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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 15 - Full Episode

May 22, 2019 / 43:33

This episode covers the unsolved murder of Russell Evans, the disappearance of Bradley Bishop, and the legend of the Lost Adams diggings.

In Spokane, Washington, 13-year-old Russell Evans was found fatally injured on a road after intervening in a fight. Despite being taken to Sacred Heart Hospital, he died shortly after arrival. His parents believe he was murdered, as evidence suggests he may have been involved in a physical altercation before his death.

The investigation into Russell's death raises questions about the police's hit-and-run theory. His parents discovered inconsistencies in the evidence, including blood patterns and the location of his shoes, leading them to suspect foul play.

The episode also discusses the case of Bradley Bishop, a State Department official who vanished after his family was found murdered in North Carolina. Evidence points to Bishop as the primary suspect, but he has not been seen since.

Lastly, the episode features the legend of the Lost Adams diggings, a rumored treasure site in Arizona. Prospectors have searched for this hidden fortune, which is said to contain a vast amount of gold, but its exact location remains a mystery.

TL;DR

The episode discusses Russell Evans' murder, Bradley Bishop's disappearance, and the legend of the Lost Adams diggings.

Episode

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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast in Spokane Washington a
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popular teenager Russell Evans
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intervened in a fight a few hours later
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he was found fatally injured on a lonely
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road with a hit and run on murdered
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brothers century fortune hunters of
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searched in vain for the legendary Lost
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Addams diggings a secret line in Arizona
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that were according to legend a vast
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mother lode of gold awaits some lucky
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prospector in 1976 State Department
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official Bradley Bishop disappeared from
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his home outside Washington DC
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tragically the next day the bodies of
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his wife his mother and his three young
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sons were found in a North Carolina
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coastal park Brad Bishop is wanted for
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murder
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for every mystery there is someone
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somewhere who knows the truth perhaps as
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someone is watching perhaps as you join
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me
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Spokane Washington June 4th 1989 105
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a.m. two friends on their way home were
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startled when their headlights flashed
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on a body stretched out on the road
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13-year old Russell Evans had apparently
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been struck by a car he was barely alive
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I kept trying to calm him down because
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he kept trying to move and he squeezed
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my hand a couple times not very hard but
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just because I he hurt and then he quit
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talking to me Russell was admitted to
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Sacred Heart Hospital at 1:30 a.m. but
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his parents stood by doctors struggled
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through the night to stabilize his
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condition when I got there I just wanted
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to see him and so I went right to the
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trauma room and he was unconscious
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probably be best for you and him both if
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you went out to the waiting room for now
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I promise we'll keep you posted ok
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an x-ray okay let's get the CT tech I
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just knew he wasn't a make it at 9:10
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a.m. Russell Evans died you know I I'm
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really grateful that I had those eight
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hours because even though he didn't talk
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to me I knew he was knew I was there and
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that was really important to me what
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makes you Evans family's grief even more
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painful is it to this day they have no
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idea who was responsible for their son's
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death or why he was killed
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the Spokane Police have always
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maintained that Russell died as a result
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of a random hit and run accident but a
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number of unanswered questions point to
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a more sinister scenario Russell's
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parents are convinced that their son was
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murdered
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Russell Evans was an active and popular
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8th grader at Libby middle schooler
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Spokane by the age of 13 he was already
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6 feet 3 inches tall
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Russell excelled at basketball and
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played pickup games every day after
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school with his friends he dreamed of
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one day becoming a pro I did everything
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together he's at my house every day and
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he's very well-liked and in kids sense
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of humor and he caught along with pretty
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much everybody had no problems rusty had
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already made plans to go to UCLA and he
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wanted to be an electronical engineer
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play pro ball and I mean he had it all
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he had her all mapped out they hit all
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all put together which amazed me
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June 3rd 1989 in the hours before
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Russell died he was with Aaron and other
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friends hanging out at a local park it
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was a typical summer evening until they
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were approached by two other teenagers
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an argument ensued over Aaron's
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girlfriend what's your name
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hey hey you guys but it's takeoff you
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put this real trouble you don't even
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know what trouble is oh really
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they say you better watch out because me
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it's my homeboys eye but I didn't really
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think much of it you know so I just
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turned around and we left and he got in
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his car with his friend and took off
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after leaving the park Russell spent the
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remainder of the evening at a friend's
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house then he called his father to say
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that he was heading for home around
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midnight he ran into another friend
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Sayed Madison we're at the park and two
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guys came up to air and start a half
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little really yeah they were no no he
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told me that uh one of his friends once
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I gotten in a fight that night and he
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was all psyched up about it and telling
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me how if they would have happened he
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would have been wanting to jump in and
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he was in the fight you know I saved my
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advise and he had up down the street
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jogging and that's the last time I saw
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him
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it was now approximately 12:30 a.m.
