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tonight on unsolved mysteries dr.
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Michael swango's career began with great
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promise only to be derailed by
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allegations of poisoning and murder what
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happened to Michael Swango did an angel
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of mercy choose to become an angel of
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death some 30 years have passed as a
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young woman from Texas and a Jordanian
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airman fell in love only to be torn
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apart by the uncertainties of war now a
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heartbroken father needs your help to
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find the son he has never met little
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Logan Carroll was born with no heartbeat
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and no vital signs doctors could do
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nothing to save him but as Logan's
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family gathered to grieve something
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truly extraordinary happened something
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that can only be called a miracle join
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me perhaps you hold the key perhaps you
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may be able to solve one of tonight's
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unsolved mysteries
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February 7th 1984 Columbus Ohio an
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intern at the State University Hospital
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checked on a 69 year old woman
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recovering from routine back surgery no
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one knows why dr. Michael Swango was in
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the room perhaps just to say hello when
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he left Rena Cooper seemed to be doing
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fine
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distress
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as she was being stabilized
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Rena's struggled to tell the doctors
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what happened
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she wrote the doctor puts something in
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my IV while this is going on we know
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that another nurse decided to walk down
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the hall to calm the other patients
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since there was a great deal of
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commotion and four rooms down within
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minutes sees dr. Swango exiting another
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room with a very funny grin on his face
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and those are her words not mine the
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nurse goes into that room and finds a
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large hypodermic needle with the plunger
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down sitting on the sink which is not
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very unusual you wouldn't expect that in
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a hospital hypodermics aren't left lying
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around three different doctors
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confronted Michael Swango about what had
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happened in Rena Cooper's room
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Swango allegedly told three different
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stories at one point he claimed he had
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never even been in the room she just
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kind of Surtur it's common for patients
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just out of surgery to be delusional
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most of us tend to hole doctors to a
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higher standard and perhaps that's fair
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after all we are sometimes compelled to
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trust them implicitly depending on their
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knowledge and expertise to save our
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lives
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did Michael Swango betray that trust for
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his own sadistic pleasure if you are
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Swango he'd probably tell you he was a
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victim of bad luck and circumstance but
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unfortunately the question cannot be
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posed no one can find Michael Swango
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Michael Swango came to Ohio as a recent
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graduate of the medical school at
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Southern Illinois University he
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projected charm and confidence despite a
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lackluster med school record Michael
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Swango became more and more withdrawn as
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he proceeded through his college classes
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and eventually got into medical school
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and though academically he did very well
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the more the classes became advanced and
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the more he needed to do hands-on
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patient work the more he pulled away
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from that to the point where he was held
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back a year take a look at one of these
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appraisals and you can see what I'm
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talking about sewing those poor
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performance continued through the first
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six months of his internship dr. Swango
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the end result is unless you have a
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significant improvement you will not be
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allowed to taste things may not
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recommend me for residency I've been
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working my entire life to be a doctor
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swango's lifelong goal was now
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jeopardized it could mean he would never
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become a full-fledged doctor it was
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shortly after Swango was put on
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probation the Rena Cooper suffered her
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mysterious seizure it was one of a
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series of puzzling events of the
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hospital that spring Rena Cooper
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survived but at least five other
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patients died the 5 mysterious
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respiratory arrest and last month the
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neurosurgery wing has caused quite an
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alarm among all of us I'm aware of that
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I decided to see if there's some sort of
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pattern to this situation and I've
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developed a chart the upshot of it is
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that whenever these incidents occurred
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Swango is always there a black cloud
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seems to follow Michael Swango wherever
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Swango was there was an unexplained
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respiratory arrest and it didn't happen
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once or twice it happened five six seven
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times though some evidence appeared to
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point to Swango hospital officials chose
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not to call the police they decided to
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watch him closely and quietly wait out
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the last month's of his internship I
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think the kid was great I think I was
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better
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chicka Swango did not appear disturbed
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by the hospital's decision to let him go
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or the whispered allegations against him
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in fact on several occasions during the
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last month's of his internship he
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treated staff members to what he called
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extra spicy chicken we know that from
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interviews with three doctors they
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became violently ill within hours of
