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[music playing]
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DENNIS FARINA: Next on
"Unsolved Mysteries"--
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three friends set off in a
boat, only one comes back alive.
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And he's accused of
killing the others.
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A tragic motorcycle
accident leaves
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a young woman brain damaged.
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Now she's missing and police
need your help to find her.
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The Gulf War, the Oklahoma City
bombing, a deadly earthquake
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in Japan, does the Bible
contain a secret code
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that predicted these events?
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And meet two women who swear
by a controversial treatment
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for MS--
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honeybee stings.
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Five stories-- they're all
strange, but guess what?
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They're all true.
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I'm Dennis Farina and this
is "Unsolved Mysteries."
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[theme music]
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In Clearwater,
Florida three friends
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set out by boat for a night
of partying on Honeymoon
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Island a mile off the coast.
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Two of them don't return.
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No!
No!
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Easy, easy!
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Right there, Freddie
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DENNIS FARINA: Freddie
Douberley and Mary Lou Holmes
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are found murdered.
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The third man on the
boat, Glenn Consagra,
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is charged with the
double homicide.
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Before his trial, Glenn pleads
guilty to second degree murder.
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But once in prison, he
claims that he's innocent.
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DOUG CROW: I don't think there's
any question that Consagra
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is guilty of the offense.
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The evidence is overwhelming.
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And I'm not surprised
by his continued
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attempts to escape
the punishment
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for the crimes he committed.
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GLENN CONSAGRA: I didn't
kill Mary Lou or Fred.
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They were my best friends.
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We were celebrating a
very wonderful occasion.
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We were just best friends out
doing their thing together.
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It was a special time for
us and it turned to tragedy.
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No, I didn't kill them.
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DENNIS FARINA: A
convict who claims
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he's innocent is nothing new.
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But what makes this case unique
is that Glenn's story is backed
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up by a private investigator
and a special task
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force of the Public
Defender's Office.
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They found information
and a witness
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who support Glenn's claim
that someone else gunned down
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Freddie Douberley
and Mary Lou Holmes.
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Glenn, Freddie, and Mary Lou
planned to spend the evening
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on Honeymoon Island
celebrating the birth
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of Glenn's grandchild.
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Glenn says that on
the way to the island
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their boat broke down.
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But they managed
to land at 10:00 PM
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on a spoil bank, a tiny
man-made island about halfway
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to their destination.
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They decided to stay,
build a campfire,
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and continue to party.
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GLENN CONSAGRA: Freddie and
Lou drank all day, every day.
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So it was pretty much
their natural state
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of mind to be intoxicated.
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And, um, they were
arguing about something.
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I don't recall what
it was right now.
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It's probably minor.
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But I was uncomfortable.
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And I was tired anyway
and kind of discouraged.
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And I thought, well, I'll
go ahead lay down and rest
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and in the morning
things will be better.
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FREDDIE: (SHOUTING)
You've had enough beer!
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MARY LOU: (SHOUTING) I
haven't had enough beer!
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DENNIS FARINA:
Glenn fell asleep 30
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feet away behind a bait tank.
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[gunfire]
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[gun cocking]
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[gunfire]
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GLENN CONSAGRA: When I
heard the gunshots, I--
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I panicked, because we didn't
take any weapons with us.
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I-- I didn't understand why
there was gunshots out there,
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but I knew something
was going wrong.
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And so I laid there
for a long time,
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until later I heard the
sound of a boat motor
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crank up and fade out
into the distance.
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I don't recall just how
long a period of time
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elapsed between the time I
heard the gunshots and the time
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I heard the boat motor
crank up, but I--
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I just had a sudden, panicky
urge to get away from there.
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My friends are disappeared,
someone had attempted
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to sink the boat, the
motor was missing,
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the campsite was in disarray.
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I knew that something
had gone wrong.
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And whatever it was, I didn't
want to be a part of that.
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I didn't want to
be a party to it.
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DENNIS FARINA: Glenn used a
Styrofoam cooler lid as a float
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and swam back to land.
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At dawn he arrived
at the scene dock
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the group had left
from the night before.
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It was then that he decided
to invent a story about what
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happened at the spoil bank.
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He said that Freddie and Mary
Lou had taken the boat to buy
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more beer and never returned.
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He did not mention anything
about the gunshots.
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GLENN CONSAGRA: My concern
was that if the murderers
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knew that I was a
potential witness,
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that they might come after me.
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DENNIS FARINA: Three days
later, the Coast Guard
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found Freddie and Mary
Lou's bodies floating
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naked just off this spoil bank.
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They were tied to a
boat engine and anchor.
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Two .22 caliber bullets were
found in Freddie's body.
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Mary Lou had been shot
twice with a shotgun.
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Glenn had been seen
with a shotgun and a .22
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the days before the murder.
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He admitted to
being on the island.
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He was the natural suspect.
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DOUG CROW: We basically found
that there were bad feelings
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between he and the victims,
that he had made threats
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toward the victims, that
he was in possession
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of the two exact
types of weapons that
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were used to kill both of them.
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We know that within
days of the murder
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Douberley had not paid for a car
he had received from Consagra--
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refused to make any payments.
