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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you're about to see is not a news
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broadcast
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when a spectacular solar eclipse plunged
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much of mexico into darkness
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no one imagined that the event would
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spawn an astounding wave of ufo
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sightings
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sightings experienced by thousands of
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eyewitnesses all across mexico
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and captured on dozens of home videos
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on june 7th 1992 36 year old sammy
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wheeler was found shot to death in his
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car
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and the small town of stanton virginia
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was overrun with rumors
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incredibly sammy's twin brothers sammy's
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old girlfriend and her ex-husband are
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taking turns accusing each other of the
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murder
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but still the question remains who
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killed sammy wheeler
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and perhaps someone watching can provide
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a happy ending to the poignant story of
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gordon page jr
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only after years of misdiagnosis did
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gode's parents learn
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that their son was suffering from autism
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then in 1991 gordy vanished from the
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group home in which he had been placed
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jointly perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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so
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usually when we hear that a person in
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some remote community is at a ufo
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sighting
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we respond with a smile and a shake of
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the head
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when three or four credible people
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report seeing a mysterious craft
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we may pay just slightly more attention
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but when thousands of people claim to
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see the same strange object
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and hunters provide videotape evidence
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we may begin to think that maybe
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just maybe there is more than a grain of
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truth to the reports
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which brings us to the fantastic saga of
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the mexico ufos
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july 11 1991 the last total eclipse of
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the sun in this century
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perhaps the most spectacular celestial
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event of the past
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200 years
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for the residents of mexico city the
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eclipse prompted a festive celebration
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thousands took to the streets as one of
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the world's largest cities was plunged
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into total darkness
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in the middle of broad daylight
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no one imagined the entire country was
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about to be swept up
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in a wave of ufo hysteria
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that afternoon a television executive
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named guillermo araguin was videotaping
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the eclipse
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when he noticed an unusual object
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overhead
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it was presented on the news it was said
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that a very strange
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object was over mexico city but nobody
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said what it was when i saw it
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i said oh my god this is a ufo a real
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ufo
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i mean you can look at it you can look
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the video and be absolutely convinced
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what are you looking at
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jaime moussan is one of mexico's most
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respected television journalists
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for the past nine years he has produced
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directed and hosted mexico's edition of
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60 minutes or sesenta minutos eight days
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after the eclipse
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jaime presented the aragine footage as
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part of a special ufo broadcast
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the network was inundated with phone
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calls
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we asked the people in mexico to bring
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or their videos to us
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because we like to see in if in the
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clips they had recorded the same stuff
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the telephone lines blew up i mean 40
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000
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calls at the same time then
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the the system was completely shot out
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we received more than 15 videos and we
