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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
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patrolman came upon the same young woman
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once again in the middle of a busy
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street less than a mile from the police
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station
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she appeared to be terribly confused
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this time the authorities placed her in
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a homeless shelter for women when she
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first came to this shelter she had no
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means of formal communication with
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anyone and so a lot of it was pan to
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mining and mimicking and and what is
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known as home sign language
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communication specialist chris burrows
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was enlisted to help pierce the walls of
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silence this surrounded this most
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unusual Jane Doe one of the first things
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that we tried to do was we wanted to get
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a name and an age so that we could find
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out if we were dealing with the juvenile
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or whether we were dealing with an adult
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all right let's see if we can figure out
00:23:52
her name here let's let's try this we
00:23:56
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
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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
00:26:55
[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
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join me next time perhaps you may be
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able to help solve a mystery
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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