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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a Michigan couple on a weekend
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outing interrupts a killer covering up
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his
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crime 12 people claim they saw a bizarre
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creature in the mountains of Colorado is
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Bigfoot more than just a
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legend in Miami a drug bus gone bad
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exposes a conspiracy of police
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corruption okay okay
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relax in Atlantic City A desperate
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father searches for answers after the
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vicious murder of his 7-year-old son I
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want to see my son
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right five intriguing stories stories
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that you won't want to miss I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries
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Cold Water Michigan
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a lonely road outside of
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town I like Ray and Marie Thornton went
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for a drive in the country as they did
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every
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weekend we were driving South on snow
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Perry Road and all of a sudden a van
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just on us and cast guy coming around
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us jeez must be in a hurry several miles
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down the road the Thornton spot at the
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van a second
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time as we approached an old schoolhouse
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I saw a man behind it and he had what
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appeared to be a bloody sheep a bloody
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sheep where as we continued passing the
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school I saw the van parked between the
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building and a big
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tank the van appeared behind them again
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it tailgated their car for almost 2
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miles I'm going to start riding a step
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down
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finally Ray turned off the
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highway when he did the van pulled to
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the side of the
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road we decided to turn around and come
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back see if we get a license plate
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number we felt if we could get the
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license number then we could turn into
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the police the guy was acting very
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suspicious and uh we just felt that
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authorities should be notified he's in
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the back of van he looks like he's Chang
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he is he's changing plates he was behind
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his van with the passenger front door
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open and I saw that the passenger door
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was covered with blood there's blood all
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over that door what door the passenger
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door that guy has done something he he
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has the thoron suspected something
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awful they went back to the schoolyard
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to search for the
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Sheep well I was beginning to get
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nervous when we got back to the
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schoolhouse we tried to find what this
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white thing was that he had been
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carrying it was a blood soaked
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blanket definitely blood all right let's
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go call a
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police Ray and Marie Thornton had found
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evidence of a shocking crime it was the
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result of a bitter conflict between a
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husband and a wife that ended in
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murder man in the open Dennis and Dew
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had a comfortable life Dennis was a
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property assessor and Marilyn was a high
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school counselor now you be careful
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together they were raising three
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children beneath the surface things were
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different Dennis was angry and
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withdrawn and he accused Marilyn of
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turning the children against him it's
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not that they you know fought all the
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time cuz they didn't it was just you
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know they just didn't really talk she
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would just say in general that she was
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unhappy and when the lawyer or someone
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else would ask her why she wanted to get
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a divorce she would say because the
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marriage is broken up and because there
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was no longer a marriage there sign it
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on this page and signed it on the last
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page after 18 years of marriage Marilyn
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finally gave up thank you
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bye got keep your jack no Dennis was
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granted limited visitation rights often
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the children didn't want to spend time
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with them even after she changed the
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locks on the doors there were some
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sometimes when she would come home and
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unlock the house and go in and there was
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Denis sitting on the
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couch she didn't know how he got in and
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she seemed a little frightened about
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that he sort of out of the blue just
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indicated to me one day uh that he was
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contemplating
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suicide and and
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murder on Easter Sunday Dennis came to
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pick up his
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kids his youngest daughter Julie said
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she would not go with
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him
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on let's
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gock
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stop with leave him alone Mak things
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terrible I hate
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help
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her you're hurting her the oldest
