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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8

March 09, 2017 / 42:42

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers the disappearance of Cindy Anderson, the double murder of Joe and Maddie Harvey, and the mysterious low-frequency hum affecting many people worldwide.

Cindy Anderson, a 20-year-old legal secretary from Toledo, Ohio, vanished under suspicious circumstances. Her disturbing dreams and strange phone calls before her disappearance raised concerns among her family and colleagues. Despite extensive investigations, no clues were found, and her case remains unsolved.

The episode also details the chilling double murder of Joe and Maddie Harvey in Lewis Chapel Mountain, Tennessee. Their convenience store was burned, and their bodies were hidden. Their niece, Cheryl Holland, and her common-law husband, Eddie Wooten, were implicated in the crime, leading to a shocking confession from Wooten.

Lastly, the episode discusses the mysterious hum reported by thousands across the globe. Individuals describe it as a constant, low-frequency noise that disrupts their lives. Theories about its origin include military communication systems, but no definitive cause has been identified.

Throughout the episode, viewers are encouraged to provide information on these unsolved cases, highlighting the ongoing search for answers.

TL;DR

Cindy Anderson's disappearance, the Harvey double murder, and a mysterious global hum are featured in this episode.

Episode

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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries it started out as a case of
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arson or perhaps a robbery but it turned
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out to be a double murder with a most
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unlikely
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suspect it's called the mystery hum
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thousands hear it many are tormented by
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it where does it come
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from for Cindy Anderson it's started
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with disturbing messages from a stranger
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then harassing phone calls and finally
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Cindy
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disappeared and he helped stop the
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notorious serial killer called the
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nightstalker but he never claimed his
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reward where is Alejandro
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Espinosa whether it's homicide fraud or
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a missing person sometimes these cases
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are solved
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thanks to you I'm Dennis finina and this
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is Unsolved
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Mysteries
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Toledo
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Ohio 20-year-old Cindy Anderson has been
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plagued by a series of frightening
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dreams in one episode the acquaintance
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she lets in the door betrays her trust
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where are you taking
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me one morning while I was getting ready
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for work I overheard Cindy talking to my
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mother what's wrong Mom I had a dream
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last night well tell me about it I do
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believe that the dreams could have been
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a premonition of fears that Cindy
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actually had in her subconscious at the
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time Cindy was employed as a legal
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secretary and in the mornings usually
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worked in the office alone she kept the
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door locked at all times a buzzer had
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even been installed at her desk so that
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she could alert the shop next door if
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there was
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trouble one day at noon Jim rabbit and
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Jay felstein two of the lawyers arrived
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back at their office after a meeting Jay
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and I came back from downtown went up to
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the the door and the lights were on the
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door was locked we unlocked the door
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went inside yelled for Cindy and uh
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there was no
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answer hey Cindy I started to look
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around uh out front Cindy when she would
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leave would place the phones on hold and
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that wasn't done
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either take a look at this for a
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second look what that page was turned to
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Cindy had left her romance novel open to
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the only violence scene in the book
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where the heroin is abducted at knife
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[Music]
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point we should call somebody it wasn't
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until really looking at the book
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particularly reading the passage in the
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novel uh I just had a sickening feeling
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uh that something was wrong Cindy was
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never seen again there was no body no
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farewell letter no hint where she had
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gone or why she had disappeared were
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Cindy's dreams premonitions of a
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terrible fate or were they just a
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coincidence Cindy was raised in a strict
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religious environment her family
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boyfriend and most of her Social Circle
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were all devout Christian
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fundamentalists she was a very quiet
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obedient type of a girl she never made
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ways with either myself or her mother
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and she had lots of friends she was the
