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Mysteries a man confesses to murder
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later he claims that he was forced to
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lie and that he's truly innocent he has
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unlikely allies a local sheriff and a
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state prosecutor believe
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him Island residents claim that a
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ghostly visitor protects their homes
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from hurricanes they call him
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the gy
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man within weeks of 9/11 letters laced
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with anthrax kill five innocent people
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after 7 years the FBI's hunt for the
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murderer takes a troubling
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turn and a woman tries to run drug
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dealers out of her neighborhood will she
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pay the ultimate
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price for her
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Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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two boys out fishing on Taylor Bayou
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find evidence of a
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tragedy what's that right
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there kind of looks like a
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ball this guy skull
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it is the skull of a young girl 6 weeks
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later police discover the rest of her
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bones along with the remains of another
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young
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woman dental records identify the girls
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as 14-year-old Ronda Renee Johnson and
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15-year-old Sharon Shaw both have been
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missing since the previous summer 5
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months after their bones are found
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police arrest 23-year-old Michael self a
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gas station attendant with below average
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intelligence he's convicted on two
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counts of murder and sent to prison for
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life with no chance of parole I did not
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kill Sharon Shaw and Renee Johnson it
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was just all behind politics and wanting
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a
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conviction that was it just somebody
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to play the
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petsy what the jury never heard was that
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the two police officers officers may
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have used intimidation and violence to
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force a confession out of Michael sou in
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a surprising twist these same two police
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officers turned out to be criminals
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themselves Ronda Johnson and Sharon Shaw
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were last seen in Galveston Texas 20 M
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south of Webster no that's okay we've
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just got a couple more blocks to go when
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they were reported missing police
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immediately launched their
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investigation the pressure to find the
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girls was intensified by the fact that
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Ronda was the granddaughter of a
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well-known Webster city councilman once
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the remains of the girls were found the
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pressure turned towards finding the
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killer several months after the remains
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were found the local city council hired
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a new police chief Don Morris and an
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assistant chief Tommy deal son I'm glad
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you're with us I Know I Can Count On You
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yes sir within 3 weeks of taking office
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Morris and deal would get a tip on a
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suspect in the double murder seems to me
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a few years back a boy named Michael
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Glen price another city councilman
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suggested they investigate known sex
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offenders and mentioned Michael self's
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name Michael had been arrested twice in
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peeping Tom incidents do a good job
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Tommy I'll give it a world Glenn bye
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following the tip deal called Michael
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self who agreed to meet him at the
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police station for
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questioning I knew I hadn't done
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anything I just went ahead and agreed to
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meet him there now Mike I want you to
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answer some questions for me I want you
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to tell us if you've ever seen either
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one of these girls before Michael said
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that he did recognize the girls but did
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not know them Renee Johnson to his
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surprise he was immediately arrested
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that's right cing
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sit down in that chair all right when
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Michael was being questioned another
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police officer Jerry Mitchell stopped by
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to observe he says that Michael was not
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at all nervous at that stage of the
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interrogation for doing something Michel
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looked relaxed easy going kind of
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laidback he's grinning and I don't know
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that it ever really sunk into at that
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time uh what he wasn't being involved in
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well like I say I ain't done nothing I
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ain't broke no
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law don't you need to be on
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patrol Mitchell left the room according
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to Michael Chief Morris then took charge
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of the interrogation and the tone
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changed not radically what is he
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innocent you innocent Michael sir hey
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what Tom why don't you go home and take
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a nap and let me what you are about to
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see is based on Michael's recollection D
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Michael Don Morris started asking me
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questions why I kill these
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girls I told him I didn't know what he
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was talking
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about he said that he wanted a
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confession I wasn't going to leave until
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he got
