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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you were about to see is not a news
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broadcast by his own admission Stephen
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Michalak is an ordinary man who leads an
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ordinary life but in 1967 Michalak
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claims that his life was turned upside
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down when he had an extraordinary
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encounter with a mysterious flying craft
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for many years aged a bro was a fixture
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in the small community of Houma
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Louisiana and suddenly in 1991 he simply
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vanished a mysterious note sent to the
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police suggested that he had
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accidentally killed himself while
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drinking but at least three eyewitnesses
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are positive they saw bro in the weeks
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after he disappeared
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California's Frontera prison is one of
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the largest women's Penitentiary's in
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America but over the past decade the
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deaths of a prison guard in an inmate
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that led to controversial allegations of
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corruption inside the prison walls
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join me for these intriguing stories and
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a heartwarming update on another edition
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of unsolved mysteries
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every year there are thousands of
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reports of unidentified flying objects
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as a rule people who admit to having an
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encounter with a UFO open themselves to
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ridicule and derision some will call him
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crazy
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others will openly accuse them of
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concocting a hoax
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in this story the person involved is
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simple unassuming man who is always
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skeptical about UFOs until he had his
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own close encounter
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Stevan Michalak and his wife came to
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Manitoba Canada from Poland after the
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Second World War
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Stephen found work as an industrial
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mechanic in a cement plant life was
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happy and uneventful for nearly 20 years
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Stephen was an amateur Rock County spent
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every spare moment in the beautiful
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natural woodlands of Manitoba I love
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nature I love birds animals and and also
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I have interest in nature's or rocks and
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isn't that every weekend in the long
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weekend I usually travel go to the out
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in the country and snooping in the indie
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rocks on May 20th 1967 Stephen was
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prospecting approximately 100 miles east
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of Winnipeg suddenly he was distracted
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when a flock of geese in the pond below
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kicked up an unusual racket
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looking on the three I notice a two
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cigarette like shape things with the
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hump in the middle so the hair is that
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one stay in the air and the other one is
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coming down down down
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I start looking for marks I never see a
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where or NASA or somethingö written on
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it no nothing I didn't see anything on
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it but still I was thinking that
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probably experimenting vehicle from
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United States Steven michalak says that
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he made this sketch of the strange craft
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just after he saw it land
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I do remember one description that he
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gave at the time he said that the skin
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of the craft the outside of the craft
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was flawless there when San Michalak was
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10 years old in 1967 no nothing it was
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as though you had milled out of a solid
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block of steel this disc this saucer
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with the don't wanta Steven Michalak
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told his son but after a few moments the
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door of the craft slowly opened
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when the gate opened there was a tiny
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shrieky talked like like a kids in
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problem or something thinking of us eh I
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said okay Yankee boys thanks to me you
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are in trouble you got travels I'll help
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you when his English received no
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response Stephen tried Russian then
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polish and finally German boy
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sprechen sie Deutsch relay
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obviously had our sacred the hell fit in
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beat their comments ahead hours
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he fed her hands Benny Stephen says that
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as he drew near the door the light was
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so bright he had to snap down the visor