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type of daughter that you just enjoy I
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mean just a beautiful young girl
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at the time of Cindy's disappearance
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there were no circumstances in her life
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that any of us were aware of that would
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have caused her to have run away she was
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looking forward to quitting her job in
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two weeks and going to a Bible College
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where she would attend with her
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boyfriend um she was very excited about
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it just before she disappeared however
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she was um becoming like a debutant she
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was spending a lot of time on her face
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and herself and she skipped breakfast
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for this reason and that may be part of
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the
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problem ke here's some L PRS the day
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Cindy vanished the police immediately
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began a search for Clues Cindy's car
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keys and purse were missing but the
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office was undisturbed and there were no
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signs of a struggle her car was parked
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in front of the law office her bank
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account which had a nice substantial
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amount of money was never touched her
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social security number has never shown
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up under any other workplace it's a
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complete mystery how and why Cindy
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disappeared 10 months earlier Cindy had
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noticed a disturbing sign near her work
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on the wall across from her office
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someone had painted the words I love you
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Cindy by GW there was no other woman
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named Cindy working in that side of the
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strip mall that it could would have been
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four so it was strategically placed and
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it really gave us the heie
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jebs the spray painted sign was visible
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for about 6 months and then it was
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covered
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up within weeks the same message
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reappeared this time it was even larger
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Cindy tried to figure out who GW could
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have been and we couldn't think of
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anyone at school at church and our group
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of friends um at home in the
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neighborhood so it did bother us a
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lot we attempted to locate people that
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Cindy would know with those
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initials among the uh people that were
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investigated with the initials of GW was
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the maintenance man who had worked for
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the law firm for some time he had keys
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to both doors in fact he had keys to all
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the
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offices but the police found no evidence
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that the maintenance man wrote the
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graffiti and he was never charged the
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day before Cynthia and Anderson
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disappeared I had been in the law
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offices to pay off a legal fee she got a
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phone call Law Offices she kind of
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reacted like maybe it was obscene or
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something because she hung up real quick
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$30 and she got another phone call and
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the look on her face still I can picture
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it today she was scared she was honestly
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sincerely scared it gives me shivers to
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think of the look on her face some kind
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of problem uh no it it's just been
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happening lately I went home and I
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called the police department and asked
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them to do a driveby and check on her
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see are going something scared the hell
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out of him in my
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opinion the for you a month after Cindy
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vanished another strange phone call gave
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police a new lead detective
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Adams name is Cynthia Anderson case who
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is this no I can't give you my name she
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said that she was scared and she was
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talking in low Whispers all I know is I
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was told she was being held in a
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basement of a White House can't you give
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me the address she kept saying that she
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had to go I kept begging her to stay on
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the line give me more information give
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me an exact address something that we
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could act on I've got to go
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a short while later she again called
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detective Adams calling again
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about uh I'm glad you call back ma'am
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the lady mentioned that there was two
