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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a man struck by lightning is
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on the brink of death until a mysterious
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lady in Black appears out of
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nowhere he said he was a film producer
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but he was really a fast talking Hustler
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wanted for sexual
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assault a pilot flying a covert mission
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for the CIA disa PE in Latin America was
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he part of a secret war against
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Cuba and a smalltime businessman is
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murdered in his own office it looks like
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a professional hit but who is behind
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it five stories they're all strange but
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you know what they're all true I'm
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Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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every year 39 million visitors pour into
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Las Vegas the gambling capital of the
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world most come for one reason only
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money so it's no surprise that Las Vegas
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also attracts every kind of Hustler and
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con artist
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imaginable yes well I talked to two of
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the guys yesterday they seem to be uh
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excited about this Maxwell Carson was a
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smooth talker who owned and operated a
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sports betting business an upand
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cominging film company and a modeling
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agency but Max Carson was a man with a
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dark past he was an ex police officer
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gone
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bad his real name was William John Wood
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in
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1972 he resigned from the Toledo Ohio
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police force he was under investigation
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for
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misconduct wood sered time for a number
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of offenses including assault with
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intent to
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rape okay when he was released from
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prison wood moved to Las Vegas and
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created a new identity producer and star
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maker Max
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Carson Max was absolutely obsessed with
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good-look women okay he would especially
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with actresses models any good-look
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women use his clout as quote unquote a
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movie producer to be uh could get them
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whatever they
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wanted Tiffany yes hi Mr Carson will see
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now when Carson held auditions for a
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film he was producing a 19-year-old
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model who we'll call Tiffany showed up
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for an interview Hi how are you great
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thank you have a have a
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seat you're I'm Tiffany Tiffany yes I
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have to I went in I talked to him he
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told me a little bit about what the
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movie was about and uh what I would be
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doing I think there a ro there for you
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of course the speaking part that'd be
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wonderful he had started talking about
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money and I felt strange that he would
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offer a large amount of money to someone
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in my position that's never really had
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any acting before so I talked to a
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couple agents and they had all heard of
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him they had done their homework on him
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and found that there was nothing wrong
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with him Super Why were you got your
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address and phone number and how to get
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in touch with you and I appreciate you
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coming in thank you thank you very nice
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short time later the movie fell through
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and Carson's business began to
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collapse we have employees that haven't
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been PID now Bob just relax have fa
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Carson shut down his offices but he
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pretended that he was still in business
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hello like to speak to Tiffany 3 months
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after her interview he called Tiffany
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and hired her as a last minute
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replacement model for a photo
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shoot Carson arranged to meet her later
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that day at a restaurant on the Strip
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man oh hi we're all set up we get uh two
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rooms set up I've met him in front of
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the coffee shop and he said that we
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needed to go to a motel there where they
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had set up a dressing room for me here's
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the lemine we're going to be using and
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uh oh I want to thank you very much for
