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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries at the time His Wife
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disappeared Paul pus says he was out
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running errands but her family believes
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Paul knows much more that he's
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saying a military policeman is found
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shot in the head the Army says he killed
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himself but his family says he was
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murdered a man known for his nasty
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temper and love of guns escapes from
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prison with the help of his young
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girlfriend and thousands of lines form
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the mysterious shapes in nasca Peru some
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believe they were Landing strips of
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alien spacecrafts how were they made and
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why five stories of crime deceit and
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Intrigue I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries join us
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hey guys what's up this is Paul um just
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wondering if sh was over there I haven't
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seen her all day I took the kids out
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this is the actual phone message that
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Paul polus left for his in-laws on the
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day that his wife Charlotte vanished
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from their home in
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oh I just wondered if maybe she was with
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you guys or if she called you or
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something man to many Paul pus sounds
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like a concerned husband getting a
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little freaked out here but Charlotte's
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family believes his is the voice of a
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diabolical
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killer I think Paul got angry and he
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struck her and he couldn't stop
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himself and I think Paul killed my
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daughter they can point the finger at me
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all they want I didn't do anything wrong
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I know I didn't do anything wrong
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and I can't change what other people
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think has Paul polus gotten away with
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murder the police can't say because
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there's not enough evidence to prove
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that a crime was even committed so Paul
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and Charlotte's families will remain
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locked in an ugly dispute over what
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happened to Charlotte the day she
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vanished about the only thing everyone
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agreed on was that Charlotte was sick
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the day before she
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disappeared hey we're back
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hi Paul's parents watched the couple's
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two children while Paul took Charlotte
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to the hospital doctors told her that
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she had a serious ear infection did you
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hi Mom yeah we just got back from the
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hospital after Paul's parents left
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Charlotte called her mother to check in
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with her pills and a prescription
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and it was the last time that Charlotte
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was known to be
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alive she said I'll talk to you in the
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morning and at 1:25 a.m. I had hung up
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the phone from
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her at 10: to 9: on Saturday morning I
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called the house to check on my daughter
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and Paul answered the phone oh she's
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doing a little bit better now she's
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still up in bed she's still sleeping was
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she okay well doctor said the best thing
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now is just to get some rest will you
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have Char let call me when she gets gets
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up would you all right talk to you later
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bye Char Paul says the last time he saw
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Charlotte was shortly after that phone
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call a little bit better just a little
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bit I know you're tired I want to go out
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and take the kids uh with me for a
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little bit I think it was about 11:00 I
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took the kids out to do errands for the
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afternoon and I told her just stay in
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bed and
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relax um I'll bring the medication that
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you need back just stay in bed take it
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easy Paul says it was a busy morning he
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buckled the kids into their car seats
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and made stops at the pharmacy the
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laundromat and a scrapyard we going to
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get something to eat How Sound then he
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bought burgers for the kids at a fast
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food restaurant I know you guys are
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hungry but several people dispute Paul's
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version of what he says he did that
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day one of those people is Charlotte's
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mother she claims that she called the
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house several times before 11:00 when
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Paul says he was still at home I called
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at 10: I called at 10 after 10 I called
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at 20 after 10 I just kept calling
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calling I thought something's not right
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no answering machine nobody answering
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the phone nothing and I thought well
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where is
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she a neighbor also contradicts Paul's
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claim that he simply put the children in
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the car and and left it was 10: after
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11: when I pulled out of the driveway
