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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a young woman meets a handsome
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and Charming fitness trainer and she is
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swept off her feet you shut up before
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long she discovers he is dangerous and
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violent just hours after a wealthy
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businessman disappears his wife sells
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all of his belongings at a garage sale
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and then she takes control of his
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multi-million dollar his
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State a college student goes missing
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then his burnt out car turns up at a car
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wash was he murdered by a mysterious
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hitch
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haacker and is it possible that this is
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an actual remnant of the legendary holy
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gra if so it may have amazing healing
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powers these are stories you won't want
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to miss I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries
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Las Vegas
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Nevada Amber and Britney albanes
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returned to their mother's home after a
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weekend with their divorced
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father we're
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home they're surprised to find that
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their mother Joanne is nowhere to be
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found Joanne was not there which might
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have not been that uncommon but when
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they were in her bedroom they found her
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purse and they found particular items of
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jewelry that Joanne only took off when
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she
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showered their mother hasn't returned by
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the next day so the girls report are
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missing Las Vegas police detectives soon
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discover that Joanne's boyriend of 5
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months John Edwards is also
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missing when Joanne and John failed to
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show up at work contact her family
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that's we figured we'd better take a
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little closer look at it
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for over 10 years Joanne had not been
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lucky with love so she was thrilled when
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she met John Edwards he was handsome
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charismatic and very attentive but
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Joanne soon found out that John Edwards
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was not who he seemed to
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be Joanne yes remember the guy I told
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you about very Charming no wife no kids
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uhhuh well he's back there training
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somebody a friend introduced 39-year-old
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Joanne to John a fitness trainer soon
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they were dating nice to meet you Joanne
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Joanne like most women thought him to be
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very Dynamic and uh very interesting and
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attractive man in Alaska for a while the
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two seemed to be madly in
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love but then something
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changed Edwards paid for nothing and was
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living off Joanne's earnings this is
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strawberry looks like it you brought the
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wrong drink I like strawberry we shut up
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and his Charming personality turned into
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one that was jealous possessive and
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violent will you shut up he makes sure
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that he's pretty much the only person
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she's with uh obviously she was with her
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children as well but he takes up most of
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her time he from what we understand even
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made sure that he was there when she
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would go to the
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bathroom on the day she disappeared
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Joanne left work at 4:30 in the
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afternoon she told family and friends
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that she planned to break up with John
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at dinner that
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night Joanne was never heard from
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again 4 days later and 250 M away
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Joann's car was found it was parked in a
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remote desert area there was no sign of
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Joanne or of John finding the car
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abandoned where it was it pretty well
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confirmed our fears that we had a foul
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play incident
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here police discovered a truck parked
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outside Joanne's home that Witnesses
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said belong to John but when police
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checked the truck's
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registration we ran that license plate
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and it came back as absolutely no record
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which is rather unusual plate doesn't go
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to the vehicle or anyone in particular
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so there's a problem there is somebody's
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trying to cover something we started
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questioning whether or not uh John
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Edwards was who he claimed to
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be hoping to find some answers police
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search Edward's house we began looking
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through some of his belongings and found
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a wallet that was duct taped clothes
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Bingo and when I opened that wallet I
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found identification with the person we
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knew is John Edwards but it was the name
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of John Addis
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Alaska driver's license a certification
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card from the state of Alaska saying he
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is certified in crime scene
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investigations let's check it out we
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realized at that point that the person
