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next on Unsolved Mysteries The
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Disappearance of a college student
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baffles police The Truth May rest with a
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mysterious blonde woman or in the
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missing pages of a secret diary or
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perhaps with the student
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herself someone knows who attacked the
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16-year-old girl leaving her in a coma
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for 3 months investigators believe that
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threats may have silenced potential
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Witnesses a man poisons his estranged
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wife with a lethal cocktail he was
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captured twice but he's still on the
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run and a quiet loner dies leaving
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behind Savings of more than
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$200,000 and maybe you are one of his
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ear there is nothing like a good mystery
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and and you know what they're even
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better when they're true I'm Dennis
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finina join me for an hour of Unsolved
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Rochester New York J will you come back
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here I have to go to work with have this
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conversation after 5 years of emotional
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and physical abuse 27-year-old June
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Maloney was done she finally walked out
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on her husband Joseph of course what
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about the kids Joe and June agreed on an
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informal separation June would take
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custody of their two young children Joe
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was allowed to visit whenever he wanted
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June confided in me that Joe had roughed
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her up a couple of times he didn't hit
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her she wasn't bruised but he wasn't
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above jumping around hollering and
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yelling and looking very dangerous and
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perhaps grabbing hold of you and shaking
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you Neil suppose I wanted to kill a dog
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what kind of poison could I use that
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could several weeks after June moved out
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Joe paid Neil dunberg a visit Neil
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experimented with chemistry as a hobby
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and had a lab in the basement of his
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mother's home trouble is they're very
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difficult to calibrate he told me that
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there was a dog who was continuously
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tipping over his garbage cans and giving
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him fits and he would like to poison the
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dog but he was a little shaky about
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doing this because it belonged to a
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policeman that lived in his
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neighborhood Joe showed interest in one
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particular chemical a clear liquid which
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is odorless tasteless and
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lethal immediately afterward I would
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started thinking why did he want to know
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that and I I got cautious I went up and
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I double locked the side door that led
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into my
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laboratory and I informed the members of
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my family that no one was to go into my
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lab to keep everybody out and especially
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to keep Joe out I don't know Joe I hope
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this is okay fortunately it didn't work
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my younger sister was at home a week two
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weeks later perhaps and Joe showed up at
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the house and sweet talked her into
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letting him into my laboratory because
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he had to sterilize some instruments to
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clean up some instruments
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here two weeks later June arrived at
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Joe's house for their son's fifth
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birthday party he offered her a drink
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and she stayed for about 2 hours
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here you are oh thank you during the
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time that she was at Joe's for the party
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she had called up and she was kind of
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like wound up different than when she
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left and I had asked her how many drinks
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did you have and she says Wanda I only
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had two so she went to her apartment and
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a a while later I went over to check on
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her and I asked her she wanted me to
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stay with her she said no she said she
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that was not necessary you know she was
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didn't feel quite well and she was going
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to go to bed food
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poisoning the next morning Wanda was
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surprised to find Joe and a doctor in
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the hall outside of jun's
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apartment is everything all right here
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uh June isn't feeling too well so I
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called the doctor over she's going to be
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fine I think I'll go check on her when I
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went in to check on June hi June she was
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there and we were in the bedroom talking
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and and she didn't want me to leave her
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alone with Joe she wanted me to stay
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with her that was quite definite she
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wanted me to stay with her so I did so
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what did the doctor say he said he
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thought it was food poisoning but I
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think it's something
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else all of sudden she stabed and it was
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like a um almost a I would almost have
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to say a fear look in her eyes and I
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looked over and Joe was standing in the
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doorway the next day June lapsed into a
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coma and was immediately
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hospitalized despite a series of tests
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doctors found no cause for her rapid
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decline you don't think she's going to
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make it Joe Maloney seemed unconcerned
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about his wife's condition he suggested
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that she might have tried to commit
