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next on Unsolved Mysteries a forest
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Ranger's quiet life is thrown into chaos
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when his family is
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attacked 25 year-old Michael Rosenblum
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vanishes on the side of a Pennsylvania
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highway his family suspects a police
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coverer when a police officer is Gunn
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down in his own kitchen his partner vows
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to find the
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killer also a deathbed miracle and a
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spontaneous recovery for these people
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saved by the power of
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prayer these are stories that are
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guaranteed to surprise you I'm Dennis
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finina and for the next hour it's
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just south of Pittsburgh in Baldwin
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burrow p
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pania 30 volunteer firemen gather on a
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steep Bluff overlooking the mananga hila
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River look for anything that you find
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out of the ORD at the suggestion of a
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psychic they are here to search for the
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remains of Michael Rosen Blom a young
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Pittsburgh man who has been missing for
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more than 8 years for Michael's father
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Maurice the search is one more desperate
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attempt to find out what happened to his
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son who disappeared from a road that
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runs along the foot of the
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cliff there is not the slightest
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possibility in my mind that he could be
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out there
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alive I pray that that one in 10 million
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chance would
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happen I guess you always have some hope
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as long as I don't have a body there's
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always
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hope Maurice Rosen blum's search has
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triggered mysterious phone calls the
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discovery of forged documents and
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Revelations of official coverups it has
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even led to the firing of a police chief
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what really did happen to Michael
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roseno during High School Michael began
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experimenting with drugs and soon became
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a heavy user of prescription
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painkillers his life spun wildly out of
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control and his family struggled to help
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him get back on track they insisted that
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he go to drug
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rehab let's get out of here don't worry
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about a month after Michael was released
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from drug rehab he began behaving oddly
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his mother found a bottle of painkillers
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in his bedroom and that was it she
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kicked him out Michael left with his
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girlfriend Lisa in her
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car I said to Michael don't come back
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until you're completely off drugs until
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you want to live your life the way you
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should and that's that's the way it
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is I've always faulted myself for that
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and I probably will till I
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die that I didn't
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say okay well we'll try again maybe
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tomorrow will be
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different but the next day wasn't
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different after a night of partying
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Michael became extremely agitated he
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insisted I driving Lisa's car and then
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he left her stranded at a local gas
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station Michael's last words were go to
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my parents house I'll see you there in 2
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hours I figured well he took her car and
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he took off for a day or two then he'll
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be back or he'll
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call we waited that night there were no
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calls I became seriously
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worried my
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wife felt immediately that it was a
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terminal situation that he was dead I
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didn't he would never have just left
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when he left there was money in his bank
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account his clothes were in his
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closet and if he were going to have gone
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anywhere he would have said to us I plan
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to do such and such and I'm going to
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take my money and go but all of that his
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money is still in his bank
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account the following day the RO Ren
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blooms filed a missing person's Report
