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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 are about to see is not a news
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broadcast it was one of the boldest
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breakouts of Oklahoma history 19 year
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old Travis Duncan and two escaped
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prisoners led state troopers on a
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frantic high-speed chase that ended in a
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wild shootout and Travis Duncan's
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disappearance for more than three years
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Stephen Murphy was searched for his wife
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Doreen she mysteriously vanished in 1990
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but police believe Marr feels concern is
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a clever smokescreen intended to cover
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up his own involvement in his wife's
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disappearance for 500 years has been one
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of the world's most famous portraits
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Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa but her
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identity has long been a mystery tonight
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a controversial new theory could the
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person behind the enigmatic smile
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Leonardo himself when Raymond young
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vanished off the coast of Louisiana his
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family assumed he a drowned but
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authorities are convinced that young is
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very much alive and enjoying the good
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life thanks to millions of dollars scam
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from the government join me for these
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intriguing cases perhaps you may be able
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to help solve a mystery
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this story is about one of law
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enforcement worst nightmares three young
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criminals on the road with a truck full
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of weapons and nothing to lose at the
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apex of this explosive triangle was
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nineteen year old Travis Wade Duncan
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whose family had lived in Central
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Oklahoma for four generations in more
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than a hundred years not one of the
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Duncan's had ever been in trouble with
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the law until Travis came along in April
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of 1992
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Travis Duncan was an apprentice auto
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repairman in Seminole Oklahoma he had
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just moved into his own apartment after
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one minor legal scrape in Texas Travis
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had maintained an excellent work record
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for nearly a year
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Travis was a quiet young man he'd
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getting little mischief now in the end
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but growing up he was he was a good kid
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and you know from a good family there
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but in June of 1992
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Travis Duncan was arrested for stealing
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guns from his employer
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Travis claimed he had bought the guns he
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said he had no idea they were stolen
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much less stolen from his boss
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bail was set at $25,000 Duncan's family
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could not afford to post bond and he was
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incarcerated at the Seminole County Jail
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and you go he appeared to be a little
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nervous to be in jail Travis was the
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kind it was very quiet and he never did
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cause any trouble at all he was just a
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real quiet type kind of kept to herself
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another prisoner at the jail was 19-year
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old John Fisher according to law
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enforcement officials Fisher was by
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turns charismatic Fisher was arrested on
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a murder charge first degree murder
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John's goal in life was to be the drug
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lord of Oklahoma
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he was constantly fantasizing about and
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telling and bragging to other people
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that he was in with the Madine cartel of
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South America that he had bukoza money
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just any amounts you had he had several
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accounts that had hundreds of thousands
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of dollars in it most people knew he was
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fantasizing the Travis Duncan was not
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most people naive and gullible
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he was an easy mark for John Fisher the
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two would forge an unholy alliance
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getting out here
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I got $200,000 in a bank in Oklahoma I
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got guns I got a car everything Fisher
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was the kind that would look you right
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in the face and tell you exactly how you
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felt he was a leader among the other
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inmates he everybody looked up to him
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Oklahoma's mine six months out of here
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Oklahoma's mine I always considered
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Fisher to be an escapist just by his
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actions and he would come straight out
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and admit it that he would escape if he
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had the chance
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i'ma run this place for weeks John
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Fisher filled Travis Duncan's head with
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his wild ideas then on August 18th 1992
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Duncan's bail was reduced after his
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Paris hired a new lawyer
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Travis Duncan was released on the
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condition that he lived with his mother
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and father but Duncan insisted on moving
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back to his own apartment over his Paris
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objections he took his sister's pickup
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truck and left no one knows where Travis
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Duncan went only what he did
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travels manufactured Molotov cocktails
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different things loaded up the back end
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of the pickup with all types of
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ammunition nine-millimeter pistols
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shotguns all different types thanks some
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camping equipment and food water things
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to live off of if they had to hide out
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for a while
