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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 9 - Updated Full Episode

March 16, 2022 / 43:08

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers the murder of Caitlin Arquette, a serial rapist at Texas A&M University, the mystery of Amelia Earhart, and a woman's claims of reincarnation.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, 18-year-old Caitlin Arquette is shot and killed after a dinner with a friend. Her mother believes Caitlin was murdered due to her involvement in an insurance scam with her boyfriend, who remains a suspect despite police ruling it a random act of violence. New evidence in 2021 links a man named Paul Apodaca to Caitlin's murder.

In Marietta, Ohio, Georgia Rudolph shares her experiences of vivid dreams and memories of a past life as Sandra Jean Jenkins. Under hypnosis, she recalls details of her past life, including a tragic love story and a connection to a grave that leads her to believe in reincarnation.

The episode also discusses a serial rapist who terrorized Texas A&M University. After two attacks, police identify Don Richard Davis Jr. as the suspect, leading to his arrest and conviction for aggravated sexual assault.

Finally, the episode revisits the mystery of Amelia Earhart, with researcher Richard Gillespie claiming to have found evidence of her fate on a remote island, though experts dispute his findings.

TL;DR

Caitlin Arquette's murder, a serial rapist, reincarnation claims, and Amelia Earhart's mystery are featured in this episode.

Episode

43:08
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next on unsolved mysteries
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eighteen-year-old caitlin arquette is
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brutally gunned down
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and her mother tries to find the killers
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a serial rapist is on the loose at a
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highly respected university
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new evidence found on a remote island
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might explain what happened to legendary
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aviator
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amelia earhart
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and a woman claims she is living proof
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that reincarnation is real
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and the facts may back her up
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these are stories with intriguing
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secrets and surprising revelations so
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stick around
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i'm dennis farina and for the next hour
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this is unsolved mysteries
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[Music]
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albuquerque new mexico
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10 45 p.m
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eighteen-year-old caitlin arquette has
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just finished dinner with a girlfriend
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she told us she'd had a big fight with
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her boyfriend she was breaking up with
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him
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and she was going to a girlfriend's
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house for dinner
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and she would either spend the night
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there or come back and spend it at our
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house
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she was not going to go back to the
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apartment
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a little bit before midnight the phone
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rang it was phone call from the
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emergency room of the hospital
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they said kate is there
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that she's been injured and i said
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what's happened and they said we can't
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tell you on the phone
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so my husband and i drove to the
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hospital
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and kate had been shot twice in the head
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she was in a coma
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five hours later police arrive at kate's
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apartment
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her live-in boyfriend is home alone
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seemingly unaware that his girlfriend
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has been shot and is close to death with
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the albuquerque police department just
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like come in talk to you a minute sure
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what's this about caitlyn's boyfriend
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told me that he had been out with a
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couple of friends uh they had eaten they
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played pool and they had a couple of
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drinks a couple buddies of mine while i
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was there on myself and the other
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detectives we discovered a note on top
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of the kitchen table and the note read
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something to the fact hun
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i'll be home at a certain time that sort
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of thing caitlin she left that for me
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when the police leave the apartment
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kate's boyfriend goes straight to the
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hospital and joins her family at her
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bedside
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but by the next day
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caitlin arquette
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is dead
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six months after caitlyn's murder police
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concluded that she had been the victim
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of a quote
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random act of violence but her mother
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refuses to accept that ruling she is
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convinced that her daughter was executed
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by a hired assassin
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[Music]
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we're all set no questions asked
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two and a half months before she was
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killed caitlyn and her boyfriend took a
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trip to southern california
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apparently kate had become involved in a
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complex
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insurance scam
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[Music]
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one of our daughters told me that
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that march a couple of months before the
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boyfriend had staged an accident
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a fake accident
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in a car that kate had rented for him
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with our credit card