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The suggestion was made
by another witness,
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well, why don't we go
over there and we'll rough
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Freddie up and make him pay?
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And Consagra said, don't go over
there, I'll take care of it.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
Sheriff's Department
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uncovered additional information
that implicated Glenn.
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There were rumors that
Freddie was a police informant
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who had fingered Glenn as being
part of a stolen property ring.
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A witness who claimed that Glenn
had threatened Freddie also
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told authorities that Glenn had
asked him to provide an alibi
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for the night of the shootings.
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Glenn was charged with
first degree murder.
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But before the
start of his trial,
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he pleaded guilty to a lesser
charge of second degree murder
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in Freddie's death, and no
contest to second degree
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murder in Mary Lou's death.
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By plea bargaining, Glenn
hoped to be eligible for parole
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in six months.
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Instead, he received two
consecutive life sentences.
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GLENN CONSAGRA:
My attorneys came
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to me with different statements
the different witnesses had
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made.
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And I said, well,
how does it look?
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And they said, well,
Glenn, you have about a one
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in five chance of
winning this case.
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And if you lose, they're
asking for the death penalty.
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I was having
nightmares about being
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placed in the electric chair.
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I ju-- I just couldn't--
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I couldn't tolerate it anymore.
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And whenever they
gave me these options
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and encouraged me to make
that plea, I made the plea.
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I saved my life.
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What he's
suggesting is that he
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intentionally perjured himself.
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He lied to the Court
because of some possibility
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that his lawyer told him about.
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And that, I think,
that's ridiculous.
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He's pleading guilty
to two life terms.
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And that's not a decision
that he or anyone else
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would take lightly.
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DENNIS FARINA:
Glenn's family contact
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that Steve Millwee, a private
investigator based in Tampa.
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He gave Glenn several
lie detector tests
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which he says Glenn passed.
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The prosecution insists
the tests were unreliable
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and dismissed them as evidence.
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Steve went to areas of Tampa
Bay where Glenn and his friends
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lived hoping to
find new evidence.
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STEVE MILLWEE: And I began to
track down the witnesses who
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are at least listed
as witnesses back
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in the original investigation
and speak to them.
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And I began to find
inconsistencies
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in what they had previously
given sworn testimony toward.
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DENNIS FARINA: In this
videotaped confession,
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a woman whom we'll
call Donna told
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Steve a startling
story which supported
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Glenn's claim of innocence.
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Donna said that she went
out to the island that night
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with two of Glenn's associates.
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One of them, whom
we'll call Ted,
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was a key witness who had
implicated Glenn in the crime.
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According to Donna, Ted
was angry at Freddie
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for being a police
informant, and went
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to the island, in his words,
"to take care of business."
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TED: I'm gonna
fix you real good.
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You've been opening your
mouth too much, Freddie.
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DENNIS FARINA: After a
fight, the second man
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held a shotgun to Mary Lou.
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And Ted dragged Donna to
the campfire by her hair,
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and forced the .22 caliber
pistol into her hand.
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[gun cocking]
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STEVE MILLWEE: So you might as
well just tell me everything.
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Tell it to me straight.
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Don't lie to me.
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STEVE MILLWEE: On who?
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DENNIS FARINA: Donna claims that
both she and Ted shot Freddie.
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And that the second
man murdered Mary Lou.
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She also said there
was no sign of Glenn
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Consagra on the island.
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DOUG CROW: This
particular witness
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has been repeatedly
diagnosed as suffering
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from chronic schizophrenia.
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She repeatedly and
continuously fabricated
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stories for no reason
about things of importance
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and things of no importance.
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People who are
emotionally disturbed
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aren't automatically
disqualified as witnesses.
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They can see what they see.
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And if they can relate
it in a rational,
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believable manner, why
shouldn't they be believed
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the same as any other person?
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STEVE MILLWEE: Describe
how Freddie was standing.
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DENNIS FARINA: After confessing
to the private investigator,
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Donna was questioned repeatedly
by the Sheriff's Department.
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She told six different
conflicting versions
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of her story.
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But she never backed off
one important point--
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that Ted, a key
witness against Glenn,
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was involved in the murders.
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And there were other
unanswered questions
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suggesting that the
murders were committed
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by more than one person.
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Freddie and Mary
Lou's bodies together
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weighed nearly 300 pounds.
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Adding the weight of the
anchor and the boat engine,
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how could one
person have carried
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that much down the beach
and 30 feet into the water?
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And if Glenn had committed
the murders, why would he
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sink his own boat, leaving
himself at the crime
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scene with no other way
back to the shore other
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than a dangerous swim?
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This particular
person that, uh,
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Donna suggested was there
and committed the murders,
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is a well-known and very close
associate of Glenn Consagra.
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If, in fact, that individual
was on the spoil bank and did
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have a loud argument
with Freddie Douberley,
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then Glenn Consagra would
have immediately recognized
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his voice and been able to tell
law enforcement from day one
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that this is the man who
committed the murders.
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He has never done so.
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GLENN CONSAGRA: When
I first came here,
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people used to laugh at me when
I would say I was innocent.
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They would say, oh
yeah, me too, you know?
