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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries two teenagers mysteriously
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disappear and then are found
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murdered police believed they were
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trying to escape a bizarre
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cult a man's charred body is found in a
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burnt out car it could be the remains of
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a notorious drug lord or someone else
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may have been murdered in his place
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after extensive brain surgery a woman
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wakes up with no memory of the last 16
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years of her
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life but she's afraid to let anyone
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know and when a wealthy businessman
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suddenly vanishes his wife discovers
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that his success is a
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fraud you know you could have the one
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vital clue to help solve one of our
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cases I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries join us
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s Angelo
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Texas where Shane Stewart and Sally
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McNelly grew up is a peaceful ranching
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town the 4th of July was a reunion of
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sorts for Shane and
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Sally each had recently returned to town
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and it was their first time together in
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months it was also the last time they
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would ever be seen
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alive the next morning a ranger
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discovered Shane's car near local
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Lake fast food wrappers covered the
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front seat the keys were on the
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dashboard but Shane and Sally were
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nowhere to be found there were no signs
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of a struggle and so consequently we
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looked at it from at first from a from
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the standpoint of a two kids ran off and
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got married knowing how much he loved
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that car that he wouldn't leave it I was
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very very concerned that something
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tragic had
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happened that November two skeletons
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were found near a lake 17 mi from where
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Shane's car was
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abandoned Shane's father heard the call
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on his police scanner and rushed to the
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scene I got out of the pickup and walked
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over to the area gut feeling is apparent
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I knew they had found
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Shane hi Marshall H how are you how you
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doing y'all find Shane's body yeah we
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sure did and it's pretty gruesome in
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there and uh well we just want to let
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you know it there's not a whole lot left
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I want to see okay
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let's it was it was
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Shane dressed like had left the house
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that
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night and I knelt down beside him and
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told him
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that I had found him and we would take
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him
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home each victim was killed by a shotgun
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blast all the forensic Clues were washed
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away the discovery of Shane and Sally's
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bodies confirmed their parents' worst
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fears it also made them suspicious of
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some of their children's friends friends
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that they believe may have been members
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of a satanic
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cult Shane was like Beaver Cleaver the
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allaround boy always having
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fun he had a lot of Dreams a lot of
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goals and he was a very lovable kid when
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Shane and Sally met it was just like two
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people clicked on there was a bond there
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that was almost Inseparable it was like
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the two two kids were made for each
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other Sally loved people she would do
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anything for a friend Sally tried hard
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to please people she wanted people to
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like her she wanted people to respond to
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her and love
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her I married and had Sally when I was
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very young so Sally and I spent a lot of
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our time growing up together we were
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like sisters when she was small and as
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Sally became a teenager she became more
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and more rebellious and I had less and
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less role in her
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life I don't think I ever heard her call
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her mother mother it was always Pat she
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was real resentful towards the fact that
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her dad wasn't around and she blinded on
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Pat a lot when we were
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kids Sally's mother first became
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concerned When Sally began sneaking out
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late at
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night Sally where have you been you
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scared me scared you I've been waiting
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here all
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night I would just went out for a walk
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that was the only explanation she would
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give me so I called one friend of
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Sally's the boy's mother answered the
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phone and she told me that the kids were
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mixed up in Satan worship and she said
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that a group of kids had been at her
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house one night and said they had a
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demon in a
