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next on Unsolved Mysteries a
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three-year-old girl is found wandering
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alone her mother is dead and her father
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is missing is he another victim or could
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he be the killer some say there's a
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Bigfoot type creature in Florida's
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Everglades photographs Footprints and
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hair samples suggest that they may be
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right two men vanish under the same
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bizarre circumstances one was writing a
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novel about the other's disappearance
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coincidence or is there a secret
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connection and a man confesses to
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kidnapping and murdering his own
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sister-in-law these are stories with
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intriguing secrets and surprising
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Revelations so stick around I'm d as
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finina and for the next hour this is
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Unsolved
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Mysteries
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Tacoma
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Washington on a December morning Mike
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reamer his girlfriend Diana and their
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daughter Crystal set out on a day trip
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to the local
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mountains they drive to a Scenic area to
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look for a Christmas
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tree Mike is a Trapper so he also plans
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to check his animal
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traps are you lost later that day
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3-year-old crystal is found alone at a
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department store near
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Tacoma Crystal's parents had vanished
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Without a Trace when asked where they
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were Crystal only said mommy is in the
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trees before long police would
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understand exactly what she meant and it
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was not a pleasant
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Revelation I can't Shoppers we have a
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little lost girl up to our service desk
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she's about 3 years old her parents
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after being checked at a local hospital
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crystal is sent to a temporary foster
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home 3 days later she is recognized from
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a news broadcast and taken in by Diana's
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mother and as soon as she saw me she put
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her arms out and said Grandma and they
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put her down and she ran to me and and
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I've had her ever
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since
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the same weekend the couple disappeared
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Mike's best friend Steve 2 scoured the
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countryside on the ground and from the
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air we searched from the spot where Mike
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would normally start his trap lines and
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we followed the whole trap line and we
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searched for probably 2 3 hours without
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without
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nothing 2 months after the couple
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disappeared a man walked walking his dog
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in a forest near lb
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Washington discovered the body of Diana
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Robertson Crystal was correct when she
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said that her mother was in the trees
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Diana was lying in a forest Mike
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reamer's truck was next to her Diana had
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been stabbed 17 times and a tube sock
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was tied around her
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neck there was no sign of rer
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in the trucks cab was an envelope that
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read I love you
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Diana I feel that it was Mike's
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handwriting I have cards that he had
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given to her on different holidays and
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things that he signed exactly the same
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way I know that Lis Conrad says that
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handwriting is Michael
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reamer's however the FBI laboratory is
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not able to tell us conclusively that
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that is so why did someone put that
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there was it Michael reamer as a final
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goodbye Diana I'm sorry or was it
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someone who put it there to throw off
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the authorities and make them think
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that police believe that this killing
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was possibly connected to a double
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murder that had occurred 4 months
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earlier in an area where reer was known
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to set his animal traps a man named
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Steven Harkins was found dead in his
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sleeping bag shot in the forehead
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His companion Ruth Cooper was found 2
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months later she had also been shot to