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based on evidence found at the scene the
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police constructed their version of what
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happened
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on the impact with the vehicle he was
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separated from his shoes the shoelaces
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another debris he finally came to rest
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about 75 feet from where we think he was
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struck from the Brutus's president
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Russell and the other injuries I think
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the most prominent possibility here is
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that we're dealing with a motor vehicle
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accident - Russell was struck in the
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back by a bumper and an ornament dr.
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Lindholm report determined that
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Russell's injuries were consistent with
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a hit and run accident we looked at him
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after he died and I thought he'd been in
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a fight later on when the police started
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talking about hit-and-run his mom mama I
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just couldn't buy that I mean the
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injuries weren't there
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Russell was found next to the median
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strip on Thor Avenue two blocks from his
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home his shoes and shoelaces were
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downhill 86 feet away three separate
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pools of blood were found as far as 50
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feet from where Russell Lay
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John and Sue Evans obtained copies of
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the official police report
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it contained photos of the pools of
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blood the shoes and shoelaces oddly the
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shoelaces had somehow become separated
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from the shoes the police report failed
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to pinpoint the spot where Russell was
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found
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the ovens returned to the scene of the
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accident with sandy Faris the woman who
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had found Russell a question of mine if
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the crime scene is when I saw those
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pools of blood over a 35 foot area in my
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mind if somebody was flying through the
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air after being hit by a vehicle I don't
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see how you could leave that much blood
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and one of the crime-scene photos where
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it shows a shoelace scraped off or
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broken away from the shoe there is blood
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on the shoelace now tell me how do you
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get blood on the shoelace if you're
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struck and driven out of your shoes and
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thrown 50 feet down the hill he was
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about right up there the Evans became
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convinced that Russell had been struck
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by something other than a motor vehicle
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they brought in a second pathologist who
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agreed with the initial ruling but
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concluded that Russell had been in a
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fight before he was killed
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this pathologist came back with the
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findings that Russell had been in a
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physical altercation prior to his death
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if a body flies through the air when
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that body hits the pavement there would
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be some massive scraping Russell did not
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have this or this isn't making a lot of
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sense I'll tell ya if you're hit by a
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bumper then the bruise is gonna be
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fairly symmetrical and even the bruising
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along his back is not even its
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demarcated showing irregular an
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irregular pattern rather than coming
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from from one object we believe it came
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from repeated blows probably from a
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baseball bat or a 2x4
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russell's parents came up with their own
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version of what happened that night
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I think it was the fight going back up
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the hill Oh according to his hands he
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got his licks in
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he had finger marks on his face finger