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bottle Sally really got to a point to
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where she thought thought nobody loves
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me these people come along and they say
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okay we'll give you that love we'll give
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you that companionship that you need you
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just come with us and do what we
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ask Sally began to attend ritualistic
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parties on a regular basis one evening
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she invited her friend Helen to join
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her turn out the
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lights I'm going to do this do you want
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to no
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thanks I need some hands on the oracle
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in the name of our father the great
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Satan we humbly bow to you now and turn
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over our will to your great wisdom
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Spirit of the
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Oracle we call on you tonight to guide
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us
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Sally Sally went into a trance Sally are
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you all right and it really scared me
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what I'm
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leaving okay half of me said Sally's
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pulling a stunt just ignore it and half
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of me said well maybe it's they're kind
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of having
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fun when Sally began dating Shane
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Stewart she introduced him to her new
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friends Shane's father began to see
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changes in his behavior come on boy come
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on what's wrong with you Shane started
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getting into fights let's go come
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on come on one day Shane's getting the
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better of this guy his two friends
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friends jumped in and then he was thrown
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into the
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river so I told him I said you should
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have learned a lesson one not to fight
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and two uh be aware of where you are and
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what you're doing because people can
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always gang up on
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you in March deputy sheriff Larry counts
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got a call from
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Sally she and her boyfriend Shane were
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members of this group and they were
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trying to get away from
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she said there was a lot of drugs
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involved there was a lot of group sex
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she also expressed that she had a weapon
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that had been given to her by another
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member of the cult and when he gave it
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to her he told her and Shane that the
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gun had been used in a murder
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robbery by that time Shane and Sally
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were living together they met Deputy CS
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in their apartment to hand over the
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gun well during this meeting when I
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first met them face to face you really
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think that they were making this stuff
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up but they seem sincere this is the gun
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that guy gave us that I told you about
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after they gave me this weapon and we
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did some checking on it it turned out to
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be a stolen gun then their their story
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became a little bit more credible he's
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not going to find out about this is he
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they did Express fears that that they
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might be her she and her boyfriend might
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be in some danger because it's a very
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secretive type group and they knew the
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ends they knew the secrets
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6 weeks later Shane and Sally moved out
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of their apartment and left town
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separately but by early summer both
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returned to San
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Angelo Sally what's wrong in June Sally
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made a desperate phone call to
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Helen I think they're going to try to
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kill me I said nobody going to come and
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shoot you I said what did you do she
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said well I really can't tell you I got
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to go she just tended up things so I
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really didn't think much of it and I
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really didn't think to call Pat and say
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Pat s's in trouble there's something
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wrong I mean I didn't think anything
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about it Shane it's for you on July the
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3rd around noon we received a phone call
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there was a man on the phone asking for
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Shane and as I walked away I heard Shane
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mention money I have the money for you
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tomorrow she lighting up will you and so
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when Shane come out of the room I asked
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him I said is there a problem he said no
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I told him if there was a problem I was
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his dad and I could help him handle it
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he said no he said everything's fine he
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said I've taking care of it thanks on
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July the 4th Shane told me that he was
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going to go out and watch the
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fireworks I gave Shane a hug told him
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that I loved him take care of himself
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and don't get in a
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bind and he said no problem he said he'd
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see me later and left the
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house that was the last time I saw him
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alive police have pieced together at
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least part of what happened the night
