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Mysteries when a man's nude body is
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found dumped in the woods authorities
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sift through possible motives a crime of
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passion a drug run gone wrong or a
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well-planned mafia
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hit he was a loving teacher family man
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and a local hero now he's on the Run
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charged with molesting some of his own
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students
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a lonely widower finally meets a woman
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who seems to be the answer to his
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prayers and now she's wanted for his
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murder when a US plane was shot down
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over North Africa during World War II
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everyone on board was killed but one
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family believes that Airman silven
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Lazarus survived and they have the
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photograph to prove
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it our team is standing by perhaps you
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can help solve one of our cases I'm
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Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Hamersville
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Ohio a teenager is riding his lawnmower
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back home from a job when he makes a
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shocking
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Discovery a man's body nuded and beaten
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dumped on the side of the road he is
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identified as Perman Gilbert a repair
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man who Liv lived just 7 miles from
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where the body was
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found the murder of Perman Gilbert
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shocked everyone in Hamersville he was
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easygoing and well-liked but in this
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small Ohio Town it wasn't long before
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words like drug dealers execution
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killing and crime of passion began to be
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heard Perman Gilbert was a loving
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husband and father of four his passion
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was flying his small plane but he made
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his living fixing household appliances
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like washing machines and
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refrigerators during the week Perman
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worked for a large company but on
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Saturdays he worked for himself and
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scheduled his own house
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calls when he left that Saturday morning
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it was probably
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8:30 and he said he didn't want to
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go and it just sna bothers me I uh
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that's what I remember about him leaving
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that
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morning Perman service call calls that
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Saturday morning took him to Mount Orab
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Georgetown and Aberdine Ohio all small
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towns within a few miles of his home my
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pilot when his work was done Perman
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crossed the bridge into mazille Kentucky
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he stopped at a market where a woman
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named Anne Breeze worked as a
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cashier she remembers peron's visit that
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day he
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disappeared he was always very
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neat greeted you you know very friendly
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every time you saw him I never saw the
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man down or act like he had a care in
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the
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world when Perman left the market he
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walked into the flower shop next door
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there was nothing unusual about him he
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was just a normal customer he wasn't
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nervous or anything when I when I met
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him no one knows what happened next
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Perman told his wife that he would be
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back home around 3:00 that afternoon but
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he never showed up
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then it got to be dark and he wasn't
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here it got to be midnight and I was
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scared and I was afraid to go out
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even uh I had a small child and I was
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afraid to put her in the car and go out
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looking and um then I think about 3:00
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in the morning I called one of our
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friends you know do you have you seen
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Perman uh do you know where he's at
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anything like that and they
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didn't Joanne Gilbert called the police
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but they couldn't turn up any leads her
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husband's body was found the next
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day Perman had been shot twice in the
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chest because no cloth fibers were found
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into two bullet wounds police believed