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on his safety goggles
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after a few moments the door suddenly
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shut
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according to Steven the craft rotated
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counterclockwise knocking my backwards
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and setting his shirt on fire after
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igniting with the fire the craft lifts
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up 30 to 40 feet in vanished
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and then I decided I said now is the
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time for me to buzzer from here go out
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so I start going he started feeling
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strange and threw up several times at
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the same time he was experiencing spots
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in front of his eyes which could be
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after-effects from the brilliant lights
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emanating from what appeared to be ducts
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or ports in the top of the alleged craft
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when Stephen checked his compass trying
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to find his way southeast to the road he
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says a needle went haywire disoriented
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and badly burned Stephen took his best
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guess at the direction nine hours later
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he finally arrived back home in Winnipeg
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or his story made local headlines and
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apparently left doctors baffled at that
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point in time the diagnosis if you can
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call it that was burns and sure they
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were burns yes heat caused burns what
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they couldn't diagnose and didn't have a
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clue about was what appeared below the
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chest on the abdomen the exact same
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pattern of holes that was on the grid on
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the side of the craft in the same order
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in the same rows in the same number
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appeared as red spots on his lower
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abdomen red dots
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Stephen was released from the hospital
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but he says his symptoms worsened the
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nausea continued and his body seemed to
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emit a sulfuric stench there was this
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sulfurous own electric burning motor
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stink about him is like he's carrying an
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aura the smell wherever he walked and he
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got close to you you could you could
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smell this not baths showers wouldn't
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take it out that lasted for weeks I
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remember seeing him in bed
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constantly tired nauseous headache he
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not feeling well losing a lot of weight
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Stephen McCulloch was tested for
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radiation poisoning the results were
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negative yet no one could explain the
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source of the strange burns on his torso
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the physicians were actually unable to
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determine many of Michael X ailments
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they knew for example he was physically
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thermally burned his chest was burned
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and singed but the pattern lower down on
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his chest was very very unusual it was
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eventually determined that it was a
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chemical burn not a radiation burn
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although he did have some symptoms that
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might have suggested that some people
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that some sort of radiation effects
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might have been involved
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on June 30th six weeks after the
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encounter Stephen and a friend went
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looking for the site after several hours
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they found a burned-out circle with a
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radius of more than 15 feet on this
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barren patch of rock was a circular
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roughly circular ring of vegetation dead
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pine needles dirt leaves that sort of
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thing the rock had been swept clean
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except for this ring which was
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surrounding this area they also noticed
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that a few of the trees appeared to have
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dead branches as if something had either
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come in and touched them or brushed by
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them with an intense heat or some other
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effects within days a team of experts
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from the United States working in
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cooperation of the Royal Canadian Air
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Force converged on the site they took
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measurements catalogues soil samples and
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check for radiation the levels appeared
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alarmingly high and the Health
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Department considered quarantine in the
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area later however they discovered that
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the high levels were caused by a vein of
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radium which ran under the entire region
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meanwhile Stephens burns which had