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now know for sure that at least in seven
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of them
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we can see the same exactly the same
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ship that was recorded by guillermo
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aragina
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one of the many videos was sent by eric
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aguilar
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a 19 year old student at national
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university of mexico
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he was setting up to film the eclipse
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from a rooftop when his girlfriend
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spotted something unusual in the sky
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my girlfriend commented that it was a
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ufo we thought it was a joke
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no one really believed her when she said
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she saw a ufo
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but within moments they all decided that
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the object was not a joke at all
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at first all we saw was a white dot in
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the sky
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that's all we could see in the beginning
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later
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we saw that this dot was
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shining brightly
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it must have been a very bright star and
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we didn't realize it at first we didn't
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realize it until we saw the video tape
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later
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we saw that this dot
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it wasn't a dot it was a larger object
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and it was giving off light it was
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shining
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at virtually the same time 60 miles from
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mexico city
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a businessman named luis lara
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photographed a similar object
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as i raised the camera you could see
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something in the clouds
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and it was a metal object and it looked
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like it was made of
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two plates you can distinguish a dome
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and it turned on its own axis
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it was silver plated a color like
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aluminum
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you could see clearly it's not a star
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it's a ufo because it had a shadow in it
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if it were a star or a planet you you
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would see clearly that it would be
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completely luminous
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but this one had a little shadow
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underneath
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yet another video was shot by the bratan
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family in puebla
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a city 80 miles east of mexico city
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magnifying the baton video revealed an
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odd wave-like disturbance behind the
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pulsating disk
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perhaps some kind of energy trail
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jaime moussan enhanced the aragine
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footage and compared it to the baton
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tape
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the objects the photograph nearly 100
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miles apart
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were remarkably similar in every aspect
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the video from puebla was absolutely
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identical to the one we had seen with
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arregin in mexico
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it was for the first time in history
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never before we you had
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a tape of two ufos in two different
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places
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at exactly the same moment the videos
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caused a sensation throughout mexico
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but the ufo craze was just beginning
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two months later an engineer named
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vincente sanchez
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took his video camera to a military air
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show in mexico city
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i was following one of the planes and i
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saw a shiny dot in the camera
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i didn't know what it was but it seemed
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to be moving
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it was undulating so i let the planes go
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off
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and i focused more on this shiny dot in
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the sky
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what i saw was a bright round object
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about 10 meters in diameter it was made
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of silver
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it was shining very brightly and
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reflected the sunlight a lot
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it didn't fly like a plane it was
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undulated
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the object appeared undulated and moved
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around very quickly
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a year later a similar object was
