacted Joe
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zarinsky who had written a book about
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champ Joe sent the print to the
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University of Arizona to be
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analyzed we digitized it and run all
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sorts of computer enhancement techniques
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we were looking for pulley or Ro or
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anything like that
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superimpositions but we found no
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evidence of hoaxing and we concluded
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that that object whatever it is was
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there in the lake at that estimated
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distance it wasn't any sort of
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superimposition when the photograph was
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released it caused a media
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sensation the New York Times and Life
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Magazine carried the story was it really
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a sea monster
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perhaps champ was a prehistoric animal
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that had somehow managed to
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survive the object in the mansy
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photograph resembled a plesiosaur which
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is an aquatic Reptile from the
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Cretaceous about 6070 million years ago
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long neck and flippers it resembles that
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but that's a long time to have
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survived another idea was that champ
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might be a zadon a snake-like whale
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extinct for 20 million
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years or perhaps champ was simply a lake
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sturgeon which have been known to reach
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7 ft in
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length no matter what it is ever since
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the mancy photograph went public dozens
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of eyewitnesses have reported sightings
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of
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champ near dusk on a summer day Walter
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taen his wife Sandy and their daughter
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Heidi were out on Lake Champlain with a
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camcorder
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they were assured they had seen champ
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the previous evening they had hoped
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lightning would strike twice in the same
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place it was a quiet night just as still
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as glass like the first night had been
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and I was full of anticipation and
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excitement but also not necessarily
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expecting anything and for about 10
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minutes we saw
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nothing and then Sandy says Walt I think
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I see one get the camera honey get I was
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Manning the camera all the time and uh
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when you look through the viewfinder you
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can't see much so we had quite a time
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there where my daughter and my wife were
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saying there there look look and I'd say
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where I can't see anything and at one
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particular moment they spotted one not
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far from the boat at the most 50 or 60
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ft from the boat and then began the
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footage for about 20 or 30 seconds of