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death and like Diana a tube sock had
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been tied around her
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neck at a later date I asked to observe
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the sock which was used around the neck
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of Ruth Cooper and when he dumped it out
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on a desk in the evidence lab the hair
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stood up on the back of my neck and I
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shivered a
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little
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the tub sock on Diana had been tied with
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exactly the same type of knot as in the
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earlier murder police considered two
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theories one was that an unknown serial
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killer had murdered both couples and
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then hidden reamer's
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body the second theory was that Mike
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reamer himself was the serial
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killer reamer had a history of domestic
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violence according to friends and family
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rer frequently beat
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Diana he beat her up he took everything
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out on her he blamed her for things that
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he
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did if he was seen somebody else he
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would turn it around like Diana was
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seing somebody else and justify it you
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know in his own
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mind a few weeks before her murder Diana
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got a restraining order against reer but
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as Christmas approached they got back
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together
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I don't know why Diana let Mike come
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back in maybe because she had
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Crystal I don't know maybe he was a
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sense of security for her the only thing
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I can tell you is that she loved him
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often the victim allows the assaulting
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party back in it's it's really very
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common police had enough circumstantial
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evidence to issue a warrant for reamer's
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arrest but there was one problem we we
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can't prove he's alive and we can't
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prove he's dead if we could show that he
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was dead then it would be my belief that
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there's an unidentified third party
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who's going around killing people out
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there however if we can prove that he's
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alive he immediately becomes a suspect
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and uh that changes the situation
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dramatically Diana had told me that Mike
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had threatened a killer and that he
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could get away with it and I had told
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her to be careful and that he couldn't
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get away with something like that he was
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just saying things to
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scare whether Mike reamer is alive or
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buried somewhere in the Washington Woods
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Police need to find him he is 6 ft tall
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and weighs 180 lbs he has blue eyes and
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at the time of his disappearance had
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thinning brown hair and a beard reamer
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also has a small scar on his upper lip
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he is a skilled Outdoorsman and may be
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living off the land he has also worked
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as a roofer and is an accomplished
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guitar
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player update there are new developments
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in this case here's one of our staff
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with
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details the skull of Mike reamer was
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discovered recently by a hiker about 1
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mile from where Diana Robertson's body
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had been found 25 years
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earlier no other traces of reamer have
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been found and his cause of death could
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not be determined
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next a man kidnaps and murders his own
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sister-in-law and then makes a daring
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escape from
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prison Everett
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Massachusetts I Know Who You
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Are
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one late spring evening a 29-year-old
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man makes his way to a Catholic Church
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there something I need to tell you can I
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come
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inside the man's name is Timothy Barry
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and he's about to make a stunning
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confession I'm the one that kidnapped
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Nancy Tim admits the kidnapping his
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sister-in-law and at that very moment he
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becomes a murder
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suspect
