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tonight on unsolved mysteries
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dr michael swango's career began with
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great promise only to be derailed by
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allegations of poisoning and murder
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what happened to michael swango
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did an angel of mercy choose to become
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an angel of death
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some 30 years have passed as a young
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woman from texas and a jordanian airman
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fell in love only to be torn apart by
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the uncertainties of war
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now a heartbroken father needs your help
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to find the son he has never met
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little logan carroll was born with no
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heartbeat and no vital signs doctors
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could do nothing to save him
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but as logan's family gathered to grieve
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something truly extraordinary happened
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something that can only be called a
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miracle
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join me perhaps you hold the key
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perhaps you may be able to solve one of
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tonight's unsolved mysteries
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february 7th 1984 columbus ohio
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an intern at the state university
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hospital checked on a 69 year old woman
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recovering from routine back surgery
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no one knows why dr michael swango was
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in the room perhaps just to say hello
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when he left rena cooper seemed to be
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doing fine
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let's check
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as she was being stabilized rena
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struggled to tell the doctors what
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happened
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she wrote
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the doctor put something in my iv that
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was dr when i was over there i was
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taking some notes
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while this is going on we know that
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another nurse
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decided to walk down the hall to calm
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the other patients since there was a
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great deal of commotion and four rooms
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down within minutes sees dr swango
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exiting another room with a very funny
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grin on his face and those are her words
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not mine the nurse goes into that room
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and finds a large hypodermic needle with
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the plunger down sitting on the sink
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which is not very unusual you wouldn't
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expect that in a hospital hypodermics
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aren't left lying around
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oh mike good glad you're here
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i need to talk to you for a second three
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different doctors confronted michael
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swango about what had happened in rena
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cooper's room
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swango allegedly told three different
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stories
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at one point he claimed he had never
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even been in the room just kind of
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surgery it's coming for patients just
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out of surgery to be delusional
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most of us tend to hold doctors to a
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higher standard and perhaps that's fair
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after all we are sometimes compelled to
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trust them implicitly depending on their
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knowledge and expertise to save our
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lives
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did michael swango betray that trust for
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his own sadistic pleasure
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if you ask swango he'd probably tell you
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he was a victim of bad luck and
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circumstance
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but unfortunately the question cannot be
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posed
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no one can find michael swango
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michael swango came to ohio as a recent
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graduate of the medical school at
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southern illinois university
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he projected charm and confidence
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despite a lackluster med school record
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it came back normal normal michael
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swango became more and more withdrawn as
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he proceeded through his college classes
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and eventually got into medical school
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and though academically he did very well
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the more the classes became advanced and
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the more he needed to do hands-on
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patient work the more he pulled away
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from that to the point where he was um
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held back a year take a look at one of
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these appraisals and you can see what
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i'm talking about
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swango's poor performance continued
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through the first six months of his
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internship
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dr swango the end result is unless you
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have a significant improvement you will
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not be allowed to take sam you may not
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recommend me for residency
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i've been working my entire life to be a
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doctor
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swango's lifelong goal was now
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jeopardized it could mean he would never
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become a full-fledged doctor
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it was shortly after swangy was put on
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probation that rina cooper suffered her
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mysterious seizure
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it was one of a series of puzzling
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events at the hospital that spring
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rina cooper survived but at least five
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other patients died
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the five mysterious respiratory arrests
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in the last month the neurosurgery wing
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has caused quite an alarm among all of
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us i'm aware of that
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i've decided to see if there's some sort
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of pattern to this situation and i've
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developed a chart the upshot of it is
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that uh whenever these incidents
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occurred uh swango is always there
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a black cloud seems to follow michael
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swango wherever swango was there was an
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unexplained respiratory arrest and it
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didn't happen once or twice it happened
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five six seven times
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though some evidence appeared to point
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to swango hospital officials chose not
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to call the police
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they decided to watch him closely and
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quietly wait out the last months of his
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internship
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i think the kid was great i think i was
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better but i think
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chicken food thank you thank you so much
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swango did not appear disturbed by the
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hospital's decision to let him go or the
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whispered allegations against him
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in fact on several occasions during the
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last months of his internship he treated
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staff members to what he called extra
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spicy chicken
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you weren't kidding that really is spicy
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we know that from interviews with three
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doctors they became violently ill within
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hours of eating the spicy chicken so ill
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in fact that they needed treatment for
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their eyes from ruptured blood vessels
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from the vomiting
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michael swango left osu hospital in june
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of 1984 without being formally
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investigated
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no charges have ever been filed
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one month later swango had a new job not