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videotaped at the same air show
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this time the disc descended rapidly and
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mysteriously disappeared
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by the time the 1993 air show rolled
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around
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people anticipated another sighting
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sure enough just as a squadron of
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helicopters flew by
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the familiar metallic disc appeared
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it was traveling against the wind so
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much so that had been a balloon
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considering the force of the helicopter
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blades it would have crashed
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it kept on its path very very straight
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and steady until it got lost in the sky
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optical enhancement of this video seems
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to reveal that the object crossed in
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close proximity to the helicopters
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curiously the military has consistently
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declined to address the matter
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the military hasn't made any comment on
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that sighting or any sighting
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and there are many more where we can
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relate the military or
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military planes to videos and
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however we haven't have any kind of
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answer
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from them
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since the eclipse in july of 1991 there
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have been thousands of sightings
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throughout mexico
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there is no clear pattern although the
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great majority have occurred in and
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around mexico city
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the witnesses range from pilots to
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doctors to bus drivers
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and even school children
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these drawings are made by a class of
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fifth graders who allegedly saw ufos in
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march of 1993
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the pictures are strikingly similar in
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detail
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three shining lights with the brightest
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light in the center
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the objects were silver with red
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one of them was coming down and
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the other one that you could see in the
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sky
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was silver
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when they were a little lower you could
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see the shape of the objects
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they were like saucers with the dome
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everything's silver
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and though it was harder to see there
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seemed to be a kind of
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reddish magnetic field
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we haven't found a single reason why
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these little kids
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made this story up there were so many
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and when you talk to them you can feel
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the honesty that they trust me they're
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just little kids
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they don't care about the ufo conspiracy
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they don't care about if they are real
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or not
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they saw what they saw people
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really like ufos people really believe
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in ufos
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and we are now convinced that we are
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living an incredible experience
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as a country as a society because it's
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everywhere
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it's not just one people is many people
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with their eyes in the sky and a camera
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in their hands
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now is the video era and the video is
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going to solve
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the ufo mystery are the mexico ufos real
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it is difficult to deny the startling
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images captured on videotape
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though a determined skeptic would no
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doubt find some basis to discount the
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entire episode
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but for those who have actually
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witnessed the mysterious objects in the
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skies over mexico
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seeing is believing
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next a bizarre murder mystery in which
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three people
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including the victim's twin brother
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accuse each other of pulling the trigger
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on june 7th 1992 the george washington
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national forest in virginia was visited
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by murder
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that morning the body of 36 year old