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coming here on a short notice this uh
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shoot should be probably about 2 hours
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you be done and those dresss are just
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fine I started to um feel a little UNC
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comfortable just because there was no
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one around Tiffany why don't you just go
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over there and fill out those forms and
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I'll make a call I left the door open
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with my bag sitting in between the room
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and the door so that it would make it a
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little bit difficult to get the door
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shut uh this is Max Carson listen I'm
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expecting somebody in very shortly and
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uh supposedly he was calling the makeup
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artist and uh the photographer to let
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them know that we're here and waiting
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yes okay well I appreciate that thank
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thank you very much and about that time
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he had asked me if I would give him a
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hug and I knew that I was in trouble um
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max I don't feel very comfortable okay
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um I'm going what do you mean you don't
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feel very comfortable let just forget
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about the whole thing
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next you're not going
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anywhere don't make a sound do what I
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say and I won't hurt
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you I thought at that point that I was
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going to
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die I tried very hard to cooperate
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hoping that that would keep him from
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becoming more
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violent after the assault Carson let
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Tiffany go she immediately called the
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police even though he had threatened to
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accuse her of prostitution if she did
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Carson was charged with kidnapping
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sexual assault and battery but by then
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he had
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disappeared 2 months later Carson
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surfaced in Coco Beach
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Florida once again he tried to work a
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scan on a beautiful woman hi I hope I
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didn't keep you waiting no I just got
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here well I've been here before why
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don't you uh we go upstairs in the
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lounge um how about downstairs I just
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Carson and the woman had arranged to
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meet in a Lobby of a hotel but he wanted
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to continue their conversation in a
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private room upstairs Carson had
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convinced the woman to accept money for
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sex get
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upstairs Beach police you're under
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arrest
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solicitation Max Carson had walked into
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a clever trap the woman was wearing a
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hidden microphone as part of a sting
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operation he pleaded guilty to
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solicitation of a prostitution but
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police in Florida had no idea that he
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was wanted in Las Vegas 2 Days Later
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Carson was released from jail and
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disappeared once
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again only then did police discover his
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true
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identity
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update William John Wood has been
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captured one of our viewers phoned the
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FBI after recognizing wood as San
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Francisco resident Brian oy he was
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returned to Las Vegas to stand trial and
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was sentenced to 6 years for coercion
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and 20 years for attempted sexual
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assault he served his time and has been
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released next a plane vanishes while on
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a secret mission one eyewitness claims
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that he saw the pilot in a Cuban jail
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on an early autumn day in the middle of
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the Cold War 28-year-old Jeffrey
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Sullivan a former Air Force pilot
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prepared to depart on a secret
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mission the way my mom relates it my
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father was supposed to come back in 5
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days give you a call as soon as I get a
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chance to I don't know if he was nervous
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but he gave her his St Christoper medal
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which he wore all the
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time he explained to her that this would
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be his last trip not because he wasn't
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coming back but because he didn't want
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to be involved in this type of operation
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anymore he took off that morning and