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daughter Jennifer ran to a neighbor's
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home to call the sheriff's
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office she wasn't walking completely on
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her own he was like holding her up we're
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going to the hospital and when they were
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walking I you know I just like you know
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said mom Mom you know she she didn't
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even look at me she was just like kind
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of like in a
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day the deuse never arrived at the
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hospital investigators immediately began
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searching for the missing
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couple that same afternoon Ray and Marie
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Thornton found the bloody blanket in the
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schoolyard
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the area was quickly
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secured deputies found several fresh
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tire tracks and a large pool of
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blood the tracks were later matched to
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Dennis's van the blood was
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Maryland's the next day a highway worker
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discovered Marilyn Dew's body off a
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deserted Road between the schoolhouse
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and her home she had been shot once in
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the back of the
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head we had a feeling that he had really
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done something terrible it was so brutal
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and
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premeditated that makes you so
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angry if she'd been killed in an
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automobile accident you could get over
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that but not
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this after the murder Dennis sent a
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series of rambling letters to friends
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and relatives in which he tried to
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justify Marilyn's
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murder to coworker Jan marowski Dennis
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wrote Marilyn had many many
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opportunities to treat me fairly during
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this divorce and she chose to string it
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out trick me lie to me and when you lose
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your wife children and home there's not
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much left I was too old to start
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over Dennis sent a total of 17 letters
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postmarked in Virginia Iowa and
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Oklahoma it seemed as if Dennis was
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trying to say that those of us who were
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friends of Maryland were the ones who
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caused her death when in effect it was
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Dennis who pulled the
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trigger
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update at around 8 8:30 on the night of
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our broadcast a woman will call Mary
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returned home her boyfriend Hank Queen
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was already
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there his van was parked in the driveway
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which was out of the ordinary because he
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usually kept it inside the
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garage he told me that his mother was
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very ill and then he needed to make an
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emergency trip home here could you make
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me some sandwiches that I can take it's
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a really long drive I was sure that
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something else must really be going on
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but I didn't know what help to find a
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man suspected the brutal murder of his
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exwife he was getting clothes out of the
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closet uh closed out of some
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drawers Gathering up some of his
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personal items at the same time giving
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me instructions on preparing some food
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for him to take on the long
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trip what do you want to drink
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everything
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Al I hate you aren't you going to give
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me a
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hug he just gave me a little peck of a
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kiss and I gave him a big hug and said
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goodbye to
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him I realized that something was
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troubling him and I knew I would never
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see him
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again later that that night Mary was
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shocked to learn that Hank Queen was
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really Dennis Dew and he had just been
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featured an Unsolved
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Mysteries looking back on it now I think
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that he was deliberately keeping my uh
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attention distracted in the kitchen so
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that I wouldn't see the segment and so
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that he could
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leave after the broadcast a viewer who
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knew Hank Queen and Mary gave
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authorities the license plate number of
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the van
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4 hours later Louisiana state troopers
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tried to pull him over but Dennis
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wouldn't stop he led them on a 15m
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high-speed chase breaking through two
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police
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barricades I told the deities if the van
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refused to stop to shoot a tire off over
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the front tire and they missed front
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tire but they got both back on he
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traveled about half a mile and
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stopped thew fired two shots at deputies
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through his windshield and another
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through the open
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window then he turned the gun on himself
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and fired it for the last
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time I think he intended to die whether
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he had to do it by his own hands or
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where he could get us to kill him in one
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of the 17 letters Dew had written trying