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with the Pittsburgh Police Department
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you need a starting point any homicide
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case that your dead body is your
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starting point in this case the car
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would have been the starting point so
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it's important we find the car as
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quickly as possible and then take the
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steps of notifying the media for their
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help and asking the general public if
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anybody saw the boy who was in the car
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they know what happened to
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him but after two weeks they had found
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nothing so Michael's father began his
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own
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search he offered a reward for
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information posted flyers and traveled
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as far as California to find friends
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Michael might have
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contacted I launched the investigation
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myself because I was concerned about
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finding him and seeing if I couldn't put
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him back on the right track
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again 3 months later police in a
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Pittsburgh sub subb notified Lisa that
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her car had been found official records
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show that the car had been impounded on
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the very day that Michael
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vanished we couldn't believe that they
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had that car for 91 days absolutely
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couldn't believe it the Pittsburgh
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Police had contacted every Police
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Department in this area looking for that
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specific car and here that car was
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discovered in the police bonded tow yard
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Less Than 3 mi from where we're sitting
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right
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now what happened the day Michael
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disappeared the More's father learned
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the less he felt he
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knew according to police reports just 2
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hours after Michael left Lisa a Baldwin
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police unit found the car on River
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Road two of the tires were flat the keys
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were gone and the engine was
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cool the car had been told to the
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Baldwin burough car impound where it
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remained resting on its bent tire rims
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for the next 3
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months one the question throws your
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whole investigation off if we start in
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the beginning we knew that car was on
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River Road the whole picture would have
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changed
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drastically if we had known that that
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car was found in Balwin that morning
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within ours I strongly believe we would
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have known by now what had happened to
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Michael when they found the car
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after 91 days my immediate reaction was
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that he was
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gone
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dead Maurice demanded an explanation the
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Baldwin police claimed that they'd
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mailed Lisa a letter the day after the
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car was found saying they had impounded
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it Lisa says that she never received
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it they eventually produced a copy of
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the letter dated the day after Michael
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disappeared but Lisa still insisted she
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never received the letter from the
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Baldwin police in my opinion they
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deliberately misled the Pittsburgh
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Police in the search assuming that my
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son was never even involved why didn't
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they search for the young lady that
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owned the
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car around that same time Maurice claims
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that he received two Anonymous phone
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calls the first one came in during the
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time that the car was
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gone you know they said that he was
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arrested and I wrote it off as a
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crackpot hello
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hello after the car was found I received
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a second telephone call just simply
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said that your son was arrested by the
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Baldwin
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police click they were
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gone this was just the first first of
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many bizarre twists in Maurice's
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agonizing search for his