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seeing these humps Glide along long
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first two then three then four and then
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suddenly five all in a row stretching
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out about 20
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ft I had probably um I would say seven
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different sightings of them it's bigger
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it's even bigger there more hums so I
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decided to climb up and stand on the
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Sund and I just
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scanned the water and lo and behold I
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saw saw one of those Brahma Bull humps
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coming along the water and then all of a
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sudden the neck and the head came up and
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it looked right at
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me I will never forget it and I was
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screaming with excitement which I wish I
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wasn't doing because it went down more
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rapidly came back and then very
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gracefully very slowly went back down
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into the water just like that there was
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no time for me to get the camera and
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refocus I'd give anything now to have
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that on footage because what Sandy saw
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was of course an astounding thing this
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creature looking at us and lifting its
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head out of the water and what it did
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was to confirm absolutely for all of us
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that what we had seen was
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Chan scientific opinion is varied but at
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least one expert believes that what
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Walter Tappen photographed was nothing
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more than a school of
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fish but who can explain the mancy
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photograph or the hundreds of eyewitness
00:23:27
accounts recorded through the centuries
00:23:30
do I believe champ exists you'll never
00:23:33
convince me of anything else you can
00:23:37
call it champ you can call it a monster
00:23:39
you can call it a zadon you can call it
00:23:42
a plesiosaur you can call it anything
00:23:44
you want I'm telling you in that Lake
00:23:48
there is something
00:23:53
extraordinary next a teenager is
00:23:56
mysteriously murdered and her body is
00:23:58
thrown into the Plat River who committed
00:24:02
this brutal
00:24:13
crime Casper
00:24:17
Wyoming residents report seeing
00:24:19
unexplained lights early one morning on
00:24:22
a little used suspension
00:24:25
bridge under the cover of Darkness a
00:24:27
killer has has brought his victim a
00:24:29
young girl of 18 to the
00:24:32
bridge he stabs her repeatedly and then
00:24:36
throws her body into the chilly Waters
00:24:39
of the North Plat
00:24:44
River the victim is later identified as
00:24:47
Lisa Marie Kimmel from Billings Montana
00:24:51
she has been sexually assaulted and then
00:24:53
killed in a manner that suggested some
00:24:56
kind of bizarre torture
00:25:00
Lisa was last seen alive on the night of
00:25:02
March 25th and police believe she was
00:25:05
killed just a few hours later but nearly
00:25:08
1,000 people claim they saw Lisa Marie
00:25:11
Kimmel or at least her car several days
00:25:15
after she was supposedly
00:25:18
dead Lisa Maria Kimmel was 18 years old
00:25:21
and living in Denver
00:25:23
Colorado on March 25th she left town to
00:25:26
visit her boyfriend and Cody Wyoming
00:25:28
and her parents in Billings Montana
00:25:31
Lisa's car carried the spunky license
00:25:34
plate l Miss plan was that she was
00:25:38
supposed to leave Denver sometime after
00:25:40
work and get to Cody to see me sometime
00:25:42
late that evening I am talked to her
00:25:45
about
00:25:47
4:30 and she was going to be leaving in
00:25:49
about a half hour thought she'd be in
00:25:50
about midnight or something like
00:25:52
that weather conditions were good so
00:25:55
Lisa should have made the trip to Cody
00:25:57
in eight or n hours she was expected at
00:26:00