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suicide over their
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separation I didn't think she would
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commit suicide but I was afraid that
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some how they would make it look like
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that June never regained Consciousness
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her autopsy revealed that she had
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ingested a lethal dose of the same type
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of chemical that Joe had taken from
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Neil's
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lab 4 hours after his wife's death Joe
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Maloney was arrested and charged with
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first-degree
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murder Maloney asked to be committed to
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the Rochester state mental hospital for
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psychiatric evaluation the court granted
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his
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request what the judge didn't know was
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that Maloney had once worked at the
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hospital and was familiar with the
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layout less than 2 weeks after being
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admitted Joe Maloney escaped and
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disappeared 5 years later and more than
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3,000 M away in Dublin Ireland
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authorities were called to investigate a
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burglary at the home of Mr Michael
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OA the police apparently already knew uh
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Michael OA he didn't have any criminal
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record in Ireland there was no
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allegation of of criminal wrongdoing on
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his part they were looking for the
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burglar's prince all the people who were
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in the house obviously weren't the
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burglar um so they wanted to be able to
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eliminate uh those Prince from the
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prince taken you mind if we checked the
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mantle piece and the desk for
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fingerprint he allowed him to take a
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fingerprints well this detective went
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right into his office and sent it into
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interpool and he had a hit Michael
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O'Shea's fingerprints matched Joseph
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Malone's Joseph Maloney could not be
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arrested because Ireland and the United
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States had no extradition agreement but
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after 13 years that law was changed
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Maloney was finally taken into custody
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but he was still denying his true
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identity while in jail the suspect
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refused to cooperate with the
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authorities and did not allow himself to
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be
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photographed 2 years after his arrest
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the Irish American extradition treaty
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was voided because of illegal
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technicality Maloney walked out of
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prison and disappeared perhaps
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forever Joseph Maloney was born in 1934
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5 this is a sketch of what he might look
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like today he is 6' 2 in tall with a
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slender build Maloney has reddish
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colored hair and blue eyes with a scar
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over the right eyebrow authorities
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believe he may have fled to
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Canada if you have any information
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please log on to our website at
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next a young woman vanishes and police
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pleas suspect a personal ad may have led
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to her
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abduction 18-year-old Kristen modery was
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a college honors student from North
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Carolina spending the summer in San
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Francisco
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on Monday June 23rd she arrived for work
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at the crocker Galleria Mall she had
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taken a job at a coffee shop to pay for
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a photography course at UC
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Berkeley hey how's it going good morning
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how are you she wanted to come to the
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big city and find some
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excitement but it seemed to be coupled
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with
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a a na or not a real understanding of
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how the big city
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works at the end of her shift Kristen
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left the coffee shop then disappeared
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Without a
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Trace from the start authorities were
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frustrated by intriguing clues that went
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nowhere in a trail that led directly
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into the ocean the mystery was a
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nightmare not only for police but also
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for her parents got to the hotel yeah
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we're here the day after Kristen
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vanished her her parents flew
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immediately to San
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Francisco when we found out that she had
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disappeared we were just
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shocked we couldn't eat we we barely
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spoke uh we just
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were just even having trouble
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breathing when you uh are faced with a
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situation like this you really don't
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know how strong you can be you can
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either crawl in a hole and die and give
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up or you can fight there was no choice
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for us we were going to fight for our
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daughter as in many missing persons
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cases police had few leads to work
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with you don't have a crime scene you
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have no Witnesses you can't even
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establish that a crime has occurred and
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you just kind of build on little pieces
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of information hunches whatever you can
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come up with and see if you can uh put
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the puzzle
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together one of the first pieces of the
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puzzle was identifying a blonde woman
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seen with Kristen the day she