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that was the last time she ever saw
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him he never came
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back 4 days later Jeffrey disappeared
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Somewhere over the
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Caribbean Sherry Sullivan was only 7
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years old when she lost her father years
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later she became a private investigator
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and one of her toughest cases was
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uncovering the truth about her father's
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disappearance no one wanted to say he
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wasn't coming back as it rolled into the
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years it was a kind of thing that just
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wasn't talked about I mean no one knew
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what to say none of us were ever allowed
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to go through a grieving process because
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as far as we were concerned he wasn't
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dead Jeffrey Sullivan earned his Air
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Force Wings in
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1957 after receiving his honorable
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discharge in 1959
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became a freelance commercial
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pilot at about that time Fidel Castro's
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Revolution swept through Cuba the
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Communist threat was now only 90 mi from
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American
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Shores once cro took power the US
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government and several Cuban Exile
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groups launched campaigns to overthrow
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his regime it was the shadowy world of
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these covert operations that may have
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cost Jeffrey Sullivan his
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life Jeffrey Alex in
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1961 a suspected CIA operative named
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Alex R hired Jeffrey as a pilot for
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sacred missions against Cuba their
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covert actions range from Distributing
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anti-castro leaflets to dropping Boom
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boms at the Bay of Pigs that same year
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us backed Cuban Exiles failed in their
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attempt to invade the island and
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overthrow Castro 18 months later Soviet
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missiles were discovered in Cuba for 7
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Days the world was on the brink of
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nuclear
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war after the Missile Crisis operations
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against Cuba were still carried on by
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the US government but uh they were
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trying to be more discreet about it they
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did shed some of the more Loose Cannon
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operations and I think Al rocks could
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have been classified as such there was a
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public order uh to men like uh Alexander
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roor and Jeffrey Sullivan to stop their
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operations against Cuba
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altoe 8 days after the warning was
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issued Jeffrey left Connecticut the next
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day he was seen in Fort Lauderdale
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Florida with Alex R there Jeffrey and RK
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met with two two men one of them was
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Frank Sturgis who had also been named in
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the public warning years later Sturgis
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would become well known for his role in
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the Water Gate scandal BR told me he did
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buy a B25 bomber and he wanted to take
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the
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B25 to Nicaragua he wanted to sit down
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and talk with General Samosa in order
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to have a base of operations in
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Nicaragua for bombing missions inside of
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Sturgis convinced Ro to meet with
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Nicaraguan officials and clear the way
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the men rented an airplane and plan to
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leave for Nicaragua the following
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day that morning R's wife drove him to
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the opalak airport in Fort bdale on the
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way he picked up another man Mrs Rog
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didn't know who this gentleman was he
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spoke broken English but she drove the
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both of them to the airport where my
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father was and dropped them
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off the twin engine plane took off from
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Fort Lauderdale with Jeffrey Alex rook
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and the mysterious stranger Frank
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Sturgis stayed
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behind Jeffrey Sullivan's activities
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over the next 48 hours still cannot be
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fully explained according to the FAA
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investigation jeffy's flight activities
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were highly unusual
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he would return to Fort Lauderdale three
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times for some reason on his third trip
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to the airport the plane's landing gear
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remained in the appear to be upep to the