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eating a spicy chicken so ill in fact
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that they needed treatment for their
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eyes from ruptured blood vessels from
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the vomiting Michael Swango left OSU
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hospital in June of 1984 without being
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formally investigated no charges have
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ever been filed
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one month later Swango had a new job not
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as a doctor but as a paramedic on
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September 14th
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he brought Donuts for the whole crew I
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grabbed a doughnut start eating the
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doughnut but I noticed there was
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something different about the doughnut
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it didn't spring back up like most
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doughnuts do 45 minutes later Brett and
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several others became very ill they
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ordered to test the leftover doughnuts
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but they had disappeared only an empty
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box remained no one had any suspicions
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of Mike at all at that time they figured
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that that was food poisoning
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since the doughnuts were gone and they
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couldn't analyze it they just more or
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less thought that that's what it was and
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let it go by then the next night I
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worked with Mike at a football game a
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local football game halftime you offered
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to buy me a soda
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I sort of sipping a soda at halftime and
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about the start of the third quarter
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I became deathly sick yet another
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mysterious illness made swango's
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co-workers increasingly suspicious they
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also couldn't help noticing swango's
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grisly fascination with accidents and
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death
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brant gory are the better
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he would describe his ultimate calls as
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a paramedic and that would be a busload
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of children hitting head-on with a
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tanker truck and igniting and as he's
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approaching the scene you would see
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charred bodies out of them out of the
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windows of the buses bodies that are up
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against the bob wire fence caught in the
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car caught in the barbed wire fences I
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mean this is to me I thought was really
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strange just you know to wanna see death
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finally the paramedics decided to fake a
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car to get Swango out of the building
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they wanted him away long enough to
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search his locker in Michael Swango s
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gym bag his co-workers found two bottles
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of amp poison one full one empty in
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swango's apartment police discovered
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more incriminating evidence dozens of
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bottles of poisons books on poisons
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recipe cards for making poisons and an
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assortment of syringes one syringe was
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full of ant poison the evidence was
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overwhelming
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Swango was convicted of six counts of
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aggravated battery and sentenced to five
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years in prison after serving half his
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sentence he was given time off for good
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behavior amazingly
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Swango again found work in the
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healthcare field he was apparently able
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to convince employers that he had been
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the victim of a miscarriage of justice
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in Newport News Virginia he turned up at
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a medical vocational school there three
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of his colleagues reportedly fell ill
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Swango then talked his way into the
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University of South Dakota hospital
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again he was shadowed by his past and
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dismissed finally in August of 1993
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Swango resurfaced a Stony Brook
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University in New York he was assigned
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to a Veterans Administration Hospital
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Long Island while there he changed his
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name to Michael Kirk he was accepted
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into the Stony Brook program and they
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never bothered to check him with a
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central registry for medical residents
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which apparently had a file that was an
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inch thick on him there were a hundred
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and eighty people who applied for twelve
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slots and he managed to get one of those
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twelve slots despite these clouds of
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questionable activity that followed him
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in at least four states on September
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29th 1893 Michael Swango Spath crossed
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that of LC and Baron Harris Baron Harris
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was a 60 year old cabinet maker from
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Long Island he had a fever of 104
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degrees in a slight case of pneumonia
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well we'll see if we can't accommodate
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you my first impressions of dr. Kirk he
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seemed very professional just seemed to
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be very concerned he seemed to know what
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he was doing a very pleasant man Swango
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told elsie to go home there was nothing
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more she could do Elsie Harris claims as
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sometime during the night dr. Michael
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Swango alias Michael Kirk gave her
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husband a sedative by the next morning
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Baron had been moved to intensive care
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he had lapsed into a coma doesn't make
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any sense to me he was coughing he had a
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little fever I don't get it I don't
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understand
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mrs. Harris sometimes people have
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allergic reactions to certain drugs now
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that may have happened in your husband's
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case why a coma I just hope it wasn't
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meaning that we did he had a very smurfy
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attitude like a he F [Â __Â ] smile on his
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face
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like a little kid with his hand in the
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cookie jars this is what he reminds me
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of even though he had a terrific bedside
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manner there was just something sneaky
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about him once the story hit the wires
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and reporters started converging on the
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North Port VA hospital and
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his dorm room he very hastily packed up