her boyfriend's house late on Friday
00:26:02
night but by Saturday morning she still
00:26:05
hadn't
00:26:08
arrived Ed jerck anxiously telephoned
00:26:11
authorities in three different states
00:26:13
about 430 later a Wyoming patrol officer
00:26:16
reported that he stopped Leisa speeding
00:26:19
the night she disappeared it was 9:00
00:26:22
p.m. and she was 60 Mi south of Casper I
00:26:26
was patrolling Southbound on March 25th
00:26:29
noted a small car Northbound at 88 mph
00:26:32
according to my radar I turned around
00:26:34
and pursued the car I stopped her near
00:26:37
Orin
00:26:38
Junction she was well kept kind of
00:26:41
person you'd like to have for a daughter
00:26:43
radar Lisa's signature on the ticket
00:26:47
verified her identity it would be the
00:26:49
last confirmed sighting of Lisa Mar Kim
00:26:53
as the week went on we realized the
00:26:55
gravity of the situation the out look
00:26:58
was looking a little Grim but even at
00:27:01
that even if the outcome wasn't as we
00:27:04
hoped we still needed to find
00:27:09
her one week after Leisa disappeared a
00:27:13
man named Greg Bradford went fishing on
00:27:16
the North Flat
00:27:17
River when I stepped up off the side of
00:27:20
the bank I looked over my shoulder and I
00:27:22
saw the lady in the water and then I
00:27:25
remember when we were driving up from
00:27:26
Cheyenne they said this young girl was
00:27:28
missing from Montana so I looked again
00:27:31
and I said oh my God it must be her when
00:27:34
we went out there the physical
00:27:36
description matched Lisa but at that
00:27:38
point because of the condition of the
00:27:40
body we weren't sure until we had gotten
00:27:42
her out of the water she was found
00:27:45
nearly nude she was sexually assaulted
00:27:49
there were some stab wounds in the chest
00:27:50
area and I can't tell you how they were
00:27:53
done to the body but it would lead the
00:27:55
appearance that somebody took their time
00:27:56
in doing this
00:27:59
police searched the area where leisa's
00:28:00
body was discovered on an old highway
00:28:03
bridge one4 of a mile away they found
00:28:06
blood that was the same type as
00:28:09
leases because the bridge is so
00:28:11
inaccessible and so seldom used police
00:28:14
concluded that the murderer probably
00:28:17
lived in the
00:28:18
area based on the eyewitness accounts of
00:28:21
unexplained activity on the bridge they
00:28:23
estimated that Lisa was murdered early
00:28:26
Saturday morning roughly 5 hours after
00:28:29
she was stopped for speeding but soon
00:28:32
authorities began receiving information
00:28:35
that complicated their
00:28:39
investigation numerous eyewitnesses
00:28:41
reported that they had seen Lisa's car
00:28:44
some even claimed they had seen Lisa
00:28:48
herself we've had over a thousand
00:28:50
sightings of this
00:28:52
vehicle uh a lot of them from law
00:28:54
enforcement officers and we were deluged
00:28:57
with them as at the point that we
00:28:59
thought they had gone to Canada we had
00:29:00
some sightings in Canada one of the most
00:29:03
reliable sightings occurred roughly 10
00:29:05
hours after Lisa was supposedly
00:29:09
killed Donna Kirkpatrick the wife of a
00:29:12
local County Sheriff reported that she
00:29:14
had seen Lisa driving her car in the
00:29:17
City of Buffalo
00:29:19
Wyoming it was Saturday at noon and I
00:29:22
noticed a little black sports car had
00:29:24
pulled out right in front of me then I
00:29:27
noticed a license plate it was a Montana
00:29:29
license plate with little Miss on it l i
00:29:32
m i SS and at that point I decided that
00:29:35
I needed to see if the car went with
00:29:38
whoever was driving
00:29:39
it I am absolutely positive there was a
00:29:42
young gal driving it I know the license
00:29:45
plate I know Montana license plates I
00:29:47
saw the plate on that car at that time
00:29:50
on that day and there's not a doubt in
00:29:52
my
00:29:54
mind 2 hours later another eyewitness
00:29:58
also saw Lisa in Buffalo this time a
00:30:02
mysterious man was with her I was busy
00:30:05
at the register But A car pulled up and
00:30:07
I said Little Miss on the Montana
00:30:09
license plates on the front of it and
00:30:10
there were two people in the vehicle
00:30:12
there was a very attractive young lady
00:30:14
at the wheel the individual that was
00:30:16
with her was a small man I would say 135
00:30:19
to 140 lb a few minutes later when I
00:30:22
turned and looked again the car had
00:30:25
gone a third eyewitness reported see
00:30:28
Lisa more than a day after police
00:30:30
believed that she was murdered but this
00:30:32
sing was in Casper Wyoming more than 100
00:30:37
Mil from Buffalo Diana Houston was
00:30:40
driving through Casper when a car with
00:30:42
an outof state license plate caught her
00:30:45
eye it was Sunday afternoon and I saw a
00:30:49
Montana license plate on a vehicle and
00:30:51
being from Montana I had caught my eye
00:30:54
so I looked and the license plate said a
00:30:56
little miss
00:30:58
I went by I saw somebody with blonde
00:31:00
hair driving and had on a yellow
00:31:04
sweater there were numerous other