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the scam was reportedly set up by a
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vietnamese gang
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everyone involved in the accident would
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complain of soft tissue injuries to
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their neck and lower backs and were
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later treated by a doctor who was also
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part of the fraud
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ultimately a law firm in orange county
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california handled all the insurance
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claims
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kate and her boyfriend received fifteen
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hundred dollars as their share of the
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settlement
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everything went well
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it was a major multi-million dollar
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insurance scam
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all of a sudden there was another
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element there something that suggested a
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possible motive
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because if kate was breaking up with her
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boyfriend at that time then maybe maybe
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she was a danger to the people who had
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arranged this
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a few weeks after kate's death her
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mother made a disturbing discovery
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three calls have been made from kate's
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apartment at almost the exact time
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that she died
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in fact they were made just minutes
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after she was pronounced dead when her
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boyfriend was with us at the hospital
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and the apartment should have been
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unoccupied
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the number turned out to belong to a
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vietnamese paralegal in orange county
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and it was the same paralegal who set up
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the car wrecks
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lois asked the local crime reporter mike
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gallagher to investigate
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lois wanted me to look into caitlyn's
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relationship with a boyfriend
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lois felt that there had been uh some
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real problems and that the police had
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failed to to take a look at it
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mike first spoke to kate's former
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landlord
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i had the impression from neighbors that
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caitlyn was more afraid of her
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boyfriend's friends
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rather than her boyfriend
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she would get disturbed when they only
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spoke vietnamese around her the friends
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caused friction between her and her
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boyfriend and she did not like his
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friends
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well if they're your friends how can you
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let them treat me so long things were
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much more stormy than we had ever
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guessed and it wasn't just a little
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lover's spat there was something very
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major happening in kate's life after she
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moved in with her boyfriend
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and she told us she was very sorry that
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she had ever let him move in with her
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it had been a big mistake she wanted him
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to move out so her girlfriend could move
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in instead
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mike gallagher was able to obtain a copy
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of the note that police believed kate
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had left for her boyfriend on the day of
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the shooting
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he compared it with another sample of
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her writing
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it was obvious just by comparing the
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handwritings of the note with
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caitlyn's writing that she did not write
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that note
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that led me to believe that within hours
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of her shooting her boyfriend was
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already lying to police
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the landlord also told gallagher that on
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the night caitlyn died three of her
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boyfriend's associates were in her
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apartment
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drinking
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kate's mother is convinced that one of
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them made the phone calls to the law
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firm
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in orange county
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who in the world would wait in that
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apartment to call orange county to say
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she's dead to call that particular
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paralegal
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none of that makes sense to us
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was caitlin arquette executed because
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she had learned too much about the
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insurance scam
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i don't think that the vietnamese
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connection is related to this case thus
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far i have not received any information
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and to indicate
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positively that
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the vietnamese is involved in this
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homicide
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police were going in a completely
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different direction
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six months after the murder an informant
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led police to a young man named juvenal
