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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 16 - Full Episode

May 23, 2019 / 49:14

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers UFO sightings in West Carleton, Ontario, a tragic murder case in Alabama, and a heartwarming family reunion.

The first segment focuses on Diane Lebanon's UFO sighting in West Carleton, Ontario, where she witnessed unusual red flames and a flying disc in 1991. The segment features interviews with UFO researchers Bob Xler and Graham Lightfoot, who analyze a videotape that seems to corroborate Diane's account. Experts like Dr. Bruce Maccabee discuss the tape's authenticity and the mysterious presence of an informant named Guardian.

The second segment recounts the tragic story of Geraldine George, who was shot by her estranged husband Larry George in Alabama in 1988, resulting in the deaths of two neighbors. The episode details the events leading up to the murder and the subsequent manhunt for Larry, who was eventually captured and extradited to face charges.

The final segment highlights the emotional reunion of Eugene Price with his long-lost siblings after nearly 30 years apart. The episode shares their heartwarming journey to find each other, culminating in a touching reunion in Michigan.

Throughout the episode, viewers are encouraged to provide information that could help solve these mysteries.

TL;DR

This episode features UFO sightings, a tragic murder case, and a heartwarming family reunion after decades apart.

Episode

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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast in a rural area of Canada a
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woman claimed to see unusual red flames
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and an extraordinary flying up sheep
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landing in a field behind her house six
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months later this remarkable videotape
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broadcast tonight for the first time on
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network television seemed to verify her
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account could it be evidence of a close
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encounter or a clever sophisticated hoax
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after Geraldine George separated from
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her husband Larry she had no idea that
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he was watching her every move
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finally Larry George erupted in a
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jealous rage shot Geraldine and left two
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innocent people murdered in his wake in
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September of 1992 this mysterious young
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woman showed up in a small California
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community
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she has no identification and can
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neither speak nor hear perhaps you know
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who she is and where she came from
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also a poignant heartwarming update by
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watching a recent broadcast one of our
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viewers was surprised to discover and he
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was a subject of an intense 30 years
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searched by his long-lost sister will
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share their remarkable reunion
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tonight's unsolved mysteries
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the Canadian township of West Carleton
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lies 40 miles north of the Canadian
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United States border in the province of
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Ontario life in West Carlton is usually
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unremarkable but late in 1991 one
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resident had an extraordinary experience
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on August 18th at around 10 p.m.
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Diane Lebanon could just put her
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children to bed her husband was out
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running an errand when the dogs began to
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howl I walk right to the window and I
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saw flames right on the back of the
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field extremely red flames and lots of
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smoke it didn't look like a fire I know
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what a fire looks like when you start a
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fire out there and the grass was very
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dry so if you start a fire you will see
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it moving whether this way or closer to
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the woods and the fire was standing on
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one spot only
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I saw a ship coming down close to the
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flames right on top of the ship I saw a
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blue flashing light and another light
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was on the bottom very bright I didn't
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know what to do I was looking at it for
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about 10 minutes or so and then his ship
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went a little bit back over the trees
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and it disappeared but I saw all the
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flames turn out at the same time I don't
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think I'd like to see it again it's very
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scary I live here for many many years
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and I have never been so scared in my
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life
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it did enter my mind to phoned the
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police when this was all over I came to
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the telephone but I said what am I gonna
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tell him I'm gonna tell him I have seen
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flares out there at 10 o'clock or past
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10 o'clock at night and there was a ship
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up there who is going to say okay Diane
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that's fine were coming over so I that's
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why I didn't I didn't call according to
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rabbinic ten minutes after the
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mysterious lights abruptly blinked out a
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helicopter appeared just as unexpectedly
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the unmarked craft flew low to the
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ground over the field where the
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unexplained lights had appeared after
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Criss crossing the area it flew over
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Diane's house and rushed off into the
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night at the crack of dawn
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Diane lab anak ran out to the empty
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fields which surround her house
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searching for evidence of the previous
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night's events I searched everything
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there was no marks there was no spots
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there was no matches there was just
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nothing the only person I told was my
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mom and my husband it kind of bothered
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me inside for a long long time not to