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23-year-old Nancy Brown had vanished 16
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months earlier from the house that she
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shared with her mother and her
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sister timbery was married to Nancy's
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sister who we'll call Sarah the oldest
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of four daughters when their father died
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Tim had become The Unofficial head of
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the family Tim's upbringing was very
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similar to my own his parents brought
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him up very Christian he believed in the
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same things I did very family
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oriented for 7 years they were a happy
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family and then came the day that Nancy
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disappeared it was her regular day off
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and she got an early start doing laundry
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the only other person in the house was
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one of her other sisters 16-year-old
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Moira who was homesick from
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school early that morning Moira heard
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Nancy slam the door to the back porch
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and turn on the radio in the kitchen and
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that was the last anyone saw or heard of
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nacy brown a little while after supper
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my mother called wondering if I had seen
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my sister and I hadn't and I hadn't
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spoken to
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her and they told me that um nobody had
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seen her all day Mary have you uh seen
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Nancy today Tim and Sarah with Sarah's
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sister Allison rushed over to the house
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and started calling nany's friends she
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hasn't seen it today oh my God in
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retrospect Tim's Behavior seemed
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suspicious was just not like her Tim was
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there with everybody very concerned
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wondering what happened but he seemed to
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be more nervous than what the rest of us
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were look get our address book and see
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if this the group split up to search the
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house in the basement they found ny's
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glasses the fact that ny's glasses were
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found
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on the floor of the cellar was
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particularly disturbing because the car
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was gone Nancy was blind as a bat she
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had to have the glasses at all times
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especially for
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driving the very next day when she did
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not appear or report for work we
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conducted an investigation and on the
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second day we located the car on a
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shopping mall perhaps a mile from a home
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well there's no Oran mission nany's car
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was unlocked the keys were under the
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seat and there were no signs of Foul
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Play The Car Alarm was not set which was
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unusual for Nancy she always set the
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alarm and there were a few particles of
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sand inside the car but that's all that
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we had at the
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time but perhaps the most significant
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clue to the police is that it was Tim
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who suggested that they check that
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particular mall for ny's car Sarah says
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that as the investigation continued Tim
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began to drink
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heavily what she didn't know was that
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the police had asked him to take a
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polygraph exam and he
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refused detectives also found out that
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when Tim Barry was in the Army he had
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been accused of murder while he was
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found not guilty the record noted that
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it was Tim Barry himself who led
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authorities to the murder weapon and the
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body police now believe that it was more
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than a coincidence that Tim knew where
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to look for nany's car but they did not
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have enough evidence to press
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charges for almost a year and a half the
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case remained unsolved and then Tim
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walked into the church and
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confessed I'm the one that kidnapped
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Nancy I knew that Nancy on the day off
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would do laundry at her mom's house so I
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uh I'm I broke into the house about 5:00
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a.m. and waited for her down under the
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stairs and I uh came up behind
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her I grabbed
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her and I blindfolded her so she
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couldn't see who it