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right and go
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round Sullivan did not attempt to land
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at Fort Lauderdale
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again Sullivan did finally land at North
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Perry Airport a mere 30 m from Fort
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Lauderdale but he took a suspiciously
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long time getting there what should have
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been a 25-minute flight had taken nearly
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5 hours no one knows where the plane was
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during that time after refueling Jeffrey
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and his passengers took off again the
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flight plan listed to gooy Gala Honduras
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as their final
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destination a little more than 2 hours
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later Sullivan radioed the tower at
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Miami International Airport this time he
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filed a new flight plan this time he
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listed tuman Panama as his
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destination Sullivan attempted to file a
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flight plan for a destination that was
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some 2 hours beyond the normal range of
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his aircraft when he was informed of
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this by the air traffic controller on
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duty he then changed his destination
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however this destination was also well
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beyond the range of the aircraft he was
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flying
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s more hours passed with no contact from
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the plane finally at 10:22 p.m. Sullivan
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again radioed the Miami
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Tower this time he filed a flight plan
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for
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B the FAA says that Sullivan refueled
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just after midnight in Kel Mexico this
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was the last sighting of the
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plane Jeffrey Sullivan and his
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companions were assumed lost at
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sea despite a massive search no trace of
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the plane or its passengers was ever
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found more than two decades later Sher
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Sullivan and her attorney petitioned the
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government for information concerning
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her father they received over 5,000
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pages of documentation from 14 federal
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agencies including the FBI and
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CIA more than a third of the 800 Pages
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received from the FBI were censored
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according to Sherry information found in
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these documents indicates that at least
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400 more pages exist but were withheld
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for national security reasons it was
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almost really the confirmation we were
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looking for in a way saying there is
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something here in the FBI documents Sher
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found the name Floyd Park she finally
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reached him by phone Park told Sherry
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that he had seen her father 2 days after
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he supposedly
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disappeared Floyd Park indicated that he
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had seen my father and Alex and a
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Spanish fella in
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Biz we have not been able to verify the
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identity of Floyd Park who he is really
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and what he was involved in in the 60s
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how my father would have known him why
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they would have stopped to see him we
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weren't really able to get those answers
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from him Sher only talked to park once
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and has not been able to reach him since
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but Park did say that her father and Ro
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might have been taken prisoner in Cuba
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Fidel Castro from what I've heard had a
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bounty out on my father and Alex he knew
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what they were involved in he knew they
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were going in out of his country so this
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a very good possibility that they could
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have ended up in Cuba probably some way
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they they landed in Cuba during her
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investigation Sherry spoke with Marty
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Casey who was in Cuba 2 years after her
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father
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disappeared I was with two Cuban Exiles
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from Miami and they met a fellow that
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they knew from the area he was working
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in the compound he recognized my
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American accent I was speaking Spanish
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and he asked me you know rori and I said
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what do you mean
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o no Ry the pilot no
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no no the other guy was the pilot is
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Sullivan and I said well how do you know
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them and they he said uh I was in jail
