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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a reclusive millionaire
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vanishes then years later her skull is
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found in a septic tank on her own
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property who murdered camela
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Lyman a radio reporter's life is
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threatened and his home is vandalized
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after he goes public with the story
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about UFOs
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a mother's dying wish is that her two
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children separated by War will be
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reunited 3-day old Marlene Santana is
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taken from her mother's arms at gunpoint
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she is still
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missing five compelling cases some just
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waiting to be souv and maybe you hold
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the key I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries
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Hinton Rhode
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Island dog breeder Greg Seer is cleaning
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out the kennels of his new estate when
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he makes a shocking Discovery I was
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hosing down the kennel and I smelt a
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fall loader and thought that maybe the
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septic system wasn't working properly I
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decided to look inside to see if it
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needed to be
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pumped and when I did there was a skull
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staring straight back up at
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me once I saw the bottom jaw I realized
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it was
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human and just knew that this was Camila
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dental records confirmed that it was
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indeed the skull of camela Lyman the
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estate's previous owner she had
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mysteriously vanished 10 years earlier
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this missing person's case was now a
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murder
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investigation however the clues would
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not be found in the bizarre nature of
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her death but in the strange and
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mysterious nature of Camila's
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life Camila Lyman was the daughter of
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old money Boston Aristocrats Camila
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shared her father's passion for show
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dogs and he soon discovered that his
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youngest daughter had quite a gift in
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the dog world she was very successful
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she was a good Handler and she was a
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good breeder and she she showed her dogs
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extremely well she was very proficient
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Camila never dated and never married her
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dogs were her life she lived with her
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parents on their 100 Acre estate but
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when they died the life Camila knew was
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over 40 years old and alone her behavior
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became more and more
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bizarre babies my sweeties CA became a
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reckless she spent more time with her
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dogs than she did with people her
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appearance also began to change she
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bought animal steroids and then took
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them herself her voice deepened she
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developed facial hair and she began
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wearing men's clothing Camila basically
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transformed herself into a middle-aged
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man my sister in California called me up
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and said hey Camila's on the TV dressed
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as a man what do you think and I said
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well I'd heard that she did sometimes do
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that in this rare video Camila is
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dressed as a woman but 7 years later she
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legally changed her name to cam Lyman
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and was dressing as a man it was a
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shocking in a way and very surprising
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but because of your respect for people's
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privacy unless um Camila wished to
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explain why she was doing this we didn't
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ask any questions about it we just
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accepted it the way it was I remember
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people talking about Camila and the
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changing of of her clothing and her
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appearance but you have to remember you
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were at dog shows you're judging dogs
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not people I think Camila felt very
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comfortable amongst her dog friends cam
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isolated herself from her family and
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became close friends with fellow dog
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lover George O'Neal George O'Neal became
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the sole Confidant advisor
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accountant and representative of Camila
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cam we don't have the money to do this
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right now he took care of paying her
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bills he took care of arranging for her
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to get to dog shows and many times
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getting her to the shows he was a friend
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who she socialized with and had great
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confidence in his abilities to help her
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conduct her
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Affairs let's
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go as George O'Neal took over more and
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more duties and chores for Camila he
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became her sole Confidant she associated
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with no one other than George O'Neal
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Camila became more and more eccentric
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she would often carry a briefcase with
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hundreds of thousands of dollars and
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large amounts of Jewelry in it she would
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go out to the store and have $10,000 in
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her pocket to buy a quart of milk no I I
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don't know what to think I really don't
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know because she is one Christmas
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Camila's friends didn't receive their
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usual Christmas card no one had heard
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from her in months concerned the family
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hired a private investigator named
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Charles Allen they were very concerned
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because checks that had been sent to
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Camila had rather than being endorsed
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with her signature were being endorsed
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with an account number of a bank account
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in Rhode Island Allan was surprised to
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discover that George O'Neal had been
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depositing kima's trust fund checks into
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his own bank account even more alarming
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was that he also held Cam's power of
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attorney and was Camila's sole
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beneficiary he stood to inherit her