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But um-- I think the
reason I should be believed
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is not because I say anything,
but because the record now
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speaks for itself.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
State conducted
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three separate investigations.
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Each concluded that Glenn
was guilty as charged.
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Glenn Consagra was never
able to prove his innocence.
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He spent 16 years in
prison and was paroled.
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Two years later, he
died of a heart attack.
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Next, a young woman disappears
after a near-fatal motorcycle
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accident.
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San Francisco, California,
one November night
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27-year-old Selena Edon
was on her way home
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from a union meeting.
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[tires screeching]
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LAURIE GALLAGHER:
After the accident,
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she was in a coma for six weeks
and she had some brain damage.
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She had a long way to go.
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DENNIS FARINA: Selena was
admitted to the hospital.
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Her mother and brother
came in from San Diego.
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CLARISSA EDON: Selena,
baby, look who's here--
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Dion.
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SELENA: Hi, Dion.
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DION: Hi, baby.
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How you feel?
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LAURIE GALLAGHER: She had
lost a lot of her memory,
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so it really kind of took
away her personality.
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SELENA: But don't leave me, OK?
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Don't leave me.
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LAURIE GALLAGHER: She
appeared to be like a child
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again, like she didn't
know too much anymore.
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You know, she just--
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you know, like-- like a child.
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DENNIS FARINA: Selena's left eye
had been permanently damaged.
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She suffered painful headaches.
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Her left thigh was crushed.
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And a severe head injury
caused fluid to build up
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around her brain.
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Still, Selena began a demanding
regimen of physical therapy.
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THERAPIST: Just a
little bit of weight.
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CLARISSA EDON:
Selena was the type
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of patient they had to slow up.
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She wanted to do
everything in a hurry.
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It was just that she was
like rushing everything.
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She challenged
herself to the max.
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And it was like a lot of things
that she just couldn't do.
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And I guess she just wasn't
ready to accept the fact
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that she wasn't well yet.
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DENNIS FARINA: Two months
after the accident,
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Selena moved to San Diego
to live with her mother.
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You're doing good.
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CLARISSA EDON: You know,
when she was living with me,
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she started having more,
like, confused episodes.
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There was a lot of
changes, and she
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was having a lot of headaches.
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Uh-huh, so we'll do that.
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DENNIS FARINA: Physically,
Selena was getting better.
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But mentally, she was worse.
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Are you all right, baby?
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Mama, who was that
I was talking to?
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I don't know who
you were talking to.
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Did you forget?
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Yes!
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CLARISSA EDON: Things
like that would upset her.
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That's when I noticed her
frustration more and more.
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And she wanted to be on her own.
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But the more she pushed it, the
more confused she was becoming.
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DENNIS FARINA: Selena decided
to return to San Francisco,
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hoping familiar surroundings
would help her recovery.
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Don't worry.
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LAURIE GALLAGHER: She was very
happy to be in San Francisco
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and to be around her friends.
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But you know, she didn't
appear healthy enough
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to be on her own.
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- Are you OK?
- I'm fine.
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LAURIE GALLAGHER: She was very
unaware of a lot of things.
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So I think she definitely
needed somebody to be with her,
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you know, to help her.
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[phone ringing]
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DENNIS FARINA: About a
year after the accident,
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Selena's mother received
an unexpected phone call.
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Hello.
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SELENA (ON PHONE): Hello, Mama?
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Selena.
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SELENA (ON PHONE): Mama,
I'm going away for a while.
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I've met someone who will
promise to be kind to me.
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Who?
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CLARISSA EDON: She
was evasive with me,
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and that wasn't like her.
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She would tell me
everything, you know.
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You need to come home.
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CLARISSA EDON: I said,
Selena, what you need to do,
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you need to come back home.
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And she said, well,
don't worry if you don't
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hear from me in a month or two.
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And then she said, I'll be
calling you soon, and hung up.
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And this the last I've
heard from Selena.
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TRACY CAVARETTA: The last time
I heard anything of Selena,
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she was leaving for somewhere in
the Midwest with some woman who
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she had just met.
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And I had no idea who it was.
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And, uh, I couldn't get
a last name from her.
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And it was just kind
of a haphazard plan.
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There was no plan.
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It was just like, I'm going.
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Excuse me.
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DENNIS FARINA: Selena's family
hired a private investigator
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to search for her.
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Even after she told her mother
that she was leaving town,
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she was sighted
in San Francisco's
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Tenderloin District.
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When was she here?
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DENNIS FARINA: The investigator
followed up on all the leads,
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but never found her.
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And if you do see her--
MAN: Um-hm.
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--would you give me a call?
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Yeah, sure.
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Thanks.
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DION: You know, I just hope
she's out there, probably,
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you know, just living her life.
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And for what reason
she didn't call us,
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maybe, it's just
because she forgot us.
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Maybe she just don't
remember, your know?
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Hopefully it's one
of those stories.
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Hopefully, you know,
we can find her.
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I want to see
my daughter again.
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That's my baby.
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I love her like I
love all my children,
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and I want her back with us.
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I want her to try to call,
or someone call for her
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if she's unable to call,
and let us know where she is
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and how she is.