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we were told was John
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Edwards was in fact a John
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Addis but why did John Addis go to such
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lengths to conceal his
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identity as detectives dug into his past
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they found a trail of battered women
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that began in the Alaskan
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Wilderness Addis had once been an
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officer with the Alaska State
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Troopers he had quickly risen through
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the ranks to become a crime scene
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investigator John was a very intelligent
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man as an
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investigator John really wasn't a people
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person as much as uh some others perhaps
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were but if you wanted good science at a
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crime scene John Addis was the
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guy Addis and his wife Jody were active
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in the local law enforcement Community
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mother sandwich for jump only jod knew
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the truth about John
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Addis he was very
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controlling it started out by just
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pushes or shoving and then it was
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grabbing my hair pushing me up against
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the wall with his hand against my throat
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I told you to stay away from those
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people I told you not to talk to them
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after 11 years of marriage in four
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children Jody finally had enough
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shut I decided I can't live like this
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anymore so I had to make a decision I
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decided I am not going to put up with
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this and I jumped from the
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vehicle Addis report ently chased her
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down and threw her back into the
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truck get in the damn car somehow Jodie
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escaped a short time later jod divorced
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Addis over the next few years Addis quit
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his job as a state trooper and married
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wives number
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two and number
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three I started to trace back um all of
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his prior relationships what I saw was
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an escalation in violence he was
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extremely violent with his third wife
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who after just having a baby with her he
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was choking her so badly that her feet
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were off the
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ground while Addis was married to his
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third wife he kidnapped the four
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children from his first marriage he was
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arrested and served a year in prison
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before being paroled then Addis violated
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his parole and
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disappeared 5 years later later Addis
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showed up in Las Vegas it was there that
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he met Joanne alanes by then Addis was
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calling himself John Edwards the former
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wife beater would soon become a
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killer Joanne would be his first
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victim our best guess was before they
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went to dinner they got into a heated
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argument and as a result of that
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argument we firmly believe that John
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kilder
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and once she was dead John panicked
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packed her into her own car and
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ultimately disposed of the body and a
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car outside of Prescott
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Arizona 3 years passed then only one
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mile from where her car had been
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abandoned a hunter found Joanne's
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skeletal
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remains an arrest warrant was issued for
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John
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Addis this is not a stupid individual
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this is a homicide detective who taught
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crime scene investigation he's as sharp
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as they come and that's what makes him
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tougher toine John Edis won't be easy to
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catch and won't be easy to arrest I hope
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I'm wrong I hope he watches this segment
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and decides to do The Honorable thing
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and give himself
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up
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update John Edis did not give himself
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up he managed to stay out of sight for
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11 years years until the FBI received
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the tip that he was in
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Mexico Addis a Mexican woman and their
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two kids were living in chapus Mexico
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the police closed in but by the time
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they got there Addis was gone the woman
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and two children he left behind were
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dead victims of carbon monoxide
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poisoning a few days later the body of
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an American was found in a Guatemala
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Hotel fingerprints identified him as
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John Addis a local coroner ruled that he
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had died of a heart attack Addis was
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56 the case of Joanne albanes was
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officially closed however a detective
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who has worked on the case for more than
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a decade doesn't rule out the
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possibility that John Addis somehow
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staged his own death and has eluded
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authorities once
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again next a millionaire
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vanishes was he
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murder St Croy the US Virgin
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Islands a lush tropical getaway known as