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bruises I should say on his face and the
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side of the nose finger bruising on his
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upper for upper arms as though he were
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being held the the people that were
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allegedly involved in the nd argument
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with this friend of Russell's were
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polygraphed because other people were
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making allegations about them and they
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volunteered to take the polygraph
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because of these rumors that were
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started by by other kids and they came
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in took the polygraph we interviewed
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them they passed the polygraph with
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flying colors
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John and Sue Evans are convinced that
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finding an eyewitness will determine
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what really happened that night at the
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crime scene sandy Farris believes that
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Russell himself provided an important
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clue we're seeing an aspect was what
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happened and he started calling to cryin
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he said it more like a person was in
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listening distance that his friends
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should have been there Mike he thought
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his friend was close by after the police
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have gotten there and they started to
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put Russell in the ambulance we saw a
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boy in white shorts up in the bushes and
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he was running up the hill and I tried
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to tell the policeman this a couple of
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times and he kept telling me to get on
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the sidewalk I thought maybe that
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probably could have been the boy that he
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was calling for Brian one of Russell's
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friends was named Brian and I asked
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Brian what he was wearing that night and
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he said well I was wearing white white
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shorts and white t-shirt but I was
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nowhere around then later down the line
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when the police questioned him he denied
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owning that kind of outfit we've asked
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for him and talked with everyone that we
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could possibly think of and our
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assumption is it was just somebody that
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was curious that heard the commotion
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that heard the sirens I went out to take
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a look
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when Sue Evans arrived at the hospital
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her name Brian surfaced again Brian
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concerning his condition who would have
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known about this unless somebody named
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Brian was at that scene
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that he was calling for there may be one
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or two is that no more than they're
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telling and the reason they're probably
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not telling is that they are afraid for
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their lives it's very hard for me to
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believe that anyone would want to kill
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my son
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I believe in my mind that it was a fight
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that got out of hand
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however my child is dead and I think
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that some justice should happen
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[Music]
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next the poignant reunion my family
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would not seen each other for 17 years
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[Music]
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in the past year unsolved mysteries hope
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to reunite nine people with missing
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relatives or lost loved ones tonight we
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are pleased to add Leanne Robinson's
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name to this growing list of happy
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endings in 1972 at the age of 13 Leanne
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lived in Carson California with a
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three-year-old half-sister Tammy and
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five-year-old half-brother Jim that year
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their mother Doris lost her battle with
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cancer and at her request the three
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children moved in with her neighbor