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appeared to be healing suddenly flared
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up again according to Stephen his
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doctor's remained mystified after every
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three months my burns from legs and here
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were coming back showing up again and
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burning and burning and vomiting
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anything to eat Bongo goes to this day
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you couldn't if he let you can press
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into his skin and feel subcutaneous scar
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tissue in the form of those burns on his
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chest which he playfully calls his
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buttons and that's there you cannot deny
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this this is there
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these cracks on may 19th 1968 one year
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after Steven mikkel acts close encounter
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he and a friend returned to the site
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just about Center a little north of
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Center the Geiger counter rose very very
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dramatically at that point within an
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18-inch section of the crack they
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scooped out a hole almost half a jar
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full of what appeared to be molten rock
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or molten metal of some sort
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subsequently we found out what it was
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but at that time it was unclear but it
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was quite radioactive according to Ed
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Barker an analysis revealed that the
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material was an extremely pure grade of
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silver that is difficult to obtain it
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had been coated with pitchblende or
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which contains both uranium and radium
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this is what we found three identical
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bars of what appear at first glance to
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be silver alloy of some sort they were
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obviously manufactured somehow it was
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considerably radioactive and now it's
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perfectly safe to handle this is one of
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the biggest mysteries one of the biggest
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puzzles and skeptics have pointed to
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this as the reason why the case should
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be discounted why would particles and
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metal fragments of this size and
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radioactivity have been missed by all
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previous investigators and this is one
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mystery that we don't have definite
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answers to this day by someone ed Barker
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believes a silver was planted by someone
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who may have wanted to lend credence to
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Steven michalak story planted on the
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same saying that I do not believe
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Miculek did had anything to do with this
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but I do believe that it was planted I'd
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like to think that one day we'll get a
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letter from the US government and it'll
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say we have the to craft in a hangar
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over here and we were experimenting with
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them at the time sorry
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and I'd want to go and see them and I'm
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sure dad would too and that would be
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great
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what would be worse is to have this
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thing dragged to a point and dragged on
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where it's never explained
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today Stephen michalak is 76 years old
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he and his wife continue to live in
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Manitoba Stephen still is not sure what
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it was he saw back in 1967 he says
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doctors have never been able to explain
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the burns on his chest or the mysterious
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symptoms which resembled radiation
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poisoning since no other explanation is
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forthcoming
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Stephen McCulloch is willing to
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entertain the notion no matter how
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far-fetched that he saw something not of
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this earth but we returned allegations
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of murder and coverup inside one of
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America's largest prisons for women
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Fronteras prison 45 miles south of Los
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Angeles California one of the largest
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women's penitentiaries in America
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Fronteras maximum-security wing houses
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some of California's most dangerous
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female offenders yet it is the alleged
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criminal activities of some guards and
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administrators that is shoved Frontera
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into the public spotlight in recent
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years former prison employees have made
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sensational allegations of widespread
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drug trafficking at the prison they have
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tied these charges of corruption to a
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pair of seemingly isolated incidents the
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disappearance and subsequent murder of a