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On New Year's Eve, one
year after she disappeared,
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Selena left a garbled message
on a friend's answering machine.
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It was the last time
anyone heard her voice.
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Selena's family and
friends continue
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to believe that she's alive
somewhere in the United States
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and most likely
lost and confused.
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Selena Marie Edon
was born in 1962.
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She stands 5 feet 7 inches tall.
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At the time of her disappearance
she weighed about 110 pounds,
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and she walks with a limp.
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If you have any information,
please log on to our website
00:18:07
at unsolved.com.
00:18:12
Next, are there codes
in the Bible that
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can predict major world events?
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This man believes that
he has found them.
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For many, the Bible
is the word of God,
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a moral instruction manual
on how to live a proper life.
00:18:36
But for journalist
Michael Drosnin,
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there are hidden messages
in the words of the Bible--
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a secret code that he claims
has predicted the most important
00:18:45
events of the 20th century.
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MICHAEL DROSNIN: The
Oklahoma City bombing
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was encoded with the words
"terrible frightening death,"
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and "there will be terror."
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The great Kobe
earthquake in Japan
00:18:58
that killed more than 5,000
was encoded with the words
00:19:03
"earthquake, fire, Kobe,
Japan," and the year
00:19:06
that it took place, 1995.
00:19:09
The Gulf War is encoded with the
words "Hussein, enemy, scuds."
00:19:17
Ever since there
was a Bible, people
00:19:20
have been searching for secret
hidden messages in the Bible.
00:19:25
I can tell you that
there is no doubt
00:19:28
that the Bible Code does exist.
00:19:30
And that it does
detail events that
00:19:32
took place thousands of years
after the Bible was written.
00:19:38
DENNIS FARINA: In
September of 1994,
00:19:40
Drosnin had a letter
hand delivered to Israeli
00:19:43
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
00:19:48
MICHAEL DROSNIN (VOICEOVER):
Mr. Prime Minister,
00:19:51
an Israeli mathematician
has discovered
00:19:53
a hidden code in the Bible.
00:19:55
The only time your
full name Yitzhak Rabin
00:19:58
is encoded in the Bible the
words "assassin that will
00:20:02
assassinate" cross your name.
00:20:05
That should not be ignored.
00:20:08
I think you are in real
danger, but that the danger
00:20:11
can be averted.
00:20:17
DENNIS FARINA: 14 Months later,
Rabin spoke at a peace rally
00:20:20
in Tel Aviv.
00:20:22
[speaking hebrew]
00:20:24
DENNIS FARINA: As
he left the podium,
00:20:25
he was gunned down
by an assassin.
00:20:29
Is it possible that
this event was foretold
00:20:32
nearly 3,000 years ago?
00:20:37
The Torah is said to be
the word of God brought
00:20:40
down from Mount Sinai by Moses.
00:20:44
It makes up the first
five books of the Hebrew
00:20:46
Bible or Old Testament.
00:20:49
Most scholars say the Torah
predates the birth of Jesus.
00:20:55
Prague, 1938-- Rabbi
HMD Weissmandel
00:21:02
discovered the first
known example of Bible
00:21:04
coding in modern times.
00:21:07
The word Torah was spelled
out when he skipped every 50
00:21:11
letters in the book of Genesis.
00:21:15
Skipping the same
number of letters
00:21:17
in the books of Exodus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy
00:21:21
had the same
result. Coincidence?
00:21:25
The odds were against it.
00:21:28
In 1985, Israeli scientist
Doran Witztum and Eliyahu Rips
00:21:33
used the computer program
called a skip code
00:21:37
to find words and patterns in
the Hebrew text of the Torah.
00:21:41
A skip code tells the computer
to start with any letter
00:21:45
of the text and then
skip through the letters
00:21:48
at chosen intervals.
00:21:51
In his book "The Bible
Code" Michael Drosnin
00:21:54
uses this example to
show how it works.
00:21:57
If you skip every three
letters of this sentence,
00:22:01
it would look like this.
00:22:03
You're left with a new sentence.
00:22:05
In this case, the encoded
message is, read the code.
00:22:13
The Israeli mathematicians
ran a skip code searching
00:22:15
for the names of 34
prominent Jewish rabbis
00:22:19
from the past 1,100 years.
00:22:22
Amazingly, all the
names were found
00:22:24
encoded in the book of Genesis
along with their Hebrew dates
00:22:28
of birth or death.
00:22:31
According to Drosnin,
the odds of finding
00:22:34
the dates with the names
were ten million to one.
00:22:39
The published report
caught the attention
00:22:41
of Harold Gans, a
former codebreaker
00:22:44
with the National
Security Agency.
00:22:46
When I first heard
about it, I dismissed
00:22:49
it as simply ridiculous.
00:22:52
DENNIS FARINA: When Gans
wrote his own computer program
00:22:54
to verify the
results for himself,
00:22:57
he also found the
encoded names of cities.
00:23:01
He later learned that these
were the cities where the rabbis
00:23:04
had either been born or died.
00:23:07
The odds here were more
than a million to one.
00:23:11
HAROLD GANS: And I set out to
prove that it was nonsense.