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Ellen Morrow
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with six children in a two-bedroom house
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life at Ellen's home was hectic but the
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children were happy nevertheless a
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social worker assigned to the case
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decided that Ellen could not provide an
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adequate home for Leanne Jim Tammy the
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social worker felt that Leanne would be
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better off living with her father in
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Texas in the Jim and Tammy should be put
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up for adoption
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I remember feeling immediately that I
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was gonna you know run away or I was
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gonna take Tammy and Jimmy there was
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just no way I was gonna have us be
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separated I remembered wanted to fight
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but I thought if I just be good and do
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what everybody tells me to do then I'll
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be able to you know reunite with them a
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few months later Jim and Tammy were
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adopted by a young couple chosen by the
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Department of Social Services
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Leanne never saw or heard from her
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brother or sister again and has spent
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the last 17 years trying to find them I
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[Music]
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can't see any reason in this world why
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we should be separate and why we
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shouldn't be together
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they are my brother and sister and I'm
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gonna keep searching until I find them
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[Music]
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just minutes after her story aired
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LeAnn Robinson's search came to an end
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when she received a call at our
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telecentre from her 22 year old sister
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Tammy Tammy lives in Maine and has two
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children of her own immediately put
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Liana in contact with her brother Jim an
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Army sergeant stationed near Monterey
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California on December 10th just four
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days after our show aired Jim and Tammy
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arrived at Lee Ann's home in Los Angeles
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California and met their older sister
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for the first time in more than 17 years
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I just had a really good feeling that
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they somebody was gonna call live either
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they were some didn't knew them and
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today when I first saw him I felt so
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close to him it felt like the 17 years
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just came together and then it was just
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a few days ago that we laughs aww each
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other
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[Music]
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but 10 the biggest surprise came when
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she phoned our telecenter and discovered
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that Leanne was there waiting for the
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call a late occasion bonuses hello and I
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said hello I said who's this and she
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goes this is Leanne and I was too
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excited to cry I was just too excited to
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do anything I said oh my god Lee and I
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said this is Tammy and I don't even
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remember what we said the first thing I
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think I remember her saying was it she
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loved me
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this is the happiest time of my life I
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just feel like we're so young you know
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they're 22 and 23 I'm 32 we have a whole
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life ahead of us and we're all healthy
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and we're very fortunate that we could
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find each other
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next the disturbing story of a
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government official suspected of
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murdering his entire family
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[Music]
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March 2nd 1976 Columbia North Carolina a
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state park ranger responded to an urgent
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report of a brush fire in a remote
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wooded area