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escobar the arcade girl the university
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girl again they discovered that escobado
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had recently sold his brown chevrolet
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camaro
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they became suspicious
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on the night of the murder a truck
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driver had reported seeing a braun
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camaro chasing a young woman in a car
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similar
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[Applause]
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in the end however the charges were
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dropped because police could not connect
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juvenile with the shooting
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we certainly appreciate you coming in
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and talking finally under pressure from
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kate's family the police questioned her
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boyfriend again
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this time he admitted that he and a
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friend had taken part in the insurance
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scam
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but charges have never been filed
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against him or any of his friends
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nor is he considered a suspect in kate's
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murder no she never tried to throw me
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caitlyn's boyfriend's friends were
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involved with
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large-scale organized criminal activity
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in los angeles
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and multi-million dollar insurance
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frauds
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i don't think the police ever took that
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seriously
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there seems to be two viable theories
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about who killed caitlyn
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she was either the victim of a random
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shooting or she was executed to keep her
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from exposing the insurance scam
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our family doesn't have any real idea
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who pulled the trigger on kate the one
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thing we feel very strong about is that
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she was not shot randomly as just people
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out on a spree having fun shooting a
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pretty girl in a red car we believe kate
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was killed because she was going to talk
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was going to expose illegal activities
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involving her boyfriend and his
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companions
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update
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there are new developments in this case
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and here's one of our staff with details
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in 2021 paul apodaca who was being held
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on a parole violation confessed to
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multiple homicides and sexual assaults
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including the murder of caitlyn arquette
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he is charged with the murder of althea
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oakley and remains behind bars while
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investigators work to confirm his
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involvement in caitlyn's murder
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next georgia rudolph is haunted by
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dreams and memories from another time
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and possibly another life
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marietta ohio
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georgia rudolph describes a startling
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dream
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[Music]
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i feel the cold
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i feel the night
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i smell the horses
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i smell the leather
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i can feel the girl
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but it feels like myself
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climbing on this carriage
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and
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going down the road and i can
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hear the sound of the horse's hoofs
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the dictionary defines reincarnation as
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quote
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the rebirth of a soul in a new body what
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is reincarnation possible and can anyone
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actually prove that they lived a
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previous life
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well georgia rudolph believes that she
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can
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there was a little girl and a younger
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woman in all of george's visions
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the time and the place are not familiar
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sometimes they appear as dreams but more
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often not as distinct memories
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they describe events that she hasn't
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experienced
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at least not in this life
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there never seemed to be a common
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denominator of what would trigger off
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the memories
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as a child i don't think there was a
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month that went by
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that i didn't have
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either memories
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or dreams
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georgia was only five when the memories
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began
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feast draw a picture of this girl
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i also drawn a picture of a house since
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i was five
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and then the house
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would go with the girl
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and if i didn't get her right i would
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erase her or tear it up and start all
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over again
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i knew exactly how this girl was
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supposed to look