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entire estate
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Mr O'Neal my name is Charles Allen I'm
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here to inquire about Camila Lyman I
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haven't seen her Mr O'Neal did not
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express any concern for her safety he
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felt that she had done this before and
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that she had just gone off on a trip I
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understand all of that O'Neal claimed he
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had last spoken with Camila a full year
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earlier he said that she had hung up on
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him during an argument on the phone he
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told me that that on the following day
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he went to Camila's house and found the
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telephone ripped out of the wall and
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found no sign of Camila and found her
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dogs unattended
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unfed and found the kennel somewhat in
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disarray Camila Mr O'Neal indicated that
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he felt that Camila may have gone off to
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Europe to have a sex change operation
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Camila had been missing for over a year
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but no police report was filed and no
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one in the family was notified yet
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O'Neal continued to cash Camila's checks
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I found it very hard to believe that a
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woman who didn't like going to the
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dentist who didn't like going to the
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doctor would go off to Europe and have a
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sex change operation this woman didn't
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like leaving her home here in the main
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kenel we have room for 50 dogs I think
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we have George O'Neal even hired
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full-time caretakers for Camila's dog
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kennels and began showing her Champion
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spaniel as his own Camila was no longer
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around but the dog was still out there
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being campaigned and he was now
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campaigned under the ownership of um
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George and Jun O'Neal Charles Allen
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claims that much of Camila's $4 million
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estate her bank account and Family
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Treasures simply disappeared we're
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talking about between $3 and5 million
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here and its whereabouts are unknown at
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this time
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and then there was the question of
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Camila's beloved dogs when I first heard
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George O'Neal's story I absolutely never
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crossed my mind that it was a true story
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because uh she never ever would have
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left her dogs it was totally out of
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character any chance that we could maybe
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go over and get get on the property
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maybe take a look around she's not there
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I'm telling you on a number of occasions
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I wanted to search the property and the
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search would have in certainly included
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the septic system but George O'Neal
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would not allow it about 7 years after
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she disappeared cam Lyman was declared
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legally Dead 3 years later her body was
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found in the septic tank she had been
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shot and her skull had been fractured
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the fact that we could bury Camila and
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physically put an end to her life in a
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peaceful way was a wonderful sense of
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closure for us on the other hand there's
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still more that we need to pursue
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uh we need to bring the person who
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committed
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this unbelievable crime to
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Justice
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update 16 years after Camilo Lyman
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disappeared a grand jury indicted George
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O'Neal on the charge of embezzling
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$115,000 from her trust after a plea
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bargain he was sentenced to just one
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year of Probation and finded only
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$450 in court car
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when O'Neal was recently asked about
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Camila he said quote she's dead I don't
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know anything about
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it next when a reporter investigates UFO
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sightings in his small town he gets more
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than he bargained
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for we have broadcast a number of
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stories about UFOs and now we have
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another to add to that list but this one
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is different it involves a robbery late
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night phone calls and even death
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threats withv
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Virginia It's a Small Town nestled in
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the foothills of the Blue Ridge
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Mountains country music station
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wve calls itself the voice of wivi on
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most days life here is usually quiet and
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uneventful but that was not the case one
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October morning morning Sheriff Danny
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Gordon radio reporter Danny Gordon
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checked in as usual what he heard was
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not usual at
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all he heard an unbelievable story over
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near um
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Austinville huh right got anything else
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you're kidding me three sheriff's
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deputies all four former military men
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claimed that they had seen a UFO when
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was
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that okay Danny you're on in 3 2 1
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unidentified flying objects have been
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cited over with County on Monday and
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Tuesday evenings the with County sh the
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filler piece it came on at the end of
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the news which I usually relegate to
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something that's may be unusual like we
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had a one police officer that killed
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five chickens once with two shots and
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that was a story that ran as kind of a
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haha piece and this was another haha
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piece and being a very skeptical newsman
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it was definitely not the in my lead
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part of my
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news Danny's haha piece caused some
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unbelievable listener responses reports
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of UFO sightings poured into the station
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so Danny set up a special call in
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program for the following week hello
