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DENNIS FARINA: Next, on
"Unsolved Mysteries," a gang
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of masked intruders,
a house ransacked,
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an innocent man terrorized.
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Who are these violent intruders?
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Please help us.
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DENNIS FARINA: Modern
day prospectors
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follow century-old
blues and close
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in on a mother lode of gold.
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They are known as men in black.
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No one knows who they are
or where they come from.
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A school that offers music
scholarships for kids
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seems too good to be true.
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It is.
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Join me for these stories
of murder, missing persons,
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fugitives, and the paranormal.
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I'm Dennis Farina, and this
is "Unsolved Mysteries."
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[theme music]
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DENNIS FARINA: It can
happen anytime, anywhere--
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from big cities to small towns.
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Home invasion robberies
target innocent victims
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who never see it coming.
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[phone ringing]
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You're alone in your home,
feeling safe and protected.
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You lie down to take a nap,
and you wake up to a nightmare.
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That's exactly what happened
to Dr. David Cawood.
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Jefferson County, Tennessee--
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All right.
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Wake up.
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[interposing voices]
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Where's your--
where's your vault?
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Where'd you come from?
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I remember not being able
to figure out what's going on,
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and then sheer terror.
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What do you want from me?
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A lot of people
like you have them.
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[yelling]
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DAVID CAWOOD: I received a
blow in the abdomen, a blow
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on the right side of my chest,
a blow in the back of the head
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that knocked me out.
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DENNIS FARINA: Dr. Cawood's
wife, Jeannie, and their son,
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Trinity, returned home.
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[thudding]
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What was that?
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[glass shattering]
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Oh, my god.
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What was that?
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[yelling]
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DENNIS FARINA: In a
blind panic, Jeannie ran
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straight towards the intruders.
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I had my hands up in my hair.
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I was more or less in shock.
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Lay down, on the floor.
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On the floor.
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Down!
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Hands out.
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[jeannie whimpering]
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OK, lady.
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Where is everything?
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Tell us what you got.
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We know you got a vault.
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[interposing voices]
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JEANNIE CAWOOD: And they
wanted to know where the vault,
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the cash, and the gold was.
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Of course, I don't have a vault.
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[sobbing]
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INTRUDER: Yes, you do.
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No, I don't.
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INTRUDER: Are you gonna talk?
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Are you the one
that's gonna talk?
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You are, aren't you?
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TRINITY CAWOOD: You know, I
told them where the jewelry was.
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I mean, I didn't know
anything else to do.
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You know, I figured
Dad was already dead,
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and I was just trying to
keep Mom and myself alive.
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INTRUDER: Good boy.
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[whimpering]
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INTRUDER: Let's go.
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DENNIS FARINA: The intruders
left Jeannie and Trinity alone
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and continued to
ransack the house.
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Moments later, one
of them reappeared.
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Oh, god.
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Please help us.
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DENNIS FARINA: I
knew at that point
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that they were gonna shoot us.
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So I immediately started
praying with Trinity.
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I told her I loved her,
and that I was ready to go.
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And you know, I was sure
I was going to heaven.
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And I was just ready to go.
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I didn't think I'd
see another day.
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Well, as we finished
the conversation,
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Trinity and I did, I could
hear this man choke up.
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And when he did, he turned
around and walked away.
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[sobbing]
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JEANNIE CAWOOD: I
think that is probably
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what saved Trinity and me.
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I've got to do something.
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DENNIS FARINA: Jeannie
struggled against the ropes
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and managed to free herself.
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They're gonna kill us.
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Trinity, I'm not gonna
lie here on the floor
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and get shot in the head.
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OK.
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DENNIS FARINA: Afraid the
intruders were still upstairs,
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Jeannie and Trinity
ran for help.
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JEANNIE CAWOOD: All I knew is
I had to get out of the house.
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I threw the knife in the
garage and I went next door
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and banged on my
mother-in-law's window.
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And she came to the back door,
and I ran in and I got her gun
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and I told her to call 9-1-1.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
Cawood's house was a mess.
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The thieves had
trashed every room
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and made off with more than
$40,000 in cash and jewelry.
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Upstairs, investigators
found Dr. Cawood
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bound and gagged on
his bed, drifting
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in and out of consciousness.
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I love you, honey.
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DENNIS FARINA: Dr.
Cawood survived
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the ordeal with seven fractured
ribs and a concussion.
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To this day, he has no idea
who the attackers were.
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Oh--
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[jeannie sobbing]
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DENNIS FARINA: For the Cawoods,
the official investigation
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was an exercise in frustration.
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No fingerprints were ever found.
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None of the jewelry
was recovered.
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And the police never came
up with any solid evidence.
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The Cawoods began their
own investigation,
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and soon found a dozen
other families who had had
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the same terrifying experience.
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Four months after
the attack, they
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met with Ken and Patsy Jenkins,
who lived 25 miles away.
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Their story was so
similar, the Cawoods
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were convinced that
both families had been
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attacked by the same people.
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[screaming]
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INTRUDER: Are you gonna talk?
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It was one of the most
frightening things I have
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ever been through in my life.
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DAVID CAWOOD: We not only
went on physical descriptions,
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but we concentrated
on the personalities
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of the perpetrators-- how
they moved, what they said.