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i have always known that face
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as georgia grew older the incidents
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became more frequent
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often they were no more than a quick
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flash
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but all of her visions seem to come from
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the distant past
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from the early 1900s
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there were no cars or planes
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but there were repeated images of paddle
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wheel steamers which georgia in her own
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lifetime had never even seen
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it's not like a childhood memory
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it feels different
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it's like
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taking a picture from my mind
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projecting it on a screen
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and just replaying it
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over and over
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a river played a large part in george's
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dreams
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so did a young man dressed in a brown
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suit wearing a derby hat
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sometimes he was alone
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sometimes he was with the girl and
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always there were the images of a
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horse-drawn carriage
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on a cold winter night
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when georgia first contacted me i felt
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it might be something like an early
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traumatic childhood memory that she was
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trying to remember or re-experience or
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possibly could be an aspect of a
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multiple personality where she was
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imagining herself or experiencing
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herself to be someone different which
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sometimes happens in these cases
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other than that the reincarnation was
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probably the last thing in my mind about
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what had happened to her
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so we're going to go through a procedure
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this evening dr douglas smith began
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regressive hypnosis with georgia
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this type of therapy allows the patient
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to go back in time but still remember
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everything
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i'd like you to take a very slow deep
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breath for our story georgia agreed to
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once again undergo hypnosis
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he asked me a question
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and referred to me as georgia i remember
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very vividly saying
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i don't know who you're talking to
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and he said well if
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this is in georgia then who is it
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and i remember
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saying
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my name is sandra jean jenkins
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and what year were you born sandra 1895.
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georgia came to believe that the face
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she had drawn so many times had a name
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sandra jean jenkins
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this was the girl in her memories
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and her dreams
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[Music]
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in further sessions georgia filled in
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the details of her visions
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she could now clearly see sandra jean on
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a paddle wheel steamer
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one of the men on the boat was the young
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man in the derby hat
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his name
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was tommy hicks
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he and sandra were sweethearts
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the sessions also revealed that the two
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of them
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were about to be married
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georgia seems to me a very down-to-earth
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person
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and
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it surprised me when she came out with
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the amount of emotion and affect and
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details that she did under hypnosis
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when this came out
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not only did i feel i was crazy it
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scared me to death
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it went against everything
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that i have ever been taught
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as far as religion goes
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she is very sincere in her belief that
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she actually subjectively experienced
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all the things
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that she has experienced in that past
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life that she described
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she's not faking or pretending it is a
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real experience for her
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were the visions that haunted georgia
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rudolph for more than 30 years proof of
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reincarnation
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[Music]
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coming up georgia finds unexplained
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connections between her dreams and the
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real life of sandra jean jenkins
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[Music]
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for more than 30 years georgia rudolph
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was haunted by dreams of a girl named
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sandra jean jenkins
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under hypnosis she was repeatedly drawn
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to the town of marietta ohio
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georgia decided to visit hoping to see