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one tell me about the girls I don't know
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nothing about no girls I done told
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you I think I go around up some straight
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dogs hey you be careful out
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there said don't you have a guilty
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conscience and I'd tell him that I
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didn't know what he was talking
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about he had me against the wall my
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hands are behind my back and he's poking
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this night stick in my stomach and said
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he was going to get a
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confession you tell it he was more or
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less a mad man about it
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you getting tired of this Michael huh
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I'm pretty tired of myself I was crying
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I was
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upset he took his gun opens the cylinder
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and takes five bullets and stands them
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on in where I can see them youing about
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I want you to tell me where you picked
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them up don't you I want you to tell me
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I was more scared than I was anything I
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didn't know what was going on going on I
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didn't know what to say cuz I will blow
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your head off
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no tell me about the
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girl closed it he spun the chamber and
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he points his gun like this and says
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he's going to blow my brains out if I
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don't sign a
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confession okay
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okay I want you to write down everything
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you remember about that
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day he had already beat it half to death
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Pok him in the stomach and I could see
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that he was meant what he said and I
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asked him who do you what do you want me
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to
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sign he tells me that he'll tell me what
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to
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write you were drinking beer while you
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were riding around is that the way it
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happened yes sir less than 1 hour after
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Jerry Mitchell had left the room he
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returned Michael was now visibly upset
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let me see what you wrote
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it was my opinion kind of being led in
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the sequence of events of how they
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wanted it
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written do it again I'd seen you about
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half a page of writing on there by the
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time it was all over with and I think
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they had to rewrite that one something
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wasn't right in true now let's start
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again you I do know that they rewrote
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the confession several
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times but Michael's confession did not
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fit the known facts of the crime for
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example the confession said that Michael
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dumped the bodies at a place called el
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Largo 20 mi from where the bodies were
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actually found and there were several
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more
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discrepancies there's the statement in
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here that what he did was in essence he
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choked one of the two girls there was no
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evidence of the breaking of some very
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tender bones in the neck that
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necessarily would have been damaged if
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if in fact he had choked one of the
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girls to death there is uh this claim
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that uh he went to Sharon Shaw's house
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well Sharon Shaw's family contradicts
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that so she wasn't home that day that
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didn't occur I had statements from two
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girls signed by their parents as a
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witness that they talked to Sharon Shaw
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Rene Johnson in Galveston between 8 and
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9:00 there's no conceivable way that
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Sharon Shaw n Johnson could got another
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ride and been in
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Webster riding around with m the law
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itself at the at the time that they've
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gotten this
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confession next Michael self is sent to
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prison even though another man confesses
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to the
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murders tell me about the girls in
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Webster Texas Michael self a gas station
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attendant with below normal intelligence
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says that he was coerced into confession
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confessing to two murders that he did
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not
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commit 3 days after his arrest he
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ignored his original attorney's advice
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and agreed to take a lie detector test
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do you know who caused the death of the
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two girls yes in the course of giving
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him the polygraph exam they say well now
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we've got this statement that you gave
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last Friday where you confessed to
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killing these two girls is it true and
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he says yeah and the live detector says
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no it's not it's not true at all
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yes sir Michael says that after taking
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the polygraph he was still so afraid of
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Chief Morris that he agreed to sign a
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second confession it contained a new
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version of the deaths of Ronda and
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Sharon in his first confession Michael
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said he struck Sharon with his fist and
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left the girls bodies in a culvert in
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the second he claimed that he hit Sharon
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with a coke bottle and dumped their
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bodies in the bayou the second
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confession also says that Michael