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And it's astonishing.
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One or two members of
the cast of characters
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may change from time to time.
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But it's the same people.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
Jenkins had been
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hit five years
before the Cawoods,
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also on a Sunday night.
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Who is it?
What do want?
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INTRUDER: Just do everything
we say and everything's
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gonna be just fine.
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INTRUDER: You gonna cooperate?
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Yes.
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[coughing]
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I remember that he
disguised his voice,
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and he stood with a
pillow between him and me.
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At the time, I was
afraid maybe he might
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be gonna me through the pillow.
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DENNIS FARINA: But murder
was not part of the plan.
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Just like the Cawoods, the
intruders were after money,
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gold, and access to a vault.
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OK, listen, you got
a vault here, old man?
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KEN JENKINS: Well,
uh-- uh, I don't know.
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INTRUDER: Yeah, come on, you.
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Just take what you want.
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SHERIFF DOUGH QUARLES: There
was a lot of similarities.
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They come in in the
nighttime, sometime
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Sunday night, or at least a
time when someone's at home.
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They wear dark clothing.
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They use force by show
or threat of weapons.
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INTRUDER: We got the vault.
We need the combination.
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SHERIFF DOUGH QUARLES: They use
somewhat regimented tactics.
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Now.
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SHERIFF DOUGH QUARLES:
They methodically
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go through the house and then
remove what they come after.
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KEN JENKINS: Dollar-wise, it's
hard put a value on sentimental
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things-- maybe $25,000.
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They ransacked the
house real fast.
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Actually, one person done
the ransacking second.
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One stayed at our
bad all the time.
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We got it.
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We got it all.
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Don't even think
about calling the law.
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We are the law.
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OK?
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DAVID CAWOOD: They
move like a SWAT team.
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They bark orders like a cop.
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And I think that they
will use whatever
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violence they deem necessary
to achieve their goals.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
Cawoods believe
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they've linked 12 break ins
over 10 years to the same gang.
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It was a connection that
no local law enforcement
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agency had ever made.
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The Cawoods' research was so
impressive that the Jefferson
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County DA convinced
the Tennessee
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Bureau of Investigation to
launch an official inquiry.
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We got so much
information for you
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to look at that we've compiled
over the last couple of years
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that--
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ROBERT E. DENNEY:
Dr. and Mrs. Cawood
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have done a lot in this case
to help us and assist us.
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They have met with several
of the other victims
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and have formed, I guess, a
coalition of people that want
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to try to get this case solved.
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We do feel like the
perpetrators have
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an awful lot of information
on the victims in these cases.
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All right!
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ROBERT E. DENNEY:
They come in and ask
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questions that only
the victim could
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have shared with someone else.
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Where's your money?
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ROBERT E. DENNEY: And I think
they're casing the houses
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real well, maybe the
lifestyle of the people,
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when they come and go.
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What was that?
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ROBERT E. DENNEY: So we
feel that these people
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are doing an awful lot of
homework on these victims.
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These people are going
to do it again and again.
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And they need to be stopped.
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We have found
victim after victim.
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And these victims,
to the person,
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they feel exactly as we do.
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And they feel that most
precious thing has been taken
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from them is their security.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
statute of limitations
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has run out on these
violent crimes.
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All the cases are now
officially closed.
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INTRUDER: All right!
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DENNIS FARINA: However,
a similar home invasion
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in another part of the state
led to the arrest and conviction
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of several robbers.
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Although police don't have
enough evidence to prove it,
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they believe the group was
responsible for the earlier
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crimes as well.
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Next, is there a fortune
in gold waiting to be
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found in the Arizona desert?
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Gold!
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[cheering]
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DENNIS FARINA: The Arizona
Territory, September
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1864-- troopers from Fort
Apache find two prospectors
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wandering in the desert.
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By the time they reach the
fort, the men are barely alive.
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We gotta get back.
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We gotta get back.
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DENNIS FARINA: One
of the prospectors,
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known only as Adams,
tells the army
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surgeon a remarkable story.
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You don't understand.
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There's-- there's
mountains of gold up there.
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There's a river full
of gold up there.
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There's gold up there
the size of acorns.
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Me and my men rode up the Gila
River up into the mountains,
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was looking for Zigzag Canyon.
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And that was supposed
to be full of gold.
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DENNIS FARINA: Adams and
his band of 20 miners
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were led by a Mexican guide,
nicknamed [inaudible].
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MAN: [inaudible], where
was that canyon at?
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DENNIS FARINA: [inaudible]
promised to take Adams
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to the gold in return for two
horses, a saddle, two $50 gold
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pieces, and a red silk bandana.
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He even said the
miners could shoot him
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if he couldn't find the gold.
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This canyon don't go nowhere.
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If you've been lying to me,
you're gonna pay for it.
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DENNIS FARINA:
Eventually, they reached
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what appeared to be a dead end.
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But [inaudible] led the
party through a hidden door
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into a narrow zigzag canyon.
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TOM KOLLENBORN: I
think [inaudible]
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played the major role in
getting them to the site.
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And the reason he
was able to do this
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was the fact that he was
raised by the Apaches.
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And he knew the area.