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here with him two years
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ago another name Sherry found in the FBI
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documents was Enrique Molino Garcia
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supposedly a double agent for Castro's
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government Sherry believes Garcia was
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the mysterious third man on the plane
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and that he tricked her father and roor
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into flying to Cuba unconfirmed reports
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have placed Garcia in Havana years after
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sher's father
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disappeared today Sherry believes that
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her father was most likely jailed in
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Cuba and either died there or was
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executed on the 40th anniversary of
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Jeffrey Sullivan's disappearance a
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commemorative grave marker was unveiled
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in the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in
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Augusta Maine the veterans
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Administration is the first and only
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government agency to officially
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recognize Jeffrey Sullivan as missing in
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action Sher Sullivan has not given up
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hope that she will someday discover her
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father's
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fate coming up lightning leaves a man
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close to death who was the mysterious
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stranger claiming that she had the power
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to heal
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Acton
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Indiana Robert Davidson is riding his
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motorcycle down Interstate 74 enjoying a
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warm June day and then it starts to
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rain when you're driving 60 65 mph on a
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motorcycle when raindrops hit you it's
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really pretty stingy it
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hurts and I thought better pull over and
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get my rain jacket out of the trunk had
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one foot on the ground and that's the
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last thing I can
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remember it was a direct hit 200,000
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volts of electricity Robert should have
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died right there on the spot but today
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he is very much alive thanks to what he
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believes
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was a miracle delivered personally by a
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messenger of
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God paramedics were on the scene within
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minutes of the lightning
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strike clinically he should have been
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dead by the color of his skin and when
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we arrived there was no blood pressure
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no
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pulse basically he had no chance at all
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I'm going to need a chopper in here
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right away this guy's in bad shape
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according to Witnesses what happened
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next seemed almost Supernatural first
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every Power circuit in the ambulance
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failed at
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once and the engine shut down the lights
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turned off and it was without power
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completely we got dual batteries One
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battery would go down the other one take
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over and uh there's no way they could
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have both gone down at the same time it
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was an eerie feeling I mean you could
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just it felt strange and as they were
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doing the CPR you heard this woman
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coming up yelling I need to touch him I
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need to touch him just let me touch him
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I must touch him nobody knew her name or
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where she came from later she was
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referred to as the lady in black she
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just kept again and again and again you
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know I can save his life and of course
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you know at that point in time I kind of
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thought well maybe this is just uh one
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of the people so to speak left over from
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the 70s you
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know but I said you know let her do what
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she needs to do you know what can it
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hurt the Lord is my shepherd I shall not
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want he maketh me to lie down in Green
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Pastures he leadth me beside the Still
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Waters he Le me she was dressed in the
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late 1800 dress your basic black dress
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and she had the oldfashioned black shoes
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that went with it and carried her little
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black Bible then uh she raised Bible to
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the sky and started speaking in tongue
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uh which um was something I didn't
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understand stand but I'm sure somebody