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Seminole County Jail 5:30 p.m. the next
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day hey you mind if I go overlooked at
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Travis's pickup absolutely not just
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finish up what you're doing Clint hey
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Travis hey you want some cigarettes yeah
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when he pulled the down on me I was
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frightened he also told me if I didn't
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cooperate with him that he would shoot
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me this job ain't worth your life me
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Duncan was familiar with a jail routine
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he knew that at this hour only the
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jailer would be on duty
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Duncan quickly found the keys to the
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other cell he lost no time freeing John
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Fisher as you tried to turn the escape
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into a mass jailbreak but only one other
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person Timothy Johnson who was willing I
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think he came as a surprise to Fisher
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that Travis did this showing up it's
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just the quick moment that he did we
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were prepared for a break for an escape
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from the inside we'd never dreamed of
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one coming from the outside on us it was
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approximately 30 minutes before we newly
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escaped any general broadcast was sent
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out over the escape with the vehicle
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description and the occupants the Howard
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trolls police units upon the interstate
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if the muffled radar running high rate
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of speed and we were able to monitor the
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the traffic at that point in no
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who they were after about certain
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texture
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on August 19th I was notified by my
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troop headquarters of a vehicle
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traveling at high speed on i-40 the
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vehicle was occupied by three white
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males and we set up a roadblock to
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attempt to intercept the vehicle as it
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came through as they came around the
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curve got them a visual sighting our
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roadblock
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driver Travis Duncan and accelerated to
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about 100 miles an hour
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I jump in that Pro car began pursuing
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the ticket
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they continued East oh man holy bring
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bet 100 miles an hour's I thought it fit
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get Fisher begin doing that the wounded
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and shotgun and micro cars on this
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pursuit
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every time he may not try to draw a bead
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on my unit then I would go to the left
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or the driver's side a particular get as
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far over as I could the other minor fire
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this is something that you expect to see
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on the movies that you don't really
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expect it to happen to you by 7:30 p.m.
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the three fugitives heading due east and
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rampaged along a 150 mile stretch of
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interstate 40 at speeds of up to 100
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miles per hour
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just 24 miles from the Arkansas
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headed for Turley an area which the
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troopers knew well that the fugitives
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did not
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we exited the interstate started south
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on the county road as we did this year I
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mean that the passenger
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up in the air Aki
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there was something through the
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windshield pro-gard
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that multiple failed to ignite because
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hit the road the wind the high-speed
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blew the wick out of Dumas motoring
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seconds later Fischer loves another
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homemade bomb out of the truck into
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failed two different
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as we entered the park area I began to
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crowd on a high rate of speed again to
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push him he came to making a left
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turning back to the east at that point I
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had them going straight south into a
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closed area where there was a big steel
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gate and I knew they'd have to either
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stop at the gate or they would crash
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through this heavy steel gate a fierce
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firefight broke out incredibly no one
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was wounded
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even though 70 rounds were fired the
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vehicle had over 2,000 rounds of
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ammunition in it after it crashed there
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were about seven multi Hills and some
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pipe or black powder pipe bombs in the
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vehicle
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there were firearms that were there was
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camping gear so they had every
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intentions of going to the woods and not
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returning to jail don't have time to
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fear anything the Adrenaline's pumping
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so hard with your minds rushing you know
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I hope I told my kids that I loved them
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before I came to work today around 7:45
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p.m.
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Fisher Duncan and Johnson fled into the
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woods unwitting they'e trapped
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themselves on a peninsula jutting into
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the lake
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by nightfall the State Highway Patrol
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working with local law enforcement
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agencies and attempted to seal off all
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possible escape routes
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finally the Oklahoma Lake patrol was
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called in just before 10 p.m.
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Fisher and Johnson were cornered they
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claimed Travis Duncan had been shot and
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was lying dead in the water but later
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they admitted that Duncan had in fact
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gone off on his own I transported mr.