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And he was familiar
with the fact
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that gold was important
to the white man,
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not so important to the Apache.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
men found a stream fed
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by a 20-foot high waterfall.
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It was full of what
they had come for.
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Gold!
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Gold!
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Gold!
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[cheering]
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TOM KOLLENBORN: There
was a waterfall there
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and there was sufficient water.
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But the amazing thing,
and according to a story,
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again, the gold was visible
right on the ground.
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Realizing that gold is
heavy, that it settles down,
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you'd have to think, well,
how much gold was there there?
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If there was still gold visibly
on the ground that means
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every flash flood that brought
water over that waterfall
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has brought more
gold from above.
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DENNIS FARINA: Adams and his
men agreed to pool their fortune
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and share it equally.
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They set up camp and
the prospecting began.
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Several days later,
unexpected visitors
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arrived-- a local Apache
chief and 20 of his warriors.
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Adams, we've got company.
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TOM KOLLENBORN: The Apache,
there were several things
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that were sacred to them.
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One thing was mountains--
all mountains.
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The Zigzag Canyon
probably, undoubtedly,
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was sacred, maybe in
some way, because it
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was part of the mountain.
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[non-english language].
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TOM KOLLENBORN: The
Apaches believed that gold
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was the tears of the sun.
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Nobody touched the
tears of the sun,
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because the sun was a almighty
thing to most Indian cultures--
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I mean, the source of all life.
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Hand me that rifle.
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A gift.
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TOM KOLLENBORN: They
met with Chief Nana.
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And Nana had set down the
rules-- that they do not
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go above the waterfall,
for whatever reason,
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probably because he knew
there was more gold up there
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and he know it would attract
more white men to the area.
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He hoped they would
fill their pokes
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and leave and not come back.
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DENNIS FARINA: Adam struck
a deal with the chief.
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Any miner found above
the waterfalls would die.
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[inaudible].
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DENNIS FARINA: Then
one morning, a miner
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chasing a stray horse
ventured above the falls.
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Look what I found, Adams.
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DENNIS FARINA: He came
across a gold nugget
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the size of a chicken egg.
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Ain't that the biggest
nugget you ever seen?
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Where'd you get this at, son?
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Above the falls?
- You went above the falls?
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Adams, he didn't mean nothing.
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My horse got away, Adams.
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I don't care.
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I promised the chief we
wouldn't go up there.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
discovery triggered
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gold fever in the camp.
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Without telling
Adams, miners began
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prospecting above the falls.
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Some of the gold was
stored in a coffee
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pot hidden under the flagstone
of the camp fireplace.
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According to legend,
the miners found
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almost 300 pounds of gold.
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Whoa.
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DENNIS FARINA: One morning,
Adams and his partner
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Davidson were a mile
out of camp when they
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heard the sound of gunfire.
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[horses neighing, gunshots]
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DENNIS FARINA: Chief Nana
had been true to his word.
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From a lookout above
camp, Adams and Davidson
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stared down helplessly.
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[yelling]
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No.
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It ain't gonna do
us no good now.
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[gunshots]
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Just wait'll
things settle down,
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then we'll head on up the
canyon, get out of here.
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We waited till
the sun went down,
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then we snuck up the canyon.
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You don't believe
any of this, do you?
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About the gold?
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Look at this.
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TOM KOLLENBORN: Well, Adams,
like many prospectors,
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spent the rest of his life
searching for that Zigzag
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Canyon and never could find it.
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I think that once a person
sees that much gold in a place,
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like Adams did, he couldn't
give up that dream.
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There's no way.
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He knew it was there.
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He had to continue to search
for it till he found it.
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DENNIS FARINA: Adams never
did find his motherlode.
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Years later, he died
drunk and penniless,
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and the story of the lost
gold grew into legend.
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During the 1920s,
John Mitchell, a man
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who worked on the railroad,
wrote about his search
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for the treasure.
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To this day, his account
inspires others to hunt
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for the Lost Adams Diggings.
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Ron Feldman is a camping
guide who has studied
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Mitchell's accounts for years.
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RON FELDMAN: If
you pay attention
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to what John Mitchell said,
he tells you basically where
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the Lost Adams Diggings is.
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DENNIS FARINA: By comparing
Mitchell's references
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with modern maps,
Feldman discovered
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that many rivers
and landmarks have
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gone under different names.
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He figured out that
Adams' canyon was
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on Eagle Creek near the
town of Clifton, Arizona,
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200 miles north of Tucson.
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Ron Feldman and
geologist Mick McPherson
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went to Eagle Creek hoping to
find the lost Adams fortune.
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MICK MCPHERSON: When Ron
and I walked into the canyon
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and discovered the
little hidden portal that
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led into a zigzag canyon,
my feeling immediately
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was that this was the spot.
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This is where Adams had been.
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This fits the stories
that I've read.
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It has the right appearance
and it is an appropriate place
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where gold could have
been concentrated
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in great quantities
as a placer deposit.
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DENNIS FARINA: Everything
about the canyon seemed
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to fit Adams' descriptions.
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That's gotta be the waterfall.
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It's gotta be it.
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DENNIS FARINA: Feldman
and McPherson even
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found the trickle
along the canyon wall
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where a waterfall
had once flowed.