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the American
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Paradise Jim Rice is a wealthy and
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successful contractor
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he and his wife aarte have moved here to
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build their dreamhouse and live the good
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life but 2 years later their marriage is
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crumbling I just don't think it's right
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for a man has to go to California to get
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an operation without his wife I've
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already told you I can't I've already
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made plans Jim has to fly to San
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Francisco for shoulder surgery been made
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but he's going alone because aarte refus
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refuses to make the trip with
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him the police now believe he never made
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that trip at
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all and he never showed up at my house
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never called from the airport or we just
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never heard from him
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again when Jim first met a starte he was
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instantly captivated but their life
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together was not easy there were
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business failures separations
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reconciliations and finally a star's
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imprisonment for fraud yet despite it
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all Jim remained loyal to his
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wife when aarte first met Jim she had
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three grown children from a previous
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marriage she was born Estel white but as
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an adult she changed her name to aarte
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after A Primitive goddess of
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love she seemed to make my dad happy and
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I figured he saw something in her that I
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didn't see and as long as he was happy
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then that was
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okay Jim and aardi moved to Hawaii there
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they started a charter fishing business
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go 2 years later aard son Noble was
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cleaning their boat when it
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exploded Noble was seriously injured but
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recovered a sty just happened to be near
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the dock at the
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time authorities became
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suspicious well there was a large debt
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on the yacht and They Carried insurance
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on the yacht Noble indicated that he was
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just aboard cleaning the ship which is
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kind of strange because it was like 2 or
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3:00 in the morning strange time to be
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cleaning a boat using gasoline and the
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yacht caught on fire and he said it was
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just purely an accident but there was
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sufficient cause for the authorities
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back there in Hawaii to to charge both a
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stardy and Noble with the arson of the
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yacht aarte and Noble were charged but
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their trial date was
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postponed a year later aarti was sent to
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prison on another fraud charge altering
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court
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documents after her release Jim and
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aardi moved to St Croy and built a
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Dreamhouse on an isolated Bluff
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overlooking the
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Caribbean 3 years later Jim called his
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daughter and told her that he was coming
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into California for shoulder
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surgery he never
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arrived Kathy kept trying to reach him
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by telephone and was totally
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unsuccessful for about 2 weeks when she
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finally was able to reach his home in St
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Croy she talked to a stardy and at that
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time a stardy had told her that Jim had
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run off with a woman from Australia no
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he went off fishing on the Great Barrier
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Reef in
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Australia few days later when she talk
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to a stardy the story was that Jim had
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flown from St Croy to Miami so we had
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two completely different stories and
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later on a starty denied that either of
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these things had occurred so we know
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that right from the beginning she lied
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about what had happened to Jim and how
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he
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disappeared Kathy hired private
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investigator Dennis Shira to look into
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her father's
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disappearance Dennis found a custom
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declaration form dated the day Jim was
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supposed to leave for California I
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wonder if you on the form Jim's
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signature appeared to have been
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forged we noted that Jim supposedly had
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flown on an airplane from St Croy to
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Miami and in fact the people who
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actually flew on that flight were stardy
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stardy son Noble and Noble's
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girlfriend Dennis also discovered that
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austerity requested full control of
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Financial estate worth $2
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million these documents were filed a
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week before he was scheduled to leave
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for California but a sty pretended that
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he had already left he's we're meeting
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him in Miami very shortly and that's one
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of the reasons we're in kind of a rush
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probably the key document was a power of
