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tonight on unsolved mysteries meet three
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incredible animals whose courage meant
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the difference between life and death
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what fantastic psychic powers transform
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these ordinary house pets into
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extraordinary heroes and from the realm
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of the unexplained a young boy describes
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and vividly accurate detailed the death
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of a Civil War soldier a mother is
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stunned by her two-year-old daughter's
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chilling account of a freak accident
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and a watery grave are these remarkable
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stories proof that reincarnation is real
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from the current case file a beautiful
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young businesswoman mentor McClendon a
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shocking plunge from a hotel balcony the
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police must decide was it an accident or
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murder Glen Deane Butterfield and her
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niece Kellyanne Ayers were as close as
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any mother and daughter but some 20
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years ago circumstances forced them
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apart our viewers could help bring them
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back together
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it is a twisted and deadly scheme movie
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truck packages cleverly disguised as
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promotional gifts delivered through the
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mail courtesy of a madman join me these
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intriguing cases perhaps you may be able
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to solve one of tonight's unsolved
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mysteries
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children we think of them as innocence
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raw clay to be molded blank slates eager
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for life's lessons lessons taught by
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family friends and teachers but some
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people believe children can also be
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strongly influenced by more otherworldly
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forces experiences glean not just from
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other people but from other lifetimes
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reincarnation is a theme that runs
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through all the cultures of the world
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there is no proof unless you believe the
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accounts of those who have no reason to
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lie those who possess specific knowledge
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and insights they are far too young to
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have consider first the case of
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five-year-old chase Bowman it was a
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fourth of July 1988
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Chase's mother says he became
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inexplicably terrified by the fireworks
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not only terrified he was hysterical he
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was crying and screaming and I had to
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take him home and I thought that that
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was very unusual because he had never
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responded to fireworks that way before
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over the next few months chases fear of
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explosive noises intensifying becoming a
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phobia all right chase I want to try
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something close your eyes and relax for
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help
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Carol Bowman turned to a friend who was
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a hypnotherapist I want you to think of
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a sound that frightens you the
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hypnotherapist had barely begun when
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chase suddenly seemed transported to
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another place and time a barrel filled
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during the American Civil War
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there's lots of smoke
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there's a war going on I'm a black
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soldier
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I'm behind you up with a big gun and a
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sword at the end well I was shocked he
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started curling up in my lap as if he
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were afraid and I could feel him
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trembling as he described what it was
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like with gunfire all around him and
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what it was like to be crouching behind
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a rock I could feel him crouching in my
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lap in his mind's eye Chase's past life
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unreal a kaleidoscopic rush of images in
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the heat of battle he was struck by a
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bullet his wrist shattered the comrades
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dragged into a crude field hospital the
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wound was bandaged then he was sent back
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to the front to man a cannon chase said
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he saw himself walking back into battle
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and he was killed behind the cannon he
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he died very suddenly
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I was amazed because it sounded so true
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and so real and so plausible but I could
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feel that it was true I just knew it at
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that point it chases life when he was
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five I knew what he watched on
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television because we carefully
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regulated it
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he watched Sesame Street and mr. Rogers
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period and I never had read books to him
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about the Civil War as far as I could
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tell there was no way he could have
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known that chase later drew these rough
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sketches of the field hospital and the
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Canon Civil War buffs have found the
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details amazingly accurate in my opinion
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it's rather remarkable that the child
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having not had any sort of background or