00:23:14
Instead, I ended up proving
that, in fact, it was true.
00:23:17
I must admit, I felt
a chill go up my spine
00:23:19
when I saw it corroborated.
00:23:22
DENNIS FARINA: Using
the skip code programs,
00:23:24
Drosnin searched the
Bible for the names
00:23:26
of historical figures.
00:23:29
According to
Drosnin, Adolf Hitler
00:23:32
is encoded with the words Nazi,
enemy, evil man, and slaughter.
00:23:40
Pearl Harbor is
encoded with the words,
00:23:43
"destruction of the fortress,"
World War, and December 7.
00:23:48
According to Drosnin,
Watergate is encoded
00:23:51
with Nixon and "who was he?"
00:23:55
"President, but he
was kicked out."
00:24:00
In the case of the
Oklahoma City bombing,
00:24:02
Drosnin says the code includes
the name of the structure that
00:24:06
was blown up, the Murrah
Building, the date and time
00:24:09
of the attack, and even the
name of the man convicted
00:24:12
of the crime, Timothy McVeigh.
00:24:16
But not everything in the
code is gloom and doom.
00:24:19
Drosnin says that
Shakespeare is encoded
00:24:21
with "Macbeth" and "Hamlet."
00:24:24
The Wright brothers are
encoded with airplane.
00:24:27
And the phrase "man
on the moon" appears
00:24:30
with spaceship and Apollo 11.
00:24:34
But there are some
who aren't buying it.
00:24:37
Humans are pattern
seeking animals.
00:24:39
We look for cause and
effect relationships
00:24:43
in our environment,
meaningful ones.
00:24:45
The Bible Code is nothing more
than a form of seek and ye
00:24:49
shall find.
00:24:50
Whether you're using the
Bible or the dictionary,
00:24:52
the yellow pages, some
other novels, all you need
00:24:55
is a long string
of letters and then
00:24:57
you can run your computer
skip code sequence program
00:25:01
and come up with
all kinds of things.
00:25:05
DENNIS FARINA: Drosnin says
he ran the skip code program
00:25:07
on several books, including
Tolstoy's "War and Peace,"
00:25:11
but found nothing
of significance.
00:25:14
He is convinced the secret
code is exclusive to the Bible.
00:25:19
MICHAEL DROSNIN: Every major
figure in world history
00:25:21
I have looked for, every
major event in world history
00:25:25
I have looked for has
been encoded accurately,
00:25:30
in remarkable
detail, in the Bible.
00:25:34
DENNIS FARINA: Can the Bible
Code also predict our future?
00:25:37
In 1997, Michael Drosnin
offered this prophecy.
00:25:43
MICHAEL DROSNIN: The
most terrible warning
00:25:45
that's encoded in the Bible
is of a possible nuclear World
00:25:50
War within the next 10 years.
00:25:54
The words World War
and atomic holocaust
00:25:58
are both encoded in the Bible
with the same two years--
00:26:02
the years 2000 and 2006.
00:26:06
I'm not calling that a
prediction, but a warning.
00:26:13
DENNIS FARINA: Thankfully, these
events did not come to pass.
00:26:18
Well, now wait a minute.
00:26:20
You can't prophesize
the end will come,
00:26:23
the end might not come,
the end might be delayed,
00:26:26
or the end might
not come at all.
00:26:27
You've now made it all
possible predictions,
00:26:30
which is no prediction at all.
00:26:31
That's not prophecy.
00:26:33
The Bible Code, as
far as I'm concerned,
00:26:35
does not predict anything.
00:26:38
It warns us of possible dangers.
00:26:42
It doesn't give us one
predetermined future, but
00:26:45
all of our possible futures.
00:26:49
DENNIS FARINA: Drosnin also
claimed that in 1993 he
00:26:52
found the word twin, the
word tower, and the phrase
00:26:57
"they will collapse--
00:26:58
fall" at exactly the
same place in the Bible.
00:27:02
At the time, he believed
that it was in reference
00:27:04
to the terrorist bombing
of the Twin Towers
00:27:06
that had occurred in
February of that year.
00:27:10
After 9/11, Drosnin and
the Bible Code scholars
00:27:13
say they looked for and
found the name Bin Laden
00:27:17
and the word airplane
in the same location.
00:27:22
According to
Drosnin, in the year
00:27:24
2012 Earth will be
pounded by comets.
00:27:28
But other encoded
doomsday predictions never
00:27:31
materialized, including a 2005
smallpox epidemic in Israel,
00:27:37
and a nuclear attack on
New York City in 2006.
00:27:44
HAROLD GANS: Mr.
Drosnin is a journalist.
00:27:46
He is reporting
on a very complex
00:27:48
mathematical work of world
renowned mathematicians.
00:27:52
He has not used
scientific methodology.
00:27:54
And his actual conclusions
are logically unsound.
00:27:59
It is far better, in my
mind, to sound a false warning,
00:28:04
than to fail to warn
of a real danger.
00:28:09
People sometimes say to
me, where's the good news
00:28:12
in the Bible Code?
00:28:14
Why all these predictions
of terrible catastrophes?