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and as I backed out I looked over at
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Paul's house and he had his car backed
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up to the the
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porch the trunk was open all four doors
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were open his car was completely packed
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with boxes and
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bags there was no sign of the children
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and there was no way they could be in
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the
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car and as I drove by he looked at me
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with a really strange a
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look he uh indicated that he had the
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children with him all this time we've
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talked the people that he made contact
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with no one saw the children with him my
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children were with me all
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afternoon I don't abandon my children
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not for a second I don't leave the house
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and leave them
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unattended I don't leave them in a car
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unintended I'm not that type of a parent
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never will be Char we're home according
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to Paul Charlotte wasn't home when he
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got there it was around 400 p.m. Char
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are you in
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here I figured that she was feeling
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better and had gone out let's see if she
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put the kids up to finish their nap in
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bed and
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uh just watch TV and finish cleaning the
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house about 7:30 I noticed her purse up
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on the cabinets and my wife doesn't go
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anywhere without her purse I can't
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believe that she would have left without
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it so I started calling around to see if
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she'd gone out with
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anybody hey guys what's up uh this is
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Paul um just calling to see if you guys
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had seen Char at all um Charlotte's
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family was alarmed and headed over to
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the house she's not
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here Charlotte's sister amria arrived
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first and began looking around she
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noticed two sets of footprints in the
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snow they went from a side door towards
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a small shed shed and then back around
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the
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house the doors were bulging into pretty
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much out of the
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shed they just had like a regular
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padlock on it and it kind of bothered me
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the way the shed was cuz the doors
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weren't flesh against it so i' gone into
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the house and I had asked Paul for the
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keys he got very angry the shed has
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nothing to do with Charlotte and I'm not
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giving you the keys and she'd asked him
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repeatedly for these keys to the shed
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and it got angrier and angrier it's a
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shed all the normal garden tools
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lawnmower it's as a matter of fact I
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think at the time there was a key lock
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and there was a key on Charlotte ring if
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they wanted it open I would have given
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him a
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key I don't remember anything about
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that by the time the rest of Charlotte's
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family arrived they discovered that
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Paul's parents had already gotten there
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they were cleaning everything from the
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attic to the basement they were washing
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walls he had washed uh he had did LA
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he had washed like scrubbed up the
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kitchen real good and stuff which isn't
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it's not characteristic of Paul to do
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that what was his mother cleaning and
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his father what was all this cleaning
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that went on while they were
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there the only floor I scrubbed was the
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kitchen floor so I wouldn't stick to it
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where the baby had dropped his food I'll
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clean I live
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there I like to live in a clean
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house this State Bureau of criminal
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investigation came in to check the house
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find out if any crime of violence had
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been committed the house was spotless it
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was clean from top to bottom and it's
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very unusual that a house is clean this
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way investigators did find a blood stain
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in the trunk of Paul and Charlotte's
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car the sample was too small to be
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positively identified but it was big
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enough to cause speculation that
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Charlotte
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body had been in the
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trunk Paul weighs 150 lb Charlotte
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weighed approximately 300 lb Paul would
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be required to transport a body that was
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twice his weight and take it out into
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the open and and put the body in the
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trunk of the car to me it just does not
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seem possible at
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all but to Charlotte's family the two
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sets of footprints in the snow suggested
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that Paul had help I looked at Paul's