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attorney in a star's name this original
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Power of Attorney was in the name of
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Jim's daughter Kathy Clemens a stardy
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had done a cut and paste job on the
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document
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and inserted her name in in its place
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and I hope we see you again okay Jim
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would have known that his assets were
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beginning to be changed or taken away
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from him Jim's disappearance had to
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happen in that 12-hour period from the
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time that he last spoke to Cathy to the
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following morning when the documents
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were presented to the
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notaries hi ladies hi I our
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investigation showed that just da after
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Jim's disappearance all of his personal
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effects his tools his truck were all
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sold in a garage sale that was conducted
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at the house and sold by a stardy and
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Noble Davis how you doing Noble Davis
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where's your
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home a few months later Kathy received a
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typewritten letter from Australia signed
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by Jim his signature again appeared to
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have been
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forged and there was something
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else the most important important thing
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was the fact that the letter throughout
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contained the words I am put together we
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know that from letters which we can
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attribute to aardi that that was a
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grammatical eror that she frequently
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used Kathy Clemens and Dennis Sherra are
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convinced that Jim Rice was murdered and
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that his body lies somewhere beneath the
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Blue Waters of the
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Caribbean although aardi has never been
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charged authorities still consider her
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her a prime
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suspect 5 years after Jim vanished aardi
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was arrested and convicted of fraud in
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connection with Jim's
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estate she was serving time in a minimum
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security
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prison when she simply walked out and
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disappeared
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update when this story aired an Unsolved
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Mysteries viewer called police and said
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that aardi was living in Spokane
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Washington police arrested her as she
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left for work and she was returned to
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prison to serve the remainder of her
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15-year
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sentence she has since been
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released The Disappearance of Jim Rice
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has never been
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explained next a young man picks up a
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hitch cheacker and is later found
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murdered
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Alaska America's Last
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Frontier Highway 1 is its Lifeline a
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road that cuts through Canada's Yukon
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Territory that connects Alaska to the
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continental United
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States this would be the final Road
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taken for 25-year-old Philip Frasier
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Phillip was the son of two doctors when
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he left his home in Anchorage he was
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headed towards Evergreen college in
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Washington state to take Premed classes
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Philip packed up everything he owned for
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the trip including two
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handguns 3 days after leaving home
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Philip crossed the border into Canada hi
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where you coming from Alaska Alaska
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where you headed Washington
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Philip did declare that he had two
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Firearms of his own and at that point
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our Canada Customs people seiz the
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firearms from him as it is illegal for
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Americans to enter Canada with any kind
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of a
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firearm the next day a hitch haacker was
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dropped off at a local Cafe South of the
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Border Cafe owner gay frockage and her
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daughter Tina were
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working the individual that dropped him
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off didn't come into the cafe just
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dropped him off and left there was
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something wrong with him you know in
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appearance wasn't comfortable the menu I
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remember saying to Mom you know maybe he
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escaped from mental institution cuz he
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was so
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strange I think we got a problem here
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yeah you going to stick around yeah I I
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think I better best not leave you alone
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I wouldn't leave her alone in the
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building with him as there was nobody
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else there at the time I said to Tina
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well you go ahead and take care of him
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and I'll just hang
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around as I passed the side window I
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seen a small black uh car pull up right
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to the side of the cafe and the young
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man in the car proceeded to act like he
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was searching his car like he had
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misplaced something that he needed
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during this time was when another
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vehicle pulled out to the service