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stripped the murdered girls of their
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clothing and tossed it along the highway
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in fact their clothing was found with
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the remains along with unidentified car
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keys and a crucifix worn by
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Sharon there was a slight difference in
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the two written
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confessions but all I had to do was
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offer in evidence the confession I want
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to go
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with and if the facts the outline facts
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uh tended to support the elements of
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this confession that's all I needed if
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the jury believed
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it while Michael awaited trial he was
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visited by Dave Coburn who had become
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chief of police in nearby Cleveland
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Texas he pulled out his gun yes open it
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up start pulling out five bullets one at
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time when he made that statement to me I
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knew knew what had come down because a
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year prior I witnessed Don Mars taking
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one shell out of his revolver hiding it
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placing five shells in front of a
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prisoner and playing rushian roulette
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with that prisoner threatening him and
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there's no doubt in my mind that he did
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that to Michael Lord self and when it
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came to the trial I was prepared to go
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in and make statements and I was never
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called I don't know whether he did the
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question r that number bottom line all
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three confessions are consistent I'll
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kill the
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girls Michael self was convicted of
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murder and sentenced to life in prison 3
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years later the town of Webster was
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shocked when Chief Don Morris and
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officer Tommy deal were arrested for
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bank robbery not only were they members
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of a criminal gang but they had been
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holding up Banks During the period that
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they were questioning Michael both were
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sent to prison Jerry bernberg petitioned
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the court and got Michael a new trial
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just 9 days before it was set to begin
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the defense got what looked like a gift
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from
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Heaven he been bugging me for a long
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time I just wanted to get it off my
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chest it was Sharon Shaw and Renee
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Johnson I'm the one that killed them a
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man told State prosecutor Douglas
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O'Brien that he not Michael self
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murdered the girls what' you do with
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their bodies after you killed them I
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basically got the impression from him
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that what he wanted to do was to get it
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off his chest and confess to the fact
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that he killed the girls but at the same
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time not give information which would
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allow prosecution of him I tied him up
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with this this black cord and I I tied
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him up and I just I put him in the water
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the statement by this individual
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indicated that he had tied their feet
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with black cord something Michael S had
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never mentioned not founding any
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statement by Michael self that was the
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secret fact that the police had held
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back all these years this guy knew
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it that guy was out of his
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gourd he was he was a I don't know why
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he came forward I think he was
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unbalanced I don't remember exactly what
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I did all right I don't remember exactly
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individual was clearly very troubled
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person with some flights to to to
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psychosis but he knew the girls he lived
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in the same apartment complex with one
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of them and the most important thing of
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all he knew about the black
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cord despite the surprise confession and
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the dubious credibility of Don Morris
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and Tommy deal Michael's conviction was
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upheld they have no coating evidence
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whatsoever nothing to tie him to any
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murders or to even being seen with these
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girls except this
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which is not worth papers wrote on if he
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were try
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today uh naturally some of these areas
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would be clarified these particular
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points we're talking about we go back
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and spend more time and send better
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investigators out and make our decision
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as to whether prosecut or
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not Michael S was never released from
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prison the US Supreme Court refused to
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consider his request for a new trial and
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he was repeatedly denied parole he died
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of cancer while behind bars he was just
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53 years
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old next the search for the terrorist
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who killed five people with
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Anthrax Trenton New Jersey
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Tuesday October 16th
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2001 Norma Wallace reports for work at
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the post office Nora isn't feeling well
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and thinks that it might be the flu but
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as the day wears on she becomes more and
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more sick she can barely
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breathe 200 mil away in Washington DC
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another postal worker Leroy Richmond
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suffers from nearly identical symptoms