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Shoe prints and they were the same
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footprints that were in the snow and the
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other Footprints were fairly large with
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a shoe boot who I can suspect would have
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been his fathers but they you know I
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can't be definite on that either his
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parents were brought in after the fact
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to help him or they were there at the
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time it
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happened we have lived in this area for
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40 years
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we're not that type of
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people I can't imagine why they would
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think
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that Paul even agreed to take a
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polygraph test but on the day of his
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appointment he disappeared
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Paul he left the note on his dresser
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part of it read I Love My Wife and would
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never do anything to harm her
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intentionally
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Paul was gone for 3 months then one day
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he reappeared with an
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explanation I had a lot of mental
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anguish I was going through and I wanted
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some time alone people were driving in
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front of the house
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non-stop they didn't come by to give me
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a hug or pat on the back and say we're
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with you they just came by to
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look talk to you later bye Charlotte's
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disappearance seemed to to have affected
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everybody Charlotte's family began to
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wonder if the children had seen
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anything I feel that my granddaughter
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witnessed the violence and that it's
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locked into her
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memory we had to get rid of all dark
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trash bags in our home and go with light
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colored trash bags she's paranoid of a
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dark trash bag she screams and she cries
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because Mommy was put in a in a dark
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trash bag
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I think the child is being coached and
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the sad part about it is it's very
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detrimental to the child they're
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destroying this child I didn't kill my
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wife and I don't know where she is
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didn't have anything to do with it nor
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did my family have anything to do with
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it as far as I
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know
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update according to the police Paul
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polus Remains the only suspect in this
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case if you have any information about
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The Disappearance of Charlotte pus
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please log on to our website at
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next a military policeman dies under
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suspicious circumstances was it suicide
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or murder
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Huntsville
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Alabama military policeman Chad Langford
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is finishing what should have been a
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routine Patrol of his army
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base Chad radios his base station he
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tells them that he's stopping to
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investigate an abandoned
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car one I need backup
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21 Papa 21 say again then the
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transmission stops 21 this is redstone
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say
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again get a unit all available units
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proceed the South patent Road locate
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Papa
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21 all GES lock down secure the
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post within minutes the backup officer
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arrives to find a bizarre scene Chad's
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military ID tag armband and his portable
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police radio have been deliberately ly
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arranged in the middle of the street
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there was no sign of Chad then a quarter
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of a mile away the officer finds Chad's
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body this is Papa Sierra I've located
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Papa 21 at Bunker
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8745 officer is down I request ambulance
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and back up
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immediately the officer was shocked by
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Chad's
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condition his head was bleeding and he
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was barely breathing
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his cap had been stuffed in his mouth
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and the cord from his radar unit was
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wrapped around his
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neck his pistol strap was tied around
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his ankles his handcuffs were clamped on
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his left wrist on his left hand was a
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cryptic message written in Black Ink
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March 3th and what looked like the name
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Robert but he's still alive let get a
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shirt off
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oddly Chad's 45 caliber pistol was found
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under his left
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shoulder get that out of here ballistic
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test would later show that two shots had
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been fired from Chad's
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gun but it couldn't be determined
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whether either of them had hit Chad get
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an ambulance here ASAP
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go Chad was rushed to a local hospital
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where he died 2 hours later he was just