00:31:06
sightings of Lisa after her
00:31:08
disappearance but even these three are
00:31:10
difficult to fit into the known facts of
00:31:13
the case Lisa was last seen at 9:00 p.m.
00:31:16
on Friday night and reported missing by
00:31:19
900 a.m. Saturday
00:31:22
morning yet she was reportedly seen
00:31:25
twice later that day and once on Sunday
00:31:29
if Lisa was alive why hadn't she shown
00:31:32
up at her boyfriend's house or her
00:31:34
parents' house and if she had been
00:31:37
killed early Saturday morning as police
00:31:39
suspect who was driving the car with
00:31:42
Lisa's distinctive license
00:31:45
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00:31:48
plates
00:31:51
update 14 years after Lisa Marie Kimmel
00:31:54
was murdered authorities cracked the
00:31:56
case there check of the Wyoming DNA
00:31:59
database matched an inmate named Dale
00:32:02
Wayne eaten to the crime when police
00:32:05
searched Eaton's property they found
00:32:07
Lisa's car buried
00:32:10
underground Lisa had been held there for
00:32:13
6 days Eaton was tried for murder and
00:32:16
other charges and the jury found him
00:32:18
guilty and sentenced him to death the
00:32:22
sightings of Lisa Marie Kimmel were
00:32:24
never explained
00:32:28
Lisa's parents were awarded Dale Eaton's
00:32:30
property in a civil suit they quickly
00:32:33
burned the buildings there to the
00:32:37
[Music]
00:32:41
ground next when a motorcyclist loses
00:32:44
control of his bike he is saved by a
00:32:47
mysterious Good
00:32:49
Samaritan and coming up the shroud of
00:32:52
Trin is this the actual cloth that
00:32:55
covered Jesus when he was buried
00:32:58
or is it a
00:33:09
forgery Naples
00:33:12
Florida wow look how big she is in
00:33:15
Virginia a baby's birth comes with
00:33:18
overwhelming joy for Steve and Sharon
00:33:20
Newton that was certainly the case when
00:33:23
their first child Virginia was
00:33:26
born look at her it was the most
00:33:28
incredible thing I ever seen before in
00:33:29
my life to watch this child being born
00:33:31
especially knowing that it was my child
00:33:34
just got a lot of hair that's what I
00:33:35
always wanted to be was a father and I
00:33:38
just that she was my world that's pretty
00:33:41
much how I felt with my wife and you
00:33:43
know I just they couldn't it couldn't
00:33:45
have gotten any better at that
00:33:48
point that afternoon Steve left the
00:33:51
hospital to go pick up the family car it
00:33:53
was an hour and a half trip to their
00:33:55
home in imoc
00:34:00
it had been a rainy week and the storms
00:34:02
had left large puddles on the road
00:34:05
creating unseen
00:34:07
hazards it looked like a mirage at first
00:34:09
but it wasn't a mirage it was water I
00:34:12
remember thinking this is it I'm going
00:34:13
to
00:34:14
[Applause]
00:34:19
die I just remember coming straight down
00:34:22
on my head as I hit I saw poof this big
00:34:26
bright light and that was it then I was
00:34:28
just completely
00:34:30
out Steve ended up in a drainage ditch
00:34:34
face down and
00:34:37
unconscious are you okay can you hear me
00:34:41
I woke up and there's this lady staring
00:34:43
me in the face I remember thinking that
00:34:45
this woman was like an angel of some
00:34:47
sort she was just so peaceful so quiet
00:34:49
so pretty and I'm going to stay here
00:34:51
with you until I get here okay you think
00:34:53
you can get
00:34:54
up the woman a passing motorist stopped
00:34:58
when she saw the accident and found
00:34:59
Steve unconscious she quickly turned him
00:35:03
over and saved him from drowning and
00:35:05
then she pulled him to his feet and led
00:35:08
him to her
00:35:11
car when the paramedics arrived Steve
00:35:15
was in a precarious State PMS were you
00:35:17
both involved in the accident no it was
00:35:19
just him sir do you remember what
00:35:21
happened he appeared slightly confused
00:35:24
and he was
00:35:25
hyperventilating the woman was there
00:35:27
initially and since his uh answers were
00:35:29
somewhat disoriented I asked her what
00:35:31
she had found on the scene and she said
00:35:33
that he was face down uh in in the water
00:35:35
at the roadside and uh when she
00:35:38
initially went up to him he was
00:35:39
unconscious at that time he wasn't
00:35:41
answering her at
00:35:42
all he easily could have drowned if she
00:35:44
had not pulled him from the
00:35:46
water The Stranger stayed at the scene
00:35:49
until police arrived and then she
00:35:52
disappeared without leaving her name how
00:35:55
you doing sir do you remember your name
00:35:59
20 minutes later Steve was brought into
00:36:01
the same hospital where his daughter had
00:36:03
been born just hours earlier Steve are
00:36:07
you allergic to any
00:36:10
medications Steve survived the accident
00:36:13
but over a year later he was still
00:36:15
disabled and suffering from seizures
00:36:18
still Steve knew that without the
00:36:20
mysterious Good Samaritan he would not
00:36:23
be here at all I always knew tomorrow
00:36:26
was coming I always knew that next week
00:36:28
was coming and now I don't take that for
00:36:30