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disappeared 45 minutes after Kristen's
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shift ended a man who worked with her
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noticed them at the mall together she
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thought that was kind of strange because
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she never really stuck around after work
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as soon as she checked out she was gone
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they were hanging out together talking
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together definitely with each other so
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we've made a lot of effort to try try to
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get the blonde woman to come forward
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identify herself and we appealed a
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number of times through the media but
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never got a
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response police used a blood hound to
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try to retrace Kristen's route the day
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she
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vanished when we were downtown I could
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tell he was on a trail he knew exactly
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where he was going every turn was
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perfect but police weren't sure if this
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was a route Kristen took the day that
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she disappeared or some other day he
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then led us up to gir Street heading out
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towards Len
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Beach Kristen's co-workers said that on
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the day she vanished she talked about
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visiting L end
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Beach we then got down to the beach area
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and came to a point where the trail
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seemed to have
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stopped that's a very treacherous part
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of the San Francisco water line numerous
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people each year are washing off the
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rocks and uh are never seen again so
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that was a distinct possibility that she
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had in fact uh fallen into the ocean we
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really don't believe that's what
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happened to
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Kristen it's a very tourist oriented
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area there's always people around if she
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had fallen into the water uh somebody
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would have seen something if Kristen
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didn't drown then what happened to
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her maybe she
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17 days after Kristen vanished a man
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called a local news station he said
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Kristen had been murdered how do you
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know these two women he went into a very
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long description of who he said killed
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her and he told me that there were two
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women and he named them and he said that
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Kristen had been killed as a result of a
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lesbian love affair that went
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wrong detectives tracked down to two
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women named by the CER but determined
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that they didn't know Kristen and had
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nothing to do with her
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disappearance we then asked these people
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who has a grudge against you who would
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want to see you go through
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this both women named the same person a
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man will call
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Ryan all right so I made the phone call
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so what Ryan told police the two women
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were his girlfriend's employers he
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claimed that they were harassing her at
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work to get back back at them he said
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that he phoned in the false tip but the
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police suspected that there was more to
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Ryan's
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story they investigated his background
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and found allegations that he had Abused
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Women in the past the next step was to
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see if he had any connection to Kristen
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police say that Ryan met women mostly
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through personal ads there it is right
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here I bet you this one's it check it
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out earlier they had found an ad in
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Kristen's apartment they think she might
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have placed if you read it sounds like
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it could be Kristen it's it's all the
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kind of things she was interested in
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photography walking the city music art
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it was all the kind of things that uh
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Kristen was there to
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do another clue was found at the home of
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Ryan's girlfriend her diary was missing
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several Pages Pages covering the same
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time period Kristen had been in San
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Francisco she told police Ryan had torn
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out the pages we asked her why is this
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the way it is and she'd said that some
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of the stuff that was in there could
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come back to hurt him still police say
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they have no clear evidence that Ryan
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was involved in Kristen's disappearance
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Ryan says that he passed a polygraph
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test given by a reputable expert he
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agreed to be interviewed on the
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condition that we would not show his
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face and that we change his voice I
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never met Kiren I never saw her there's
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absolutely no connection to Kristen and
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I in any way and what I did was wrong I
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wish I never made that
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call police have completely cleared Ryan
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as a Suspect with no new leads the case
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is now back at square one for Kristen's
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parents the search for answers
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continues we owe this to her we owe this
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to ourselves and we owe this to her
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sisters someone stole Kristen's dreams
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and uh that's not
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fair Kristen Mora fery is 5' 8 in tall
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and weighs 140 lb she has brown hair and