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4 months away from his 21st
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birthday Chad's family was shocked to
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hear that the Army's explanation was
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that Chad had killed
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himself they're convinced that he was
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killed in the line of
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duty when I heard that I was very upset
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about the whole thing I I know that my
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boy did not kill himself there's no way
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I feel that someone is covering
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something up
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here Chad Langford was raised by his
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father and grandmother in a small
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Northern California Community he joined
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the army right after high school and was
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sent to South Korea he earned several
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Good Conduct
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medals Chad joined the military police
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At Redstone Arsenal as soon as he
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returned from South Korea Chad's family
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says that he loved the Army and planned
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to reinlist however a few months later
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Chad's personality suddenly
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changed in January he called me and told
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me that he'd been asked to uh do some
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you undercover work he called me three
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or four different times and each time he
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gave me a little bit about this still
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working
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undercover hi Dad how you
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doing yeah okay I guess listen remember
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what I told you a few weeks ago about my
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new
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assignment well it's getting pretty
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intense I had asked him just exactly
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what he was working on and he said with
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guns and drugs probably two or three
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times he told me that uh if he was found
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out that uh he was a dead
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man I've been getting threats you know
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phone calls and
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letters no I don't know who's sending
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them I I don't recognize his voice I
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mean it it it might be nothing but I'm
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starting to get worried I don't know
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what to do that time I told him Chad you
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got to get out of this and he came back
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with I can't get out of
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it 14 days later Chad was found with a
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fatal bullet wound to the
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Head the Army's criminal investigation
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division or C reviewed Chad's death for
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4 months they concluded that he had not
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been involved in any undercovered
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narcotics work they said that Chad
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killed himself after suffering from
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long-term emotional
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problems I'm sorry I just can't believe
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that any of that I mean I mean I raised
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the boy for 20 years years I know a
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better than that and uh the military has
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psychologist out to talk to you for or
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call you over the phone and talk to you
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for 10 minutes and then they have the
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complete live story of everybody and uh
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they're so far off a base it's
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unbelievable the report claimed that
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Chad's suicide was triggered by a
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breakup with his girlfriend the C report
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said that Chad committed suicide for the
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distraught over my breaking up with him
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but but that wasn't
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true um I didn't break up with Chad Chad
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broke up with me I'm involved in things
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you don't even understand I can't even
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talk about him but why I mean I mean why
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do we have to break up is there another
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person is that it that's it is I there's
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one else why do we have to break up
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can't you understand
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English just get out I had a feeling
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that someone was telling him to break it
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off with me and I think Chad did it to
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protect me or
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something in their report the Army
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claimed that Chad had been plotting to
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steal from the Army PX and cited
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interviews with three soldiers to prove
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it it seems very strange to me that
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somebody would come
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forward to the criminal investigation
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division after someone was killed and
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said yeah we're planning on Rob we were
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planning on robbing a px fan it's really
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tough that he's not here now to be able
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to uh tell us what really
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happened just hours before his death
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Chad left phone messages for several
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friends but not his family the C
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interpreted Chad's calls as goodbye
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messages prior to his
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suicide there was a message on the
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machine from
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Chad it was him calling to say hi and
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how was I doing was I taking care of
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myself and that he would see me soon