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he too becomes extremely
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ill both Norma and Leroy are
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hospitalized their conditions growing
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worse by the hour they seem to be slowly
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suffocating to death and doctors can't
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figure out why but after conducting a
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series of tests they finally come up
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with a
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diagnosis Anthrax poisoning
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like millions of other Americans Leroy
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and Norma were aware that Anthrax had
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killed the man in Florida just days
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earlier and now they were suffering from
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the most deadly form of the disease
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fatal 95% of the time who would commit
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such a crime and
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why someone somewhere in the world had
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access to the deadly bacterium that
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causes Anthrax they had the knowledge to
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work with it and a location suitable for
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its handling was it a single person or
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was it a group where were they located
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and what were their motives for a nation
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that was still reeling from the 9/11
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terrorist attacks it seemed nearly
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impossible to
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comprehend the anthrax Terror plot came
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to light on October 5th 2001 in boka Ron
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Florida 63-year-old Robert Stevens a
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photo editor for the Sun newspaper died
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after he was exposed to Anthrax spores
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experts believe they came from a letter
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that was opened but the letter was
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thrown away its Origins
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unknown we don't have a crime scene in
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the traditional sense we don't have
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witnesses and we really don't have any
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anyone that we can call and inform it at
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this
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point that same week in Manhattan NBC
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News and the New York Post received
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Anthrax tainted
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letters it is clear that the terrorists
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responsible for these attacks intended
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to use this Anthrax as a
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weapon but this time there was a clue
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postmarks on the envelopes from Trenton
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New Jersey FBI agents checked every
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mailbox in town for traces of Anthrax
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they found none
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October 99th 2001 Washington DC two more
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letters laced with Anthrax once again
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they were postmarked Trenton New Jersey
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this time politicians were the targets
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senators tond dasel and Patrick Ley at
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their offices the letters contained a
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form of Anthrax so pure and concentrated
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it was termed weapons grade this
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dangerous dangerous stuff
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it was estimated that two trillion
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spores went into each of those envelopes
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which would have been 2
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G one envelope may have had 100 million
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lethal
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doses under the right conditions just
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two gs of Anthrax could potentially wipe
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out one3 of the US
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population notes that came in the
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envelopes were so similar and handr they
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had to come from the same source did
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references to 9/11 death to Israel and
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Allah is great point to Arab terrorists
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or to someone who wanted investigators
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to think Arab extremists were
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involved we are looking at three broad
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areas the first being International
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terrorists domestic terrorism we're
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looking at some of the individuals
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within the United States and then we're
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looking at the Lone Wolf as well
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by October 20th puler worker Norma
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Wallace was fighting for her life her
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temperature had soared to above 100 she
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was in shock the anthrax spores were
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releasing a lethal toxin causing blood
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vessels to break and the bacteria to
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pulse through her
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bloodstream I felt like I was dying I
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felt like I couldn't breathe once the
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spores enter your lungs they actually
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attack the tissues and and the lymph
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nodes and causes the uh Anthrax to
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actually um take possession of your
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body Leroy Richmond was also critical he
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was in excruciating pain as his lungs
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filled with fluid doctors knew their
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most powerful drugs were rarely
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effective in fighting
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Anthrax I think I was about as near
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death than as that ever was going to get
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my breathing had become so shallow that
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I was accidentally panting like a dog
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would
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breathe and I heard a couple guys say
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now he's not going to last for a couple
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hours and that'll be it for
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him but how did two male sorters at two
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different post offices become infected
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in the first place the sheer speed of
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30,000 envelopes per hour flying through
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a male sorter could send millions of
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Anthrax spores into the air routine
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maintenance using air blowers only
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increase the ch chance of
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infection I looked up and saw this dust
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and this this s and stuff coming out of