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and disappeared before Michael Swango
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vanished Elsie Harris says he told her
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that Barron would never come out of his
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coma
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Swango apparently knew what he was
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talking about Aaron Harris died November
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9th 1993 forever Michael Swango is today
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authorities believe that he is most
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likely working in the medical field
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afternoon sir
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see your driver's license
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June 7th 1994 Richland Hills Georgia
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just south of Savannah the license
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identified the stranded motorists as
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Moses long but it was a lie
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Moses Lall was an importer and beater of
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exotic birds who owned a rash 400 miles
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away in Florida this man's real name was
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Harry goben and he worked for Moses loan
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in fact he was on the run because of
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Moses law that is correct
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who was Moses long ask 10 people and
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you're lucky to get 10 different answers
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on the surface law seemed to be a
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reputable businessman but sources say he
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also had a secret life that involved
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international smuggling and alleged ties
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to organized crime now Moses Lall is
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missing police suspected his secret
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light went into a violent end and put
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his aunt an innocent bystander in mortal
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jeopardy
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three days before Hari Gobin was seen in
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Georgia a feed company delivery man made
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a routine stop at Moses laws ranch near
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West Palm Beach Florida when no one came
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to meet him at the gate
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Darryl crew hopped the fence Darryl had
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never before found the rash deserted
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hunters of exotic birds had been left
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unattended
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everything from yellow headed Amazon
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parrots to rare brilliantly colored
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macaws total value up to $700,000 Darryl
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had expected to find one of four people
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either Moses Lall and his aunt Lila be
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returned or the ranch hands Hari Gobin
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and Rowland felix eyoum
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it wasn't right to nobody being around
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in the birds were to noise that you know
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birds noisy but when they're hungry for
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a couple of days they're real noisy so I
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knew something was up and then I just
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decided I'd better leave the feed in
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case maybe they did go out for the day
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but nobody ever did there there was
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always somebody there so then I just
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climbed back over the gate series of
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feed down I left the next day Darryl
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would return to find the feed still
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there and the birds even louder the
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authorities were notified but a
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bureaucratic snafu delayed any
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investigation for ten days this is
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actual video footage of a Palm Beach
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County sheriff's deputies found when
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they arrived
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it was worse than you can imagine the
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smell was really really bad and the
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sight was even worse than that to see
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all those beautiful birds laying dead in
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the bottom the cages literally hundreds
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of them some cages had up to thirty and
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forty exotic birds dead in the bottom of
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the cages the birds it had survived were
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in desperate condition bird expert
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Howard voron was among those working to
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revive me we started force feeding those
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that were too weak to eat injecting them
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with with fluids in order to combat the
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dehydration they suffered and of course
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filling all the cages with food and
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water if there were birds left alive in
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them it was tough but it was worthwhile
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I think a very small percentage of the
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birds died after that while animal
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control experts took charge of the birds
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sheriff's deputies began trying to
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understand the puzzling disappearance of
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the caretakers Moses lawn and Lila
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buritan came from a family of bird
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importers based in Guiana South America
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in 1993 federal restrictions on
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importing wild birds prompted them to
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concentrate instead on breeding birds
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that was Lila's job
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she was the caregiver she was the bird
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lady she was the one that looked after
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all their needs drove them to the
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hospital when they needed
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hospitalization or care and she was the
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one that was the professional bird
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worried person Lila was very quiet very
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dedicated to the birds you could tell
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from going into the house the amount of
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care that this woman took she fed him
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she weaned him she took care of him when
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they're in the incubator
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basically she took care of the entire
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thing
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moisés generally handled the business
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end he delegated most of the daily
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chores to Hari Gobin
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also from Guiana Murray had worked for
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Moses and Lila since they started the
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ranch at 1992 they are the missing ranch
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and Rowland foetus Hume was from Africa
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he was a brother of one of Moses laws
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business contacts around the time the
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ranch was abandoned
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Moses was working with Hume on a plan to
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import reptiles from Africa Moses had
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apparently hit a cash crunch and decided
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to diversify rumor has it that to
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finance the scheme Moses borrowed money
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from shady underworld figures
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two days after sheriff's deputies
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discovered the dying birds they track