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as a doctor but as a paramedic
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on september 14th he brought donuts for
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the whole crew
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i grabbed a donut started eating the
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donut
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but i noticed there was something
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different about the donut it didn't
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spring back up like most donuts do
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you already know 45 minutes later brent
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and several others became very ill
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they wanted to test the leftover donuts
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but they had disappeared only an empty
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box remained
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no one had any suspicions of mike at all
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at that time they figured that that was
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food poisoning since the donuts were
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gone and they couldn't analyze it they
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just more or less thought that that's
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what it was and let it go by that
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well the next night i worked with mike
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at a football game a local football game
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at halftime he offered to buy me a soda
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i
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started sipping the soda at halftime and
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about the start of the third quarter i
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became
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deathly sick
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yet another mysterious illness made
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swango's co-workers increasingly
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suspicious
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they also couldn't help noticing
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swango's grisly fascination with
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accidents and death
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the gorier the better
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is she breathing
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he would describe his ultimate calls as
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a paramedic
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and that would be a busload of children
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hitting head on with the tanker truck
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and
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igniting and as he's approaching the
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scene he would see charred bodies out of
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the out of the windows of the buses
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bodies that are up up against the barbed
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wire fins caught in the car caught in
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the barbed wire fences i mean this is to
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me i thought was really strange
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just you know to want to see death
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no no just stay calm man finally the
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paramedics decided to fake a call to get
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swango out of the building
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they wanted him away long enough to
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search his locker
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in michael swango's gym bag his
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co-workers found two bottles of ant
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poison
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one full
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one empty poison
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michael swango
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yes i am detective reynolds these are
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officers dewitt rogers we have a warrant
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search premises paul wants to start a
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living in swango's apartment police
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discovered more incriminating evidence
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dozens of bottles of poisons books on
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poisons recipe cars for making poisons
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and an assortment of syringes
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one syringe was full of ant poison
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the evidence was overwhelming
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swanger was convicted of six counts of
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aggravated battery and sentenced to five
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years in prison
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after serving half his sentence he was
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given time off for good behavior
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amazingly swango again found work in the
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healthcare field he was apparently able
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to convince employers that he had been
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the victim of a miscarriage of justice
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in newport news virginia he turned up at
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a medical vocational school
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there three of his colleagues reportedly
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fell ill
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swango then talked his way into the
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university of south dakota hospital
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again he was shadowed by his past and
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dismissed
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finally in august of 1993 swango
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resurfaced to stony brook university in
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new york he was assigned to a veterans
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administration hospital on long island
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while there he changed his name to
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michael kirk
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he was accepted into the stony brook
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program and they never bothered to check
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him with a central registry for medical
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residents which apparently had a file
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that was an inch thick on him there were
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180 people who applied for 12 slots
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and he managed to get one of those 12
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slots despite
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these clouds of questionable activity
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that followed him in at least four
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states
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on september 29 1993 michael swango's
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path crossed out of lc and baron harris
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baron harris was a 60 year old cabinet
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maker from long island hi mr harris he
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had a fever of 104 degrees and a slight
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case of pneumonia
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i'm going home tomorrow well we'll see
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if we can't accommodate you my first
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impressions of dr kirk he seemed very
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professional he seemed to be very
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concerned he seemed to know what he was
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doing a very pleasant man
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okay if you say so okay all right yes he
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will okay thank you see you in the
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morning yes swango told elsie to go home
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there was nothing more she could do i'll
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see you in the morning sweetheart don't
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you forget to come back and get me no
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you'll be all right
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i love you love you too
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elsie harris claims that sometime during
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the night dr michael swango alias
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michael kirk gave her husband a sedative
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by the next morning baron had been moved
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to intensive care he had lapsed into a
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coma
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doesn't make any sense to me
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he was coughing he had a little fever i
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don't get it i don't understand mrs
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harris sometimes people have allergic
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reactions to certain drugs now that may
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have happened in your husband's case why
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a coma
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i just hope it wasn't anything that we
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did
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he had a very smirky attitude
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like a half cocked smile on his face
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like
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a little kid with his hand in the cookie
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jars this is what he reminded me of even
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though he had a terrific bedside manner
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he there was just something sneaky about
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him
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once the uh story hit the wires and uh
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reporters started uh
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converging on the northport va hospital
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and on his dorm room he very hastily
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packed up and
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disappeared
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before michael swango vanished elsie
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harris says he told her that baron would
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never come out of his coma
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swango apparently knew what he was
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talking about
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baron harris died on november 9th 1993.
