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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a newlywed with marriage
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problems supposedly Falls to her death
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but her injuries suggests that she was
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beaten who was responsible for the
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Wickenberg Massacre was it a tribe of
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Native Americans or an army deserter and
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his
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girlfriend this ordinary looking chunk
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of Stone May help answer the question
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are there other life forms in the
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universe and a woman loses her memory
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after surgery and then wanders away for
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more than three
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decades whether it's murder Larsen or
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foul play sometimes these cases are
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solved thanks to you I'm Dennis finina
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and this is Unsolved Mysteries
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Pittsburgh
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Pennsylvania just a few days before
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Christmas the broken body of Michelle
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witherall lies on the ground outside her
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apartment
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building Michelle was only 24 years old
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and a newlywed she and her husband
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Jeremy had just relocated from Denver
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and planned to build a new life together
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and now Michelle was in critical
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condition with severe head
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injuries tell me what happened up there
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I don't know what happened I mean I I
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Jeremy told the police that Michelle
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fell from their apartment balcony three
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flights
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up he said that he was playing Solitaire
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in the living room when he heard a
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sound he went outside looked over the
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railing and saw his wife's body on the
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ground
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hello and then I ran out to the balcony
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I looked over and there was Michelle
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lying there and then I grabbed my phone
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and I dialed 911 that's the whole
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story paramedics rushed Michelle to a
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nearby hospital her parents claimed that
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Jeremy's mother called and told them the
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awful
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news she also had a second version of
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Jeremy
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story she told me that there had been a
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terrible accident
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and that Michelle had been out on the
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balcony at their apartment and that
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she'd been putting up Christmas lights
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and that the balcony had collapsed
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causing her to
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fall we're looking for Michelle witheral
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when Michelle's family arrived at the
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hospital they found Michelle in a coma
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hey baby the left side of her head was
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fractured and her jaw was broken
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but Michelle's nose and teeth were
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unharmed despite her 30 foot
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fall questions were beginning to come
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into our thoughts how did she get her
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eye busted open and her jaw broken with
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no damage in
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between he's squeezing my
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hand hang in there sweetheart we really
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think that her squeezing ev's hand she
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was telling us goodbye
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only two people in the world knew how
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Michelle had been injured and now one of
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them was
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dead Michelle's parents claimed that a
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few minutes after her death Jeremy came
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up with a third story about how she
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fell we just got home for dinner and I
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was playing a game of
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solitire and Michelle and I we weren't
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even talking and then she went out to
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the balcony for something and when I I
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looked up there she was she was hanging
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she was just barely hanging
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there I could have got
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her Jeremy claims he gave just one
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version of what happened to
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Michelle that he only discovered that
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she had fallen when he saw her body on