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was and then I put it in a car I know
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who you are get back down get down Tim
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Barry told the priest that he wore a
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fake mustache so no one in the
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neighborhood would recognize him he said
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he drove Nancy to a beach 20 M north of
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Ed he forced Nancy into a wooded area he
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was carrying a hunting knife and a
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military shovel C no I'm not then why
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would you be doing something like this
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Tim said that when nany stood up to him
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he killed
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her and no one will ever him know I hit
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her on the back of the head with a
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shovel and then I I slid her throat
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I know it took a lot of courage to tell
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me his story
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Timmy but don't you think it'd be wise
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if you told it one more time to the
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authorities when he first confessed to
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us you know I just said to him Timmy you
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know all these years it's been over 16
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months the investigations been going on
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why didn't you confess before why now he
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said cuz nobody had ever asked him the
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question did you murder her and if that
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had he said he would have
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confessed later that night Tim Barry LED
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police into the woods where he had taken
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nancyy 30 m over there the terrain
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itself was difficult walking it was very
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Sandy it was tough on your feet to walk
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and Timmy kept looking up at the stars
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and I questioned Timmy what what why I
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was looking at the stars and he said
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that's how I find my way to where we're
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going it took more than an hour but Tim
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finally found the spot where he had
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killed
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Nancy she's over there
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in a shallow grave police found the body
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of nacy brown she had died exactly as
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Tim Barry had said Tim when he was asked
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why did he do it Tim never would tell us
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why he just said this is the story this
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is how don't ask me why and we even
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though we asked we never got an answer
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never had a
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motive it didn't seem like that was his
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nature and I I think the whole family
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went into total shock was just something
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that was too horrible to have to
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accept Tim Barry was convicted of second
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degree murder and kidnapping he received
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a life sentence plus 5 to 10
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years after serving only 8 years Tim was
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considered a model prisoner he was
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frequently assigned to work details
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outside the prison I'm sick of the color
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gray it was election day and Tim was
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part of a prison crew repainting
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government offices in downtown Boston
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that particular day the building was
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very busy their voting poles on the
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first floor of the State Office Building
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here people coming and going all day
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long elevated traffic remember where it
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is right yeah okay hold on it's our
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understanding that he requested that he
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go to the men's room at approximately
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9:30 that
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morning about 15 minutes later the
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officer realized that Timber had not
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returned to his worka area upon a check
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and we soon realized that the subject
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had left taking an elevator down to the
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first floor and mingled into the floor
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traffic of the people voting and the
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pollsters and blended into the crowd
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just took off and fled the
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area we initiated a ground search and
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that search revealed absolutely nothing
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as if Timothy Barry just disappeared
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into the sun
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gone about a year and a half later Tim
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Barry walked out of the woods in Vermont
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his two teenage children were visiting
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Tim's sister for Memorial Day Dad what
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hey that's dad I had to work so I didn't
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get to go to the family vacation home oh