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that Perman was not wearing a shirt when
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he was killed his wallet was missing
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along with his clothes and his belt
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although Perman clothes were never found
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his van was located the next day 22 mi
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from the spot where his body
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had been
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discovered Perman Gilbert's watch was
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still hanging on the gear shift lever
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his uh tool box was in there parts and
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supplies was in place in the
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van we did uh do an inspection of the
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van and recover fingerprints and hair
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samples and at this time we've not uh
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been able to match the fingerprints and
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hair samples to anyone
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the investigation into Perman murder
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presented three possible
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scenarios I think that that whatever
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happened to him had something to do with
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drugs Perman often flew his small plane
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from a rough Landing Strip on his
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farm uh Perman told me that um he had
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been approached to fly
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drugs how's it going okay what's
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happening well we have a little favor
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we'd like to do for us we don't mind
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it's just a little trip and all we had
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to do was to uh take the airplane and
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fly it to a certain airport go in have a
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cup of coffee come back out and there
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would be money laying on the seat or
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under the
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seat forget it it's good money you guys
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don't quit bugging me I'm going to call
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these ories and it would have been easy
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money but U that's against the law and
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it was against everything that we
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believed
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in the second Theory involves peron's
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brother
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Vernon 3 months before Perman was killed
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Vernon Gilbert had agreed to appear
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before a grand jury Vernon planned to
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testify in a case against organized
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crime it should be about an hour or so
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okay about an hour
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okay Perman waited in town while his
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brother testified he began to suspect he
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had been followed that
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day I don't know of any person that
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might have been following Perman Gilbert
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and it was not any of our
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Personnel however Perman wife believes
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that he may have been the target of a
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hired
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Killer maybe my husband Knew Too
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Much maybe uh Perman was killed to lure
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his brother back to the funeral and
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because they were after him
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really and uh but then his brother
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didn't come to the funeral
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police also thought that Perman might
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have been the victim of a crime of
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passion per thanks for coming over right
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away the very nature of Perman Gilbert's
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home appliance repair business placed
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him into many many households alone with
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a family
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member uh yes I thought it was very
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attractive and uh I know other women
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were very attracted to him
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too I feel that the crime of passion
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Theory doesn't hold up because uh that's
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supposed to be something that's very
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Swift and they U beat around on him like
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someone was trying to get information
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out of him or
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something what we need now is for
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someone to come forward and help us
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Trace Perman Gilbert from that flower
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shop anyone that has seen him around the
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flower shop or in the parking lot with
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his cream and brown vanand at that time
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or later in the day we'd like to hear
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from
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I feel like there are people out there
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in the community that know what happened
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to my father and for fear of their own
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lives or other people they're afraid to