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the ground
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below but Michelle's parents still
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insist they were given three different
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stories
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according to detectives the couple was
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having trouble in their marriage they
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say Jeremy admitted arguing with
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Michelle that night while driving back
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from a restaurant he said the argument
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continued at
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home apparently the Newly Weds had been
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fighting so often that one neighbor
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complained repeatedly to the building
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manager violence is what she called it
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physically throwing each other around
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the apartment in no uncertain terms she
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said someone's going to get killed out
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there and she was very frightened she
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was scared Michelle's parents began
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questioning the police
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investigation Michelle's family found
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alarming contradictions between Jeremy's
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account and the physical
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evidence to begin with Michelle's wrists
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were broken but her Palms were
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completely
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unscratched if she had fractured her
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risk trying to break the fall why didn't
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her Palms show any Cuts or scratches
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from the impact
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act second Michelle's shoes should have
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been on her or nearby but one was
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discovered more than 20 ft from her body
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and the other was never
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found and third Jeremy took the time to
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double lock the apartment before racing
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to his wife's
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side the county Corner officially label
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the cause of Michelle's death as
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undetermined that left three
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possibilities homicide accident or
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suicide Michelle's parents insist it
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could not have been
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suicide the mmas also believe the
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accident theory is unlikely the balcony
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railing was level with Michelle's chest
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making it impossible for her to Simply
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fall over
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it Michelle's parents sent her medical
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records to three board certified
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forensic pathologists their unanimous
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verdict Michelle was
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murdered and they said it wasn't the
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fall that killed her the forensic
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experts said if Michelle had fallen
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three stories she should have had
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injuries on both sides of her brain the
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head injuries were quite extensive but
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these were all Left sided these injuries
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are what we call coup direct impact
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injuries as from a blow
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Dr W says other injuries also indicate
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that she was
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assaulted plus he says parts of her body
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that were not harmed are just as
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important for example her pelvis wasn't
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broken and her internal organs were all
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undamaged that is extremely inconsistent
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very atypical of the kinds of injuries
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that we would find in a fall finally the
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County coroner's office opened the first
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official inquiry into the case the
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verdict was quick and clear we will
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amend the
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original from undetermined to
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homicide the homicide ruling provided no
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scenario and no suspect but Michelle's
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parents have a
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theory they believe that she was
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murdered after telling Jeremy the
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marriage was over don't you raise your
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voice to me don't talk to me like that
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if you keep that I'm up I'm leaving you
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I think that night she made the mistake
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of telling Jeremy she was going to leave
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him we think she ran from the apartment
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fleeing for her
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life she was then assaulted outside of
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the