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out there
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did you could just feel all the time
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that she was saying it's just chills
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from head to toe it was like just this
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tremendous amount of
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[Applause]
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energy when she was finished she looked
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at me smiled and got up and walked
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away probably 5 Seconds had passed by
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and I turned to look the direction where
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she had left and there was nobody to be
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found but reports from that day seemed
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to contradict each other some
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eyewitnesses including two of the
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paramedics insist that the mysterious
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woman was never there I don't know why
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they couldn't see her really because it
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was plain as day to me it was plain as
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day to Randy you know why couldn't
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anyone else see her or hear her there is
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no doubt in my mind but she was there I
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believe there was a power that actually
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shut the vehicle down a surge which just
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obliterated the vehicle's power supply
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and shut it down when this woman walked
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by but according to those who saw the
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lady in Black the moment she vanished
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the ambulance came back to life and then
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I've got it I've got a pulse so did
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Robert
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Davidson it was a welcome to hear that
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first
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heartbeat and I yelled again I think
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everybody could have heard me down the
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interstate cuz I was so happy that we
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was getting some Vital
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Signs Robert had a heartbeat but his
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condition was critical the ER doctor was
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not
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hopeful my prognosis was that he would
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not come out of his coma and I expected
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him to remain in permanent coma and
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ultimately uh suffer complications and
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ultimately
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die for nearly 2 months Robert remained
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in a deep coma and then one day he
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simply woke up and resumed his life when
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I came out of the coma I looked around
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and I couldn't figure out what I was
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doing in the hospital when it became
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apparent that uh he indeed woke up and
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uh not only woke up but was talking and
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walking uh it uh I was utterly
00:24:50
amazed Robert incredible recovery LED
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some to speculate that the woman in
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black was Far More Than Just a person
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who happened by they believe that she
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was a spirit that rose up from the
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area's religious
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past just down the road from where
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Robert was struck by lightning lies this
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quiet Meadow it's the site of a 19th
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century spiritual Retreat known as aen
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Campground more than a 100 years ago
00:25:21
this spot was the sight of fiery sermons
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gospel hymns and the sound of faithful
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speaking in tongues
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most of Acton Campground burned down in
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1905 but a few artifacts can still be
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found at a local Museum one of the
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relics on display is a vintage dress it
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is very similar to the one worn by the
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lady in
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Black this woman maybe had been a pastor
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Reverend or a priestess in her life
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prior and when she passed on she was
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brought into I guess a guardian an
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angel
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form I know I witnessed a
00:26:03
miracle there's just no other words to
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say it it was a
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miracle some might argue that Robert's
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life was saved by quick acting
00:26:15
paramedics and nothing more but others
00:26:19
believe that the lightning bolt awakened
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the spirits of acting Campground and
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that one of them came to his rescue
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I've always kind of believed that
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everybody has a guardian angel but most
00:26:33
people never get to see him or have him
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really do anything for
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him I think my angel was doing her job
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that
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day next the police broke an execution
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style murder of a welllike
00:26:51
businessman was he living a double life
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ipsilanti Michigan a suburb of Detroit
