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tonight on unsolved mysteries married
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only three months I shall wither all
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died in this tragic fall her husband
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said it was an accident her family
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believes she was murdered it was a
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whirlwind romance with a bitter ironic
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twist the groom was a convicted killer
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serving life in prison until he
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convinced his new wife to help him
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escape
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now her children would like to find her
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and the police say she is free to come
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home without fear of punishment party
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time in Tijuana but for this college
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student the revelry proved fatal
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was Jason artists hit by a car or did he
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anger the Tijuana police Carl McWilliams
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is friendly and personable he is also a
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fugitive on the run from statutory rape
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charges police need your help
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a cold winter night in a small town near
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Pittsburgh Pennsylvania the broken body
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and Michelle wither all lay sprawled on
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the asphalt outside her apartment
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Michelle was just 24 years old
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a newlywed she and her husband Jeremy
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had been living in Pittsburgh since her
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marriage three months earlier they moved
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from their home in Denver expecting to
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build a new life now Michelle was in
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critical condition bleeding heavily from
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severe head injuries Jeremy with her own
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told police Michelle had fallen from
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their balcony three flights up he said
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he had been playing solitaire in the
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living room of their apartment when he
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heard his sound he stepped outside
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looked over the railing and saw his
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wife's body on the ground below
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paramedics rushed Michelle to the trauma
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unit at a Pittsburgh hospital it was
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December 20th 1992 just five days before
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Christmas
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within hours Michelle's parents claimed
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Jeremy's mother called them with the
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awful news and a second version of his
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story she told me that there had been a
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terrible accident and that Michelle had
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been out on the balcony at their
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apartment and that she'd been putting up
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Christmas lights and that the balcony
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had collapsed causing her to fall
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Michelle and Jeremy wither all had
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planned to go home to Denver for the
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holidays instead Michelle's family flew
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to Pittsburgh on the first flight out
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the left side of Michelle's head was
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fractured and she was in a coma
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in addition her jaw was broken but
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strangely her nose and teeth were
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unharmed by the three-story fall at that
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very moment I think questions were
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beginning to come in to our thoughts how
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did she get her I busted open and her
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jaw broken with no damage in between why
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don't you sit down the mellah must
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believe Michelle knew they were with her
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and tried her best to let them know they
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squeezed my hand
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hanging asleep we really think that her
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squeezing hebbs hand she was telling us
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goodbye
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and then the doctor walked in from the
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back and said that I'm sorry but you're
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gonna have to leave Michelle as has died
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it would seem only two people in the
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world knew how Michelle had been injured
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one of them was now gone Michelle's
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parents claimed that moments later
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Jeremy whither all came up with another
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version a third version of how she felt
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we just got home for dinner and I was
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playing a game of solitaire and Michelle
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and I we weren't even talking and then
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she went out to the balcony for
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something and when I looked up there she
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was she was hanging
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and I should have got her she was just
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barely hanging there I could have got
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her Jeremy with her own declined to be
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interviewed
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however he claims he gave just one
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version of Michelle's fall that he only
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discovered she had fallen when he saw
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her body on the ground below mallanna's
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still insists they were given three
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different stories three stories or one
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who is right according to detectives the
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whither roles were having trouble in
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their marriage they say Jeremy admitted
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arguing with Michel that evening while
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driving back from a restaurant an
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argument that continued at home
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neighbors say Michelle and Jeremy had
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been fighting frequently fights so loud
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one neighbor complained repeatedly to
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the building manager violence is what
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she called it physically throwing each
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other around the apartment and somewhere
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in the area one to three weeks before
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Michelle's death she came into my office
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and said in no uncertain terms she said
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someone's gonna get killed out there and
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she was very frightened she was scared
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the members became more and more
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suspicious they began questioning the
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police investigation that's the whole
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story
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when the detectives would start out by
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saying well Jeremy says my thought was
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well you guys are homicide detectives
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you were called into this evidently for
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a reason now if all you're telling us
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that's what jeremy says what's the point
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if this man is a suspect in a homicide
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and by his own admission he he said he
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was the only one there then why would
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you take his word
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the melon was found troubling
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inconsistencies in Jeremy's account one
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Michelle's wrists were broken but her
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palms were completely unscratched if she
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fractured her wrist trying to break her
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fall her palms should have been cut to
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one of Michelle's shoes were discovered
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26 feet from her body
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the other shoe was never found and
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finally Jeremy wither all took the time