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roland felix eyoum to new york city so
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I'm investigating Moses and Lila's
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disappearance would you be willing to go
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to a New York City police detective and
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give a statement to them you met a solid
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alibi he was able to prove he had been
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in New York since before Moses and Lila
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disappeared then a unitl detective
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Wescott a bizarre story told to him by
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his co-worker Hari Gobin during our
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conversation on the phone he told me a
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story that he had been contacted by
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Harry sometime on June the 4th of June
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the fifth he wasn't exactly sure and
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that Harry had told him the two men in a
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white van came in took Moses and Lila
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and some birds away at gunpoint could
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hurry story be true had Lila and Moses
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been kidnapped if so what was a motive
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it may not have started out to be in
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abduction and may have started out as a
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collection if those stories are true
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it could have been revenge for some of
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the other dealings business dealings
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that he's reportedly been involved in
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that weren't exactly on the up-and-up
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the problem is we don't know we're
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hearing stories about all these things
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and none of them are substantiated but
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they needed for substantiation was her
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eco bins eyewitness account but go pin
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had disappeared after his run-in with a
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police in Georgia they assume go bin was
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Moses law and set him on his way my
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speculation is that the story that he
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told to Roland felix eyoum scared him so
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bad that he knew that he had to get out
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of town somehow I believe that Harry
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used Moses's driver's license and took
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his van so he could get away and have
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some type of collateral what happened
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the Moses law and Lila Burton it Moses
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laws questionable business dealings come
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back to haunt him or was someone after
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the rare expensive birds if someone had
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in fact killed them for birds the birds
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that were missing were not the right
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birds birds that were worth $2,000 in
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adjoining cages were left behind if they
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met with foul play because people wanted
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to take the birds they took the wrong
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birds and the question remains who and
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why because it seemed that Moses had
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several people that he was involved with
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and things that were either legal
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illegal or borderline and Lila is not
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explained because nobody seems to have
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anything bad to say about her whatsoever
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milah doesn't seem to have any
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involvement with anyone that is in any
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way unusual she seemed to be very happy
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in her solitude the birds were her world
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she didn't much care for anything
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outside of that one my gut feeling is
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she's dead to me that's the only way
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Lyda would leave her birds as if she was
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dead or so afraid for her life that
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that's the only way she would leave that
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place police believe that her ego bin is
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crucial to solving this case if he
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indeed witnessed a kidnapping he
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undoubtedly knows vital details that
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could help the police in a moment the
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tragic death of an infant is followed by
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a miraculous rebirth
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perhaps the only time we welcome a visit
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to the hospital is for the birth of a
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child but even the special moment can be
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marred by sudden disaster yes ask an
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Indiana couple named Todd and Tammy
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Carroll their second child Megan was
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stillborn after an 8-month pregnancy
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naturally Megan was very much on their
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minds when the Carol's arrived at the
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hospital for the birth of their third
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child a son named Logan they had no idea
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how closely would come to another
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tragedy this is my sister Ruth she's
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gonna be with us today hi Ruby nice to
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meet you
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Leslie yeah well Tammy everything looks
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great so after we lost Megan I was
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really anxious it was real stressful
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I was worried is anything gonna be wrong
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with this baby is you know everything
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gonna be all right and after the
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ultrasound and everything looked good on
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it and then we were in some other tests
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that looked fine that eased my mind I
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really tried to look at it as a separate
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incident Tammy's obstetrician dr. Diana
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oaken induced labor at around 8:45 a.m.
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the contractions grew stronger and more
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frequent through the day
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the baby's vital signs were consistently
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stable and positive 4:30 p.m.
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birth was imminent Tammy's sister Ruthie
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stationed herself near the fetal
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heartbeat monitor the red numbers showed
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a normal rate 120 to 140 beats per
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minute push the wall Tammy was pushing
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trying to push the baby out I noticed
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that the heart monitor
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like would drop way down and that really
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kind of alarmed me and they had her take
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some slow breaths and it recovered back
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up 4:42 p.m. at the moment Logan Carroll
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was born his heart rate plunged to zero
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a fragile life in mortal danger
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I knew some was wrong as soon as he
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delivered because he didn't have any
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tone when I felt his umbilical cord in a
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feel any pulse at all and that's when we
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started CPR
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Paulo code
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for 15 minutes the emergency team tried
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desperately to revive Logan 4:57 dr.