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speak up I wish that they would come
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forward and fill in those bits and
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pieces for us to help us find out what
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happened to my
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father a reward of $20,000 is being
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offered in this case if you have any
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information please log on to our website
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at unsolved.com
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next a school teacher and Local Hero is
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wanted by police for sexually assaulting
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his
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students Hayward
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California by any measure Frank
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Montenegro was a hero both of his
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parents died suddenly when he was 20
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before leaving behind Frank and five
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siblings who were all under the age of
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18 frank immediately gave up his
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Carefree life in San Diego and moved
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back to Hayward to raise his orphaned
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brothers and sisters with that because
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in the first room on the left he
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basically was kind of like an angel that
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came in there and said you know it's
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going to be all right you'll stay
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together and and you don't have to worry
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about being different places and you
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know not being taken care
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of it wasn't long before the story of
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Frank's sacrifice became national news
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did a good job on that book report today
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to support his family Frank taught
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special education at the local
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elementary school good morning gentlemen
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known affectionately as Mr Monty Frank
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Montenegro was admired and trusted by
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virtually
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everyone then a mother of a boy in
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mono's class made a strange Discovery I
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noticed in his clothes a new pair of
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underwear
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Billy who are these the're mine and I
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asked him where did you get these and he
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said my teacher Mr Monty bought them for
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me I thought that was strange why would
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a teacher at school be buying a student
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um underwear just because I couldn't
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really come up with a sensible reason
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but I just kind of kept it in the back
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of my head and a year after this had
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happened my son said um he goes I forgot
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to tell you something and I go what and
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he goes remember my teacher Mr Monty the
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one that bought me those underwear and
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stuff and I said yeah what about him he
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said
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well he raped
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me Frank Montenegro seemed to car deeply
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about children so police were faced with
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a troubling dilemma was Montenegro the
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standing citizen that he appeared to be
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or did he Prey Upon innocent
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children morning
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messages the complaint against
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Montenegro landed on the desk of
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detective Teresa Martinez she had joined
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the Freemont Police Department at the
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age of 22 and 3 years later was a
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detective assigned to the sexual assault
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unit Frank Montenegro was seen as this
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huge icon in the community and you can't
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ruin somebody's career because one child
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says it happened and you can't go into
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court and convict a guy for child molas
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or sexual assault when there's nothing
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to cooperate it do you know why you're
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here today yeah so you know about good
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touch and you know about Bad Touch yeah
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detective Martinez had enough experience
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with children to know that their
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accounts are not always accurate so she
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had to dig deeper into the boy's story
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she brought him to child specialist who
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questioned the boy further Martinez
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watched the interview on a video monitor
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you want to show me on a picture where
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he touched
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you right here and where do you call
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that spot my private