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Fisher back to the County Jail in my
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patrol car as we pulled into the county
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jail mr. Fisher looked me in the eye and
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he said you know you really are a nice
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guy he said I don't want you to take
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this all personally said for people like
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me and you this is all in a day's work
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which I stated it may be in a day's work
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for him but it isn't definitely not in a
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normal day's work for me we kept the
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area contained for nearly three days
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hoping to find Duncan we use tracking
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dogs we did searches and Kacie had in
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fact been shot and was down in the woods
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the place has been thoroughly combed it
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was combed in a grid search area over
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and over again
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had a mounted patrol and they're on
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horseback to search all the wood areas
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to no avail we're unable to locate him
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no signs that he's in there there was no
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evidence to indicate that he'd been shot
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one month later police discovered a
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badly decomposed male body on the south
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shore of Kerr Lake he was a missing
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camper who'd been shot through the head
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that approximately the same time Travis
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Duncan disappeared police now theorized
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that Duncan swam across the lake he then
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murdered the camper and used his truck
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to escape update on may 5th 1994
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Travis Wade Duncan finally came home to
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Seminole County Oklahoma five days after
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he was arrested in Boise Idaho thanks to
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a tip from an alert viewer Duncan's life
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on the run is finally okay we believe
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that he went from Oklahoma to North or
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South Carolina has went into Washington
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and Oregon went to Hawaii was in Arizona
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prior to being arrested in Boise Idaho
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so he had traveled around doing odd jobs
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living from one state to another once in
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custody
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Duncan willingly revealed the details of
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his escape from Curley Travis told me
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that after the crash he stayed in the
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woods traveled through the woods until
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he came to the edge of the water on Kerr
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Lake
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he stayed hid in the bushes until about
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an hour after dark and then he swam a
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Cove which would be approximately a half
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mile wide and then came up and stayed in
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the tree line and walked a mountain lion
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out then he was able to catch a ride and
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go east from that area I'm delighted
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that he's behind bars that kind of ends
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this story and I'm completely satisfied
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with the results that nobody was injured
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he was apprehended and he's facing the
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years and Penitentiary that he's looking
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at
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Oh September 10th 1991 detective Pat
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Brennan of the Philadelphia Police was
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stunned to receive not one but three
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telephone calls from a convicted rapist
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named Julius Patterson out of the blue
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Patterson confessed that he and his
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girlfriend paulette height had killed
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two people
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it was like a man on a mission he was
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apt to convince me and anyone else that
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would listen to him that what he had to
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say was real and he was out to make the
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police act on it with this urgency in
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his voice and in the detail to what he
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was saying to us just made me feel that
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everything he was saying was the truth
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and would be found in Patterson said one
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of the victims was an elderly man named
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Hall Luther Gordon who had mysteriously
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disappeared in 1988 Patterson claimed
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that the remains of the other victim
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could be found buried in the basement of
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a Philadelphia row house incredible he
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even admitted that this victim was his
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own sisters
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Judis patterson have been telling the
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truth testing would later confirm that
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the bones found in the basement were
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those of his mentally handicapped
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younger sister Jess's these pictures of