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Shane and Sally
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disappeared at 900 p.m. they watched the
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annual fireworks display at Lake
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nasworthy 4 hours later a fisherman
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spotted them at OC Fisher Lake 6 mil
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away they were standing by a
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car then he saw a pickup truck approach
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all right Jo let's take a little ride
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here now I said get in the truck no
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we're not going to come with you shut up
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Hey listen I said we're not into that
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anymore okay leave us alone I heard him
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talking about she didn't want to be with
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them people no more I listened a little
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bit more and they continued all again
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the F then I got to thinking well there
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just bunch of kids out there drinking
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Parton and I turned my boat around and I
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left it was the last known sighting of
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Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly alive
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Marshall Stewart refused to believe that
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they just ran away he scoured the lake
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area and questioned people he believed
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might know something about his son's
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disappearance hi I'm Shane dad do you
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remember me Mr Stewart Shane told me if
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he and this friend ever got together
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there was going to be bad trouble he
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said we're enemies we hate each other uh
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if there's ever a confrontation he said
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there's really going to be a
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fight we don't have any Suspects from
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the standpoint of something that we
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could bring to the grand jury we have
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investigated it with the people that
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have been referred to us as having been
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in the The Cult activity and uh
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consequently they are suspects until we
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uh until we solve the
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murder if you have any information that
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might help solve this crime please log
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on to our website at unsolved.com
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next the puzzling death of a drug
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lord did he stage his own murder to
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avoid
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arrest San Juan Puerto
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Rico Flames consume a car that has been
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abandoned in a remote part of the city
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next morning local authorities find the
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remains of a body in the back seat it is
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charred beyond
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recognition a fragment of Jawbone and
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four loose teeth recovered From the
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Ashes is the only evidence that might
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identify the
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victim one week later an informant tells
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police that the dead man is John
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rubis it was a name authorities knew
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well John Scott rubis ran a
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multi-million dollar drug ring that was
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headquartered in Puerto
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Rico we were able to obtain dental
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records from John rubis dentist in
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Florida and we shipped those dental
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records to a pathologist in Puerto Rico
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that uh pathologist identified those
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loose teeth as being those of John
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rubis for years rubis had evaded law
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enforcement in several countries and now
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fire had apparently accomplished what
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the law could not John rubis was out of
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business or was
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he the drug Empire of rubis operated
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with military Precision a fleet of small
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airplanes transported tons of marijuana
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and cocaine from Secret plantations in
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Columbia Panama and Jamaica after
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processing in Puerto Rico the drugs were
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smuggled into the US and estimated 30
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million
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worth in 4
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years at pre-arranged times the planes
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dro the drugs just off the coast of
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Puerto Rico small boats were already in
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place
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waiting in most cases rubis had handson
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with the drug trafficking where a lot of
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the higher Echelon drug traffickers
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normally would stay in the background
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rubis came to the foreground and and
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actively got involved in the the
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distribution process
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the drugs were brought from the beach to
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a hidden processing plant in the Puerto
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Rican Highlands there the large bundles
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were broken down into 1B packages that
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were smuggled into the
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US John is one of the craftiest guys
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I've ever met in my life his ability to
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smuggle drugs into the United States
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unmolested you know he had several years
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maybe five six seven eight years of
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successful smuggling with no type of
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wire tapping or anything and don't get
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funny with my stuff you know he ran a
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real stiff
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organization rubis was very uh
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ruthless that's typical of the drug
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business uh you you have to gain your