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S I don't think anybody expected what
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happened as a matter of fact I'm certain
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of that Dad come back Tim stayed for
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only 10 minutes it was the last last
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time anyone in the family saw or heard
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from Timothy
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Barry I can't say that I'm frightened
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but I have to admit to once in a while
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looking over my shoulder wondering if
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maybe he isn't some place
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watching I know he would never do
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anything to hurt the children or put the
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children in a position where they could
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be hurt in any way but I have to admit
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to wondering
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update Timothy Barry is once again
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behind bars as a direct result of our
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broadcast Barry was arrested in akan
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Ohio he was working as a truck driver
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using the Alias John keville Barry waved
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extradition and was returned to
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Massachusetts to serve out the remainder
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of his
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sentence next many people believe that
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that a strange creature is living in the
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Florida everes and they have the
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evidence to prove
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it the Florida
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Everglades this hot humanid swamp land
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is home to some unusual
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creatures and unusual people too for 8
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months David sheeri sat all alone in the
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middle of the swamp looking for a
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legendary creature Florida's own version
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of Bigfoot called the skunk
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ape David's interest in the creature
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began when he was just 10 years old he
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and his older brother were exploring the
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swamps near o chappi 75 Mi west of
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Miami was huge my brother noticed
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something in distance is that and he
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said to me he said what's that what what
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is that over there let me see let me see
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all right all right and I couldn't see
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it because the grass was too high so he
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had to pick me up where I could get a
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better look and when I looked out across
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the Prairie I could see a huge figure
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probably 8 ft tall maybe 300 lb it was
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walking on two legs like a man would
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walk oh man look like a giant skunky B I
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knew it had to be the skunk
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ape a creature that walks like a gorilla
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and smells like a skunk seems well a
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little unbelievable at best but David
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chiley and his brother aren't the only
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ones who claim that they've seen it
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folks you sure picked a beautiful day
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for your trip through the Everglades
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John Vickers is an Everglades tour guide
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who is familiar with the animals in the
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area we're driving the bus down to
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Turner River Road and I'm pointing out
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Wildlife there if you look over to your
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right you'll see a couple of the
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alligators taking their afternoon nap
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and all of a sudden about 200 yd in
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front of our bus a creature hay standing
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up right on his hind legs crossed the
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road one of the passengers Taps me on
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the shoulder what was
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that well I'm not sure there's nothing
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to worry about I think it's probably the
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old man that lives out in the
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Everglades I don't think he bought there
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five of the people on the bus claim that
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they saw what John saw I don't know
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whether it was a the real concave or
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whether it was a hoax but it's something
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real 2 Days Later real estate agent Jan
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Brock was on her way to work and I was
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driving probably about 7:30 7:45 in the
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morning and I noticed something getting
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ready to cross the road my first thought
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was that it had to be a bear and this
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particular time I looked and I was like
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something was not right the animal just
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kind of
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scurried off across the road and that's
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when I realized it couldn't have been a