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houses side by side owned by the same
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family and that the family was out of
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town but their son was home and he was
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the party that was holding Cindy in the
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basement we did check Street after
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Street in the North End to see if we
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could find two houses side by side
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there's so many that you can't get a
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positive vocation of the
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house my hope is that my daughter is
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alive and well and living a normal life
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perhaps with loss of memory if she
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herself is out there we want her to know
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that we love her and we certainly want
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her to come back whatever the case may
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be the door is open we certainly want
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anybody and everybody that can possibly
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help in this situation to do
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so
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after Cindy's disappearance a local
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grand jury indicted nine people for drug
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trafficking some suspect that Cindy knew
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one of them and that she was killed
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after she overheard incriminating
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comments no charges were ever filed if
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you have any information about The
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Disappearance of Cindy Anderson please
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log on to our website at UNS south.com
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next they torched the crime scene and
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dumped the bodies but will they get away
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with a coldblooded double
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murder Lewis Chapel Mountain Tennessee
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is a place where everyone knows their
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neighbor and families live in the same
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town for Generations
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two popular residents were Joe Harvey
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and his wife Maddie called te by friends
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for 35 years they ran a combination
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convenience store and automobile repair
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shop it was the only place to buy gas or
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groceries for miles around T liked to
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talk a lot and that was kind of like the
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community newspaper in other words right
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there they just knew everybody anybody
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help they would help it was pretty well
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common knowledge that they kept cash
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receipts from the store hey Pat I asked
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them time and time again not to keep
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that kind of money around that they
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needed a bank account and Joe I tried to
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get him even get a gun and put in the
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garage and and station there where he's
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at and he wouldn't even do that trusted
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people too much let's go get some supper
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before you fall the TV Joe and mdy were
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such a fixure that everyone thought that
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they would be there
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forever then for the first time in
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memory there a store was not open at
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9:00 a.m. on a Monday morning a
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concerned neighbor called the sheriff I
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walked up a little steps like where you
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go up to the back
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door and the handle of the door was
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unlocked so where I just pushed the door
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open the inside of the house was
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completely gutted by by fire Joe and
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Maddie were nowhere to be
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found and I just turned and come back
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out on the the
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porch I discovered blood spots with some
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high fragment and flesh so that give me
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a funny feeling that something had
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really happened at that
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point Agents from the Tennessee Bureau
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of Investigation arrived on the scene
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State arson investigators found a 2
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gallon gasoline can on the kitchen table
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the investigators found various blood
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spots throughout the house and on porch
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and steps leading from the house the
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conclusion is obvious the arson was set
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for an attempt to cover up crimes that
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had been committed there and so with the
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idea of that we had been informed that
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they did keep large sums of money first
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thing first reaction is there had been a
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robbery I didn't thought maybe they
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might have been kidnapped I thought
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maybe they'd went on the Smokies or
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something like that but when I got to
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the mountain and they told me they'