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come up forward and say it too to
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anybody but when I went when I went out
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on the field and I could not find
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anything who is going to believe me that
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this really happened so I kept it to
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myself the 1991 sighting was a second
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unusual event Diane lab a naked witness
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in West Carlton
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in 1989 she was one of several residents
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who observe a sudden explosion of
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extraordinarily brilliant light over a
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nearby swamp lava deck might have
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remained silent about the 1991 episode
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if not for this controversial videotape
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which seems to verify her account a tape
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was mailed to the office of the UFO
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researcher and tonight it will be shown
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for the first time ever on national
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television in February of 1992
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six months after lab an exciting a
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package from Canada arrived at the
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Edgewater Maryland office a bomb X ler a
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former NASA mission specialist extra is
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now a well known UFO researcher the
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package had no return address inside
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were documents pictures a map and the
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videotape all pertaining to the 1991
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incident at West Carlton most unusual
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there seemed to be somewhat of a symbol
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with regard to the videotape on the
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label was the name Guardian and it was
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accompanied by a fingerprint a guardian
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would to me was was an enigma certainly
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nothing I had heard about in the UFO
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literature so it was a it was a mystery
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starting from scratch at the time Exeter
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was unaware of Lavin exciting but he
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would later find that the video depicted
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what she is reported was stunning
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accuracy
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the tape showed a cluster brightly
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burning red flames similar to flares to
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the right Harvard a dark disc like
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object emitting a bright glow from its
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underside the object was capped by a
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rapidly strobing blue light it is among
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the most convincing documentation of a
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UFO extra had seen in his 12 years of
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research it was clearly a disc looking
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shape we could resolve that because the
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flashing light on top would reflect off
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of the curb surface of the disc I got a
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sense initially that this was a real
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event occurring in a field as opposed to
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some prop would set up in a room
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somewhere it had such an extraordinary
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amount of luminosity characteristic to
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it that I kind of had a sense I might be
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dealing with something that was
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potentially authentic here the map set
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with a videotape shows the area west
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Carleton Canada is a location where the
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tape had been made extra wet to West
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Carleton along with UFO researcher
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Graham Lightfoot
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together they interviewed Diane Lebanon
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whom light-footed met when he
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investigated her 1989 sighting yes I
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seen a bright light what time of the day
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was this this was a painting to their
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surprise lab Anik described exactly what
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the two researchers had seen on
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guardian's videotape when we talked to
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Diane about the sighting I asked her had
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she seen anything her description was so
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vivid that it's something I didn't think
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she could have made up she had not seen
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a tape she had no idea what we knew and
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yet she was able to describe things that
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we already knew from the tape and when
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he showed me the tape it was exactly
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what I've seen then it was
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that was still scary for me but at least
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I had something to go by something that
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no I can tell the people because no I
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have I have little bit more evidence as
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one of the clearest videos I've seen a
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show or a structured object dr. Bruce
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Maccabee a u.s. Navy physicist and photo
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analyst to studied UFOs for years and
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here's the beacon light blue light
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evidently a reflection down here on the
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body of the crafty outline of the object
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itself that you can see some sort of
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dark lines that appear some brightness
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structure indicating something
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generating light is hanging down below
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the object its generating green light as
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well as blue light probably there is
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other structure in there which however
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the glare from this bright light is
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blurring out dr. Maccabee who believes
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the tape is not a hoax was particularly
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intrigued by the bright strobing light
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now first of all it's an unusual one
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because it's blue and it's very fast it