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if there was any truth to her dreams
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georgia arranged to meet with a reporter
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named ted bauer he was a lifelong
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resident of marietta and had worked for
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the local newspaper for 32 years
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when george arrived in marietta i said
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i'll take you around and show you some
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of the places you talked about over the
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phone and she says no i'll show you
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where to go
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i remember this place
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ted was amazed when georgia stopped in
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front of an insurance company and began
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describing the interior of an ice cream
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parlor
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the ice cream parlor had closed in 1937
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11 years before georgia was
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born inside it was it was like red and
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i remember even
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white she described interior red white
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almost perfectly and it was i checked
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this with the son of the man who had run
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it for years
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in a way it seems crazy but what do you
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do she was accurate about her
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descriptions
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i was just baffled by her
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she has some kind of power some
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way of knowing what happened in the past
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i don't know what the power would be but
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she hasn't
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when i began to understand that i was
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being
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100 correct
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there was a fright
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but there was an excitement that was
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starting to build in me
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it was like
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this is really real
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i really was this girl
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despite her vivid memories georgia could
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find no record whatsoever of a sandra
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jean jenkins in marietta
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and so she continued her search five
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miles to the north
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in the small farming town of newport
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ohio
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and you guessed it
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she knew her way around this town too
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[Music]
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the first thing i saw
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when entering newport was a big gray
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house
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it sent chills
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through my body
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this is my house this is where
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i lived
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i could see a room
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and i knew that this had been
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her bedroom
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this was the house
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that sandra had lived in
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throughout george's life one dream had
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always stood out as more haunting than
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all the others
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in it she saw sandra jean as a young
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girl alone
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on the steps of a church
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in the dream i know
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she has to walk exactly two blocks
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and
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she's standing in front of a cemetery
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and there's a path that goes off to the
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right and it curves and twists in
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different directions
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and then the path eventually straightens
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out
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when she gets to the point where it
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straightens out
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she's on the side of a hill
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looking down on a grave
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which i know to be her grandmother's
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grave
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but i'm never able to get the name off
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of the headstone
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because it's that point that i wake up
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in newport georgia found the church from
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her dream
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perhaps now she could find out the
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identity of sandra jean's grandmother
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i walked the two blocks that i knew i
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had to walk in my dream
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and i found myself in the cemetery
00:22:23
and i started
00:22:24
walking this path and as i walked it
00:22:28
it began to dawn on me this is the path
00:22:31
in my dreams
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and when i stopped where the dream stops
00:22:38
i was looking down on the grave
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that i knew
00:22:42
to be my grandmother's
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and
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it said
00:22:47
mary bevin green
00:22:51
and i finally
00:22:53
got a name
00:22:55
the gravestone provided the missing link
00:22:58
to the house georgia had seen in her
00:23:00
dream
00:23:01
[Music]
00:23:03
in the early 1900s this house had been
00:23:06
the home of the green family
00:23:08
they had also owned the fleet of paddle
00:23:10
wheel steamers that worked the ohio
00:23:13
river
00:23:14
now the story of sandra jean jenkins and
00:23:17
tommy hicks
00:23:19
became clear
00:23:22
want you to allow yourself to go back a
00:23:24
little bit further under hypnosis
00:23:26
georgia recall that just days before
00:23:28
sandra jean and tommy were to be married
00:23:31
he was swept overboard in the storm on
00:23:33
the ohio river
00:23:35
his body was never found
00:23:37
sandra jean jenkins was left alone and
00:23:40
to her family's dismay
00:23:42
she discovered that she was pregnant
00:23:44
with tommy's child
00:23:47
mommy's gone
00:23:51
i don't want to be here
00:23:56
mama will never forgive me
00:24:02
i want you to move forward in time
00:24:05
you are now at the river
00:24:08
and i want you to describe to me what