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bear wasn't sure what I saw and uh
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didn't really want people to think I was
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a little nuts so I didn't say anything
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about
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it fire chief Vince door left for work
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just a little later than Jen I seen
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something go across the road it wasn't
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dressed in regular shirt and pants like
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a man it was more brown or you know
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looked more like a bear color but I knew
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it wasn't a bear because it was walking
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upright so I speed it up got up to that
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area I got out I yelled out hey and it
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stopped and turned and at that time I
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snapped one
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photograph this is the actual picture
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that Vince took of the creature I saw
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the picture that Vince had taken and it
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was the same thing I saw Jan seeing it
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so that made me feel like I wasn't
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seeing things when you hear people
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talking about what they saw and then you
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actually see it yourself obviously
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you're going to believe that there's
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something out
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there a year after those sightings David
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chiley was on his viewing station just
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like he had been for the previous 8
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months I was sitting in my tree stand
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and I dozed off and I heard something
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splashing in the water and it sounded
00:23:22
like a person walking towards me when I
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looked up there it was coming right at
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me at about 100 yard
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away I took 27 photographs over a period
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of about 3 or 4 minutes as it cross the
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marsh I couldn't believe what I saw I it
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was almost Ghostly and it wasn't until
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the next day when I took the camera to
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the
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developer that I realized that I had
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actually captured a skunk ape on
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film
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David asked Dade County archaeologist
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Bob Kar to study his pictures these
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photographs were very compelling the
00:24:09
statue the size the motion of this
00:24:11
creature did not appear to be a human
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being and the suggestion of the gate is
00:24:16
very primat likee I think there are
00:24:18
enough details to make one realize that
00:24:22
this would have to be a very very clever
00:24:23
hoax to be
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perpetrated David also sought the help
00:24:28
of Everglades tracker TL rigs on two
00:24:32
occasions I found footprints in the soft
00:24:37
Earth all the tracks that I saw at that
00:24:40
particular time only the ball of the
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foot and the toes showed there were none
00:24:44
that showed that a heel had been left
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down rigs made plaster castings of the
00:24:51
footprints looking at just the front end
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of the foot which is all we can do I
00:24:56
would say that it would have to
00:24:58
weigh at least 300
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lb Riggs came up with an idea for
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Gathering more evidence he snapped a
00:25:08
number of branches at a height of 4 to 5
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ft too high a reach for most animals if
00:25:14
a skunkape came in contact with the
00:25:16
jagged Twigs Riggs might just collect a
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hair
00:25:22
sample by setting a great number of
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those along Trails I've been able to
00:25:27
harvest several legitimate looking hairs
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that are unlike anything I've ever
00:25:33
seen was the hair from some unknown
00:25:36
creature or was it from a man in an ape
00:25:40
suit in my mind the evidence we've
00:25:43
looked at from oapi indicates there's
00:25:45
definitely a phenomena that's real what
00:25:49
we don't know is what that phenomena is
00:25:51
we are closer to the answer probably
00:25:53
than we've ever been but the answer will
00:25:56
only come when the hair is analyzed and
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DNA is extracted and then we will know
00:26:02
the molecular and genetic footprint and
00:26:05
who and what this creature might
00:26:09
be we sent two hair samples to a lab at
00:26:13
Trinity University in San Antonio Texas
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DNA testing was
00:26:18
inconclusive however analysis with an
00:26:21
electron microscope confirmed that the
00:26:24
hairs were not synthetic fibers like
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those used on an ape
00:26:29
costume they were also not the hairs
00:26:32
from a bear gorilla chimpanzee skunk dog
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cat or a
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human
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update several years later these
00:26:41
photographs arrived at the Sarasota
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Florida sheriff's department they came
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with a letter from a woman who did not
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want to be identified she claimed that
00:26:51
the creature took apples from her back
00:26:53
porch on three different occasions she
00:26:56
noticed the f smell and thought that it
00:26:59
might be an orangutang that had escaped
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from captivity are these photographs of
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an orang tank or are they the best
00:27:08
evidence y that the skunk ape is real
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we'll leave that answer up to
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you next the bizarre case of a missing
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writer whose novel seemed to predict his