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to double lock his apartment before
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allegedly racing to his wife's side
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unscathed palms a missing chute a locked
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door the Malolos wondered why according
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to the police
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Jeremy wither all took not one but two
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polygraph tests they say he passed both
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the Allegheny County Coroner officially
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labeled the cause of Michelle's death as
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undetermined homicide accident or
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suicide the Malolos insist it couldn't
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have been suicide
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Michelle had a high regard for life
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Michelle was a happy person Michelle had
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so many goals in life and when she had
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made the statement to me about
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separating from Jeremy she had dealt
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with the situations in her marriage that
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she was not pleased with and she had
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also made her plan on how to remedy
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those situations and that was to
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separate and ask the Jeremy get
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professional help the members also
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believe the accident theory was unlikely
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the balcony was 48 inches chest-high
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from Michelle the wall was too high for
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anybody to lose their balance it wasn't
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a poorly constructed balcony it was very
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adequate in Heights to prevent something
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like that from happening
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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 murdered
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but possibly not by a fall according to
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forensic experts 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 of that Michelle weather
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all demonstrated at her autopsy were
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quite extensive but these were all left
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sided these injuries are what we call qu
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direct impact injuries as from a blow
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what says Michelle's other injuries also
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indicated an assault in addition what
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wasn't harmed as significant her pelvis
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was unbroken and her internal organs
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were undamaged that is extremely
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inconsistent very atypical of the kinds
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of injuries that we would find in a fall
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another red flag Michelle's body was
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allegedly foam more than nine feet from
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the building if I had to pick one single
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physical factor in this case that leads
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me to the conclusion that it was not an
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accidental fall or a suicidal fall it
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would be that somebody can dive in a
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suicidal attempt and leap several feet
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away from the building or you can be
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thrown and wind up several feet from the
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building you do not accidentally fall
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and wind up nine feet the body doesn't
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bounce finally the Allegheny County
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coroner's office opened the first
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official inquiry into the case
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the verdict was quick and clear homicide
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we're thankful for the outcome of the
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hearing the coroner's ruling didn't
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specify how Michel died but her parents
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feel certain they know I think that
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night she made the mistake of telling
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Jeremy she was going to leave him we
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think she ran from the apartment fleeing
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for her life at that point and the
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assault you know she was then found and
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assaulted outside of the apartment the
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melon was believed the balcony story was
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a quickly improvised cover up a safe way
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for Jeremy with her old to explain
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Michelle's injuries while no one on
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Jeremy's side was willing to be
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interviewed they emphasized the despite
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the melamed suspicions Jeremy did pass a
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police polygraph twice we told Jeremy
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from the day Michelle died that we want
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to find out and we plan to find out
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everything there is to find out about
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what happened to Michelle and we will
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pursue justice in this case no matter
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where it takes us
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next he was a convicted murderer she was
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a lonely Widow together they staged a
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daring Prison Break all right make a
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wish and blow those candles at Sherry
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Nickerson's 50th birthday was hardly a
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joyous event she was living with her
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uncle's family and though they did their
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best it was impossible to pretend anyone
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was happy I was numb I didn't I didn't
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feel anything I wasn't happy it was the
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worst birthday in my life
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small wonder Sheree's party included a
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number of uninvited guests Oklahoma
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State Troopers stationed inside the
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house and out they were there because of
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a crime involving Sherry's mother a
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crime committed nine days earlier now
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let's go to lifers had escaped from a
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nearby Oklahoma prison
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Sherry's mother Donna Moses Brown had
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driven the getaway car Sherry's mom has
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been on the run ever since
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however she has never been charged with
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any crime because both her family and
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the authorities view her as a victim a
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lonely Widow so desperate for love that
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she could be manipulated by a convicted
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killer Leigh Michael Wayne brown hi
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Michael hi Ron eclis it was a good deed
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that introduced Donna to Brown's world
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her church group started writing letters
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to convicts to help them find spiritual
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comfort but these pen pals quickly
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became more you know I don't know if I
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can make it in this place if it wasn't
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for those letters that I get from you
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know you do I mean you do so much you're
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always so supportive you know you write
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real sweet letters too I cannot get over
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how beautiful you are
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oh she was lonely she hadn't had anybody
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for a very long time
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and she needed that companionship you
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know someone someone you know to talk to
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her about things and show her love and
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affection and that's what she got from
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him how are you doing I'm okay it's hard
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he spoke with her and I think that
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that's pretty much all it mattered he he
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wrote her it was somebody new in her
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life and I think that it probably could
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have been anybody to him but she was the