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wherever michael swango is today
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authorities believe that he is most
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likely working in the medical field
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every parent hears of these stories that
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it's your worst nightmare it's worse
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than that
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the person that hurt amy and took amy
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has no idea what they've done i mean
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she was such an integral vital part of
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life
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that um
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it's very hard
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very very hard
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i guess the biggest question in
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anybody's mind is why did the person
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choose amy
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she had no enemies no secret habits no
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taste for danger
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she was a world-class athlete who kept
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her mind focused and her body primed
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there was no reason for her to die
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the circumstances of amy willard's death
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would lead some to conclude that the
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killer was well-versed in police
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procedure
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during the investigation three men with
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just such knowledge came forward to
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offer eyewitness accounts
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each reportedly placed himself at the
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crime scene it each told a different
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story
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some believe all three were merely
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publicity seekers
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but until a suspect is actually charged
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with amy's murder their true motives
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will remain the subject of intense
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scrutiny
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in 1992 george mason university in
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fairfax virginia offered amy a full
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athletic scholarship
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by her junior year amy was ranked among
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the top 25 female lacrosse players in
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the united states
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she had talent and she loved it aim
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always said whether they won or lost she
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had a good day she played well the team
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did well she felt good it didn't matter
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what the outcome was like they didn't
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have to win all the time as long as
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everybody enjoyed what they were doing
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as much as she did
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in june of 1996 amy returned to her home
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in philadelphia for the summer
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she enrolled in classes at a local
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school
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on wednesday night june 19th amy met up
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with friends at smokey joe's tavern a
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well-known college hangout she stayed
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for about three hours
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yeah i've gone on a couple of dates
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lately
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but you know nothing serious really
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amy's friends say that she drank less
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than one beer and left the bar before
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they did somewhere between 1 30 and 1 40
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a.m
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bye guys
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at 203 am amy's car was discovered by
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off-duty paramedics it was parked on the
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shoulder of a highway transition road
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engine running headlights ablaze car
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radio plane
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amy however was gone
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and fresh blood stains on the pavement
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suggested that she hadn't gone willingly
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within the hour state police would be
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scouring the area for clues
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they found some blood along the right