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sorry I missed you um give me a call bye
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it didn't seem like a goodbye to
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me she had to would have called me if
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something was to the point where he was
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going to commit suicide I know he would
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have but he didn't call me and he didn't
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call his
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grandmother uh so there weren't weren't
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goodbye calls as far as I'm concerned I
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mean uh I know he would have called me
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next the Army's criminal investigation
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division makes another shocking Claim
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about Chad
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Langford Huntsville Alabama the Redstone
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army
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base while on routine Patrol military
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policeman Chad Langford
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was found shot to death on a deserted
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Road there was a single gunshot wound to
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his
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head the military insisted it was
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suicide the official inquiry concluded
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that every aspect of Chad's death was
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methodically staged by Chad himself
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Redstone this is Papa 21 I have a
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stranded vehicle they said he called in
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a false report of an abandoned car r s
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you that he had staged the scene to look
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as if he had been accosted and then
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murdered the official report even
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claimed that Chad's accounts of
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undercover assignments were a total
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invention the
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Chad's family however does not believe
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he committed suicide and neither does
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Huntsville reporter Julie
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Schulz to start with it was very bizarre
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even from the night that it happened
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because um the Huntsville police
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department and the other law enforcement
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agencies never heard a word from the
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Army about any of it and generally when
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there's a police officer that's shot I
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mean there'll be a man hunt everywhere
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they also said there wasn't a struggle
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but there was a struggle I mean I mean
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there's no doubt about it they found two
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buttons in the front seat of the
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car even before the Army ruled that it
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was suicide there was just wild
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speculation as to what could have
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happened to him people were saying
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Espionage drug deals all kinds of things
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then it perpetuated itself as it went
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with the c
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reports Jim also believes that the
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military police missed opportunities to
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question impossible suspects that
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night the MPS stopped two different cars
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within a mile of where Chad was
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found but in both cases they didn't even
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question them about Chad's
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death it's absolutely crazy you're
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talking about a murder here and it
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appears to me that anybody within uh 3
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or four mile radius of that place should
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have been stopped and held for some for
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some time they didn't do that
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a source close to the investigation says
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that one of those drivers was named
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Robert the same name that was found
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scrolled on Chad's
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hand those who believed Chad was working
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under cover are convinced his sudden and
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violent death was nothing less than
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murder I feel that he went down there on
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that part of Base because he was
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supposed to meet somebody down there
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it would have taken more than one person
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to handle Chad he was very strong very
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agile and then again he knew these
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people I know he knew these
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people Redstone this is Papa 21 I need
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backup now this is Papa
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I think Shad was involved when he was
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telling him he was involved in he was an
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in between person with some drug dealing
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I think he was put in that position by
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somebody on that base whether military
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or civilian he put somebody put him
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there and I think he was a middle man
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and I think he was set
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up who did Kill Chad
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Langford did he take his own life after
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staging a murder scene to hide the real
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truth
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or were his accounts of undercover
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Intrigue all too true and he was the
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victim of a secret drug
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next a violent conduct convinces his
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young girlfriend to help him break out
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of prison
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17-year-old Melody Woods was not the
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kind of girl you would expect to get
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into trouble she liked school she didn't
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stay out late and she had just started
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dating but all of that was before she