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apartment Michelle's parents believe
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that the balcony story was a quickly
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improvised
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coverup while no one on Jeremy's side
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side was willing to be interviewed they
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emphasized that Jeremy did pass a
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polygraph test twice we told Jeremy from
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the day Michelle died that we want to
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find out and we plan to find out
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everything there is to find out and we
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will pursue Justice in this case no
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matter where it takes
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us
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Update 7 years to the day after
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Michelle's body was found on outside her
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apartment police charged Jeremy witheral
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with third degree murder and involuntary
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manslaughter after two weeks of
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testimony and two hours of deliberation
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he was
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acquitted jurors said conflicting
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testimony about the cause of the
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injuries influenced their verdict the
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police have closed the case and ruled it
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a suicide accidental death
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coming up the legendary wienberg
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Massacre was the attack carried out by
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Apaches or a ruthless Comm
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man on a quiet Highway 60 M from Phoenix
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A Small Monument stands at the edge of
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the road PES it honors the victims of a
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once Infamous shootout in the days of
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the wild
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west by the end of the attack six men
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were dead one had been stabbed with a
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lance another was
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scalped this atrocity would become known
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as the Wickenberg
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Massacre somehow two people managed to
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survive though they were injured William
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Krueger and Molly Shepard lived on to
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provide the official account of what
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happened that
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day the story told by Krueger and
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Shephard led the United States
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government to retaliate the result was
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the deaths of hundreds of Native
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Americans and now more than a century
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later some historians believe that
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Krueger and Shephard might have planned
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the attack themselves hoping to steal a
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small fortune from the stage
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coach November 5th
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1871 William Krueger and Molly Shepard
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climb aboard a stage coach in Wickenberg
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Shephard was a well-known prostitute and
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Madam who had recently sold her brothel
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Krueger was a two-time army deserter who
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had somehow convinced the military to
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hire him as a civilian
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clerk also so this is how it happened we
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got after the attack while Shephard was
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recuperating Krueger was questioned by
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Captain Charles minold who was assigned
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to investigate the incident sir I
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believe it was about 11: a.m. or so that
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I heard the driver yell Apaches Apaches
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and the next thing I know sir these
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Indians are firing on
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us and and they got Mr long you know the
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the famous author and then they wounded
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uh Mr sammon he SM just like the fish
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you know and he got at the back of the
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coach he went running the other way and
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these Indians they they swooped down on
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him sir I and I fired back so they they
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scal him you know in in the coach and
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and uh and and Mr ham and I you know we
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were fighting and he was hit so bad that
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he couldn't go anywhere and I knew our
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only chance our only chance was to just
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make a run for It Go Molly go and doing
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that Split Second Molly and I we got out
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the other side and we just took off run
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in the opposite direction sir until we
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finally got away thank you Mr Krueger
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for your cooperation thank you sir God