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son up next a forge document points to a
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mysterious police coverup in the death
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of Michael
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Rosen Maurice Rosen Bloom offered a
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reward for information about his missing
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son Michael but after 5 months the only
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concrete Clues were the discovery of the
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car that Michael had been driving and
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two Anonymous phone calls saying that
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Michael had been
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arrested and then in a shocking turn of
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events the Baldwin police issued a
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warrant for Michael's arrest they
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claimed that he was wanted in connection
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with a robbery that had taken place 2
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and 1/2 months after he had vanished now
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the big twist in this whole thing was
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that everybody talked to the people who
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were the victims of the robbery they
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both told everybody from day one that
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the person that come iner was a white
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man and he had Aviator mirrored
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sunglasses on that covered high above
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his eyebrows and down almost to the
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bridge of his nose so the only part they
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actually could see would be the forehead
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and the chin line but yet the composite
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was made without sunglasses there's no
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doubt in my mind that this composite was
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made from that first flyer put out on
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Michael Rosenbloom back in Fe worry it's
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just too
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perfect one week after it was issued the
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warrant was suddenly
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dismissed something very strange was
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going on in the buau of Baldwin where
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the Baldwin police working to solve this
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missing person's case or were they
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trying to hide the truth a full inquiry
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into the case cleared the police
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department of any wrongdoing but years
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later new evidence
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emerged
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6 and 1/2 years after his son
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disappeared Maurice received an unsigned
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letter it urged him to talk to a former
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Baldwin police dispatcher named Margaret
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hasset the tip would ultimately lead to
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accusations that the department headed
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by police chief Aldo gaburi had
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mishandled Michael's case Mr Rosen Bloom
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showed me an anonymous letter that he
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had received indicating that if he
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contacted me I had information regarding
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the U vehicle that the Baldwin police
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towed um I then told him that um
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approximately two or 3 months after the
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vehicle had been towed um the chief of
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police ordered his clerk Fred Capell to
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type a letter uh notifying the owner of
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the vehicle that it had been towed um
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and the letter was backd to uh February
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15th the day after the vehicle was
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Ted the chief's former clerk confirmed
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Margaret's disturbing
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story approximately May 20th the chief
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told me to type a letter in reference to
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the car that was towed from River
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Road I never thought anything about it I
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did what what I was told to
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do you know he's my boss so I did what
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he told me to do and I didn't uh
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question it Fred Capell claims that
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after he typed the letter the chief
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ordered him to sign the name of Chester
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Lombardi the senior officer at the River
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Road scene that day Lombardi is now
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deceased he had asked Chester Lombardi
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to sign the letter and Chester refused
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to sign it because it was
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backdated so the chief told me to go
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ahead and sign Chester Lombard's name to
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it but don't mail
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it he said put in a
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file and then that's what I
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did based on these new Revelations
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Maurice wrote an angry letter to the
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Baldwin burough Council demanding an
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investigation into what he thought was a
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coverup the council held a hearing on