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Frontera guard justin rich in 1984 and
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the controversial death of an inmate
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named terry lucas three years later
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in November of 1987 Lukas was found dead
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in Fronteras infirmary where she was
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recovering from a cancer biopsy twosome
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the incident appeared highly
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questionable according to former
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Frontera guard Betty Thompson an officer
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from another wing of the prison that
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approached Terry Lukas shortly before
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she died the unauthorized visit
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apparently terrified the 25 year old
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Lukas this was an inmate that was that
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came off as tough and mean and mouthy
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but when that when she saw the officer
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walking down the hall her whole demeanor
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changed she was absolutely devastated by
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his presence
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Thompson claims of the officer was
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determined to unlock Terry Lucas's cell
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he retreated only when Thompson
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threatened to report him most of the
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time officers back officers we don't we
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don't back inmates but in this
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particular instance it was just almost
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automatic that I would stand in front of
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the door and not let him in there after
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this officer left the area I keyed the
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door and went into to talk to Terry
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Lucas in herself she said the officer
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scared her and the reason he scared her
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is because it was to make her be quiet
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as she tells me that she's got
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information she's got evidence she knows
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who was involved in the disappearance of
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jessalyn rich betty thompson was stunned
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by Lucas's revelation that she knew the
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fate of just enrich the Fronteras guard
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who had disappeared under strange
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circumstances in 1984 jessalyn rich was
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a 35 year old divorced mother of two
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while working at Frontera she had
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maintained a straight-a average and
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criminology classes at night school at
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the time of her disappearance
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Jason had reportedly grown concerned
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about drug dealing inside Frontera
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you wanna dance it jeff's enriched was
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last seen on November 11th 1984 at a
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country-western bar where she and a
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friend Marilyn alt were joined by two
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male acquaintances then all of a sudden
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she sits very still and looks almost
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passed me to the front door Jess you
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okay and I look at her and her eyes drew
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wide and fearful looking but I didn't
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look to the door I just for some reason
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just didn't turn around and then she
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came back into the conversation
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as she turns around the corner to go
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down the hallway to the bathroom a
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gentleman appears to me out of the side
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of my eye going directly behind her and
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that's the last I see her ever justin
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rich literally vanished without a trace
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her family and friends launched an
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all-out search to them it seemed harshly
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out of character for Justin to abandon
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her children as scrap her career
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aspirations but police investigators
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said they had no evidence to support the
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family's belief that Justin had been
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kidnapped and possibly murdered
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they made light of it called us just
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distraught relatives suggested that my
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sister had just ran off on a fling with
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some person was just totally absurd
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given her work record of only being late
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once and a 4.0 grade point average
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student there just was unheard of gary
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months tore apart his sister's house
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searching for clues that police might
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have overlooked when he sifted through
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justin's trash he found evidence that
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her knowledge of illegal activities at
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the prison had put her life in danger
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and inside in the plastic bag where
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there are many many pieces of paper torn
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up very very small I picked up a few of
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these and I could tell that it was my
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sister's writing or printing and they