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found blood and the house been burned
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inside I didn't know what to think at
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that point all I could think about was
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hoping that they were still
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alive a fullscale search of the area
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turned up no clues whatsoever The
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Disappearance of Joe and Maddie left
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their family and friends stunned and
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then only a week later another member of
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the Harvey family vanished
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27-year-old Cheryl Holland was Joe and
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Maddy's niece and they were extremely
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close Cheryl often came to the store for
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a visit with her young daughter hi
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cherl Tate could not have loved Cheryl
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anymore if she had been her own
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daughter that's way she felt about her
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and she felt that way about the little
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girl of
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Cheryl she loved that little girl today
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I mean she she thought that little girl
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is all they were
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a week after Joe and Maddie were last
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seen Cheryl's pickup truck was found
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abandoned at a truck stop two hours from
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home investigators found the truck
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unlocked they found keys in the truck
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and they found a necklace that has later
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been identified as hers laying beside
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the truck also her pocketbook was still
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in the truck the evidence they found on
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the scene would lead a reasonable person
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to assume there had been an abduction
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what time did you leave Ross lady
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um it's about the middle of the morning
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on Wednesday investigators question
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Cheryl's common law husband Eddie
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wooden he tells about her taking him to
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Newport News Virginia he tells about
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stopping at a place where they slept but
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he can't remember where they stopped so
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we kept finding many many
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inconsistencies such as that we have two
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missing people now we have three all out
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of a very close immediate family even
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living next door many times in her life
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the favorite niece is missing there's no
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money in the house the ARs and the blood
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it all bills and then the question is is
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she really missing is she an abductee or
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is she part and parcel of of a crime
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Eddie when was the last time you saw
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Cheryl it's like I said when she dropped
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me off at Newport News Eddie Wooten was
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questioned again he told authorities
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that in late February he took Cheryl to
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a hospital in Knoxville for a week-long
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treatment of stomach cancer name the
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hospital I don't remember you don't
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remember the name of the hospital we had
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been told by the family that she had
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borrowed money and gone to other
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institutions for supposed uh treatment
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of a um cancerous condition and we found
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that not to be true on the day in
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question that he claimed that he left
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her in Knoxville for treatments she in
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fact was working in Chattanooga
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Tennessee how could she be and Knoxville
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at the hospital and here in chattanoga
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working at the truck stop at the same
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time
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Eddie if I tell you what happened what's
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going to happen to me finally Eddie
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Wooten broke down he told a tale of
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Heartless betrayal and cold blooded
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murder that horrified
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investigators next the detail of Eddie
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wooten's confession and the search for
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the unlikely Mastermind
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Maddie and Joe Harvey were missing from
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their small town in
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Tennessee their home had been torched
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their niece Cheryl had also mysteriously
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vanished Cheryl's common law husband
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Eddie Wooten was interrogated by
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investigators if I tell you what
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happened what's going to happen to me
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eventually Eddie broke down and gave
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details of the horrific crime what
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follows is based on court records of his
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confession that whole week uh Cheryl
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worked at the truck stop and I stayed at
