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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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okay let's go so I helped him kill a
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taxi
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and I watched him drive out the next day
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Brad bishops family would be found dead
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in North Carolina
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Bishop himself would drop from sight
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March 18th almost three weeks after the
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murders a Ranger at the Great Smoky
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Mountains National Park in Tennessee
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discovered an abandoned station wagon in
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the back he found what appeared to be
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dried blood the car was registered to
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William Bradford Bishop Bishop now
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became the primary suspect in the
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slaying of his own family the courts
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will have to determine whether Brad
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Bishop is guilty of killing his family
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but there was enough evidence in March
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of 1976 for a warrant to be issued for
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his arrest for homicide based on the
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fact that there appeared to be
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premeditation in connection with the
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events that occurred on March 1st
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the FBI believes they have pieced
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together bishops activities leading up
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to the murders on the day he left the
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State Department Bishop withdrew several
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hundred dollars from his bank account
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and apparently went to a local hardware
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store
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you
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[Music]
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Bradford Bishop went to the gas station
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in Bethesda where he purchased the can
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full of gas and as far as we know after
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that he returned to his home probably
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around 7:30 8 o'clock at night after the
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children were put to bed
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our investigation shows that mrs. Bishop
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was probably killed first
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she was found beside a book which she
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may have been reading at the time that
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she was killed the children were
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probably killed next followed by bishops
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mother they were all killed with a blunt
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instrument and none of the victims had
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an opportunity to defend themselves
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according to the FBI bishop loaded the
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five bodies into the family station
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wagon and wept the Thesz de maro
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he headed 200 miles south to the
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sparsely populated countryside near
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Columbia North Carolina
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as my believe you know murder being a
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crime of passion many many people are
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capable of the same thing it's just
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sometimes certain people just flip out
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faster and do these things Brad Bishop
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felt from the time I knew him that there
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was something liking in himself this
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feeling was nourished constantly by both
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his mother and to some degree his wife
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who constantly told him he was
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inadequate and washed-out wasn't going
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anywhere and I think that he conceived
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in his mind this was a way to as he
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often saved many times about other
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people this would be a way of putting
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them in their place
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the FBI believes a bishop after
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a pair of tennis shoes near the site of
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the fire drove 400 miles to the Great
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Smoky Mountains and Tennessee where a
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station wagon was found abandoned
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Bishop had the advantage the bodies were
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discovered on the second the car was
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discovered on the 18th
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so Bishop had plenty of time in order to
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escape there was no indication of any
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suicide there was no indication of any
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accident and we have every reason to
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believe that he in fact disappeared from
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the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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after the car was abandoned there Brad
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Bishop successfully covered his tracks
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and was not seen for two years in 1978
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five thousand miles away in a different
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continent and nearly unbelievable chance
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encounter took place ROI Herald the last
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man to see Bishop before the murders
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came face to face with him again in
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Sorrento Italy I had gone to the Piazza
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Tasos square in Sorrento to board a bus
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bound for Rome I decided to go to the
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men's room before starting that journey
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and I was washing my hands and this
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bearded disheveled looking man came in
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in my mind's eye I took the beard and
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those grubby clothes off of him and I
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saw the Brad Bishop I had seen coming
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out of the State Department your breath
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Bishop aren't you
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breath well why don't you get on the bus
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with me and come back two wrong
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Paula Deen woman watched him disappear
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down the cliffs going toward the boat
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landing where boats go to Capri
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ded Brad bishop brutally murder his own
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family if he did we can only speculate
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about what could have possibly caused
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him to commit such an unspeakable crime
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unless Brad Bishop is found the truth
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will remain unknown
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William Bradford Bishop is 6 feet 1 inch
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tall with brown hair brown eyes and a
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medium build he is fluent in French
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Italian and serbo-croatian and holds a
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diplomatic passport at the time of the
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murders he was 40 years old
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the FBI has created this computer aged
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photograph to reflect a bishop might
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look today at 54 when we return a legend
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of an Indian massacre and a fortune and
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goal is still waiting to be found in the
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Arizona desert
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[Music]
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as an old saying among fortune hunters
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as long as a man believes as a treasure
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to be found he'll be spurred on by the
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belief that he'll be the one to find it
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it seems that people have been forever
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obsessed with the prospect of uncovering
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legendary buried treasure this
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never-ending quest to strike it rich has
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fuelled a million dreams each with a
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common goal of instant wealth
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the Arizona Territory September 1864
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troopers from boat Apache find two
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prospectors wandering in the desert by
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the time they reached the fort the men
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are barely alive we got one of the
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prospectors known only as Adams tells
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the army surgeon a remarkable tale right
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you don't understand there's there's
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mountains ago refer to the river full of
00:32:40
Dover there's no crevice size of
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increments about two weeks ago me lament
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moved up the Gila River up into the
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mount was looking for a zigzag Canyon
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Canyon it was post beet full ago Adams