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experience and viewing scenes from the
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Civil War
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his placement of the horse and the wagon
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and the artillery piece is pretty
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consistent with the mode of
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transportation of cannon during the
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Civil War it was a WoW experience you
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know I knew that something extraordinary
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had happened and what made it even more
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extraordinary was that immediately after
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this regression within a few days a
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severe eczema a chronic eczema that he
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had on his right wrist where he said he
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had been hit by a bullet completely
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cleared up and not only that as as the
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months went by I saw that chases phobia
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of loud noises completely disappeared -
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Carol Bowman is a professional writer
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she was so intrigued by her son's
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experience she started researching a
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book on children's past lives as it
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turned out material was abundant at the
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time leah was little over - she's about
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two and a half years old and we were
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driving near our home it was wintertime
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she's about two and a half she was in
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the backseat in her car seat where she
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always was and we were driving down a
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hill and the sun was shining and all of
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a sudden I hear this little voice in the
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backseat pipes up she goes mommy this is
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just like where I died
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what I was shot thank you what is she
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talking about I was a little horrified
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that she's even thinking about death at
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that age but it shook me enough that I
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pulled off the road what did you say I
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was driving in the car I fell off the
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bridge and I was in the water where was
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mommy you are ravening that time there
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was a feeling that came over me of this
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was really important that this is big
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news like the basement is on fire you
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know kind of something that you really
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want to pay attention to and that it was
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a different moment from any conversation
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that we had had previously well who
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drove the car it's big I said jeez
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because I was driving she said that
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basically she fell off the bridge and
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she fell into the water and she said I
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felt out of the car I could feel the
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rocks on my head but and I could look up
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and see the bubbles going up and she
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said I could see the light on the shiny
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bridge and that's right I died I don't
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think she could have possibly made it up
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if it had been another child I might
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have been much more skeptical but I was
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home full-time with her at that point
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and very controlling about what she saw
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and what she read she didn't watch any
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television she didn't really go to any
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movies she wasn't exposed she could not
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have possibly had a frame of reference
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for this experience what stands out for
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me is the fact that small children who
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have not been contaminated with adult
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ideas or concepts are telling us that
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something of us does survive death my
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son Blake taught me a very spiritual
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lesson that we have lived before and
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will probably live again and I've got no
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doubt that this is what happened are you
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okay
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here hurts really hurt
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Colleen Hawkins son Blake was only three
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years old when he startled his mother
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with a horrifying story shock who hit
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you with the truck man
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a man hit you with the truck someone
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outside were you outside no not now
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a four a man hit me was a big truck he
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drove over me and I died I thought that
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I would trick him in a way to see to see
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if he had his facts right and so I said
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oh this happened on TV right and he said
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no it happened in the street he was
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getting irritated with me at this point
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because he knew his facts and he felt I
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should know what happened also we don't
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give kids nearly as much credit for
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being some experts believe there was a
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perfectly rational explanation for all
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of these episodes there's some very
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creative kids out there and all kids
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fantasize to a certain degree and so the
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chances that they'll come up with
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something startling and unusual and in
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that kind of a rich fantasy life is very
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high and when you look at it that way
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these cases fall apart that there are