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parts what came out of that interview is
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the victim said that all the students in
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his class had seen what had
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occurred when we heard that everybody's
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opinion was okay okay we know that's not
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true okay I really appreciate despite
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her doubts Martinez interviewed all the
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children in the boys class they all
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denied seeing
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anything she decided to interview the
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boy again well I talked to the kids and
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not one of them said they saw what
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happened I want you to tell me the truth
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did any of those kids see what
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happened this time the boy admitted that
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he had lied about the other students
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seeing the assault
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he said that he was scared during the
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first interview and thought his lie
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would end the questioning but he
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insisted that everything else he said
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was true Frank Montenegro had attacked
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him you don't have to believe me but he
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did it this kid was so believable his
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demeanor wasn't one of being untruthful
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and you know he just wasn't lying and I
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believed him
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so this is Mr montenegro's classroom
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detective Martinez searched montenegro's
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classroom where the victim said the
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incident took place she found something
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that she didn't expect to find at any
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Elementary
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School through a nondescript door were
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two hidden rooms separating them a
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two-way
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mirror there should be no reason for a
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two-way mirror between those two rooms
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I'm thinking why would he need that and
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in my mind as an investigator I'm
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thinking this guy's probably filming a
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this is the computer that I was telling
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you about it's pretty nice isn't it the
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way the two rooms are set up in the back
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if Frank wants to do this with this
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child he can shut those doors and even
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if somebody walked into the classroom
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they wouldn't be able to see what was
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going
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on when martinus returned the next day
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the two-way mirror had been replaced
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with a regular pane of glass
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fearing that Montenegro might suddenly
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have become aware of her investigation
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Martinez shifted into high gear she had
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a search Warr sworn out for montenegro's
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home and when we searched his room we
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found gifts for smaller kids and books
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about sex with younger kids now we're
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starting to get some things that are
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going to help me cooperate the profile
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of a child molester over here so we can
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talk Montenegro wasn't home during the
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but a female relative was detective
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Martinez says the relative made a
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disturbing statement are you here about
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the little boy in Frankie's room I don't
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know anything about that little boy can
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you tell me more like she told me of an
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incident involving another victim that
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was found in Frank's bedroom naked I
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went to the police about 2 weeks ago
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after hearing about the possibility of a
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second incident Martinez brought
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Montenegro in for questioning it's Billy
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you're talking about is there any reason
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why Billy would say you're the one that
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molested him I know Billy he's he's he's
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he's a liar he he's always telling
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stories you why would he lie about
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something like this we talked to him for
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close to 4 hours and in that whole time
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he never denied that he did anything
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that was always you know it couldn't
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have been me not no I didn't do it it
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was more very passive
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very very clear to us that he wasn't
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being truthful you're the one that did