granted no more because it could just
00:36:32
end just like
00:36:33
that if she could just see my daughter
00:36:35
she'll know that she did me the the
00:36:38
greatest favor or gift that anybody can
00:36:40
give and that's to give me back my life
00:36:42
and I'd like to say thank you for
00:36:44
[Music]
00:36:49
that
00:36:50
update a Florida woman watching our
00:36:53
broadcast recognized Steve's story as
00:36:56
one she had heard from a coworker named
00:36:59
Tammy dson as it turned out Tammy was
00:37:03
Steve's mysterious Good
00:37:06
Samaritan Steve and Tammy met face to
00:37:09
face for the first time since the near
00:37:11
fatal accident as a special treat Steve
00:37:14
brought along Virginia now 1 and 1/2
00:37:17
years old nobody's ever gone that far to
00:37:21
come to thank me and he kept saying that
00:37:24
I was his Angel I've never been called
00:37:26
an angel before far from it but it made
00:37:29
me feel good inside to know that I've
00:37:32
done something that's helped somebody so
00:37:35
much that day Tammy and Steve returned
00:37:38
to the scene of the accident all too
00:37:40
aware that Tammy's simple act of
00:37:43
kindness had changed them both forever
00:37:47
it makes me want to do more for other
00:37:48
people now I you know I if someone's in
00:37:51
trouble I would go that extra mile you
00:37:53
know to to that extra just to help that
00:37:55
person I just wanted to hug him I was so
00:37:58
glad to see that he was okay and the
00:38:01
baby and everything I was just just
00:38:04
thrilled that he was
00:38:06
[Music]
00:38:12
fine on a previous broadcast we explored
00:38:16
one of the great mysteries of religion
00:38:19
the shroud of Trin does it truly show
00:38:22
the face of Jesus or could it be a
00:38:25
forgery
00:38:27
according to the Bible after Jesus was
00:38:30
crucified he was wrapped in a linen
00:38:33
shroud more than 1,000 years later this
00:38:36
3 and 1/2 by4 ft linen cloth
00:38:40
mysteriously turned up in France it
00:38:43
showed the faint image of a man's body
00:38:46
front and back ever since Believers have
00:38:50
claimed that this was Christ's burial
00:38:53
shroud they say that at the moment of
00:38:55
the Resurrection His Image was was
00:38:58
miraculously imprinted on the
00:39:00
cloth when I first began to study the
00:39:03
shroud of Toran I was convinced it was a
00:39:05
Croc and that it would take me probably
00:39:08
less than 2 hours to put away this Pious
00:39:11
fraud but I must admit here I am some 17
00:39:15
years later I who came to scoff have
00:39:18
stayed to pray my own personal belief is
00:39:22
that the Shroud is probably
00:39:25
authentic Skeptics regard the shroud as
00:39:27
a painting by an unknown Renaissance
00:39:30
artist however they have a difficult
00:39:33
time explaining two
00:39:35
things first if the Shroud is a painting
00:39:39
where are the brush
00:39:41
strokes and second why does a computer
00:39:45
analysis of the image project a
00:39:47
three-dimensional picture more like a
00:39:50
sculpture than a
00:39:52
drawing virtually no other work of art
00:39:55
has this characteristic
00:39:58
is the shroud of tyin really an imprint
00:40:00
from Jesus when he died or is it a
00:40:06
painting
00:40:08
update Dr Emily Craig a forensic
00:40:11
anthropologist and medical illustrator
00:40:14
claims that she knows how the Shroud was
00:40:17
made using dry paint pigments ground
00:40:20
into a fine powder Dr Craig has created
00:40:23
an image on cloth similar to the one on
00:40:26
the shroud she uses an ancient technique
00:40:30
known as dust drawing it goes back to
00:40:34
cave paintings it goes back thousands of
00:40:36
years they've used carbon dust and
00:40:39
ochres and different natural occurring
00:40:42
pigments for centuries working first on
00:40:45
paper Dr Craig applies the dust more
00:40:48
heavily for the raised features of the
00:40:51
face the lower areas receive less
00:40:54
pigment once it's done to my satisf
00:40:57
action want to take a piece of linen you
00:41:00
lay the linen down and then taking any
00:41:03
flat flexible object we're just going to
00:41:06
rub the entire image and make a direct
00:41:11
transfer the image now on linen
00:41:14
satisfies one of the shroud's main
00:41:17
attributes there are no brush
00:41:20
Strokes Dr Randy brzy is Dr Craig's
00:41:24
partner he put the dust drawing through
00:41:27
the same computer analysis that the
00:41:29
Shroud
00:41:30
received the test showed that Dr Craig's
00:41:34
method can produce the 3D properties of
00:41:38
the Shroud what we have accomplished I
00:41:41
believe is that we have demonstrated
00:41:43
that a miracle is not required to
00:41:45
produce the image on the Shroud of Turin
00:41:47
and it can be drawn on there in a simple
00:41:50
straightforward
00:41:51
manner Emily Craig and Randy bruie
00:41:54
believe they have discovered how the
00:41:56
shroud was created however not everyone
00:42:00
in the art world or the religious
00:42:02
community is convinced perhaps The
00:42:05
Mystery of the Shroud will and should
00:42:09
remain unsolved forever
00:42:28
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