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to justify murdering his ex-wife he
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included these lines
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an eye for an eye a life for a life at
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the time Dennis Dew had no idea just how
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prophetic those words would
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be coming up Miami police officers who
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try to get away with murder
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on a previous broadcast we told you
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about a family of fortune tellers in
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Peoria Illinois who ConEd their clients
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out of millions of dollars Lena Marie
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Wilson her daughter an Corelli and their
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accomplished Joe Marx were arrested all
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three jump bail Wilson and Marx were
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convicted in
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absentia
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update Joe Marx has been captured within
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minutes of our broadcast police in
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Springfield Missouri received a call
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from a viewer who recognized marks
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deputies arrested him at his parents'
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home where his mother was operating a
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palm reading
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business he was returned to Illinois to
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serve his sentence of 6 years in prison
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for conspiracy to commit theft following
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another tip police tracked Lena Wilson
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to her home in Boston Massachusetts she
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was arrested and returned to Poria there
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a judge ordered her to serve her
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original 10-year sentence plus an
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additional year for jumping
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baale an Corelli is 5 ft tall and weighs
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between 140 and 170 lb she has brown
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hair and brown eyes she could be using
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the aliases Lori Wilson Lori Kelvin or
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an
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marks the statute of limitations has run
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out on this case
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investigators are no longer looking for
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and
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Corell Miami
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Florida during the early 1980s more than
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120,000 refugees arrived from
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Cuba 30,000 are hardcore criminals
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released from Cuba's jails
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at the same time racial tensions lead to
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6 days of rioting in the
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city Miami quickly doubled the size of
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its police force to deal with these
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problems and some say that questionable
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applicants slipped through the screening
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process and soon Miami had another
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problem corrupt officers in its own
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Police Department
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it began slowly the early abuses were
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minor shakedowns their targets smalltime
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dope
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dealers a number of the early ripoffs
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were simple car stops where the police
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officers would see small amounts of
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drugs and money and would proceed to
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take those drugs and money uh believing
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that the people who they were stopping
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weren't going to report those incidents
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to the police
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department they felt that they were
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Invincible as long as they stood
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together as long as no one talked it was
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their word against common thugs on the
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street these police officers succumb to
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Greed and they would go out and say
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we're not harming law- abiding citizens
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and that's how they rationalized and
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Justified a lot of their crimes that
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they
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committed one of the most notorious was
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Armando Garcia
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in high school he hung out with a group
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of drug users a fact that he didn't
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mention when he joined the police force
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Garcia was not satisfied with small time
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shakedowns he began confiscating large
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drug shipments in fake police operations
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that were totally off the books the
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raids eventually became
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violent come on move it move it man
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Garcia learned that some 400 kilos of
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pure cocaine
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would soon be coming into Miami he had
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intercepted a similar shipment just 2
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weeks
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earlier Miami Police Drop It Go but this
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time Garcia's plans fell
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apart get out of here face the
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consequences six of the dopers jumped in
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the water to escape the police officer
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thinking it was an official
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raid three of them drowned the officers
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left for 400 kilos of
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cocaine Metro Police Department began
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the investigation immediately after the
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three bodies were found and they thought
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it was a routine
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homicide all happened real fast I need
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you to tell me exactly what it was you
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saw sure I I saw police cars come into
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the yard how many there were three of
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them detectives were stunned when a
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Harbor security guard said the three men
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drowned while escaping a police
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raid Miami
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Police there were no records of the raid