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as a ranger brought the fire under
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control
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we found the disturbing calling cards of
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an arsonist an empty gas can and a
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shovel when a smoke clear the Ranger was
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shot to discover evidence of murder as
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well on a shallow grave
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he found the remains of five partially
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charred bodies three young boys and two
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women a thorough investigation of the
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shocking crime turned a few clues to
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articles of the victims clothing bore
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the labels of expensive department
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stores in Bethesda Maryland a suburb of
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Washington DC the shovel came from a
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hardware store in the same area the
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Bethesda police had no missing-persons
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report they could link to the bodies
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until six days later get at 12:00 face
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guard March 1976 I received a radio call
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to investigate the absence of five
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persons from a residence in Bethesda a
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unit 12 dirac were proceeding the call
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had come from a neighbor of william
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bradford bishop a respected economist
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with a state department there was a
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common driveway to the neighbor's home
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and to the bishop home and i met the
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neighbor there to investigate if we're
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about to the family
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I'm Jo sergeant thanks for coming you
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called in a missing person report yeah
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at the bishop so I haven't seen them for
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at least a week and I'm getting very
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worried anything unusual that y-you
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wouldn't see them for certain length of
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time well it's not unusual for them to
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go out of town but what's what's unusual
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is usually when they go out of town they
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let me know that they're going out of
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town because I pick up their newspapers
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for them and I water their plants and
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this time nothing I haven't heard
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anything you said you had the keys yes I
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sure do may I have them please yes okay
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I don't see any reason why I can't go in
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and look around and make sure everything
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is okay yeah I'd appreciate why don't
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you just wait right here okay thank you
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he was rather routine to do an
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investigation like this it's not unusual
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and I wasn't
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oh really concerned about it until I
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reached the front step of the home and I
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noticed there were blood droplets on the
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front step
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the front door I saw blood droplets
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leaning from the doorway through the
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foyer and to a set of stairs that led to
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the upper bedroom level of the home and
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going to the stairs
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I observed blood splattering on the wall
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and in the one bedroom that I could see
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into without going any farther into the
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scene the almost the entire ceiling and
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wall was completely splattered with
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blood hardly a place you could put your
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hand there wasn't blood splatters
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[Music]
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died in a police officer for
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approximately 12 years and this was the
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worse scene that I've ever observed
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authorities were finally able to
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identify the five bodies filed the week
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before in North Carolina
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the victims were Brad bishops wife
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Annette his three sons and his mother
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there was no sign of Brad bishop the
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bishops would seem to be such a perfect