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this but it was still the word of a
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little boy who had already lied against
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that of a well-respected teacher for
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charges as serious as child abuse it
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wasn't enough for an arrest warrant to
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seal her case detective Martinez needed
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the testimony from a second victim she
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discovered that a neighboring Police
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Department held an outstanding complaint
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against Montenegro involving another boy
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fearing that Montenegro might take off
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Martinez raced to the school and pull
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the boy out of class for an interview so
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I'm just going to talk to you about
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Frank a little bit okay so why don't we
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come out over here to the car his eyes
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started tearing up and he looked as if
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oh my gosh I am caught I need to talk I
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knew that something had happened to that
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kid I want you to be real truthful about
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what happened detective Martinez said
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that after gentle questioning the boy
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Finally Revealed the unsettling details
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of montenegro's assault the stories he
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told me were probably some of the most
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horrific stories I'd ever heard and to
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even picture in my mind how this guy did
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these things to this little boy it made
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me
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sick am I in trouble no you're not in
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trouble at all and it broke my heart to
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see this little kid who's a a great
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little boy think that he was bad when he
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wasn't bad at all Mr Monty Martinez now
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had enough testimony to swear out a
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warrant for the arrest of Frank
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Montenegro but Montenegro was already
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gone 6 days after he was interviewed by
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police a car rented in his name was
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found abandoned More Than a, Miles Away
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in laaz Mexico montenegro's whereabouts
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are currently unknown but police believe
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that he has likely return to the United
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States it was hard for me to believe
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that he did this I still had the
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tendency like everybody else did to look
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up to my heart has to go out to these
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children
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that this has been done to because their
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innocence has been taken away from
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them I don't think just because he had a
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close running with the law that that
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would motivate him or Scare him to stop
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his
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actions that obsession is still with him
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wherever he goes and I hate to think
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that other kids are going through what
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my son went through
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update an arrest has been made in this
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case here's one of our staff with
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details after 14 years on the Run FBI
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agents from The bureau's Fugitive task
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force acted on a tip from the Los
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Angeles Police Department and tracked
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Montenegro to Los Angeles about 450 mi
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from Hayward after a foot pursuit and
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struggle with FBI agents Montenegro Now
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52 was taken into custody he faces
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multiple counts of child abuse with a
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minor
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next was Charles Lindberg the first
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pilot to fly across the Atlantic well
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some say that two French Pilots made it
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first Paris France May 21st
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1927 Charles Lindberg electrified the
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World by being the first pilot to fly
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nonstop Ross the Atlantic Ocean from New
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York to
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Paris few people realized that roughly 2
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weeks before Lindberg completed his
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historic flight two French Pilots
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Charles nungesser and Francois Ki tried
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to upstage Lindberg by flying across the
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Atlantic their plane was called the
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white
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bird the white bird took off from an
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Airfield near Paris on May 8th 1927 and
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headed for New York it was last seen by