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were apparently notes or letters to a
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friend of hers a co-worker and I figured
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that I would take them home and sort
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them out later the letter had been
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written to another God at Frontera
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sprawled on the margin of the last page
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was Justin's haunting recital of an
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apparent threat she had received from a
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co-worker that anyone interfering with
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his drug activities would be taken care
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of at the time this letter was the only
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concrete evidence indicating that Jason
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had met with foul play three years later
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the case had faded from public view then
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in 1987 the mystery was suddenly thrust
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back on a center stage when Terry Lucas
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told Betty Thompson she knew what
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happened to Jesslyn rich
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the morning after extraordinary
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conversation with Lucas officer Thompson
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returned to the prison infirmary
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when I walked over to touch her I
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noticed that Terry was dead
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I went out of the cell and I went down
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to the nurse's station and I told them
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one of what I had seen and what I knew
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and the coldness of the room that she
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was not covered her eyes were open her
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breakfast tray had not been touched and
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the nurses told me they would take care
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of it
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incredibly Betty Thompson claims that
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the inmates body remained in the cell
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for a full three days before the County
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coroner's office was called
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according to Thompson an official from
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the coroner's office was initially
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mystified by what he found
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Betty claims there were blades of grass
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and Lucas's hair and multiple bruises on
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her face ears neck and lower arms her
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right arm
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appeared to be broken he asked who
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killed this inmate and he's saying that
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this inmate was murdered he is saying
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that he's saying seize evidence that she
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was suffocated with the pillow that had
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been under her arm that appeared to be
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broken betty Thompson says that after
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the official met with high-level prison
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administrators in Lucas's cell he had a
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sudden change of heart and he told me
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that we were not going to call it murder
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and we were not going to say that she
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was dead laying there dead for three
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days we were going to in fact say that
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she was actually laying there only two
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hours and that the cause of death was
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actually complications due to diabetes
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Betty Thompson says if she refused to go
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along you can't put this information in
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your report now you know what you're
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supposed to write just Thompson
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maintains that one of her superiors
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demanded that she change her report on
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Terry Lucas's death you are not leaving
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this institution until you do as you are
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told
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according to Thompson she was subjected
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to threats and intimidation for a six
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grueling hours okay kiss your career
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with the Department of Corrections there
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was one high administrator that even
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made the comment that the same thing
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that happened to Jesslyn rich could
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easily happen to me at that point in
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time I broke down and cried
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that's what this was all about and I
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hadn't told anything what Terry Lucas
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had said I hadn't told them anything
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about that part
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and for him to bring up jessalyn rich
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and her disappearance it said why Terry
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Lucas had died it had definitely had
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something to do with that Thompson says
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she finally gave in and signed a false
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report that was typed for her but I
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added on the bottom that I had signed
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the document under duress and the
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document was untrue to my knowledge that
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document was ripped up another one was
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retyped saying the similar things that
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were on the first document and that my