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brown eyes there is a $50,000 reward
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being offered in this
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case if you have any information please
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log on to to our website at
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unsolved.com
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next a girl is nearly killed in a brutal
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attack was the intended target actually
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her
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boyfriend Carl's bat
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California 16-year-old Jenny Pratt had
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hopes of becoming a model she was pretty
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popular and a sophomore at a local high
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school but What mattered most to Jenny
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was her boyfriend Curtis
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Croft Curtis drove a Porsche had plenty
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of money and was a good-looking Surfer
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as far as Jenny's parents knew he was
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only a year older than Jenny he looked
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17 and further on down the road I found
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out you know he had been in jail for
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drugs and um he he was 24 years
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old and just bad news for a 16-year-old
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kid against her parents wishes Jenny
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went out with Curtis one April night he
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borrowed a friend's motorcycle and
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promised Jenny that he would get her
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back before her midnight curfew Jenny
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never made it
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home Jenny Pratt was brutally attacked
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with an unusual weapon a heavy Bo 6 and
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1/2 ft long police believe the asants
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were local teenagers and Jenny's parents
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hope that someone will finally find the
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courage to step forward and identify her
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attackers on the night of the attack
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Jenny's parents received a call that
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their daughter had been airlifted to a
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nearby
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hospital they said your daughter's been
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in an accident I said is she okay they
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wouldn't tell me anything and they said
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you know you'll have to come down
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scrips Medical Center in La HOA
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California takes only the most severe
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cases can we see
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here Jenny's parents were given the
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worst possible news your daughter is
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brain
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dead and we don't expect her to live but
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to the blow from the board that struck
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her was great enough to actually crush
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the skull and that caused an immediate
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shutdown of her
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brain and then they said I I could see
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her and what I saw was
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horrible her hair was red from all the
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blood she was bleeding out of her nose
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her ears and mouth she had tubes all
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over
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her and it was like her whole body was
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just
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distorted Jenny survived but she lapsed
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into a deep
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coma our first uh involvement in the
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case was to examine the evidence that
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was found at the crime scene which
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consisted of the 2x4 that was used to to
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hit Jenny and Curtis So We examined that
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for physical evidence and didn't find
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any fingerprints there were some blood
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stains on it which uh were determined to
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be Jenny's Curtis was interviewed that
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same day at the Carl bed police station
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his account of what happened basically
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is that he was giving Jennifer a ride
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home they were driving down Rancho Santa
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Fe Road getting to ready to make a left
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turn it's just like going just
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approaching the intersection going real
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pretty slow all of a sudden something
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struck me and I was go ow what was that
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it's like just kind of hurt really bad
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and then the car the car went zooming by
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and I went I turn around tell Jenny go
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someone threw something at me or
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something you know I don't know what
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happened something hit me I'm you know I
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couldn't believe it hurt and she was out
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of it and so I just go oh my God what's
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happening we believed it was a case
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where a carload or a truckload of
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juveniles had committed this crime
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Curtis was giving Jennifer a ride home
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they had almost come to a complete stop
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when and he realized that he had been
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struck by a board and realized that
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Jenny had been struck by a board and had
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slumped against him at the same time as
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a white pickup truck went by them at a
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high rate of speed he had the impression
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that there was a large group of
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juveniles in the back of the pickup
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truck that they were laughing as they
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went by and his impression was that the
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board came flying from the pickup truck
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quite frankly we expected it to be a
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crime that would have been solved just
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by the nature of juveniles have a
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tendency to talk but to this date we
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have yet to have anybody come up and
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Supply us with any direct knowledge of
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what happened that
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night I understand you were a friend of
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Jennifer prep Jenny's parents hired a
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private investigator who interviewed
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students at Jenny's High