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the machine and I just looked up oh my
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God and I said like that and probably
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that instance I may have inheld the
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spores miraculously Nora and Leroy
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survived their hering ordeals but four
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other Anthrax victims weren't so lucky
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bringing the death toll to five in
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Washington DC Leroy's coworker
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Thomas Morris and Joseph kersen in New
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York City Hospital worker Kathy No 3
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weeks later arly lungren in Derby
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Connecticut in May 2002 the genetic
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Fingerprints of the anthrax spores
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reveal that they came from one of the
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military's top secret research Labs
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perhaps the anthrax was stolen but maybe
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the attacks were actually committed by
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someone who worked with Anthrax spores
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at one of these
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facilities loading these letters with
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Anthrax required specific
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expertise in other words it couldn't be
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done uh in your basement uh or your
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garage unless you had some specific
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equipment we are in the middle of an
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exhaustive national International
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investigation we've interviewed over
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5,000 people already uh We've issued
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well in excess of 1300
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subpoenas and every little piece of the
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puzzle
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helps
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update on July 27 2008 a government
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scientist named Bruce Ivans was rushed
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to a Maryland Hospital suffering from a
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massive overdose of prescription drugs
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he died 2 Days Later shortly after the
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FBI announced that Dr Ivans had been the
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prime suspect in the anthrax Terror of
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2001 one of the country's leading
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Anthrax researchers Dr Ivans had helped
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investigate the attacks that killed five
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Americans and terrorized the nation but
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Ivans eventually became a suspect
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himself and according to the FBI there
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is no doubt that he was the anthrax
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killer the case is officially closed
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though a motive for Dr Ivan's alleged
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crimes has not been
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established next a couple says that a
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Friendly Ghost save their home from
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Hurricane
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Hugo Paulie's Island South Carolina l
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late summer
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1822 according to Legend a wealthy young
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planter rode with his servant along the
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dunes of a deserted
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Beach his destination was his fiance's
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Plantation the wedding was just a few
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days
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away you you by the time he could be
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pulled out of the marsh it was too late
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the young man was dead at the plantation
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the bride to be heard the tragic news
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Rachel yes papa it's James he was riding
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and he fell in the marsh he died in the
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fall according to Legend the girl often
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wandered the shores alone in morning one
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day she noticed a shadowy figure
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standing on the beach
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that night her fiance came to her in a
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dream and whispered an urgent warning
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play the island the wind is
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coming the
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wind she and her parents left the next
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day just before a hurricane slammed into
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the island the girl her family and even
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their Plantation were spared
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they call him the gray man and over the
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years the ghostly figure has been seen
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many times some say that whenever he
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appears the homes of those who have seen
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him are spared from destruction is this
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just a fairy tale or is it evidence that
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ghosts really do exist you see for
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yourself through the years there have
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been numbers of different story is often
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in the newspaper after a storm and in
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1954 a man who lived in Georgetown at
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had a summer home at Paula Island saw
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the gry man before Hurrican Hazel his
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home was so protected that Beach Towers
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that they had left hanging on the
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railing of the porch was still there
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after the storm well I was here in
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Hurricane Hazel so it's very hard for me
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to believe that beach tows could have
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remained on that railing and not have
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been blown away but they did Hurricane
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Hazel had left the southern Atlantic
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Coast in Ruins 95 people were killed and
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over 1,800 homes were destroyed for the
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next 35 years the killer winds stayed
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clear of Paulie's Island and the grey
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man came to be regarded by locals as
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their own Guardian Angel when he appears
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to you you're very blessed and fortunate
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your house will be saved and so I think
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um it's strange how people seem to have
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a sense of fear about ghost and yet The
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Gray Man and is a benign and kindly
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person who helps people when he comes
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and appeals to
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them September
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1989 after ravaging the Caribbean