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the matter and dismissed chief gaburi
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for interfering with the investigation
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into Michael's
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disappearance when he was discharged he
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appealed that to the Civil Service
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Commission and there conclusion
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was uh that the chief was not
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guilty the Civil Service Commission
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voted to reinstate gaburi as police
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chief finding that there was no
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misconduct they have never published a
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transcript of the hearings but clearly
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they did not believe Fred
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Capelli why they didn't believe
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me
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because he the chief had friends on that
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Civil Service
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Commission and they wouldn't believe me
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no matter what I
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said all I can say is this commission
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rendered its decision strictly on the
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evidence and a testimony that was
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presented at the
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hearing the time that I'll let this go
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is when it
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ends and it's not over yet it's not over
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we're getting close but it's not
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over
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8 years after he disappeared a bone
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fragment and some scraps of clothing
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were found near river road the bone
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could not be identified but the pieces
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of clothing match those Michael had been
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wearing I just felt sick I contended all
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along that something had happened to
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them but the possibility that I might
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have proof in my pocket
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makes you kind of
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sick that final proof was discovered 4
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years later a hiker in the River Road
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area found a piece of human skull and
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turned it into authorities Tess
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confirmed that it belonged to Michael
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rosenblau after 12 years of searching
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and wondering Michael's parents were
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finally able to bury their son but for
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them the agony isn't over they still
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desperately want to know how and why
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Michael
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died if you have any information about
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the death of Michael Rosenblum please
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log on at
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next decades after a police officer is
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murdered in his own kitchen there are
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still no suspects only
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questions
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Cook County
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Illinois outside the Academy Theater the
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atmosphere is
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electric it was the night of the Oscars
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and like millions of Americans Ralph
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propest and his wife marleene settled
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down in front of the television to watch
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the
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Stars while we were watching the Academy
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Awards on TV that night and I must have
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dozed
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off and the next thing I knew there was
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this loud explosion that woke me
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up I saw this cloud of smoke from behind
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the television set when I went in the
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kitchen Ralph was laying on the kitchen
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floor Ralph had been shot once in the
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back of the head by the time help
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arrived he was
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dead Ralph PR was a 30y old Cook County
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Illinois sheriff's officer Ralph left
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behind his wife three small children and
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a series of baffling questions that
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almost 50 years later remain
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unanswered 4 days after his murder Ralph
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was laid to rest on that afternoon his
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partner Bob barowski made a silent
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pledge as I Stood Beside the casket and
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looked down at Ralph I made a vow to him
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that I would find his killer and I would
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not rest until I get
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him I figured it would be solved
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quickly but it didn't turn out that
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way Bob barowski continued to search for
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his partner's killer the crime scene
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evidence pointed to a carefully planned
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murder but no suspect has ever been