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home on Saturday I guess March 2 Cheryl
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came home from work and she started
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telling me that she needed more money so
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that night we were going to go up to her
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mother's so Cheryl could pick up a
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paycheck towards the evening hours they
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stopped by a service station and
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purchased a gas can and filled it up
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with
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gasoline they then went up on the
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mountain where her parents lived where
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she went in to talk to her mother and
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from there they drove to the residence
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of Joe and Maddie
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Harvey we got to do it we need the money
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we don't need it that bad we need it
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they got more than they need and I know
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where they got
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it Eddie are you going to help me do
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this or not Wooten said that he and
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Cheryl were not alone that night when
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they went into Joe and Matty's house
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they left their six week old son and
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Cheryl's 5-year-old daughter in the cab
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of their truck you got the gun what do I
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need a gun for cuz we're going to have
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to kill him kill him kill Joe and te do
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you think they're just going to hand
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over the money look Eddie we got no
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choice now come on Eddie Wooten
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continued to tell investigators how it
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was Cheryl who planned to kill Joe and
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Maddie and I said that I didn't want to
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kill him but she said that I was going
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to have to help her to do
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it and so I said I would Hey
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Joe oh hi Cheryl how you doing where's T
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oh she's in the back bedroom
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thanks
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she came out of the back
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bedroom and I shot her in the
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head according to Woon he and Cheryl
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then stuffed the bodies into the trunk
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of Joe and MD's
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car Wooten followed Cheryl as she drove
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the Harvey's car across the Alabama
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state line they stopped at the
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Bridgeport Ferry on the tennis
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River won said Cheryl later returned
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alone to Joe and Matty's house Cheryl
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stole an estimated
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$150,000 in
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cash and then tried to cover up the
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crime two days later Cheryl bodle
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returned to the crime scene again even
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as investigators were searching for
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evidence could let me she intended
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obviously for the house to burn
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completely and the house did not burn as
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a result of that the gas can was left
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basically intact on the kitchen table
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you're not going to believe what's on
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the bottom of this can what's that
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Bloody fingerprint and from that gas can
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we were able to obtain a Laten print
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which definitely matched up to the known
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thumb print of Cheryl
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Holland Searchers dragg the river near
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the the Bridgeport Ferry and found the
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Harvey's
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Car Joe and Maddie had been shot in the
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head just as Wooten
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described Eddie Wooten was arraigned on
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charges of first-degree murder a warrant
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was immediately issued for Sheryl
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Holland's arrest on the same charges
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investigators began to track her
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movements in the days just after the
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killings Holland had left her children
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with her mother and seemed to be
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traveling alone
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but authorities soon learned of a
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mysterious man who had been apparently
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following her at 9:30 p.m. 5 days after
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the murder Holland was seen by a service
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station attendant in Greenville
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Tennessee hi can I help you I was going
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to get some gas but I got I got to go we
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have a witness that saw Miss Holland
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talking to a male with a beard and a
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black leather jacket driving a red and
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white pickup truck Miss Holland didn't
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seem to have any desire to talk to the
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bearded man she left the scene and the