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MICK MCPHERSON: If you put
more water into the system,
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as there was when
Adams was there,
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you would have a
beautiful cascading
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waterfall into an open pool
at the base of the fall.
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It's very hard to explain the
feeling that rushed through me.
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It was very exciting.
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And of course, we
both knew the legend
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of the coffee pot of gold buried
in the floor of the cabin.
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We soon discovered
the ruins of a cabin,
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started digging in the floor.
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We found some relics,
but no potful of gold.
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Look at that, huh?
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Little gold pan.
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DENNIS FARINA: Feldman
and McPherson also
00:19:07
found a section of train track.
00:19:10
MICK MCPHERSON:
In the early days,
00:19:11
John D. Mitchell, the author,
was actually a railroad man.
00:19:14
He worked on the railroads.
00:19:16
And we thought of Mitchell
when we found those items.
00:19:20
We thought of Mitchell when we
didn't find the pot of gold.
00:19:25
DENNIS FARINA: Perhaps
John Mitchell already
00:19:27
found the coffee pot of gold.
00:19:29
But Ron Feldman
and MIck McPherson
00:19:32
are convinced they found the
area of the huge gold deposit.
00:19:36
Their share of the motherlode
is still waiting to be found.
00:19:46
Coming up, if you ever report
that you've seen a UFO,
00:19:50
you may receive some unexpected
visitors-- the men in black.
00:19:56
But first, how viewer
tips led to the capture
00:19:58
of a woman who helped her
lover escape from prison.
00:20:12
Cumberland, Maryland.
00:20:15
For 10 years, Kay Beeman
worked as a prison guard
00:20:18
at a maximum security facility.
00:20:22
Edgar Kerns was being held
there while awaiting sentencing
00:20:26
on charges of check fraud.
00:20:29
JAMES BARNES: Come
on, man, hurry up.
00:20:31
DENNIS FARINA: and in
another inmate, James Barnes,
00:20:34
made a daring escape.
00:20:36
It appeared they had taken
Kay Beeman as a hostage.
00:20:40
Authorities later learned
that Kay had actually
00:20:43
helped with the escape.
00:20:45
She was in love,
with Edgar Kerns.
00:20:47
I don't think I've been
too demanding, either.
00:20:49
No, you haven't.
00:20:52
CRAIG ROBERTSON:
I guess you maybe
00:20:54
fall in love with somebody and
you do some strange things.
00:20:57
But Kay's pretty well
lost about everything
00:21:00
that she ever had over
this one incident.
00:21:05
DENNIS FARINA:
Update-- just six hours
00:21:08
after our broadcast, Kay
Beeman and Edgar Kerns
00:21:11
were captured in Canada.
00:21:16
They had checked into
a motel and registered
00:21:19
as husband and wife
under the assumed
00:21:21
names Fred and Sandy Smith.
00:21:25
JOE MITCHELL: I was watching
TV, and all of a sudden,
00:21:28
this lady's picture come on.
00:21:30
So I call my wife, and she was
out in the kitchen ironing.
00:21:33
And I said, do you
recognize this lady?
00:21:35
And she said, yes, she's the
lady that's living in room 12.
00:21:40
SGT. MIKE HOLK: The officers
at the emergency response
00:21:42
unit forced the door open.
00:21:45
The room was found
to be vacated.
00:21:48
DENNIS FARINA: A
witness later told
00:21:49
police that he had seen
the fugitive couple
00:21:52
getting into a taxi.
00:21:54
We were able to determine
the name of the cab.
00:21:56
And a check with a cab
company revealed the driver.
00:21:59
I asked them where
they were going,
00:22:01
and they said the
Red Rose Motel.
00:22:05
DENNIS FARINA: A few
minutes later, the emergency
00:22:07
response unit moved in.
00:22:11
At the window!
00:22:13
Good.
00:22:16
[yelling]
00:22:19
SGT. MIKE HOLK: Kerns--
he wanted to know how we
00:22:21
had learned of his whereabouts.
00:22:24
We asked him if he had ever
seen the program before.
00:22:28
He said, yes, he had.
00:22:29
We told him that he
was on it tonight.
00:22:32
He was astounded.
00:22:35
DENNIS FARINA: Kay
Beeman and Edgar Kerns
00:22:36
were returned to Maryland.
00:22:38
Kerns finished out
his prison term,
00:22:40
and Beeman served time for
her role in the escape.
00:22:44
After their release,
the two lived together
00:22:47
until Kay Beeman's death.
00:22:58
Thanks to Hollywood,
just about everyone
00:23:01
has heard of the men in black.
00:23:03
But few realize that there may
be evidence that men in black
00:23:07
are real.
00:23:11
Austin, Texas-- Ray
Muniz owns and operates
00:23:17
an auto tinting shop.
00:23:20
He says he's had five
separate encounters with UFOs.
00:23:25
Because of all the experiences
that I have, or have had,
00:23:29
I thought it necessary for me to
start looking into all of this.
00:23:33
So I started this show here in
Austin, this local cable access
00:23:36
show called "Project UFO."
00:23:38
World power.
00:23:39
DENNIS FARINA: One
of Ray's viewers
00:23:41
sent him this home
video, which supposedly
00:23:44
shows an unidentified
spacecraft in the sky
00:23:47
over Georgetown, Texas.