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this is Danny Gordon you're on the air
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go ahead please these are the exact
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words of some of those calls you see
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this well it kind of looks something
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about like an egg shaped to me
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what we could see was red green and
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white sort of flashing lights um we saw
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a plane go by with you know red red
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flashing lights we knew it wasn't a jet
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of any sort okay well I appreciate that
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thanks a lot being a brass tax
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journalist I always believe there is a
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plausible logical explanation and I felt
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at that time that it was military of
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some nature and that we would find the
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reason in a short period of time Danny
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thought the UFOs were most likely
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experimental aircraft being tested at a
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nearby Air Force Base but he was
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repeatedly told by the military that
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there was no testing going on more and
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more residents came forward with their
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stories of UFOs and then the military
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finally came up with an
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explanation everybody had been telling
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us that what people were seeing were
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planes
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refueling and so I said well I didn't
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know that that's how they did that and
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then I thought well why are they doing
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that down over my house you know isn't
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this something they should be
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doing away from populated areas I called
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the Pentagon and talked to the Air Force
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General there who told me if they
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refueling under 13,000 ft then
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somebody's butts in a sling and to this
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day we don't know if they were refueling
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at 5,000 ft but at the same time I have
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asked if it is military then I'll back
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back off the story and leave it alone if
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you tell me because I'm a patriot and
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each time I'm told it's not us we're not
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doing it and we haven't been doing
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it just two weeks after the first
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sighting Dany and his friend Roger Hall
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drove to the area where most of the
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sightings had occurred they brought
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along a 35mm camera and a video camera
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we were headed home after 2 hours of
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fruitless searching about a quarter till
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9 on Route 21 South coming into
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Westville
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and just happened to look to my left and
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saw a a very unusual object coming
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across the Horizon what's that what over
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there some lights or
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something I'm going to pull
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over I pulled off to the side of the
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road in a hurry jumped out he got out
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the right side and as he got out I
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noticed the craft was coming at me was
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very large it had a Dome shaped to the
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top of it had no wings and had what
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appeared to be a strobe putting out
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multicolored lights on the right side of
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the
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crap what the hell is that I don't
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know it was probably less than 1,000 ft
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away and 1,000 ft high at the maximum we
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guessed it it being at least uh two
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football fields in diameter you could
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see three huge look like picture windows
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in the back of it that were lit from the
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inside out as I watched the sky from the
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left came a red ball as a big Mothership
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went into a small skip of clouds the red
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ball docked with a craft it was like you
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were watching a computer game and
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watching these things develop on the
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video screen did you get a picture of
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that no didn't you left the camera on
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the trunk we looked at each other and
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realized no pictures the camera was not
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in my hand the camera was not in his
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hand and we both knew we blew it the
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only thing I can say is we were just all
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struck by it or or just dumb whichever
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one I'm not sure which but we sure
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didn't get any pictures of it the car I
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was driv the next night the two went out
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again this time they did get photographs
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with the film still undeveloped a press
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conference was called the next day the
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night before the press conference I
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received a phone call from somebody who
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refused to identify himself and they
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said that I need to be aware that the
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CIA and the Federal ederal government
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were very much interested in with kind
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of UFOs I started to wonder what I had
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stepped into and my wife was urging me
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to back off to leave it alone and I also
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was receiving some Anonymous phone calls
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saying you know it's something you need
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to leave it alone because it's not for
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your place to be messing in defense
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matters Becky then after the press
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conference Dany discovered that someone
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had broken into his house
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Becky strangely nothing was stolen but
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Dany was convinced that someone was
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looking for his photographs but when
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they were developed they revealed only
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vague streaks of light in the
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sky next Danny gets another chance to
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photograph the UFO and this time he
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captures some amazing images
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they were not just one or two isolated
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sightings hundreds of people reported
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seeing UFOs in the sky above wvil
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Virginia one of those was radio
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journalist Danny Gordon and he was about
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to get evidence to prove
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it about 6 weeks after his press
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conference Dany and his wife and