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escort planes as it crossed the coast of
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France and headed out over the vast
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Atlantic it was never seen
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again most experts assumed the plane
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simply crashed that sea then almost 50
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years later Jim Reed a local Hunter was
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deep in the main Woods when he came
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across something strange
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I saw something that just didn't look
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right I thought it was a boulder at
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first and then shortly thereafter I went
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up and I probed around and it was a
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engine an aircraft
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engine I was a mechanic and uh was
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definitely not a diesel engine or an
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automobile
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engine the cooling elements the way it
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was built indicated to me it was an
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aircraft
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engine although Jim was never able to
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relocate the engine some believe that he
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may have stumbled upon the last remains
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of the white bird perhaps he had found
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the elusive proof that the French Pilots
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actually did cross the Atlantic two
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weeks before Charles
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Lindberg it's very much like trying to
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assemble a jigsaw
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puzzle little bit by little bit the
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Pieces come together and make a picture
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and we have enough of a picture now to
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convince us that we're on to the trail
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Rick Gillespie and his wife Pat Thrasher
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are aircraft archaeologists who have
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been searching for the white bird for
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years using an infrared scanner they
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flew over the main Woods where the
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engine had been SED they were looking
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for traces of metal that might indicate
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the white Bird's crash site but most of
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their leads came from talking to
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people Rick and Pat interviewed longtime
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main residents who claim to have seen or
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heard the white bird back in
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1927 I was outside and all of a sudden
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this plane was overhead you heard the
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aircraft I heard the
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airplane Harold Vining believes that he
00:22:44
heard the white bird on its final flight
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at that time we was all keyed up
00:22:50
listening for
00:22:53
Lindberg due to the fact that this plane
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was traveling in the wrong direction it
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couldn't have been
00:23:02
Lindberg I out chopping
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wood when I heard this plane go
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over and I honestly believe that that's
00:23:11
the first plane that I ever heard in my
00:23:14
life that's why it is so outstanding in
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my
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mind not knowing that it was these
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French people trying and make history I
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just paid no attention do
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it it was real foggy for several days I
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remember the day well Maurice Barry's
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cousin Anon was fishing when he too
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heard a plane fly over and then heard
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its engine
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stop Anon said that he heard a ripping
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cve I believe the man I believe what he
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said and and uh I fully
00:24:01
believe that that airplane is down there
00:24:05
somewhere you just haven't stumbled on
00:24:10
it the team searched one of the possible
00:24:13
crash sites where the old-timers said
00:24:16
they heard the plane there they
00:24:18
Unearthed a strange fragment of wood hey
00:24:23
Pat eventually Rick and his team found
00:24:26
23 more fragments of the same strip
00:24:30
together they formed a length of 2 m the
00:24:33
exact width of the white Bird's
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Wing we will continue on the project as
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long as it seems reasonable to do it
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what has kept us going in the past has
00:24:44
been that new information keeps coming
00:24:46
out that corroborates what's come before
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and there's very much a feeling of
00:24:52
getting closer and closer closer
00:25:00
since this story aired the search for
00:25:02
the white bird has shifted to the Avalon
00:25:05
Peninsula in newfinland Canada
00:25:08
researchers have found some promising
00:25:09
leads but have yet to come up with the
00:25:11
Smoking Gun the engine from the white
00:25:16
bird coming up a lonely widower finally
00:25:19
meets the perfect woman now he's dead
00:25:23
and she's wanted for murder
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Boer City
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Louisiana
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hello yeah um I'd like to put an ad in
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the personals on an ordinary summer day
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A Woman calling herself Diana Ray places
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an ad in the personal section of a
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Louisiana newspaper honest and