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was running about seven cycles per
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second this is much faster than ordinary
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flashing beacons on aircraft for example
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it typically run about one flash per
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second or maybe two flashes per second
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the section of the video which shows the
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object is sort of appearing over a arise
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is quite convincing to me as a would be
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what you would expect if somebody were
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in the field trying to get closer to it
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and not knowing how close he could get
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and so he turns on his camera and while
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he's walking he knows he's gonna come up
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over a rise and see it and you can see
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in the video farther and farther down
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until you see the
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device suddenly the light coming towards
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him gets brighter and brighter you get a
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great big diffuse reflection or image in
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the camera which suggests to me that
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this object shined a beam I'm blue beam
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right at him dr. Maccabee estimated the
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unknown object to be twenty to thirty
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feet in diameter
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according to X lured the object's
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apparent size argues against it being a
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hoax it appeared to be so large that it
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would not be logical to try to set all
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this up at night under darkness there
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would have been evidence during the day
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of movement of generators of somebody
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hauling cables maybe big apparatus or
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something that they would have had to
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bring in there for for that night
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clearly if there was a hoax involved
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Diane would have seen evidence of it in
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advanced audio analysis of the tape
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revealed only the distant barking of
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dogs perhaps those reported by Diane lab
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anak
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the craft itself seemed to be silent
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there was no audible trace of power
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generators which if the object was
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staged would have been necessary to run
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its massive lights dr. Robert Nathan of
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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reviewed the tape in a non official
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capacity dr. Nathan could not explain
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the images nor could he categorically
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dismiss that tape as a hoax
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in a puzzling coincidence low-flying
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helicopters are cruised over West
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Carlton regularly since the August 91
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incident according to rabbinic and other
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local residents the helicopters are
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black green or maroon in color they are
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unmarked the darkly tinted windows the
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Canadian military denies any involvement
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in this incident where the helicopters
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come from what they are searching for
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remains a mystery the helicopters that
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are used in this area of Canada do not
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fly low in that area we have designated
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flying training areas about 30 miles
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west of here we also have them north
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therefore there are no requirements for
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our military helicopters to go and fly
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near private citizens property like that
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either this is one extraordinary
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elaborate hoax a military operation on
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private property or something that's
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very unusual in the UFO category
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something suggesting perhaps non-human
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technology
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the key to the entire episode lies with
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a person using the name Guardian the
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presence of this mysterious informant in
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remote field late at night with video
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camera in hand just in time for a UFO
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sighting can hardly be ascribed to luck
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according to Bob X learn whether the
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event was real or an elaborate hoax
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Guardian had prior knowledge that it was
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going to happen I think Guardian has to
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be connected to the event in some way I
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don't see any way Guardian could have
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just happened on to this I don't see
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Guardian as a UFO investigator Guardian
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is much more involved in this than the
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evidence even suggests in my opinion
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virtually nothing is known about
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guardians true identity curiously the
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secretive informant is contacted UFO
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researchers only in connection with the
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two sightings reported by Diane lab anak
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and others in West Carlton when we
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started looking into the the events it
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would be simple to say that it was a
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hoax because Diane was involved in both
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of them but when you get to know Diane
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and see the way she lives and the
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circumstance it's apparent that she
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wasn't involved in any way other than
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being an observer but purported military
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documents that arrived with a videotape