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Maria Valentine the Carroll's
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pediatrician joined the emergency team
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and still had no vital signs no
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heartbeat
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no breathing no heart rate flatline
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continued resuscitation we continued
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doing CPR throughout that time again
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with no response for approximately
00:26:44
another 15 minutes after my arrival and
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I began inserting a line into his
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umbilical cord to try to administer some
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drugs to help revive him they had put
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EKG monitor on him and the tracing was
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not showing any electrical activity so I
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knew it didn't look good at all well I
00:27:06
was still hoping but he was there so
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long I don't know how these five or six
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doctors they're working on him
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at one time trying to do getting revived
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and still ain't doing nothing I just
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couldn't lose this baby I just could not
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believe this could happen again at some
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point you know you always have to just
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say we've done what we can do this baby
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is not going to respond and we finally
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called it and pronounced him dead at
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that time
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I don't think there's any lower feeling
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than holding your dead child it's
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supposed to be such a time of joy and
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renewed life giving birth that when they
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they hand you this child that's no
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longer living
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I just can't begin to tell you how low
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that that feeling is and sitting there
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holding him and looking in his face I
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just I just wanted him to be alive so
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bad Logan James Carroll was officially
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pronounced dead at 5:15 p.m. he was 33
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minutes old in accordance with hospital
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policy the carols were allowed time to
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say their goodbyes swaddled in a blanket
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Logan was cradled by each grieving
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family member in the midst of their
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anguish Tammy and Todd agreed to an
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autopsy hoping for some explanation
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Tammi Todd I don't mean to sound crass
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or anything but we usually take pictures
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of the baby for the family you never
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know how people are going to take that
00:29:01
when you come in and say I'd like to
00:29:03
take pictures of you and the baby but
00:29:05
they were very receptive because they
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said they didn't get enough pictures the
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last time that this had happened to them
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these photos were taken that afternoon
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stark portraits meant to commemorate the
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end of a young life instead it would
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mark the beginning of American what was
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that what was what he just made the
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noise that was just a reflex action
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Tanner I'm sorry
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while I was holding Logan he made the
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casting sound and it was a very eerie
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feeling but we had been told that that
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was normal it is called agonal gasping
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and it can happen because of the
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medication it can go on for quite a