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hardworking and seeking a compatible
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single white male for 45 to
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55 to enjoy life
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together the woman using the name Diana
00:26:07
Ray certainly wasn't the first person to
00:26:09
lie in a personal ad a bit of
00:26:12
exaggeration a few omissions they're all
00:26:14
part of the game but miss Ray had
00:26:17
something more than romance in mind and
00:26:19
she soon found a
00:26:22
Target Charles Barker was lonely and
00:26:25
distraught he was still grieving the
00:26:27
sudden death of his wife of 10 years she
00:26:31
was killed by a drunk driver it was a
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settlement out of court and uh he came
00:26:36
into a lot of money but after she died
00:26:39
it just seemed like he kind of fell
00:26:42
apart um he didn't know what to do with
00:26:44
himself I
00:26:46
think he was depressed but then later on
00:26:50
he it's like he snapped out of it and
00:26:51
wanted to do things go fishing and
00:26:53
travel he bought a Winnebago a
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boat I guess that's when when the
00:26:58
loneliness set in you know he didn't
00:27:00
like doing them by
00:27:02
himself come on a casino on the Red
00:27:05
River in Louisiana became Charles
00:27:08
Barker's latest diversion he probably
00:27:11
believed that he met Diana by chance but
00:27:14
given her track record it's likely that
00:27:16
it was all a setup is this seat taken
00:27:20
well it is now isn't it is I just took
00:27:23
it Charles Parker carried pretty large
00:27:26
amounts of cash with him she was would
00:27:28
have almost certainly noticed that
00:27:30
because she'd be looking for those kinds
00:27:32
of things you look like you're doing
00:27:33
pretty good over there and so he would
00:27:35
have become a target for her you know
00:27:38
what I might ask you to help me cuz I'm
00:27:40
not doing too good here well your hand
00:27:42
looks pretty good right now let's see
00:27:44
less than a year after the death of his
00:27:46
wife Charles was swept up in a whirlwind
00:27:49
romance with Diana she moved into his
00:27:52
house just days after they met for the
00:27:55
first time here we are oh it's so
00:27:57
adorable I love love it well Dad told me
00:28:00
he had met a woman in a
00:28:02
casino you know I didn't think anything
00:28:04
of it you know I just I hope he was
00:28:07
happy and I don't want to see him alone
00:28:09
you know I thought maybe she uh would be
00:28:12
a good companion for him and evidently
00:28:15
he was happy with her for a while cuz he
00:28:17
would call me and say he liked her you
00:28:20
going carry me over the thresold well
00:28:22
I'm going to give it one good old try
00:28:24
I'll tell you that much he needed
00:28:26
someone some companionship ship he
00:28:28
didn't like to be
00:28:30
alone so you're looking really good dad
00:28:32
tell me about this one weekend Jennifer
00:28:34
made the 9-hour drive from her Austin
00:28:36
Texas home to meet her father's new
00:28:39
girlfriend hey sugar I'm all out of ammo
00:28:42
oh hun Dan I want you to meet my my
00:28:44
daughter Jennifer oh hi Jennifer Deana
00:28:46
nice to meet you so are you from around
00:28:49
here I'm from all around she was a very
00:28:51
you know a real presentable woman you
00:28:53
know um just no class okay it's nice to
00:28:55
meet you it's nice to meting you she
00:28:57
look like a bar fly you know I was
00:28:59
suspicious of her I knew she she wasn't
00:29:02
right for
00:29:04
him daddy what's going on a short time
00:29:06
later even Charles apparently began to
00:29:09
think the same thing one big old messy
00:29:11
situation here according to his daughter
00:29:13
Cindy Charles admitted he was having
00:29:15
trouble with Diana but refused to
00:29:18
provide any
00:29:19
details next week we'll get together I
00:29:22
promise you and I'll sit down with you
00:29:24
and I'll tell you everything when my dad
00:29:25
called me he just sounded so different
00:29:28
and um he started crying and I've never
00:29:30
you know heard my uh dad cry or anything
00:29:34
I I can help but he told me he called me
00:29:35
in 2 3 days everything would be okay and
00:29:37
let me know what was going
00:29:39
on but that call never came Jennifer
00:29:43
tried to get in touch with her father to
00:29:45
arrange another
00:29:46
visit I'd been trying to phone him for
00:29:49
the whole
00:29:51
week and um no answer and I finally
00:29:55
called my aunt and she said we'll go by
00:29:57
there and check on
00:29:59
Charles sister June and her husband
00:30:02
drove over to see if there was a problem
00:30:05
Charlie
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Charlie Jun Stringer and her husband
00:30:11
notice that the front door of the
00:30:13
residence is open so they proceed
00:30:16
further the husband looks in and sees Mr
00:30:20
Barker slumped Over the
00:30:23
Bar Charles had been dead for 5 days
00:30:26
killed by a single gunshot wound to the
00:30:30
head as police worked the crime scene
00:30:33
they made several
00:30:35
observations our detectives found no
00:30:37
sign of a struggle they did not find a
00:30:40
house that had been
00:30:42
ransacked Mr Barker had a 25 caliber
00:30:45
Raven arms pistol that he kept in his
00:30:48
residence there were no prints found on
00:30:51
the gun but the ballistics evidence uh
00:30:55
indicates that that was the weapon that
00:30:57
was used
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Mr Barker had a safe that he kept in his
00:31:01
bedroom uh the safe was opened when
00:31:04
investigators
00:31:06
arrived except for a few stocks and
00:31:08
bonds the safe was
00:31:11
empty I know for a fact that my dad
00:31:14
always kept money in there and at that
00:31:17
time I believe he probably had
00:31:20
$45,000 at least and that
00:31:23
safe Charles Barker's Lincoln Town Car
00:31:26
was missing and so was his girlfriend
00:31:28
who authorities soon identified as a con
00:31:31
artist named Hazel head Mr Barker's
00:31:35
vehicle was found the next day after his
00:31:38
body was discovered it was found uh near
00:31:42
the airport inside the car were pieces
00:31:46
of clothing uh that belonged to Hazel
00:31:49
also found in the car was DNA evidence
00:31:52
physical evidence that we believe
00:31:55
definitely links her to the car we
00:31:58
believe she is the one that took the car
00:32:00
from his residence and drove it to that
00:32:02
spot near the
00:32:03
airport a background check on Hazel head
00:32:06
revealed that she'd married as many as
00:32:08
10 times and was known to use more than
00:32:11
a dozen aliases there was also an
00:32:14
outstanding warrant for her arrest in
00:32:16
Lincoln
00:32:17
Nebraska there she had allegedly burned
00:32:20
down her boyfriend's home and then fled
00:32:22
before standing
00:32:24
trial did hazelhead murder Charles bar
00:32:28
and escape with all of his cash had this
00:32:31
been her plan from the very
00:32:33
beginning our investigators theorized
00:32:36
that Mr Barker was probably at the bar
00:32:38
reading the
00:32:40
newspaper Hazel came out of the bedroom
00:32:44
with the gun the 25 caliber he didn't
00:32:47
realize that she was behind
00:32:52
him we believe that Mr Barker probably
00:32:55
never knew what hit him
00:32:58
hazelhead is known to frequent truck
00:33:00
stops often hitching rides from town to
00:33:03
town I heard you say he going to Dallas
00:33:06
she is 5' 2 in and has a scar near her
00:33:10
right eye and a gap in her front teeth
00:33:13
she is wanted for the first-degree
00:33:15