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met Michael short and fell in
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love Fort Worth
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Texas Melody Michael's here sorry Hi I
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guess you met everybody already yeah
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we're just getting to know each other a
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little bit Melody met Michael during
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summer school 19-year-old Michael made a
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very good first
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impression but Melody's parents never
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guessed that the man their daughter was
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dating had a criminal
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record 6 months earlier a couple was
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driving on a highway in Texas when
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Michael and a friend pulled up behind
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them they starting to bug me
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Michael Short harassed the frightened
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couple for 10 minutes becoming more and
00:26:34
more agitated hey Grandma where'd you
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learn how to drive you're lucky I run
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right over you don't look at him play
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freaking game play freaking game andone
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he's got a gun Drive do
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something police tracked Michael down by
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his license plate number he was char
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charged with attempted murder a few
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months later while he was out on bail he
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met Melody
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Woods she fell head over heels for
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Michael I mean from the very first day
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she came home and was so excited about
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him telling me about him and just
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thought that he was everything that she
00:27:15
had ever
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wanted Melody's parents say their
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daughter found out about Michael's past
00:27:23
but it was too late she was already
00:27:26
under his spell I want you to have this
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it's a beeper duh I know what a beeper
00:27:31
looks like when I call you I'll punch
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you
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911 drop whatever you're doing and give
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me a call right away I don't want to
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have to worry about
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you I had to talk with her and I told
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her I said I I I'm afraid that you know
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he's being a little bit too
00:27:46
possessive and she was like well you
00:27:48
know we just really enjoy being together
00:27:50
and there's really nothing to it and
00:27:51
he's not
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possessive a few months later Michael
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Short was found guilty and in the
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highway shooting he was sentenced to 8
00:28:01
years in prison Melody's parents hoped
00:28:03
that the relationship would end but
00:28:06
Melody refused to give up on
00:28:09
short after the impact wor off she
00:28:12
started talking about I can get through
00:28:15
this you know I'll make it it may just
00:28:16
be four years he may not spend eight
00:28:18
there so we'll we'll do the best we can
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I can make it through
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this the jail phone became the young
00:28:27
couple's life T oh where are you he
00:28:30
called us day and night night and day he
00:28:32
was relentless with the phone calls I
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mean they just never would
00:28:37
stop the phone calls at first were a
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blessing for Mel I mean any contact that
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she could have with him she was thrilled
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to
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death as time went along she started to
00:28:49
get a little
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irritated but then Michael would say you
00:28:55
you just don't understand how horrible
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it is for me here the only thing I've
00:28:59
got they're from Michael you can't
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forsake me now you're my soulmate and
00:29:02
just really would make her feel bad so
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then she would go back to accepting all
00:29:06
the phone
00:29:08
calls from jail short controlled every
00:29:11
aspect of Melody's life for more than a
00:29:14
year even his fellow inmates called him
00:29:16
the little
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bully One Summer Morning authorities
00:29:21
learned just how much control he really
00:29:24
had over
00:29:26
Melody that morning Melody and a
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girlfriend waited outside the prison in
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a borrowed
00:29:34
van all right Rex over line it up two to
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time front of the
00:29:38
gate short saw his chance and ran for
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Freedom hey short hold it stop or
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shoot he started up he's
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coming go go no
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the entire Escape took less than 1
00:30:03
minute short changed his clothes at a
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nearby hotel and dumped the
00:30:08
van then he and Melody left in her car
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okay I personally don't believe that
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Melly had any intentions on leaving with
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him there's a lot of things she didn't
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take with her it was uh clothes
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and girl things like rollers and hair
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dryers and just a bunch of
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stuff the only thing that we've received
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from Melody since her disappearance was
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one postcard from Chattanooga Tennessee
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and the only thing that that postcard
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said was I'm okay I'm sorry and I love
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you very much that was about a week
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after her
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disappearance what concerns me the most
00:30:52
about Melody's disappearance is that
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just that she's disappeared and we've
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had three unconfirmed sightings of
00:31:02
Michael nobody has ever seen Melody and
00:31:07
one would have to wonder has she already
00:31:09
become a liability to
00:31:12
him
00:31:14
update after 9 months on the Run Michael
00:31:18
short and Melody Woods were arrested in
00:31:20
Fort Worth Texas one of Melody's
00:31:23
relatives told authorities where to find
00:31:26
them Michael Short received an
00:31:28
additional 7 years that ran concurrently
00:31:32
with the aggravated assault charge he
00:31:34
has since been released Melody Woods
00:31:37
received 10 years probation for her role
00:31:39
in The
00:31:43
Escape next a grown woman meets the
00:31:46
father she never knew
00:31:59
by the power vested in me I Now
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Pronounce You man and wife you may kiss