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family had been ripped apart by
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unfathomable violence Brad Bishop grew
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up in Pasadena California in 1959 he
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graduated from Yale University within a
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few months Brad married anete Weiss his
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high school sweetheart
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by the mid 1970s Brad and Annette had
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three sons Brad was a state department
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director of commercial practices and
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trade to most of his coworkers Brad
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Bishop seemed to be on the fast track to
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a high-level State Department job but at
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least one co-worker saw a different side
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of Brad bishop
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Brad bishop had extensive experience
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overseas he liked the international
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scene from the time he was in the army
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and Italy Brad's career was very much on
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track although he was exceedingly
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despondent about not getting a promotion
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Brad Bishop and Roy Harrell
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ran into one another just outside the
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State Department on the day the annual
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promotion list had come out I've been
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kind of busy Roy what's the matter
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I didn't make the promotion this
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together did I yeah well I'm more
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qualified than you are Brad I think
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that's a subjective you readily
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apologize he said I'm think I'm getting
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the flu I don't feel well at all and
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threes now I'm leaving work now look at
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when you come back we'll have lunch
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sometime next week and talk about okay
00:23:49
okay let's go so I helped him kill a
00:23:53
taxi
00:23:53
and I watched him drive out the next day
00:23:59
Brad bishops family would be found dead
00:24:01
in North Carolina
00:24:03
Bishop himself would drop from sight
00:24:10
March 18th almost three weeks after the
00:24:13
murders a Ranger at the Great Smoky
00:24:16
Mountains National Park in Tennessee
00:24:17
discovered an abandoned station wagon in
00:24:21
the back he found what appeared to be
00:24:22
dried blood the car was registered to
00:24:26
William Bradford Bishop Bishop now
00:24:29
became the primary suspect in the
00:24:31
slaying of his own family the courts
00:24:35
will have to determine whether Brad
00:24:36
Bishop is guilty of killing his family
00:24:38
but there was enough evidence in March
00:24:41
of 1976 for a warrant to be issued for
00:24:45
his arrest for homicide based on the
00:24:48
fact that there appeared to be
00:24:50
premeditation in connection with the
00:24:53
events that occurred on March 1st
00:24:56
the FBI believes they have pieced
00:24:58
together bishops activities leading up
00:25:00
to the murders on the day he left the
00:25:02
State Department Bishop withdrew several
00:25:05
hundred dollars from his bank account
00:25:06
and apparently went to a local hardware
00:25:08
store
00:25:14
[Music]
00:25:28
you
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[Music]
00:25:52
Bradford Bishop went to the gas station
00:25:56
in Bethesda where he purchased the can
00:25:59
full of gas and as far as we know after
00:26:04
that he returned to his home probably
00:26:07
around 7:30 8 o'clock at night after the
00:26:10
children were put to bed
00:26:12
[Music]
00:26:22
[Music]
00:26:24
our investigation shows that mrs. Bishop
00:26:26
was probably killed first
00:26:28
she was found beside a book which she
00:26:31
may have been reading at the time that
00:26:32
she was killed the children were
00:26:36
probably killed next followed by bishops
00:26:39
mother they were all killed with a blunt
00:26:44
instrument and none of the victims had
00:26:47
an opportunity to defend themselves
00:26:53
according to the FBI bishop loaded the
00:26:56
five bodies into the family station
00:26:58
wagon and wept the Thesz de maro
00:27:04
he headed 200 miles south to the
00:27:07
sparsely populated countryside near
00:27:09
Columbia North Carolina
00:27:11
[Applause]
00:27:20
[Music]
00:27:23
as my believe you know murder being a
00:27:25
crime of passion many many people are
00:27:28
capable of the same thing it's just
00:27:30
sometimes certain people just flip out
00:27:35
faster and do these things Brad Bishop
00:27:38
felt from the time I knew him that there
00:27:41
was something liking in himself this
00:27:44
feeling was nourished constantly by both
00:27:46
his mother and to some degree his wife
00:27:49
who constantly told him he was
00:27:52
inadequate and washed-out wasn't going
00:27:55
anywhere and I think that he conceived
00:28:00
in his mind this was a way to as he
00:28:03
often saved many times about other
00:28:06
people this would be a way of putting
00:28:07
them in their place
00:28:14
[Music]
00:28:24
the FBI believes a bishop after
00:28:27
a pair of tennis shoes near the site of
00:28:29
the fire drove 400 miles to the Great
00:28:31
Smoky Mountains and Tennessee where a
00:28:33
station wagon was found abandoned
00:28:40
Bishop had the advantage the bodies were
00:28:43
discovered on the second the car was
00:28:46
discovered on the 18th
00:28:48
so Bishop had plenty of time in order to
00:28:51
escape there was no indication of any
00:28:55
suicide there was no indication of any
00:28:57
accident and we have every reason to
00:29:00
believe that he in fact disappeared from
00:29:03
the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
00:29:05
after the car was abandoned there Brad
00:29:10
Bishop successfully covered his tracks
00:29:11
and was not seen for two years in 1978
00:29:19
five thousand miles away in a different