murder of Charles Barker and should be
00:33:17
considered dangerous if you have any
00:33:21
information about this case please log
00:33:23
on to our website at unsolved.com
00:33:31
coming up a family search for a young
00:33:33
Airman lost during World War
00:33:44
I Greenville
00:33:46
Tennessee in the summer of 1924
00:33:49
sharecropper Rufus hle was forced to
00:33:52
make an agonizing
00:33:54
decision his wife had died after giving
00:33:57
birth to twin girls Mary and Martha with
00:34:00
little money and nine other Ms to feed
00:34:03
Rufus was forced to put the twins up for
00:34:09
adoption within a few months Mary and
00:34:12
Martha were adopted by separate families
00:34:15
Rufus never saw his daughters again he
00:34:18
died in 1950 we call him mared later on
00:34:21
I heard that they would not tell us
00:34:24
where they were at until my father died
00:34:28
so shortly after he died we started
00:34:31
looking for the Twins and we found
00:34:35
Mary in September of
00:34:37
1955 shorty and Mary were reunited at
00:34:41
her home in Bluefield West
00:34:43
Virginia that afternoon Mary received a
00:34:47
special surprise Mary I've got some news
00:34:49
for
00:34:50
you you have a twin sister named
00:34:53
Martha really
00:34:56
really I just don't can't explain how I
00:34:58
did feel not knowing that I had a a twin
00:35:02
sister AP part of
00:35:05
me however Martha's whereabouts remained
00:35:09
a
00:35:10
mystery I've often wondered if it's been
00:35:12
good or if Martha's life has been
00:35:16
bad you wonder about them
00:35:18
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00:35:21
things
00:35:22
update shortly after we broadcast this
00:35:25
story one of our viewers came forward
00:35:28
with information about Mary's twin
00:35:30
sister Martha hle Martha had been raised
00:35:33
by the Dan Jackson Family of Johnson
00:35:36
County Georgia in 1940 she married James
00:35:40
tonis these are their four Sons but
00:35:43
Martha herself passed away weeks before
00:35:46
this story went on the
00:35:49
air I'm glad that that I found her we
00:35:52
won't have to do no more
00:35:55
searching but it's so sad that I
00:35:57
couldn't met her that that I couldn't be
00:35:59
with her just to talk to her just for
00:36:02
just for air or two and tell her that I
00:36:05
Lov
00:36:09
her although Mary Carter never met her
00:36:12
twin sister she did find Martha's
00:36:15
extended family at a Bittersweet reunion
00:36:18
the two families finally came together
00:36:21
as
00:36:25
one as world I raged in Europe an
00:36:29
American B24 took off from Morocco in
00:36:32
North Africa on a non-combat mission for
00:36:35
reasons that have still not been
00:36:37
explained it crashed into a msde the
00:36:40
entire crew was lost among the victims
00:36:43
were three Airmen silven Lazarus Carl
00:36:46
Cobb and Bernard Brady for more than 50
00:36:50
years they have been the center of a
00:36:52
perplexing
00:36:53
mystery 3 months after the crash a
00:36:56
Baltimore News paper ran this photograph
00:36:59
of a German officer interrogating four
00:37:02
American
00:37:03
PS three of them were identified by
00:37:06
their families as Lazarus Cobb and
00:37:11
Brady the winter of 1943 was an anxious
00:37:14
time for the Lazarus family on December
00:37:17
14th they learned that their oldest son
00:37:20
silvin was missing an action 3 weeks
00:37:24
later their worst nightmare became
00:37:26
reality
00:37:30
Dad it's your
00:37:33
brother he's dead at the time sven's
00:37:37
brother Arnold was 17 years old and we
00:37:40
were devastated absolutely devastated I
00:37:44
mean my brother was such a great guy
00:37:47
he's he was loved by everybody very very
00:37:49
outgoing family
00:37:51
oriented and to lose somebody like that
00:37:54
is it's
00:37:56
devastating there's no other word I
00:37:58
could
00:38:00
use according to the official report on
00:38:04
December 8th 1943 silvin and 13 other
00:38:07
men boarded the B24 on the east coast of
00:38:11
Africa the plane was bound for
00:38:13
Casablanca in Morocco it went down in
00:38:16
the rugged Atlas
00:38:19
Mountains the report concluded that
00:38:21
Lazarus Cobb and Brady were all buried
00:38:24
with the rest of the crew in a mass
00:38:26
grave
00:38:28
as the months went by the Lazarus family
00:38:30
tried to cope with the loss of svin and
00:38:33
then on March 17th
00:38:36
1944 the mysterious photograph appeared
00:38:39
in the Baltimore mirror
00:38:42
ana ana their grief turned to confusion
00:38:46
then to Hope prisoners of Germany
00:38:49
captured after their planes were shot
00:38:50
down over the we were shocked uh I mean
00:38:53
there was no question about it that one
00:38:55
of the Airmen was definitely my brother
00:38:58
his eyes his
00:39:01
posture the way he stood at a certain
00:39:04
certain way uh was definitely him
00:39:09
definitely the family began to wonder if
00:39:12
silven had survived but the photo was
00:39:15
confusing the prisoners were supposedly
00:39:18
being interrogated by a Nazi officer in
00:39:21
North Africa but the Germans had been
00:39:23
driven from Morocco 7 months before the
00:39:26
crash
00:39:28
sven's father was convinced that there
00:39:30
was much more to the story he got the
00:39:32
names of the 13 other Airmen killed in
00:39:35
the crash and sent a copy of the photo
00:39:37
to each family Bernard Brady of New York
00:39:40
and Carl Cobb of Cynthiana Kentucky were
00:39:43
identified in the photo by their
00:39:46
families my father wanted more answers
00:39:51
and he uh he wrote back and forth to the
00:39:55
government my father even contacted the
00:39:58
Red Cross trying to get
00:40:01
answers but it was all in
00:40:05
vain the Lazarus family now believes
00:40:08
that sven's plane may have been shot
00:40:10
down during a secret mission behind
00:40:12
German lines in Europe not in Africa
00:40:16
they also believe that some of the
00:40:18
crewmen managed to parachute the safety
00:40:21
only to be taken prisoner by the Nazis
00:40:24
silven Cobb and Brady could have been
00:40:26
photog phed while being interrogated
00:40:29
about their mission the Lazarus family
00:40:32
fears that silven may have been singled
00:40:34
out because of his ethnic
00:40:37
Heritage my theory is the Germans found
00:40:42
out that my brother was
00:40:44
Jewish and I believe that they violated
00:40:47
the
00:40:49
Geneva
00:40:51
Convention by rights he should have been
00:40:54
put into a p camp
00:40:58
but I don't believe that that happened I
00:41:00
I believe that he was put into a
00:41:02
concentration camp
00:41:04
instead although it has been more than
00:41:07
60 years since silven Lazarus was last
00:41:10
seen alive his family continues to
00:41:12
search for Clues to his
00:41:16
fate having seen the
00:41:18
photograph we cannot help but wonder
00:41:22
what really happened to him couldn't
00:41:24
have been killed in a
00:41:26
crash so what happened to him that's
00:41:28
what we want to find
00:41:30
[Music]
00:41:32
out update shortly after this story
00:41:36
aired a viewer called to report that he
00:41:39
was one of the rescue workers who
00:41:41
responded to the crash of the B24 in the
00:41:43
Atlas Mountains of North Africa he spoke
00:41:47
by telephone to the missing airman's
00:41:49
brother Arnold Lazarus and told him that
00:41:52
the plane had struck the mountain with
00:41:54
such force that no one could have
00:41:56
survived the impact before he passed
00:41:59
away Arnold Lazarus realized that the
00:42:02
man in the photo was not his brother SV
00:42:06
it was in fact a case of mistaken
00:42:09
identity
00:42:25
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00:42:40
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