00:23:50
MAN: Look at that.
00:23:51
MAN: It's a UFO, man.
00:23:53
RAY MUNIZ: And on
the video, you can
00:23:54
see a radio station tower, which
has three red lights on it.
00:23:57
Well, right next to this tower
is this huge UFO that's just
00:24:02
hovering there, like parked.
00:24:03
WOMAN: It's no airplane.
00:24:04
MAN: Those ain't no airplanes.
00:24:06
And they're getting closer.
00:24:07
MAN: Oh, heck,
that's a lot of them.
00:24:08
DENNIS FARINA: Several days
after he received the tape,
00:24:10
Ray says some unexpected
visitors showed up.
00:24:14
RAY MUNIZ: They were
dressed in black suits,
00:24:16
black ties, the black
glasses, the whole nine yards.
00:24:20
Mr. Muniz.
00:24:21
Yes?
00:24:22
Raynaldo Muniz?
00:24:25
Yes?
00:24:26
I have a summons.
00:24:29
A summons?
00:24:30
Internal Revenue Service.
00:24:31
Am I being audited?
00:24:35
Just show up.
00:24:41
RAY MUNIZ: I walked back out
to see where they had gone to.
00:24:45
And there wasn't
anything out there.
00:24:48
There was no time for them
to drive away in a car
00:24:50
or walk away.
00:24:53
It was very strange.
00:24:56
DENNIS FARINA: Ray said
he went to the address
00:24:58
listed on the summons.
00:25:00
RAY MUNIZ: I took my box of
my papers and everything,
00:25:02
all my tax stuff.
00:25:04
And I laid it down
the guy's desk.
00:25:06
I said, well, here it is.
00:25:08
He looked at me and
said, OK, thank you.
00:25:09
You can leave now.
00:25:11
And I said, excuse me?
00:25:13
He said, thank you.
00:25:14
You can leave now.
00:25:16
And I said, aren't you
gonna look at my stuff?
00:25:18
He said, no.
Thank you.
00:25:20
You can leave now.
00:25:24
DENNIS FARINA: Ray says
he returned home to find
00:25:26
his video collection ransacked.
00:25:28
He now believes this was
the reason for his visit
00:25:31
from the men in black.
00:25:33
RAY MUNIZ: They wanted me at a
certain place at a certain time
00:25:37
so they could go to my house
and look for that tape.
00:25:40
They didn't find the tape.
00:25:41
I still have the tape.
00:25:43
So it's either something
that was government,
00:25:47
that they didn't want people to
know about, some new aircraft,
00:25:51
or it was a UFO that they don't
want people to know about.
00:25:55
The men in black
maybe intelligence
00:25:58
operatives working from deep
level black book projects.
00:26:02
Their entire agenda is
to silence UFO witnesses
00:26:05
and experiencers to
relating to the public
00:26:08
what they may have encountered.
00:26:11
I was concerned for my safety.
00:26:13
I felt a little bit harassed,
if you can put it that way.
00:26:18
And I did not know
what to expect.
00:26:20
So I was on guard.
00:26:24
DENNIS FARINA: San
Juan Capistrano,
00:26:26
California-- Collette Peters,
an accomplished figure skater.
00:26:31
She has won several
national medals.
00:26:34
She claims to have had two UFO
experiences and one encounter
00:26:39
with a man in black.
00:26:41
When I was approximately 19
or 20, I was in New York City,
00:26:45
walking down one of
the main avenues.
00:26:47
And I started to encounter a
very, very bizarre feeling.
00:26:51
It was pure evil.
00:26:53
When I looked up, what
I saw was a very tall,
00:26:57
lanky man walking towards me.
00:27:00
But he seemed out of
place and quite odd.
00:27:03
His skin, to me,
did not look normal.
00:27:06
It seemed to fit
the criteria of what
00:27:09
people call the men in black.
00:27:12
I think people have had
genuine experiences which
00:27:15
are anomalous and unusual.
00:27:17
In my opinion, they are
disinformation agents
00:27:21
using a combination of physical
alteration of their appearance
00:27:24
with electronics.
00:27:26
And it is intended to
simply set people off
00:27:30
from looking in the
direction of what's
00:27:32
really going on with the UFO
or extraterrestrial issue.
00:27:38
DENNIS FARINA: There is, of
course, another possibility.
00:27:41
Skeptics claim that
the men in black
00:27:43
are merely the product of a
few overactive imaginations.
00:27:47
Just show up.
00:27:49
I'm a I'm a gotta touch it,
feel it, see it type of person.
00:27:53
I was there.
00:27:54
I saw.
00:27:55
I felt. You know?
00:27:58
I mean, why would I put my
life in danger for a lie?
00:28:04
I don't feel that
it could have been
00:28:05
a figment in my imagination
because of the physicality
00:28:09
of it, because I'm talking
about the hair actually
00:28:12
raising up on your skin.
00:28:14
It was something
I'll never forget.
00:28:21
DENNIS FARINA: Coming up--
00:28:22
Let me see your hands up.
00:28:23
DENNIS FARINA: Two con artists
use a chain of music schools
00:28:26
as a front for fraud.
00:28:39
North Hollywood,
California-- a working class
00:28:45
Hispanic neighborhood.