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side of the car on the guard rail they
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found a palm print on the car
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and the next morning about 10 a.m at the
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top of the ramp they found her underwear
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and her tennis shoes
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with daylight the search had expanded to
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include helicopters canine teams and
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legions of volunteers
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around noon as police were searching for
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amy willard's body essentially
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police say a guy showed up at the ramp
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and told them he had been on the ramp
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the night before and had seen a car
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you were out here last night yeah i was
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driving by and i saw the car
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did you see anyone near the car
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no i just saw the car they took his name
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and an address and said they'd get back
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in touch with him and in the interim
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they checked him out and found out that
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he used to work in the area of 16th and
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indiana where amy's body was found
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amy's unclothed body was found the
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afternoon of her disappearance by
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children playing in a vacant lot in
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philadelphia
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she had been dumped 20 miles from her
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car and five blocks from where the young
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man had once worked
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there was no conclusive evidence of
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sexual assault
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three momentous blows to the head had
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crushed amy's skull
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the investigation quickly focused on the
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would-be eyewitness
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initially he willingly answered
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questions and cooperated with the
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authorities
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police searched his car and they found
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handcuffs they found a flashlight that
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is the type used by police
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and when they searched his house they
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found some police paraphernalia and they
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also found a magazine that you could be
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used to order police equipment
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prior to the search authorities learned
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that the young man had once been charged
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with impersonating a police officer
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without warning he stopped cooperating
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then he lawyered up
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he says through his lawyer he didn't do
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it but he also denies coming to the ramp
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that day and police are steadfast saying
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he did come to the ramp
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the now reluctant eyewitness remains a
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potential suspect but police have been
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unable to find any evidence that links
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him directly to the murder
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meanwhile a second witness had come
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forward to say that he too was on the
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highway transition road the night amy
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was abducted
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an off-duty pennsylvania state trooper
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who has since resigned claimed that not
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only had he seen the car
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but he has spoken to a uniform policeman
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sitting in a squad car parked behind it
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the police are very adamant that this
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trooper was elsewhere when he said he
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was on the ramp but the trooper is just
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as adamant that he saw what he saw and
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he has always stood by his story that he
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saw this cop car behind amy's
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in a stunning turn around one week later