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respect through fear and uh rubis was
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very good at
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that it took investigators years to
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penetrate the
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organization finally 37 members of the
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Ring were charged every one of them
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arrested everyone but John rubis he
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seemed to have vanished Into Thin
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Air when the charred remains were
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identified the outstanding charges
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against rubis were
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dropped in Puerto Rico police uncovered
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a vendetta that seemed to explain the
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murder of the outlaw drug
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lord Donald curzer a former associate of
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rubis was convicted of masterminding the
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hit allegedly rubis was killed in
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retaliation for raping Ker's girlfriend
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and the 14-year-old daughter of cser's
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housekeeper according to Puerto Rican
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authorities rubis was met at the airport
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in sanan by two women one was ultimately
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convicted in connection with the
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joh
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right they drove him to a deserted area
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on the outskirts of town and made an
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excuse to leave him alone in the
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car hey B
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go officially John rubis was dead
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officially yeah what's upy it's John
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John where you been but a few months
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later his former associate Richard
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received a call from the dead man Doan I
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have no doubt about it being John rubis
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you know we had an acquaintance you know
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over an extensive period of time so I
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mean you know
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I'd know his voice
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anywhere we also began to receive
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information through some various other
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of the codefendants that had been
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charged in the case uh that perhaps uh
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rubis was alive that they had seen him
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that they had talked to
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him authorities have another reason to
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believe rubis is still alive he was
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simply too smart to let himself be
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trapped yeah John rubis in the business
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he was involved in illegal narcotics was
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a very suspicious ious individual and
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took a lot of precaution to protect
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himself he never traveled alone and when
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he did travel he always traveled arms so
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the facts that were put together just
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did not fit well with what we knew of
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John
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rubis two people have served time in
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Puerto Rican prisons for the murder of
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John rubis but was rubis really the
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victim or was someone else killed in his
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place rubis was fully capable of staging
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his own death and may well have had his
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own teeth extracted in order to
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accomplish a false identification of a
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body and I believe that there is
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substantial reason to believe that John
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rubis is
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alive and it wasn't he could have he did
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pull it off I know John pretty well I
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mean and John is a very Mystique type of
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guy one thing that he would never do is
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cor himself in a situation where he
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couldn't get
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out he always had an exit that most
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people didn't know
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about the bottom line is is that John
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rubers still
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rids
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update DNA test show that a fragment of
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jaw found at the scene match rubis his
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teeth but some still believe the tests
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don't tell the full story they're
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convinced that John rubis has evaded
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Justice
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next a woman with amnesia is able to
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hide it from her family for
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years dundock
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Maryland I just want to cash that please
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surely check your C it all began when
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Sarah de Janeiro stopped by her local
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bank Sarah had a long history of
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migraine headaches but this day the pain
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was beyond anything she had ever
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experienced I'm sorry Mrs degenero we're
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not going to be able to cash your check
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today ma'am the pain was so bad are you
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all right if my head had exploded you
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know if Dynamite had gone off on the
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left side of my head it would have
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probably felt the same way there was so
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much pain that the only thing I could do
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was leave there
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the attack left Sarah confused and
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disoriented she couldn't see out of her
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left eye but somehow she managed to make
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her way back
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home honey what's wrong 3 hours later
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Sarah's husband Paul found his wife
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sprawled across the
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bed honey wake up she was partially