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sammy wheeler was found in the back seat
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of his sport vehicle
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sammy had been shot six times in the
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head and upper torso
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both the local sheriff's department and
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the fbi investigated
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they quickly determined that the killer
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had gone to great lengths to clean the
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crime scene
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all shell casings and fingerprints had
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been removed and an amateurish attempt
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had been made to destroy the evidence
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there was an apparent effort to try and
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ignite the uh the vehicle there was some
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paper and tissue
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stuffed in the gas cap the gas cap had
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been opened and apparently
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a cigarette laid there lit in an effort
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to try there was some burning around
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there but it
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it didn't ignite and didn't take effect
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when investigators discovered that
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sammy's wallet was missing
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the case took on all the earmarks of a
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random act of violence
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but before long it would be revealed
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that at least three people in sami
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wheeler's life might have watered him
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dead
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sammy's twin brother danny sammy's
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girlfriend pat snead
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and pat's estranged husband bob bean
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what had begun as a routine
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investigation quickly became a classic
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drama of love lies and murder
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in the months following sammy wheeler's
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death danny wheeler pat sneed and bob
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bean
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took turns accusing each other of the
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crime
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in this bizarre and convoluted case the
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principals agree on only one thing
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it all started when sammy wheeler began
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dating pat snead
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in the fall of 1991 pat moved into a
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rental unit owned by sammy's twin
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brother danny
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the property had been divided into
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separate apartments
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pat and her two sons lived in one
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apartment with sammy
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danny lived in one of the others the
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arrangement suited everyone
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except pat's estranged husband bob bean
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the situation was not really
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what was in the best interest of my
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children i had approached patton
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and asked her to please
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stop this living arrangement here okay
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we won't get into responses but uh
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anyway i felt that i was forced into
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going to court
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to at least provide some kind or try to
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provide some kind of moral environment
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for my children
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in february a court order was issued
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that prohibited sammy from being with
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pat in the presence of the boys
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to comply sammy moved into his twin
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brother's apartment
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bob bean remained suspicious he hired a
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private investigator to ensure that the
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court order was being obeyed
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bob's private investigator came in and
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testified that
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sammy had violated the court's order
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sammy never found out whether or not the
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judge believed that
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i know for sure sam did not violate that
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court order
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but just to be safe he stayed away from
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the house then
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he was living in a truck without even a
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bathroom or a shower
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just to appease bob bean so where are
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you gonna stay tonight
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probably just stay in the car i hate it
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when you sleep in the car
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honey i can't give them any more
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ammunition they've already got
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i never harbored any ill will at all
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towards sam
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people around here have a hard time
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understanding how a man can