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daughter were leaving the local mall
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when yet another UFO
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appeared what is
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that we uh looked very quickly and saw
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what I thought was one large object
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which later appeared to be four uh
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flying dis shapes as soon as the objects
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were photographed they disappeared from
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View
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when the pictures came out they had a
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lot of grain but they showed definite
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four shapes of objects in the sky but
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the most impressive point in the four
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photographs the objects appear to change
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shape or light formations within one
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click of the camera they go from a
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teardrop shape to a round ball shape
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then they go to a flying saucer like
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this shape and then they go to the edge
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shape as they go out of
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side clearly something extraordinary was
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happening in this small town within a
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3-month period there had been more than
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1,500
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sightings one of the first occurred here
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a mile from downtown eyewitnesses said
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the craft resembled a brightly lit
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spinning carosa immediately other
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sightings were reported I'm not mistaken
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about what we saw absolutely not cuz we
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had never seen this before Patricia ACR
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had 10 sightings all of them here 8 m
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north of town the best way I can
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describe them is that they sort of look
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like a cross between a helicopter and an
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airplane with no noise and then there
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was Mary Jane Williamson sighting which
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happened directly above her house in the
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center of Woodville it had all the white
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lights in the front just a big
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semicircle of white lights and it was
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just huge I mean it was just absolutely
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huge huge you just had this feeling of
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something really
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really
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big just moving just drifting over your
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head and no sound or anything eventually
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I got around to calling the Pentagon and
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talk with the spokesman for defense of
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the Pentagon and he he speaks for all
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the defense uh uh branches and he told
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me quote twice we do not deny UFOs exist
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the government confirms they exist but
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we deny they pose a threat to the
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populace of with County and my question
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was how you know this and he said I
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can't tell you but there's no threat to
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you so that's the reason we're not
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sending convoys of aircraft down there
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to protect with
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County 3 months later Danny was packing
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for a broadcasters conference in
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Virginia Beach where he was to talk
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about his UFO
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coverage I received a phone call at home
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from a retired military intelligence
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officer and first he told me to make
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sure that I tape the conversation so he
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could put the date and everyone to be
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aware and I said why do you want to tape
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this and he said I want your friends to
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know something happens to you that I
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forewarned you it is what I'm telling
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you Danny is I've been pursuing this
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thing for many many years and like I say
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I saw my son die of leukemia he told me
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that because of his investigations into
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the UFO field that they had hit his son
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and caused his son to die with some kind
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of virus connected to leukemia Danny who
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is it it's nothing he said that he had
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information to the federal government
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was not very happy with my UFO
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investigations and they felt like I was
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too uh loud of a voice to quieten by
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just killing me which made me very happy
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and he said they want to quieten you in
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a different fashion what I'm telling you
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they will try to hit you if they think
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it's priceable for their purposes to
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keep you from fur investigating this
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thing and then most likely be done
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through skin contact chemicals could be
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something on the door knob of your car
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or on the steering wheel they can also
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come up with something do something to
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your
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children you know it's one thing for
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someone to threaten myself when you
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threaten my family you're trading on
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very thin water well I going to Virginia
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Beach how many time you think I'm
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something to crack pot to no I
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appreciate it I appreciate that thank
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you for
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calling what was that about oh nothing
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honey oddly enough it was the same
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weekend that there was a hepatitis
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epidemic in Virginia Beach had I come
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down with hepatitis I would have
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believed and everyone would have
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believed they had gotten to me but I
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came back with no problems and the
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children were in good
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shape less than one month later Dany had
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two surprised visitors at his house
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great my name is Don my associate
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Michael or with the Richmond Gazette
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like to ask you a few questions if you
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don't mind about these recent UFO
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settings fine okay great they stayed for
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about 45 minutes one interviewing Danny
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and the other walking around the house
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taking pictures they had told me when
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they left they would send me a copy of
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of the article so I could peruse it and
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when I didn't receive one I called the