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named perhaps you might have the missing
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clue to solve the murder of Ralph
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proest
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Bob and Ralph met for the first time
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shortly after Ralph graduated from the
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police
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academy okay Gentlemen let's shape up
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your inspection
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time the two men were both assigned to
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the special Elite Tactical Squad Ron
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barowski you got Stickney Township
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tonight you had a lot of problems out
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there last night everybody else in the
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department looked up at the attack unit
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we were a very elite unit we were all
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spit and polish and we were a very proud
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bunch and Ral was not only a partner
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but he was also a friend and it was that
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sort of relationship you can depend on
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him and he could depend on you driving
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again Ralph played things strictly by
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the book and made some powerful
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enemies a few months before his death
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Ralph and Bob were assigned to guard a
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notorious mobster Named Sam D
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Stefano he had been transferred from the
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prison to a local hospital after
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complaining of stomach trouble to guard
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you you two lackes are going to guard me
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Sam you can't have any visitors here you
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folks are going to have to go come on
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who you my doctor hang call the doctor
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take don't steal my apples copper man
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you're going to have to go too get your
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hands off of her call my lawyer you're
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also going to have to eat the regular
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hospital food just like everyone else in
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the hospital I am as a matter of fact I
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do that's why you're here now uh lie
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down on the bed hey what are you doing
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when uh Ralph handcuffed the Stefano to
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the bed he became very irate and
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threatened to kill him better grow eyes
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in the back of your
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head if you need us we'll be outside get
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out get out of here we really didn't
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take it very serious we felt that he was
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just a big bag of wind and just brushed
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it off I don't think that the risk ever
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entered Ralph's mind I really don't I
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think it to him it was a job he enjoyed
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it and I don't think he was ever afraid
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I me imag in the back of anyone's mind
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something could happen but I don't think
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he dwell on it I just heard it on the
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radio on the night that Ralph was killed
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police found a suspicious pattern of
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circumstantial
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evidence it appeared that Ralph had been
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shot through the kitchen window okay now
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secure the house no one in the
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neighborhood saw the gunman though a few
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people did hear a shot a good clear shot
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of this Ricochet Mark the bullet that
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killed Ralph ricocheted off a kitchen
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cabinet and then fell onto the stove it
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was fired from a rare 41 caliber magnum
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handgun that had only recently been
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manufactured keep your eyes near as
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working as what's going out on the
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street see if there's any talk contact
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all your informant although there were
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only 2,000 of these guns in the United
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States police were unable to locate the
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murder weapon we don't have a motive on
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this one yet it could be some n who just
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doesn't like police officers so when
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you're out there be very careful the
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only likely suspect Sam D Stefano was
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cleared there were no other obvious
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suspects except one Ralph's wife
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marleene I know from the beginning of
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the investigation I think what puzzled
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everybody is how I had seen smoke inside
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the house but if the gunman had been
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outside there wouldn't have been smoke
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inside and yet when I woke up that's the
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first thing I saw was this small cloud