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victim that fell into the line of fire I
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guess these are great Mike Wayne brown
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like lot of men are incarcerated for
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long periods of time they really don't
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have any concern for other people's
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rights or more lives they've got all the
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time in the world to scam to scheme on
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people and they get quite good at it
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they can sell you a chance on the desert
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she wrote him everyday she talked to him
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on the phone every day it kind of
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started and went full force
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there was no slowing down I think Donna
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Brown was under the misconception that
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Michael William Brown was just a
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misunderstood young man they were
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through unfortunate circumstances was
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doing time but Michael Wayne Brown was
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hardly misunderstood everyone but Donna
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knew what he was and what he was was a
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cold-blooded killer nine years earlier
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when Brown was only 18 he and another
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teenager Dennis Woodward burglarized an
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insurance office in Broken Arrow
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Oklahoma
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insurance investigator Richard Sullivan
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picked the wrong time to stop by for a
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file Brown was very very hyper
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after that defendant he said I think I
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killed him I killed him almost bragging
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about it he looks over at Woodward and
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he said if I had one more bullet I would
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have shot his eyes out and thereafter
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they went off to have breakfast at a
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local restaurant while Brown was eating
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his bacon and eggs 41 year old Richard
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Sullivan bled to death on his office
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floor he left behind a wife and a young
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daughter
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Michael Wayne Brown was put on death row
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for murdering Richard Sullivan however
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that sentence was later commuted to life
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without parole
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by the time Brown met Donna Moses in
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1984 he has spent nine years in prison
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meanwhile Donna had served a different
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kind of time she had been married twice
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and widowed twice both husbands had been
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murdered raising two children on her own
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a constant struggle perhaps it was just
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another ironic twist in Donna's
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hard-luck life that Sheena found herself
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in love with a murderer ten years her
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junior it was consuming her too much you
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know she didn't have time for anything
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else but him I mean she could visit him
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every weekend and it was like the whole
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week was preparing to see him this is
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your copy less than three months after
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brown first met Donna he performed a
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brief transformation from shackled
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prisoner to Iger bridegroom yes sir
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do you Michael Wayne brown take this
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woman to be your lawfully wedded wife to
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love her to cherish her for as long as
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you both might live
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I do do you Donna Moses take this man to
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be your lawfully wedded husband to love
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and to cherish him from this day forward
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as long as you both shall live
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I love you
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moments after the ceremony the honeymoon
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was over Brownback in shackles and
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prison orange was returned to his cell
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Donna sent her children to stay with
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relatives and followed Brown as he was
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transferred from prison to prison
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sometimes living out of her car between
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visiting days she wrote letters
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Michael Wayne Brown became Donna's whole
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world in November of 1984 Brown was
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transferred to a minimum security prison
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it was a perfect opportunity
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Brown wasted little time less than three
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weeks later Michael Wayne Brown and
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another inmate jumped a four-foot fence
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and raced for freedom other time cars
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discovered them missing it was too late
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police have remained a step or two
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behind Brown ever since a few days after
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the escape they tracked him to Paris
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Texas but missed him by a matter of
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minutes since then Brown is known to
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have lived in Kentucky New Jersey Texas
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and Virginia for three years Donna's
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family had no word from her no idea if
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she was alive or dead
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finally in 1987 Donna Braun made an
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unexpected call to her daughter yeah hi
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it's me are you okay
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Michael and I broke up you know it was
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just kind of a quick thing in that sauce
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told me she loved me and that was it
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though Donna had said she wanted to come
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home she never did for years went by
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Donna called again asking if she had
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grandchildren at that time she didn't
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since then however Donna's children
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sherry and David have each had a son
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both would like nothing more than to
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introduce the boys to their long-lost
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grandmother I'm afraid that she's afraid
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that we don't want her back I'm afraid
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that my mom feels like that she did
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something really bad and that she can't
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face us anymore how are we gonna act to
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her and what I say to her is it's okay
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there is nothing to stop Donna Braun
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from rejoining her family except Donna
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Brown she can come home at any time
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there's no arrest warrant either by
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issued by the state of Oklahoma or by
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the federal government for her she's not
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wanted on any charges and in fact we
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would encourage her if she's no longer
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with brown and we've in fact she is with
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brown to immediately contact the
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authorities
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coming up a college student clashed with
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Tijuana police his family believes the
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police retaliated
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do you wanna it's been one of Mexico's
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most popular border towns for decades
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especially for college students hundreds
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hit nightclubs every weekend hunting big
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phone at bargain rates but a good time
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doesn't always come cheap it can cost
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you your life
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1:30 a.m.