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newspapers reported that a local
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policeman did come forward to admit he
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had been at amy's car are you okay here
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yeah i already called the local pd
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they're on their way
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however the officer made no mention of
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the state trooper though he did say that
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he had talked to the ambulance driver on
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the scene
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the police re-interviewed the ambulance
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crew and they said that absolutely they
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had not talked to this officer that
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night
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he agreed to resign from the force and
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cooperate fully with them and in
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exchange he would not be prosecuted for
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lying to them
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well
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one alleged police impersonator and two
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bona fide officers
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was there an ounce of truth in anything
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they said
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each had reportedly thrust himself into
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the limelight with an eyewitness account
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each in turn was questioned as a
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potential suspect
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there are a lot of coincidences here on
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the first suspect worked in the area of
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where amy's body was found the trooper
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lived around the corner very near where
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amy lived with her mom the
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the officer used to take his drunk
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drivers for blood tests to the hospital
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where amy's mom works
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are they coincidences or are they all
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linked i mean that's for the police to
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find out
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to date authorities have not amassed
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enough proof to charge anyone with a
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crime
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however some of the evidence does
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suggest that whoever killed amy willard
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approached her under the guise of
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authority
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[Music]
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a woman like amy according to her family
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would not have stopped for just anyone
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it's nearly 2 am in the morning she's in
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a car she's alone
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so a police impersonator or police
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officer seems to be the most likely
00:21:53
reason she would have pulled over
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take a step out of the car please
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i don't understand what they're doing
00:22:05
i don't understand what the problem is
00:22:07
listen
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on the road
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i think amy realized she was in trouble
00:22:16
and was on a run and took off and that
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she was moving they hit her and aim was
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gone that's what i would like to think
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happened that she
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only had fear for a couple seconds and
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that she didn't know anything else that
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happened to her
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we loved amy we loved her more than
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anything in this world and we are
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thankful to god for giving her to us
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and the way that he chose to end her
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life
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that's something that we try to deal
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with but we're not going to dwell on
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our job is making sure that amy is
00:22:47
remembered for the wonderful person that
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she was instead of the way that her life
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was ended that's for the police to
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handle
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amy willard was last seen alive at
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smokey joe's tavern in wayne
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pennsylvania just outside philadelphia