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accept that his wife is leaving him for
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another man
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well to be honest with you i knew what i
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had
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and i was thankful to pass it on
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okay but
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after getting to know sam i found
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i kind of felt sorry for him and i
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wanted to sit down and prepare him for
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what he was getting
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bob hated sam sam knew it
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and i knew it bob says otherwise because
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i believe bob is a pathological liar
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sam expressed to me that he felt
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that my ex-husband bob was
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capable of pretty much anything
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he did not trust him
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on june 3rd four days before he was
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murdered sammy left danny's apartment at
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5
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30 a.m and chanced upon an unexpected
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visitor
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bob bean's teenage son from a previous
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marriage
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come here what are you doing
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just taking a few pictures yeah i see
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that you tell your dad i'm staying in
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the apartment okay
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with danny i'm not in the house i'm not
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with pat i'm not with the kids
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i'm with my brother in the apartment
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just like i'm supposed to be okay i'm
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i'm just taking some
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okay we'll cut it out huh all right no
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more pictures got it no more pictures
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all right i thought that was very very
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strange for somebody to be taking
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my twin brother's photograph at 5 30 in
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the morning
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i didn't like it at all
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that saturday at around 9 15 p.m sammy
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set off for elk horn lake
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approximately 40 miles from his house he
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planned to spend the night in his truck
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and begin fishing early the next day
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12 hours later sammy wheeler was dead
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i believe bob bean had a motive to kill
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my brother
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pets divorce from bob was going to be
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final on tuesday
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they were going to be married on
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thursday
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sammy was killed on sunday
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just by coincidence just by coincidence
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sure it was sure it was a coincidence
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sure it was
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i'm michael jordan too i used to play
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for the chicago bulls
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go talk to the people who know me okay
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and ask them
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if i was really upset if pat was leaving
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okay the answer to that is no
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so there's no motive
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on the face of it bob bean was a perfect
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suspect
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but he also had what appeared to be the
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perfect alibi
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when sammy was murdered bean was on
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maneuvers with his army national guard
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unit
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the night that he was killed i was on
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duty until
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eleven o'clock that night now the death
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certificate
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indicates the time of death at one
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o'clock
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the camp that i was at is about 150
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miles away
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there was no way that i could physically
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get from
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the camp to the murder scene
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in that amount of time to kill sam it's
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just physically impossible
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one of our men from our department at
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the time was in the same unit
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and remember seeing bob there so things
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checked out pretty good for him
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i feel like that bob being new just as
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soon as sam wheeler
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was found dead he knew they were going
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to come knocking on his door
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so he knew that he better have his story
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right
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danny wheeler believes that bob bean
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later gave the photographs that his
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teenage son took