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Tijuana time Steven Thomas was looking
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for his brother Jason in the crowds
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parting on avenida revolucion they'd
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become separated while heading back to
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their car I looked to the right of me I
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turn around my brother wasn't there I
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mean it was like they're an hour and a
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half after Jason disappeared the Tijuana
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police officer discovered his battered
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body in the road
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Jason was drinking and he was loud and
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obnoxious and maybe out of control that
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night I believe that Jason was murdered
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by the Tijuana police 20 year-old Jason
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artis had moved from Virginia to Los
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Angeles one year earlier to go to
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college a week before his death he
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brought his younger brother Steven out
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for a visit
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they spent a week during a top tourist
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spots in Los Angeles then Jason decided
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he couldn't let Steven go back home
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without showing him a good time south of
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the border
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Saturday night August 1st 1998
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Tijuana's main drag avenida revolucion
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was packed with party people the feel of
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Fiesta was part of the draw but for many
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the loose drinking laws were the biggest
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attraction that night Jason Steve and
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their friend Michael Justin has started
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bar hopping about nine mostly hitting
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places that offered all you could drink
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for less than five dollars
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Jason was usually friendly and easygoing
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but he had a reputation as a rowdy
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drinker by the time he ran into a
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tequila where he was already a little
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drunk he didn't realize a tequila cost
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extra six dollars a shot Jason didn't
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won't give up the money so I chasing
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come on just just give me the money and
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let's get out of here you know I'm
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saying this ain't the spot we need to be
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it
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Jason is Steven left Michael at the bar
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and went back out on the strip mash
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geysers just to hurry up and find the
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car so we can go sit down we're kind of
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drunk no Sam walking around Tijuana
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walking on Street man that's me with my
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brother accidentally bumped into a
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female officer according to Steven
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another Tijuana police officer had tried
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to shake them down earlier that evening
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demanding cash or Julie Jason was still
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angry but I was kind of frustrated at my
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brother for the simple fact of being
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that drunk my fellas was just I'm ready
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to go home I'm ready to get back to Van
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Nuys I told him walk behind me come on
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let's hurry up and try to find his car
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he's like three or four yards behind me
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at first that's when I walked up some
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more to another block he walked up I