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School basically all I can tell you is
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at that night that happened it was not
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aimed for Denny it was aimed for Curtis
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nobody know really knows who did it I
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have a feeling I know who did it but no
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one's really willing to say there's no
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doubt that there were people because of
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Curtis's background that didn't like him
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he was not a popular
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person two years before the attack
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Curtis had been convicted of dealing
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Cocaine by cooperating with the police
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he served less than half of his SS he
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developed a reputation as a snitch when
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he got himself in
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trouble and young people particularly
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young people involved in drugs tend to
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look down on somebody Who develops that
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reputation
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police investigated several people who
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might have had a grudge against Curtis
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hey get out here they learned that he
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had confronted one of his enemies on the
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night before stop my apartment the other
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night IED from your apartment yeah he
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did he know exactly what I'm talking
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about too Jenny's parents believe that
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that boy might have attacked Curtis and
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Jenny because of the argument to get you
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good according to Curtis the white
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pickup truck was traveling too fast for
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him to see the attackers he said it went
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by at about 55 M an
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hour private investigator Louie chafi
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didn't believe Curtis chafi
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reconstructed the incident at two
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different speeds and we use the
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identical pickups as far as the model
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year and the size and the same type of
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motorcycle and we use the same
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conditions the first reconstruction was
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done at 50 mph
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at that speed it seems almost certain
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that both Curtis and Jenny would been
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killed they were traveling exactly at 50
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there is no way it could have happened
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the way he says in this reconstruction
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the board fell about 50 ft from the
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scene of the crime but after the
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accident police found the board only a
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few feet from the spot where Jenny was
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attacked the second reconstruction
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played out at only 10 mph it inflicted
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injuries very similar to the ones that
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Curtis and Jenny actually received
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exactly what happened and this time the
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board fell right next to the
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motorcycle we had reason to believe that
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Curtis was not telling the whole truth
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we went back to Curtis's apartment and
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visited with him chafi felt that Curtis
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did see the people in the pickup track
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chafi pressed them for more information
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were you in a fight that evening in the
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restaurant finally Curtis named names
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one of them was the same boy that he had
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fought with on the night before the
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attack they like forced me to tell they
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like it's like threatening someone you
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know and they like scared me into saying
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that and that wasn't right what those
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statements were later on Curtis recanted
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telling police that he had given them
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the names because he felt pressured the
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truck went by really fast you know
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people try to say oh maybe saw someone
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but I really did and we've done lion
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detector tests on me I've passed
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everything you know I've told the truth
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I've always been there to help I've
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never you know not came around I've
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always came to everything he's wanted me
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to do and cooperated with everything we
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do believe that Curtis didn't in fact
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see those people Curtis continuously
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told us that he has been threatened that
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uh he has uh basically informed on
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people before and was very very
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frightened that he would be killed and
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he was already being threatened not to
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talk in this case and we have reason to
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believe that what he's saying to that
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effect is
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true hi Jen mommy how you doing 3 months
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after the attack Jenny Pratt came out of
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her coma At first she seemed incapable
00:25:44
of thought or action but after 12 weeks
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she started physical
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therapy 7 months later Jenny began to
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speak a year later she walked
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why was somebody mad at me what did I do
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to them to hurt
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them we need somebody in the community
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with half the courage of Jennifer Pratt
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somebody who just knows the one missing
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link the one thing that'll tie this
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whole case together because I really
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think that's all we're missing is a one
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small link and someone out there has
00:26:22
it if you have any information about
00:26:25
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next a boy separated from his foster
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mother is reunited with her after 30
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years and a man dreams that his mother
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is in a life or death struggle with a
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prison inmate and then the struggle
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really