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in police logs further investigation
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exposed Armando Garcia's secret
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operations he and 34 other Miami police
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officers were arrested on corruption
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charges relax they're all
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gone we have no
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choice we must eliminate our Pro
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while in prison Garcia came up with a
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plan to kill key witnesses that were
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scheduled to testify at his
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trial when Garcia and his associates
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were released on bail they put their
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plan into
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action they supplied $50,000 to one hit
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man for that hit but it did not take
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place he took their money and did not
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commit the hit and they attempted even
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themselves they hid in the bushes
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waiting for one of the government
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Witnesses but never could find
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him in the end however none of the
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Witnesses were hurt and they were able
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to testify against Garcia in court but
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the corruption case ended in a mistrial
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but by then there was evidence of the
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assassination plots the former officers
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were then indicted on a second set of
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charges including conspiracy to commit
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murder several of the officers after the
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indictment decided that they would
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cooperate
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the other officers realized then that
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the case had reached a point where it
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was almost a sure conviction if they
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went to court at that point they made a
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decision to take
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flight
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update Armando Garcia was finally
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arrested in Khali Columbia also taken
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into custody was Garcia's
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father a week later Victor Zapata one of
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Garcia's accomplices gave himself up to
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the police in San Juan Puerto Rico all
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three suspects were returned to Miami
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Armando Garcia was sentenced to 25 years
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in federal prison his father received 10
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years and Victor Zapata was sentenced to
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13
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years next Footprints of a strange
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creature in the mountains of Colorado
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could it be Bigfoot
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Pikes Peak
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Colorado 100,000 acres of dense
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Wilderness surround this mountain your
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average hiker might catch a glimpse of a
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mountain lion a bobcat or even a black
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bear but recently there have been
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reports of a different kind of animal
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living in the woods
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basically looked like a big man or a big
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shape coming toward us and we turned
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around and started running it had long
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hair hanging off its arms and its legs
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it had a small torso but long legs and
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long arms whatever these creatures are I
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believe they're more human than ape I
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believe that possibly there may be a
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group of anywhere between seven and
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possibly 10 a small band of these
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creatures living here in the Pikes Peak
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region
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Bigfoot many think this aplike creature
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is either a hoax or a
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misidentified common animal but now new
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evidence suggests that perhaps Bigfoot
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really does
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exist it was a cold morning in March
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when Dan messiah's son discovered a set
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of mysterious tracks in the fresh
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snow hey look at this what we got
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there's some weird tracks tracks what
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kind of tracks Dan had spent lots of
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time in the outdoors but he didn't
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recognize these tracks upon examination
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of the footprints I determined that it
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was something very strange and related
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to the passp footprints we had seen
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around our home the next night my son
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and I stayed up late downstairs we
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watched television and every 15 or 20
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minutes I kept going to my
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window at quarter of 12 I could see two
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large creatures running down the road
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one of them was a small one well which
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was about 5' 6 5' 7 and the other
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creature was about 6' maybe
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6'2 other than the hair which appeared
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to be covering their body they look just
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like human
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beings down there so we can take Dan
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took pictures of the tracks
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it the large set was almost a foot
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long the smaller set 8
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in Dan Messiah is not the only one who
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says that he saw
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Bigfoot while hiking Pikes Peak Jeremy
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swisser and his friends also came face
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to face with a creature they had never
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seen we came around the base of this big
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rock and we saw this it looked like an
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individual and it turned around and it
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started to chase us it looked like a
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fairly good size man it was around 6t