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newspaper and they said well these two
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guys are not on our payroll they don't
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work for us so who they were I don't
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know but they were in my house saw my
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pictures saw my negatives talked to my
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family took pictures and then left but
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they were not with a
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newspaper a few weeks later Danny sat
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down to organize his UF
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photographs when I got to the canister
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which had the UFO negatives I quickly
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opened it up and found some UFO
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negatives but the one negative with the
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shots from the shopping mall was
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missing I felt like maybe there was
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something in those photographs that I
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was not seen so I took the photographs
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to some other people to look at we used
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magnifying glasses we looked we measured
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angles trying to find out why these
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photographs were so important and we've
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yet to discover why anyone would want to
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steal that one Pacific set of four and a
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series of photographs of the
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UFOs 2 months later the stress of late
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night phone calls the home Breakin the
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strange visitors and now the missing
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negatives finally took its toll on Danny
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he just peed over he was getting later
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doctors determined that the heart attack
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was brought on not by heart problems but
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by severe
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exhaustion Danny was warned that
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continued involvement with the UFO
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controversy could kill him
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if I had my choice I'd not report the
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UFO story again it's just been too hard
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on my life and created too many problems
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don't look up because once you look up
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and you tell somebody what you saw your
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life has changed
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forever Danny Gordon says wvil has moved
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on from its days as a UFO town and is
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now enjoying its booming arts and
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business communities but if history
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tells us anything sometime soon in
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another small town someone else will
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look up and his or her life will be
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changed
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forever next a wealthy recluse destroys
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all traces of her past she remains as
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mysterious in death as she was in life
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on a dreary January day in a tiny
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English Village a mysterious woman was
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laid to rest Heavenly
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Father we commit the body of our dear
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sister
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dtha to be consumed by fire it was
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rumored that dorothia Allen the
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wealthiest person in the county had once
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danced with freder and dined with Gary
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Cooper but when she died at the age of
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89 only five people came to her funeral
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in her day dorothia was considered
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beautiful everyone agreed she was a
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devoted wife to her husband Robert until
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his death the couple had no children and
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when dorthia died she left no will only
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a complicated mystery when the day of
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judgment dorothia Allen was a study in
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contrast on one hand she was a wealthy
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executive who partied with movie stars
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but on the other
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she hoarded her milliion and mistreated
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those who worked for her and no one
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knows why in her final days dorthia did
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everything that she could to erase her
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past after doria's death the British
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government asked investigators to search
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her estate in an effort to identify her
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heirs we found her passport uh which had
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Pages ripped from it and and of course
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these were the pages that that gave us
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all the information we we might have
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have needed we looked through uh
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photograph albums uh and all the
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pictures had been pulled out of the
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albums and and someone had taken a pair
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of scissors to them and cut off the
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heads and so we couldn't identify
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anyone Dortha and her husband Robert
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were intensely private they kept their
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background secret even from their
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closest friends the Allens made their
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Fortune manufacturing fancy corsets for
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women the Philly undergarments were a
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huge hit and and dorthia oversaw every
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detail of their production she had an
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eye for beauty and she certainly used it
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yeah she made that factory a great
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success she was an absolute
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perfectionist she would count the
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stitches to the inch on everything that
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was done there took be 12 stitches to
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the inch you've only done 11 dorthia was
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a very nasty piece of work she ran her
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servants ragged and what I can gather um
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I also think she didn't pay very well to
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her employees and ran quite a strict
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regime uh she demanded people walk out
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of her office
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backwards at Christmas the Allens always
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had a party but invited only those
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employees who had done an outstanding
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job and only a select few were actually
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allowed to even speak to the all he used
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to sit right at the end of the room you
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know behind a little rope and people
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used to go up and talk to them they used
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to be like royalty really s of surveying
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all before them Robert died after a long
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illness because doria's whole life was
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built around her business and her
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husband she fell to Pieces oh she was
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very very upset they absolutely thought
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the world of one another and uh she was