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truck with a mail and it followed behind
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her in the same
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direction about an hour later an
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eyewitness saw Cheryl she was using a
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pay phone at a truck stop 12 mil from
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the service station but at the time she
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called her family she said that she was
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2 hours from home later another witness
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spotted two two people talking inside
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Holland's pickup truck a man meeting the
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same description of the bearded person
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seen in the Greenville area had come to
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Cheryl Holland's place of business on
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the day before the
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murders and she was seen writing this
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man a check now whether or not that is
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the same man whether or not a bearded
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man has any involvement in this at all
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of course would be idle speculation on
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our part and we have no fact basis to
00:22:28
conclude that he
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is Cheryl Holland was last seen at the
00:22:34
truck stop around 11:30 p.m. that same
00:22:37
evening whether or not she planned this
00:22:40
disappearance prior to the homicide or
00:22:43
whether or not The Disappearance was
00:22:45
impulsive I don't know but we as
00:22:47
prosecutors and investigators do feel
00:22:50
that she is alive and has assumed a new
00:22:52
identity somewhere you're innocent until
00:22:55
proven guilty and I don't think they're
00:22:57
giving her the benefit of the doubt as
00:23:01
much as I would like for her to be I
00:23:04
think that Eddie went
00:23:05
berserk and Cheryl was just there she
00:23:08
didn't know what to do if she did burn
00:23:11
the house it was the only way that she
00:23:13
could figure that she could get away
00:23:15
from Eddie until she could see that it
00:23:17
was safe for her and her babies she's
00:23:19
just going to have to go and and try to
00:23:21
help him I think Eddie or someone that
00:23:23
he knows has done something to her has
00:23:26
killed her
00:23:29
did Cheryl Holland stage her own
00:23:31
disappearance or did she meet with foul
00:23:34
play at the hands of the mysterious
00:23:36
stranger investigators had reached the
00:23:38
dead end until the night that this case
00:23:42
was broadcast on unsound
00:23:45
Mysteries
00:23:49
update Rolling Wood Texas 1,000 M from
00:23:54
Tennessee less than an hour after our
00:23:56
broadcast Cheryl Holland was captured
00:23:59
thanks to a viewer's tip she was
00:24:02
arrested at this convenience store where
00:24:04
she had been working for 6 months under
00:24:07
the assumed name Amy
00:24:09
Forester I asked her if she was Cheryl
00:24:12
Holland and she said yes and that that
00:24:15
was about it we put her in handcuffs at
00:24:16
that point placed her under
00:24:18
arrest employees of the store were
00:24:21
shocked to learn of their co-workers
00:24:23
double life the first thing I got to my
00:24:25
mind no that can't be her not not Amy
00:24:29
don't she said last night she say I'm
00:24:31
sorry I got myself into a mess and I
00:24:35
will get myself out of it
00:24:38
you just 4 days later Holland was
00:24:41
returned to Tennessee to face charges of
00:24:43
first-degree
00:24:45
murder both she and Edward wooden were
00:24:48
each convicted on two counts of
00:24:50
first-degree murder and sentenced to
00:24:52
life in prison they will not be eligible
00:24:55
for parole until the year year
00:25:02
2022 next you can't see it smell it
00:25:07
touch it or feel it but thousands of
00:25:09
people around the world are tormented by
00:25:12
this mysterious
00:25:15
[Music]
00:25:23
sound imagine hearing this sound every
00:25:27
every day everywhere you go in no fewer
00:25:31
than 10 countries on five different
00:25:33
continents over a thousand people have
00:25:36
reported hearing a similar low frequency
00:25:39
hum and no one knows what's causing it
00:25:43
the thing I noticed about it was it
00:25:44
didn't change the sound didn't change
00:25:46
like it was getting closer or further
00:25:48
away or or slowing down or speeding up
00:25:50
it was just a steady droning sound there
00:25:53
is a little bit of a a whne somewhere in
00:25:55
the background here and it's a it's it's
00:25:57
kind of like the air is sizzling I've
00:26:00
been hearing the hump for about 5 years
00:26:02
it sounds like a diesel engine running
00:26:05
parked away but yet it has a physical
00:26:06
effect it seems to uh make a sound
00:26:09
resonance in our sternum and our thorax
00:26:11
area it causes a vibration in temporal
00:26:14
Lo lobe and actually causes ear pain at
00:26:17
times and pain on the
00:26:19
earlobes how rudan was living on
00:26:22
Michigan's Upper Peninsula when he first
00:26:24
heard the
00:26:26
hum it All Began while he was studying
00:26:29
for a trade school entrance
00:26:32
exam I noticed it a few times before I
00:26:34
was studying but thinking that it was a
00:26:36
motor it wouldn't bother me that
00:26:40
much but then I noticed it affecting how
00:26:42
I could focus and how I could
00:26:44
concentrate that's when it really
00:26:45
started agitating me so I was able to
00:26:47
ignore it maybe for the first month or
00:26:50
two but after a while when I got closer
00:26:52
to the deadline of of this entrance exam
00:26:55
I started noticing this thing is really
00:26:56
affecting how I'm still studying it's
00:26:58
really affecting my thought process and
00:26:59
how I'm taking in information and it got
00:27:01
to where I couldn't tolerate it anymore
00:27:03
and I had to know what it
00:27:05
was before long Hal became obsessed he
00:27:10
set out on an exhausting search the
00:27:13
first few nights I went out looking for
00:27:14
it I went to the Natural places that you
00:27:16
would think a hum was coming from the
00:27:18
sewage pumping stations the airport the
00:27:21
ventilation systems on top of Michigan
00:27:23
Tech University any place that would
00:27:25
generate a sound finally I was driving
00:27:28
like 100 miles a night no matter where I
00:27:30
went the intensity was always the
00:27:33
same okay I have a tuning for and I'm
00:27:36
just going to sort of get an idea of how
00:27:38
well your ears line up with each other
00:27:40
so Unsolved Mysteries brought hell to
00:27:42
Los Angeles to be tested by Dr Eugene
00:27:45
flam one of the nation's leading ear
00:27:47
nose and throat
00:27:49
specialists airplane airplane cowboy
00:27:53
cowboy hell was found to be suffering
00:27:56
from some hearing loss but there was
00:27:58
nothing specific that might explain the
00:28:00
bizarre hum from what we learn today we
00:28:04
can't prove one way or the other whether
00:28:05
there are extraneous sounds in the
00:28:07
environment or within him those sounds
00:28:10
in the environment might be perceived by
00:28:12
him
00:28:13
differently than they really are because
00:28:17
of things going on in his system I'm
00:28:20
certain that I'm feeling something from
00:28:21
an outside Source I'm a yoga teacher
00:28:24
massage therapist a raer I've studied
00:28:25
acupuncture I'm very Weare the sounds
00:28:28
that my body makes and I know this isn't
00:28:30
my body producing
00:28:33
this Hal has tried just about everything
00:28:35
to escape the hum even hiding in the
00:28:38
Deep tunnels of an old abandoned
00:28:40
coppermind near his