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tall that's the shape of it the arms
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might have been a little bit longer than
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normal the Run was more or less like
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that of a an athlete a man of some sort
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he was right across the road from us and
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that scared us enough to take take off
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for the rest of the way
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home the recent sightings in Colorado
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have all taken place near Pike National
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Forest I'm positive that I saw some type
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of creature that was the strangest thing
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I've ever seen in my
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life it wasn't a bear it wasn't like
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anything I've ever seen
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before I had a fear in me I I I got out
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of the truck and I and it passed me I I
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got behind it but a clear enough
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distance because I wasn't about to go
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tackle it or anything but it seemed to
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have the figure of a human being I
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didn't see the face at all but it had
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hair covering its body
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another witness claims that his cabin
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was broken into by a large
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creature he rushed to the back porch but
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the Intruder had
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vanished the cabin door was practically
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destroyed the next morning two boys
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found toughs of hair caught in the
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screen door we sent this hair to a
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laboratory at the unity University of
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California in San
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Francisco I've tested these hairs for
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all the major groups of mammals that
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have large specimens like you know deer
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bear and so forth and it only reacts
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with the primates and of the primates it
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only reacts with homono and there are
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only five homono human chimpanzee
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gorilla orangutang and Gibbon and I've
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eliminated all of those except human and
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chimpanzee so it's some large animal
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closely related to human and
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chimpanzee using four eyewitness
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accounts a scientific illustrator drew a
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picture of what Bigfoot might look
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like is it possible that the Sho her
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humanlike creature might actually exist
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until concrete evidence appears Bigfoot
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will remain a creature of Mystery
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next a police officer search for answers
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in the murder of his 7-year-old
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[Music]
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son Atlantic City New
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Jersey morning
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gar it was a midweek holiday for
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7-year-old Gary Grant junor Gary lived
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with his mother may she and Gary's
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father an Atlantic City police detective
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had been separated for about a year and
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after breakfast are you going to go out
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and play with your
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friends no Mom not tonight why not I was
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asking him with who and he said it was a
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secret so I thought you know it's silly
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you know he's a little boy something to
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do maybe with his little girlfriend
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around the corner or something so I kind
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of left it at that she wanted to go out
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and play so he got dressed and he went
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out to
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play Gary went out about noon he said he
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would be back by 400 p.m. before it got
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dark it got to be 4:30 and he still
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hadn't showed up for dinner and he liked
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his dinner he never missed so I started
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getting worried and I went down to where
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two girls that were friends of his and
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um asked them if they had seen Gary do
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you want to come in no I'm just looking
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for Gary well he was here in the
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afternoon but he left around 4:30 to go
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home oh okay well if you see him will
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you please tell Gary to come home thanks
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bye bye another 2 hours passed with no
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sign of Gary May telephoned her husband
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I searched until well after midnight
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probably around 1 2:00 in the morning I
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walked around as as a matter of fact I
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called out from work that night I was
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due to go into work at midnight and uh I
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I called my sergeant and advised him
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that I wouldn't be coming
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in by the next morning the Atlantic City
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Police Department had started an allout
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search regulations prevented detective
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Grant from taking part in the official
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investigation but as a father he could
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not stand by and do
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nothing I started searching every
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possible place I could think of I
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started searching abandoned houses uh I
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started searching underneath the
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boardwalk I started searching arcades
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and questioning people who were working
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in the arcades Gary Grant have you seen
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this Bo been missing take a good look
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please by Friday night it started
00:28:12
getting dark again and still no signs or
00:28:15
no word of Gary I started then looking
00:28:18
in Alleyways and trash cans and
00:28:22
dumpsters the streets can be pretty mean