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to a professional hitman you'd have to
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pay for the hitman and
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the fbi investigated my finances and i
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i don't have quite what it takes to pay
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a professional
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there was nothing at all
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to support the theory of bob hiring
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someone
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that that just didn't go inward with the
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investigation
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in the end bob bean was cleared as a
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suspect
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but the question remained who murdered
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sammy wheeler
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as far as alibis go the only one who
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really doesn't have an alibi
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according to what she's told me is pat
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bob bean first began to suspect pat a
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week after the murder
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when their sons ages three and four
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began talking about
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the crime scene in surprising detail
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yes i know that some very bad guy shot
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sam
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he was in the trooper that's right he
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was found in his car
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we went to the mountain you did
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when did you go to the mountains when
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sam got shot
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at first i didn't think much of it
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but later on they started getting a
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little bit more specific
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and offering a little bit more details
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and all of a sudden when they would come
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to visit i noticed
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that they were exhibiting some definite
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behavior
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uh which was suggestive
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that uh they were scared they were
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frightened okay
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now let me just make sure that the
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camera's working all right
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bob bean was so convinced that he even
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videotaped his sons
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and then presented the tape to the
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police who was there when sam died
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[Music]
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mommy mommy was there yeah
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i believe bob is a very very sick man
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the fact that he would put his kids in
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the position that he has his little two
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and three-year-old children
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at that time through what he put them
00:22:49
through proves that he has no scruples
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no morals he cares about no one now not
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even his own flesh and blood
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little infant children he is a sick sick
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man
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you know in the end the police dismissed
00:23:04
the boy's testimony as unreliable
00:23:06
investigators also believe that pat had
00:23:09
an airtight alibi
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i'll see you later i'm gonna be in the
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living room if you need anything so give
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me a call
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okay okay the night that sam was killed
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i was at home alone with my two children
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i had absolutely no motive to kill sam
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wheeler
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sam was sam and my children were my life
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and i planned for them to be for a long
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time
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pat snead was eliminated as a suspect
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perhaps not surprisingly
00:23:43
bob beam soon raised yet another
00:23:45
possibility
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there's only two things that can come
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between brothers
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twin brothers that i'm aware of it's
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money and a woman
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that's all i got to say i you know i
00:24:02
don't offer anything
00:24:04
i'll let somebody else make the
00:24:06
accusations
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immediately after sam was killed um
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the only person that i had in mind who i
00:24:13
thought did it
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was my ex-husband i have since then
00:24:20
had time lots of time as you know
00:24:24
to think about things that have happened
00:24:26
and
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to wonder you know if somebody else
00:24:31
could
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have had a reason for wanting sam dead
00:24:36
sam's brother danny may have wanted him
00:24:40
out of the way
00:24:41
the reason for that i have been told is
00:24:44
that danny was in love with me
00:24:47
pat says that shortly after sammy's
00:24:49
death danny made a surprising confession
00:24:51
to one of her girlfriends
00:24:54
she just said that danny wheeler told
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her
00:24:58
that he was in love with me that he had
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been in love with me for a long time
00:25:03
that he thought about me every night
00:25:05
that he wanted to hold me in his arms
00:25:07
every night
00:25:08
there's not an ounce of truth in those
00:25:10
allegations
00:25:12
if she married my brother she was gonna