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happens May 7th 1964 for Queens New York
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Jean and Don Warren greet the newest
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member of their family a 2-year-old
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foster child named Roger Lindsley hello
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Roger hello hello Roger I fell in love
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with him
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immediately there was something about
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him that Drew me to him and I said to
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myself this is going to be my
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son I think adjusting in our family was
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best thing for Roger whatever we did he
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was there with us and each day I was
00:27:36
loving this child more and more and
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more 3 years after Roger arrived Jean
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and her husband had to move to Ohio they
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were heartbroken to learn that they
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could not take Roger with
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them when she took him to the car he
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looked at us and looked at me and I
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remember putting out his
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hand and crying I don't want to go I
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don't want to go you be a good boy Roger
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I could only say Roger be good take care
00:28:09
of yourself and I love you and I'll
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always remember
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you Jee Warren always remembered Roger
00:28:18
and never gave up hope that she would
00:28:20
see him
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again
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update on the night of our broadcast we
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received a call from a very excited
00:28:31
Roger Lindley and then another surprise
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we heard from a man named James Lindsley
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who turned out to be Roger's long lost
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brother 30 years after they were
00:28:44
separated Roger finally came home to the
00:28:47
woman he still calls
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Mom
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hi oh you are handsome how are you fine
00:28:58
I was
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ecstatic so
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beautiful my heart started
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pounding I would like him and his wife
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to be a part of our family and uh it's
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so nice to hear him call me Mom that
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makes it all
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worthwhile vendy I'm fine I feel so much
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love for that woman Carol she has
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changed my life
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old I got a family overnight overnight I
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got a family and uh I'm a I'm a happy
00:29:34
man these are the pictures of your life
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of the three years that you spent with
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us three beautiful next Roger's brother
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James arrived they were separated as
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infants and hadn't seen each other in
00:29:48
nearly three decades hey hey R how
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you where you been
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huh that's unbelievable
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there's no feeling in the world you
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could imagine is not to have a family
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and then 30 years later in your life you
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see somebody that's like you is
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Indescribable I'm overwhelmed I really
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am I found my forer mother I found my
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brother I I couldn't see leave in this
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world without knowing where I came from
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and now I know
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when a man named Thomas Wright awoke
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from a disturbing dream two questions
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weighed on his mind do Nightmares come
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true can prayer be answered Thomas would
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soon learn that in his case the
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surprising answer to both questions was
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yes I can see my mother's squad
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car there was a
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struggle I saw the person take my
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mother's
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gun was a
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woman I remember the
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gun moving back and forth it looked like
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my mother really wasn't winning the
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struggle she needed
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help and that was the most disturbing
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thing about the whole dream was the fact
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that I didn't know who was
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shot and
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why the only thing I could think of at
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that point was
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that there was a possibility that my
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mother might have been taken away from
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me on a September night Thomas Wright
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had a nightmare about his mother who
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worked as a deputy sheriff it was so
00:31:52
troubling that he sat in bed and prayed
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for
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her the bond Thomas shared with his
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mother had always been especially strong
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a lot of different things have just
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really brought us close to where we're
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just best friends really and we can feel
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each other's hurts
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anytime and I didn't know until later
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why I had the
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dream the day after Thomas's nightmare
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his mother was transferring a prisoner
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to a facility 2 hours away way the
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inmate was serving a one-year sentence
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for writing bad
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checks as they traveled near Leonia
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Missouri events took place just as they
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had in the nightmare as the car was
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driving on the highway I could see my
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mother talking to the woman who was in
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in
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back it was almost as if I was sitting
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in the front seat but I really wasn't
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there at 600 p.m. the squad car stopped
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oh what are you doing the convict had
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small hands which she managed to slip
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out of the
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handcuffs Doris had to fight for her gun
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and her
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life and I could
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see my mother's
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expression it was almost as if