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signature was forged betty Thompson
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claims that were further attempts at
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intimidation they began on her next
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shift with an anonymous phone call
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Infirmary officer Thompson
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the following day Thompson had an
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unnerving encounter have you been
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receiving threatening phone calls what
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are you talking about like you might be
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found dead in a ditch one night I'm at
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this point in time the hair on the back
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of my neck just stood straight up I was
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absolutely petrified because I knew that
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she knew what they were saying to me and
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that she was part of whoever was
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threatening me Thompson says a menacing
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calls and harassment continued for seven
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months finally in June of 1988 the
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threats turned to violence
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Betty Thompson immediately called the
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police who arrived at her home moments
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later as I was upstairs filing a police
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report about this the shooting a phone
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call came in and I picked up the phone
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it was a male voice and he said next
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time we won't miss the police officer
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saw my face and saw how upset I was he
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included that in his report
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in 1990 the brewing scandal at Frontera
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was the subject of a series of
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front-page special reports in the Orange
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County Register the articles supported
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insider accounts of drug dealing and
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corruption
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that same year Betty Thompson and five
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other guards testified before state
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Senate hearings on the alleged offences
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at Frontera prison prison officials
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declined to be interviewed for this
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story
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however tip Kendall's spokesman for the
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California Department of Corrections
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told an unsolved mysteries researcher
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quote I'm not saying the things people
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are alleging didn't happen there's just
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no evidence to support them end quote
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next thanks to our viewers a woman
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framed by her stepfather has been
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reunited with a former deputy sheriff
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who came to a rescue when all else
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seemed lost
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recently we brought you the poignant
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story of a woman named Kathie Williams
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loving who grew up in Chicago in 1961
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when she was 14 years old
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Kathie fell prey to the abusive sexual
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advances of her stepfather a detective
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with the Chicago Police Cathy finally
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went to the authorities for help but she
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was labeled incorrigible and detained
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apparently because of her stepfathers
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influence four months later by order of
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a juvenile court
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Cathy was remanded to a state training
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school she was placed in the custody of
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a Cook County deputy sheriff to be
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transported Cathy had no idea that this
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ride would become a remarkable turn of
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Fortune II when they put me in the back
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of that paddy wagon I just started
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booming I just got to thing it dawned on
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me then nobody knows where I'm going I
00:29:05
don't know where I'm going you know this
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is this has to be hell
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alone and scared to death Cathy began to
00:29:16
blurt out her story messin with you how
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touching me the way of man touches a
00:29:26
woman by the time they arrived at the
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reform school the deputy was convinced
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that the system had made a terrible
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mistake he offered to help Cathy and she
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gave him the names of two friends Louise
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Gordon and Maisy Bell they brought the
00:29:42
case to the attention of State social
00:29:44
workers ultimately Cathy was declared an
00:29:51
emancipated minor and released from the
00:29:53
reformatory but Cathy never forgot the
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unknown deputy who led a helping hand
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when no one else would if I could find
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him I just want to say to him that many
00:30:06
people reach out for help and many are
00:30:09
refused help but because of the fact
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that I reached out to him and he
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acknowledged me and gave me the help
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that I needed he gave me my life well
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the night we last broadcast this story
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Cathy Lovings searched for her own long