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Hurricane Hugo slammed into South
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Carolina its winds reached speeds of
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more than
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135
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mph thousands were forced to leave from
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their
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homes in South Carolina alone there was
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close to 5 billion worth of damage over
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9,000 homes were
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destroyed Paulie's Island was ESP
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especially
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heit it practically destroyed Paula's
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Island it destroyed 14 houses in our
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section ours was left
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standing as we went in I was so happy to
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find everything just like I had left it
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the papers that we had on the counter
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still there even though the front door
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had blown open there was no evidence of
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any water or anything inside and the
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house was
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intact even the uh the little pictures
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and things were still on refri
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refrigerator they weren't uh weren't
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even blown
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off Jim and CLA recalled a haunting
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encounter that occurred 2 days before
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Hugo struck we were taking a walk late
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in the afternoon which we usually do and
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uh you see so many people walking on the
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beach at this time of the day that
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particular afternoon we only saw the one
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and he was coming directly told us when
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I got within speaking distance I decided
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Well you always speak to people whether
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you know I'm or not so I raised my hand
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to say uh hi uh beautiful evening or
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beautiful night or whatever and uh he
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disappeared where did he go I don't know
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how to explain it because an eie thing
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like that you know uh but of course I
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didn't worry too much about it because I
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said well I was just seeing things but
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I'm sure that he was there and when I
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started to speak he wasn't there so I
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didn't know it was gry man I just
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thought it was someone on the beach
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until he disappeared
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did I can't explain our good vtune
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except through the presence of the gray
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man and the Lord of course who may have
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used the gray
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man I can't think of any way that you
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could rationalize the saving of our
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house except it had to be a
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miracle I never did believe too much in
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ghost I have changed my outlook I
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believe there there are ghost after
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seeing a ghost you got to believe it you
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know next the mysterious case of two
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friends who vanished Without a Trace is
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finally
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solved and drug dealers take revenge on
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a woman who tries to run them out of her
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neighborhood
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previously we told you about Bill Rundle
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and Tracy Kenley two friends who went
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for a drive near Hastings Nebraska and
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then seemed to vanish Into Thin
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Air that afternoon they had visited
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Tracy's parents 38 mi from
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Hastings what do you do Bill we never
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talked about where they were going when
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they left or what they were going to do
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I guess we felt that she'd make it home
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safe
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around 11:00 p.m. Tracy called her
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boyfriend and made plans to meet him at
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the local bar at 12:30 she never showed
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up neither She nor Bill were ever heard
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from
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again using cell phone records and
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transmission signals police pinpointed
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Tracy's location at the time of the call
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it was a junction 16 m east of Hastings
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but a 30 squ m search of the area turned
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up nothing police began to wonder if
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Bill and Tracy had run away
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together they didn't run away I I feel
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that in my heart because neither one of
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them took their toothbrush neither one
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took their uh any change of clothing
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there has been no evidence uh as far as
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their credit cards ATMs phones have ever
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been powered up from the day they
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disappeared no evidence has led us in
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that direction that they're still out
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there
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another theory was that they had met
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with Foul
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Play Nebraska is an area where you
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travel through to get from the Easter
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the West there's always a possibility of
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somebody coming through the area that
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may have been a a more severe criminal
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than we're normally used
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to we need some kind of clue we have no
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clue there has been nothing it's just
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like they just disappeared
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update 2 years after Tracy and Bill
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vanished drought conditions lowered the
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level of a pond near the road where they
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were driving a farm worker noticed the
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outline of a car in the pond and
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contacted police Tracy and Bill's bodies
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were found inside police theorized that
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they got lost and when they tried to