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on june 20th 1996 around 1 30 a.m
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amy's car was found here on the
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transition road leading from interstate
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476 to route 1.
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amy willard's body was discovered in
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this vacant lot at 16th in indiana in
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north philadelphia
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[Music]
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[Music]
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in a moment
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the tragic death of an infant is
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followed by a miraculous rebirth
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[Music]
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perhaps the only time we welcome a visit
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to the hospital is for the birth of a
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child
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but even this special moment can be
00:24:06
marred by sudden disaster
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just ask an indiana couple named todd
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and tammy carroll
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their second child megan was still born
00:24:14
after an eight-month pregnancy
00:24:18
naturally megan was very much on their
00:24:20
minds when the carols arrived at the
00:24:21
hospital for the birth of their third
00:24:23
child the son named logan
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they had no idea how close they would
00:24:28
come to another tragedy
00:24:31
this is my sister ruthie she's going to
00:24:33
be with us today hi ruthie nice to meet
00:24:35
you nice to meet you well tammy
00:24:37
everything looks great
00:24:38
after we lost megan i was real anxious
00:24:41
it was real stressful um i was worried
00:24:44
is anything going to be wrong with this
00:24:45
baby is you know everything going to be
00:24:47
all right and after the ultrasound and
00:24:49
everything looked good on it and then we
00:24:51
ran some other tests that looked fine
00:24:54
that eased my mind i really tried to
00:24:57
look at it as a separate incident okay
00:25:00
here comes the next one
00:25:02
tammy's obstetrician dr diana oaken
00:25:04
induced labor at around 8 45 a.m
00:25:08
the contractions grew stronger and more
00:25:09
frequent through the day
00:25:11
the baby's vital signs were consistently
00:25:14
stable and positive
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4 30 p.m
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birth was imminent
00:25:22
tammy's sister ruthie stationed herself
00:25:24
near the fetal heartbeat monitor
00:25:26
the red numbers showed a normal rate 120
00:25:29
to 140 beats per minute another deep
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breath
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and push
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while tammy was pushing trying to
00:25:37
push the baby out i noticed that the
00:25:39
heart monitor like would drop way down
00:25:41
and that really kind of alarmed me and
00:25:43
they had her take some slow breaths and
00:25:46
it recovered back up
00:25:48
one more push deep breath and push 4 42
00:25:52
p.m
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at the moment logan carroll was born his
00:25:55
heart rate plunged to zero
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a fragile life in mortal danger
00:26:01
i knew something was wrong as soon as he
00:26:02
delivered because he didn't have any
00:26:04
tone when i felt his umbilical cord i
00:26:06
didn't feel any pulse at all
00:26:09
and that's when we started cpr
00:26:12
why isn't he crying
00:26:14
why's he crying relax it's all right
00:26:16
[Music]
00:26:20
call a code
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[Music]
00:26:34
for 15 minutes the emergency team tried
00:26:37
desperately to revive logan
00:26:39
[Music]
00:26:44
4 57
00:26:45
dr mary valentine the carol's
00:26:47
pediatrician joined the emergency team
00:26:51
what's the history here an eventful
00:26:52
pregnancy we lost the heart rate
00:26:54
immediately before delivery logan still
00:26:56
had no vital signs no heartbeat no
00:26:59
breathing
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no heart rate
00:27:01
[Music]
00:27:08
stop compression
00:27:09
no heart rate flat line continue
00:27:11
resuscitation
00:27:13
we continued doing cpr throughout that
00:27:15
time again with no response for
00:27:18
approximately another 15 minutes after
00:27:20
my arrival
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and i began inserting a line into his
00:27:24
umbilical cord to try to administer some
00:27:27
drugs to help revive him
00:27:29
they had put
00:27:31
ekg monitor on him and the tracing was
00:27:34
not showing any electrical activity so i
00:27:36
i knew
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oh it didn't look good at all
00:27:41
well i was still hoping but
00:27:43
that he was there so long
00:27:45
i don't know how many five or six
00:27:47
doctors there working on him
00:27:49
at one time trying to
00:27:52
do get him revive and he still ain't
00:27:55
doing nothing i i just couldn't lose
00:27:57
this baby i just could not believe this
00:27:58
could happen again
00:28:00
at some point you know you always have
00:28:02
to just say
00:28:03
we've done what we can do
00:28:05
this baby is not going to respond
00:28:07
and
00:28:09
we finally called it and pronounced him
00:28:10
dead at that time i'm sorry
00:28:19
i don't think
00:28:21
there's any lower feeling than holding
00:28:23
your dead child
00:28:25
it's supposed to be such a time of joy
00:28:28
and
00:28:30
renewed life giving birth that when they
00:28:33
they hand you this child that's no
00:28:35
longer living
00:28:37
i just can't begin to tell you how low
00:28:39
that that feeling is
00:28:40
and
00:28:42
sitting there holding him and looking in
00:28:43
his face
00:28:45
i just i just wanted him to be alive so
00:28:47
bad
00:28:50
logan james carroll was officially