00:32:05
the bride 17-year-old py Summers married
00:32:09
her high school sweetheart in El Paso
00:32:12
Texas at the time only py and her
00:32:15
husband knew that she was
00:32:19
pregnant 7 months later paty's daughter
00:32:22
jeie was
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born from a very early age I felt very
00:32:28
different and separated from my
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family paty died when Jeannie was 21
00:32:37
years old when Jeannie read her mother's
00:32:39
diary she learned that the man she had
00:32:42
known as her father wasn't really her
00:32:44
father after
00:32:48
all the diary described how paty went to
00:32:51
a local park after getting into an
00:32:53
argument with her
00:32:55
fiance hello there she met Duncan
00:32:58
who was stationed at Fort Bliss Texas py
00:33:01
was immediately smitten they soon began
00:33:04
dating and paty decided not to tell her
00:33:07
fiance or Duncan about each
00:33:10
other my mother she thought of Duncan as
00:33:14
a very kind person and even stated that
00:33:18
of all the people that she had known
00:33:20
that he was the kindest uh person um she
00:33:25
had ever met
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6 months later paty was pregnant she
00:33:31
knew that Duncan was the father but she
00:33:33
decided not to tell anyone and to marry
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her
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fiance there's something I want to talk
00:33:41
to you
00:33:42
about that's see what is it paty ended
00:33:45
the affair and Duncan never knew that he
00:33:48
was the father of her
00:33:51
child my firm belief is that Secrets
00:33:53
only cause people harm and cause a lot
00:33:57
of s suffering and um that's why for me
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the truth has to come out and I have to
00:34:04
know who Duncan
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is
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update the night we aired this story a
00:34:15
woman named Suzanne Gilmore was watching
00:34:18
at the time Suzanne's husband Duncan was
00:34:21
sound
00:34:22
asleep Jeanie's mother had written in
00:34:25
her diary that he was the sweetest
00:34:27
kindest person that she had ever met I
00:34:29
just said that's my Duncan I knew that
00:34:32
it was my Duncan and the next thing I
00:34:35
know my wife woke me up and she said
00:34:39
were you ever stationed in Al Paso Texas
00:34:42
at Fort Bliss when you were in the Army
00:34:44
and I said yeah she said were you there
00:34:46
in
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1958 and I said yeah I was there in
00:34:51
1958 and she said did you ever know paty
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Summers and I said yeah I know I knew
00:34:57
paty Summers and I said it's very
00:34:59
important did you sleep with her and he
00:35:01
said well
00:35:06
yeah N9 Days Later Duncan and his
00:35:10
daughter jeie met for the first
00:35:13
time hi hi
00:35:17
honey when I hiked my dad it was a
00:35:20
combination of being really really happy
00:35:24
but also there was a little sad sadness
00:35:28
there that so many years have gone by
00:35:32
and that we've missed out on each
00:35:34
other's lives I love you I love you
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too I will always remember Jenny coming
00:35:42
to the door and for the first time
00:35:44
seeing my daughter and and holding
00:35:48
her never could I have
00:35:51
hoped in a million years are prayed a
00:35:55
thousand prayers for this deter turn out
00:35:58
as well as it has and he's turned out to
00:36:01
be everything that I thought he was
00:36:03
going to be and tomorrow and the day
00:36:07
after I'll now have a dad who loves me
00:36:10
and wants to be a part of my
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life the nzca
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plateau 100 square miles of magnificent
00:36:27
drawings etched into the desert
00:36:30
floor no one knows when how or why they
00:36:34
were
00:36:35
made some say they were created to
00:36:38
appease the
00:36:39
gods others believe they welcome
00:36:42
visitors from another
00:36:46
galaxy this spider is located in the
00:36:49
eastern corner of the plateau it's
00:36:51
formed by a single line that starts and
00:36:54
ends in the same place
00:36:58
but for what
00:37:01
purpose this giant monkey is the size of
00:37:04
two football
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fields 800 lines shoot across the
00:37:13
plateau laid end to end they total 1,000
00:37:18
mies evidence suggests that the ancient
00:37:21
nascus inscribed the giant drawings
00:37:23
between 1500 and 2500 years ago
00:37:28
but the nascus left little behind that
00:37:31
tell us the meaning of the figures or
00:37:33
reveal how they were
00:37:36
made all told there are nearly a
00:37:39
thousand lines shapes and figures spread
00:37:42
across the
00:37:45
plateau one of the first archaeologists
00:37:48
to visit nasca believed that the plateau
00:37:51
was a giant astral
00:37:53
calendar he observed that on the longest
00:37:56
day of the year the lined up perfectly
00:37:59
with one of the
00:38:01
markings a German mathematician named
00:38:03
Maria raike studied the plateau for over
00:38:06
40 years she concluded that many of the
00:38:10
lines and animal figures pointed to
00:38:12
Major
00:38:15
constellations if you go out there at
00:38:17
dawn where you can see the sky you can
00:38:21
see the dawn glow reflecting off of
00:38:23
those lines and they really become like
00:38:25
lighted pointers to the heavens
00:38:30
a radically different theory was
00:38:32
proposed by author Eric Von donin in the
00:38:35
late
00:38:37
1960s he claimed that some of the
00:38:39
markings were giant Landing strips for
00:38:42
alien
00:38:43
spacecraft He suggests that the nazcas
00:38:46
had constructed the runways under the
00:38:48
direct orders of
00:38:51
aliens Von Dakin identified this 850 ft
00:38:55
marking as a signpost pointing to the
00:38:58
landing
00:38:59
strip and he thought that this is a
00:39:02
portrait of one of the explorers in a
00:39:05
space
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suit scientists aren't against the idea
00:39:11
of necessarily extraterrestrials per se
00:39:15
but we do expect some evidence before we
00:39:17
then start doing a lot of research in
00:39:19
that
00:39:21
direction in 1982 archaeologists tried
00:39:25
to figure out how the nazcas made the
00:39:27
line
00:39:28
they decided to replicate the whole
00:39:30
process using only simple
00:39:34
tools we pired a couple of broomsticks
00:39:36
from the local hotel some pieces of
00:39:38
string laid out a line and we proceeded
00:39:41
to clean and sweep away the surface of
00:39:43
the
00:39:44
line it took us a group of 12 one
00:39:48
morning to make a line about 20 yards
00:39:51
long 2 yards wide clear it completely
00:39:54
and here was a brand spanking new nascal
00:39:57
line
00:39:59
Dr avani's line looks similar to some of
00:40:02
the other figures but creating this line
00:40:05
and the giant sprawling monkey were two
00:40:07
different
00:40:08
things it took the tremendous leap of
00:40:11
imagination to make these large models
00:40:14
on the ground which they themselves
00:40:17
presumably did not see not being able to
00:40:21
fly but Jim Woodman a British author and
00:40:24
Explorer argued that maybe they did did
00:40:28
fly to prove his point Woodman hired a
00:40:31
Peruvian Craftsman to stitch together a
00:40:34
hot air balloon from materials that
00:40:36
would have been available to the ancient
00:40:39
nascus perhaps for the first time in
00:40:42
centuries the Figures were seen from a
00:40:44
hot air balloon hundreds of feet above
00:40:47
the
00:40:49
desert however many scientists still
00:40:52
believe that the lines were meant to be
00:40:54
experienced from the ground
00:40:59
the straight lines look like roadways
00:41:02
they start from someplace they lead to
00:41:04
some place the idea that the lines are
00:41:06
meant to be walked on seems to me to be
00:41:08
a much more feasible one than the notion
00:41:10
that somebody had to look at them from
00:41:13
above the animals are made out of a
00:41:15
single sinuous continuous line that
00:41:18
begins and ends at the same point I can
00:41:21
imagine that a worshipper of a deity
00:41:24
would walk around one of these animal
00:41:26
fig
00:41:28
to pray to the god or gods that had to
00:41:30
do with that animal that probably some
00:41:33
invocation to the gods would have
00:41:35
happened
00:41:38
here but in the end there are no
00:41:41
conclusive answers to the mystery of the
00:41:43
nasca lines those who created the
00:41:46
wondrous artwork have been dead for
00:41:49
centuries buried in tombs that surround
00:41:52
the
00:41:53
plateau over the years their bones have
00:41:56
been carelessly scattered scattered by
00:41:58
grave
00:41:59
robbers however the ancient Mysteries of
00:42:02
the nasca will most likely remain
00:42:05
undisturbed forever
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