00:24:10
you did then
00:24:12
i take my locket off
00:24:18
and i slide into the water
00:24:22
i walk
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i walk
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where are you buried they put me up on
00:24:33
the hill
00:24:36
close to the family but my wits are
00:24:38
family
00:24:40
georgia is convinced that because sandra
00:24:43
jean took her own life she was buried in
00:24:45
an unmarked grave a few feet away from
00:24:48
her grandmother
00:24:51
under hypnosis georgia said that from
00:24:54
sandra jean's grave you can see an angel
00:24:57
with one arm raised up
00:25:00
when she looked south from mary green's
00:25:02
grave georgia saw the statue of an angel
00:25:07
its right arm extended upward
00:25:12
george's discoveries in ohio do seem
00:25:14
convincing
00:25:15
but is there any real proof that sandra
00:25:18
jenkins or tommy hicks ever existed
00:25:22
georgia couldn't find a record of tommy
00:25:24
but she did find his parents
00:25:29
when i was under hypnosis i had said
00:25:31
that tommy's parents names were tom and
00:25:34
jenny hicks
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that in 1906
00:25:38
there is a farm registered to tom and
00:25:40
jenny hicks in newport ohio
00:25:45
georgia also located the green family's
00:25:48
nearest living relatives who gave her
00:25:50
evidence that sandra jean jenkins
00:25:53
actually existed
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they brought out a picture
00:25:57
taken in 1908
00:26:01
it's a family reunion picture
00:26:04
and the girl that i call sandra
00:26:07
that i have drawn my entire life is
00:26:10
standing in that picture
00:26:14
there was a statement made
00:26:16
by a member of the family
00:26:19
i don't know this girl's name
00:26:22
but i know she drowned out back of the
00:26:24
house
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[Music]
00:26:28
in the family photograph the girl from
00:26:31
george's dreams seems to be standing
00:26:34
slightly apart from those around her
00:26:37
the photograph includes a roster of
00:26:39
names
00:26:40
every single person is identified except
00:26:43
the girl georgia recognized
00:26:46
as sandra gene
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in terms of whether reincarnation is a
00:26:51
real fact or not
00:26:53
as a scientist i don't know i want proof
00:26:57
i'm a doubter
00:26:59
but as a human being
00:27:01
i would love to have it be the truth
00:27:04
i believe
00:27:06
that reincarnation is real
00:27:08
[Music]
00:27:10
but i'm not sure
00:27:11
what reincarnation is
00:27:14
i know there's something
00:27:16
to it
00:27:19
i have had an experience
00:27:21
that a lot of people don't get to have
00:27:24
my logic
00:27:26
oftentimes will tell me
00:27:29
no this isn't real
00:27:32
but my heart tells me
00:27:35
yes it is
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could the story of sandra jean jenkins
00:27:40
be the result of an overactive
00:27:42
imagination
00:27:43
or is it proof of reincarnation
00:27:46
or maybe
00:27:48
it's something else
00:27:50
something
00:27:52
we can't explain
00:27:57
next a serial rapist who brought terror
00:28:00
to a small college town is finally back
00:28:03
behind bars
00:28:14
texas a m university
00:28:17
with more than 45 000 students this
00:28:20
campus provided the perfect cover for a
00:28:23
serial rapist
00:28:25
he hid his violent intentions behind a
00:28:27
normal college life
00:28:31
on the night of the first attack he was
00:28:33
just the jogger who looked like any
00:28:36
other student
00:28:38
when the jogger ran by the victim he ran
00:28:40
out of sight
00:28:42
then turned around came back she didn't
00:28:44
feel at that time that that was really
00:28:46
strange because of the fact that there
00:28:47
are a lot of joggers that go to a
00:28:49
certain area they'll turn around and
00:28:50
come back and they may come back the
00:28:52
same way or they may continue a
00:28:53
different route
00:28:54
hey
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hi
00:28:57
chilly evening tonight yes
00:29:02
the suspect kept telling the victim to
00:29:05
do what he told her to do
00:29:07
he also kept that knife
00:29:09
within her sight and she had every
00:29:12
indication at that point that he would
00:29:15
use that knife on her
00:29:20
30 minutes later the rapist disappeared
00:29:22
into the shadows
00:29:24
university police soon released a
00:29:26
composite sketch and a character profile
00:29:29
of the suspect
00:29:32
he was probably a college student he
00:29:34
would strike again he would use that
00:29:36
knife
00:29:37
we had to catch this guy we had to
00:29:40
identify him we had to
00:29:41
find out where he was and we had to
00:29:43
prevent him from
00:29:46
performing another sexual assault
00:29:50
the profile was right on target three
00:29:53
months later the knife-wheeling
00:29:55
assailant struck again
00:30:04
[Applause]
00:30:06
from nowhere she said a knife appeared
00:30:09
and was placed against her throat
00:30:12
he threatened her he told her that if
00:30:13
she screamed he was going to kill her
00:30:16
and therefore she comply with his
00:30:17
instructions
00:30:19
he then took her to a nearby field there
00:30:22
was about five foot tall grass
00:30:24
and he had already matted down a six
00:30:26
foot diameter area so the grass was real
00:30:29
low which is where he then sexually
00:30:31
assaulted her
00:30:32
the site was chosen but not necessarily
00:30:35
the victim he just waited for the right
00:30:36
one to come by and then took her to the
00:30:39
location that he was he had already
00:30:41
prepared
00:30:44
this composite is based on the second
00:30:46
victim's description
00:30:48
when compared with the first drawing
00:30:50
investigators knew that a serial rapist
00:30:53
was stalking the campus
00:30:57
we became very concerned that if it was
00:30:59
indeed the same person if he had
00:31:01
committed one and committed a second
00:31:03
there was most likely going to be a
00:31:05
third and a fourth and so on until he
00:31:07
was stopped
00:31:10
authorities covered the campus with
00:31:11
posters
00:31:12
however the description could have fit
00:31:15
almost any male student
00:31:20
straight hair not curly
00:31:22
young not old white not black
00:31:27
a lot of people end up saying yep looks
00:31:29
like just any regular person
00:31:31
even the second victim that i had
00:31:32
interviewed in depth she made the
00:31:34
comment to just looked like a clean cut
00:31:36
student
00:31:39
the critical break came from the first
00:31:41
victim when 10 months after the assault
00:31:44
she stopped for groceries at a local
00:31:46
market
00:31:49
have a good day thanks
00:31:51
howdy how you doing
00:31:54
hey
00:31:56
fine thanks this is a knife
00:32:03
[Music]
00:32:08
the young woman was convinced that she
00:32:10
was now face to face with the man
00:32:13
who raped her
00:32:15
that'll be 42-57 please
00:32:18
can i write you a check sure
00:32:24
[Music]
00:32:28
can i see your driver's license please
00:32:30
driver's license
00:32:32
[Music]
00:32:40
yeah thank you
00:32:49
excuse me
00:32:50
hey
00:32:52
you forgot something
00:32:55
police soon learned that the clerk's
00:32:57
name was don richard davis jr
00:33:02
he was scheduled to graduate from texas
00:33:04
a m in just three weeks
00:33:08
detective villarreal this is detective
00:33:09
lynn holmer with the texas a m
00:33:11
university police department hi we're
00:33:13
investigating the two rapes that took
00:33:14
place on the campus last year your name
00:33:16
came to us to look alike yeah his
00:33:18
demeanor his posture even his physical
00:33:21
continence was very timid
00:33:24
very sheepish
00:33:26
but interesting enough we started to
00:33:28
really study that picture and look at
00:33:30
him he started to really look in those
00:33:32
eyes
00:33:33
they didn't match the sheepish behavior
00:33:37
we had seen the eyes ended up reflecting
00:33:39
a very
00:33:40
thoughtful
00:33:41
aware
00:33:43
focused individual
00:33:46
when this photograph of davis was shown
00:33:48
to the second victim she also identified
00:33:51
him as the rapist
00:33:54
dna evidence was the clincher
00:34:00
davis was arrested and charged with two
00:34:02
counts of aggravated sexual assault you
00:34:04
to let me call my parents
00:34:07
he was released on 150 000 bail and
00:34:11
ordered to stay with his parents and
00:34:13
observe a 10 p.m curfew
00:34:17
but six days before the start of his
00:34:18
trial davis did not come home
00:34:26
update
00:34:28
soon after our story aired don richard
00:34:31
davis jr was arrested by police in
00:34:34
cleveland ohio
00:34:35
davis pleaded guilty to two counts of
00:34:38
aggravated sexual assault
00:34:40
he was sentenced to 99 years in prison
00:34:43
and will not be eligible for parole
00:34:46
until 2013.