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lots of prosaic explanations for how
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they could possibly know this
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information without it necessarily
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coming from a past life
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however the pairs of the children
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involved are convinced those experiences
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are not only real but also beneficial
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I believe that remembering past lives
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can be very healing for the child it can
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help them leave the past behind and move
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on into the present reality and I think
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it can be marvelously healing for the
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adults too it can give them new insights
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into who their child is as a soul and
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we'll give them a completely different
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perspective on life and death a
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[Music]
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well-known physician once said all the
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honest truth telling the Risen the world
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is done by children
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Carol Bowman has not collected dozens of
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case histories of children's past lives
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example she believes are well beyond the
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scope of any child's imagination so if
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you're not listening to the stories your
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kids tell you perhaps you should be
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coming up romantic interlude takes a
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stunning twist when a young woman Falls
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to her death from a hotel balcony
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but first dramatic rescues by
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extraordinary four-legged heroes some
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experts believe they were inspired by
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mysterious psychic forces
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[Music]
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when we think of hearing some names come
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readily to mind Paul Revere Florence
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Nightingale Martin Luther King people
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whose courage served to inspire us all
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but few of us are familiar with such
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extraordinary figures as boo Oscar and
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Ringo each is a household pet each is
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responsible for saving a life guess how
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they did it and why is truly an unsolved
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mystery we begin along the Yuba River 80
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miles north of Sacramento California it
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was a perfect setting for Lillian
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McDermott to exerciser Newfoundland boot
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the wall ready 110 pounds who was just
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14 months old still a puppy it was the
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summer and the Eva was very inviting and
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so I thought it was a great opportunity
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for a Newfoundland to play in the water
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and be in Newfoundland heaven chasing
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sticks and having fun
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[Music]
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unbeknownst to Lilia a dangerous
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situation was developing a half mile
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upstream an amateur prospector named
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link Hill had just finished bridging the
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river for gold and gone back out to
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fetch a gas can minutes later when Lake
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came into view boo suddenly lost
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interest in the game I leaned down to
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see what it was he was looking at and I
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saw what I thought was a log rolling in
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the white water it's alright good it's
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all right it was not a rope he wouldn't
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stop I looked again and here an arm came
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up out of the white water holding a
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small basket Lilian was at a loss but
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boo seemed to know exactly what needed
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to be done and he looked at me steady
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courageous strong all of those pretty
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words that said to me you need to let me
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go so I did go a minute I said the words
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he shot into the oil
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boo swam straight into a strong current
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driven by unknown forces to reach the
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helpless stranger more than 75 feet away
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bull grabbed on her links are then
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mustering all of his strength he hauled
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a man back to shore as it turned out
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link Hill was a fortunate man indeed
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Hill is a deaf man unable to speak or
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hear if not for booze heroic actions he
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would surely have drowned how can we
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explain boo selfless act of courage
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instinct devotion or a true desire to
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save another life incredibly some
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experts believe boos response may have
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been triggered by psychic abilities what
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that animal felt was that man's fear and
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he realized that was not a log you know
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cuz he could feel the emotion coming
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from that man and hid the emotion of
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that man calling out in his mind for
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help that's all that dog needed
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he's a Newfoundland animal behaviorist
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Suzanne heads has a different opinion
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since their development for a number of
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tasks one of which is to perform water
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rescues we don't have to make
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assumptions that he knew that the person