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while so I wanted to let them know
00:29:54
because every time he would do that he
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did it a couple times for Tammy they
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would they would just their eyes would
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light up and then they would be really
00:30:02
let down when he wouldn't do it again as
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the minutes went by I was slowly
00:30:09
becoming unaware of what even was going
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on in the room I just wanted to
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completely detach myself and float away
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somewhere and be somewhere where it
00:30:19
wasn't hurting so bad I wanted to get
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away from the pain some forty minutes
00:30:24
had passed since Logan was pronounced
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dead a time for his autopsy was close at
00:30:29
hand however is Tammy stepmother held
00:30:32
the infant she was beginning to think
00:30:34
that an autopsy would not be such a good
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idea
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skull it looks okay
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worthy he's getting warmer
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I'll get the nurse
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just look
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I'll be right back what's going on
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roofie there's no reason for this time
00:31:16
dr. Khan I understand about agonal
00:31:19
breathing but is there such a thing as
00:31:21
an agonal heart rate susan has a heart
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rate please come and take a look at him
00:31:26
I thought she was not you know if you
00:31:29
keep this up you're gonna give me a
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heart attack I just think I was afraid
00:31:32
that she was reacting in a way that was
00:31:36
gonna upset the family even more because
00:31:38
I mean the baby was dead
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baby's alive let's go to the nursery it
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was total unbelief
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and I wanted to touch him I can't I had
00:32:00
an uncontrollable urge I needed to touch
00:32:02
him and I don't know how soon it was but
00:32:06
it was real soon they came in took my IV
00:32:09
out and I had monitors on me and I had a
00:32:11
blood pressure cuff I mean they were
00:32:13
taking wires and just pulling them off
00:32:15
of me and put me in a wheelchair and
00:32:17
willed me into the nursery and I reached
00:32:20
in and I held his arm and I I was
00:32:23
talking to him tell him that he had to
00:32:25
hang in there and then I loved him and
00:32:27
that I was proud of him for being so
00:32:29
strong I was still in a different type
00:32:34
of shock because it was so unbelievable
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unbelievable indeed at least six
00:32:42
physicians and eight registered nurses
00:32:44
all certain that Logan Carroll had died
00:32:47
high-tech meters and monitors had
00:32:49
confirmed that judgment I figured God's
00:32:53
hand hadn't been in it but that's not in
00:32:56
the medical literature it's account for
00:32:59
the miraculous as an explanation but
00:33:03
it's amazing I mean we're all trained to
00:33:06
do something as doctors and here we did
00:33:09
nothing and he came back word spread
00:33:14
through the hospital very quickly you
00:33:16
know people from the lab people from
00:33:18
other nursing units came up just to look
00:33:20
at him to say that they could have seen
00:33:22
this miracle baby it was it was
00:33:24
incredible the emergency room doctor
00:33:26
came up and was totally amazed it was it
00:33:32
was something you know something
00:33:36
Logan's metamorphosis from the lifeless
00:33:39
infant in this photo the squirming
00:33:41
Marvel videotaped just one day later was
00:33:44
simply astonishing he would remain in
00:33:47
the hospital for the next five weeks his
00:33:49
vital signs never faltered
00:33:53
though Logan remains healthy doctors
00:33:56
fear he may have sustained some degree
00:33:58
of permanent neurological damage during
00:34:00
the time he had no oxygen only time will
00:34:04
tell my feelings for him will stay the
00:34:07
same whether he has an IQ of 180 or 50
00:34:11
he's here he's alive I've held the
00:34:15
alternative and holding him no matter
00:34:20
how he's gonna develop in the future we
00:34:23
try to live for today and we're keeping
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it is impossible for most of us to fully
00:34:32
appreciate the Carrol family's
00:34:33
experience today Logan's extraordinary
00:34:36
revival continues to baffle any expert
00:34:39
who studies the case however those who
00:34:41
are in the delivery room that day when
00:34:44
despair turned to wonder are certain
00:34:46
that they witnessed nothing less than a
00:34:48
modern-day miracle next a poignant tale
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of love denied and a son lost
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you're about to meet a man named Fonzie
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Mahmud almost 30 years ago a single
00:35:15
moment changed his life forever it is a
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spring of 1967 in San Antonio Texas the
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event nothing less than love at first