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look to the right I look behind me and
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my brother wasn't there my first
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reaction was probably that he's sitting
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down on a curb somewhere I was sitting
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up against the bed and anything like
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that you know I'm saying because we work
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on I intoxicated soon after Steven lost
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sight of Jason Michael Justin claims he
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spotted him in the back of a police car
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look I see what is he doing in the back
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of a police car there were the last
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people I saw Jason when I saw Jason with
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my own eyes in the back of a police car
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like I know my hand
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Michael and Steven never saw Jason again
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two days later the American consulate
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set word that Jason was dead his aunt
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Tina Martin Smith went to Tijuana to
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identify the body
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I remember thinking this is not Jason
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there Jason
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is somewhere in the jail in Tijuana and
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someone has robbed him and they've taken
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his ID and this person is in the morgue
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and I looked down and it was Jason it
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was tips
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Tijuana authorities told Jason's family
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he must have gotten lost trying to make
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his way back to the border the
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authorities called it a tragic hit and
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run accident but there were a number of
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unanswered questions I believe that they
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had something to do with the police I
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feel that for a fact I thought Michael
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told me that he see my brother in the
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back of a police car
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it's gotta be something out there do you
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want a police deny that allegation they
00:28:12
say they never had Jason artists in
00:28:14
custody we check and double-check almost
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a whole month of agus and there is no
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attention with that name sometimes it
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happens that they miss write the name in
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our computer so we're on it with the
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three names we found nothing Jason's
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family got a copy of the autopsy report
00:28:41
through the American consulate and had
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it translated into English nothing was
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adding up first of all they stated that
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Jason was hit by a car and we had these
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conflicting things we had the photos of
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him with no injuries to his lower
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extremities with these unexplained
00:29:05
five-inch marks all over his body and
00:29:09
chest area and in his face but the
00:29:13
requests of unsolved mysteries three
00:29:15
forensic pathologists reviewed the
00:29:17
autopsy report one said Jason's death
00:29:21
did indeed appear to be the result of a
00:29:23
simple hit and run to others however
00:29:26
agreed that the inconsistencies were
00:29:28
puzzling I would be very skeptical of
00:29:33
one the autopsy findings and the
00:29:35
assertion that this was simply a
00:29:37
hit-and-run accident
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what has to apply hide the view
00:29:39
skepticism for the entire autopsy my
00:29:42
view for instance the Tijuana corner
00:29:47
claimed the car had hit Jason on the
00:29:48
chest hard enough to rupture his heart
00:29:51
Nora from blunt blow but to get through
00:29:54
the sternum and then rupture the heart
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it would have to virtually crush the
00:29:58
chest and it's quite evident from the
00:30:00
autopsy if that chest is not is not
00:30:02
badly mashed there are no bruises on it
00:30:04
there are no big hematomas so that
00:30:06
becomes incredible I mean the autopsy
00:30:09