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paralyzed and babbling incoherently
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honey honey talk to me I tried to tell
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him you know that I was down at the bank
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and my felt like my head
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exploded and I but I couldn't couldn't
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say
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it a blood vessel had burst in Sarah's
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brain doctors recommend it an extremely
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delicate and risky
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operation all right we've got the first
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aneurysm clipped it looks like there's
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another aneurysm here though the surgeon
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discovered that her condition was much
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worse than they had imagined Sarah was
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on the operating table for 9 and 1/2
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hours as doctors struggled to save her
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life hello Sarah how are you doing Sarah
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emerged from the surgery extremely
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confused it seemed to her that in just 3
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days Paul's crew cut had grown out he
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appeared to have put on weight and she
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didn't recognize her own daughter
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Kelly I can remember the day that my
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father took me to the hospital scissors
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snipping the the nurse was removing the
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stitches from her head I was to one side
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of her and I kept watching her and she
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would be looking over at me just out of
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the corner of her eye and not really
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saying anything to me at all the whole
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time that I was
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there almost wondering who I
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was 2 and 1/2 weeks after surgery Sarah
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was finally released from the hospital
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and headed home okay honey we're home to
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Sarah the neighborhood seemed different
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what had once been a dirt road was now a
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paved Street new houses had been built
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on empty lots
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okay who's here kids kids are here Sarah
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expected to see three little
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kids not the four teenagers who greeted
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her hi Mom doctors had warned Sarah that
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after the surgery she might feel
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slightly disoriented but no one had
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prepared her for this there was nothing
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in the house like it was before
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everything was just different but I
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figured that uh if I just kept
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quiet I eventually I'd have things
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figured
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out do Eloise and Bob still live in
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talson 2 days after returning from the
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hospital Sarah learned that she had a
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big
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problem and it is 196 isn't
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it
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no it's 1976
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mom you kidding us right Sarah realized
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that 16 years of her memory had been
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erased in her mind she was only 23 years
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old she was terrified and told no
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one when she was alone Sarah would sift
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through family photographs searching for
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clues about her past
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I didn't have all the knowledge that I
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had before I would try
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to um get back everything that I that
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was lost in my
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brain Sarah found herself confused by
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everything in the world around her when
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she was 23 no one had automatic
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dishwashers microwave ovens had not yet
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been invented personal computers were
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unheard
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of even the family car seemed like
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something out of the
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future and Sarah's taste in music
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fashion and dance was that of a
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23-year-old not someone almost
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40 I can remember coming home from
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school or coming home from work and that
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stereo would just be blasting and the
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first thing I would do would be to come
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in the back door and just turn the
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stereo down because it would just drive
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me crazy it's has been a real role
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reversal at some
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points Sarah hid the truth for almost
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four years come here and down then an
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article in the local newspaper gave her
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the courage to tell her family her
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secret I just read an article about
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people who have aneurysm everything was
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out and she you know was willing to
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admit that she did not know who we were
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or know who I was sometimes I wish that
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she could remember me as when I was
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younger and I was growing up because I
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think I did get some characteristics
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from her such as being athletic that I
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think she would have really enjoyed
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remembering of
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me most people who have an aneurysm that
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ruptures do experience some memory loss
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in Mrs Deano's case uh 16 years uh time
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when children were being born and were
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growing uh to be deprived of that is
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really
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unusual yeah that's a big difference I