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very much
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affected after the death of Mr Allan one
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of her rabbits was to get his cigars and
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light them and leave them burning in the
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hall and in the library so that she got
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the atmosphere of him still being
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there dorthia began to neglect her
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business and the American parent company
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finally forced her out she spent more
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and more time alone after an accident in
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her Rose rice dorotha never left her
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State again no one was allowed in there
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uh and she lived with a gardener and a
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housekeeper um in in one room in the
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kitchen as her health began to fail
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dorotha became obsessed with eliminating
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her past she mutilated family photos and
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destroyed the passport page that listed
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her place and date of birth then one
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cold wintry day dorthia Allen died in
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bed she had been a recluse for more than
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20 years and had adamantly refused to
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write a will well she told some people
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that she thought people had too much
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money anyway and therefore they didn't
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need to be left money in a will but then
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she would have known that the state
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would come in and take the money and I
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wouldn't have thought anyone would want
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to leave money to the government so she
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had to have something to hide and she
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wanted she mistakenly thought that by
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not leaving a will she would be able to
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disguise her life after she died there
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appeared to be no record of where or
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when Dortha Allen was born
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or even what her maiden name was and
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then the small poox vaccination
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certificate
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surfaced on it doria's birth date was
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listed as January 21st
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1901 and her last name was farers
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finally there seemed to be some clue to
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doria's true identity she told me her
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name was
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farus and uh several times she told me
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that and that she was born in Scotland
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well I'd like to know where the name
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farinon comes from I think that this is
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some red hering that's been put forward
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fairly early
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on um there is no um dtha farers that
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fits in either 10 years either side of
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the alleged date of birth my own
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personal theory is that Daria was a
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woman of lowly birth that she was a
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seamstress or perhaps a barid if it is
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true that she did come from Humble
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background then I think it's probably
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something she would want to keep quiet I
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think the true story is that she met in
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the
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1920s Robert langwell Allen in the north
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of England he was married and I think
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they fell in love he left his wife and
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child and set up home with Dorothy Allen
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they then had to carry on the sherard of
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being a married couple and as she got
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older she became more convinced that the
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infidelity would come out and wanted
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more and to protect it there are
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theories that Robert and dtha were
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brother and sister that is something you
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want to keep very quiet because
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obviously incest is uh is is punishable
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by
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law so who was this Mystery Woman
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clearly she wanted her identity to
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remain a secret and it seems as though
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she nearly got away with
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it
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update 6 years after dorothea's death a
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wartime pilot recognized her in a
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newspaper photo and identified her as
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his childhood sweetheart Dora Brammer it
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was learned that she was the daughter of
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a steel worker and had built her corset
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business with money her father made in
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real estate after analyzing a single
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gray hair that was taken from the
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elegant hairbrush left at her manner
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investigators found more than 70 of her
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relatives each received roughly $40,000
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from her estate and finally it was
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learned that dorotha and her husband
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Robert were never legally married
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because Robert had failed to divorce his
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first
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wife next after more than 40 years a
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woman is reunited with her long lost
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brother thanks to you
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we recently told you the story about a
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brother and a sister who were separated
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right after World War II it involved the
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search that Spann two continents two
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generations and almost half a century
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but you know I don't want you should get
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sa Helena Kowski helped her 5-year-old
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son prepare for a long journey
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Christopher was going to the United
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States
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but with another family I'll miss you
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mama I'll miss you too Christopher my
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mother didn't really want to send him
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with somebody else but my father kept
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saying you know education education he's
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going to get a good education he's going
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to be able to start school so it was
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easier for him but my mother I guess
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being a woman it just tore at her heart
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it was only 7 years after World War II
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and refugees like Helena and her husband
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apollinary desperately wanted a better
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life in America Christoper would live
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with friends until the Kowski and their
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daughter Michelle could
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follow