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raised serious questions about Guardians
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credibility among other preposterous
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claims the papers alleged far-reaching
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conspiracies involving UFOs Red China
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and nuclear weapons there was some
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question immediately with regard to the
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authenticity of the documentation didn't
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look like it was a typical government
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document even Canadian government
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documents of which I had no familiarity
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at the time this document is clearly a
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fabrication there are way too many
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errors in the document to make it
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authentic someone with very little
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effort could have come a lot closer than
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this also included on the videotape or
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obscure images which
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ardian claimed show an alien being
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clearly this could have been someone
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dressed up in a costume but that posed a
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major question if in fact the video
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images of the disc were authentic why
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would anyone contaminate such an
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extraordinary event with fake images of
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alien creatures the stories that he
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writes to go along with the events don't
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seem to match the quality of the event
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itself if if that makes any sense they
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these stories are rather far-fetched and
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yet the events are seen by credible
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witnesses in spite of the dubious images
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and questionable documents many experts
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believe that the events shown on the
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tape did indeed take place
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what really happened in the fields of
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West Carlton
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in the wake of his brief appearance
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during the summer of 1991 the strange
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luminous object left only questions
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questions perhaps the person called
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Guardian alone can answer this is either
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an extraordinary top-secret flying
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vehicle of somebody's government or it
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is of a nonhuman origin having no
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contact with Guardian is probably the
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biggest frustration to an investigation
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like this we don't know who Guardian is
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what Guardian represents we don't know
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if Guardian was sent or went on his own
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we have no idea what the solutions to
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many of these mysteries are going to be
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we may never know
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but a recent broadcast we brought you
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the poignant story of a woman named
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Brenda Marin in 1961 Brenda's mother
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bought a restaurant in Lawrenceville
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Pennsylvania and moved her children to a
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farmhouse just outside town I'm gonna
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ride into town with the movers so you
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have to take care of your brothers and
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sisters well aren't you coming back up
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here tonight
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brenda was the oldest child and at the
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age of 16 she suddenly found herself
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responsible for the welfare of five
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brothers and sisters it was just like a
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normal family cuz I was like their
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mother you know it just went you wash
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clothes you you did the dishes you got
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their dinner and you got the breakfast
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and you got their supper and you get him
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scrubbed up for bed you know and you
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sing them songs before they go to sleep
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you know like a normal household through
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a long hard winter
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Brenda struggled to care for the
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children often she was forced to hunt
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small game to keep food on the table
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finally as winter broke into a damp
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chilly spring a fire at the farmhouse
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drove the youngsters to seek refuge with
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her mother but she was unwilling to take
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them in Brenda tried to keep the
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children herself but was forced to give
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them up one by one you take good care of
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him okay don't worry honey we'll take
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good care of him eventually Brenda was
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reunited with her sister Linda and her
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brother butch together they set out to
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find the two youngest brothers Eric and
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Keith on the evening of our broadcast
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Brenda Merrill single-minded
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determination to bring her family back
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together finally began to pay off an
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hour after Brenda story aired a man
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named Keith Robinson of Hornell New York
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contacted our telecentre and said that
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he was Brenda's long-lost brother
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Brenda kala me that same night like five
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minutes later he was talking and I
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mentioned about having a photograph that
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she had aired on the program and I
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basically told her in or detail for
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detail what was in the photo so she knew
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that I was her brother on December 19th
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1992 just in time for Christmas