00:28:24
now you know for an adult let alone for
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a seven-year-old child and by that time
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I I was fearing the
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worst the next afternoon the body of
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Gary Grant Jr was found in a vacant lot
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less than two blocks from his
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home he had been beaten to
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death a short length of heavy pipe lay
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nearby
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I didn't want to believe that it was
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him I want to see my
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son being a father you don't want to
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believe that you're that your kid is
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lying back there somewhere you know and
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he's never going to get up
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again when they told me that Gary was
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dead I just went totally num my whole
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body I didn't want to believe
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it I just can't imagine why would
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someone would do that to a 7-year-old
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boy any seven-year-old
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Boy Hey kid the investigation began like
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all others detectives chasing the
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victim's Final hours and talking to
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those who knew him best do you know Gary
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Grant sure he lived around here over in
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Arctic when was the last time you saw
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him uh a couple days ago who was he with
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he was with boo would that be buo
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Mason Carl Mason nicknamed Buu was a
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mentally challenged 12-year-old with an
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IQ of 65 he was smaller in height and
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weight than Gary even though he was 5
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years older the two boys were good
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friends and often played together we're
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with the Atlantic City Police Department
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we need to ask you a few questions did
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you know this Gary Grant kid sure I knew
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Gary when did you last see him uh
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Wednesday you sure you didn't see him on
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Thursday yeah we were supposed to meet
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on Thursday but Gary never showed up boo
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said he hadn't been with Gary but uh
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detectives canvasing the neighborhood
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kept coming back with stories that he
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had in fact been with Gary so they
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didn't know what to do there was this
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conflict uh boo seemed like such a
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harmless character he was um known as a
00:30:47
scaredy-cat in the neighborhood but they
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just couldn't reconcile the conflict no
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I seen him the day before and that was
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it and then it is
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said okay and they asked me some other
00:31:00
questions but I remember then later on
00:31:02
that night they came back and they took
00:31:06
me that night Buu was driven to Police
00:31:09
Headquarters with his
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grandmother he was then taken into a
00:31:14
room for questioning his grandmother did
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not go in with him look just tell us the
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truth and we can all go
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home what happened when you and Gary
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left the school gym we went to the park
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over on Texas but that was on
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Wednesday what did you do at the park I
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didn't see Gary on Thursday he didn't
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show up in questioning boo his stories
00:31:39
were inconsistent and the detectives
00:31:42
wrestled around with it until finally
00:31:44
around 3:00 one version of the story he
00:31:48
acknowledged being with the victim at
00:31:50
the crime scene and that he in fact hit
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him with the
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pipe I hit
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but he threw rock at me and what did you
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do after you hit him well once he fell
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and he didn't get up so I just
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left he was telling police what they
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felt were details that only the killer
00:32:14
could have known and that got everything
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into high gear because they realized
00:32:19
that boo was now the
00:32:21
suspect everybody knew what happened to
00:32:24
him they found the body then like that
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day they were like they found weapon me
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those all different stories what happen
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to him I guess you might as say bringing
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your grandom in will just be another
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minute after three long hours police
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believe they had a confession what we
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did is had your confession typed up we
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need you to read it and sign it with you
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boo signed a document but insisted he
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had not murdered his friend have you
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told us the truth now yes but I didn't
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do it Bo Mason was charged with murder
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and sent to a juvenile detention
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center I did not have anything to do
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with his murder the one cop said if you
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admit that you did it we'll let you go
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home so me at the age of 12 I was so
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tired I said if you say so but I didn't
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and then next thing I know I winded up
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in a
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home do you live in Atlantic City yes
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buo was given two polygraph tests did
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you hurt Gary Grant no in both the first
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and second lie detector tests it was
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determined that Buu had answered
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truthfully when he said that he did not
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kill Gary Grant you now told the entire
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truth about Gary Grant's murder yes I
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feel that he very easily could have been
00:33:44
intimidated by the person who did it or
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who was there when it was done could
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have told him that hey if you say
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anything to anybody you're
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next I have completed three and a half