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on a winter morning two men enter the
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real estate office of Jack Brown as one
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stands guard the other heads towards
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Jack's office yeah yeah we have trouble
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here the men appear to be familiar with
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a layout of the building I think you're
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pretty smart don't you well
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maybe
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Mo
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in
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come in close the
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door The Intruders lock the three
00:27:41
employees in the bathroom and then walk
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away Jack Brown never regains
00:27:46
Consciousness and dies 12 hours later
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from a single bullet wound to the
00:27:53
neck the murder of Jack Brown appeared
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to be a coldblooded contractor
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planned and executed by professionals
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but police had no motive who would order
00:28:04
a hit on a small town realtor and
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Why Annie hi how you Jack's real estate
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brokering business put him in contact
00:28:14
with many members of the community no
00:28:16
one could imagine why he would be
00:28:19
targeted by a killer that's just to find
00:28:21
you classic Victoria there was
00:28:24
absolutely nothing in Jack's background
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that I was aware of that that would
00:28:28
warrant uh any kind of problem
00:28:30
whatsoever uh and surely not the the
00:28:34
tragedy that happened
00:28:35
here my opinion of the gunman is that
00:28:39
they came here to challenge Jack in some
00:28:43
way we got trouble here I heard the
00:28:45
gunman say you think you're smart don't
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you and I heard Jack say kind of a
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halting voice well well maybe at that
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point the gun went off
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and I guess I really figured that we had
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bought the farm that they were then
00:29:04
going to get rid of three eye witnesses
00:29:07
to a murder but I guess looking back on
00:29:10
it it would seem to me to be a case
00:29:12
where whatever problem they had was with
00:29:14
Jack and not uh the rest of us that
00:29:17
happened to be in the office that
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faithful morning no one seems to know
00:29:22
anything uh Shady about Jack or anything
00:29:25
that he might have been involved in that
00:29:27
could be termed Shady which leads us to
00:29:30
believe that maybe he was living a
00:29:32
double life was involved in something
00:29:34
that no one knew
00:29:38
about the night before Jack was killed
00:29:41
his brother saw him on the telephone
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where Jack he's back on the phone back
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the conversation seemed to leave him
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extremely
00:29:50
agitated I could tell you know by the
00:29:52
conversation that he was getting upset
00:29:55
so he finally you know hung the phone up
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I uh ask him if there's a problem oh uh
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H that's that's nothing I just got a few
00:30:05
problems I got to work out you guys have
00:30:07
a good time at the poker game I'll see
00:30:08
you tomorrow
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okay okay I honestly feel you know in my
00:30:13
own heart that something about that
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phone call was involved with what
00:30:18
happened the following day it's really
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strange when someone is murdered or
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taken from you suddenly like this that
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you look back and you search your mind
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you search
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everywhere for Clues and you remember
00:30:31
things that someone said that didn't
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fit it was a fun party wasn't it yeah I
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really like that Jack and I had been to
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a Christmas party and I was just a
00:30:41
little irritated with him cuz he' had a
00:30:43
bit much to drink and he was kind of
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rambling what would you do if you knew
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some very important people some very
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powerful people did something very
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wrong would you write their names
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in a list and and put it in a safe
00:31:01
deposit box what are you talking
00:31:04
about probably safe for you not to
00:31:07
know you know when I talk to you and
00:31:10
tell you these things that my husband
00:31:12
said to me I I'm almost embarrassed it
00:31:15
just sounds so unreal but he told me
00:31:18
that it was not something I should know
00:31:21
and it may sound silly but I believed
00:31:24
him after I recovered from the initial
00:31:28
shock of his death then these little
00:31:30
comments that he dropped in conversation
00:31:32
started coming back to me and I searched
00:31:35
for that safety deposit key it was
00:31:38
nowhere in my
00:31:40
house I want to know who those powerful
00:31:42
people were I want to know what their
00:31:44
names are I want The Killers the people
00:31:47
that actually did it but I want to know
00:31:48
the people that hired
00:31:50
them the same day that Jack was murdered
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the police conducted a major drug bust
00:31:55
in the area The Raid had been triggered
00:31:58
by an unknown informant some wondered if
00:32:02
there might be a connection to check I
00:32:05
think it's very possible there are
00:32:07
people in the community that know more
00:32:10
about what happened for some reason
00:32:13
either they're afraid to say or maybe if
00:32:15
he knew something about someone else
00:32:18
that person's obviously not going to
00:32:20
tell us what they
00:32:22
know it really seems unfair because Jack
00:32:26
didn't deserve to die
00:32:28
you know I've thought in my mind that
00:32:30
maybe I didn't want to know that if he
00:32:32
did something bad I don't want to know
00:32:34
about him but it's not
00:32:37
true I can think of anything he could
00:32:40
have done that would give those people
00:32:42
the right to come in and take his life
00:32:45
pretty smart don't
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you the gunman was approximately 6 ft
00:32:50
tall and wore a biged jacket and light
00:32:53
colored pants he was armed with a 38
00:32:56
caliber revolver his accomplice was
00:32:59
about 5' 10 in tall and was wearing
00:33:01
coveralls in a blue knit stocking cap he
00:33:04
was armed with an automatic
00:33:07
handgun if you have any information
00:33:09
about this case please log on to our