00:28:18
And I say, the good news is that
some intelligence cared enough
00:28:24
about us to encode
the Bible and leave us
00:28:28
these warnings so
that these dangers
00:28:31
could, in fact, be prevented.
00:28:38
DENNIS FARINA: Next, a police
officer flees after being
00:28:41
arrested for child molestation.
00:28:44
And later, can honeybee venom
reverse the effects of MS?
00:28:49
Meet two women who say
they are living proof.
00:29:00
On a previous broadcast,
we presented the case
00:29:03
of Charles Mule, a 10-year
veteran of the Slidell,
00:29:07
Louisiana Police Department.
00:29:10
Mule was arrested at a local
motel where he had just
00:29:13
molested a 12-year-old girl.
00:29:16
At the time, he was
the Sergeant in charge
00:29:19
of sexual offenses for the
Slidell Police Department.
00:29:22
And his victim was
a young girl that he
00:29:25
was assigned to counsel.
00:29:26
Considering the serious
gravity of these offenses--
00:29:29
DENNIS FARINA: Mule
was indicted on over 25
00:29:32
counts relating
to the molestation
00:29:34
and rape of six young girls.
00:29:37
He was released
on $150,000 bail.
00:29:41
Eight months later,
on the morning
00:29:42
that his trial was set to begin,
Mule was reported missing.
00:29:48
For more than three years, his
whereabouts were a mystery.
00:29:54
Update-- Charles Mule
has been captured.
00:29:59
Within minutes of our broadcast,
the FBI received several calls
00:30:03
from viewers who
reported that Mule was
00:30:06
living in Ocala, Florida
under the assumed name
00:30:09
Joseph John Tranchina.
00:30:11
Mule had seen our broadcast and
left the area for three weeks.
00:30:16
When he returned, he
was placed under arrest.
00:30:21
Mule was convicted on
multiple counts, including
00:30:24
aggravated assault against
nature, molesting a juvenile,
00:30:28
and jumping bail.
00:30:31
Mule has served his
time and his probation
00:30:34
and he is now a free man.
00:30:41
Understandably, most people try
to avoid any contact with bees.
00:30:46
But to some, honeybees
are miniature flying
00:30:49
drugstores that could
reverse the course
00:30:52
of multiple sclerosis.
00:30:54
It is a controversial treatment
known as bee venom therapy.
00:31:00
Kelly Ames was in high
school when she noticed
00:31:03
the first signs of multiple
sclerosis, or MS. By the time
00:31:08
she was 22, her symptoms
were impossible to ignore.
00:31:13
One day I was in
work and I was walking
00:31:15
down a flight of stairs-- there
must have been like 12 stairs--
00:31:18
where I just lost the feeling in
my feet, like, all of a sudden.
00:31:21
And I fell down a
flight of stairs.
00:31:23
And the women in my
office were like, wow.
00:31:26
You know, I explained
to them that my feet
00:31:27
sometimes get numb.
00:31:30
DENNIS FARINA: The
disease first robbed Kelly
00:31:32
of the ability to walk alone.
00:31:34
Then it attacked her eyes.
00:31:37
This is so weird, Donald.
00:31:38
I can't see anything
out of this eye.
00:31:41
KELLY AMES: Within that week, I
lost the vision in my left eye.
00:31:43
And I had no control
over my muscles.
00:31:46
It was just very devastating.
00:31:47
I hated to depend
on other people,
00:31:49
but at times I needed
other people to help me.
00:31:54
DENNIS FARINA: Kelly's doctors
put her on steroids, which
00:31:56
can temporarily relieve
the symptoms of MS.
00:32:00
But no drug can stop it.
00:32:03
KELLY AMES: Having the
steroid dripped into my arm,
00:32:05
I would sit there for
an hour and half looking
00:32:07
at other people coming
in in wheelchairs
00:32:09
and wondering if that's
going to be me someday,
00:32:12
you know, in that wheelchair.
00:32:14
DENNIS FARINA: Then Kelly met a
woman who had literally walked
00:32:17
away from her wheelchair
after learning how to sting
00:32:21
her self with honeybees.
00:32:27
Kelly's father brought her to
a local beekeeper who had been
00:32:31
helping MS patients for years.
00:32:33
Kelly, these are the honeybees
that are going to help you.
00:32:35
KELLY AMES: He told
me that he didn't
00:32:37
want to be bothered by me if
I wasn't serious about it.
00:32:40
He says, you have to do
this for six months straight
00:32:42
every other day faithfully.
00:32:43
Increase it by two every
other day until you get to 20.
00:32:47
And he scared me
when he said that.
00:32:51
Because I realized that I really
had to take the responsibility
00:32:54
of sticking to this.
00:32:55
And I did.
00:32:57
DENNIS FARINA: Kelly
and her boyfriend
00:32:59
set up a morning routine.
00:33:01
He placed the bees at
specific spots on Kelly's body
00:33:04
where nerves running
to the damaged areas
00:33:07
were easy to locate.
00:33:09
For Kelly's failing eyesight,
that was behind the ear.
00:33:14
Bees were also placed
on Kelly's lower back
00:33:17
to treat the
weakness in her legs.