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the the life had just gone from her
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face she needed
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help constrained by her seat belt Doris
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was
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losing and that's when the events began
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to differ from Thomas's Dream Out of
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Nowhere two men suddenly
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appeared they managed to distract
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Doris's attacker she let go of her whole
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on the
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gun was it just coincidence that the
00:34:04
Good Samaritans came by or was some
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mysterious Force at
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work if I wouldn't afraid what would
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have been the outcome of the
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events with those two men would they
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have been there to help
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her I really think they're really
00:34:22
responsible for saving my mother's
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life by the time Doris regained her
00:34:28
composure the two men had driven off she
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never had a chance to thank them for
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their help I was absolutely convinced
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that I would die that day I looked for
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the men that were there I wanted to talk
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to them wanted to get their names wanted
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to thank them for what they had done for
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me I want them to know because of their
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courage and their willingness to help
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another person I'm still here today
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Thomas and his mother would like to
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thank the people who came to Doris's
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rescue but there are few Clues a person
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who stopped at the scene took this photo
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of the men's vehicle a dark blue Chevy
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CK pickup truck with tinted windows and
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an extended cab it was towing a blue and
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white
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boat the two men were driving near
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Leonia in Northeast Missouri when they
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jumped out of their truck to help it was
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on Highway 19 about 50 m from Mark Twain
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Lake if you have any information about
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next he lived the solitary and simple
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life and when he died he left
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$200,000 but his heirs are unknown
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Walter green nicknamed Curley lived a
00:36:06
quiet Frugal life alone in a small
00:36:08
apartment near
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downtown how you
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doing he was friendly to his neighbors
00:36:15
but kept mostly to
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himself one spring day Curley had a
00:36:21
heart attack and died while working in
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his
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yard everyone who knew Curley was
00:36:27
surprised to find out that he had left
00:36:29
an inheritance of more than
00:36:32
$200,000 worth over half a million
00:36:34
dollar today but Curley didn't leave
00:36:37
will and his relatives could not be
00:36:41
located when it came out in the papers
00:36:44
that he had the amount of money that
00:36:47
they said he had we were
00:36:49
shocked I can't imagine how he amassed
00:36:53
that amount they found stock
00:36:54
certificates I understand they found a
00:36:56
coin collection
00:36:58
and they found much to everyone's
00:36:59
surprise that Curley actually owned the
00:37:01
apartment building where he was
00:37:02
living it is extraordinary that a man
00:37:05
who lived as simply as curly green could
00:37:07
have accured such a large sum of money
00:37:10
it is even more extraordinary that the
00:37:13
money
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remains
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unclaimed much of Curley's early life is
00:37:20
a mystery but we do know that when he
00:37:23
was only 16 he hopped the train heading
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for Omaha
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Curley jumped off outside the city near
00:37:32
a small farming town named
00:37:35
Skyler he began looking for work Al
00:37:39
ringer a Local Tavern keeper offered him
00:37:42
a ride in a homecook meal with his
00:37:46
family Catherine the younger of the two
00:37:49
roing J girls was only 9 years
00:37:52
old I don't know why dad brought him
00:37:55
home we supposed he came from Denver we
00:37:59
were curious when he set at the table
00:38:01
cuz we'd never seen him before but he
00:38:03
was a nice looking young
00:38:05
man at dinner Curley didn't say much
00:38:08
about his family or his birthplace in
00:38:12
Montana He had a very nice way of
00:38:14
evading see when Mama asked him said
00:38:17
didn't you have some cousins or
00:38:18
something he just said well I did once
00:38:23
and he changed the subject and that's
00:38:26
the way curly was
00:38:28
and we respected him for it do you have
00:38:31
any brothers or
00:38:33
sisters well none as pretty as your
00:38:36
daughter's ma'am from the moment Curley
00:38:39
first saw Catherine's older sister
00:38:42
jessemine he was in love he would never
00:38:45
feel the same way about anyone
00:38:48
else Al ringer found curly a job working
00:38:52
at the local garage he earned enough to
00:38:54
move into a boarding house
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now that he was a working man Curley
00:39:00
began to court jessemine Curley thought
00:39:03
quite a bit of jessemine because he
00:39:06
never went with other girls only jasine
00:39:10
when the United States entered the first
00:39:12
world war Curley enlisted in the Army
00:39:16
after serving on the European front he
00:39:19
returned home to Skyler and to
00:39:22
jessemine is jessemine
00:39:24
here no curly I'm sorry he's gone to
00:39:29
Omaha Jasmine liked him and he was a
00:39:32
gentleman always but she wanted other
00:39:35
things out of life and he didn't appear
00:39:38
to be
00:39:39
educated and his earning capacity wasn't
00:39:42
great I
00:39:43
suppose Curley followed Jess to Omaha
00:39:46
but she ended up marrying another man
00:39:50
Curley never married or had a family of
00:39:53
his own he spent the next 60 years alone
00:39:58
and that time he never talked about his
00:40:02
family over the years Curley saved a
00:40:05
considerable Fortune some suspect that
00:40:08
the money came from the sale of his rare
00:40:10
coin collection but Catherine thought he
00:40:13
just saved every penny he ever made well
00:40:17
he said he would get up in the morning
00:40:19
and after he'd eat breakfast he' put a
00:40:21
can on the pilot light and by the time
00:40:23
he'd come back and ready for lunch or
00:40:25
the evening meal it was just right to
00:40:28
eat he was that saving maybe that's how
00:40:31
he got the money when he died Curley
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Left Behind more than
00:40:36
$200,000 in real estate stocks and bonds
00:40:40
and cash so far no legitimate heirs have
00:40:44
claimed the estate investigator Josh
00:40:47
Butler tracks down missing heirs
00:40:49
professionally he has researched the
00:40:51
case of curly grain but hasn't found
00:40:54
anyone yet
00:40:57
it's very strange that a man would
00:40:58
accumulate $200,000 in his lifetime and
00:41:02
that he would have no known relatives so
00:41:04
that anybody knew about and not leave
00:41:06
some sort of a written document
00:41:08
concerning the disposition of this money
00:41:11
somewhere there's somebody who has
00:41:13
enough information in their own family
00:41:15
that they're going to be able to come
00:41:16
forward and prove their entitlement to
00:41:18
this these are five of the few known
00:41:21
photographs of curly green showing him
00:41:24
as a young man in middle age
00:41:28
and before he died he said that he was
00:41:30
born in Kendall Montana and lived in
00:41:33
Denver he was known to have a collection
00:41:35
of gold coins some of which he might
00:41:38
have obtained in Mexico apparently he
00:41:41
once received postcards from someone in
00:41:44
Brooklyn New York Curley claimed he had
00:41:48
a brother who was killed in a shootout
00:41:50
he stated that his father Albert Harry
00:41:53
Green was born in England his mother an
00:41:56
Moren green was born in lvia neither of
00:41:59
Curley's parents have been
00:42:03
found if you have any information about
00:42:06
Curley please log on to our website at
00:42:09
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