00:28:48
MAN: One, two, three.
00:28:50
[playing accordion]
00:28:52
DENNIS FARINA: A new music
school has just opened,
00:28:55
and hundreds of parents
eagerly sign up their children
00:28:57
for low cost lessons.
00:28:59
Very good.
00:29:00
Now, let's go--
00:29:01
DENNIS FARINA: The
school is owned
00:29:02
by Mario Yunis and Omar Arroyo.
00:29:06
They hired instructors to
teach students the lost
00:29:09
art of playing the accordion.
00:29:12
I knew they had a
hold of something big.
00:29:15
And I knew that it was
going to be a lot of money.
00:29:17
I just knew it.
00:29:19
And I wanted it to work.
00:29:22
Give John a round of applause.
00:29:24
Yunis was a studio musician
fluent in several languages.
00:29:29
Arroyo was an aspiring salsa
singer and used car salesman.
00:29:34
That was excellent.
00:29:35
I'm very, very proud of you.
00:29:37
And I think it's time for you
to move up to the next level.
00:29:39
What?
That sounds great, Seline.
00:29:41
Wonderful.
00:29:42
That's good.
00:29:43
MARTHA GALLARDO: They
said that my daughter
00:29:44
had won a scholarship to learn
piano or accordion in Oregon.
00:29:49
I thought, oh, great, you know?
00:29:50
This is the perfect
opportunity for my daughter
00:29:52
to get some lessons.
00:29:55
What I need for you to do
is to choose one of those.
00:29:57
I'm gonna recommend
that [inaudible] take--
00:29:58
DENNIS FARINA: Mario Yunis
acted as the front man.
00:30:01
Charming and persuasive,
he smooth-talked parents
00:30:04
while his partner worked
behind the scenes.
00:30:06
Well, the Mercedes
package is $2,500,
00:30:09
and the Toyota
package is $1,800.
00:30:11
Oh, I see.
00:30:12
I think I'll take
the Toyota package.
00:30:15
MARTHA GALLARDO: The package
was that it was the accordion
00:30:17
that you were buying.
but they were gonna
00:30:19
teach three
different instruments
00:30:21
by the end of the three years.
00:30:22
We will be taking $32
increments every month
00:30:25
if that's OK.
00:30:26
And part of it would be also
taking them on field trips,
00:30:28
like Disneyland.
00:30:31
DENNIS FARINA: The ink was
barely dry on the contract
00:30:33
when everything fell apart.
00:30:35
Early one morning, Martha
Gallardo dropped off
00:30:38
Audrey for her weekly lesson.
00:30:41
Mom, they're closed.
00:30:42
JOHN CALWELL: What do you mean?
00:30:43
You sure?
00:30:44
GIRL: Yeah.
00:30:45
MARTHA GALLARDO: She
said, nobody's there.
00:30:47
They're gone.
00:30:48
And at first, I thought, oh,
don't be silly, you know?
00:30:51
But then, it just like hit me.
00:30:53
And I said, oh, my god.
00:30:54
Fraud.
00:30:58
DENNIS FARINA: Martha wasn't
the only one targeted for fraud.
00:31:02
Arroyo and Yunis even
do their own employees.
00:31:05
They lied about the
credit card scheme,
00:31:07
and paid them with
checks that bounced.
00:31:10
STEVEN GREER: Got tired
of getting bad checks.
00:31:12
I don't how many bad
checks I got from how many
00:31:14
different banks.
00:31:15
And they said, well, we
got another class for you.
00:31:17
I said, I gotta be paid.
00:31:20
And they said, well, after you
do this class, we'll pay you.
00:31:23
[playing accordion]
00:31:26
DENNIS FARINA: Martha
was shocked when
00:31:27
she got her credit card bill.
00:31:29
Instead of the agreed upon
monthly payment of $32,
00:31:33
she found a single charge
for the entire cost
00:31:36
of the accordion--
more than $1,800.
00:31:41
It was a cheap import
worth about 300 bucks.
00:31:47
Many other unsuspecting
families were hit much harder.
00:31:51
MARTHA GALLARDO: The
parents were mad.
00:31:53
They were angry.
00:31:54
They were hurt, because they
felt like, OK, wait a minute.
00:31:58
We have no money.
00:31:59
And what are we gonna do?
00:32:00
These people, their
credit cards were
00:32:02
up to like $10,000, $20,000.
00:32:05
One particular guy was $39,000.
00:32:08
[playing accordion]
00:32:11
DENNIS FARINA: Authorities
say that in just over a year,
00:32:14
Arroyo and Yunis took in
more than $1.5 million.
00:32:18
But these con men had more
tricks up their sleeves,
00:32:21
and many more
victims would suffer.
00:32:24
Do you have a copy of
the contract with you?
00:32:26
Yes, we do.
00:32:27
OK.
00:32:29
I've seen some
real unique case,
00:32:31
but I've never handled
a case as this,
00:32:35
where it has so many victims.
00:32:39
We have over, I could
say, 200 victims.
00:32:43
And it involves a
large amount of monies.
00:32:46
Have you seen any two
males that might have looked
00:32:49
like the owners of the place?
00:32:51
DENNIS FARINA:
Detective Baello Hale
00:32:52
discovered that Arroyo and
Yunis, using fake names,
00:32:55
ran several other music schools.