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didn't know I my much as I did at one
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time and wasn't able to do the things I
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could do
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before nothing was going to get me down
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I was going to relearn
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everything Sarah D Jano still has
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absolutely no recollection at all of
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those 16 years her doctors believe
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she'll never recover her lost
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memories next a businessman suddenly
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disappears and his secret life is
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[Music]
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exposed every year thousands of people
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vanish Without a Trace many are victims
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of Foul Play however some people
00:27:17
engineer their own disappearances
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leaving family and friends to wonder
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where they are and what happened to them
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philli and Kathleen brain were married
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in Detroit Michigan they were both
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successful business
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Executives together they enjoyed the
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good life they had expensive grown-up
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toys paid for by Philip's investments in
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the stock market for Kathleen the
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marriage was a dream come true you want
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take the wheel I
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want oh
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no there were a lot of things that were
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really great about him I think it was a
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of humor was one thing that I thought
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was really great and we were crazy about
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each other I mean I I really LED this
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person and I believe that he really
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loved me and I believe that I could
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trust him great Philip was the president
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of a highly successful mortgage company
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in Detroit his position gave him the
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authority to buy mortgages for the
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company we hear anything back on that
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commercial property on the 15 M he
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always came across kind of as a happy
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go-lucky guy a wizard in the stock
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market I mean he was always coming
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saying oh I made a great killing today I
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made 100 Grand I made this I bought
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these options I sold these options I
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just thought this person had a certain
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Knack that nobody else had yeah Phil
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Breen I got some good
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news a year after their marriage Breen
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made a big
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purchase he bought the Orlando juice
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baseball team for
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$700,000 the team was a new league built
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around retired ball players it was a
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risky
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Enterprise by the end of the year Breen
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had upped his investment to $2
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million it seemed like it was something
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that he really wanted to do it was
00:29:13
important to him but in a lot of ways I
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didn't like it because I thought that it
00:29:19
put an awful lot of pressure on him and
00:29:21
it seemed like he was just at that point
00:29:25
running himself into the ground and I it
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didn't make sense to me I said I'd cover
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it Kathleen became concerned about her
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husband's mental state well I'll send
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the C no Li I noticed a change in him he
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seemed to be spending more
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money it just seemed like his as time
00:29:44
went on the money was going more and
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more to his
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head
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uhuh so you have no lean on this
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property then back in Detroit Philip's
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mortgage company discovered that the
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loans Breen had purchased
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didn't really
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exist I signatures the company suspected
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Philip Breen of
00:30:05
embezzlement and the and the one on
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Walnut it was just mindboggling I mean
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something like that could happen you
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know the things that ran through your
00:30:13
mind is my God you know we trusted this
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guy you know how could he do this to
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us Philip and Kathleen returned from a
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Florida vacation to their home in
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Detroit on a
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Friday hello
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yes all right all right just a minute
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just a minute Phil it's the office
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something seemed to be not right and I
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didn't know
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what and so I I uh took his briefcase
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into him in in the room where he was on
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the phone and that room was a complete
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disaster
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area he had records piled all over the
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floor papers were strewn all
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over well I have the signatures right
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here I worked with these people looked
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very upset I mean he had a very funny
00:31:01
expression on his face and it frightened
00:31:03
me to see him freaked out like that look
00:31:07
well how do you think I feel me my
00:31:09
phone's he said to us um don't don't
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worry I'll get these guys I know they
00:31:15
can explain it um there's there's not a
00:31:18
problem you know he kept reassuring us
00:31:20
there's not a problem I'll get a hold of
00:31:22
them over the weekend that evening he
00:31:25
revealed to me that he had had somehow
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been um the victim of people selling
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phony
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mortgages bye sweetie by Monday morning
00:31:41
Phillip had convinced Kathleen that he