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bless Lieutenant tell the men we'll ride
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at sunup if I want to get a look at this
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site
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Myself by the time mold reached the site
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the victim's bodies had been returned to
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wienberg for burial he uncovered several
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Clues suggesting that Native Americans
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had been
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involved the M hole was a a military
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person and looked at it uh I guess like
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military would and he really car
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carefully he studied the footprints the
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the moccasin prints which they were
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wearing moccasins and that most of the
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moccasin most of them were towed in
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which is typical of the way Native
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Americans
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walk the tracks LED towards a
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reservation 25 M away it was home to 750
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members of the Yavapai tribe but
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strangely several miles before the
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tracks reached the reservation they
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veered off in a different direction
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action this to me would indicate
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possibly a non-native American group
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that is heading towards Camp dat Creek
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to make it look like the perpetrators
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are heading back to the
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reservation the Yavapai who were often
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misidentified as Pates were a largely
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peaceful people many worked as laborers
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and Scouts for the settlers to those who
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knew the tribe it seemed inconceivable
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that they would have been involved in
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the attack there were only six occasions
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uh throughout the entire western
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frontier when American Indians actually
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Native Americans attacked Stage Coach if
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this was a Native American attack we
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would have found that the ammunition and
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the weapons certainly would have been
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missing and we would also found that any
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the blankets would have been taken but
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in this particular case none of it was
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touched
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whatsoever but the most puzzling
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evidence was found in the bags of mail
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that have been loaded on to the stage
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coach at Wickenberg
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after the attack a number of letters
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addressed to the Army quartermaster had
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been open and their contents carefully
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put back going through the mail this is
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something that an Indian Indian or
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Native American would not do is go
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through the mail um this certainly you
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know to me would indicate that it was a
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non non-indian
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attack but if the aapi were innocent who
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were the killers and what was their
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motive
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at the time gold bullion was often
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transported by stage coach at least one
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account claims that Mexican Bandits
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disguised as the Pates were
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responsible others suggest a more
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devious plan Krueger and Shephard
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masterminded the entire
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thing it had to be them if it was
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Bandits Mexican Bandits or typical
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Highwaymen oh why did they let Krueger
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and Shepherd get
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away so these Indians they're slithering
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up on us like like primers coming back
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Krueger's account of his Escape seemed
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hard to
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believe researcher Jeff Hammond believes
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that Krueger and Shephard hired Bandits
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to help them with the robbery Krueger
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probably fired first to begin with
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inside the coach the attacker shooting
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on the outside would have been easy to
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wipe out anybody inside the stage coach
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they wouldn't have expected expected
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somebody inside the coach to start
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shooting
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them in his report Captain minold