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station Tina went to pump gas for
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another customer she and Philip
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said
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hello is that everything yeah when The
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Hitchhiker finally finished eating gay
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antina noticed that he paid with
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Canadian
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money I watched the uh hit Checker go
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out and approach Fraser good how about a
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ride uh I I'm going to go in here yet
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you sure yeah
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the car sat for a few minutes and then
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he pulled ahead like he had second
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thoughts the hit Checker just ran beside
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him and pulled the door open and the U
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young man in the car proceeded to let
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him
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enter the strange thing was is as they
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left the yard Tina made some remark
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about he's going to live to regret this
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day he picked this man
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up it was like a sick sense that this
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man was capable of anything
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8 hours later 200 mil south of the cafe
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Eddie and Pauline Olsen pull over to
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help a stranded
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motorist oh wow am I glad to see you
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guys hey I think my car ran out of gas I
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don't know what happened you could tell
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he was nervous but I thought that we was
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just scared of being out here this late
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at night at that point I just
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said well I'll to you home and we'll
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figure it out in the
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morning the Olsen offered to let The
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Hitchhikers sleep in their basement for
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the
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night there's some blankets right there
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okay have a good sleep and we'll see you
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in the morning all right thanks sleep
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good he slept downstairs in our basement
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and I have about 12 or 15 guns on a gun
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case down there and where he slept the
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guns were just right right beside him
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there oh good morning how'd you sleep
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the next morning the young man told the
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ens that both his parents were doctors
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in Anchorage he said that he was on his
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way to college to study medicine and uh
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I really wanted to thank you guys I got
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talking to him about his car and he told
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me that if I was interested he would
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sell it to me but I said the only way I
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would buy it is if you waited till
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Monday and we went through customs and
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he said that would be too late for him
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eh I really can't wait I really need to
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get going um is there something I can do
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for your hospitality it's okay the
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olssen thought it odd when The
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Hitchhiker pulled out two wallets and
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began to behave
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secretively he gave the olssen $ 20
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us within an hour the young man had
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fixed his broken fan belt and was on the
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road again
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12 hours later Philip's car was found at
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a car wash in Prince George British
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Columbia the car was
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burned almost totally got it out due to
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the fire nothing was found in the car of
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any significance in fact none of Philip
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Fraser's belongings have ever been found
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the parents were contacted and there was
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a great deal of Investigation done at
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that point as Philip was considered a
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missing person and potentially a
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homicide
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victim 6 weeks later Philip's body was
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found 70 M from the Olsen's
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home I felt angry bitter I wondered what
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kind of a person would destroy someone
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who was um so idealistic and so full of
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life the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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believe that the mysterious hitch
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haacker learned everything he could
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about philli so that he could assume his
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identity and then kill him in my mind he
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most definitely he's a dangerous
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person he's taken one life he has the
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capability of taking
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more and I would consider him very
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dangerous these are composite drawings
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of The Hitchhiker based on eyewitness
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descriptions he is Caucasian about 5 f'
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9 in tall and weighs approximately
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225 lb he has brown hair and brown eyes
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the authorities believe that the hitch
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haacker is familiar with Toronto and
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Seattle he may be using the name Philip
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inis
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Frasier among the items never recovered
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were Philip's birth certificate Visa
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passport and checkbook if you have any
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information about Phillip please log on
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to our website at
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unsolved.com
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coming up they call him the hard
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attacker so far he's stolen over a
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million dollars from his many many