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turn around on the narrow road Bill's
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Jeep went into the
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pound investigators have ruled out Foul
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Play the city of East Pao Alto
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California was a nice working class town
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but then drug traffickers moved in fed
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up a resident named CW took a stand
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against the criminals it almost cost CW
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her life
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9 yeah me the police my mother shot do
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you know who shot her I don't know we
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went in a house somebody
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deliver late on New Year's Eve
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paramedics and police responded to a 911
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call a 60-year-old woman had been shot
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in the stomach unknown gunmen had fired
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35 rounds of ammunition into her house
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and
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car the victim was CW rowy a retired
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phone compy employee who had lived in
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the area with her son Darnell for 23
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years the attack was the culmination of
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a three-year Campaign Of Terror against
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CW by a group of young drug dealers
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their customers were often affluent
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residents from the surrounding
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communities the drug dealing on our
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street was very much like a drive up
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Bank window they drive drive up the dope
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dealers will rush to the car in a total
00:36:01
frenzy of competition with one another
00:36:03
trying to get the sale and it continue
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like that day and
00:36:08
night CW decided it was time to take
00:36:12
action the first confrontation came when
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Teenage drug dealers parked their cars
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in front of her house excuse me young
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man do you have any business with me
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here L lady lady you just taking care of
00:36:26
little business we be here you
00:36:28
man you if you don't have business with
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me I'd really like you to move your car
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lady I'm not moving I will be taking
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your license number and giving it to the
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police CW frequently reported the young
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traffickers but the understaff local
00:36:44
police could not handle the enormous
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problem I've always felt that your home
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is your castle and what you do in your
00:36:51
home is your business but when they
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bring their drugs out in front of my
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house in the streets that makes it my
00:37:01
business and I don't do that kind of
00:37:07
business on another occasion CW was
00:37:10
physically threatened what's up old B we
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going to blow your damn house up you see
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what I'm saying and I said to him are
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you going to make sure that I'm in it
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and I looked up and saw a police officer
00:37:23
sitting directly across the street yeah
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you better watch your back straight up
00:37:29
officer did you hear what the young man
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said to me he threatened to blow up my
00:37:33
house you wish to make a citizen the
00:37:35
rest yes I do you do wish I do wish to
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so we
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did and he took him off but he was back
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within a matter of
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minutes things only got worse over the
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next 18 months During certain hours of
00:37:54
the day the streets resembled a rush
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hour traffic Jam in their off hours the
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dealers used CW's front curb as their
00:38:03
personal parking lot my car you see me
00:38:06
park it there act stupid I would like to
00:38:09
why my car somebody else move car and
00:38:13
then the confrontation suddenly turned
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violent he picked up a piece of wood and
00:38:26
I was infuriated and I said to myself
00:38:29
this is stupid so I started back across
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the street and they start say yeah go
00:38:33
call the
00:38:37
police after getting to the police
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station the boy was on his way back home
00:38:42
before I even finished with the police
00:38:44
report you guys are going to pay for
00:38:46
this 2 months later CW was involved in
00:38:49
another
00:38:50
confrontation Chris Thomas a new
00:38:52
neighbor was attacked when he came to
00:38:55
her defense
00:38:57
they cut him very badly in the face they
00:39:00
had to take him to to the hospital and
00:39:02
get stitches and uh someone called the
00:39:06
police police arrested the young man who
00:39:09
had attacked the neighbor for the next
00:39:11
10 days things were quiet until New
00:39:15
Year's
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Eve on New Year's Eve in East pal Alto
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for some strange reason a lot of
00:39:21
citizens like to shoot guns uh they just
00:39:24
shoot up in the
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air at midnight CW was awakened by the
00:39:31
gunfire I heard all of the
00:39:34
shooting and I looked up at the clock
00:39:36
and I said oh they're just celebrating
00:39:38
New Year's Eve
00:39:39
right so I got up and then I went in the
00:39:42
living room I noticed across the street
00:39:45
three young men they were just standing
00:39:48
around talking and there weren't in
00:39:50
their cars coming up and down the street
00:39:51
at that particular
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time I would say about 20 minutes after
00:39:56
midnight it had all quieted down all of
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a sudden I heard all these
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shots I hit the floor at that time I was
00:40:12
about to get up and I heard my mother
00:40:15
scream in pain CW was shot in the
00:40:19
stomach her son immediately called for
00:40:22
help I think the attack on my house was
00:40:25
a planned attack and they were planning
00:40:27
to kill us my mother's been
00:40:31
shot the police arrived within minutes
00:40:34
they recovered shell casings from three
00:40:37
weapons a 38 caliber revolver a 380
00:40:41
semi-automatic pistol and an assault
00:40:44
weapon possibly an Uzi the police did
00:40:47
their initial investigations and then
00:40:50
called in the
00:40:52
FBI we know that there were three to
00:40:54
four individuals who were responsible
00:40:56
for firing these rounds into the home of
00:40:58
Mrs Rody this is a neighborhood that has
00:41:01
been somewhat paralyzed because of the
00:41:03
amount of violence that has been
00:41:05
generated from those who took a stance
00:41:07
to come forward and say no
00:41:10
more to date no suspects have been
00:41:13
identified but even though the case
00:41:15
remains unsolved the attack has rallied
00:41:19
the neighborhood a group of mothers took
00:41:21
charge of the local park and drove out
00:41:24
the drug dealers they were successful
00:41:26
but they know it is only the first step
00:41:29
on a long
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road I went by a couple of Saturdays ago
00:41:34
and just observe the children out there
00:41:36
playing and it was such a beautiful
00:41:38
sight and it made me feel so good it
00:41:40
brought tears to my eyes so it's looking
00:41:43
better it didn't all happen in one day
00:41:45
and I don't expect it all to change in
00:41:47
one day but I do see the beginning of a
00:41:49
change and and the future looks bright
00:41:53
and I am
00:41:54
hopeful neighborhood residents are still
00:41:57
still hoping CW's attackers can be
00:42:00
brought to
00:42:01
Justice if you have any information
00:42:04
please log on to our website at uno.com
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