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acknowledged rumors that the scheme was
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intended to rob the mail of the bullion
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usually shipped around the first of
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every month and yet mold never said that
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the gold had actually been carried on
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that specific Stage Coach run still the
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stories persisted there had to be
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something
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worthwhile uh whatever it was it was
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something that was privately owned that
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was the reason it wasn't officially
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reported the person that owned the money
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that was taken was dead there was nobody
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left to be upset about
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it Jeff Hammond believes that Krueger
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hid the loot somewhere near the massacre
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site where only he and shepher could
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find it Krueger had expected to walk out
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there a few days later and dig it up uh
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he couldn't he had no idea that this
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would cause national attention to it
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okay he knew there was nothing he could
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do if anybody found him out there
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outside of wienberg digging in the
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ground he would have ended up on the
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other side of a
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rope if there was a treasure it seems
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unlikely that Molly Shepard or William
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Krueger ever recovered it Shepard
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disappeared soon after the incident
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fueling rumors that she had died of her
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wounds Krueger last surfaced 13 years
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after the massacre when he sued the
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government for money that he claimed to
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have lost in the attack
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during the 1870s the Wickenberg Massacre
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caused a national
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outrage within 18 months of the attack
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the yapi were driven off the reservation
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by a government determined to punish
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them for their attack eventually
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hundreds of innocent men women and
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children died from starvation and
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disease we may never know who was
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responsible for the wienberg massacre
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however we do know that the list of
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victims include many more than the six
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men who were killed on that violent
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morning more than a century
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ago next a young mother loses her memory
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after undergoing a risky surgery then
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one day she leaves home and never
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returns
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Houston
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Texas one warm spring afternoon Mary
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urick was on her way to visit her sister
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Pat as she did almost every
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day suddenly she was overcome by a
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feeling of dread I could feel it in my
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bones I knew something was wrong but I
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couldn't pinpoint
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it her little boy Eugene he was in the
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doorway the door wide open and your
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mommy I knew then that something was
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wrong because bat didn't allow the
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children out by their themselves at
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all and then I found Sheila in the
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kitchen and she was just having a fill
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day with the water and the dishes the
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water was all over the counters it went
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all in the floor and I said Sheila
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where's Mama where's Mama oh Mama's
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asleep patri Patricia I went into the
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bedroom and I saw Pat laying halfway on
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the bed and half
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off and I tried to waken her and I could
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not waken
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her at the hospital the doctors
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discovered that an aneurysm was blocking
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the blood flow to Pat's brain the
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doctors had to act quickly they
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performed a risky operation that saved
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Pat's life but there was an expected
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complication she didn't know who I was
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she didn't know her husband
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baby how are you
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feeling you feel better now she didn't
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know anything everything was gone did