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wives we recently profiled the case of
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Lewis
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carluchi a smooth talking con man
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carluchi is suspected of marrying women
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a lot of women and then stealing their
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money altogether he took more than $1
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million he also fathered over 30
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children the problem in this kind of a
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case is that victims are
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embarrassed nobody likes to admit they
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were taken for money they're more
00:27:21
reluctant to admit they were taken for
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love I Now Pronounce You man and wife
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but finally one victim did come forward
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the woman will call Barbara met carluchi
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in New York and they were married soon
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after but only 6 months later he
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disappeared leaving her penniless she
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decided to press
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charges when Barbara first came to us
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and gave us information about kuchi we
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started our investigation and began to
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talking to quite a few people to speak
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to these women was an eye opener for me
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kuchi doesn't just leave physical and
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fincial wreckage behind him it's kind of
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a psychological scarring that you
00:28:03
see I would like to see this man get
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caught he doesn't belong out in
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society shortly after this story aired
00:28:12
several viewers in Tennessee identified
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kuchi as a local restaurant manager they
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knew as LS Sarah the next day police
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arrested him at his home where he was
00:28:23
living with his pregnant
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wife carluchi was extradited to New York
00:28:29
where Barbara and several other victims
00:28:31
brought charges against him carluchi
00:28:34
pleaded not guilty and was released on a
00:28:37
$1,000 bail when he disappeared again
00:28:41
police issued a new
00:28:44
warrant
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update several months after jumping bail
00:28:49
carluchi was captured police found them
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living with one of his former
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girlfriends in Los Angeles kuchi was
00:28:57
sent back in New York where authorities
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charged them with grand larity coercion
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fraud and bigamy he was convicted on all
00:29:07
counts and served 4 years in
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prison our research team recently heard
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from a woman named Ladonna Alano she was
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just a child when her mother died in a
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horrific accident L Donna told us that
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she had no memories of her mother and
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didn't know much about her family she
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was hoping that we could help her find
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them Dallas
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Texas Early 1 December afternoon a train
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left the city heading west towards
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abalene kids are you ready want David
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morning at around the same time two Army
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Wives Darlene alfano and Pinky Johnson r
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up their kids for a trip into
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town got your
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dolls R by mcb's also they're having a
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sale on pot Ro okay at around 2 p.m.
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Pinky's car stopped in the middle of the
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train tracks no one knows how or why it
00:30:18
happened what's
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wrong pinky there's a train what's
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wrong you can't get this charge you want
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TR
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coming the car was literally torn to
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shreds its roof was sliced completely
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off two of the children died immediately
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a third died in the
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hospital so did Darlene
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alfano her husband Fred was by her
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side I was sitting with her talking to
00:31:06
her and I was holding her hand she took
00:31:08
a very deep breath held it for a few
00:31:11
seconds and very slowly let it out and I
00:31:14
knew she had
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expired Fred found himself almost
00:31:20
completely alone he had lost his wife
00:31:23
and two of his children his other child
00:31:26
Ladon survived but she was barely
00:31:29
hanging
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on they were all almost universally sure
00:31:34
that ladana would not survive because of
00:31:37
facial damage extended all the way down
00:31:39
to the base of her brain dadd hi Daddy
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hi Ladonna had suffered severe injuries
00:31:47
to her face and her head but amazingly
00:31:50
she began to get better what happened to
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Mommy mommy's an
00:32:00
angel when my father told me that my
00:32:02
mother and my sisters had died I thought
00:32:05
all the Angels had come down and gotten
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them I was happy that they were
00:32:10
Angels well I used to think why did I
00:32:13
live why was I the one that
00:32:15
survived I believe that when I was a
00:32:17
child that I lived for my father that my
00:32:20
father wouldn't have survived
00:32:21
it her strength gave me strength and my
00:32:25
only Direction in life then was to take
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care of ladana and make sure she
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survived and had a normal
00:32:33
childhood over the years ladana had many
00:32:36
reconstructive surgeries on her face but
00:32:39
there was one thing the operations
00:32:42
couldn't correct the loss of her mother
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I have no memories of my mother at all
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um I look at pictures of her and I try
00:32:50
to remember something and it's like
00:32:52
looking at a a magazine article of a
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woman I have Recollections of my twin
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and my father and my little sister my
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father has told me stories about us as
00:33:02
children with my mom and it doesn't
00:33:05
bring back any memories
00:33:07
whatsoever Ladonna wanted to change all
00:33:10
of that but the only clue she had was a
00:33:12
letter from her mother's father that
00:33:15
she'd received when she was just 13
00:33:17
years old it contained a photograph of
00:33:20
her mother's sister Patricia an
00:33:24
hints I think finding my aunt Pat will
00:33:26
definitely fill my emptiness just being
00:33:29
able to touch her and knowing that she
00:33:31
was a part of my mother is the only
00:33:33
thing that I have of my mother and it
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would just knowing her and meeting her
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and hugging her would be really even
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enough for me right
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now