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of smoke coming up from like in back of
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my television set this puff of smoke LED
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police to suspect that the shot had been
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fired from inside the house adding to
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their theory was the fact that the
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broken glass from the window was found
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in the yard not on the kitchen
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floor when you have a murder
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investigation one of the first places
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you start with is with the
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family are you set inside yeah the
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investigators conducted a test to see if
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marleene was telling the
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truth first they fired from 15 ft away
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there was no smoke and the glass fell
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inside but then they fired from 2 in
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away from the
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window there was the puff of smoke
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inside the house back all over me I
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never seen anything like we found the
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glass came out back under the shooter
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and fell to the ground and we had the
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puff of smoke inside the house from that
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point on we knew that Marlene was
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telling the
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truth we determined that the shooter
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would have have to have been 5'1 or
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taller in order for that projectile to
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follow the path to where it struck
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Ralph to strike the center of the back
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of the head where the entry point was
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took one terrific shot
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my my theory on Ralph's murder is that
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somebody knew Ralph was going to be in
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that position at that certain
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time if anyone had been watching the
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house they wouldn't have been able to
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know even what room we were sitting in
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unless they were standing by that
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kitchen window every other window was
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covered there was too much light in the
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driveway and that person did not stay
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there and wait for hours for Ralph to
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get in that certain position Ralph was
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set up I believe that possibly he was
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going to receive a phone call or he was
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going to make a phone
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call Bob believes that Ralph may have
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been working on his own secretly in
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order to bring down a vice ring in fact
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several days before his death he had
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been seen at the home of an ex-convict
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named Frank kelvis he had spoken with
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Kel's wife and then
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left come on in I'll show you around I
00:24:05
think you'll like it one week before the
00:24:06
murder a man resembling Kelis looked at
00:24:09
a home for sale across the street from
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Ralph's home as they toured the house
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the visitor asked the owner a suspicious
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question was the floor plant similar to
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the one across the street most of the
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houses in this area were built about the
00:24:25
same time yeah however after identifying
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these in a police lineup the neighbor
00:24:30
changed his story some are convinced
00:24:33
that he feared
00:24:37
retaliation Frank cvis died s years
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later and no charges were ever filed in
00:24:43
connection with Ralph's
00:24:46
death Ralph had information on something
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whether it be BCE pornography fencing
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operation and whoever killed him
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knew that he was going to talk about
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it and they killed him before he
00:25:03
could at this time I am unofficially
00:25:06
still working on a case and whoever did
00:25:08
it I've been making him awful nervous
00:25:11
because he knows that I'm not giving up
00:25:14
that somehow someway somebody's going to
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say something and he's going to get
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caught so somewhere somebody's awful
00:25:20
nervous and I'm going to keep him that
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00:25:42
parents and later a forest Rancher wants
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to know who blew up his
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home Baltimore
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Maryland in a previous episode we
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profiled a frightening case of a baby
00:26:04
boy who was abducted from the hospital
00:26:07
just 2 days after he was
00:26:09
born a woman disguised as a nurse
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entered the room of Linda Norris she
00:26:15
instructed Linda to hand over her
00:26:17
two-day old son Avery James and return
00:26:20
to her bed for a physical examination
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the woman pulled the Privacy curtain
00:26:25
closed and then disappeared
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with
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Avery this has really been um I guess
00:26:33
one of the hardest things I've have to
00:26:34
ever had to face in my life um I can't
00:26:37
imagine going on from day to day without