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she woke up into a different world than
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what she went to sleep in Jean Sheila do
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your mommy look pretty
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today hat did not recognize her children
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at all she looked at me
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and she says who are they honey you
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remember these pretty babies don't
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you Pat had to be taught to do
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everything again even how to eat it was
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all too much for her husband who filed
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for divorce and was granted custody of
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their
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children a short time later a woman who
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had been hired to look after Pat called
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Mary at
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work Pat
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had
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disappeared 6 weeks later Pat was picked
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up for loitering nearly 700 miles away
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in Alabama where she and Mary had lived
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when they were
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young Pat's memory never fully returned
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but eventually her life became more
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normal she even began dating Troy
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Carlton a construction worker I want to
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introduce you to my sister-in-law and I
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walked in and there Pat it's Patricia
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Snider Patricia this is my good friend
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Troy howdy nice to meet you
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hello I made some kind of remark about
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it being recessed in heaven with angels
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running around there
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and next thing you
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know we were
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dating when I first met Pat I was
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unaware totally of any medical
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problems when I was made aware of the
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fact that she she had these
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problems uh it didn't it didn't decrease
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my feelings for her not in any way if
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anything they increased through
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concern Pat and Shay were soon married
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Troy encouraged Pat to fight for custody
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of her children and a court hearing was
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soon
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scheduled 7 days before the court date
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Troy came home for lunch at noon as he
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did every day
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he
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Patricia laying on the dining room table
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was her purse a wallet keys Pat was gone
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finally I called Mary her sister Mary
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responded oh Lord I said what you mean
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oh Lord she said I bet Pat walked
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off I said what in the hell are you
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talking about Pat walked
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off 3 weeks later Pat was seen on the
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other side of town Troy immediately
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drove to pick her
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up hi a
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stranger hi there sweetie are you mad at
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me no sweetie you want to go home yes I
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don't have any idea where she ever
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went I don't have any idea why she went
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I don't know what she did while she was
00:23:56
gone she never discussed it
00:23:59
period Troy assumed Pat's disappearance
00:24:02
was an isolated incident but he was
00:24:05
wrong Pat wandered off seven more times
00:24:08
within the next year and then one time
00:24:11
she could not be
00:24:12
found Pat was missing for 13 months
00:24:16
Patricia and then she surfaced in San
00:24:19
Diego California evidently her memory
00:24:22
had returned enough to give a welfare
00:24:24
worker her maiden name and her
00:24:26
birthplace
00:24:29
the welfare worker found one of Pat's
00:24:31
ants in Birmingham but the aunt believed
00:24:34
Pat was still in Houston and did nothing
00:24:36
to follow it up that was the last time
00:24:39
that anybody ever saw or heard from Pat
00:24:44
Carlton eventually Troy Carlton
00:24:47
remarried but with his current wife's
00:24:49
support he is doing everything that he
00:24:51
can to Aid in the
00:24:54
search I couldn't live with Pat again
00:24:58
I'm
00:24:59
married I've raised two
00:25:01
stepchildren one of my
00:25:05
own I I wouldn't trade what I've got for
00:25:08
anything in the world but I would like
00:25:11
to find out that Pat is
00:25:14
alive
00:25:16
healthy and I'd like to see her have the
00:25:19
happiness that she
00:25:23
deserves
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update Patricia Carlton was found in San
00:25:30
Francisco 33 years after she
00:25:33
disappeared her family reports that she
00:25:36
is safe and living with them she has not
00:25:39
wandered off since returning
00:25:43
home coming up these are images of a
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notorious Bank rapper perhaps you can
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help the police identify him
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on a previous broadcast we featured the
00:26:03
story of Jackie Dragon who was adopted
00:26:06
by a California couple when she was just
00:26:08
a baby when Jackie was 12 she found her
00:26:12
adoption papers and learned the names of
00:26:15
her birth
00:26:16