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update on the night we profiled this
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story Ladonna finally found her aunt
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Patricia and her mother's parents as
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well hi a few weeks later Ladonna was
00:33:57
driving up to her aunt Pat's house oh
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it's been good oh you're just cranking
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don't cry I'm I'm thank you so do Youk
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it's totally changed my life you believe
00:34:09
it yeah I believe it it's just finding
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them then they're great people
00:34:13
and they're beautiful I just I'm I just
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feel totally my that hole the empty hole
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is totally
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filled she lost her mother I lost my
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sister and it's just
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like she found
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another mother and I found a new
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sister I just feel like we're just
00:34:33
connected I really do I know lon's first
00:34:37
visit with her grandparents made the
00:34:40
reunion complete I can't even express it
00:34:43
I just really cannot express how I feel
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there's just too many emotions going on
00:34:47
here and it's just a wonderful wonderful
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feeling it's just it's
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great I just feel like I'm I just feel
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really like I'm at home
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next some say that water from a chalice
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called the nanas cup has the miraculous
00:35:05
power to heal could it be the Holy Grail
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the legendary chalice that Jesus is said
00:35:12
to have used at the last
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summer it's called the Holy Grail the
00:35:28
cup which many believe Jesus Christ
00:35:30
drank from at the Last
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Supper the cup is a unique symbol which
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brings God and man
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together many people regard the holy
00:35:44
grail and Jesus Christ as one and the
00:35:47
same it is considered the most sacred
00:35:50
object of the Middle
00:35:52
Ages some say it is a beautiful golden
00:35:56
chalice
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others believe that this small broken
00:36:01
piece of olive wood is all that's left
00:36:05
of the Holy
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Grail hundreds claim that the fragment
00:36:12
of a cup called the nanus cup has
00:36:14
healing powers they say the water from
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the cup has cured them of arthritis
00:36:20
heart disease blindness leprosy and even
00:36:24
cancer does the nanus cup truly have
00:36:28
the power to
00:36:30
heal for more than 2,000 years every
00:36:34
object associated with the last supper
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and the crucifixion has taken on a
00:36:38
mystical significance none more so than
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the holy
00:36:44
grail for the historian The Grail is
00:36:47
Legend pure and simple but Legend is an
00:36:49
amazing thing it can enable people to do
00:36:52
heroic things under the worst of
00:36:53
circumstances and that's why the Grail
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story is one of the greatest stories in
00:36:57
the ENT ire history of the world and
00:36:59
always will
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be the legend says that Joseph of arthea
00:37:05
caught a few drops of Christ's blood in
00:37:07
the Grail as Christ was being prepared
00:37:09
for burial Joseph was then sent to
00:37:12
prison for allegedly stealing the body
00:37:15
of Christ Joseph wasn't given any food
00:37:18
or water but an angel kept him Alive by
00:37:21
placing a wafer in the Grail every
00:37:24
day finally Joseph escaped from from
00:37:27
prison taking the Grail with him he
00:37:30
traveled to Glastonberry in the British
00:37:32
Isles and found
00:37:34
it the Church of the Holy Grail where
00:37:37
the cup remained hidden for the next
00:37:40
1,000 years over the centuries the Grail
00:37:44
was taken from one hiding place to
00:37:46
another as Wars broke out and churches
00:37:48
were destroyed finally in the 18th
00:37:52
century it ended up at the nanas house a
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mansion that was owned by an
00:37:57
aristocratic family named the
00:38:01
pows for 400 years the pows guarded The
00:38:05
Grail handing it down from one
00:38:07
generation to the
00:38:09
next it became known as the nanus
00:38:13
cup what began to transpire was that the
00:38:16
Chalice had healing properties how they
00:38:19
discovered this is not known but at some
00:38:22
point in time the healing properties
00:38:24
became more
00:38:25
apparent for many years very little was
00:38:28
known about the nanus cup that all
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changed one night in
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1988 this particular day I was traveling
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to North Wales early in the
00:38:40
morning I so i' set a time of rising at
00:38:43
6
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a.m. but at 4:00 a.m. I was awakened by
00:38:48
a voice the first time it didn't
00:38:51
register and I heard a second time the
00:38:53
voice say you will find the holy chalice
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Before Dawn that same morning a friend
00:39:03
called he suggested that the Reverend
00:39:05
include the nanas Cup in a coming
00:39:08
exhibition of Christian artifacts he
00:39:11
told Griffiths he might learn more about
00:39:13
the cup at the runed Abbey of strata
00:39:17
Florida when I gave the curator the
00:39:20
details I was amazed to find that he was
00:39:23
convinced of my experience and he was
00:39:26
more than willing to help but he made it
00:39:28
to understand that it was breaking a
00:39:30
rule because he had promised the family
00:39:32
that he would never redirect anyone to
00:39:35
their present
00:39:37
location the current owner of the cup is
00:39:39
a member of the pow family she lives in
00:39:42
seclusion and she protects her privacy
00:39:45
as strongly as she protects the nanus
00:39:48
cup as the guardian of the Holy Grail my
00:39:51
duty to safeguard the cup at all times
00:39:54
but to allow people to drink from it to
00:39:57
have water from it and to send water to
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people if they're
00:40:02
ill when I first set Eyes On The Chalice
00:40:05
I was a little disappointed because it
00:40:07
was only fragmentary perhaps only a
00:40:10
third of the original vessel left but
00:40:13
when I handled
00:40:15
it I can't
00:40:18
describe uh in in human language the
00:40:22
effect it had upon me as if I was
00:40:24
already in
00:40:25
Paradise it's precisely that feeling of
00:40:28
Holiness that has led many to believe
00:40:31
the cup has healing powers the Cup's
00:40:34
Guardian gives Reverend Griffith's water
00:40:37
that has been poured over the cup he
00:40:39
Pats the holy water on small prayer mats
00:40:42
and then sends them the people who are
00:40:44
sick and crippled the Reverend says that
00:40:47
in some cases the results are miraculous
00:40:50
I have a regular meal with a young man
00:40:54
who was once totally blind and today he
00:40:58
has perfect sight I cite one case of a
00:41:01
young man who had a lepos condition for
00:41:03
11 years but the following day his skin
00:41:06
was perfectly clean from every trace of
00:41:10
leprosy when Marlene checkley found a
00:41:13
lump in her left breast her doctors
00:41:15
believed it was cancer she wore one of
00:41:18
the prayer cloths beneath her
00:41:20
clothes and then by the time I went for
00:41:22
the mamogram everything was clear the
00:41:26
lump was still there but there was
00:41:27
nothing
00:41:28
cancerous um the doctors did say that
00:41:31
the lump would still stay there but
00:41:33
after a week or two the lump went and
00:41:35
I've had no further problem since with
00:41:37
that the results and the testimonies
00:41:40
were so amazing that I have no doubts
00:41:43
whatsoever about the authenticity of the
00:41:47
Chalice being the Holy Grail that Jesus
00:41:50
used at the Last
00:41:51
Supper could the Nas's cup be the Holy
00:41:55
Grail the cup has not been carbon dated
00:41:58
or scientifically tested in any way its
00:42:02
Guardian fears that any testing might
00:42:05
damage it but to those who claim they
00:42:07
have been touched by its power this
00:42:09
simple wooden cup is indeed holy
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