00:33:00
And cash is OK, yes?
00:33:01
MAN: Yeah, cash is fine.
00:33:02
DENNIS FARINA: The
two con artists went
00:33:03
on separate spending sprees.
00:33:05
And do you know who-- any kids
who want to take any lessons?
00:33:07
DENNIS FARINA: Arroyo
reportedly spent
00:33:09
some of the stolen
money to record a salsa
00:33:11
CD under the name Luis Omar.
00:33:15
Yunis had also created
a new identity.
00:33:19
Well, I am his twin sister.
00:33:20
She's from Israel.
00:33:21
No kidding.
00:33:23
DENNIS FARINA: He was now a
she, using the name Delia Leon.
00:33:28
DETECTIVE JUAN
BAELLO: Mario Yunis
00:33:30
I had undergone a sex change
operation up in San Francisco,
00:33:35
and paid for this operation
with one of the kid's
00:33:39
parent's credit cards.
00:33:41
The charges amounted
to over $33,000.
00:33:46
DENNIS FARINA: Omar Arroyo
and Delia Leon became lovers.
00:33:49
I brought you some soda.
00:33:52
DENNIS FARINA: The
two lived as a couple
00:33:54
in a luxurious home with
Arroyo's two daughters
00:33:57
from a former marriage.
00:33:59
[interposing voices]
00:34:02
You haven't filled
out an application.
00:34:03
OK.
00:34:04
DENNIS FARINA: But the good
life soon came to an end
00:34:05
when a new office
assistant, overwhelmed
00:34:08
by complaints from
angry parents,
00:34:10
decided to go to the police.
00:34:12
Right here.
00:34:14
DETECTIVE JUAN BAELLO:
So where are you working?
00:34:16
I'm working at
Kids Music Kingdom.
00:34:18
And that's in Mission Hills.
00:34:20
DENNIS FARINA: It was the
great Detective Baello needed.
00:34:24
DETECTIVE JUAN
BAELLO: We conducted
00:34:25
a surveillance in order to
try to identify our suspects.
00:34:31
We were able to come up
with their true names.
00:34:36
DENNIS FARINA: Baello
then followed the suspects
00:34:38
to their upscale neighborhood.
00:34:44
A few days later, armed
with a search warrant,
00:34:46
police raided the home.
00:34:49
POLICE OFFICER:
LAPD, police warrant.
00:34:52
Let me see your hands up.
00:34:53
DENNIS FARINA:
Delia Leon attempted
00:34:55
to escape through the backyard,
but was quickly apprehended.
00:34:58
What are you doing?
00:34:59
I didn't do anything.
00:35:00
Ow.
00:35:01
What are you doing?
00:35:02
DENNIS FARINA: She
denied any involvement
00:35:04
in the credit card scam.
- I was just a consultant.
00:35:06
Watch your head please, ma'am.
00:35:10
DENNIS FARINA: Delia's
partner in crime, Omar Arroyo,
00:35:13
had left town just two
hours before the raid.
00:35:16
DETECTIVE JUAN BAELLO: I was
surprised in not finding Omar.
00:35:19
And I later learned that
he had left to Puerto
00:35:23
Rico the night before.
00:35:25
Omar was in the process of
doing promotions on his CD.
00:35:33
DENNIS FARINA: Update--
Omar Arroyo has
00:35:37
been captured in Costa Rica.
00:35:39
He was brought
back to California
00:35:41
and was sentenced to six
years in prison for fraud.
00:35:45
Delia Leon, who had changed
her name to Marilyn Yunis,
00:35:48
was sent to a woman's
prison for 12 years.
00:35:56
Next, the story of Charles
Mule a model policeman--
00:36:01
or so his partners thought.
00:36:12
A motel in Slidell,
Louisiana-- Charles Mule
00:36:25
escorts a 12-year-old
girl to his room.
00:36:35
Minutes later, he is
arrested and charged
00:36:38
with the sexual
molestation of a minor.
00:36:49
The police knew
the suspect well.
00:36:51
Charles Mule was
a fellow officer.
00:36:54
In fact, he was the
head investigator
00:36:56
of sexual offenses at the
Slidell Police Department.
00:37:00
The young victim-- a
child he was counseling.
00:37:05
Hey, man.
00:37:06
MAN: Yeah, what
can I do for you?
00:37:07
Well, I'm looking
for some smoking dope.
00:37:10
DENNIS FARINA: Sergeant
Mule was a highly
00:37:11
regarded undercover officer.
00:37:13
- All the way to California.
- All right.
00:37:15
DENNIS FARINA: He was
a master at disguises,
00:37:16
and once arrested the same
felon three different times
00:37:20
without being recognized.
00:37:22
That looks like
40 bucks to me.
00:37:24
Mmhm.
There you go.
00:37:25
Pleasure doing
business with you.
00:37:26
Take it easy, all right.
- Sheriff's office.
00:37:28
You're under arrest.
- What are you talking about?
00:37:29
Up against the truck.
00:37:32
DENNIS FARINA: Mule was
assigned to the case
00:37:33
of a 12-year-old girl who had
been upset by the advances
00:37:37
of an older boy.