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was in danger it's something that's
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innate or some people use the term
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instinctive that animals do because of
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their genetic heritage but can genetics
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explain the case of Oscar a three year
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old Chesapeake Bay Retriever ever since
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he was seven weeks old Oscars been a
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constant companion truly a best friend
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to his owner Chris peshan Berg I was
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very conscious about socializing him
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properly and he was exposed to a huge
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breadth of people from very young
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children to very old people he learned
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early on that people were good and he
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just loves to be around people and in
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fact that's one of the things that's
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most surprising about what actually
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happened
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it happened on a hot July evening in
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1995 as Chris returned home the house
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was quiet odd because Oscar usually
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kicked up a noisy welcome something was
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wrong very wrong at that point I then
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started to think about Oscar I was
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worried that I was gonna open the door
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Oscar was gonna try to greet this guy
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like he treats all of my friends to walk
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into the house and this guy was just
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gonna react by shooting him but Oscar
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was nowhere to be seen
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he had plans of his own
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[Music]
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finally this guy was able to get his arm
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free and in that action of freeing the
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arm he hit me or here and I was a little
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disoriented for a moment by the time I
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regained my composure he was gone I
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securement getting out of the gate Oscar
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was drenched in blood fortunately it was
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not the blood of the courageous canines
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but that of the would-be robber this is
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merely reaffirmed in me the fact that I
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have a very dynamic live interesting
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intelligent creature that I'm sharing my
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life with and who in this respect
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probably saved my life or may very well
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have done that first off it's almost
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sure that Oscar was aware of the
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intruder before Chris got home he heard
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him he smelled him whether it was
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territorial behavior or protective
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behavior or combination of both it's
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impossible to say but he definitely took
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the initiative took the offense because
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of all these cues that were telling him
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this is not normal something isn't right
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boo and Oscar personify the notion of
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man's best friend
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however dogs aren't the only animals
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capable of protecting their owners from
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impending danger ray and Carol Steiner
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of Bowling Green Ohio Oh their lives to
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their three-year-old red tabby cat Ringo
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during the summer of 1995 the Steiners
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were homebound Ray was recovering from
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surgery and Carol was incapacitated by a
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foot ailment but inexplicably both had
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been suffering from memory loss high
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blood pressure and chronic fatigue what
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I was noticing the most was terrible has
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headaches dizziness
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I was sleeping all the time one morning
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in August
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Carol noticed that Ringo was acting
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strangely
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Ringo had come in already from his early
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morning prowling and we were all settled
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down and all of a sudden he wanted out
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again I opened the door he won't go out
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so I said okay kitty and close the door
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no sooner did Carroll get settled down
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and Ringo was added again so Carroll
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opened the door again
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and he turns up at me and gives a really
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high me out and it was obvious I was to
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come out so I walked out with him
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Ringo led Carroll around to the side of
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the house all of a sudden he started
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digging in our landscaping and then he
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opened up his mouth and curl his lips up
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as if something was had a terrible smell
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oh that smell was lethal methane gas
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Carroll immediately called the gas
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company within minutes a service
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technician arrived
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he put a tool in the ground and the
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siren went off he told us we're at
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explosive levels I've got to turn your
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gas off right now or you're gonna blow
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incredibly the Steiners had a large
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split in their gas pipe at the very spot
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where Ringo had been digging as a result
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potentially deadly amounts of gas have
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been seeping into the house for months