00:25:13
be like a sister to me
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and my family doesn't go in for incest
00:25:21
she never once physically attracted me
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even before sam got involved with her i
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didn't think she was a good-looking
00:25:30
woman
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on the morning of sammy's body was
00:25:34
discovered his father and sergeant
00:25:36
height broke the news to danny and pat
00:25:38
he's dead son oh no pat believes danny's
00:25:42
hysterical reaction was a clever ploy
00:25:45
to hide the fact that he was the killer
00:25:48
where'd you go get bobby he's trying to
00:25:50
help him out he's down the road don't
00:25:51
you go get him you know it's him
00:25:52
not sure don't you go get him daddy dad
00:25:54
i told you long ago it was bob
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he doesn't know we don't know anything
00:25:58
about beans get out of my way
00:26:00
danny what this is not gonna happen i
00:26:02
think most of his
00:26:04
behavior when he first found out that
00:26:07
that sam was dead
00:26:08
was a show was to make
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everybody else basically more than
00:26:15
likely the law enforcement people
00:26:16
more than anybody else to
00:26:20
think that he was feeling
00:26:23
some way that he wasn't i think he was
00:26:25
putting on a show for them
00:26:27
why is she lying it makes me wonder what
00:26:29
is she hiding it makes me wonder
00:26:32
god knows what that did to me when my
00:26:35
brother died
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and why she would say things like that
00:26:41
makes me wonder about her
00:26:44
maybe bob bean didn't kill my brother
00:26:46
maybe it was pet that killed
00:26:48
my brother as for
00:26:52
danny the police confirmed that he also
00:26:54
has an alibi
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on the night of sammy's murder danny was
00:26:58
seen bar hopping until the early morning
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hours
00:27:03
pat snead bob bean and danny wheeler
00:27:06
would would not be considered any more
00:27:09
suspects uh in this case than um
00:27:12
than anyone else at the at the present
00:27:14
time they
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they provided alibis we've corroborated
00:27:17
them they've
00:27:18
taken a polygraph they've shown no
00:27:20
deception uh
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they are no more uh of a suspect in
00:27:25
in in our eyes than than anyone else at
00:27:28
the present time
00:27:31
who killed sammy wheeler despite all of
00:27:34
the accusations and denials
00:27:36
the fbi has concluded that sami was the
00:27:38
victim of random violence
00:27:41
the local authorities however believe
00:27:43
that sammy wheeler may have known his
00:27:46
killer
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[Music]
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when we return a mother and father hope
00:28:16
you
00:28:16
can help solve the mysterious
00:28:18
disappearance of their son
00:28:20
gordon page jr
00:28:30
this is gordon page jr at 18 months of
00:28:33
age
00:28:34
he was born autistic and the results
00:28:36
were tragic
00:28:38
not because of the autism but because
00:28:40
gordy was never correctly diagnosed
00:28:43
his father gordon page senior remembers
00:28:49
i guess maybe when he was real young we
00:28:51
thought something was wrong but we
00:28:52
didn't know what
00:28:54
he didn't walk like other kids and run
00:28:56
like other kids
00:28:58
and as he got older you know he'd just
00:29:00
sit there and look around
00:29:01
and didn't even move they always told us
00:29:05
that he was the big boy
00:29:07
he'd just be clumsy maybe but then he'd
00:29:09
outgrow it
00:29:11
he didn't really seem unusual to us
00:29:13
because that was our first child and we
00:29:15
just
00:29:18
we just raised him like a normal child
00:29:20
and he was slow that's what
00:29:21
what we thought he was just slow
00:29:24
now gordon i'm putting five pieces of
00:29:26
fruit on the table you see that one two
00:29:28
three four five how many pieces of fruit
00:29:31
are on the table gordon
00:29:32
five that's very good now i'm gonna take
00:29:35
the two apples away
00:29:36
now look down here how many pieces of
00:29:38
fruit are left on the table gordon
00:29:40
22. now gordon come on to his parents
00:29:42
gordy was a paradox
00:29:44
at times he seemed unable to grasp
00:29:46
simple addition and subtraction
00:29:49
yet gordy had a phenomenal memory
00:29:51
especially when it came to baseball
00:29:54
russ gibson batting average 193
00:29:59
who runs one the baseball cards he must
00:30:02
i would say probably had 25 or 30 000
00:30:05
baseball cards
00:30:06
and he knew the names of every player
00:30:08
all the statistics of the cards
00:30:10
and he would just sit there and memorize
00:30:12
him don money
00:30:13
batting average 223
00:30:17
home runs seven i don't think that gordy
00:30:20
realized that he was slow
00:30:23
in grade school he had a lot of friends
00:30:26
and then as he got older in junior high
00:30:28
his peers started advancing you know
00:30:30
getting ahead of him
00:30:32
and when he needed tutorial help and he
00:30:34
had to go into a special ed
00:30:36
room it bothered him and
00:30:39
he had a hard time in 11th and 12th
00:30:41
grade because all his peers were dating
00:30:43
driving cars
00:30:45
going out and doing things and he was
00:30:46
much just a loner actually you know
00:30:48
because he couldn't keep up with
00:30:50
everybody who's passing him by
00:30:53
gordy worked hard to keep up in june of
00:30:56
1981 he graduated from high school
00:30:59
his parents hoped he would be able to
00:31:01
hold down a job and eventually helped
00:31:03
him apply for one at a local grocery
00:31:05
store
00:31:06
then they held their breath and waited
00:31:10
he said dad i got the job he said
00:31:13
you know it's minimum wage 3.25 cents or
00:31:16
15 cents whatever it was but he said i
00:31:18
start monday isn't that great
00:31:20
and it made me feel so happy and i
00:31:22
dropped him off at work in the morning
00:31:24
and i would hide where he couldn't see
00:31:26
me and
00:31:27
it made me feel proud as a father to see
00:31:30
him working and to see him happy
00:31:33
soon however the store manager reported
00:31:35
that gordy although a conscientious
00:31:37
worker
00:31:38
had trouble communicating with customers
00:31:41
his dad tried to coach gordy at home
00:31:44
using a video camera you're carrying the
00:31:46
groceries to my car now
00:31:47
and i say thank you what do you say no
00:31:50
you say you're welcome
00:31:52
okay let me let's do it again thank you
00:31:55
what do you say if nobody says anything
00:32:00
then you don't just smile at them let's
00:32:02
see that nice gordon page smile come on
00:32:03
it's worth a million dollars let's see
00:32:05
it come on let's see it
00:32:06
oh yeah if you smile at people like that
00:32:09
they'll just love it
00:32:10
gordy's winning smile was not enough
00:32:12
things didn't work out at the grocery
00:32:14
store
00:32:15
and he was let go
00:32:16
[Music]
00:32:19
eventually both linda and gordon page
00:32:21
worried sick about their son's future
00:32:24
met with social medias and asked for
00:32:26
their evaluation of gordy's case
00:32:32
well we're going to recommend that
00:32:35
gordon move to a group home
00:32:38
i've taken care of gordy his whole life
00:32:41
this
00:32:42
is his home i don't think so
00:32:46
you folks won't be around forever
00:32:50
at this point when you die gordon will