00:28:43
home
00:28:44
yeah I hear
00:28:47
it I thought I could get away from it
00:28:49
down under all this rock it's
00:28:54
worse in tus New Mexico Sarah Allen has
00:28:58
been hearing the hum for 3
00:29:00
years this is a tape I developed as a
00:29:03
simulation of the phenomenon as I
00:29:05
experience it her skill as a radio
00:29:08
engineer enabled her to recreate the
00:29:10
noise so that the rest of us would know
00:29:12
exactly what it sounded like kind of
00:29:14
what it sounds like that's what I'm
00:29:15
going to
00:29:21
do we played Sarah tape for Winona
00:29:24
witted of nearby Santa Fe New Mexico
00:29:28
that's very close very very
00:29:33
close that's very close it it's uh it's
00:29:36
it's uh a little it's quite a lot more
00:29:39
pleasant than the than the jagged
00:29:43
grinding
00:29:45
glass uh Sensation that that or or sound
00:29:48
that would come
00:29:51
through for Winona 5 years of hearing a
00:29:54
constant hum has disrupted her life
00:29:57
she was forced to go on disability leave
00:30:00
from her job with the National Park
00:30:02
Service Today many of those who hear the
00:30:05
low frequency belong to an international
00:30:08
Network dedicated to finding the cause
00:30:12
of the mysterious noise we call
00:30:14
ourselves hearers but actually we don't
00:30:16
really feel like we're hearing we feel
00:30:18
like we're sensing and none of us we're
00:30:20
not protesters or we're not activists
00:30:22
it's it's not like we want to take the
00:30:24
day off of work and study Physics and
00:30:26
electromagnetic res resonance but it's
00:30:28
driving us nuts and we have the support
00:30:30
and exchange of information that we need
00:30:32
with each other and that's really been
00:30:34
helpful we began to keep notes not so
00:30:37
much a log book of every day because
00:30:39
it's there every day you write in the
00:30:41
log it's there today you know and that's
00:30:42
about all you can say about
00:30:44
it what we did start noticing was the
00:30:47
intensity increases which seem to track
00:30:51
international events mostly whenever the
00:30:55
United States is involved military
00:30:57
somewhere the intensity seems to
00:31:00
increase some believe the hum may be
00:31:03
caused by a US Navy radio system known
00:31:06
as elf short for extremely low
00:31:10
frequency the Navy developed elf to
00:31:13
better communicate with the nation's
00:31:15
submarine Fleet the system has been in
00:31:17
use since the late 1980s around the same
00:31:20
time that people in the US first began
00:31:23
to hear the hum I'm fairly convinced
00:31:27
that it is military not only because of
00:31:29
my own research but because of feedback
00:31:32
I've gotten from scientists from people
00:31:35
in the armed forces and other people who
00:31:39
I I can't name but who have come forward
00:31:41
to me and who have pretty much verified
00:31:44
my theories at least in
00:31:47
principle more research was needed so a
00:31:50
team of scientists traveled to Taos to
00:31:52
search with sophisticated sound and
00:31:55
radiation sensing equipment
00:31:57
they were unable to find anything
00:31:59
dramatic or unusual to explain the hum
00:32:03
They concluded that it was quote a
00:32:05
Bonafide scientific mystery that
00:32:08
deserves additional inquiry I'm hearing
00:32:11
the hum now and we have days where it
00:32:14
oscillates on different sides and today
00:32:16
it seems to be oscillating more on the
00:32:17
right side of my
00:32:19
body I don't believe how you can't hear
00:32:23
it or is it possible that more than a
00:32:27
thousand people around the world are
00:32:29
simply Imagining the same
00:32:32
thing what's wrong with the rest of us
00:32:35
are we missing something the elf program
00:32:39
came to an end in 2004 hell was near one
00:32:42
of the stations when it was powered down
00:32:45
Hal says that his ears popped his head
00:32:47
felt lighter and the intrusive sound
00:32:50
faded but did not completely go away and
00:32:53
for many others it has not changed at
00:32:56
all
00:32:58
coming up a hero who helped put the
00:33:00
notorious nightstalker Behind Bars has
00:33:14
disappeared previously we told you about
00:33:16
the strange disappearance of Angelo
00:33:19
desideri who owned a gift shop near
00:33:21
Phoenix
00:33:23
Arizona when Angelo failed to open his
00:33:25
store one Monday morning his friends
00:33:27
called the
00:33:28
[Music]
00:33:31
police his home was searched and it
00:33:33
appeared that Angelo had been
00:33:35
interrupted while preparing an afternoon
00:33:39
meal a neighbor said that he had seen
00:33:42
Angelo's Cadillac speed off on Sunday
00:33:45
the day before he disappeared it just
00:33:48
appeared to be a person taller than
00:33:51
Angelo it wasn't like Angelo to pull out
00:33:54
without acknowledging me
00:33:58
the following Monday 400 mil from
00:34:01
Phoenix His Cadillac was found on fire
00:34:04
in a San dieago parking lot gasoline had
00:34:07
been used to set the
00:34:10
fire we looked in the trunk and found
00:34:12
absolutely nothing in that trunk that
00:34:13
would have been there other than the
00:34:14
Jack no carpet No padding no spare tire
00:34:19
basically this tells us that there could
00:34:20
have been something in the vehicle that
00:34:22
was transported in the vehicle and when
00:34:24
it was taken out they took the carpet
00:34:26
and the padding and WRA it all in one
00:34:27
unit and took everything out of the
00:34:28
vehicle including the spare
00:34:31
tire for over 8 months investigators and
00:34:34
friends were puzzled about the motive
00:34:37
for Angelo's
00:34:38
disappearance and then the Phoenix
00:34:40
police charged a local resident joseppi
00:34:43
Joe callow with two felony counts
00:34:46
relating to The Disappearance of Angelo
00:34:49
desideri apparently Angelo and callow
00:34:51
had been involved with organized crime
00:34:54
and Angelo wanted out callow was ordered
00:34:58
to eliminate Angelo and he brought in a
00:35:00
man named James Majors to do the job Joe
00:35:04
callow told us that all the information
00:35:06
he had was told to him by James Majors
00:35:10
during the interview of Joe Kell he
00:35:13
stated that Majors went to the house got
00:35:16
into the house by ringing the doorbell
00:35:17
and asking for a glass of water then
00:35:20
took Angelo at
00:35:22
gunpoint and robbed the
00:35:25
house he was taken out of the house at
00:35:28
that time by majors and driven out into
00:35:30
the desert callow claims that somewhere
00:35:34
between Phoenix and San Diego Majors
00:35:36
murdered Angelo placed the body in the
00:35:39
trunk of the Cadillac and continued on
00:35:41
toward San
00:35:45
Diego the following
00:35:48
morning Majors goes to a hardware
00:35:53
store where he purchased a pick and a
00:35:55
shovel
00:36:00
according to C Majors drove down a
00:36:02
desert back road and buried Angelo near
00:36:05
a large tree but until they can find a
00:36:07
body police could not confirm if cow was
00:36:10
telling the truth and they had no case
00:36:13
against James
00:36:15
Majors
00:36:17
update the remains of Angelo deser were
00:36:21
found by campers in California just as
00:36:24
Joe callow described they were buried in
00:36:26
a shallow grave near a large tree dental
00:36:29
records confirm the identity deser had
00:36:33
been shot once in the
00:36:35
head James Majors was not charged with
00:36:38
Angelo's death he had already been
00:36:40
sentenced to death for three other
00:36:44
murders Joe callow was a suspect in
00:36:47
several other killings to avoid the
00:36:49
death penalty he pled guilty to
00:36:51
arranging the murder of Angelo desideri
00:36:54
call was given multiple life sentences
00:36:56
for Des der's murder and six other
00:37:00
contract
00:37:06
killings in the summer of
00:37:08
1985 Los Angeles was paralyzed by fear a
00:37:12
serial killer dub the nightstalker had
00:37:15
committed a series of brutal rapes and
00:37:18
murders the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
00:37:20
Department assigned a 120 member task
00:37:23
force to the case detectives inter
00:37:26