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not only might a random spark have set
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off an explosion but the Steiners were
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in danger of being asphyxiated we looked
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at each other then we looked at the cat
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and I said my gosh ray Ringo saved our
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lives no one thought about the cat until
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everything settled and my gosh here's
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the hero just lying there being a cat
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what mysterious forces compel these
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animals that take action there's no one
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else to step forward was that instinct
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or perhaps some unexplained psychic
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ability we may never know but to their
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owners it hardly matters they are just
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thankful to be living under the same
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roof with a courageous albeit
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four-legged hero
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when we return a vicious booby trap
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disguised as a mail-order kook claims a
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life of a teacher in Brooklyn New York
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and later police in Los Angeles search
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for clues in the mysterious death of a
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young businesswoman
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[Music]
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it was May 7th 1982 the Friday before
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Mother's Day Joan Kipp a high school
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guidance counselor in Brooklyn New York
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had just gotten off work Joan and her
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husband had plans to leave the city and
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spend the weekend with their family the
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package seemed innocent in every way it
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contained a cookbook from a major
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mail-order house Joan assumed that was a
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Mother's Day gift
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[Music]
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Joan Kipp had been struck in the chest
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by two 22 caliber bullets she was rushed
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to a nearby hospital but died
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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no one knows who killed Joan Kippur why
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her murder was unbelievably bizarre shot
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to death by a booby-trap cookbook
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unfortunately more than a decade would
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pass before police realize it was not an
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isolated incident in October of 1993 a
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retired New York City sanitation worker
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and his wife two people with absolutely
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no connection to Joan Kip were on
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vacation in Pennsylvania when their
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children came to visit they brought the
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couple's mail charitable organizations
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the package contained what appeared to
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be a gift a commemorative medallion in
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this instance three people were shot but
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no one was killed since then there have
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been three more attacks bringing the
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total to five the victims shared only
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two things in common each lived in the
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New York City area and each had
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apparently been targeted by the same
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assassin
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[Music]
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he is a creature of deadly habit his
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deliveries of disguise a look legitimate
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each package contains a lethal homemade
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weapon that fires three bullets in
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different directions the New York City
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press has seized upon the details and
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given the criminal a somewhat misleading
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nickname the zip gun bomber zip guns was
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a weapon of choice for the gangs in New
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York in the late 50s early 60s they're
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not bombs they don't consist of any
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dynamite or anything of that nature what
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they basically are crudely made guns the
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devices are constructed in a way to be
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attractive this type of criminal
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certainly goes through a lot of effort
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he definitely is putting it together in
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a way that guarantees that the receiver
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is going to open that package because
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I'm getting ready in a few minutes
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June 27th 1995 Stephanie Gaffney of
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Queens New York was eight months
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pregnant eagerly looking forward to the
00:26:44
birth of her dog I was talking on the
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phone and I was sorting through the mail
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I came across the package and I looked
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at the package and it was from a health
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insurance plan it looked legitimate I
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opened up the box and inside of it was a
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book and the book also look legitimate I
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mean it looked like there were real
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pages in everything
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Stephanie had been struck by shrapnel
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from three bullets her unborn child had
00:27:23
not been hit but was in severe distress
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within hours doctors induced labor
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Stephanie gave birth to a healthy baby
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girl stephanie is convinced the only
00:27:34
reason she and her child's survived was
00:27:37
because stephanie was holding the book
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at a slight angle when she opened it
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there's no doubt about it that I'm very
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lucky I know for a fact that if it
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happened any other way I would not be