00:28:52
pronounced dead at 5 15 pm
00:28:55
he was 33 minutes old
00:29:00
in accordance with hospital policy the
00:29:02
carols were allowed time to say their
00:29:03
goodbyes
00:29:05
swaddled in a blanket logan was cradled
00:29:07
by each grieving family member
00:29:10
in the midst of their anguish tammy and
00:29:12
todd agreed to an autopsy hoping for
00:29:14
some explanation
00:29:19
[Music]
00:29:26
tammy
00:29:28
todd
00:29:29
i don't mean to sound crass or anything
00:29:31
but we usually take pictures of the baby
00:29:33
for the family
00:29:34
you never know how people are going to
00:29:35
take that when you come in and say
00:29:37
i'd like to take pictures of you and the
00:29:39
baby but they were very receptive
00:29:41
because they said they didn't get enough
00:29:42
pictures the last time that this had
00:29:44
happened to them
00:29:47
these photos were taken that afternoon
00:29:50
stark portraits meant to commemorate the
00:29:52
end of a young life
00:29:54
instead they would mark the beginning of
00:29:56
a miracle
00:30:05
what was that what was what he just made
00:30:08
a noise that was just a reflex action
00:30:10
tammy are you sure i'm sorry while i was
00:30:13
holding logan he made the gasping sound
00:30:15
it was a very eerie feeling but we had
00:30:18
been told that that was normal
00:30:20
it is called agonal gasping and
00:30:23
it can happen because of the medication
00:30:25
it can go on for quite a while so i
00:30:28
wanted to let them know because every
00:30:29
time he would do that he did a couple
00:30:31
times for tammy
00:30:33
they would they would just their eyes
00:30:34
would light up and then they would be
00:30:36
really let down when he wouldn't do it
00:30:38
again
00:30:41
as the minutes went by i was slowly
00:30:44
becoming unaware of what even was going
00:30:47
on in the room i just wanted to
00:30:49
completely detach myself and float away
00:30:51
somewhere and be somewhere where it
00:30:53
wasn't hurting so bad i wanted to get
00:30:55
away from the pain
00:30:58
some 40 minutes had passed since logan
00:31:00
was pronounced dead
00:31:02
a time for his autopsy was close at hand
00:31:05
however as tammy's stepmother held the
00:31:07
infant she was beginning to think that
00:31:09
an autopsy would not be such a good idea
00:31:12
this color looks so good ruthie's
00:31:14
getting warmer
00:31:20
bailey
00:31:27
i'll get the nurse
00:31:34
just look
00:31:41
[Music]
00:31:46
i'll be right back
00:31:48
what's going on ruthie there's no reason
00:31:50
for this to happen dr o'conn i
00:31:52
understand about agonal breathing but is
00:31:55
there such a thing as an agonal heart
00:31:56
rate susan he has a heart rate please
00:32:00
come and take a look at him
00:32:02
i thought she was nuts you know if you
00:32:03
keep this up you're going to give me a
00:32:05
heart attack i just i think i was afraid
00:32:07
that she was
00:32:10
reacting in a way that was going to
00:32:11
upset the family even more because i
00:32:13
mean the baby was dead
00:32:16
[Music]
00:32:24
[Music]
00:32:26
this baby's alive let's get him nursery
00:32:29
what
00:32:31
it was total unbelief and i wanted to
00:32:33
touch him i can't i had an
00:32:35
uncontrollable urge i needed to touch
00:32:37
him
00:32:38
and
00:32:39
i don't know how soon it was but it was
00:32:42
real soon they came in took my iv out
00:32:44
and i had monitors on me and i had a
00:32:46
blood pressure cuff i mean they were
00:32:48
taking wires and just pulling them off
00:32:50
of me and put me in a wheelchair and
00:32:52
wheeled me into the nursery and i
00:32:55
reached in and i held his arm and i i
00:32:58
was talking to him telling him that he
00:32:59
had to hang in there and that i loved
00:33:01
him and that i was proud of him for
00:33:04
being so strong
00:33:06
i was still
00:33:08
in a different type of shock
00:33:10
because it was so unbelievable
00:33:12
[Music]
00:33:14
unbelievable indeed
00:33:16
at least six physicians and eight
00:33:18
registered nurses all certain that logan
00:33:20
carroll had died
00:33:22
high-tech meters and monitors had
00:33:24
confirmed that judgment
00:33:26
i figured god's hand hadn't been in it
00:33:29
but
00:33:30
that's not in the medical literature
00:33:33
to account for the miraculous as an
00:33:35
explanation but um
00:33:38
yeah it's amazing i mean we're all
00:33:40
trained to
00:33:41
do something as doctors and here we did
00:33:44
nothing and he came back
00:33:48
words spread through the hospital very
00:33:49
quickly you know people from the lab
00:33:52
people from other nursing units came up
00:33:54
just to look at him to say that they
00:33:56
could have seen this miracle baby it was
00:33:58
it was incredible
00:34:00
the emergency room doctor came up and
00:34:03
was totally amazed it was
00:34:06
it was something
00:34:08
you know something
00:34:11
logan's metamorphosis from the lifeless
00:34:14
infant in this photo the squirming
00:34:16
marvel videotaped just one day later was
00:34:19
simply astonishing
00:34:21
he would remain in the hospital for the
00:34:23
next five weeks his vital signs never
00:34:25
faltered
00:34:28
though logan remains healthy doctors
00:34:30
fear he may have sustained some degree
00:34:32
of permanent neurological damage during
00:34:35
the time he had no oxygen
00:34:37
only time will tell
00:34:39
[Music]
00:34:41
my feelings for him will stay the same
00:34:43
whether he has an iq of 180 or 50. he's
00:34:46
here he's alive
00:34:49
i've held the alternative
00:34:51
and
00:34:53
holding him
00:34:54
no matter how he's going to develop in
00:34:56
the future
00:34:57
we try to live for today
00:34:59
and
00:35:00
we're keeping
00:35:01
[Music]
00:35:05
it is impossible for most of us to fully
00:35:06
appreciate the carroll family's
00:35:08
experience
00:35:09
today logan's extraordinary revival
00:35:12
continues to baffle any expert who
00:35:14
studies the case however those who were
00:35:16
in the delivery room that day when
00:35:18
despair turned to wonder
00:35:20
are certain that they witnessed nothing
00:35:22
less than a modern day miracle
00:35:27
next
00:35:28
a poignant tale of love denied and a son
00:35:31
lost
00:35:33
[Music]
00:35:45
you're about to meet a man named fawzi
00:35:46
mahmud
00:35:48
almost 30 years ago a single moment
00:35:50
changed his life forever
00:35:52
it was the spring of 1967 in san antonio
00:35:55