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julius patterson and paul at height were
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taken by a bank ATM camera in 1991
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authorities believe that the pair may
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have stolen as much as one hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars in Social
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Security benefits from their two victims
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both before and after they were murdered
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following our most recent broadcast of
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the story a former employer Paulette
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Hite called our phone center to report
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that Hyde had been working in a
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fast-food restaurant and Cliffside Park
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New Jersey under an assumed name here's
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what happened next
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according to Philadelphia Police
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lieutenant Joseph Witte it gave us a
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social security number she used in the
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FBI track that social security number to
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a wasp player recipient in New York City
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FBI agents in New York City Police
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Department state that the location where
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she was to pick up her checks at that
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time both Julius Patterson and Paulette
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hight were apprehended
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after the arrest judas patterson led
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police to this empty warehouse in North
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Philadelphia where he said he had left
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the partial remains of paul luther
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Gordon police records confirm that some
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human bones had been found there in 1989
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the police now believed that they were
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the remains of Hall Luthor Gorton three
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weeks later
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Patterson led police back to the same
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area claiming that he had buried yet
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another victim there during the search
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the unexpected happened
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wide behind the factory he saw one of
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the detectives knocking him down and
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then ran down the railroad Jason
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railroad tracks and jumped off a
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railroad trestle was about ten feet tall
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onto a street and made his escape
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three days later Julius Patterson was
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captured at an intersection in North
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Philadelphia when he was apprehended
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Patterson was standing at a bus stop
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wearing severed handcuffs concealed
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under a coat
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next a startling new theory about the
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model for one of the world's great
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paintings of Mona Lisa her face is smart
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of captured imaginations for nearly 500
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years she has aspire poets painters and
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musicians alike she is of course the
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Mona Lisa a masterwork of the master
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artist Leonardo da Vinci
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through the centuries millions have been
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drawn to the mystery and beauty
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surrounding the portrait accepted art
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history has it that the model for the
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Mona Lisa was the wife of a wealthy
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Italian lord some say that the loss of a
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child accounts for her sad captivating
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expression but no one knows for sure
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according to legend Leonardo da Vinci
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was so enamored of the Mona Lisa that he
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carried the painting with him everywhere
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he went for the last two decades of his
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life when he passed away in 1519 the
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secret of the Mona Lisa's identity went
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with him to the grave
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providing generations of scholars fodder
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for a lively debate recently however a
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computer analysis of the portrait may
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have uncovered a startling clue the Mona
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Lisa's identity a clue which is set the
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art world on his ear liliane Schwartz
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co-author the computer artists handbook
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pioneered the use of the computer in art
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in 1986 Lillian and a colleague were
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working with a new computer program
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which involved comparing to digitized
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images all right and would you call me
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when you get something we can look at
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okay by pure coincidence Lillian had fed
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into the computer a self-portrait of
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Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa when
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the self-portrait was reversed and
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placed beside the Mona Lisa a single
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face emerged
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the results left Lillian Schwartz
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flabbergasted this was an incredible
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match when I pointed this out I said my