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own
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disappearance
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the Tiny Village of silver plume
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Colorado population 200 lies in the
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heart of the Rocky
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Mountains on an early autumn day Tom
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young closes up his Bookshop on Main
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Street and along with his dog Gus
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disappears 9 months later a new resident
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of silver plume Keith Reinhard
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opens an antique shop at exactly the
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same location One Summer Afternoon Keith
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closes up his shop for the day and he
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disappears Keith Reinhardt and Tom young
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had both run at the same store they both
00:28:15
left town promising to return and even
00:28:18
more Curious Keith was writing a book
00:28:21
about Tom's disappearance when he too
00:28:24
suddenly vanished was it just the cool
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Co
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incidence Keith Reinhardt moved to
00:28:31
Silver plume from Chicago with three
00:28:33
goals to get in shape by mountain
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climbing to overcome his fear of
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heights and to begin writing a
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novel Keith opened an antique shop for
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summer tours if it was successful he and
00:28:50
his wife would move to Silver Plum
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permanently Keith Reinhardt and I grew
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up across the street from each other we'
00:28:58
known each other about 40 years and I
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would say that our relationship was
00:29:03
similar to that of
00:29:05
Brothers Keith was uh apprehensive and
00:29:08
excited he was here to finish out the
00:29:11
last of his 40s in the way that he
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dreamed him he felt that very soon he
00:29:16
would be starting to get old he felt he
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was still young but he didn't have much
00:29:21
time for Being Young
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left you got enough stuff man didn't
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want to be sitting in a rocking chair 10
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years 20 years from now saying I should
00:29:32
have done this I should have done
00:29:35
that 9 months earlier Keith's antique
00:29:38
shop had been a bookstore Tom young the
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man who mysteriously disappeared with
00:29:43
his dog had run the store for about a
00:29:47
year Tom had told people that he was
00:29:49
taking a vacation to
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Europe 3 weeks went by before anyone
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became suspicious about his
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absence I think somebody Keith Reinhardt
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became obsessed with Tom Young's
00:30:04
disappear dumped him down one of these M
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shafts up here you think so yeah he
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began talking to everyone in silver
00:30:10
plume who had known Tom do it every day
00:30:12
yeah but he's nice guy I mean Keith
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decided to base his novel on Tom
00:30:19
Young when he began to write he created
00:30:22
a character named guy gypson a composite
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of himself and Tom
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sometimes it seemed hard for Keith to
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tell the
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difference my father he was very very
00:30:37
into it he was talking about The
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Disappearance of tomm young all the
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time writers like to live the story
00:30:46
they're writing about um get a feel of
00:30:48
it so it's easier for them to write
00:30:50
about it maybe my father it's always
00:30:53
possible wanted to feel what it's like
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to disappear so he could write about
00:30:58
it hey Vic come on down here I found
00:31:01
something 10 months after Tom young
00:31:03
disappeared two Hunters found the
00:31:05
remains of Tom and his dog in the
00:31:08
mountains near Silver plume oh each had
00:31:11
died from a bullet wound to the head I
00:31:15
believe and they found his remains also
00:31:18
found at the scene was a revolver we
00:31:20
found out that Tom had purchased a gun
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uh approximately 4 days before he was
00:31:27
last known to be in silver
00:31:30
plume the Tom young case is closed and
00:31:34
it has been ruled of suicide both by the
00:31:36
Corner's office and by the cler county
00:31:39
sheriff's
00:31:41
department one week after Tom's body was
00:31:44
found Keith walked through silver plume
00:31:46
telling everyone that he saw that he was
00:31:49
going to climb to the top of nearby
00:31:52
Pendleton Mountain most did not take him
00:31:55
seriously because they knew that he had
00:31:57
a fear of heights and did not like
00:31:59
climbing alone at 400 p.m. Keith stopped
00:32:03
by Ted Parker's Cafe What's happen all
00:32:06
right the day Keith disappeared he was
00:32:09
in the cafe and told me that he was
00:32:11
going to make it to the top of the
00:32:12
mountain now I'm going to go all the way
00:32:14
to the top I'm going to do it if I don't
00:32:16
come back call on the rescue and he said
00:32:19
that in uh in justest I felt I have this
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picture of him pointing to the mountain
00:32:25
and saying goodbye
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that was the last time I saw
00:32:31
him Keith was last seen walking toward
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Pendleton Mountain at 4:30 in the
00:32:37
afternoon far too late in a day to begin
00:32:40
a difficult 6-hour hike that night Keith
00:32:44
Reinhardt did not
00:32:49
return the next day helicopters were
00:32:52
called to search the
00:32:53
mountain on the ground more than 12 25
00:32:57
men and a dozen trained dogs comb the
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difficult terrain for 7 Days the
00:33:03
Reinhardt search was like looking for
00:33:05
the proverbial needle in a hay stack
00:33:07
this Hy stack is 3,000 vertical feet of
00:33:11
60° slope this was about as difficult to
00:33:13
search terrain as we cover we were at a
00:33:16
real disadvantage because Keith went
00:33:17
into the mountains wearing no more than
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blue jeans and a flannel shirt and
00:33:21
Tennis Shoes he had no backpack he had
00:33:22
no equipment or typical subject of a
00:33:25
search will leave lots of clues for us
00:33:28
to trace um Keith didn't leave many
00:33:31
Clues he didn't have many with him to