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Keith Robinson and his wife and children
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traveled to Montour Falls New York for
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an emotional reunion with his sisters
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Brenda and Linda and his brother butch
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he had not seen them in more than 30
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years I thought a lot about what they
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were gonna be like you know if they were
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gonna love me for just being her brother
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or love me for what I am now today if
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they were gonna accept my family into
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their hurt because it was over over a
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30-year period of waiting and looking
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it's a great Christmas present you don't
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know he is the greatest Christmas
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present especially his wife and kids -
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he has a nice wife and kids for everyone
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involved the reunion was bittersweet
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their joy tempered by the knowledge that
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one brother was still missing
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Eric Nickerson was still a toddler when
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his family was split apart just five
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weeks after we filmed this update he too
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was found Eric's name is now Richard
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Moore and he lives in Tulsa Oklahoma
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with his wife and two children in
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February of 1993 he was reunited with
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his sisters Brenda and Linda after more
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than 30 years of separation
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Brenda Miller's long search to find all
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her brothers and sisters was finally
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over recently this young woman was found
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wandering through the streets of a small
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California community she was completely
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incapable of speaking or hearing and
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carried no identification for the past
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five months local social workers have
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been counseling her but still know
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almost nothing about her tonight they
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asked your help to find the young
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woman's family or friends our story
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begins in Port Hueneme California on
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September 8 1992 that afternoon a
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motorist came across the young woman
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frolicking on the Meridian of a busy
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thoroughfare
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you know what I'm saying do you live
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around here
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the motor is quickly determined that the
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woman was hearing-impaired fearing for
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her safety he took her to the Ventura
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County police station the police
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attempted to question the woman but
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found that she was unable to communicate
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who she was or where she had come from
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the only clue to her identity was a
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receipt from a bank in San Diego 200
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miles to the south the authorities could
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see no reason to detain the young woman
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and a short time later she was released
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on 10-6 with the subject I'll bring her
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into the station the next day a
00:23:03
patrolman came upon the same young woman
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once again in the middle of a busy
00:23:07
street less than a mile from the police
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station
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she appeared to be terribly confused
00:23:13
this time the authorities placed her in
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a homeless shelter for women when she
00:23:21
first came to this shelter she had no
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means of formal communication with
00:23:25
anyone and so a lot of it was pan to
00:23:27
mining and mimicking and and what is
00:23:29
known as home sign language
00:23:33
communication specialist chris burrows
00:23:35
was enlisted to help pierce the walls of
00:23:38
silence this surrounded this most
00:23:39
unusual Jane Doe one of the first things
00:23:43
that we tried to do was we wanted to get
00:23:45
a name and an age so that we could find
00:23:47
out if we were dealing with the juvenile
00:23:49
or whether we were dealing with an adult
00:23:50
all right let's see if we can figure out
00:23:52
her name here let's let's try this we
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sat down with paper and pen and we tried
00:23:58
communicating with her that way we wrote
00:24:02
our names Marty and I I wrote my name
00:24:04
gestured to myself several times
00:24:06
Marty wrote her name gestured to herself
00:24:08
several times
00:24:11
and then we ask her to write her name if
00:24:15
she could write your name this is me
00:24:17
okay I think she got it here
00:24:20
l-l-l-l-level is apparently unable to
00:24:28
write and it was clear that she had no
00:24:30
formal training in sign language but she
00:24:32
was able to spell out her name using
00:24:34
symbolic hand gestures X and when I
00:24:38
copied it onto the paper it was instant
00:24:41
recognition and in our field instant
00:24:43
recognition means this has got to be the
00:24:45
truth the name she spelled out was Luxy
00:24:48
which may be a derivative of a Spanish
00:24:51
first name for convenience sake Chris
00:24:53
and Marti dubbed her Lucy she got very
00:24:58
excited when she found that someone
00:25:01
finally had known her her name and had
00:25:03
gotten it we did the same thing with her
00:25:05
age 10 22 1 23 23 you're 23
00:25:15
despite the eases which Chris and Marty
00:25:18
determined Lucy's name and age finding
00:25:21
someone who knew her the present a far
00:25:23
greater challenge
00:25:25
in the days and weeks after Lucy
00:25:27
surfaced in Port Hueneme the FBI and
00:25:30
various missing-persons organization ran
00:25:32
checks on her but all turned up empty
00:25:34
the only solid lead was a bank receipt
00:25:37
from San Diego found in her pocket but
00:25:40
that too led nowhere
00:25:41
and authorities now find themselves at a
00:25:43
dead end you draw the baby this is Lucy
00:25:54
as she appears today over the past few
00:25:56
months she has slowly begun to reveal
00:25:58
fragmentary glimpses into her past
00:26:01
there's just a particular story that she
00:26:04
tries to tell about having come over on
00:26:06
an airplane and having had a child and
00:26:08
the child being taken from her and that
00:26:11
she was left here one of the things it's
00:26:15
puzzling about Lucy's she has all of the
00:26:18
grooming habits and she has all of the
00:26:20
appearances of someone who has been well
00:26:22
kept she's been taking care of all of
00:26:24
her life she doesn't have cooking skills
00:26:26
but she understands to come and eat when
00:26:28
it's time to eat so I think that she's
00:26:30
been in an environment where she's been
00:26:32
well cared for and well loved by
00:26:34
somebody she's not been on when they
00:26:36
found her in the beginning I don't think
00:26:38
she had been on the streets very long
00:26:41
although the genuine concern is for her
00:26:44
immediate safety and her immediate
00:26:46