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benefactor finally came to an end when
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former deputy sheriff Fred Lyle of
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Chicago called our telecenter Lyle said
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he had watched his story on unsolved
00:30:33
mysteries and remembered the incident
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vividly that evening Fred Lyle and an
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overjoyed Cathy loving spoke on the
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telephone and made plans to meet as soon
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as possible
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today Kathy lives in a well-appointed
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suburb of Atlanta Georgia on July 18
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1992 Kathy and several friends gathered
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to await the arrival of Fred Lila and
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one of his daughters for Kathy it was a
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special occasion which afforded her the
00:31:02
opportunity to finally say thank you
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it's the first thing I my mouth was I
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said I love you I said I have been
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waiting all these years to tell you that
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I love you and I wanted to say thank you
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I knew that was him
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the celebration culminated with a
00:31:25
homemade feast prepared by Kathy which
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included Fred's favorite dishes
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Fred Lyon left the Sheriff's Department
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1965 he has four children and eight
00:31:55
grandchildren and meeting Kathy was like
00:31:58
welcoming a new member to the family
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there's something special something
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never happened to me before but I can
00:32:08
remember this one time that's where I
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came down here okay I just wanted to see
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you I'll tell her thank you for finding
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me because it did something to me is
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that the notice somebody somewhere down
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the line appreciated some of things I
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did for the lesson I learned we Fred was
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that when all else is fair
00:32:33
don't give up not just not to give up
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but there's always a way and Fred
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Douglas flowers was my way
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again I I can't say it enough times he
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was my hero I reached out one more time
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I thought and he reached back and he is
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my life and he's no rainbow next a
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small-town businessman vanishes under
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mysterious circumstances
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Houma Louisiana population 31,000 lies
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in the heart of Cajun country steeped in
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the romance of backwater bayous and
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sweeping magnolias AJ bro was a fixture
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in horror it lived in town his entire
00:33:40
life raised three daughters and worked
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in the same clothing store for more than
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30 years everyone in horror knew that AJ
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bro was a man you could depend on my dad
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came off as being very friendly
00:33:53
it was extremely nice anybody and
00:33:56
everybody that knew him knew that if
00:33:58
they needed something that he was there
00:34:01
to help her AJ had not come by his
00:34:05
reputation easily for years he had
00:34:07
battled a drinking problem a problem
00:34:10
which eventually led to his arrest for
00:34:11
drunk driving and contributed to the
00:34:13
breakup of his marriage
00:34:14
however by 1991 AJ had conquered his
00:34:18
demons and been sober for eight years
00:34:22
nearly every evening AJ could be found
00:34:25
of the easy does a club a support group
00:34:27
for people with drinking problems AJ was
00:34:30
dedicated to sobriety and was available
00:34:33
at any hour of the day or night to
00:34:34
assist those who were in desperate need
00:34:36
of help once he got involved with the
00:34:40
program it changed his whole life he
00:34:44
became even more responsible and more
00:34:47
dependable and more trustworthy and more
00:34:51
of a friend because he was involved with
00:34:53
more people the easy desert Club was
00:34:57
headquartered in an old warehouse on
00:34:59
Wednesday August 28th 1991 AJ left the
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club at approximately 8:30 p.m. a half
00:35:09
an hour later
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AJ stopped at a convenience store to buy
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a quart of milk he told the cashier that
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he was on his way home where he lived
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with one of his daughters he
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arrived two days later
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AJ's car was found abandoned in a park
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across the street from the club his
00:35:29
three daughters immediately drove to the
00:35:31
scene when we got there I had already
00:35:37
called the police department to meet us
00:35:39
the core was locked so we couldn't get
00:35:41
in and our immediate reaction was tears
00:35:47
were very emotional very scared and
00:35:49
detective knock and the detective
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working on the case had appeared when he
00:35:55
got out of the car we told him that we
00:35:56
knew it was my dad's car because he had
00:35:58
a cracked blinker plate in the front
00:36:01
father's car my instinct told me that he
00:36:05
was in the trunk dead immediately
00:36:12
thought foul play because it just
00:36:14
wouldn't be like him to park his car
00:36:16
where everybody could find it and
00:36:18
everybody knows him and disappear but
00:36:21
apparently that is just what AJ bro did
00:36:24
his body was not in the trunk there was
00:36:27
no sign of foul play and a search of the
00:36:29
park turned up nothing
00:36:30
the only clues were a Jays wallet and
00:36:33
checkbook which were found tucked
00:36:34
beneath the front seat of his Carter the
00:36:39
entire town was mystified AJ Bros seemed
00:36:43
the least likely person that Holl murder
00:36:45
disappeared authorities launched an
00:36:47
immediate investigation distributed
00:36:49
missing-persons fliers throughout the
00:36:51
state so the number of witnesses came
00:36:54
forward witnesses have told intriguing
00:36:56
tales of seeing AJ bro after he
00:36:59
disappeared
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on Friday August 30th the same day that