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sitting here my daughter we would not be
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here so I thank God every day for that
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[Music]
00:28:03
the attack on Stephanie Gaffney was as
00:28:06
mystifying as those which preceded it
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the authorities have no concrete
00:28:10
theories and at this point they don't
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even know if the victims were selected
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at random are targeted for some specific
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unknown reason I believe that it is
00:28:21
random I believe that you know loses one
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of those things it just happened it
00:28:30
could have been someone else it just
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happened to be me
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in June of 1996 it just happened to be a
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retired real estate agent in Brooklyn
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New York he narrowly escaped injury and
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he opened a parcel from a local charity
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the public should never open up a
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package lens they don't know who sent
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the package to them people should
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remember that one of the easiest things
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to do is to call the return address on a
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package number one to see if it's a
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legitimate return address and number two
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to ask if someone does answer the phone
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what did you send me next a young woman
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Falls to her death from a hotel balcony
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that a passionate random vote tragically
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wrong
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November 21st 1996 Los Angeles County
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sheriff's deputies use a dummy fashioned
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out of firehose to perform a macabre
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experiment nine days earlier a woman had
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fallen from this hotel balcony
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plummeting to her death 10 stories below
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was it an accident
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did she commit suicide or was she
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murdered
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the victim was Sandra Oriana she turned
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27 years old on November 12th the same
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day she arrived in California on a
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business trip with this man
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her boss 33 year old Robert Salazar the
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two worked for skill master a national
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employment agency based in Houston Texas
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Sandra was a workers compensation claim
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specialist engaged to be married
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Robert Salazar was a general manager of
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operations he has a wife and two
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children Sandra had worked at skill
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master for about a year and a half she'd
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been promoted very rapidly to the
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manager of the safety and health
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Division attorneys Michael Seto
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represents Sandra will Rihanna's family
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her work was highly enough regarded that
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Salazar ostensibly took her to Los
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Angeles to interview for a high-level
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position with a company that skill
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master had just acquired in California
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on the morning of November 12th Sandra
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and Salazar checked into adjacent rooms
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on the 8th floor of the Sheraton Hotel
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in the City of Industry just outside Los
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Angeles at 6:30 the next morning another
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hotel guest spotted Sandra's body
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sprawled on the ground below
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police immediately questioned Robert
00:31:22
Salazar
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he reportedly told them that he had
00:31:25
escorted Sandra to her room around
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midnight he stayed for only a moment
00:31:29
when he left Sandra was alive and well
00:31:33
when mr. Salazar first told that story
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it was a believable story it was only
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after we the homicide detectives began
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looking inside the room and determined
00:31:47
that his underwear was in the room that
00:31:51
we did not believe him the police
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questioned Salazar again
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they say he proceeded to tell a very
00:31:58
different story he said that he had in
00:32:02
fact gone into the room with Sandra and
00:32:05
that they had engaged in sex and that at
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one point they were on the balcony
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Sandra had positioned herself on the
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railing of the balcony in such a way
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that she threw one of her legs over the
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top of the balcony and lost her balance
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and had fallen
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Sandra's family is outraged by Salazar's
00:32:30
allegations family believes that Sandra
00:32:34
would never have engaged in any
00:32:36
consensual relationship with Robert
00:32:39
Salazar first she was very devoted to
00:32:42
her fiance secondly she didn't believe
00:32:45
in romantic relationships at work we
00:32:50
talked to the folks that worked with
00:32:51
worked with Sandra and and mr. Salazar
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and they were very very shocked that
00:32:59
Sandra and Salazar would have anything
00:33:02
to do with each other in a sexual or
00:33:04
romantic way Salazar contends he and
00:33:08
Sandra had not been romantically
00:33:10
involved until that evening several
00:33:13
witnesses confirm what the couple was
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seen in the hotel bar drinking holding
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hands and kissing after that Salazar
00:33:22
told police they went up to Sandra's 8th
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floor room a short time later
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Sandra fell off the balcony Salazar told
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no one about the alleged accident simply
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went back to his room
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the next morning he waited in the hotel
00:33:38
lobby as Oh expecting Sandra he even
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left a message on her rooms voicemail
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asking where she was
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lieutenant Peavy used the dummy to test
00:33:50