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you a few months later however
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Christopher's family decided to stay in
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England they wrote to their friends in
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the US and asked them to send
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Christopher home
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Helena yeah I've received letter from
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America America yes they are don't they
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don't send Christopher back what they
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don't send Christopher Back
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Christopher they say he's better off in
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America the family tried everything they
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could think of to get Christopher back
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but there was nothing they could do the
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Kowski never saw their son
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again Christopher's parents died in
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England his sister Michelle moved to
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America their mother's dying wish was
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that Christopher and Michelle would
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someday be
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reunited I want to be able to tell him
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how much my mother loved him how she
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never forgot him how to the day she
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died but she loved
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him
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update when we aired this story
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Christopher's adoptive Sister Rose Ruger
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was watching she told him and he
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contacted us a short time later
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Christopher was on his way to Michelle's
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home outside of Houston as I was waiting
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for Christopher to come and I was
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looking out in the window I was wanting
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my mom to be here and wishing that she
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was here because she had dreamed of
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this
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hi been a long time
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you did
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it I can't believe it I really can't
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describe how I
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felt it's I can't describe it it's it's
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too much for
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words all these
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years wondering
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hoping and it's finally come
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true Christopher introduced his wife
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Ellen and then met Michelle's husband
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daughter and granddaughters this is my
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granddaughter k right here your grand
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I'm just happy I'm happy that I have him
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now it it's just so hard to
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describe um something I've I've dreamt
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about God for you know 30 odd years and
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it's here it's yeah still I keep looking
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at him because I I can't believe it's
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actually
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happened now that her daughter and son
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have been reunited Helena's dying wish
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has finally been granted after decades
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apart Christopher and Michelle have a
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lot of catching up to do and they're
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already well on their
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way Brooklyn New
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York every October 18th Francesca and
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Tomas Santana commemorate their daughter
00:37:57
marena's birthday but October 18th is
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also a time of
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Sorrow marinaa was abducted when she was
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only 3 days old and has been missing
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ever since but in the beginning all that
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really mattered was having a beautiful
00:38:15
healthy baby when my baby was born she
00:38:18
was pretty she was very beautiful she
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was the most beautiful baby in the
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Nery 3 days later on the 21st of October
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Francesca Was preparing to take her baby
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home when she met a woman outside the
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nursery that your baby yeah he's so
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beautiful thank you when I look I was
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looking at my baby in the nursery I saw
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a woman in the window that they told me
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that my baby was the most Quiet One the
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prettiest one and I was glad that she
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told me that because I thought she like
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my baby
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babbe a few hours later at 900 p.m.
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Francesca checked out of the hospital
00:39:04
her two sisters-in-law came to take her
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home when we going
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downstairs a woman come to me the same
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woman that I saw in the nser where are
00:39:15
you going waiting she told me she was
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waiting for me all day we're going home
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now goodbye this isn't a game I'm not
00:39:23
joking around walk or I'll blow her head
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off walk so T told us to G and T told us
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to walk but she got to blow up the
00:39:37
head and we walk keep going they walked
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over six blocks at gunpoint walk finally
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they stopped near a deserted junkyard
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stop I said stop at first Franchesca
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thought they were being robbed
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give me the
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baby I said give me the baby keep
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walking walk the woman got in a car
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driven by an accomplice and drove
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off
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no when she took the baby I was in shock
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I didn't know what to do I was crying I
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start stop the car there and nobody
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nobody help
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us Franchesca went to the police and
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detectives were assigned to the case she
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was able to describe the car that had
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driven away with Marina it was a white
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1976 Chevy Malibu with red lettering on
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its door at the hospital police tried to
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get a description of the mysterious
00:40:49
woman some believe that she was not a
00:40:52
professional criminal but rather an
00:40:54
emotionally unstable woman able to have
00:40:57
a child of her own this composite of the
00:41:01
abductor is based on eyewitness
00:41:03
descriptions she is white with Hispanic
00:41:06
features and has no accent her hair was
00:41:10
dyed reddish blonde and at the time she
00:41:12
appeared to be in her late 20s today the
00:41:16
Santana family is still searching for
00:41:18
their missing daughter an artist
00:41:20
sketched this composite of what marinaa
00:41:22
Santana would look like when she was a
00:41:25
child she has brown hair and brown eyes
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this is a composite of how she might
00:41:31
look as a young woman Marena was born
00:41:34
with a medical condition that makes her
00:41:36
feet appear somewhat sea shaped when
00:41:38
viewed from the bottom she may celebrate
00:41:41
her birthday around Halloween and she
00:41:43
may have been put up for an illegal
00:41:45
adoption in late 1985 or
00:41:50
1986 maybe one day a person who know
00:41:53
where's my baby they must say something
00:41:56
they must do it
00:41:59
I don't think I could have die without
00:42:00
seeing my baby again if you have any
00:42:03
information about Marina's disappearance
00:42:05
or whereabouts please log on to our
00:42:08
website at unsolved.com
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