00:37:38
The use of narcotics.
00:37:39
You have the right
to remain silent.
00:37:40
My daughter and a friend
of hers in the neighborhood
00:37:43
had come to me
complaining about a boy
00:37:45
who had been harassing them
very badly in the neighborhood.
00:37:49
So all you're
really gonna be doing
00:37:50
is talking to Sergeant Mule.
00:37:51
Now, he's probably gonna
ask you a few questions.
00:37:54
VICTIM'S MOTHER: Finally, I did
appear at the police station.
00:37:57
And that was the first encounter
we had with Sergeant Mule.
00:38:00
We're the Josephs.
00:38:01
Oh, Sergeant Mule.
00:38:02
Hi.
00:38:03
How you doing?
You must be Claire.
00:38:05
Hi.
00:38:06
Well, come on in.
00:38:08
VICTIM'S MOTHER: I had no
reason not to trust him.
00:38:10
I never regarded him as
anything but a policeman.
00:38:13
Sergeant Mule, a policeman.
00:38:15
Now, if you folks don't
mind, you can sit out here.
00:38:22
DETECTIVE LIEUTENANT
CATHY PORTER:
00:38:23
And I worked most of
the sex crime cases
00:38:26
that were reported to the
Slidell Police Department
00:38:28
at that time.
00:38:30
When I worked with
him, I thought Charlie
00:38:32
was a pretty good policeman.
00:38:35
Well, folks, I think
I've got this figured out.
00:38:38
And we may have a problem.
00:38:40
VICTIM'S MOTHER: Well,
what do you mean by--
00:38:41
Now, I don't want you
to be too concerned.
00:38:42
I'm gonna have to
interview your daughter.
00:38:43
I'm gonna have to
interview the boy again.
00:38:48
DENNIS FARINA: Mule
took the young girl
00:38:50
to a motel room he had
reserved for undercover work.
00:38:57
VICTIM'S FATHER: Our daughter,
she started changing.
00:39:01
I knew that something was
bothering my daughter,
00:39:05
because she would say,
Daddy, don't look at me.
00:39:10
DENNIS FARINA:
After four months,
00:39:12
the girl finally told her
parents what had been going on.
00:39:15
VICTIM'S MOTHER: And all
I could keep saying was,
00:39:17
over and over in my mind, was I
can't believe that he did this.
00:39:22
I remember her telling
me how relieved
00:39:25
she was to get it all out.
00:39:30
DENNIS FARINA: Police,
in consultation
00:39:31
with the reluctant family,
asked the girl to make
00:39:34
one more rendezvous with Mule.
00:39:37
This time, the motel
room would be a trap
00:39:40
with a hidden video camera
to secure enough evidence
00:39:43
for prosecution.
00:39:51
Sheriff's office.
Freeze.
00:39:53
You're under arrest.
00:39:55
Having to investigate another
policeman, especially one
00:39:58
that I had been partners
with, was the hardest
00:40:00
thing I've ever done.
00:40:02
DENNIS FARINA: Officer
Porter began to go
00:40:03
through Mule's personal files.
00:40:06
She was hoping that the
molestation of the girl
00:40:09
was an isolated incident.
00:40:12
It wasn't.
00:40:13
If You Honor please,
considering the serious gravity
00:40:17
of these offenses--
00:40:19
DENNIS FARINA: Charles
Mule was indicted
00:40:20
over 25 counts relating
to the molestation
00:40:23
and rape of six young girls.
00:40:25
JUDGE: The fact
that the defendant
00:40:26
has no prior record
and his service
00:40:29
to the community in the past--
00:40:30
DENNIS FARINA: Mule was
released on $150,000 bail.
00:40:40
On the morning of his
trial, Mule disappeared.
00:40:45
Two days later, his
pickup truck was found
00:40:47
abandoned on a local bridge.
00:40:53
Soon after, the sheriff's
department received
00:40:55
an anonymous phone call.
00:40:57
A suicide note, signed
by Mule, had been
00:41:00
left in a gas station restroom.
00:41:04
There is no way you can
convince me that Charlie
00:41:07
Mule committed suicide.
00:41:10
DENNIS FARINA: In fact, the
day after the note was found,
00:41:13
two people saw Mule
coming out of a swamp.
00:41:16
He was dressed in
hospital clothes,
00:41:18
one of his favorite disguises,
and he shot at the witnesses.
00:41:22
Hey, how you doing?
00:41:25
[inaudible] shot
at you the other day.
00:41:27
And I'd like for you to just--
00:41:28
MAN: That's him right there.
00:41:30
DETECTIVE LIEUTENANT CLARK
THOMAS: It's number five?
00:41:31
We were convinced more than
ever that Charles was alive,
00:41:34
that he was in this
area, and he had
00:41:36
not moved far from this area.
00:41:40
DENNIS FARINA: Update-- when
we first aired this story,
00:41:44
the FBI received several
calls from viewers
00:41:47
who reported that Mule was
living in Ocala, Florida.
00:41:52
Mule had seen our broadcast
and left the Ocala area
00:41:55
for approximately three weeks.
00:41:57
When he returned,
he was arrested
00:41:59
by FBI agents and local police.
00:42:04
After serving his
time and probation,
00:42:07
he is now a free man.