Salazar's account of how and where
00:33:52
Sandra piranha went over the rating the
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dummy landed a number of feet from where
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Sandra actually landed close to 15 feet
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at one dropping and another time I
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believe it was 12 feet so it was never
00:34:09
even close to where she actually landed
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and we tried it several times and we
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actually ended up trying to make it land
00:34:18
where she landed and we had to basically
00:34:21
throw the dummy in that direction to
00:34:25
make it land there another perplexing
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point the balcony railing is 44 inches
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tall Sandra Oriana was 5 feet too only
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18 inches taller than the rain I don't
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believe that it's possible that she
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could have fallen off the balcony I
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think that something else caused her to
00:34:47
fall off the balcony that mr. Salazar
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has not yet revealed we want to get to
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the truth so that we can explain away
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all the questions whether we ever will
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or not remains to be seen
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[Music]
00:35:25
when we return a poignant tale of lost
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love perhaps you could help reunite
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blending Butterfield and her niece
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[Music]
00:35:46
raising a child means a never-ending
00:35:48
series of hard choices it's difficult
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enough for a parent can sometimes be
00:35:53
even tougher you've been entrusted with
00:35:55
a child that is not your own
00:35:57
Glenn Dean Butterfield knows that all
00:35:59
too well for more than two decades he's
00:36:02
been haunted by a decision she made
00:36:03
about her brother's daughter
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it was a fall of 1969 blendings first
00:36:14
glimpse of her niece Kellyanne was a
00:36:17
result of a hard-fought battle Glenn
00:36:21
Dean's brother Bob Ayers was in the Army
00:36:23
and was being shipped to Germany he and
00:36:25
kellyanne's mother had separated and
00:36:27
neither could care for Kellyanne the
00:36:30
army planned to put the baby in an
00:36:32
orphanage but aunt blendin wouldn't hear
00:36:34
of it she went up the chain of command
00:36:36
straight to the office of the president
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about two days later the base commander
00:36:43
at Fort Campbell Kentucky called me and
00:36:45
said that anybody would go that lengths
00:36:47
to keep a kid out of an orphanage that
00:36:49
the army would give my brother grant and
00:36:51
leave to bring her to me once Bob Ayers
00:36:55
gave Kelly anta Glen Dean he abandoned
00:36:57
all interest in the child Glen Dean was
00:37:00
on her own I didn't hear from him for a
00:37:04
long time I mean a real long time
00:37:07
Sonny was probably maybe three years
00:37:09
we'll say three years and he just kind
00:37:13
of like disappeared you know
00:37:16
kelly-ann spent those years happily
00:37:18
growing up with Glenn Dean and her two
00:37:20
daughters in central California we just
00:37:24
thought of her as a little sister cuz we
00:37:26
got her she was a baby she's real tiny
00:37:28
so she was no different than my sister
00:37:32
Vicki
00:37:33
except for more fun she liked her horse
00:37:38
she liked riding horses she liked she
00:37:41
just did everything anybody's normal kid
00:37:43
doesn't know different name except they
00:37:45
were a little older you know I mean she
00:37:48
just happy-go-lucky in 1974 Barbera
00:37:55
suddenly showed up out of the blue he
00:37:58
moved into Glen Dean's apartment but
00:38:00
still displayed little interest in being
00:38:01
a father that apparently changed when a
00:38:04
woman nicknamed kitty set up
00:38:06
housekeeping in the same building less
00:38:14
than a week later Bob made two
00:38:16
astonishing decisions first he moved in
00:38:19
with Kitty second without saying a word
00:38:22
to Glen Delia
00:38:23
he took Kellyanne with him do you like
00:38:25
this new toys daddy got you you like
00:38:29
staying in the apartment don't you huh
00:38:32
but we love having you they moved her
00:38:35
out after by boy knowing this woman for
00:38:37
a day or two and I just went into
00:38:40
hysterics over time een you know this is
00:38:42
my kid
00:38:46
for the help of the police
00:38:49
Glenn Dean got Kellyanne back the battle
00:38:51
over the child was just beginning within
00:38:56
a few months
00:38:57
Glenn Dean says Kellyanne changed she
00:38:59
had become an unhappy bewildered little
00:39:01
girl the situation became worse when Bob
00:39:15
sued Glenn Dean for custody
00:39:17
I've heard arguments from both sides and
00:39:20
I've just had a nice long chat with
00:39:23
Kelly Anne in my chambers she's a very
00:39:26
bright intelligent child she really
00:39:29
wants to stay with Glenn Dean she's very
00:39:32
happy where she is so I find for the
00:39:36
respondent I don't think I've ever been
00:39:38
so happy the judge said that Kitty and
00:39:42
Bob could have visitation rights six
00:39:45
months we will review the situation they
00:39:49
would see or when they weren't supposed
00:39:50
to they would talk to her tell her
00:39:54
things
00:39:56
it just kept her in a world of little
00:39:58
confusion you know I mean you think of
00:40:00
it little girl five years old or four to
00:40:02
have five years old and that's theta
00:40:04
confusion to minimize the conflict
00:40:09
blending moved to a small town in Nevada
00:40:12
Bob's visits with Kelly Ann were not
00:40:15
limited to twice a year but for Glenn
00:40:18
Dean even that was too much the first
00:40:22
time they took her and brought her back
00:40:23
she got she was so depressed and just
00:40:26
withdrawn and it was horrible
00:40:38
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00:40:40
it got to the point but I was so
00:40:43
concerned about our mental well-being
00:40:45
you know for when she got older and
00:40:47
everything that I decided I needed to
00:40:50
keep her away from my brother Bob and
00:40:52
Kitty
00:40:53
you want to start a war you just started
00:40:55
one let's go kitty much as she wanted to
00:41:00
keep Kellyanne Glenn Dean felt it was
00:41:02
impossible she could think of only one
00:41:04
alternative kellyanne's birth mother
00:41:06
Marion Marion was in the Air Force
00:41:10
she had remarried and had two sons Glenn
00:41:13
Dean believed she could provide the
00:41:15
stable environment Kellyanne needed so
00:41:18
because of that you want to give up
00:41:20
custody to this lady do you think it'd
00:41:26
be best for Killian the judge agreed to
00:41:30
the plan
00:41:32
soon after blending kiss Kelly and
00:41:35
goodbye and left her with her new family
00:41:38
so much okay I couldn't believe I lost
00:41:56
my child I mean this was my child and I
00:42:00
couldn't believe that I lost her that I
00:42:02
didn't have her anymore
00:42:04
he's just not sure miss you
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[Music]
00:42:09
the last time Glenn Dean spoke to Kelly
00:42:12
Anne was a Christmas time in 1976 okay
00:42:17
she told me she miss me and she loved me
00:42:20
and I told her I loved her and you know
00:42:23
it was like kind of not a real long
00:42:24
conversation but just you know I felt
00:42:27
wonderful when I talked to her the next
00:42:33
time Glenn Dean called however the line
00:42:35
was disconnected since that moment all
00:42:40
of her efforts to track Kelly Ann have
00:42:42
failed by 1983 Glenn Dean and her
00:42:47
brother Bob had patched up their
00:42:49
differences from then until Bob died in
00:42:51
a farm accident in 1994 their sole focus
00:42:54
was finding Kelly Ann there hasn't been
00:42:59
one day went by since I gave her up time
00:43:02
I've thought of her a dozen times I'm
00:43:03
wondered is she okay does she need
00:43:06
anything is she happy did I do the right
00:43:10
thing did I do the wrong thing I just
00:43:13
wish I knew
00:43:17
[Music]
00:43:34
when our next turn saw mr. Anna popular
00:43:38
exotic dancers found murdered police are
00:43:40
left with only one solid clue the voice
00:43:43
of an anonymous caller who reported the
00:43:45
crime join me next time for another
00:43:49
edition unsolved mysteries
00:43:53
[Music]
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