texas the event
00:35:57
nothing less than love at first sight
00:35:59
[Music]
00:36:02
fauzi mahmoud was a trainee in the
00:36:04
jordanian air force he was in the united
00:36:07
states to learn american flying
00:36:08
techniques he was not interested in
00:36:10
anything else or so he thought
00:36:14
how are you doing
00:36:16
do you remember barbara
00:36:17
hi
00:36:19
hello
00:36:21
her name was zoyla maldonado she was
00:36:24
just 20 years old in fauzi's eyes she
00:36:27
was dazzling
00:36:28
what
00:36:30
i mean she looked so beautiful to me and
00:36:33
she got this green dress
00:36:35
and just she was a knockout and i was
00:36:37
knocked out
00:36:40
i fell in love with her i mean i felt
00:36:42
madly in love with her
00:36:44
this is beautiful
00:36:45
it is pretty
00:36:47
i like it like you
00:36:49
very beautiful
00:36:51
for both fawzi and zoiler this was her
00:36:52
first taste of true love
00:36:55
but for fawzi it was also much more
00:36:58
i liked that
00:36:59
[Music]
00:37:00
actually zoella was not only the first
00:37:02
love it was the first woman i ever
00:37:04
talked to in my life because we came
00:37:06
from a very very strict family and
00:37:08
strict people and a strict government
00:37:10
you know
00:37:11
but she was
00:37:12
my first ever thing
00:37:14
oh mom he's waiting
00:37:16
zoila's parents were very conservative
00:37:18
and she was their only child
00:37:20
they did not like the idea of zoyla
00:37:22
dating anyone
00:37:24
the fact that fauzi was a foreigner who
00:37:26
spoke little english did not help he's a
00:37:28
nice boy
00:37:30
well
00:37:31
what does it matter and i guess
00:37:34
even though her parents were
00:37:36
conservative and strict we managed to go
00:37:39
out almost daily
00:37:41
we went dancing we went to the lake we
00:37:43
went to the mountains we went everywhere
00:37:45
together
00:37:47
six months later zoil and fauzi found
00:37:50
themselves at a turning point
00:37:52
[Music]
00:37:54
bowsey i think i'm pregnant
00:37:57
to zoyla's great relief fauzi was
00:37:59
ecstatic
00:38:00
you are
00:38:02
yes i want to marry you
00:38:05
[Music]
00:38:14
but the marriage would never take place
00:38:17
several months earlier the six-day war
00:38:19
had erupted between jordan and israel
00:38:22
tension between the two countries
00:38:24
remained high
00:38:25
in late november 1967 fousey was ordered
00:38:28
home
00:38:30
i
00:38:31
back i promise
00:38:33
rosie
00:38:34
we talked and we promised and we vowed
00:38:36
that we will always be together no
00:38:38
matter what happens
00:38:41
when i come back
00:38:42
i can't raise baby by myself
00:38:45
i can't you and baby come to jordan i
00:38:47
just felt so helpless
00:38:50
i come back very soon
00:38:52
come on kids we need to get going
00:38:55
i felt my life should be like that i
00:38:57
mean
00:38:58
we're having so good time together we're
00:39:00
happy why the happiness have to go
00:39:06
[Applause]
00:39:07
[Music]
00:39:13
[Music]
00:39:18
sometimes i miss you so much i think
00:39:20
i'll go crazy but then i receive your
00:39:23
letters and i feel better
00:39:25
zoiling files he continued the love
00:39:27
affair by letter
00:39:28
the jordanian air force refused to
00:39:30
release fawzi so zoyla planned to go to
00:39:32
jordan
00:39:33
please take care of yourself and stay
00:39:35
safe
00:39:36
i will close now
00:39:38
i'm tired but the baby's fine
00:39:41
it still kicks all the time if he's a
00:39:44
boy he'll probably be a football player
00:39:47
in late june 1968 zarla gave birth to a
00:39:50
healthy baby boy
00:39:52
she named him amadeo marcelo
00:39:56
i mean i was thrilled i was very happy i
00:39:58
was jumping
00:39:59
but i also was very
00:40:03
unpleased because of the fact that i
00:40:05
cannot be there to see him and be with
00:40:07
her and be of help to her
00:40:10
i was very frustrated
00:40:14
even on duty fauzi's thoughts were with
00:40:16
zoyla and his infant son he could not
00:40:19
wait to bring his new family to jordan
00:40:24
zoyla kept writing to fawzi but the tone
00:40:26
of her letters soon changed
00:40:29
pozzi i'm writing to say i'm sorry to
00:40:31
hear of your problem
00:40:33
i want us together more than ever i will
00:40:36
always believe my love is strong
00:40:39
but the war
00:40:40
i refuse to take that chance with
00:40:42
marcelo's life
00:40:44
zoyla made a difficult decision
00:40:46
she needed a father for her baby
00:40:49
she wrote fousey that she had married
00:40:51
someone else
00:40:55
fawzi could not bring himself to right
00:40:57
to zoyla again but he could never forget
00:40:59
his son
00:41:03
in 1970 fawzi returned to the united
00:41:05
states
00:41:06
he claims he tried to call zoyler by
00:41:08
phone but her mother hung up on it then
00:41:10
had the number changed
00:41:12
she apparently blamed fauzi for her
00:41:14
daughter's out of wedlock child and was
00:41:16
understandably upset to hear from him
00:41:18
again
00:41:19
in desperation fauzi went to zoiler's
00:41:22
house
00:41:24
hello
00:41:26
i like cinzoyla please nobody wants to
00:41:28
talk to you
00:41:29
my son i like seeing my son
00:41:32
you ruined my daughter's life
00:41:35
no no i love your daughter you know what
00:41:39
you are three years too late
00:41:45
[Applause]
00:41:50
if you don't get out of here i'm gonna
00:41:51
call the police no please wait
00:41:54
i just want to see my son
00:41:56
please
00:41:57
wait
00:42:00
fauzi had no choice
00:42:02
he could not risk being arrested and
00:42:04
possibly deported
00:42:07
that moment was as close as fauzi
00:42:10
mahmoud has ever gotten to meeting his
00:42:12
son
00:42:15
today fauzi lives in enid oklahoma with
00:42:17
his wife robin they have a young son and
00:42:20
fauzi has three grown children from a
00:42:22
previous marriage
00:42:23
but thoughts of his firstborn still
00:42:25
haught him
00:42:28
there is one thing missing all the time
00:42:30
i would like to see my son i would like
00:42:32
to see how he looks like i want to hug
00:42:34
him i want to tell him i love him
00:42:37
i mean there's a lot of things that we
00:42:39
did not do together maybe we can do it
00:42:40
now even at this age
00:42:43
[Music]
00:43:06
do
00:43:12
[Music]
00:43:13
join me again next week perhaps you may
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be able to help solve a mystery
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