00:26:40
having him
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back 2 months later the Maryland state
00:26:45
division of Vital Records received a
00:26:47
call from a woman who claimed that she
00:26:49
had given birth to a baby boy at her
00:26:52
home 2 months
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earlier the caller 33-year-old carlen
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Victoria Wilkinson said that she wanted
00:27:00
to get a birth certificate for her son
00:27:03
Tavon Anthony Wilkinson authorities
00:27:06
immediately became suspicious and began
00:27:09
an
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investigation a DNA test later confirmed
00:27:13
that the infant was actually Avery James
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Norris two-month-old Avery James Norris
00:27:22
was immediately reunited with his real
00:27:24
parents and went home for the first time
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we're very happy this is day one we
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start our life right from today but I
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just like to thank all the people who
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called and all the people who sent
00:27:38
letters and cards and who prayed for us
00:27:41
and I thank you from from my husband and
00:27:43
myself and for our
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baby carlen Victoria Wilkinson was
00:27:50
convicted of three counts of kidnapping
00:27:53
and sentenced to 30 years in prison she
00:27:56
has since been
00:28:02
released you're about to meet a man
00:28:04
named guy Pence he goes to work each day
00:28:08
knowing that his job has made someone
00:28:10
angry enough to try to kill him but he's
00:28:13
vowed never to
00:28:17
quit Carson City Nevada on the window
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ledge us forest service ranger guy Pence
00:28:24
arrived at work one morning to find that
00:28:26
his office had been apart by a bomb the
00:28:29
night before you know I don't know what
00:28:31
kind of bom the FBI believed that the
00:28:33
bomber had targeted just the building
00:28:35
but guy thought there was more to it
00:28:38
than that I really always felt that it
00:28:41
was aimed um as a direct statement to me
00:28:44
now it may be aimed as a direct
00:28:46
statement to me as a district Ranger or
00:28:49
as a federal employee and not so much uh
00:28:53
at me
00:28:55
specifically why would guy Pence or the
00:28:58
forest service be a Target perhaps
00:29:01
because they are in the front line of a
00:29:03
war that most of us don't even know
00:29:05
about some call it the Sagebrush
00:29:08
Rebellion ranchers loggers and miners
00:29:11
who are opposed to Federal control of
00:29:14
local public lands for nearly a century
00:29:17
many of them have had permits that give
00:29:19
them access to huge tracks of that land
00:29:24
but gradually federal regulations to
00:29:26
protect the land and have restricted
00:29:28
their use Rangers like guy have to
00:29:31
enforce these new laws which brings them
00:29:34
face to face with angry protesters we'll
00:29:37
do if you wind up a 22 xra tomorrow just
00:29:40
bring him back up on your own and we'll
00:29:42
just call it good now I don't think
00:29:44
that's the case we're running the whole
00:29:45
herd through Michael we went through
00:29:47
this we said 800 and you said you
00:29:48
weren't going to give me any trouble
00:29:49
about it I don't think that's the case
00:29:52
guy you're making a mistake Michael guy
00:29:55
says scenes like this have become a
00:29:57
regular part of his job and in some
00:30:00
cases rebellious Ranchers have the
00:30:02
support of their local
00:30:05
officials make the issue that we have
00:30:09
here is these people have a right to
00:30:11
Grace forage they have a right to mine
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minerals they have a right to harvest T
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Timber and the bureaucrats have exceeded
00:30:20
their Authority in some way or trying to
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stop them one way or the other and we
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are standing up as County Government to
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protect their
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rights cut although local leaders
00:30:31
support the land use none of them
00:30:34
support the use of violence like the
00:30:36
bombing of guys's
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office we were devastated by it we want
00:30:41
to put a stop to it as bad as anybody
00:30:45
else four months after the bombing any
00:30:48
question about whether guy Pence had
00:30:50
been personally targeted was
00:30:53
erased guy was out patrolling the back
00:30:55
country his wife was at home home with
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their two oldest
00:31:01
daughters the homemade bomb had been
00:31:04
placed directly beneath guys van how
00:31:07
many do we
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00:31:21
have fortunately no one was hurt in the
00:31:26
explosion
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wait wait wait wait go go it's a very
00:31:32
hard thought to accept that someone
00:31:35
would try to kill your family it just
00:31:37
thrown under there was it tape there's
00:31:39
absolutely no doubt in my mind that
00:31:42
whoever did this knew my family was at
00:31:44
home the windows were open the lights
00:31:47
were on the TV was on my own daughter
00:31:50
heard their footsteps and that they left
00:31:54
a killing device and ran into the
00:31:56
darkness
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I have a hard time
00:32:00
comprehending how any human could do
00:32:04
that like the first bombing there are
00:32:06
few solid Clues and no
00:32:10
suspects the FBI laboratory in
00:32:13
Washington DC has advised us that these
00:32:17
bombs are very similar in construction
00:32:20
we're looking for someone who knows the
00:32:23
the basics and the basic use in
00:32:27
uh application of explosives to make
00:32:29
this bomb but this was not a mastermind
00:32:32
by any stretch of the
00:32:35
imagination guy and his family have
00:32:37
moved to another location he could have
00:32:40
quit his job but guy chose to keep
00:32:42
working for the forest
00:32:45
service I think the stakes are very high
00:32:48
those Stakes are our natural resources
00:32:51
those Stakes belong to all of us 300
00:32:53
million Americans and those unborn today
00:32:57
those are those resources belong to them
00:33:00
it's extremely important to me that that
00:33:04
the forces that support this kind of
00:33:06
thing understand that this is not ever
00:33:07
how you win that you only
00:33:09
lose that's extremely important that
00:33:12
this perpetrator be brought to justice
00:33:15
so that everyone understands this is not
00:33:18
how we solve our
00:33:20
problems if you have any information
00:33:23
about the attacks on guy Pence and his
00:33:25
family please walk on to our website at
00:33:29
unsolved.com
00:33:32
coming up two people are healed and they
00:33:36
believe that prayer made the
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difference Fort Lauderdale
00:33:51
Florida I think I'm seeing something
00:33:54
right so Friday December 1st first
00:33:58
42-year-old Kathleen Burkhart is stunned
00:34:01
when a sonogram confirms a large lump in
00:34:04
her right breast Kathleen's doctors fear
00:34:07
the worst cancer she is told to come
00:34:10
back on Monday for a biopsy and possible
00:34:14
mastectomy I just went into an absolute
00:34:17
panic I had known two women that were