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and his band of 20 miners were led by a
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Mexican guy nicknamed gotcha
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doctor where's that Canyon
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got cheered had promised to take atoms
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to the gold returned for two horses a
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saddle to $50 gold pieces in a red silk
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bandana even sent the miners could shoot
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him if he couldn't find the gold
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this Kano gonna work keep in mind and he
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don't pay for eventually they reached
00:33:30
would appear to be a dead end but God
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she led the party through a hidden
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portal into a narrow zigzag Canyon
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I think God sure played the major role
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in getting them to the site and the
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reason he was able to do this was the
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fact that he was raised by the Apaches
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and he knew the area and he was familiar
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with the fact that gold was important to
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the white man not so important to the
00:34:02
Apache inside the canyon
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the men filed a screen fed by a 20-foot
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high waterfall the stream was brimming
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with what they had come for
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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therefore the waterfall there and there
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was sufficient water but amazing thing
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and according to a story again the gold
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is visible right on the ground
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realizing that gold is heavy that it
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settles down you'd have to think for how
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much gold was there there if there was
00:34:36
still gold visibly on the ground that
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means every flash bud to brought water
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over that waterfalls brought more gold
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from above Adams and his men agreed to
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pool the fortune and share it equally
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they set up captain the prospecting
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commenced several days later
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unexpected visitors arrived a local
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Apache chieftain named Lana and 20 of
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his warriors Adams the Apache there were
00:35:08
several things that were sacred to one
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thing Mountains all mountains the zigzag
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Canyon probably undoubtedly was sacred
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maybe in some way because it was part of
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the mountain do you wanna go with dad
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not channa the patchi's believed that
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gold was the tears of the Sun nobody
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touched the tears of the Sun because the
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Sun was the Almighty thing to most
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Indian cultures I mean its source of all
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life hand me that rifle a gift
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they met with chief Donna and Donna had
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set down these rules that they do not
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approve about the waterfall for whatever
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reason probably because he knew there
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was more gold up there and he knew it
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would attract more white men to the area
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he hoped they would fill their pokes and
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leave and not come back
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Adams struck a deal with chief Nana any
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miner found above the waterfalls would
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die at the hands of the Indians but one
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morning a miner chasing a stray horse
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ventured above the fall he came across a
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gold nugget the size of a headache take
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that the biggest nugget you ever seen
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more jewelry
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where'd you get this that son up yonder
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my horse got away Adam I don't care I
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promised the chief we wouldn't go whoop
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her you're gonna get us all killed you
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understand me take this and get back to
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work
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no you keep it get out you're gone all
00:36:49
y'all going discovery fuel Gold Fever in
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the camp
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unbeknownst to Adam the other miners
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began accumulating gold from both above
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and below the falls some of the gold was
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stored in a coffee pot hidden beneath
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the flagstone of the camp fireplace
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according to legend the miners amassed
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as much as 300 pounds of gold worth
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nearly one and a half million dollars
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one morning Adams and his partner Davis
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and were a mile out of camp when they
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heard the sound of dwindling gun fire
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chief Nana had been true to his word
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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from a look out above cami Adams and
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Davidson stared down helplessly I can
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take this no it ain't going this no good
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now just wait'll things settle down then
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we'll head on up the canyon and get out
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of here
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[Music]
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we waited till the Sun went down and we
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snuck up Kenya you don't believe any of
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this do about to go look at this well
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Adams like many prospectors spent the
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rest of his life searching for that
00:38:17
zigzag Canyon and never could find it I
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think that once a person sees that much
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gold in a place like Adams and he
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couldn't give up that dream there's no
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way he knew it was there he had to
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continue search for Kelly Thomas Adams
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never did find his mother lode
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years later he died drunk competitors
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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
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his writings are the basis for today's
00:38:51
ongoing quest for the Lost
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Adams digging
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Ron Feldman is a camping guide who has
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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
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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
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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
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tiny town of Clifton Arizona 200 miles
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north of Tucson in January of 1990 Ron
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Feldman and geologist Nick McPherson
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journeyed to Eagle Creek hoping to find
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the Lost Adams fortune
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when Ron and I walked into the canyon
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and discovered the little hidden portal
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that led into a zigzag canyon my feeling
00:40:06
was immediately was that this was the
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spot this is where Adams had been this
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fits the stories that I've read it has
00:40:14
the right appearance and it is an
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appropriate place where gold could have
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been concentrated in great quantities as
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a placer deposit everything about the
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canyon seemed to fit Adams descriptions
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that's got to be the water flow it's
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gotta be it
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Feldman and Macpherson even found a
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trickle along the canyon wall where a
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waterfall had once flowed if you put
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more water into the system as there was
00:40:40
when Adams was there you would have a
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beautiful cascading waterfall into an
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open pool at the base of the fall very
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hard to explain the feeling that rushed
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through me it was very exciting and of
00:40:53
course we both knew the legend of the
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coffee pot full of gold buried in the
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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
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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
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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
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diggings may actually be in another part
00:42:04
of the state
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[Music]
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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
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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