00:34:48
[Music]
00:34:52
coming up an aviation expert believes he
00:34:55
has solved the mystery of amelia
00:34:57
earhart's final flight
00:35:10
celine county arkansas
00:35:13
on a hot august evening don henry and
00:35:16
kevin ives set out for some night
00:35:18
hunting along the railroad tracks behind
00:35:20
don's home
00:35:21
[Applause]
00:35:23
four hours later the engineer of a
00:35:25
freight train traveling at more than 50
00:35:27
miles an hour
00:35:29
spots what he thinks are two people
00:35:32
stretched across the tracks
00:35:34
and i started laying down on the diesel
00:35:36
horn
00:35:39
[Applause]
00:35:46
and i got no reaction not at all
00:35:50
not so much as a flinch
00:35:54
dan and kevin were lying parallel on the
00:35:56
tracks they were partially covered by a
00:35:58
light green tarp and beside them lay
00:36:01
down's 22 caliber rifle
00:36:04
after a brief investigation the state
00:36:06
medical examiner ruled that their deaths
00:36:09
were accidental
00:36:13
to prosecutor richard garrett the death
00:36:15
of don henry and kevin ives looked like
00:36:18
murder
00:36:20
he received permission for a second
00:36:22
autopsy
00:36:23
this time the results reveal that kevin
00:36:26
had been stabbed in the back by a large
00:36:28
knife and don had been hit in the face
00:36:31
with a rifle butt
00:36:35
garrett now believes that both boys were
00:36:37
either unconscious or dead before the
00:36:40
train ever hit them
00:36:43
i think that the boys
00:36:46
saw something that they shouldn't have
00:36:47
seen and it had to do with drugs either
00:36:50
with a crank lab
00:36:53
which manufactures methamphetamine
00:36:55
are certain individuals involved in
00:36:58
those matters and and
00:37:00
those people felt like that the
00:37:01
information that the boys then had
00:37:03
was such that they could not allow them
00:37:05
to to live
00:37:09
update
00:37:12
since we broadcast this story don
00:37:14
henry's t-shirt has been analyzed by an
00:37:17
expert pathologist
00:37:20
cuts in the fabric indicate that don was
00:37:22
stabbed before the train ran over him
00:37:26
in the light of this new evidence the
00:37:28
grand jury changed its ruling from
00:37:31
probable homicide
00:37:32
to definite homicide
00:37:35
if you have any information about the
00:37:38
deaths of don henry and kevin ives
00:37:41
please log on to our website at
00:37:43
unsolved.com
00:37:51
one of the most intriguing stories we
00:37:53
have ever profiled is the mystery of
00:37:56
legendary aviator amelia earhart
00:37:59
after we first broadcast her story
00:38:01
researcher richard gillespie announced
00:38:04
to the world that he had finally solved
00:38:06
the mystery of her last flight
00:38:10
70 years ago amelia earhart earned the
00:38:14
admiration of the entire world
00:38:18
at a time when flying was an all-male
00:38:21
club amelia earhart became an
00:38:24
all-american hero
00:38:27
on may 20th 1937 amelia and her
00:38:31
navigator fred newman began a daring
00:38:33
attempt to fly around the world in this
00:38:36
twin-engine lockheed 10 electra
00:38:40
on july 2nd they disappeared trying to
00:38:43
find tiny howland island in the south
00:38:46
pacific
00:38:49
a massive search turned up no trace of
00:38:52
emilia fred or their airplane
00:38:55
they were officially declared lost at
00:38:57
sea
00:39:01
[Music]
00:39:06
one year after we first broadcast the
00:39:09
story aviation researcher richard
00:39:11
gillespie called the press conference
00:39:14
he claimed to have found physical
00:39:16
evidence proving that amelia earhart and
00:39:19
fred noonan died on a small island
00:39:23
waiting to be rescued
00:39:25
before you are artifacts which along
00:39:28
with recently discovered historical
00:39:30
documents
00:39:32
conclusively solve
00:39:33
the disappearance of amelia earhart
00:39:36
gillespie found artifacts on a tiny
00:39:39
island located 420 miles from holland
00:39:42
island earhart's original destination
00:39:46
among the items that gillespie displayed
00:39:48
were these tattered remnants of a shoe
00:39:51
allegedly worn by earhart
00:39:55
he also found this piece of aluminum
00:39:58
which he claims came from earhart's
00:40:00
lockheed 10 electric
00:40:02
the rivet pattern
00:40:04
is the same
00:40:07
if richard gillespie is correct then the
00:40:09
final chapter of amelia earhart's story
00:40:12
can be written
00:40:14
however gillespie's evidence has been
00:40:17
questioned by several experts
00:40:20
elgin long a noted historian ann earhart
00:40:23
biographer was asked by gillespie to
00:40:26
study detailed measurements and
00:40:28
photographs of the wreckage
00:40:31
long and his team compared the evidence
00:40:34
with an airplane identical to a