parents it was a big thing it was a it
00:26:19
was a turning point it was something
00:26:21
that I knew from that point on that
00:26:22
someday I would find those people
00:26:28
after 9 years of searching Jackie
00:26:30
finally tracked down her biological
00:26:33
mother Marge
00:26:35
Ryder hi may I speak with Marge Ryder
00:26:38
please
00:26:39
speaking Marge was living in Winchester
00:26:42
Illinois the phone call from Jackie was
00:26:45
a total surprise does the date February
00:26:48
16th 1964 mean anything to you what did
00:26:51
you say your name was again well my name
00:26:53
is
00:26:54
Jackie I was already sitting down and I
00:26:57
felt like I had just fallen into a chair
00:26:59
because it
00:27:01
was I've never had a shock like that
00:27:03
before well do you have time to talk
00:27:06
right now look at the likeness there
00:27:09
Jackie learned she had three sisters
00:27:12
only the youngest Tracy had been raised
00:27:14
by March her two other sisters Laura May
00:27:18
and da Marie had also been put up for
00:27:22
adoption it it was very exciting I
00:27:24
couldn't believe it like there's more
00:27:26
you're kidding there's something more
00:27:27
that I didn't know he's pretty tall I
00:27:30
would love the opportunity to find my
00:27:32
sisters Laura May and Don Marie I don't
00:27:34
know if those are their names still I
00:27:36
like to think that somewhere wherever
00:27:38
they are that they know that they're
00:27:40
adopted and that they wonder where they
00:27:43
came
00:27:43
from they were mine I did love them I do
00:27:47
love
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them and it wouldn't be nice to make the
00:27:52
family complete
00:27:55
again update
00:27:58
thanks to our viewers Marge and Jackie's
00:28:00
dream of reuniting their family finally
00:28:03
came true they were contacted by Mar's
00:28:06
two other daughters Laura May whose
00:28:09
adoptive name is Susan and Don Marie now
00:28:15
Carlin 3 months after our broadcast
00:28:18
Susan arrived at Jackie's home in
00:28:20
Glendale California Marge and her
00:28:23
youngest daughter Tracy flew in from
00:28:25
Illinois for this very special reunion
00:28:28
how are you so much on the
00:28:31
phone meeting them was really
00:28:33
nerve-wracking because it's like I
00:28:34
wasn't quite sure what to expect and
00:28:36
what they would expect of
00:28:38
me did
00:28:41
your and then after I got here it's just
00:28:44
all seemed to flow it very
00:28:47
natural the last time I remember seeing
00:28:50
Laura she was in a high chair and now
00:28:52
here she is all growing up and I'm still
00:28:54
looking for this little girl you know
00:28:57
and that's it's kind of
00:29:01
hard a short time later Carlin arrived
00:29:05
it's good to meet you um I grew up
00:29:06
knowing that I was adopted but I didn't
00:29:08
know anything about who my real parents
00:29:11
were and it's nice to know you know who
00:29:15
your family is you what your background
00:29:18
is you know and learn more about him I
00:29:21
think when I first started feeling
00:29:22
really comfortable is when we went out
00:29:24
and took some Polaroids and it was a
00:29:27
really neat feeling to have a picture
00:29:28
right in front of me and see all of us
00:29:30
standing
00:29:32
together it's a very once in A- lifetime
00:29:35
kind of a thing to find a sister that
00:29:37
you've never met everybody
00:29:41
smile each one is totally
00:29:44
individual they're all strong I've found
00:29:50
out and they've done good with their
00:29:52
lives I'm proud of all four of
00:29:56
them and and so now the Family Circle is
00:30:00
finally complete they all still keep in
00:30:03
touch and know that they will never be
00:30:05
separated
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again Spokan
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Washington one fall day A well-dressed
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man enters a local
00:30:23
bank may I help you stand up and move
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away from the desk quickly
00:30:30
come on move over back away from the
00:30:32
counter quickly don't touch any alarms
00:30:35
do exactly as you're told no fast moves
00:30:39
keep your hands where I can the robber
00:30:40
is calm in control and prepared for
00:30:43
anything take them out
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slowly I have a police scanner here he
00:30:48
shows the terrified employees a police
00:30:50
scanner claiming that he will know if
00:30:52
they try to alert the
00:30:55
Police the robber orders everyone into
00:30:58
the Vault and then follows them
00:31:00
in PR
00:31:02
up it's his first robbery and he'll walk
00:31:06
away with more than
00:31:07
$100,000 hurry up it's all over in less
00:31:11
than 5 minutes the robber leaves no
00:31:13
fingerprints and even manages to avoid
00:31:16
being
00:31:19
photographed the reason for that is the
00:31:21
way he very quickly got control of the
00:31:23
situation prevented um any photographs
00:31:26
from being obtained
00:31:29
almost a year later the Bandit stole
00:31:32
$14,000 from another Spokan bank but
00:31:36
this time he got an unexpected
00:31:39
surprise a a die pack was given to the
00:31:42
robber which went off very shortly after
00:31:45
he left the bank within seconds of him
00:31:47
leaving the
00:31:50
bank obviously that caused a commotion
00:31:52
on the street and a witness did observe
00:31:55
that commotion
00:32:00
after another bank robbery 3 months
00:32:02
later Bank employees were able to create
00:32:04
composits of the Bandit however these
00:32:07
sketches were no substitute for
00:32:10
photographs amazingly the robber had
00:32:13
managed to avoid all of the cameras in
00:32:15
all of the
00:32:16
banks but early the next summer his luck
00:32:20
changed this time frightened but quick
00:32:23
thinking bank tellers took a chance
00:32:27
we said hi and he said hi and he walked
00:32:30
up to the counter and pulled out his gun
00:32:33
and put on sunglasses at the same time
00:32:36
and then told us that he wanted to go
00:32:37
into the Vault and get the money and he
00:32:41
told us to empty out the Telly drawers
00:32:42
he went to one drawer at a time and when
00:32:45
we were emptying them out that we you
00:32:47
know pulled all the money out and
00:32:48
there's a bill trap underneath some of
00:32:50
the
00:32:52
bills we pulled the money out from
00:32:54
underneath the bill trap which triggered
00:32:55
the alarm
00:32:58
Not only was the silent alarm activated
00:33:00
but the bank's surveillance camera was
00:33:03
also triggered for the first time the
00:33:06
robber was caught on
00:33:08
film getting a photo in this robbery was
00:33:12
a a big step forward for us in our
00:33:15
investigation up till this point all we
00:33:17
had were were witness uh descriptions of
00:33:20
the bank robber it did result in US
00:33:22
linking him to three additional bank
00:33:24
robberies as a suspect uh in Tucson
00:33:28
Arizona so that was again a major step
00:33:30
forward in in determining that the scope
00:33:32
of what he's been doing as well as an
00:33:34
aid to
00:33:36
identification these are still frames
00:33:38
from the
00:33:39
videotape the robber appears to be 6 ft
00:33:42
to 6'2 in tall and weighs between 200
00:33:46
and 220 lb over the years he has made
00:33:51
off with more than
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$400,000 if any one has any information
00:33:59
about this case please log on to our