00:32:53
be a lost soul
00:32:59
finally we agreed to try it and we went
00:33:02
to visit a group home
00:33:03
and the lady said well he can't stay
00:33:05
here until he goes to see if he needs to
00:33:07
be stabilized on medication in the
00:33:09
hospital
00:33:10
so we did this we finally agreed and
00:33:13
the doctor there put him on ritalin and
00:33:15
valium
00:33:16
and gordon wasn't gordon after that
00:33:27
the combination of ritalin a stimulant
00:33:30
and valium a tranquilizer
00:33:32
plunged gordy into another world of
00:33:34
physical and psychological torment
00:33:38
[Music]
00:33:40
[Applause]
00:33:51
what is it
00:33:52
[Music]
00:33:54
son what i i feel like
00:33:58
cats are scratching inside my brain
00:34:00
[Music]
00:34:02
you feel helpless there's anything you
00:34:04
can do and all i do is call a doctor and
00:34:06
tell him what was going on
00:34:08
he said don't worry about it that's just
00:34:09
typical for his illness
00:34:11
and it takes time for the medication to
00:34:13
work and i said what is his illness
00:34:15
and he said well whatever it is there
00:34:17
are signs of this and signs of that
00:34:19
but nobody would specifically come out
00:34:21
and say this is what's wrong with him
00:34:34
nearly five months gordy and his parents
00:34:36
struggled with the medication
00:34:37
where are we going just for the ride
00:34:43
finally the pages consulted another
00:34:45
doctor who told him that the combination
00:34:47
of ritalin and value was making gory
00:34:49
virtually catatonic
00:34:55
in september of 1989 gordy's family
00:34:57
moved to florida
00:34:58
gordy stayed in michigan the preceding
00:35:01
spring
00:35:02
he had been accepted at a highly
00:35:03
regarded group home in grand rapids
00:35:10
for several months all went well then
00:35:13
a near tragedy
00:35:17
on november 29 1989 a workman left his
00:35:20
truck running in the driveway
00:35:23
gordy heavily medicated couldn't resist
00:35:25
the temptation
00:35:29
[Music]
00:35:39
[Music]
00:35:42
so
00:35:45
[Music]
00:35:54
[Music]
00:36:08
oh my god
00:36:11
are you doing look at my car we
00:36:14
interviewed the lady who was a victim in
00:36:16
the
00:36:17
accident she gave a subscription which
00:36:20
fit
00:36:21
on gordon our officers then
00:36:24
received another call a call from one of
00:36:27
our elementary schools
00:36:29
that a person fitting gordon page's
00:36:31
description
00:36:32
was at this elementary school wanting to
00:36:35
teach a class
00:36:37
so we responded to there and at that
00:36:39
time
00:36:40
picked up mr gordon page
00:36:50
do you remember driving that truck over
00:36:52
there yeah
00:36:53
also you do realize you're involved in a
00:36:55
car accident later gordy would tell his
00:36:57
parents
00:36:58
that all he had wanted to do was visit
00:37:00
his younger brother away at college in
00:37:02
texas
00:37:02
gordon page gordy was subsequently
00:37:04
placed in a county hospital
00:37:06
he was evaluated by psychiatric social
00:37:09
worker bill arnold 16785
00:37:11
what he was brought in with label
00:37:13
schizophrenia what are you laughing
00:37:15
about
00:37:16
people their schizophrenic will with
00:37:19
medication
00:37:20
over a couple of week periods usually
00:37:21
they'll start to clear up in their
00:37:23
thinking and their
00:37:23
their behavior will come in line and
00:37:25
they they start getting back more to
00:37:27
normal
00:37:28
uh with gordon that didn't work the more
00:37:30
medication he got the more the
00:37:32
at times he became almost mute and just
00:37:35
withdrew didn't do anything tell me
00:37:38
about the voices that you told the
00:37:39
doctor about gordon
00:37:40
i'm going home for christmas right yeah
00:37:43
i'm sure that we'll be able to get you
00:37:44
out of here by christmas time
00:37:45
after several months of intensive
00:37:47
therapy with gordy bill arnold arrived
00:37:49
at a surprising conclusion
00:37:51
he decided gordy was not schizophrenic
00:37:53
after all
00:37:54
but rather a high-functioning autistic
00:37:59
tell me about your baseball card
00:38:01
collection gordon
00:38:02
woody fry 1966 pirate
00:38:05
rookie of the year pirate is he uh
00:38:09
your favorite player woody fry okay
00:38:13
do you have other dalton jones dalton
00:38:15
jones 1961
00:38:16
batting average 322. once we got him off
00:38:18
all those medications
00:38:20
and we started treating him as possibly
00:38:22
an autistic and working on training
00:38:24
and just giving him some respect he was
00:38:27
a totally different individual
00:38:29
just a totally different individual than
00:38:31
that withdrawn acting out
00:38:33
individual that we saw on medication
00:38:37
and we'll need you to sign this the
00:38:39
pages were confident that gordy had at
00:38:41
last been correctly diagnosed
00:38:43
soon they found a group home in grand
00:38:45
rapids which specialized in autism
00:38:48
but this says i can't visit gordon there
00:38:50
was only one drawback
00:38:52
for two months no visitors were allowed
00:38:55
while gordy adapted to his new
00:38:56
environment
00:38:58
mr page i understand how you want the
00:39:00
very best for your son
00:39:02
and so do we we just want to give him
00:39:04
his best shot at integrating with the
00:39:06
program here
00:39:09
he's waiting for you on may 22nd 1991
00:39:12
gordon page senior was set to return to
00:39:14
florida
00:39:15
that afternoon he shared an emotional
00:39:18
goodbye
00:39:18
with his oldest son
00:39:20
[Music]
00:39:24
hello gordon
00:39:36
how you doing son
00:39:42
we kind of stood there and talked and we
00:39:44
hugged and
00:39:45
talked a little bit more and then we
00:39:48
walked over to the
00:39:49
van and i said everything's going to
00:39:51
work out
00:39:59
[Music]
00:40:06
gordy seemed desperate for his father to
00:40:08
stay
00:40:09
against his better judgment gordon page
00:40:11
did not open the door
00:40:13
it was a decision he would come to
00:40:14
regret
00:40:18
it's very painful now in retrospect i
00:40:22
wish i had allowed him just to get in
00:40:23
and crawl
00:40:24
back and just driven right to florida
00:40:25
and come home but
00:40:27
you don't think of those things and we
00:40:28
didn't know what we were going to be
00:40:29
facing in the future
00:40:32
the future came all too quickly four
00:40:35
days after his father had left
00:40:37
gordy disappeared and orderly made the
00:40:40
discovery during the regular midnight
00:40:42
bed check
00:40:45
around an hour later a local fireman
00:40:47
reported that he had seen someone who
00:40:49
matched gordy's description
00:40:50
hitchhiking in the direction of
00:40:52
interstate 96
00:40:54
an intense police search of the area
00:40:56
turned up no leads
00:41:06
[Music]
00:41:16
i'm angry i feel bad for gordon i feel
00:41:19
bad as a parent
00:41:20
that i wasn't able to find help earlier
00:41:22
that it had to be when he was 27
00:41:24
28 years of age that we finally found
00:41:27
out what was wrong
00:41:29
we just want our son back we want to be
00:41:31
reunited as a family
00:41:33
and we love gordon very much
00:41:36
we will never stop looking for gordy
00:41:38
because we love him and
00:41:40
we've always been a close family he
00:41:42
would know that we
00:41:43
want him back and
00:41:47
no we will never stop looking for him we
00:41:49
love you
00:41:50
gordy what's your name
00:41:54
hi my name is gordon page what's yours
00:41:56
hi
00:41:57
my name is gordon page what's your name
00:42:03
[Music]
00:42:19
[Music]
00:42:30
join me in two weeks for a special
00:42:33
two-hour edition
00:42:34
of unsolved mysteries
00:42:43
[Music]
00:43:04
[Applause]
00:43:07
[Music]
00:43:26
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