00:34:21
younger than I that are dead from breast
00:34:23
cancer so I had this anxiety in this
00:34:27
Panic about not having breast surgery or
00:34:31
even a biopsy I didn't even want a
00:34:35
biopsy to alleviate her fears Kathleen
00:34:38
turned to meditation and
00:34:42
prayer I went home and I
00:34:45
literally uh told everybody to leave me
00:34:47
alone that I was going to concentrate my
00:34:49
whole weekend on healing and that I
00:34:52
wasn't going to have that surgery on
00:34:55
Monday I put in to practice everything
00:34:58
that I had been reading about fasting
00:35:00
and um went on a fruit juice and fruit
00:35:03
fast and listened to the tapes and did a
00:35:05
lot of praying got down on my knees and
00:35:08
just really asked God to heal me any way
00:35:11
to take this away from me please I felt
00:35:14
very peaceful very calm very Serene the
00:35:17
fear went away the anxiety went
00:35:20
away I became very convinced that I was
00:35:24
healed and that this was totally
00:35:29
gone all right let's see what we got on
00:35:32
Monday Kathleen was x-rayed again just
00:35:34
prior to her biopsy I don't see any
00:35:38
lumps there are no lumps in their
00:35:41
breasts today are you sure these are her
00:35:43
pictures
00:35:45
yes doctor this is what I wanted to show
00:35:47
you the pictures that we took today and
00:35:50
the pictures from Friday what happened
00:35:53
here Kathleen's doctor was stunned but
00:35:55
cautious he wanted to conduct the biopsy
00:35:58
anyway Kathleen was adamant she was
00:36:02
going home on the basis of Friday's
00:36:05
pictures for many years doctors have
00:36:07
called these phenomena spontaneous
00:36:11
remissions and explained it away oh
00:36:13
that's just a spontaneous remission but
00:36:16
what is that this is a healing and we
00:36:19
have to as
00:36:21
healers find out how this happens what
00:36:24
are the mechanisms so that more people
00:36:27
can have this
00:36:30
experience thankfully Kathleen is still
00:36:33
healthy she continues to meditate and
00:36:35
pray and go in for regular breast exams
00:36:39
but was she actually helped by the power
00:36:41
of prayer well some people are not so
00:36:47
sure there's no question that the Mind
00:36:49
exerts an influence over what happens in
00:36:51
the body the issue at hand is whether
00:36:56
prayer or or any other kind of mental
00:36:59
exercise can predictably influence what
00:37:02
happens to a person and with respect to
00:37:06
prayer there simply is no evidence that
00:37:08
it
00:37:09
does Dr Larry dossy former Chief of
00:37:12
Staff at Medical City Hospital in Dallas
00:37:15
Texas
00:37:17
disagrees one of the best kept secrets
00:37:19
in modern medicine is the scientific
00:37:21
data surrounding
00:37:23
prayer currently there are over 130
00:37:25
studies showing that if you bring prayer
00:37:27
into the laboratory the hospital or the
00:37:29
clinic the prayer
00:37:32
works the most significant study in the
00:37:35
century I think uh was done by Dr
00:37:37
Randolph bird at the University of
00:37:38
California medical school in San
00:37:39
Francisco it took place uh in the carer
00:37:42
Care Unit almost 400 people were
00:37:44
involved everybody gets treated with
00:37:47
state-of-the-art coronary care
00:37:48
techniques the difference was that half
00:37:50
the people get prayed for the results
00:37:53
showed that the prayed for patients did
00:37:55
significantly better they needed fewer
00:37:57
drugs there were fewer deaths in the
00:37:59
prade for group and nobody in the prade
00:38:01
for group wound up on the mechanical
00:38:03
ventilator 12 of the people not being
00:38:05
prayed for had to have this
00:38:07
done many in the medical community find
00:38:10
Dr Bar's study unconvincing and even his
00:38:14
supporters admit that when it comes to
00:38:16
prayer you cannot adequately monitor a
00:38:19
human control
00:38:21
group still some patients and their
00:38:24
families turned to prayer as in this
00:38:26
next case at Children's Hospital in
00:38:29
Pittsburgh
00:38:30
Pennsylvania though he was only 11
00:38:33
months old Eric danowski had just
00:38:36
undergone a liver
00:38:40
transplant by the time he had his first
00:38:43
transplant he was already quite
00:38:46
ill his U Outlook became progressively
00:38:50
work worse because the first
00:38:53
liver uh was rejected uh necessitating a
00:38:57
second one which was done about 8 or n
00:38:59
days later the second one you know I was
00:39:02
like how much more can his little body
00:39:04
take you know he was so frail his he had
00:39:06
bones sticking out of his back he was so
00:39:08
skinny and had been bedridden for so
00:39:10
long that we weren't you know you had
00:39:13
your doubts you know I mean I kept my
00:39:14
faith kept positive attitude but in the
00:39:17
back of your mind there's always that
00:39:18
doubt is he really going to be able to
00:39:19
pull through all this you
00:39:21
know 3 weeks after Eric's second
00:39:24
transplant he developed viral pneumonia
00:39:27
Dr starel gave him only a 5050 chance to
00:39:31
live I didn't want to hear that my son
00:39:34
wasn't going to
00:39:36
live there's nothing more the doctors
00:39:38
could do and the only thing that we had
00:39:41
left was to hope that the Lord would
00:39:43
answer our
00:39:45
prayers that same night Debbie called a
00:39:48
newspaper reporter who had written
00:39:49
several articles about Eric's medical
00:39:52
crisis he promised to write another one
00:39:55
if you would please
00:39:58
the article appeared a few days later
00:40:00
churches all over central Pennsylvania
00:40:02
began to fill with worshippers praying
00:40:05
for little Eric
00:40:08
danowski within a few days Eric
00:40:11
experienced a sudden and unexpected
00:40:14
turnaround less than a week later his
00:40:17
family and medical team gathered to
00:40:18
celebrate his
00:40:21
first I feel in my heart that Eric's
00:40:25
recovery was definitely a
00:40:28
miracle it was the first day that I
00:40:30
think I felt like a really sense of
00:40:33
relief that he was going to make it did
00:40:36
prayer give um Eric a booster U I don't
00:40:40
know when I when I was young I would
00:40:42
probably have scoffed at the
00:40:44
idea but I've seen things and uncovered
00:40:48
things over the last um nearly 40 years
00:40:52
that um uh make me unwilling to be
00:40:54
nihilistic about any
00:40:57
possibility and I think that includes uh
00:41:00
uh
00:41:02
prayer eventually Eric underwent a third
00:41:05
liver transplant this one a complete
00:41:09
success Eric was far too young to
00:41:11
remember his ordeal but his parents have
00:41:15
told him about
00:41:17
it when I found out how sick I was I
00:41:21
realized that I was very sick and a lot
00:41:26
of people are praying for me I want to
00:41:29
make one thing perfectly clear if you've
00:41:31
got appendicitis you ought to have an
00:41:33
appendectomy we're not advising people
00:41:36
to give up drugs and surgical procedures
00:41:37
and just wing it with prayer uh on the
00:41:41
other hand you should feel free while
00:41:42
you're doing that while you're having
00:41:44
surgery for your appendicitis to get
00:41:46
prayed for it too because there are
00:41:48
studies which show literally that prayer
00:41:50
increases the healing rate of surgical
00:41:52
wounds so we ought to do what works I
00:41:55
think this just Falls falls into the
00:41:56
category of Common
00:41:59
Sense did prayer help Kathleen Burkhart
00:42:02
and Eric danowski each of us must decide
00:42:05
that for ourselves and while prayer will
00:42:07
never take the place of medicine it may
00:42:10
offer a very powerful
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assist
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