00:29:21
continent and nearly unbelievable chance
00:29:23
encounter took place ROI Herald the last
00:29:27
man to see Bishop before the murders
00:29:29
came face to face with him again in
00:29:31
Sorrento Italy I had gone to the Piazza
00:29:36
Tasos square in Sorrento to board a bus
00:29:41
bound for Rome I decided to go to the
00:29:45
men's room before starting that journey
00:29:48
and I was washing my hands and this
00:29:54
bearded disheveled looking man came in
00:29:57
in my mind's eye I took the beard and
00:30:00
those grubby clothes off of him and I
00:30:02
saw the Brad Bishop I had seen coming
00:30:04
out of the State Department your breath
00:30:07
Bishop aren't you
00:30:09
breath well why don't you get on the bus
00:30:12
with me and come back two wrong
00:30:30
Paula Deen woman watched him disappear
00:30:33
down the cliffs going toward the boat
00:30:36
landing where boats go to Capri
00:30:42
ded Brad bishop brutally murder his own
00:30:44
family if he did we can only speculate
00:30:48
about what could have possibly caused
00:30:50
him to commit such an unspeakable crime
00:30:52
unless Brad Bishop is found the truth
00:30:55
will remain unknown
00:30:59
William Bradford Bishop is 6 feet 1 inch
00:31:02
tall with brown hair brown eyes and a
00:31:05
medium build he is fluent in French
00:31:07
Italian and serbo-croatian and holds a
00:31:10
diplomatic passport at the time of the
00:31:12
murders he was 40 years old
00:31:14
the FBI has created this computer aged
00:31:18
photograph to reflect a bishop might
00:31:20
look today at 54 when we return a legend
00:31:29
of an Indian massacre and a fortune and
00:31:31
goal is still waiting to be found in the
00:31:33
Arizona desert
00:31:38
[Music]
00:31:43
as an old saying among fortune hunters
00:31:46
as long as a man believes as a treasure
00:31:48
to be found he'll be spurred on by the
00:31:50
belief that he'll be the one to find it
00:31:52
it seems that people have been forever
00:31:54
obsessed with the prospect of uncovering
00:31:56
legendary buried treasure this
00:31:58
never-ending quest to strike it rich has
00:32:01
fuelled a million dreams each with a
00:32:03
common goal of instant wealth
00:32:07
the Arizona Territory September 1864
00:32:17
troopers from boat Apache find two
00:32:19
prospectors wandering in the desert by
00:32:22
the time they reached the fort the men
00:32:24
are barely alive we got one of the
00:32:32
prospectors known only as Adams tells
00:32:34
the army surgeon a remarkable tale right
00:32:37
you don't understand there's there's
00:32:38
mountains ago refer to the river full of
00:32:40
Dover there's no crevice size of
00:32:42
increments about two weeks ago me lament
00:32:45
moved up the Gila River up into the
00:32:48
mount was looking for a zigzag Canyon
00:32:50
Canyon it was post beet full ago Adams
00:32:54
and his band of 20 miners were led by a
00:32:56
Mexican guy nicknamed gotcha
00:32:59
doctor where's that Canyon
00:33:07
got cheered had promised to take atoms
00:33:10
to the gold returned for two horses a
00:33:12
saddle to $50 gold pieces in a red silk
00:33:15
bandana even sent the miners could shoot
00:33:18
him if he couldn't find the gold
00:33:21
this Kano gonna work keep in mind and he
00:33:24
don't pay for eventually they reached
00:33:30
would appear to be a dead end but God
00:33:33
she led the party through a hidden
00:33:35
portal into a narrow zigzag Canyon
00:33:38
I think God sure played the major role
00:33:44
in getting them to the site and the
00:33:48
reason he was able to do this was the
00:33:50
fact that he was raised by the Apaches
00:33:53
and he knew the area and he was familiar
00:33:57
with the fact that gold was important to
00:34:00
the white man not so important to the
00:34:02
Apache inside the canyon
00:34:05
the men filed a screen fed by a 20-foot
00:34:07
high waterfall the stream was brimming
00:34:11
with what they had come for
00:34:14
[Music]
00:34:19
[Applause]
00:34:20
[Music]
00:34:22
therefore the waterfall there and there
00:34:24
was sufficient water but amazing thing
00:34:25
and according to a story again the gold
00:34:28
is visible right on the ground
00:34:29
realizing that gold is heavy that it
00:34:32
settles down you'd have to think for how
00:34:34
much gold was there there if there was
00:34:36
still gold visibly on the ground that
00:34:37
means every flash bud to brought water
00:34:39
over that waterfalls brought more gold
00:34:41
from above Adams and his men agreed to
00:34:45
pool the fortune and share it equally
00:34:46
they set up captain the prospecting
00:34:49
commenced several days later
00:34:52
unexpected visitors arrived a local
00:34:56
Apache chieftain named Lana and 20 of
00:34:59
his warriors Adams the Apache there were
00:35:08
several things that were sacred to one
00:35:10
thing Mountains all mountains the zigzag
00:35:12
Canyon probably undoubtedly was sacred
00:35:15
maybe in some way because it was part of
00:35:17
the mountain do you wanna go with dad
00:35:24
not channa the patchi's believed that
00:35:28
gold was the tears of the Sun nobody
00:35:30
touched the tears of the Sun because the
00:35:32
Sun was the Almighty thing to most
00:35:34
Indian cultures I mean its source of all
00:35:37
life hand me that rifle a gift
00:35:45
they met with chief Donna and Donna had
00:35:48
set down these rules that they do not
00:35:50
approve about the waterfall for whatever
00:35:52
reason probably because he knew there
00:35:54
was more gold up there and he knew it
00:35:55
would attract more white men to the area
00:35:58
he hoped they would fill their pokes and
00:36:00
leave and not come back
00:36:03
Adams struck a deal with chief Nana any
00:36:06
miner found above the waterfalls would
00:36:09
die at the hands of the Indians but one
00:36:15
morning a miner chasing a stray horse
00:36:18
ventured above the fall he came across a
00:36:23
gold nugget the size of a headache take
00:36:26
that the biggest nugget you ever seen
00:36:28
more jewelry
00:36:29
where'd you get this that son up yonder
00:36:35
my horse got away Adam I don't care I
00:36:38
promised the chief we wouldn't go whoop
00:36:40
her you're gonna get us all killed you
00:36:42
understand me take this and get back to
00:36:45
work
00:36:45
no you keep it get out you're gone all
00:36:49
y'all going discovery fuel Gold Fever in
00:36:51
the camp
00:36:56
unbeknownst to Adam the other miners
00:36:59
began accumulating gold from both above
00:37:01
and below the falls some of the gold was
00:37:04
stored in a coffee pot hidden beneath
00:37:05
the flagstone of the camp fireplace
00:37:08
according to legend the miners amassed
00:37:12
as much as 300 pounds of gold worth
00:37:14
nearly one and a half million dollars
00:37:21
one morning Adams and his partner Davis
00:37:24
and were a mile out of camp when they
00:37:25
heard the sound of dwindling gun fire
00:37:29
chief Nana had been true to his word
00:37:33
[Applause]
00:37:35