00:33:12
website at
00:33:13
uno.com
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next a convicted conwoman jumps bail but
00:33:21
is she really a
00:33:23
woman and a Jordanian serviceman called
00:33:27
away to war searches for the son he was
00:33:30
forbidden to
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see previously we profiled the case of
00:33:42
Geraldine Elizabeth carmichel a Los
00:33:45
Angeles businesswoman who claimed that
00:33:48
she was going to revolutionize the Auto
00:33:51
industry carmichel told investors that
00:33:54
she had designed a car that could get up
00:33:56
to 70 m per gallon she called it the
00:34:00
Dale and promised it would soon be in
00:34:03
production Carmichael collected over $1
00:34:06
million from
00:34:08
investors we went to the research and
00:34:10
development lab and observed what
00:34:11
appeared to be people appearing to be
00:34:13
busy but upon inspection of this vehicle
00:34:16
it was not a riable vehicle at all had
00:34:19
no engine 2x4s were holding up the rear
00:34:22
wheel the accelerator was just sitting
00:34:24
on the floor it wasn't even attached
00:34:27
and the vehicle just absolutely did not
00:34:30
exist this
00:34:32
Carmichael police
00:34:34
officers we have a warrant when police
00:34:36
arrived at Carmichael's home she and her
00:34:39
family had
00:34:41
fled authorities tracked her to Miami
00:34:44
where she was living under the Alias
00:34:46
Susan Reigns but Elizabeth carmichel was
00:34:49
hiding a much bigger secret she was
00:34:53
really a man Jerry Dean Michael
00:34:58
I never thought that Liz was a man I
00:35:00
always thought that and she is today she
00:35:03
still Liz to me still a
00:35:06
female has the jury reached its verdict
00:35:10
yes we have your honor we find a
00:35:12
defendant
00:35:14
guilty Jerry Dean Michael was convicted
00:35:17
on 34 counts of conspiracy grand theft
00:35:20
and fraud he was released on $50,000
00:35:23
bail and appeal's conviction for the
00:35:26
next 3 years
00:35:28
then when he didn't show up for
00:35:30
sentencing police found that he and his
00:35:32
family had disappeared once
00:35:37
again
00:35:39
update after the story aired two viewers
00:35:42
called to report that Jerry te Michael
00:35:45
was living near Austin Texas under the
00:35:48
assumed name Catherine Johnson he had
00:35:51
made his home in the small community of
00:35:55
Dale Texas
00:35:57
uh while I was booking him I had to
00:35:59
determine which portion of the jail to
00:36:02
put him in so I asked him directly just
00:36:05
how far along he had came in his sex
00:36:07
change and uh he told me it about
00:36:11
halfway which was not quite sufficient
00:36:13
to put him in with the females I put him
00:36:15
in with the
00:36:17
males Michael was returned to Los
00:36:19
Angeles in order to serve his original
00:36:21
sense after 2 years in a Men's prison he
00:36:25
was released
00:36:30
today the legacy of Elizabeth carmichel
00:36:33
also known as Mr Jerry Dean Michael and
00:36:36
his or her futuristic car has not been
00:36:40
forgotten an original prototype of the
00:36:42
Dale is now part of the permanent
00:36:45
collection of the Peterson car museum in
00:36:48
Los
00:36:52
Angeles in
00:36:54
1967 fousy Mahmud was a member of the
00:36:57
Jordanian Air Force who had been sent to
00:37:00
the United States for pilot training
00:37:03
bousy how are you doing do you remember
00:37:06
Barbara hi and zoa hi hello when a
00:37:10
friend introduced him to 20-year-old zoa
00:37:13
Malino FY was swept off his feet what I
00:37:18
mean she looked so beautiful to me and
00:37:21
uh she got this green dress and just she
00:37:24
was a knock out and I was knocked out
00:37:28
I fell in love with her I mean I feel
00:37:30
madly in love with her this is beautiful
00:37:34
it is pretty zoa was not only the first
00:37:37
love it was the first woman I ever
00:37:38
talked to in my life because we came
00:37:40
from a very very strict family and
00:37:43
strict people and a strict government
00:37:44
you know she was uh my first everything
00:37:48
oh Mom he's waiting he's zoa's parents
00:37:51
did not like the idea of their daughter
00:37:53
dating anyone the fact that fousy was a
00:37:56
foreigner who spoke little English did
00:37:59
not help he's a nice boy she from well
00:38:02
what does it matter and I gu you out
00:38:05
even though her parents were
00:38:07
conservative and strict we managed to go
00:38:10
out almost
00:38:11
daily we were dancing we went to the
00:38:13
lake we went to the mountains we went
00:38:15
everywhere together 6 months later zoa
00:38:19
surprised fousy with some unexpected
00:38:23
news bousy I think I'm
00:38:26
pregnant good to zoa's relief FY was
00:38:30
thrilled you are
00:38:32
yes I want to marry
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you but the marriage never took place
00:38:46
several months earlier War had broken
00:38:48
out between Jordan and Israel tension
00:38:51
between the two countries remained high
00:38:53
and FY was ordered
00:38:56
home I'm come back I
00:38:59
promise we talked and we promised and we
00:39:02
vowed that we would always be together
00:39:04
no matter what
00:39:06
happens when I come back I can't raise a
00:39:10
baby by myself I can't you and baby come
00:39:13
to Jordan I just felt so helpless and I
00:39:16
come back very soon come on kids we need
00:39:19
to get
00:39:21
going I felt why life should be like
00:39:24
that I mean we're having so good time
00:39:26
together we happy why the happiness have
00:39:28
to
00:39:31
go zoa and fousy continued their
00:39:34
relationship by mail the Jordanian Air
00:39:37
Force refused to release fousy so zoa
00:39:40
planned to move to Jordan after the baby
00:39:43
arrived when zoa gave birth to a baby
00:39:46
boy she named him amade
00:39:50
Marell I mean I was thrilled I was very
00:39:53
happy I was jumping but I also was very
00:39:57
uh
00:39:58
uh unpleased because of the fact that I
00:40:00
cannot be there to see him and be with
00:40:02
her and be of help to her I was very
00:40:07
frustrated fousy could not wait to bring
00:40:09
his new family to Jordan but back in
00:40:12
Texas zoa had a change of heart she felt
00:40:15
that she needed a father for her baby so
00:40:18
she wrote fousy that she had married
00:40:21
someone else fousy could not bring
00:40:24
himself to write the Zoila again but he
00:40:26
never forgot his
00:40:32
son 2 years later FY returned to the
00:40:36
United States he tried to call zoa but
00:40:39
her mother hung up on him and then
00:40:41
changed her number in desperation he
00:40:44
want the zoa's
00:40:46
house hello I like see zoa please nobody
00:40:51
wants to talk to you my son I like see
00:40:54
my son if you don't get out of here I'm
00:40:56
going to call the police no please
00:40:58
wait I just want to see my son
00:41:02
pleasey could not risk being arrested
00:41:04
and possibly deported so he left but he
00:41:08
never gave up hope that he would someday
00:41:10
meet his
00:41:12
son today FY is married and has his own
00:41:17
family but thoughts of amadel still
00:41:20
haunt him I would like to see my son i'
00:41:23
would like to see how he looks like I
00:41:25
want to hug him I want to tell him I
00:41:26
love him
00:41:27
I mean there's a lot of things that we
00:41:29
did not do together maybe we can do it
00:41:31
now even at this
00:41:35
age
00:41:37
update within minutes of our broadcast
00:41:39
several viewers called to report that
00:41:42
both zoa and her son marchello were
00:41:44
still living in San Antonio Texas fousy
00:41:48
called zoa and then spoke to his son for
00:41:51
the first time a reunion took place
00:41:54
about a week later they continued to
00:41:57
stay in touch and see each other on a
00:42:00
regular
00:42:01
basis not all of our stories have a
00:42:04
happy ending like fies if you have any
00:42:07
information about any of our other cases
00:42:09
please contact us at UNS south.com
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