protection there are people out there
00:26:48
who know Lucy who have loved her in the
00:26:51
past who have taken care of her and she
00:26:54
needs to be with those people
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[Music]
00:27:10
next a man shoots his estranged wife and
00:27:14
two of her neighbors at a murderous
00:27:15
rampage February 12th 1988 Talladega
00:27:31
Alabama at 8 p.m.
00:27:36
Geraldine George a 27 year old mother of
00:27:39
two returned home from work she had been
00:27:43
separated from her husband Larry George
00:27:45
for six months despite a restraining
00:27:50
order he had continued to harass her
00:27:55
Larry was a former Army enlisted man who
00:27:58
considered himself a survivalist
00:28:00
[Music]
00:28:01
that evening his obsession with
00:28:03
Geraldine would turn deadly
00:28:10
Geraldine went inside her apartment and
00:28:12
dropped her belongings off her purse and
00:28:15
whatever other items she had brought
00:28:17
home for more
00:28:17
she walked next door to Janice Morris's
00:28:20
apartment and Ralph Williams apartment
00:28:23
[Music]
00:28:26
Geraldine
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Geraldine had become friendly with her
00:28:30
next door neighbor Janice Morris Janice
00:28:33
had two young children of her own and
00:28:35
had agreed to take care of Geraldine's
00:28:37
children while she was at work she went
00:28:44
in sent her kids home talked briefly
00:28:47
with Janice
00:28:48
it was rather brief because Dennis was
00:28:50
on the telephone with her mother
00:28:53
Geraldine after talking briefly with
00:28:56
Janice walk back next door and as she
00:28:59
entered her apartment Larry George was
00:29:01
already inside the apartment talking to
00:29:03
her kids Larry what are you doing in my
00:29:07
house me with my children you know
00:29:10
you're not supposed to be here we've
00:29:12
been through this before you want me to
00:29:14
call the police again where you been you
00:29:20
know you're supposed to be here taking
00:29:21
care of him I want you out of my house I
00:29:23
don't want those be retained care my
00:29:25
kids you don't tell me what to do
00:29:26
anymore look you don't listen to me
00:29:29
you're gonna listen to me let me put the
00:29:32
gun away
00:29:33
ain't nobody run in my house but me
00:29:38
honey I want you to go upstairs you call
00:29:40
your granddaddy and you tell him that
00:29:42
Larry's here come on
00:30:02
[Music]
00:30:04
geraldine ran next door to get help
00:30:07
Janice was still on the phone with her
00:30:10
mother yelling Janice Janice call the
00:30:19
police so I asked Janet who was that
00:30:23
she's that girl just left out of here
00:30:25
what's the matter she said I don't know
00:30:30
she said she'd call me Ben
00:30:37
and that's the last I heard last time I
00:30:42
heard her boys
00:30:44
[Music]
00:30:47
before Janice could call the police
00:30:50
Larry George shot her in the chest then
00:30:56
in front of Genesis two children he took
00:30:58
aim at Geraldine as she lay cowering on
00:31:00
the floor Janice's boyfriend Ralph Swain
00:31:07
heard the commotion and ran downstairs
00:31:10
Larry shot him in the back of the head
00:31:19
then according to a neighbor Larry
00:31:22
George calmly strode out of the
00:31:23
apartment and disappeared
00:31:27
[Music]
00:31:28
Janice Morris was pronounced dead at the
00:31:30
scene Roth Swain was rushed to a local
00:31:33
hospital where he died a short time
00:31:35
later this murder was stupid I mean
00:31:40
Larry George didn't go there to kill
00:31:43
Ralph Swain
00:31:44
Larry George didn't go there to kill
00:31:45
Janice Morris Ralph or Janice neither
00:31:49
one knew Larry they were simply in the
00:31:52
wrong place at the wrong time and it was
00:31:56
senseless geraldine george survived the
00:32:00
shooting but was left paralyzed from the
00:32:03
waist down the next day a Talladega
00:32:10
County sheriff's deputy was dispatched
00:32:12
to a campsite six miles out of town a
00:32:14
car had been discovered hidden in the
00:32:17
brush it was registered to Larry George
00:32:23
we found a campsite personal belongings
00:32:27
belonging to mr. George we didn't find
00:32:28
the weapon that was used in the attack
00:32:31
there was no weapons found with the car
00:32:34
he had been living in the car there was
00:32:37
a lot of clothing in the car we found a
00:32:40
notebook where it appeared that mr.
00:32:43
George had been keeping a diary as to
00:32:46
who came in when at his wife's apartment
00:32:49
and camouflage clothing since Larry's
00:32:54
left the area we found that he spent
00:32:57
some time in in South Alabama with his
00:32:59
sister he spent some time in the Florida
00:33:03
Panhandle area which is where he
00:33:04
attended truck driving school a large
00:33:08
quantity of his belongings were
00:33:10
recovered in the Roanoke Virginia area
00:33:12
along some railroad tracks I won't let
00:33:15
you as to pay for what he did
00:33:20
having him to pay
00:33:25
because he didn't happy to be in this
00:33:28
killing anybody I don't know why he'd
00:33:33
kill my daughter I don't know why he
00:33:35
killed Ralph but I think he should be
00:33:40
punished for what he did after the most
00:33:45
recently broadcast of this story the
00:33:47
authorities were contacted by an
00:33:48
unsolved mysteries viewer a viewer
00:33:51
claimed to have seen Larry George
00:33:52
fishing on the banks of the Christina
00:33:54
River in Wilmington Delaware three days
00:33:57
later two police detectives were
00:33:59
dispatched to the area for our cameras
00:34:04
the officers recounted their dramatic
00:34:06
meeting with Larry George this is what
00:34:09
we first encountered Larry George at
00:34:11
right here we began a conversation with
00:34:13
him about fishing at this time he wanted
00:34:16
to take us over here to where his pole
00:34:17
was in the water and show us exactly
00:34:19
where he was fishing that we got about
00:34:21
here and we started talking again about
00:34:23
fishing and it was at this time where
00:34:25
myself and detective Pinkett made eye
00:34:27
contact and identified myself as a
00:34:29
police officer lay at this time a brief
00:34:32
struggle ensued right about here we all
00:34:35
three thought to the ground here we got
00:34:37
back to our feet still struggling and at
00:34:39
that point we just turned and threw lye
00:34:41
into the water
00:34:45
while the officers regrouped George
00:34:47
attempted to flee downriver but back up
00:34:50
unis quickly caught at him and he
00:34:52
surrendered without further struggle at
00:35:00
George's campsite police found a
00:35:01
makeshift bunker
00:35:03
complete with generator heater
00:35:04
television and stolen the subsequent
00:35:08
discovery of several weapons including a
00:35:10
spear gun and a sawed-off shotgun led
00:35:12
investigators to believe that George had
00:35:15
been prepared to resist arrest by
00:35:16
whatever means necessary
00:35:19
he knew he was wanted for murder he
00:35:21
wasn't going to be taken alive if he
00:35:23
would have put himself in his hideout
00:35:25
and if we'd had discovered it he
00:35:27
probably would have gun fire and
00:35:29
officers would have been hurt on April
00:35:33
27th 1994
00:35:35
Larry Donald George was extradited to
00:35:38
Alabama to face charges of murder and
00:35:40
attempted murder
00:35:41
it was a long-awaited moment for
00:35:44
Geraldine George and the families of
00:35:46
Ralphs Wayne and Janice Morris they're
00:35:49
delighted that this was kind of bringing
00:35:51
this to an en and I can understand their
00:35:53
feelings about the situation simply
00:35:55
because it's been a long six years and
00:35:57
really not knowing where he is and if he
00:36:00
would show back up I'm sure that it
00:36:03
brought a lot of discomfort while
00:36:04
sleepless nights to them so I know that
00:36:06
they're very happy that they were this
00:36:08
is short of being the pronto
00:36:18
[Music]
00:36:26
next a man's search for the sisters and
00:36:29
brother is not seen for nearly 30 years
00:36:33
[Music]
00:36:43
in the summer of 1961 Harley and Ronnie
00:36:46
price of Wyandotte Michigan gathered
00:36:48
their children together to pose for this
00:36:50
happy family portrait but appearances
00:36:53
can be deceiving within three years
00:36:56
Harley and Ronnie would be permanently
00:36:58
separated and their children scattered
00:36:59
torn apart by alcoholism
00:37:02
Eugene price was just nine years old at
00:37:05
the time
00:37:06
I want to see my sisters and I want to
00:37:08
see my brother that's what I want I feel
00:37:12
responsible to let them know about how
00:37:17
things happen between my mom and dad
00:37:19
things that they may not understand
00:37:21
because they were younger that I spent
00:37:24
more time with my dad and mom and know
00:37:26
some of the answers but most of all I
00:37:29
want to find my sisters and my brother
00:37:33
because they're my family
00:37:37
Eugene prices spent most of his adult
00:37:39
life searching for his sisters and
00:37:41
brother he wants them to know that they
00:37:43
were not abandoned as children were the
00:37:45
innocent victims of their parents
00:37:47
tumultuous marriage today along with his
00:37:50
brother Dean and his mother Ronnie
00:37:51
Eugene hopes that one of our viewers can
00:37:53
help reunite them with the rest of the