00:34:01
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00:34:02
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00:34:07
next a rock from Mars may hold proof
00:34:10
that we are not alone in the
00:34:22
universe deep
00:34:24
space each New Image brings up the
00:34:27
ageold
00:34:29
question is there life somewhere else in
00:34:32
the
00:34:33
universe some imagine the answer would
00:34:36
come from a spaceship carrying aliens
00:34:39
from a farway
00:34:44
civilization but in fact the truth might
00:34:46
be hidden in this ordinary looking piece
00:34:49
of meteorite known as rock number
00:34:54
84001 today Rock 84 of
00:34:58
o1 speaks to us across all those
00:35:00
billions of years and millions of miles
00:35:03
it speaks of the possibility of
00:35:07
life this meteorite came from the planet
00:35:10
Mars and traveled millions of miles over
00:35:13
millions of years until it finally
00:35:15
slammed into
00:35:17
Earth it may forever change the way we
00:35:20
view the
00:35:21
universe this meteoroid if it should
00:35:24
prove true would be literally one of the
00:35:27
turning points one of the defining
00:35:29
epochs and all of human exploration and
00:35:32
Discovery I think it would be almost an
00:35:34
icon for the 20th
00:35:38
century some scientists theorize that
00:35:41
the seeds for life on Earth were planted
00:35:44
by
00:35:45
microorganisms from
00:35:47
Mars ironically what may prove to be the
00:35:50
most remarkable Discovery in the history
00:35:52
of mankind began with a completely
00:35:56
unremarkable event
00:36:01
Antarctica December
00:36:03
1984 Dr Robert score was among a team of
00:36:07
American scientists on a geological
00:36:09
Expedition searching for
00:36:11
meteorites Dr score picked up the rock
00:36:14
now known as number
00:36:17
84001 it weighs only 4.2 lb and is the
00:36:21
size of a large potato no one paid any
00:36:24
attention to it and for 8 years it's had
00:36:27
a on a shelf Gathering
00:36:30
dust this meteorite was essentially
00:36:32
misclassified or not very carefully
00:36:34
classified as an ordinary Earth
00:36:36
meteorite and only later on when a
00:36:39
geologist named David midfi looked at it
00:36:41
more carefully did he realize no this is
00:36:43
characteristic of a Martian meteorite it
00:36:45
is just the precise ratio of certain
00:36:46
isotopes that make it clear that it came
00:36:49
from Mars as it turned out
00:36:52
84001 was only the 12th Martian
00:36:55
meteorite ever found it is 4.5 billion
00:36:59
years old almost as old as our solar
00:37:02
system and existed at least 1 billion
00:37:05
years before life began on
00:37:08
earth a team of NASA scientists finally
00:37:11
analyzed the
00:37:12
rock deep within were what appeared to
00:37:15
be Signs of
00:37:17
Life the fossilized remains of dozens of
00:37:20
incredibly tiny
00:37:22
microorganisms it's not a Smoking Gun as
00:37:25
we've said in our paper we have not
00:37:27
found proof of living venic activity in
00:37:30
this Martian sample but we have a trail
00:37:32
of
00:37:34
evidence for a scientist a trail of
00:37:36
evidence is like a map to buried
00:37:39
treasure however this map goes back in
00:37:41
time as well as taking us to a different
00:37:45
place it suggests a remarkable Journey
00:37:48
that began on Mars 4 and a half billion
00:37:52
years ago when our solar system was just
00:37:55
taking shape at the same time time
00:37:58
84001 was being formed Mars was being
00:38:01
bombarded by a catastrophic meteor storm
00:38:05
its surface was left covered with
00:38:07
craters and
00:38:09
crevices early in the history of Mars we
00:38:11
feel it was warmer and it was wetter
00:38:14
there was abundance of water on the
00:38:15
surface of the planet the atmosphere was
00:38:17
more
00:38:18
dense liquid water moved across the
00:38:21
surface of the planet it also percolated
00:38:23
down through the
00:38:26
cracks oh over the next 500 million
00:38:29
years chemical reactions in this
00:38:31
primeval soup apparently produced A
00:38:34
Primitive life form as the water
00:38:36
evaporated the microscopic life forms
00:38:39
were enclosed in rock and became
00:38:42
fossilized one such rock may have been
00:38:48
84001 then it sat on the surface of the
00:38:50
planet for a period of time up until 16
00:38:54
million years ago when a large meteorite
00:38:57
or Comet possibly slammed into the
00:38:59
surface of Mars with enough energy that
00:39:02
it caused it to be lifted off the
00:39:04
surface of Mars and escaped the
00:39:06
gravitational field of the planet it
00:39:08
traveled through space for 16 million
00:39:10
years and 13,000 years ago fell on the
00:39:14
ice fields of the Antarctic in
00:39:16
1984 Robbie score picked it up and the
00:39:20
rest is
00:39:21
history it is at this point that history
00:39:24
supposedly takes an incredible turn
00:39:29
while the organisms in
00:39:30
84001 were fossilized it's quite
00:39:34
possible that other meteorites carried
00:39:36
living organisms all the way to Earth
00:39:40
these organisms could have been the
00:39:42
source of all life on our
00:39:45
planet to put it simply the human race
00:39:48
May in fact be
00:39:52
Martian no doubt that life could have
00:39:54
originated on Mars and come to Earth
00:39:56
billions of years ago in this kind of
00:39:57
process where something hits Mars and
00:40:00
knocks pieces loose and likewise it's
00:40:02
just as possible more or less that life
00:40:04
could originate on Earth and gone to
00:40:06
Mars the possibilities are enough to
00:40:09
excite even skeptical scientists but
00:40:11
they warned that
00:40:13
84001 is not definitive Proof of Life on
00:40:18
Mars what we really need to do is to
00:40:20
send a sample return Mission dig up
00:40:23
Martian soil dig up a rock ideally from
00:40:25
a meter or two beneath the soil bring it
00:40:28
back chemically analyze it in pristine
00:40:30
lab find a cell it's
00:40:32
done on December 4th
00:40:35
1996 the unmanned Pathfinder spacecraft
00:40:38
took off for Mars during its 9-month
00:40:41
visit to the red planet Pathfinder
00:40:44
collected more than 177,000 images and
00:40:47
performed more than a dozen chemical
00:40:49
studies of rocks soil and weather data
00:40:53
we're really intrigued with the
00:40:55
possibility that life may still exist on
00:40:58
Mars and if it does exist it it almost
00:41:03
has to exist underneath the surface now
00:41:06
that doesn't mean Little Green Men or
00:41:08
you know UFOs or anything like that but
00:41:10
it does mean that scientists really do
00:41:12
believe that life does exist in other
00:41:13
places and we just have to find
00:41:16
it I never dreamed that I would have the
00:41:19
opportunity to work on a problem of this
00:41:21
magnitude this is a tremendous Awakening
00:41:25
to
00:41:26
mankind that
00:41:27
hey we may not be alone in this vast
00:41:30
Universe which we reside perhaps there
00:41:33
people out there on these other bodies
00:41:35
that are also searching for
00:41:40
Life NASA has continued to probe for
00:41:42
Life supporting conditions on Mars
00:41:45
during its Phoenix mission in 2008 NASA
00:41:48
landed a robotic spacecraft on the
00:41:50
surface of the planet and tested for
00:41:53
traces of water in the soil and
00:41:55
atmosphere science scientists still hope
00:41:58
to get one step closer to answering the
00:42:00
ageold
00:42:03
question are we
00:42:06
alone or is there any other life out
00:42:10
there
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