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god I can look at this look at this I
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mean Leonardo probably used himself for
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the model for the Mona Lisa and he's an
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odd no no he didn't want to agree you
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didn't even look at the screen he didn't
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want he didn't want to accept that
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everything about the two faces appeared
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to be a perfect match the eyes the nose
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finally and especially the mouth using a
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different computer
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Lillian even managed to turn up the
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corners of the self-portraits mouth and
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approximate the famous Mona Lisa's smile
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in addition a comparison of the
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foreheads revealed a baffling curiosity
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an extremely important clue was that the
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supraorbital Ridge that is very
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prominent in the Mona Lisa image and in
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Leonardo self-portrait is found in
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almost all males over 90 percent males
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rarely would you see that in a female
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head
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the conclusions seem preposterous at
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lien owner perpetrated an incredible
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practical joke and actually served as
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the model for the woman often deemed the
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world's most beautiful in January of
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1987
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Lillian Schwartz took her findings to
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magazine publisher Lake Allison
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initially I was very skeptical of
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Lillian's discovery but when I got to
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understand the very detailed work being
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done in the laboratory it started to
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make not only sense to me that this was
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the answer but as we got to know more
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about human facial characteristics that
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it was the only answer there's certain
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things that right away would puzzle an
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art historian one is that the images
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Leonardo's images say the Mona Lisa is
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remarkable precisely for the fact that
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it's not very distinct the outlines of
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the face are not very strongly marked
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there's a shadow under the nose so you
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can't tell exactly how long it is so if
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one wants to apply a scale there's
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nothing that tells you exactly where
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that scale should go in other words
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you're placing something very specific
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on top of something that's not very
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specific
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professor Brandt is also skeptical about
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whether the drawing is a self-portrait
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if the drawing is by Leonardo its style
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suggests a date when he would not yet
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have looked so old some in the art will
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believe the portrait was actually drawn
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by a clever forgery
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so Lillian how's it going well I found
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something really interesting here
00:24:42
Lillian Schwartz refused to back down in
00:24:45
the face of mounting criticism she set
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up to prove her theory compared that
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eventually Lillian came across this
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study of an italian duchess named
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Isabella that many believe was a
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preliminary sketch for the Mona Lisa
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when Lillian compared the drawing of
00:25:02
Isabella to an x-ray of the painting she
00:25:05
found that it matched an under sketch
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that people had always assumed was the
00:25:09
Mona Lisa for Lillian it was the final
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crucial detail I'm convinced that
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Leonardo started with Isabella and then
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he used himself to complete this work of
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art
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changed much of what was the Duchess
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incorporating his own dimensions and
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forehead to create this feigned this
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fictionalized face when you take all the
00:25:43
evidence of art history all the things
00:25:47
we know about Leonardo when you take the
00:25:50
technical applications of Lillian's work
00:25:53
Lillian's theory holds up on reflection
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I am more convinced than ever that is
00:26:01
the answer
00:26:03
however professor Kathleen Bratz argues
00:26:06
that most everything about Lillian's
00:26:07
theory conflicts with Leonardo's own
00:26:10
philosophy about art Leonardo cautioned
00:26:14
artists that every painter somehow
00:26:17
paints himself that is that his own
00:26:20
self-image is somehow inherent in his
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images of others Leonardo says we have
00:26:27
to try to counteract that so therefore
00:26:30
it would be absolutely a contradiction
00:26:33
he would should willingly impose his
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image into that of a young woman at
00:26:41
Leonardo da Vinci serve as his own model
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for the world's most celebrated painting
00:26:45
or have some scholar as an artist jump
00:26:47
to hasty conclusions
00:26:50
for 500 years people have wondered who
00:26:53
posed for the Mona Lisa yet she has
00:26:56
refused to divulge her secrets perhaps
00:26:58