00:35:24
sight
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Fozzy Mahmud was a trainee in the
00:35:30
Jordanian Air Force he was in the United
00:35:32
States are an American flying techniques
00:35:34
he was not interested in anything else
00:35:36
or so he thought are you doing remember
00:35:41
Barbara
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her name was Soylent Maldonado she was
00:35:49
just 20 years old and fouls his eyes she
00:35:52
was dazzling I mean she looks so
00:35:56
beautiful to me and she got this green
00:35:59
dress and just she was a knockout and I
00:36:02
was knocked out I fell in love with her
00:36:06
I mean I fell madly in love like you for
00:36:16
both Fozzie and Zoila this was a first
00:36:18
taste of true love
00:36:19
but for Fozzie it was also much more
00:36:23
[Music]
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actually Zoila was not only the first
00:36:27
love it was the first woman I ever
00:36:29
talked to in my life because we came
00:36:31
from a very very strict family and
00:36:33
strict people and a state government you
00:36:35
know but she was my first everything
00:36:41
zoila's parents were very conservative
00:36:44
and she was their only child they did
00:36:46
not like the idea of Zara dating anyone
00:36:48
the fact that file Z was a foreigner who
00:36:51
spoke little English did not help even
00:36:59
though her parents were conservative and
00:37:02
strict we managed to go out almost daily
00:37:06
we went dancing we went to the lake we
00:37:08
went to the mountains we went everywhere
00:37:10
together
00:37:12
six months later soylent files he found
00:37:15
themselves at a turning point
00:37:19
buzzy I think I'm pregnant - zoila's
00:37:23
great relief palsy was ecstatic
00:37:26
yes
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but the marriage would never take place
00:37:42
several months earlier the Six Day War
00:37:44
had erupted between Jordan and Israel
00:37:47
tension between the two countries
00:37:49
remained high in late November 1967
00:37:52
Fozzie was ordered home we talked and we
00:38:00
promised and we vowed that we will
00:38:02
always be together no matter what
00:38:03
happens when I come back baby myself
00:38:11
and baby come to Jordan I just felt so
00:38:14
helpless I come back very soon
00:38:16
well kid we need to get going I've been
00:38:21
while of should be like that I mean
00:38:23
we're having so good time together we're
00:38:26
happy why they happiness have to go
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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00:38:43
sometimes I miss you so much I think
00:38:45
I'll go crazy but and I receive her
00:38:48
letters and I feel better
00:38:50
Zordon files he continued their love
00:38:52
affair by letter the Jordanian Air Force
00:38:55
refused to release Fozzy
00:38:56
so I plan to go to Jordan please take
00:38:59
care of yourself and stay safe I will
00:39:02
close now I'm tired but the baby's spine
00:39:05
it still kicks all the time if he's that
00:39:09
boy
00:39:09
he'll probably be a football player in
00:39:13
late June 1968
00:39:14
Sarla gave birth to a healthy baby boy
00:39:17
she named him Amadeo Marcello I mean I
00:39:22
was thrilled I was very happy I was
00:39:24
jumping but I also was very unplaced
00:39:29
because of the fact that I cannot be
00:39:31
there to see him and be with her and be
00:39:33
of help to her I was very frustrated
00:39:39
even on duty foul zis thoughts were with
00:39:41
Zoila and his infant son he could not
00:39:44
wait to bring his new family to Jordan
00:39:48
Zarda kept writing to Fozzie but the
00:39:51
tone of her letters soon changed posi
00:39:55
I'm writing to say I'm sorry to hear of
00:39:57
a problem I want us together more than
00:40:00
ever I will always believe my love is
00:40:03
strong but the war I refuse to take that
00:40:07
chance with Marcelo's life Zoila made a
00:40:10
difficult decision
00:40:11
she needed a father for her baby she
00:40:14
wrote files II that she had married
00:40:16
someone else
00:40:20
Palsy could not bring himself to write
00:40:22
to Zoila again but he could never forget
00:40:24
his son in 1970 files he returned to the
00:40:30
United States he claims he tried to call
00:40:33
Zoila by phone but her mother hung up on
00:40:35
him
00:40:35
then had the number changed she
00:40:38
apparently blamed Fozzie for her
00:40:39
daughter's out-of-wedlock child and was
00:40:42
understandably upset to hear from him
00:40:44
again
00:40:44
in desperation fouls he went to zoila's
00:40:47
house hello
00:40:50
I like Cesar please nobody wants to talk
00:40:54
to you my son I like see my son you
00:40:58
ruined my daughter's life no no I love
00:41:01
your daughter you know what you are
00:41:05
three years too late
00:41:14
if you don't get out of here I'm gonna
00:41:16
call the police no please wait I just
00:41:19
want to see my son leave wait Fozzy had
00:41:26
no choice he could not risk being
00:41:28
arrested and possibly deported that
00:41:32
moment was as close as file Zima moved
00:41:35
has ever gotten to meeting his son today
00:41:40
Foust he lives an Eden Oklahoma with his
00:41:43
wife Robin they have a young son and
00:41:45
files he has three grown children from a
00:41:47
previous marriage but thoughts of his
00:41:49
firstborn still haunting there is one
00:41:53
thing missing all the time I would like
00:41:56
to see my son I would like to see how he
00:41:58
looks like I wanna hug him I wanna tell
00:42:00
him I love him I mean there's a lot of
00:42:03
things we did not do together maybe we
00:42:05
can do it now even at this age
00:42:08
[Music]
00:42:38
join me again next week perhaps you may
00:42:42
be able to help solve a mystery
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