00:31:44
could straighten everything out he left
00:31:46
for work at about
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8:00 but he never arrived at his
00:31:56
office that that night Kathleen
00:31:59
discovered Philip had taken some of his
00:32:01
clothes and
00:32:06
Luggage the idea that he would have
00:32:08
actually
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gone
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just was incomprehensible to me I I
00:32:15
couldn't believe it so I did some of my
00:32:18
own investigation and I found the FBI
00:32:20
was brought in to investigate they found
00:32:22
that in less than 2 years Breen had
00:32:24
created close to 100 fake loans him more
00:32:28
than $10 million is that some more loans
00:32:31
that you sir I Breen had used the money
00:32:34
to support his extravagant
00:32:37
Lifestyle the FBI also discovered that
00:32:40
12 years earlier Philip Breen had been
00:32:42
convicted for fraud and embezzlement in
00:32:47
Florida there was just this whole person
00:32:50
that I didn't even know
00:32:52
existed on the advice of her attorney
00:32:56
Kathleen Breen filed for divorce but it
00:32:58
was too late the courts held her legally
00:33:02
responsible for Philip's
00:33:04
deaths she was forced to sell nearly
00:33:07
everything she and Phillip owned their
00:33:09
cars boats Florida condo and Detroit
00:33:13
home I felt like I was married to a
00:33:16
monster from outer space and it almost
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just sickens me in a way just just
00:33:22
haunted by
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it Philip Breen has never been found
00:33:28
and the FBI believes that he's out there
00:33:32
somewhere if you have any information
00:33:34
about Philip brain please log on to our
00:33:36
website at unsolved.com
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[Music]
00:33:42
coming up a fire set by an arsonist
00:33:46
results in tragedy was it an act of
00:33:49
Revenge
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put the money in the bag recently we are
00:34:04
the story of a career bank robber who
00:34:06
pull off a string of heists in Canada
00:34:09
and the
00:34:11
US he frequently wore cheesy disguises
00:34:15
and sometimes carried a leather shoulder
00:34:17
bag he became known as the Satchel
00:34:19
Bandit move
00:34:22
it but his true identity remained a
00:34:25
mystery
00:34:29
whoever he was the robers seemed to
00:34:31
operate with flawless Precision but
00:34:34
after a heist at a Canadian Bank his
00:34:37
luck began to run
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[Music]
00:34:42
[Applause]
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out for the first time eyewitnesses were
00:34:50
able to get a clear glimpse of the
00:34:53
robber
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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Hey by the time the police arrived the
00:35:03
suspect was gone however he did leave
00:35:06
behind some of the tools of the trade
00:35:09
including a loaded magazine for a 380
00:35:12
automatic
00:35:14
handgun police found several changes of
00:35:17
clothes maps of Canada and the US as
00:35:20
well as camping gear but nothing led to
00:35:23
the robber's identity
00:35:30
5 Weeks Later the Satchel Bandit struck
00:35:32
again
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[Music]
00:35:38
ma'am hurry
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up but this time an alert teller planted
00:35:43
a little surprise in the stolen
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[Applause]
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cash leaving behind a trail of ruined
00:35:54
money the Satchel Bandit made his Escape
00:35:57
but not before an eyewitness noticed his
00:35:59
license plate number it was the key to
00:36:02
learning the robber's true identity his
00:36:05
name Charles Warren
00:36:09
Boomer
00:36:11
update Hamilton Ontario
00:36:15
Canada not long after we aired this
00:36:18
story Boomer was at a restaurant in
00:36:20
Hamilton Ontario the manager called in
00:36:24
you know suspicious person that he
00:36:25
believed uh possibly was was Charles
00:36:28
Boomer that uh that we responded to the
00:36:30
area and arrested him Boomer was wearing
00:36:34
a disguise a cheap wig and a baseball
00:36:37
hat he had a loaded gun several th000 in
00:36:41
cash and a police scanner which was
00:36:42
turned off at the
00:36:45
time Boomer looked entirely different
00:36:48
once his disguise was removed police
00:36:51
learned that the robber who had stolen
00:36:53
Millions through the years was living in
00:36:55
a tent outside of town
00:36:58
there they found a list of banks maps of
00:37:01
possible Escape Routes survival gear and
00:37:04
a list of police radio frequencies from
00:37:07
both Canada and the US Charles Warren
00:37:10
Boomer was eventually convicted of 33
00:37:13
robberies and was sentenced to 45 years
00:37:16
in prison
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one February night Curtis Ford was
00:37:37
awakened by a strange sound in the
00:37:39
stairwell outside his apartment the
00:37:42
banging that I heard sound like a herd
00:37:43
of elephants running up the stairs and
00:37:45
then I
00:37:47
heard which was like a knock at the door
00:37:50
and then I heard the
00:37:51
same right down the stairs
00:38:02
so I looked up and this wall of fire
00:38:04
just shot out my side balcony window
00:38:05
just shot straight up and out it was
00:38:08
like my whole apartment lit up I
00:38:10
couldn't believe that the amount of
00:38:12
force that this thing
00:38:14
had Curtis escaped the fire but three of
00:38:18
his neighbors were not so
00:38:21
lucky investigators at the scene quickly
00:38:24
determined that the fire was set by an
00:38:26
arsonist police believe that one of the
00:38:29
apartment residents might have been the
00:38:32
target Donna Balo lived a quiet life
00:38:35
with her 22-year-old son gyel Lewis and
00:38:39
8-year-old daughter bunny Sue Terry the
00:38:42
close-knit family had no enemies but
00:38:45
several weeks before the fire a
00:38:47
disturbing incident may have given
00:38:49
someone a motive to attack Donna Donna
00:38:52
had worked at Wells Fargo Bank for 10
00:38:55
years she was a manager at a drive dri
00:38:57
through Branch outside of
00:38:59
Houston one day when Donna arrived at
00:39:02
work she noticed an odd piece of paper
00:39:05
lying in front of the bank's
00:39:08
entrance it was a note demanding all of
00:39:10
the money from the
00:39:12
bank it was a well-crafted note well
00:39:15
verbalized and specifically threatened
00:39:18
employees if they didn't cooperate in
00:39:19
turning over all the bank's money that
00:39:21
day that they would be retaliated
00:39:24
against Donna went to her car 5 minutes
00:39:28
later another employee showed up don't
00:39:31
stop just follow me they drove to a
00:39:33
nearby convenience store and contacted
00:39:36
their supervisor who called the police
00:39:38
uh parked the car started walking toward
00:39:40
the bay there were no fingerprints on
00:39:42
the note or any other Clues as to who
00:39:44
wrote it the authorities had no
00:39:47
suspects so that's about it 5 Weeks
00:39:51
Later Donna's apartment building was set
00:39:53
on fire Donna's unit was one of two
00:39:56
located on the second floor
00:40:00
authorities speculate that Donna's
00:40:02
daughter bunny was awakened by the
00:40:04
mysterious Knack completely unaware of
00:40:06
the fire outside she opened the door
00:40:09
bunny stop no
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00:40:12
bu Donna and her son ji then ran into
00:40:16
the Flames trying to rescue
00:40:18
bunny Curtis Ford witnessed the
00:40:24
tragedy ja's laying there on the landing
00:40:26
and I I saw him burning and I just
00:40:28
grabbed his ankle I pulled him down you
00:40:31
know and he was just like screaming at
00:40:33
the top of his lungs like my sister's
00:40:34
dead I mean he just couldn't believe the
00:40:36
fact of this going
00:40:38
on I mean it was just horrible horrible
00:40:42
horrible Curtis saw Donna go into the
00:40:45
Flames screaming for her youngest child
00:40:48
the look on her face just would break
00:40:51
any person I mean I couldn't sleep for
00:40:53
the next 2 months because of it
00:40:59
Donna and Jai had been critically burned
00:41:01
all over their entire
00:41:06
bodies 8-year-old bunny was found dead
00:41:09
in the
00:41:12
stairwell this was absolutely one of the
00:41:15
most horrible events I've seen in my 30
00:41:18
years in the fire
00:41:20
department because they were literally
00:41:22
burned alive there you couldn't even
00:41:25
recognize J and you couldn't recognize
00:41:28
Donna and so we came out we were just
00:41:32
devastated Donna and Jai were rushed to
00:41:34
the hospital but died the next day an
00:41:37
entire family was
00:41:41
destroyed
00:41:44
update after an intense investigation
00:41:47
police learned the deadly arson fire was
00:41:49
set by two neighborhood boys aged 13 and
00:41:53
14 the older boy was tried as an adult
00:41:56
was convicted victed and sentenced 12
00:41:59
years in prison the younger boy was
00:42:00
sentenced to juvenile detention until
00:42:03
his 18th birthday
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