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AJ's car was found a local resident
00:37:08
named Kenneth pelegrin claims that he
00:37:10
ran into AJ outside of a convenience
00:37:13
store in Houma it was a strange
00:37:18
situation for me to see him then cuz he
00:37:21
just didn't he didn't look the same as
00:37:23
he always did he was wearing like a
00:37:25
flannel shirt something like a
00:37:26
lumberjack style and the pants were
00:37:29
loose-fitting brown very loose-fitting
00:37:31
there wasn't nothin neat and he was
00:37:33
wearing some old tennis shoes so that
00:37:35
struck me as wrong because of all the
00:37:37
times I've known him since 7 years old
00:37:40
I've never seen him with his hair out of
00:37:42
place or is not dressed up neat AJ was
00:37:46
nervous it was like he was being watched
00:37:50
Kenneth pelegrin also observed a red
00:37:53
compact car parked in front i noticed
00:37:56
the car and they had three guards still
00:37:58
sitting in it but knew my engine was
00:38:00
running and he was on the phone looking
00:38:02
towards their way and when I came back
00:38:05
out AJ was going the car was gone
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had I known he had been missing he would
00:38:14
have been found then because I knew who
00:38:16
he was
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soon after Kent pelegrin called the
00:38:18
office I received another call from a
00:38:20
witness who said that he saw AJ in a car
00:38:23
with three other gentlemen it was a red
00:38:25
small compact car on a roll round about
00:38:29
eight miles out of town he waved to AJ
00:38:32
bro but AJ bro did not weigh back and
00:38:35
it's very uncharacteristic of AJ not the
00:38:37
way back so he didn't think of anything
00:38:40
of it because AJ wasn't duh he didn't
00:38:43
know AJ was missing it makes me think
00:38:46
that definitely somebody knows something
00:38:49
if both of these gentlemen who know him
00:38:51
from a good while back one a lot longer
00:38:54
than the other have seen him we know
00:38:57
that they know what he looks like and
00:38:58
they both saw him in the same color car
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with three men in it I'm pretty much
00:39:05
convinced that somebody somewhere knows
00:39:07
something for the next two weeks there
00:39:12
were no further sightings are no clues
00:39:14
to AJ's disappearance then a chilling
00:39:17
handwritten note came into the police
00:39:19
station
00:39:20
it read AJ bro he was drunk at the time
00:39:25
self-inflicted gunshot wound stomach
00:39:28
drawstring cotton sack put in by friend
00:39:31
rolled over steep grassy Bayou bank near
00:39:35
dam the note was signed Elaine the note
00:39:39
painted a bizarre scenario in which AJ
00:39:41
had been drinking and accidentally shot
00:39:43
himself then someone for some unknown
00:39:46
reason dumped his body in the Bayou just
00:39:50
so happens where we found a car that
00:39:52
that described that area so we call the
00:39:56
Sheriff's Office water patrol units in
00:39:58
and they dredged both sides of the dam
00:40:00
on three different occasions but weren't
00:40:02
able to find anything soon the case took
00:40:06
another strange twist
00:40:08
authorities received a surprising report
00:40:11
which indicated that a Jay bro might
00:40:13
still be alive
00:40:16
on September 28th four weeks after AJ
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disappeared a woman named Christie
00:40:21
Boudreau was sitting on the front porch
00:40:23
of her home in Lockport Louisiana 30
00:40:26
miles northeast of Houma
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I saw a van pass up and down the street
00:40:30
two times so I forget whoever was in the
00:40:33
van was evidently lost then I saw him
00:40:36
reach over the driver's seat into the
00:40:39
middle of the van and he picked up a bag
00:40:41
I didn't know what was in it so he got
00:40:43
to my porch and as he walked to me he
00:40:46
looked really nervous and he was shaking
00:40:51
he wanted to know for him to buy some
00:40:53
frozen fish and I told him no and I
00:40:56
smelled alcohol on his breath and he
00:40:59
licked homeless kind of straggly okay
00:41:02
thanks anyway
00:41:03
and I said god I'd say ten feet from me
00:41:07
he turned around and glanced at me and
00:41:10
that's when it hit me that I saw that
00:41:13
man on a missing person floor in the
00:41:16
post office Christie I have a picture
00:41:21
here I like your look of age April just
00:41:23
met with Christie and I showed her some
00:41:25
photographs of AJ one was a photograph
00:41:28
of the flyer that was being distributed
00:41:30
and she wasn't too sure about that one
00:41:33
then I showed her a photograph of a mug
00:41:35
shot that we had of AJ from when he was
00:41:37
drinking and she was almost certain that
00:41:40
was AJ bro then he was but he was
00:41:43
skinnier like in this picture I was
00:41:45
almost certain that that was the man
00:41:47
that had approached me while I was on my
00:41:49
porch and that's what I told the
00:41:51
detective that I was 99.9% sure that
00:41:55
that was mr. bro AJ bro is a recovering
00:42:00
alcoholic and if he did start drinking
00:42:03
again and there's all sorts of things
00:42:05
that could have happened he could've had
00:42:06
a blackout and now remember who he is
00:42:10
AJ's family however refuses to believe
00:42:13
that he has turned to alcohol once again
00:42:15
and disappeared by choice because AJ's
00:42:18
wallet and checkbook were found in his
00:42:19
car they are convinced that he was
00:42:21
abducted
00:42:23
when I think back to what happened there
00:42:26
or why things may have happened I in my
00:42:28
mind I go back to the fact that his car
00:42:31
was found at the park what happened when
00:42:34
he got there I'm not sure but I'm
00:42:36
wondering if he may have seen something
00:42:39
or heard something that he wasn't
00:42:41
supposed to see or hear a few days after
00:42:46
AJ's disappearance a golf course
00:42:48
maintenance worker had called a city
00:42:50
police he reported that he had seen
00:42:52
three men forcing a fourth man into a
00:42:55
white automobile and the Parker Ajay's
00:42:57
car was found but the details were
00:42:59
sketchy and nothing ever came of it what
00:43:07
really happened AJ bro while there is
00:43:10
some evidence that he may have been
00:43:11
abducted there is no indication as to
00:43:13
why someone would kidnap him and
00:43:15
authorities now suspect that the note
00:43:18
detailing AJ's accidental suicide was a
00:43:21
mean-spirited prank
00:43:22
AJ brought this time is still listed as
00:43:26
a missing person we have no evidence of
00:43:29
foul play but of course we had no
00:43:31
evidence they just got up in the laughs
00:43:33
either so we really don't know what
00:43:34
happened to AJ it's not like him to
00:43:37
disappear and not notify us
00:43:43
the last year it's been about a year
00:43:45
since my dad's been missing and it's
00:43:47
been a very long year it feels like
00:43:50
forever it's been torture
00:43:54
Gary hoard and we wanted to you AJ bro
00:44:01
is 51 years old he is 5 feet 11 inches
00:44:04
tall and weighs approximately 155 pounds
00:44:07
he has brown eyes and brown hair
00:44:10
JJ was last seen on August 28 1991
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but our next unsolved mysteries as a
00:44:28
powa Vietnam War Colonel Charles
00:44:32
shut-ins legendary resistance earned the
00:44:34
respect of even his captors back home in
00:44:37
America
00:44:38
his family's persistence has been no
00:44:40
less inspiring for more than 25 years
00:44:43
they have fought to prove that Charles
00:44:45
Shelton was still alive long after the
00:44:47
war was over because of their efforts
00:44:50
Colonel Shelton is the only remaining
00:44:52
powa not presumed dead by our government
00:44:56
join us next week for this timely and
00:44:59
heart-rending story as we commemorate
00:45:01
Veterans Day on us all mysteries
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[Applause]
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you
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