viewed thousands of witnesses and
00:37:28
checked out all possible leads but the
00:37:30
unknown killer remained at
00:37:34
large and then on August 26th
00:37:37
1985 an unidentified man called the task
00:37:40
force hotline protective C can I help
00:37:43
you have some information on the
00:37:44
nightstalker what kind of information do
00:37:46
you have I I know he is detectives felt
00:37:50
that once that this caller's information
00:37:52
was legitimate and they arranged the
00:37:54
meeting what about this afternoon at
00:37:55
3:00 3:00's fine Alex thank you for
00:37:59
calling we'll see you at 3 okay
00:38:02
bye Alex I want you have a seat over
00:38:04
there that afternoon the caller met with
00:38:07
detectives Gil Kio and Carlos Aila the
00:38:10
man identified himself as alandro
00:38:13
Espinosa the individual that he wished
00:38:15
to identify he knew as Richard or by a
00:38:18
moniker that he knew on the streets as
00:38:21
thebado uh which translated into English
00:38:24
means the uncombed one he tells me about
00:38:26
all these burglaries he commits
00:38:28
Alejandra was telling us about
00:38:30
burglaries where Richard had told him
00:38:33
about that coincided with the murders
00:38:34
that we were investigating where there
00:38:36
had been a murder burglary what's he
00:38:38
generally do with the property that he
00:38:39
takes on the burglaries he takes it to
00:38:42
the fence and I can show you where
00:38:44
that's at I know where the house is at I
00:38:47
don't know where the address is that
00:38:49
information that he had that we had not
00:38:51
heard coming from other individuals that
00:38:53
were calling in and it was information
00:38:55
that we knew that perhaps only the
00:38:57
suspect himself or Associates of the
00:39:00
suspect might
00:39:02
know Alejandra told detectives that on
00:39:06
several occasions he had accompanied the
00:39:08
man he knew as Richard to a house in the
00:39:10
Echo Park area of Los
00:39:15
Angeles according to Espinosa Richard
00:39:18
entered the house alone and exchanged
00:39:20
stolen property for cash Alejandro
00:39:24
became suspicious and
00:39:27
uh as he said had put two and two
00:39:29
together after realizing that a lot of
00:39:32
the property that Richard had taken on
00:39:34
days that he had talked about doing a
00:39:36
recent burglary Alejandro had read in
00:39:38
the paper that coincidentally there had
00:39:40
been another burglary or another
00:39:42
homicide that the quote unquote
00:39:45
nightstalker had been attributed to uh
00:39:48
he finally realized that his friend whom
00:39:51
he knew as Richard was in his opinion
00:39:54
the
00:39:55
nightstalker
00:39:57
3 days after their meeting with Espinosa
00:39:59
detectives made a positive match of a
00:40:02
fingerprint tanket from one of the
00:40:03
nightstalkers crime scenes with
00:40:06
25-year-old Richard Ramirez because
00:40:09
Ramirez had a prior arrest record there
00:40:12
was a booking photo on
00:40:15
file as soon as we got that booking
00:40:18
photo we then went to Alejandro out on
00:40:21
the
00:40:21
streets showed him a copy of the booking
00:40:24
photo yeah that's Richard you positive
00:40:27
I'm positive no doubt that's him when
00:40:30
Alejandro identified the mug shot that
00:40:32
we displayed for him we knew that we
00:40:34
were talking of one of the same person
00:40:37
and that Richard was the man we were in
00:40:38
fact looking
00:40:40
for the following morning a photograph
00:40:42
of Richard Ramirez was printed on the
00:40:45
front page of every major newspaper in
00:40:47
Los
00:40:50
Angeles within hours he was chased down
00:40:53
and captured by a group of angry
00:40:55
citizens
00:40:57
after he tried to steal a car by noon he
00:41:00
was in police custody the nightstalker
00:41:03
7-month reign of terror had finally come
00:41:06
to an
00:41:07
end Richard Ramirez was convicted on 43
00:41:11
felony charges including 13 counts of
00:41:15
first-degree
00:41:18
murder 6 weeks later Rus was sentenced
00:41:21
to death big deal death always went with
00:41:24
the territories I'll See You in
00:41:28
Disneyland Alejandra espanosa is
00:41:30
entitled to more than
00:41:32
$66,000 for the Vital Information he
00:41:35
provided authorities but he has not come
00:41:38
forward to claim his
00:41:40
reward being a street person Alejandra
00:41:43
himself would know that he would be
00:41:45
labeled as an informant which is not
00:41:48
well thought of down the streets of uh
00:41:50
any City there was a certain degree of
00:41:54
danger at the time alej Ro espanosa was
00:41:57
26 years old and according to police he
00:42:01
may have had a wife and a young
00:42:25
son
00:42:38
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Episode Highlights

  • The Disappearance of Cindy Anderson
    Cindy Anderson vanished under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind a chilling romance novel.
    “Were Cindy's dreams premonitions of a terrible fate?”
    @ 03m 57s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Harvey Family Mystery
    Joe and Maddie Harvey went missing after their home was set ablaze, leaving the community in shock.
    “The arson was set for an attempt to cover up crimes that had been committed there.”
    @ 12m 42s
    March 09, 2017
  • Cheryl Holland's Abduction
    Cheryl Holland, niece of the Harveys, disappeared under suspicious circumstances just after their vanishing.
    “What time did you leave?”
    @ 14m 29s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Mysterious Hum
    Thousands around the world are tormented by a mysterious low frequency hum.
    “Imagine hearing this sound every day, everywhere you go.”
    @ 25m 23s
    March 09, 2017
  • Hal's Obsession
    Hal became obsessed with finding the source of the hum affecting his life.
    “I had to know what it was.”
    @ 27m 03s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Nightstalker Captured
    Richard Ramirez's reign of terror ended when he was captured by citizens.
    “The nightstalker's reign of terror had finally come to an end.”
    @ 41m 07s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • Cindy had left her romance novel open to the only violence scene.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
  • My hope is that my daughter is alive and well.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
  • You’re not going to believe what’s on the bottom of this can.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
  • I couldn't tolerate it anymore.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
  • It deserves additional inquiry.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
  • The nightstalker's reign of terror had finally come to an end.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8

Key Moments

  • Cindy's Disappearance03:47
  • Mysterious Messages05:49
  • Community Shock13:21
  • Cheryl's Vanishing14:02
  • Life Disrupted29:54
  • International Network30:08
  • Scientific Mystery32:05
  • Capture of Nightstalker41:03

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March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 17
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 13
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 19
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 19
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 9
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 9
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 1 - Updated Full Episode
July 26, 2021
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 1 - Updated Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 7
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 7
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 10 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 10 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 22 - Updated Full Episode
July 26, 2021
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 22 - Updated Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 22 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 22 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 21
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 21