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days of testimony with Ed the adiss a
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hearing was held to determine whether
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Buu's confession was admissible in
00:34:03
court and this court cannot find Beyond
00:34:06
a reasonable doubt that any of the
00:34:08
statements made by the juvenile were
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voluntary statements the charges against
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bu Mason were dropped the police never
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found another suspect but 2 years later
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it became obvious that someone had not
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forgotten Gary Grant
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Jr early one morning
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a chilling message was found on the side
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of an Atlantic City patrol
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car Gary Grant dead I am living another
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will die on January 12th if all goes
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right January 12th was the second
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anniversary of Gary Grant Jr's
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murder from what I observed on the car
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it appeared to me that it was written on
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there by an adult however as far as uh
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ever finding out who did that we've
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never found that
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out January 12th came and went without
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incident but a few weeks later another
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message was scratched on a
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sidewalk Gary Grant Jr lives I still
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killed him son of a pig officer payback
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is a
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MF this second message caused some to
00:35:21
believe that Gary's murder was revenge
00:35:23
for an arrest that his father
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made well that thought has gone through
00:35:28
my mind a thousand million times but
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there's not one thing that stands out
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that I could think of cuz I've never had
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anybody look at me in the face and say
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to me I'm going to get even with you for
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this no further messages were received
00:35:43
but whoever wrote them is still out
00:35:46
there somebody knows something there's
00:35:48
no doubt in my mind it's it's just not
00:35:51
possible that something like that could
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happen without somebody seeing or
00:35:54
hearing something or somebody saying
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something to somebody about it I would
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like to see the person or
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persons who are out there and they know
00:36:05
who they are to come forward so I could
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have a little peace too in my mind in my
00:36:13
heart if you have any information about
00:36:16
the murder of Gary Grant Jr please log
00:36:19
on to our website at unsolved.com
00:36:28
coming up a slippery con artist who
00:36:30
steals the hearts of his victims vendor
00:36:33
cash and
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jewelry Palm Beach
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Florida the robbery takes place in broad
00:36:51
daylight the thief has a key to the
00:36:54
house he is selective and seems to know
00:36:57
what he
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wants no fingerprints are left behind it
00:37:02
is obviously an inside
00:37:05
job at the door the thief leaves a note
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for his
00:37:10
victim he signs it
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l many of Florida's retirees are widows
00:37:19
or divorcees they can be easy targets
00:37:22
for a sleazy kind of con man who prays
00:37:25
on their emotions and then takes off
00:37:28
with their
00:37:30
cash okay we're going to speed it up for
00:37:32
you with a little Shuffle let's all get
00:37:34
up and
00:37:39
dance it was a Friday night in West Palm
00:37:42
Beach a widow who will'll call Mrs Kay
00:37:46
went to a singles dance at St Mary's
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Church a good-looking man named Arthur
00:37:51
Frankford asked her to dance she was
00:37:55
flattered my name is Art Frankford
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hello and yours Emily nice to meet you
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em when I first saw him sitting up
00:38:03
against the wall I thought he was too
00:38:04
old you know it is a singles dance and
00:38:07
you do look them over after he'd asked
00:38:09
me to dance I realized he wasn't as old
00:38:11
as I thought he first
00:38:13
appeared that night Mrs Kay and Arthur
00:38:16
danced every dance from the day that I
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met him till the time that he left never
00:38:22
once was I suspicious of any move that
00:38:23
he made as far as to question his
00:38:26
character who he was that he was a liar
00:38:29
and a
00:38:34
thief Frankfurt told Mrs K that he was a
00:38:37
geologist and had recently retired from
00:38:40
a government job he also said he owned a
00:38:43
house and several other rental
00:38:45
properties in nearby towns and lived off
00:38:49
the income in addition to his retirement
00:38:52
pay so one night he come home and he
00:38:55
said that instead of running another
00:38:57
place for himself he thought it would be
00:38:58
better if he lived here once he moved in
00:39:00
it was great I would come home from work
00:39:02
he'd have my dinner ready he would do
00:39:04
the grocery shopping he would make
00:39:06
dinner he would clean the house vacuum
00:39:08
the house there was no reason to have
00:39:10
anticipated what he did I'm getting very
00:39:13
excited about Mrs K and Frankford
00:39:16
settled into a comfortable
00:39:18
routine oh Emily it certainly will we
00:39:21
started to play Jin and during the
00:39:23
course of the Gin game he stopped what
00:39:25
he was doing you really love
00:39:29
me yes I
00:39:30
do very much I guess that means I can
00:39:34
get away with anything at that time I
00:39:36
thought he meant the Gin game because he
00:39:38
would like to try to cheat he had to
00:39:41
win one day Mrs K came home and found
00:39:44
the bed she shared with Arthur
00:39:48
unmade my bed's always made either art
00:39:51
made it or I made it whoever was last up
00:39:54
even then it did not appear out of the
00:39:56
ordinary to me until the time that I
00:39:58
walked into my closet to change my
00:40:00
clothes and discovered all the clothes
00:40:01
from the closet
00:40:04
missing and then I realized that he had
00:40:09
left Mrs K was
00:40:13
heartbroken on the hall table she found
00:40:16
a
00:40:17
note it said sorry things too possessive
00:40:21
L which was their word for
00:40:25
love then Mrs Kay remembered giving him
00:40:29
the combination to her
00:40:32
safe I didn't realize until the time
00:40:35
that I read the note and went back and
00:40:36
opened the safe and then I discovered
00:40:39
that I was
00:40:40
robbed
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$4500 worth of jewelry was gone so were
00:40:46
her late husband's wedding ring handgun
00:40:49
work ID card and driver's license
00:40:51
renewal form took a lot of courage to
00:40:54
call the
00:40:55
police I didn't want want to say it out
00:40:58
loud to myself that art was who he
00:41:03
was
00:41:05
update within minutes of our broadcast
00:41:08
two viewers called to report that they
00:41:10
recognized Arthur
00:41:12
Frankfurt the individual said I know
00:41:14
where Arthur Frankfurt is I'm his ex-
00:41:17
brother-in-law we received another call
00:41:20
about 20 minutes later from a white
00:41:22
female says Arthur Frankford lives next
00:41:24
door to me in Whitley Kentucky this was
00:41:27
the confirmation call that I was looking
00:41:30
for at that time uh I knew we had our
00:41:33
Man 2 hours later Frankfurt was arrested
00:41:36
in his home in Kentucky he was living
00:41:39
under the assumed name James Ferguson
00:41:42
with his new wife of 2 months during his
00:41:45
search of frankfurt's house police found
00:41:48
several identification and credit cards
00:41:50
with different names they also found a
00:41:53
handgun that may have been stolen from
00:41:55
Mrs K's home police learn that
00:41:58
frankfurt's real name is Harry Fielding
00:42:01
Donaldson he was tried and found guilty
00:42:04
of fraud he served 2 years in a Florida
00:42:07
prison and was released he died 6 months
00:42:11
later