report becomes incredible another point
00:30:13
Jason's injuries included head wounds
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that might easily have been the result
00:30:17
of a beating
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certainly the lesions are around the
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head in the skull which was severe I
00:30:23
certainly consistent with the butt of a
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rifle or any other sharp or even blunt
00:30:29
object that that could be used on an
00:30:32
individual I believe that he was beaten
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and after he was beaten perhaps in an
00:30:39
attempt to to destroy the evidence that
00:30:41
they perhaps ran over and or drugged and
00:30:45
I believe that when he was run over that
00:30:49
he was already dead
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though Tijuana authorities say the case
00:30:55
is still under investigation they also
00:30:58
believe Jason's family may be
00:30:59
overreacting we have had responses from
00:31:04
the families in conflict with the sane
00:31:07
of the hop Topsy and the statement from
00:31:10
our department even then sometimes where
00:31:15
there they are witnesses of an accident
00:31:17
and there is a driver responsible for
00:31:19
the accident there have been some
00:31:22
families a stating that then they are
00:31:25
accepting that was an accident
00:31:27
maybe should have gone to jail for the
00:31:29
night but he didn't nobody nobody
00:31:32
deserves to die that way
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next Tara Roy was losing her battle with
00:31:41
cancer until she touched the headstone
00:31:44
of a little girl who died over three
00:31:46
decades earlier Lourdes France Fatima
00:31:59
Portugal
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and magic oriya in the former Yugoslavia
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every year they come by the millions the
00:32:09
dying the disabled the sick at heart
00:32:11
[Music]
00:32:14
they come in the hope of being
00:32:16
miraculously healed in the hope of being
00:32:18
touched by God now many are making a
00:32:23
pilgrimage to a new Mecca for miracles
00:32:26
the tomb of a young girl buried in a
00:32:29
small graveyard in a tiny town in rural
00:32:31
Louisiana
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her name was Charlene Richard many
00:32:37
people say that even from the grave she
00:32:40
has the power to heal one of those was
00:32:43
Nicole price when Nicole was two years
00:32:47
old she was diagnosed with a lethal
00:32:49
cancer she was expected to die within
00:32:52
months perhaps less she and her family
00:32:55
prayed for Charlene's help they believe
00:32:57
that thanks to Charlene Richard Nicole
00:33:00
if not just a few months but nine more
00:33:03
years I feel that Charlene's
00:33:07
intervention in Nicole's life gave us
00:33:09
the nine extra years we had with her
00:33:12
that feels somehow God reached out
00:33:14
through Charlene and touched Nicole
00:33:19
Donna Ledger also believes in Charlene's
00:33:22
healing power in 1979 Donald a sergeant
00:33:27
in the United States Army had an
00:33:29
accidental fall that injured his feet
00:33:31
shattering both heels doctors doubted he
00:33:35
would ever walk again Donald started
00:33:39
praying to Charlene to everyone's
00:33:42
surprise he didn't just walk he even
00:33:45
started running without the intercession
00:33:49
of Charlene I feel that I would not be
00:33:52
able to walk I truly believe this I
00:33:55
believe in miracles I do
00:33:59
but who was Charlene Richard it was 1959
00:34:05
Charlene had leukemia and was suffering
00:34:08
great pain yet when father Brennan found
00:34:11
the courage to tell her she was dying it
00:34:13
was she who comforted him father Brennan
00:34:18
when I see the Blessed Mother I'll tell
00:34:22
her that you said hello
00:34:27
during her last days Charlene thought
00:34:30
often of others she believed in the
00:34:33
Catholic idea that one person suffering
00:34:35
can save another though she was dying
00:34:38
she sulla si offered her pain as
00:34:41
redemption for other patients in the
00:34:43
hospital when the sickness came and the
00:34:49
pain came she grew in crisis
00:34:53
she became great charlene prayed for
00:34:58
others every day for two weeks even as
00:35:01
her own time was running out I will be
00:35:04
gone tomorrow
00:35:05
I want to say goodbye I will be praying
00:35:12
for you
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the next day Charlene died
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I felt a presence in that room of the
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divine
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there was a hour of peace in that room
00:35:36
Charlie's death deeply touched her small
00:35:39
community over the years word spread of
00:35:42
her courage and saintly ways people
00:35:45
started praying to her asking her to
00:35:48
intercede for them with God now
00:35:50
thousands gather each year for a
00:35:52
memorial Mass more and more say they've
00:35:56
experienced Charlene's power to heal
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firsthand in 1994 21 year old Tara Roy
00:36:04
developed colon cancer she was diagnosed
00:36:09
with a Dukes
00:36:11
Class C stage 3 carcinoma and I've done
00:36:16
enough research and reading about it to
00:36:18
where I know that you don't come back
00:36:20
from those terror started heavy doses of
00:36:24
chemotherapy
00:36:25
despite his debilitating side effects
00:36:28
she was determined not to give in to the
00:36:30
disease I didn't want this to interfere
00:36:33