00:33:19
They were left in place
for as long as 15 minutes
00:33:22
to allow all the venom
to penetrate the skin.
00:33:25
I'm just getting dressed,
then I'll come back, OK?
00:33:27
OK.
00:33:28
DENNIS FARINA: Kelly's nervous
system had been so impacted
00:33:30
by MS that she was
stung several hundred
00:33:32
times before she actually
felt the pain of the sting.
00:33:38
I could actually feel
what a bee sting felt like.
00:33:40
And it hurt.
00:33:41
It really hurt.
00:33:42
I was screaming.
00:33:43
I had my head in my pillow
and I was screaming.
00:33:45
And I was screaming
because I was happy
00:33:48
because I could feel again.
00:33:50
Within a week, my eyesight
started to slowly come back,
00:33:53
I didn't depend on
my cane as much.
00:33:54
And right then and
there I just knew,
00:33:57
finally, this was kicking in
and it was working for me.
00:33:59
OK, what I'm going to
do is grab the bee--
00:34:01
DENNIS FARINA: Kelly
ended up teaching bee
00:34:03
venom therapy to others
suffering from MS.
00:34:07
Some doctors dismiss it.
00:34:09
But Kelly's remarkable
recovery is not unique.
00:34:14
MAUREEN NAUGHTON: When I
decided to do bee venom therapy,
00:34:17
we kind it a little
hush-hush, because I
00:34:20
didn't know what other
people's reactions would be.
00:34:24
I know what the reactions
from my doctors were,
00:34:26
so I figured, you know, well,
I'll keep it a little quiet.
00:34:30
I was always afraid of
bees and being stung.
00:34:33
But I just felt that
this was my only answer.
00:34:37
DENNIS FARINA: A local
beekeeper taught Maureen
00:34:39
how to grab the
bee's bristly neck
00:34:41
and cause it to jab its
stinger at precisely
00:34:44
the right location.
00:34:46
Now, let's hold the
stinger right on the top
00:34:48
your foot right here, OK?
00:34:50
DENNIS FARINA: By
the time Maureen
00:34:51
began bee sting
therapy, her feet
00:34:53
were so numb that she could
hardly sense they were there.
00:34:57
To the touch, they
were icy cold.
00:35:01
BEEKEEPER: OK, I think
that's long enough.
00:35:05
MAUREEN NAUGHTON: Within
minutes, my foot was warm.
00:35:08
You could feel the
venom going through.
00:35:10
And the blood felt like, you
know, there was life in my foot
00:35:13
again.
00:35:14
It was just an
incredible feeling.
00:35:16
I knew right from that
moment that something good
00:35:19
was happening.
00:35:20
And I felt that this
was going to help me.
00:35:24
DENNIS FARINA: This photo
of Maureen and her son
00:35:26
was taken six weeks after
she began bee venom therapy.
00:35:31
She had just crossed
the finish line
00:35:33
in a seven mile MS walkathon.
00:35:38
Success stories like
this have some doctors
00:35:40
saying that bee
venom therapy is far
00:35:43
too promising to be ignored.
00:35:47
DR. GLENN ROTHFELD: At first,
it may be easy to dismiss
00:35:49
bee venom therapy.
00:35:50
The fact is, it
sounds a little kooky.
00:35:53
However, in studying
about bee venom,
00:35:56
there are certain
substances which make sense
00:35:59
in multiple sclerosis therapy.
00:36:01
We know that the immune system
is involved, and, of course,
00:36:04
the neurologic
system is involved.
00:36:07
Therefore, bee venom, which has
components which affect both
00:36:10
the immune system and
neurologic system,
00:36:13
is a natural
substance which seems
00:36:16
to have some effects in MS.
00:36:20
DENNIS FARINA: One note
of caution, many people
00:36:23
are deathly allergic
to honeybee stings.
00:36:26
So anyone considering
this treatment
00:36:28
must consult a doctor.
00:36:34
Next, two brothers
discover they have
00:36:36
a sister they have never met.
00:36:53
During World War II,
US and Allied forces
00:36:55
succeeded in crushing
German and Italian
00:36:58
strongholds in North Africa.
00:37:02
But the victories
came at a high price.
00:37:05
Among those killed
was Army private
00:37:07
Harry A. Young from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
00:37:11
He left behind a
wife and two sons.
00:37:16
37 years later in Stradford,
New Jersey, Harry's son
00:37:20
and granddaughter came
across his obituary
00:37:23
while researching
their family history.
00:37:26
But the information
seemed as if it had been
00:37:29
written for a different man.
00:37:31
He was survived by a
three-month-old daughter,
00:37:33
Kathleen?
00:37:35
ALBERT YOUNG: The mother's first
name was right and everything,
00:37:37
but the address and
the fact that there
00:37:39
was a baby girl mentioned,
and me or my brother
00:37:41
was not mentioned--
00:37:43
papers do make mistakes.
00:37:44
And uh, I thought
maybe that they
00:37:46
had got the information wrong.
00:37:47
And I had a copy made so I
could go into it further.
00:37:51
DENNIS FARINA: Albert's
search for answers
00:37:52
took him back to the early
days of World War II.