00:37:55
family it was a spring of 1953 in New
00:38:02
York City
00:38:03
Harley price nicknamed smokey was a navy
00:38:06
veteran who was working as a roofer when
00:38:08
he began dating a co-workers daughter
00:38:10
Ronnie Ronnie right yeah you know me
00:38:15
yeah I think I do I work for your dad I
00:38:18
do roofs okay that's right I've seen you
00:38:19
come by the house a few times for the
00:38:21
truck right yeah Eugene's mother Roy was
00:38:24
just 16 and was immediately swept off
00:38:26
her feet so she had no idea that Harley
00:38:29
was married with a child at home when I
00:38:34
first met Holly I thought he was very
00:38:36
good-looking very charming and just
00:38:40
snowballed from there
00:38:43
I was a stupid 16 year okay I wasn't
00:38:46
around I didn't know anything I was
00:38:48
having a hard time at home and he looked
00:38:49
like a way out and yes that's it he gave
00:38:53
me what I wasn't getting at home
00:38:56
within a year Rani became pregnant and
00:38:59
gave birth to her oldest son Dean ten
00:39:02
months later Eugene was born only then
00:39:05
did Harley and Ronny marry over the next
00:39:08
six years the prices had three girls
00:39:10
Debbie
00:39:11
Terry and Shari eventually the prices
00:39:16
settled in Wyandotte Michigan just
00:39:18
outside of Detroit but as the family
00:39:22
grew Hartley's drinking increased soon
00:39:25
his drunken forays turned into a
00:39:26
full-blown nightmare for his wife and
00:39:28
children they lived in a constant state
00:39:31
of fear never knowing when Harley would
00:39:33
erupt out a little fun a little
00:39:36
recreation don't start with me
00:39:44
oh shut up you come home late at night
00:39:47
and you know we'd hear my mom and him
00:39:49
arguing when he wasn't drinking he was
00:39:55
it could be one of the nicest people you
00:39:57
ever met it's you know it's just that's
00:40:00
what the alcohol got to him they just
00:40:02
turned him into a you know a bad person
00:40:05
and he just had no control over
00:40:10
you guys stay here I'll be right back
00:40:15
on more than one occasion Harley took
00:40:18
his children alone as he made his rounds
00:40:20
at the local bars he would lock them in
00:40:23
the car and then disappear for hours at
00:40:25
a time one evening I was waiting for
00:40:31
Holly to come home with the kids he had
00:40:32
taken him out it was rainy it was cold
00:40:35
and the kids when I got there the kids
00:40:38
were all curled up in the car and he was
00:40:41
in the bar checking I was very upset I
00:40:46
was very angry because they'd been a
00:40:48
knife in my eye look that they were
00:40:50
there most all day and he didn't care I
00:40:52
mean you don't need kids in a locked car
00:40:54
in the cold weather but he didn't care
00:40:59
at other times Harley would use the
00:41:01
children as pawns in a sadistic game you
00:41:03
would play with our mother
00:41:05
okay this is the way it is for everybody
00:41:07
you kids have to make a choice both of
00:41:09
you you have to choose if your mom and
00:41:12
me split if she goes who do you want to
00:41:15
stay with me or her huh me huh me do you
00:41:20
want to stay with me or do you want to
00:41:21
go with her you did we wonder still with
00:41:24
you we were scared if we said our mother
00:41:26
that my dad would get very angry and
00:41:30
upset and that would either start
00:41:35
another fight with my mom and dad or
00:41:37
else we would end up getting spanked or
00:41:39
there would be some kind of retaliation
00:41:42
[Music]
00:41:48
in 1963 the price family grew larger but
00:41:53
the new baby Jimmy was born with an
00:41:55
intestinal blockage in a defective heart
00:41:57
Bharani a bad situation turned worse
00:42:00
[Music]
00:42:02
he had the heart surgery when he was
00:42:04
three months old and then it was in and
00:42:06
out of the hospital for you know a year
00:42:09
he was always be home for maybe a day
00:42:12
and then he'd be back in again in 1964
00:42:17
tragedy struck during a freak storm the
00:42:21
prices house is hit by lightning and
00:42:23
engulfed in flames everyone escaped but
00:42:27
the house is completely destroyed with
00:42:29
it all of the family's possessions after
00:42:34
the fire I cracked I broke down and from
00:42:39
there it just snowballed it was just too
00:42:40
much than anymore
00:42:44
Ronny felt she could no longer tolerate
00:42:46
Hartley's abuse with the help of a
00:42:49
friend she fled back home to New York
00:42:51
two weeks passed before she realized the
00:42:54
painful consequence of her actions she'd
00:42:57
gotten away from her husband but in the
00:42:59
process she had lost her children as
00:43:01
well I called these people
00:43:05
social services and I told me I would
00:43:09
like to have my children you know I had
00:43:11
like I want to have my children and they
00:43:12
told me absolutely not but the only way
00:43:14
I could get them would be to go back to
00:43:16
my husband and I told them no because if
00:43:18
I went back he'd kill me the Social
00:43:22
Services Representative stepped in to
00:43:24
protect the children the three girls in
00:43:27
the baby were sent to the st. Vincent's
00:43:29
Sara Fisher home nor finished just
00:43:31
outside of Detroit Eugene and his older
00:43:34
brother Dean remained with their father
00:43:39
several months passed before Holly
00:43:42
finally took Eugene and Dean to the
00:43:43
orphanage to visit their sisters do you
00:43:48
go to school here yeah
00:43:50
[Music]
00:43:53
we went and seen the girls at Sara
00:43:55
Fisher here was more or less Spurs it's
00:43:57
glad to see each other because we
00:43:59
haven't seen each other for a period of
00:44:01
time and while we were there you know we
00:44:04
were anticipating that we're gonna get
00:44:06
the family back together you know I
00:44:09
think that was part of the conversation
00:44:11
and that everything would be fine after
00:44:14
we had done talking with my sisters
00:44:16
which didn't seem like a long period of
00:44:18
time
00:44:19
my dad says well it's time for us to
00:44:21
leave that was the last time we seen him
00:44:25
haven't seen him since a few months
00:44:30
later Dean and Eugene were taken from
00:44:32
their father and place in the foster
00:44:34
care system over the next few years it
00:44:37
would be shuttled from one family to
00:44:39
another Eugene eventually served in the
00:44:45
Army and subtle Donna started his own
00:44:47
family in 1971 Eugene and Dean were
00:44:51
reunited with her mother 12 years later
00:44:54
their father Harley passed away today
00:44:57
Eugene is determined to rebuild the
00:44:59
family that was torn apart so long ago
00:45:04
my sisters and my brother Jimmy have
00:45:06
always been back in my mind I love him I
00:45:09
miss him
00:45:10
my ultimate goal is to bring us all back
00:45:14
together you know we deserve Dean and I
00:45:17
deserve to see them and they need
00:45:19
deserve to see us and know a little bit
00:45:21
about their original family update on
00:45:29
the night of our broadcast Eugene was
00:45:31
overjoyed to learn that sherry the
00:45:33
youngest of his long-lost sisters had
00:45:35
seen the story and was anxious to
00:45:37
contact him I started crying my husband
00:45:41
said what's wrong what's wrong I said
00:45:43
that's me that's me you know that's our
00:45:45
family and he just he just started
00:45:47
crying I got my kids up and then he
00:45:50
started calling you can show she's as
00:45:52
soon as they showed the number on it on
00:45:56
your gene and sherry spoke on the phone
00:45:57
Mattie Eugene was saddened to learn that
00:46:00
his younger brother Jimmy had died of
00:46:02
heart disease in 1973 however he was
00:46:05
thrilled to know that sherry Terry and
00:46:07
Debbie had all been adopted by the same
00:46:09
family and had been searching for Eugene
00:46:12
and his brother Dean as well
00:46:16
On February 7th 1993 all of the price
00:46:19
children gathered for an emotional
00:46:21
reunion at a restaurant near Eugene's
00:46:23
home in Taylor Michigan it was their
00:46:26
first time together in 29 years
00:46:29
[Music]
00:46:40
it's a miracle to me
00:46:43
I thought the reunion wouldn't it would
00:46:46
never come to this I thought we'd never
00:46:48
see each other again but it happened
00:46:53
[Music]
00:47:02
then we've seen each other for the first
00:47:04
time after 20-some years my son he
00:47:11
started crying my wife started crying my
00:47:13
daughter started crying it was really
00:47:15
exciting
00:47:15
it's exciting to have to know we now
00:47:18
have a whole new family we have the
00:47:20
family that we've been missing all these
00:47:23
years that I'm I have tried to find
00:47:32
in reuniting with her sisters Eugene and
00:47:36
his brother Dean
00:47:37
almost got more than they bargained for
00:47:38
a small divided family had suddenly
00:47:42
blossomed into a joyful clan of uncles
00:47:44
aunts nephews and nieces now I got three
00:47:50
sisters out I'm gonna be able to see and
00:47:52
I haven't seen in years it's just
00:47:58
unbelievable I mean I'm thrilled to
00:48:01
death to have them back now we'll be
00:48:05
able to spend the rest of our lives
00:48:06
together
00:48:07
[Music]
00:48:19
join me next time perhaps you may be
00:48:22
able to help solve a mystery
00:48:28
[Music]
00:48:50
[Applause]
00:48:54
[Music]