with my life but I didn't want it to
00:36:34
like totally take over you know and
00:36:37
dictate what I would do and how I would
00:36:39
do it I just wanted to be a college
00:36:41
student and go to class and do my job
00:36:46
but Tara's determination wasn't enough
00:36:48
to make her better every day she felt
00:36:51
worse she soon felt she needed more than
00:36:54
medicine
00:36:57
Tara and her parents started making
00:36:59
frequent trips to Charlie's grave on
00:37:01
their last trip however Tara was so sick
00:37:04
they thought she might die within weeks
00:37:07
with the cumulative chemotherapy in real
00:37:10
strong we almost didn't we almost turned
00:37:13
around and came home I didn't want to go
00:37:15
I felt terrible it's probably one of
00:37:16
those days I just didn't want to do
00:37:18
anything laying in bed was challenged
00:37:20
deep down I wanted to go to the grave
00:37:22
that day I just didn't physically feel
00:37:24
up to it at all
00:37:28
Tara knelt by Shirley's grave as usual
00:37:31
then some impulse inspired her to do
00:37:34
something she had never done before with
00:37:39
her fingers she traced the letters of
00:37:41
Charlene's name and in about 20 seconds
00:37:49
she turned around and she was
00:37:53
transformed and I saw her I was stunned
00:37:58
I felt like yes a lot had been lifted
00:38:01
right then like just like a weight off
00:38:04
my shoulder was lifted right then pop
00:38:05
I'm gonna be okay I just felt that I
00:38:09
definitely would be healthy again and I
00:38:11
would I would beat this Terra did beat
00:38:16
it both the cancer and the effects of
00:38:18
the chemotherapy she is now back to
00:38:21
being a healthy and happy young woman
00:38:23
she finished college would all to get a
00:38:25
masters degree in social work and is
00:38:28
engaged to be married I saw the hand of
00:38:32
God I saw what I needed to say that day
00:38:36
we saw a miracle no doubt does a spirit
00:38:41
of Charlene Richard reach out from her
00:38:42
grave to help those who send her their
00:38:44
prayers skeptics aren't convinced yet
00:38:48
for the thousands who visit Charlene's
00:38:50
grave the answer isn't unwavering yes
00:38:54
next help authorities catch Carl
00:38:57
McWilliams wanted by State College
00:38:59
police for child molestation
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recently authorities in Pennsylvania
00:39:10
contacted us with a request to profile a
00:39:12
fugitive consider to be very
00:39:14
manipulative and dangerous
00:39:15
please watch closely you may be able to
00:39:19
help put this individual behind bars
00:39:23
State College Pennsylvania a young
00:39:26
mother struggling to raise her three
00:39:27
young children alone met Carl McWilliams
00:39:30
in the fall of 1992 he lived only a few
00:39:34
doors away and they were both students
00:39:36
at Pennsylvania State University the two
00:39:41
became friends and eventually Carl
00:39:43
McWilliams became like family for the
00:39:46
sake of her children their mother who we
00:39:48
will call Sarah asked that we not reveal
00:39:51
her identity Carl was a very personable
00:39:55
man he was friendly he got along
00:39:58
beautifully with my children they adored
00:40:00
him he was to me like the perfect a
00:40:04
father figure for my children the fact
00:40:09
was Carl McWilliams was a convicted
00:40:11
child molester he had spent six years in
00:40:15
prison for molesting his 8 year old
00:40:17
daughter one day Sarah came home from
00:40:20
work early to find Carl McWilliams had
00:40:22
become her worst nightmare he was
00:40:25
allegedly locked in a bedroom with her
00:40:27
young daughter he opened the door and he
00:40:30
was as pale as a ghost and he had broken
00:40:33
out into a real cold sweat and even till
00:40:36
this day it's something so vile that I
00:40:40
could never even put a handle on it
00:40:43
I couldn't imagine someone doing that to
00:40:46
a five-year-old child Sarah and her
00:40:51
children moved away from the area and
00:40:54
for seven years she anguished about
00:40:56
whether to report the incident to police
00:40:58
I felt that if I expose them to the
00:41:03
police and agencies that it would be
00:41:06
worse for the girls and I felt it was
00:41:08
better for me as their mother to try to
00:41:12
handle it
00:41:14
finally Sarah realized the police needed
00:41:17
to know about McWilliams behavior
00:41:20
authorities found Carl McWilliams living
00:41:23
with another woman and her children just
00:41:25
two miles from the neighborhood Sarah
00:41:27
and her children had fled Carl
00:41:31
McWilliams was ordered to leave the
00:41:33
house and relocated to a nearby motel
00:41:35
while police investigated the
00:41:38
allegations against him he stayed there
00:41:40
one night and checked out the next
00:41:42
morning and that's the last indication
00:41:45
of any specific location that that we
00:41:48
knew he possibly could have been Carl
00:41:51
McWilliams has been charged with rape
00:41:53
statutory rape aggravated indecent
00:41:56
assault and indecent assault he is most
00:42:00
likely working in the logging industry
00:42:01
in the United States or Canada Carl has
00:42:05
on occasion changed his appearance he's
00:42:08
changed his hairstyle he's changed his
00:42:11
glasses style or maybe lost a little
00:42:13
weight gained a little weight it
00:42:15
wouldn't surprise me right now if he is
00:42:17
somewhere living with another woman who
00:42:21
has little girls because that's what he
00:42:24
does
00:42:24
I think it's important that he's caught
00:42:27
so that he doesn't have the opportunity
00:42:29
to do this to other children no one has
00:42:33
that right to violate a child like that
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