00:33:32
leave
00:33:34
behind in 30 years of operation the
00:33:37
Colorado Alpine rescue teams had found
00:33:40
every single person they searched for
00:33:43
however they discovered no trace of
00:33:46
Keith
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Reinhardt Keith's friends found a
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newspaper next to his computer the
00:33:55
headline was Tom Young's body found
00:33:59
still in the computer were these words
00:34:01
part of Keith's unfinished
00:34:04
novel guy gypsum changed into some
00:34:07
hiking boots and dawned a heavy flannel
00:34:09
shirt he understood Tom now and his
00:34:13
motivation guy closed the door then
00:34:16
walked off towards the Lush shadowless
00:34:18
Colorado Forest
00:34:20
above could these words imply Keith
00:34:22
ranard concluded that Tom young had
00:34:25
killed himself
00:34:27
and then Keith Reinhardt decided to do
00:34:30
the same I don't think Keith would have
00:34:32
considered suicide as a solution to
00:34:34
anything um he was a very optimistic upy
00:34:37
person his advice to me was always
00:34:40
positive mental attitude so I do not
00:34:43
think he would have committed
00:34:45
suicide some have concluded that Keith
00:34:48
Reinhardt and Tom young were
00:34:50
murdered Tom's gun which was found next
00:34:53
to his body was too corroded for police
00:34:56
to compare B istics so no match could be
00:34:58
found between the gun and the bullet
00:35:01
that killed
00:35:02
them this led to suspicion that the
00:35:05
bullet came from a different
00:35:09
weapon in addition those who suspect
00:35:12
that Tom and Keith were killed note that
00:35:15
both men rented the same space to run
00:35:18
their shops perhaps they both came
00:35:21
across information someone did not want
00:35:24
them to
00:35:25
know I think there's Foul Play involved
00:35:29
I do I definitely think something
00:35:30
something's going on he stumbled upon
00:35:33
something a final theory is that Keith
00:35:36
planned his own
00:35:39
disappearance at that time of the day he
00:35:41
would have gone for a walk up the
00:35:44
mountain and then turn around and come
00:35:46
back down the mountain what I find to be
00:35:48
odd is that he did not take either one
00:35:50
of his cameras with him and he was in
00:35:52
the habit of usually carrying a
00:35:54
camera he was possibly at a midlife
00:35:57
crisis he was at that particular Moment
00:36:00
In Time somewhat frustrated that he
00:36:01
couldn't make it off his antique shop in
00:36:04
silver PLO and he told so darn many
00:36:07
people that he was going for a hike and
00:36:10
why somebody would go around town trying
00:36:12
to make this point with so many people
00:36:14
that he was going for a hike to the
00:36:16
south of town to the north of town
00:36:17
wherever I'm going for a hike up the
00:36:19
mountain why he made that point I'm not
00:36:21
I'm not sure that doesn't set
00:36:23
right this is one week after Tomy
00:36:26
Young's remains were found he knows now
00:36:29
as everybody in silver plume knew that
00:36:31
Tom young laid out a bit of a false
00:36:33
trail and I just have to wonder in the
00:36:35
back of my mind if Keith did the same I
00:36:38
don't think that Keith would be the type
00:36:39
of person to walk away from his whole
00:36:42
entire life and leave it behind him he
00:36:44
loved the people in his life he loved
00:36:46
keeping in touch with them and I don't
00:36:49
think he could have left them all behind
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him Keith Reinhardt is 6' 2 in tall
00:36:56
weighs 210 lb and has blue
00:37:01
eyes if you have any information about
00:37:04
his disappearance please log on to our
00:37:07
website at
00:37:08
unsolved.com
00:37:13
next a man searches for the American GI
00:37:16
who helped save his family during the
00:37:18
final days of World War
00:37:25
II
00:37:31
for decades Sig freed and margarite liar
00:37:34
of Morland Bach Germany have been
00:37:36
searching for an American
00:37:40
Soldier when sigf freed was just the boy
00:37:43
he formed a friendship with the young
00:37:46
GI March
00:37:49
1945 the final days of World War II for
00:37:53
Germany's civilians it was a time of
00:37:55
uncertainty and despair one of the
00:37:58
innocent victims was young sigree liar
00:38:01
whose neighborhood was destroyed by
00:38:03
Allied
00:38:05
bombers Sig Freed's mother fled with her
00:38:08
three youngest children they walked
00:38:11
125 miles to be with relatives in the
00:38:14
village of
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Morland very
00:38:21
bad I was four when the war ended SE has
00:38:25
very little food to be had PUK
00:38:28
Marg when American troops rolled into
00:38:30
morbach the German citizens were afraid
00:38:33
that the Conquering Army was out for
00:38:36
Revenge but instead they found friendly
00:38:39
soldiers Who provided them with food and
00:38:41
medical supplies one of those GIS was a
00:38:44
young man named
00:38:47
Alexander hey you want
00:38:49
something
00:38:52
chocolate if sympathetic to me and
00:38:55
friendly will you take this home if it
00:38:59
hadn't been for him perhaps I would not
00:39:01
be alive today he was a guardian angel
00:39:04
for
00:39:08
me I am um I'm
00:39:12
Alexander's Guardian Angel made the
00:39:14
effort to track him down at
00:39:17
home soup is this sou super yeah oh
00:39:22
super Alexander took a genuine interest
00:39:24
in the family and soon food shortages
00:39:28
were a thing of the past I wasn't quite
00:39:30
sure where zrey lived but
00:39:33
I he brought us food from the Army the
00:39:37
same food eaten by them we also
00:39:43
ate he used to come by every day if only
00:39:46
to pick me up and take me to
00:39:47
kindergarten or to pick me up there
00:39:50
later each time he would bring a little
00:39:52
food here you go red over the next 3
00:39:57
months Alexander practically became a
00:39:59
member of the liar
00:40:03
family would say to me I don't know I
00:40:05
don't believe that he knew German and I
00:40:08
certainly didn't know any English you
00:40:10
don't necessarily need bird for
00:40:13
communication you can do things with
00:40:15
signs and it went all
00:40:20
right you want to drive Alexander would
00:40:23
often invite Sig freed to tag along on
00:40:25
routine patol
00:40:28
je here grab the wheel there you go
00:40:32
watch the watch
00:40:34
the when I was allowed to drive with him
00:40:37
that was the most wonderful thing ah
00:40:40
Ziggy you're
00:40:43
driving when I was sitting in the car
00:40:45
and the other children saw me sa were
00:40:48
perhaps a bit jealous because I was
00:40:51
allowed to drive and they couldn't I was
00:40:54
very
00:40:55
proud I don't know if you're going to
00:40:57
understand what I'm trying to say to
00:41:00
you but I have to go before long the
00:41:04
time to say
00:41:06
goodbye we may not see each other for a
00:41:08
long
00:41:10
time
00:41:12
I perhaps I could never see him again as
00:41:15
I think about it to say I was really
00:41:20
sad I have always thought about how he
00:41:23
helped us and that I should in turn help
00:41:26
other
00:41:27
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00:41:28
people he was not obliged to us in any
00:41:31
way but he did it as a human
00:41:35
being out of human
00:41:38
Love Today Sig freed has only one
00:41:41
momento of Alexander this photograph
00:41:44
taken in the spring of
00:41:46
1945 at the time Alexander was about 20
00:41:49
years old Sig freed has never learned
00:41:52
Alexander's last name however Sig freed
00:41:56
does recall that Alexander's unit
00:41:57
marched into Morland Bach Germany on
00:42:00
March 27th
00:42:02
1945 if you can help us find this
00:42:04
generous warm-hearted soldier named
00:42:06
Alexander please visit our website at
00:42:10
unsolved.com
00:42:12
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