00:40:36
milliards
00:40:39
we made a template that was the exact
00:40:41
same size and had all the rivet holes in
00:40:43
it just like the fragment that was found
00:40:45
on nicomaroto
00:40:47
we put this template up to the bottom of
00:40:49
the airplane and we compared the rivet
00:40:51
lines with the rivets on the actual
00:40:53
airplane before you notice that there's
00:40:54
no
00:40:55
row of fasteners they didn't match at
00:40:57
all
00:40:57
also notice that there was rivet holes
00:41:00
where there shouldn't be any rivets and
00:41:02
there weren't rivet holes where there
00:41:03
should be rivets
00:41:05
algen long compared the template to
00:41:07
nearly every section of the airplane
00:41:10
no match could be found
00:41:12
yeah there's no way that piece could
00:41:14
have come from a lockheed 10 or amelia
00:41:17
earhart's airplane
00:41:20
richard gillespie claims that the rivet
00:41:22
patterns don't match because repairs
00:41:24
were made to earhart's plane during her
00:41:26
first attempt to fly around the world
00:41:30
a lockheed engineer ed werner disagrees
00:41:34
he argues that all repairs made on
00:41:36
earhart's plane were done to strict
00:41:39
factory specs
00:41:41
the repair
00:41:42
had to be exactly
00:41:44
per the engineering orders
00:41:48
but at first i was
00:41:49
kind of happy that this controversy was
00:41:52
over
00:41:53
with him
00:41:54
very disappointed
00:41:56
now
00:41:56
[Music]
00:41:58
from the conclusion that it can't be
00:42:00
part of her airplane
00:42:05
richard gillespie stands by his claim
00:42:07
that the fragment he found came from
00:42:09
amelia earhart's plane but
00:42:12
aviation experts disagree
00:42:16
for now at least the legendary
00:42:17
disappearance of amelia earhart remains
00:42:21
an unsolved mystery
00:42:56
[Music]
00:43:07
you

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Episode Highlights

  • Caitlin Arquette's Tragic Murder
    Eighteen-year-old Caitlin Arquette is brutally gunned down, leading to a mother's relentless search for justice.
    “Her mother refuses to accept the ruling of a random act of violence.”
    @ 03m 35s
    March 16, 2022
  • Georgia Rudolph's Reincarnation Claims
    Georgia Rudolph believes she is the reincarnation of Sandra Jean Jenkins, a girl from the early 1900s.
    “I have always known that face.”
    @ 13m 37s
    March 16, 2022
  • Uncovering the Past
    Georgia's vivid dreams lead her to uncover connections to a life she believes she lived before.
    “This is my house, this is where I lived.”
    @ 20m 41s
    March 16, 2022
  • The Mystery of Reincarnation
    Exploring the possibility of reincarnation through personal experiences.
    “I have had an experience that a lot of people don’t get to have”
    @ 27m 21s
    March 16, 2022
  • Serial Rapist Caught
    A serial rapist who terrorized a college town is finally behind bars.
    “We had to catch this guy”
    @ 29m 37s
    March 16, 2022
  • Unsolved Deaths of Don Henry and Kevin Ives
    Investigations reveal that two boys' deaths were likely homicides, not accidents.
    “I think that the boys saw something they shouldn’t have seen”
    @ 36m 46s
    March 16, 2022
  • Amelia Earhart's Disappearance
    A researcher claims to have solved the mystery of Amelia Earhart's last flight.
    “The legendary disappearance of Amelia Earhart remains an unsolved mystery”
    @ 42m 21s
    March 16, 2022

Episode Quotes

  • She was not going to go back to the apartment.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 9 - Updated Full Episode
  • I don't think that the Vietnamese connection is related to this case.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 9 - Updated Full Episode
  • I really was this girl.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 9 - Updated Full Episode
  • I believe that reincarnation is real.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 9 - Updated Full Episode
  • We had to catch this guy.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 9 - Updated Full Episode
  • If you have any information about the deaths of Don Henry and Kevin Ives.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 9 - Updated Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Caitlin's Last Night01:54
  • Insurance Scam Motive04:00
  • Georgia's Dreams11:24
  • Hypnosis Session15:18
  • Discovery of the Grave22:40
  • Reincarnation27:16
  • Serial Rapist Arrested28:03
  • Murder Investigation36:18

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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 19
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 8, Episode 16
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 13
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