00:37:57
After the surprise
attack on Pearl Harbor,
00:38:00
Harry Young and millions
of other Americans
00:38:03
rushed to enlist in the service.
00:38:05
MAN: I can't stay here while
there's a war going on.
00:38:07
I need you to sign this paper.
00:38:09
DENNIS FARINA: But with a
wife and son to support,
00:38:11
Harry needed his wife Laura's
permission to go to war.
00:38:14
Me?
I've been gone six years.
00:38:15
You've done a great job.
DENNIS FARINA: She refused.
00:38:17
Yeah, I've been
doing a great job.
00:38:19
DENNIS FARINA: Harry walked
out and never returned.
00:38:21
He didn't know that Laura was
pregnant with their second son.
00:38:27
Four months later,
using forged documents,
00:38:31
Harry enlisted in the Army and
was sent overseas to fight.
00:38:35
Only then did he inform
Laura of what he had done.
00:38:42
Mrs. Young?
00:38:43
Yes.
00:38:44
This is from the
War Department.
00:38:46
DENNIS FARINA: One October day,
Laura received word that Harry
00:38:50
had been killed in action.
00:38:54
When Laura filed papers to
claim Harry's death benefits,
00:38:57
she received a big surprise.
00:39:00
Mrs. Young?
00:39:01
There seems to be a problem.
00:39:03
We have another Laura
Young who has already filed
00:39:05
for Harry's death benefits.
00:39:07
But I'm Harry's wife.
00:39:09
Well, that may be, ma'am.
00:39:10
Do you have a daughter?
00:39:12
No, I have two sons.
00:39:14
Well, this certainly
does pose a problem.
00:39:17
LAURA ANDERSON: There
were two women collecting
00:39:19
benefits for one man.
00:39:20
And that's when it had to be
proven that my grandmother was,
00:39:25
indeed, the first wife.
00:39:27
And was never divorced
from my grandfather.
00:39:30
This means a lot to me, now.
00:39:32
DENNIS FARINA: Apparently,
after leaving Laura,
00:39:34
Harry began living with
another woman named Estella.
00:39:38
After Harry's death,
Estella filed for benefits
00:39:42
using Laura's name.
00:39:44
Eventually, Laura was able
to prove that she was Harry's
00:39:47
wife, and she retained
all benefits for herself
00:39:50
and her two sons,
Albert and Jimmy.
00:39:55
For nearly 40 years,
the details of Harry
00:39:58
and Estella's love affair were
kept secret from his sons.
00:40:01
Then a letter written
by Estella surfaced.
00:40:05
She had sent it to
Harry's parents the day
00:40:07
after she learned of his death.
00:40:11
In the letter Estella
revealed that she
00:40:13
and Harry had a baby
daughter together
00:40:16
named Kathleen Mary Young.
00:40:19
LAURA ANDERSON: When
I read the letter
00:40:21
I got the feeling that
she was very much in love
00:40:24
with my grandfather.
00:40:25
That she was devoted to him.
00:40:27
And she would do anything
in the world for him.
00:40:33
Hello, Mr. Young.
00:40:35
I'm Estella.
00:40:37
DENNIS FARINA: After receiving
no reply to her letter,
00:40:39
Estella paid a surprise
visit to Harry's parents.
00:40:43
But they wanted nothing to
do with her or baby Kathleen.
00:40:49
As far as anyone knows,
that was the last time
00:40:52
Estella and her daughter had
any contact with Harry's family.
00:40:58
JIM YOUNG: Now in his whole
mess, there is no real winners.
00:41:00
There was a lot--
a lot of time lost
00:41:02
between, uh, family, really.
00:41:05
I think it's
something that's really
00:41:06
important for my father and my
uncle, to know their sister.
00:41:10
They need to know
who their sister is
00:41:12
and share their life with her.
00:41:18
DENNIS FARINA: Update--
when this story aired,
00:41:21
Kathleen happened to be
watching "Unsolved Mysteries."
00:41:24
The story surprised
her, because she
00:41:26
had been told that no one on
her father's side of the family
00:41:30
cared to meet her.
00:41:32
It makes me feel--
00:41:33
I don't know-- it
makes me feel good.
00:41:35
It makes me feel like,
special, in a way,
00:41:37
that they took the time.
00:41:38
And all those years,
that now that I know
00:41:40
they were looking for me.
00:41:42
DENNIS FARINA:
Kathleen and her family
00:41:44
traveled to
Stratford, New Jersey
00:41:46
to meet her half-brothers
for the first time.
00:41:48
- I'm Albert.
- Oh, I kn--
00:41:50
I know.
00:41:50
I saw the film.
00:41:52
- How you doing?
- Fine.
00:41:53
OK.
00:41:55
JIM YOUNG: When I hugged her
it was-- it was euphoria.
00:41:58
It felt wonderful.
00:42:00
I knew it was her as soon as she
stepped out of the car that--
00:42:03
that's a-- that's a Young.
00:42:07
DENNIS FARINA: After
50 years apart,
00:42:09
they were finally a family.
00:42:11
How you doing, kid?
00:42:12
Good.
00:42:13
Welcome to our big family.
00:42:14
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