Badges

This episode stands out for the following:

  • 85
    Most heartwarming
  • 80
    Most emotional
  • 75
    Most inspiring
  • 70
    Most dramatic

Episode Highlights

  • UFO Sighting in West Carlton
    Diane Lebanon witnesses extraordinary red flames and a mysterious ship in 1991.
    “I saw flames right on the back of the field.”
    @ 03m 00s
    May 23, 2019
  • The Mystery of Guardian
    A mysterious informant named Guardian raises questions about a UFO sighting.
    “I think Guardian has to be connected to the event in some way.”
    @ 13m 59s
    May 23, 2019
  • Emotional Family Reunion
    Brenda Marin's long search for her siblings culminates in a heartfelt reunion.
    “It’s a great Christmas present!”
    @ 20m 33s
    May 23, 2019
  • Eugene's Search for Family
    Eugene Price has spent most of his life searching for his siblings, hoping to reunite them after being torn apart by their parents' tumultuous marriage.
    “I feel responsible to let them know about how things happened.”
    @ 37m 08s
    May 23, 2019
  • Emotional Reunion After 29 Years
    In February 1993, the Price siblings gathered for their first reunion in nearly three decades, filled with tears and joy.
    “I thought we'd never see each other again but it happened.”
    @ 46m 21s
    May 23, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • I don’t think I’d like to see it again, it’s very scary.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • I had something to go by, something that I can tell the people.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • It’s a great Christmas present!
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • I want to see my sisters and I want to see my brother.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • It's a miracle to me. I thought the reunion wouldn't happen.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • It's exciting to have to know we now have a whole new family.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 16 - Full Episode

Key Moments

  • UFO Encounter04:01
  • Mysterious Informant13:59
  • Family Reunion20:33
  • Longing for Family37:06
  • Emotional Reunion46:21
  • New Beginnings47:18

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