[Music]
00:37:39
from a look out above cami Adams and
00:37:42
Davidson stared down helplessly I can
00:37:45
take this no it ain't going this no good
00:37:48
now just wait'll things settle down then
00:37:52
we'll head on up the canyon and get out
00:37:55
of here
00:37:59
[Music]
00:38:01
we waited till the Sun went down and we
00:38:03
snuck up Kenya you don't believe any of
00:38:07
this do about to go look at this well
00:38:12
Adams like many prospectors spent the
00:38:14
rest of his life searching for that
00:38:17
zigzag Canyon and never could find it I
00:38:19
think that once a person sees that much
00:38:21
gold in a place like Adams and he
00:38:24
couldn't give up that dream there's no
00:38:26
way he knew it was there he had to
00:38:28
continue search for Kelly Thomas Adams
00:38:31
never did find his mother lode
00:38:34
years later he died drunk competitors
00:38:37
and the story of the lost gold grew into
00:38:39
legend in the 1920s a railroad man named
00:38:45
John Mitchell began an extensive search
00:38:47
for the treasure
00:38:48
his writings are the basis for today's
00:38:51
ongoing quest for the Lost
00:38:53
Adams digging
00:38:55
Ron Feldman is a camping guide who has
00:38:58
studied Mitchell's accounts for years
00:39:01
I've always been hooked on the Lost
00:39:04
Addams and it was John Michell story
00:39:07
that intrigued me and I kind of reread
00:39:10
that several times and if you pay
00:39:13
attention to what John Michell says he
00:39:16
tells you basically were the Lost Addams
00:39:18
diggings is by comparing Mitchell's
00:39:21
references with modern-day maps Feldman
00:39:24
discovered that many rivers and
00:39:25
landmarks had gone under different names
00:39:27
in previous years he determined that
00:39:31
Adams Canyon lay on Eagle Creek near the
00:39:33
tiny town of Clifton Arizona 200 miles
00:39:36
north of Tucson in January of 1990 Ron
00:39:41
Feldman and geologist Nick McPherson
00:39:44
journeyed to Eagle Creek hoping to find
00:39:46
the Lost Adams fortune
00:39:56
when Ron and I walked into the canyon
00:39:59
and discovered the little hidden portal
00:40:02
that led into a zigzag canyon my feeling
00:40:06
was immediately was that this was the
00:40:09
spot this is where Adams had been this
00:40:11
fits the stories that I've read it has
00:40:14
the right appearance and it is an
00:40:16
appropriate place where gold could have
00:40:18
been concentrated in great quantities as
00:40:20
a placer deposit everything about the
00:40:24
canyon seemed to fit Adams descriptions
00:40:27
that's got to be the water flow it's
00:40:29
gotta be it
00:40:30
Feldman and Macpherson even found a
00:40:31
trickle along the canyon wall where a
00:40:33
waterfall had once flowed if you put
00:40:37
more water into the system as there was
00:40:40
when Adams was there you would have a
00:40:42
beautiful cascading waterfall into an
00:40:44
open pool at the base of the fall very
00:40:48
hard to explain the feeling that rushed
00:40:50
through me it was very exciting and of
00:40:53
course we both knew the legend of the
00:40:55
coffee pot full of gold buried in the
00:40:57
floor of the cabin we soon discovered
00:40:58
the ruins of a cabin started digging in
00:41:01
the floor we found some relic but no pot
00:41:05
full of gold
00:41:15
Feldman and Macpherson also found the
00:41:17
tools needed for making horseshoes and a
00:41:20
section of railroad track in the early
00:41:23
days John D Mitchell the author was
00:41:26
actually a railroad man he worked on the
00:41:28
railroads and we thought of Mitchell
00:41:31
when we found those items we thought of
00:41:35
Mitchell when we didn't find the pot of
00:41:36
gold
00:41:38
could John Mitchell have found the
00:41:40
coffee pot of gold and perhaps written
00:41:42
his history of the legend and a way to
00:41:44
mislead others Ron Feldman and Mick
00:41:48
McPherson are convinced they have
00:41:50
unlocked the secret of a treasures
00:41:52
location and the mother lode of gold is
00:41:54
still waiting to be found however other
00:41:57
fortune hunters feel that Feldman and
00:41:59
Macpherson are wrong and The Lost Adams
00:42:02
diggings may actually be in another part
00:42:04
of the state
00:42:07
[Music]
00:42:18
on our next unsolved mysteries the many
00:42:21
faces of patrick michael richard ladies
00:42:24
man were may cook the notorious bank
00:42:26
robber is ingenious and daring heists
00:42:29
netted close to three million dollars
00:42:31
and earned him a prominent place on the
00:42:33
FBI's ten most wanted list join me next
00:42:37
time perhaps you hold the key perhaps
00:42:40
you can help solve a mystery
00:42:43
[Music]
00:43:08
[Applause]
00:43:12
[Music]

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Episode Highlights

  • The Tragic Death of Russell Evans
    13-year-old Russell Evans was found fatally injured on a lonely road, sparking a mystery.
    “Russell's parents are convinced that their son was murdered”
    @ 04m 06s
    May 22, 2019
  • Leanne Robinson's Search for Family
    After 17 years apart, Leanne Robinson reunites with her siblings thanks to a TV show.
    “I'm gonna keep searching until I find them”
    @ 15m 59s
    May 22, 2019
  • The Bishop Family Murders
    William Bradford Bishop is suspected of murdering his wife, three sons, and mother.
    “Brad Bishop became the primary suspect in the slaying of his own family”
    @ 24m 29s
    May 22, 2019
  • Brad Bishop's Disappearance
    Brad Bishop vanished after the brutal murder of his family, leaving behind a mystery.
    “Bishop successfully covered his tracks and was not seen for two years.”
    @ 29m 10s
    May 22, 2019
  • The Lost Adams Treasure
    The legend of the Lost Adams treasure continues to captivate treasure hunters today.
    “Adams spent the rest of his life searching for that zigzag Canyon.”
    @ 38m 14s
    May 22, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • I believe in my mind that it was a fight that got out of hand.
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  • I can't see any reason in this world why we should be separate.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 15 - Full Episode
  • This is the happiest time of my life.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 15 - Full Episode
  • Sometimes certain people just flip out.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 15 - Full Episode
  • As long as a man believes a treasure to be found, he'll be spurred on.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 15 - Full Episode
  • Adams spent the rest of his life searching for that zigzag Canyon.
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Key Moments

  • Unsolved Mysteries00:03
  • Tragic Accident00:26
  • Family Reunion14:31
  • Murder Investigation18:01
  • Crime of Passion27:25
  • Treasure Hunting31:46
  • Apache Beliefs35:30
  • Endless Pursuit38:14

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