that is why she is smiling
00:27:04
what we returned a grieving husband
00:27:07
becomes a suspect to the mysterious
00:27:09
disappearance of his wife I had nothing
00:27:12
to do with my wife's disappearance I
00:27:14
would like to think that she stay alive
00:27:17
but I do feel that it's possible they
00:27:20
could go the other way too
00:27:21
I want to know that she is alive ray on
00:27:37
March 29th 1990 Stephen Murphy of
00:27:40
Johnston Rhode Island came home from
00:27:42
work to find his house oddly silent
00:27:44
empty a small suitcase was missing and
00:27:49
Stephens wife of 12 years Doreen was
00:27:51
nowhere to be found
00:27:54
bring I started looking for the clothes
00:27:57
I noticed some jeans a couple of shirts
00:27:59
are missing losses I checked a small
00:28:04
safe that we used to have and I noticed
00:28:06
that there's some money out of that
00:28:08
there's probably a few hundred and here
00:28:09
that was going other than that there was
00:28:12
the car was in the yard there were no
00:28:14
notes the old letter is nothing doreen
00:28:21
morphia was 34 years old when she
00:28:22
disappeared since then there have been
00:28:25
several unconfirmed sightings of her but
00:28:27
beyond that nothing no phone calls no
00:28:30
paper trail no body
00:28:32
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00:28:35
over the past three years Stephen Murphy
00:28:38
Oh has spent thousands of dollars
00:28:39
searching for his wife he believes is
00:28:41
still alive he has publicized the case
00:28:44
on television and newspapers and is
00:28:46
offering a $5,000 reward the police
00:28:49
however become convinced that Doreen was
00:28:51
murdered Stephen Murphy all discovered
00:28:54
that when someone disappears for no
00:28:55
apparent reason the most obvious suspect
00:28:58
is a person who knew them best Stephen
00:29:03
Murphy ou met Doreen Dobson in 1976 and
00:29:07
quickly found they both enjoyed active
00:29:08
lifestyles two years later they were
00:29:11
married
00:29:13
Stephen worked in the jewelry business
00:29:15
and enjoyed weightlifting and driving
00:29:18
fast cars
00:29:18
Nerine was a successful career woman a
00:29:21
purchase manager at the Rhode Island
00:29:23
School of Design with her similar
00:29:27
outgoing personalities Noreen and
00:29:29
Stephens seemed the perfect match but in
00:29:37
the fall of 1989 a crack appeared in the
00:29:40
Mafia's perfect world that October
00:29:43
Doreen abruptly quit her job and said
00:29:45
she needed a change it was a surprise to
00:29:50
her bosses as well as myself in her
00:29:53
friends and you just don't quit a job
00:30:01
and not go anywhere she's not the type
00:30:02
to just leave for no reason according to
00:30:06
Stephen Murray's behavior grew
00:30:07
increasingly erratic to the point that
00:30:10
she seemed on the verge of a nervous
00:30:11
breakdown from a strong independent
00:30:16
woman she became very weak very
00:30:19
unassured of herself basically a nervous
00:30:22
wreck in a matter of weeks look just go
00:30:28
back to bed I'll be there in a couple of
00:30:29
minutes okay
00:30:30
please what is it please tell me what's
00:30:33
wrong is it me is it something I did
00:30:36
oh it's not you it's me I just why
00:30:40
didn't you try and push the issue like
00:30:42
should get more hysterical I remember
00:30:46
cup times you said I think I'm having a
00:30:47
breakdown and tears were coming down
00:30:50
with you just shake all I could do is
00:30:51
hold on please
00:30:55
you always could talk about everything
00:30:57
before why not now
00:30:59
he said it's I can't at this time I will
00:31:02
tell you but I can at this time and I
00:31:04
never did find out
00:31:07
talk to me please Stephen says a
00:31:10
Doreen's bizarre behavior continued
00:31:12
until the day she disappeared
00:31:14
[Music]
00:31:16
hi Lara hi is is Doreen there Stephen
00:31:21
admits he did nothing for two days after
00:31:23
Doreen vanished assuming she needed some
00:31:26
time alone to sort things out oh really
00:31:28
there's nothing finally he called
00:31:29
Doreen's mother well she had not seen or
00:31:32
talked to her daughter alone and I
00:31:33
really think she went away to get a few
00:31:35
days by herself to clear her head when
00:31:38
Steve called me in the morning he
00:31:41
sounded strange
00:31:42
I said there's something wrong then he
00:31:45
called the afternoon right away I know
00:31:46
us I told call the police now don't wait
00:31:49
the police questioned Doreen's family
00:31:52
and friends however no one knew what
00:31:55
might have prompted her to just pick up
00:31:57
and walk away then a phone call took the
00:32:00
investigation in a new direction I just
00:32:07
call Stephen mafia back he said he had
00:32:09
Darian following Ron by two private
00:32:10
investigators for like 11 months and I
00:32:12
figured off if he was anything major but
00:32:14
I felt something wasn't right
00:32:16
sound the tape fight and something's not
00:32:18
right I want to find out what it is so I
00:32:20
did hire a private investigator on and
00:32:22
off for a year maybe a few hours a month
00:32:25
to find follow her once in a while
00:32:27
because I don't know what was going on I
00:32:29
just felt that there was something wrong
00:32:31
but they never found anything basically
00:32:35
what you have is you have a man who has
00:32:36
a personality who has his wife followed
00:32:39
around for 11 months for no reason at
00:32:41
all in this same man later on down the
00:32:44
road his wife disappears she's missing
00:32:45
for two days and he has no concern to
00:32:48
follow her or call her or to report it
00:32:51
to the police I mean that's totally
00:32:52
inconsistent with his personality when
00:32:54
he has a following on for no reason here
00:32:56
you have your wife missing now for two
00:32:57
days and you don't think anything
00:32:59
unusual you don't you don't make any
00:33:00
phone calls or call the police it's not
00:33:01
consistent authorities had nothing but
00:33:06
suspicions on the one hand there was
00:33:08
nothing to indicate that Doreen was
00:33:10
still alive on the other hand there was
00:33:12
no evidence that she had met with foul
00:33:14
play
00:33:15
then on June 13th 1992 and a half months
00:33:19
after Noreen disappeared police got
00:33:21
their first break in the case when they
00:33:23
received two anonymous letters in the
00:33:26
first letter opened by investigators the
00:33:29
author attacked Doreen's character and
00:33:31
accused her of cheating on her husband
00:33:33
saying among other things although on
00:33:36
the outside she personifies class beauty
00:33:38
and professionalism in reality she is
00:33:41
nothing more than a cheap apartment her
00:33:44
promotions were achieved by her sexual
00:33:46
prowess rather than management or
00:33:49
leadership abilities the first letter
00:33:53
that we received mentioned names of
00:33:56
people that she was involved with that
00:33:57
we spoke to who were totally surprised
00:34:00
to even have the police questioned that
00:34:03
the name was even mentioned in this
00:34:04
investigation
00:34:06
one of them was an elderly gentleman I
00:34:07
mean we talked to coworkers there was
00:34:10
absolutely no inclination of darian
00:34:11
having her fail at any one her co-worker
00:34:13
says that was totally out of her
00:34:14
character she had mentioned just a
00:34:17
normal conversation with her co-workers
00:34:19
that that's something she would never be
00:34:20
involved in or tolerate was any type of
00:34:22
marital affairs even long before she
00:34:23
disappeared
00:34:26
however according to Doreen's sister
00:34:28
Doreen had once considered leaving
00:34:31
Stephen for another man not one year
00:34:34
before she vanished but 10 years earlier
00:34:37
she was having an affair and the guy
00:34:40
that she was having the affair with was
00:34:41
leaving or wanted to have her leave with
00:34:44
him to wherever he was going
00:34:46
she was pretty wary very upset about
00:34:50
what she should do and she came to me
00:34:53
and eventually to my husband to talk
00:34:56
about it and we all decided that
00:34:58
probably the best thing she should do is
00:35:01
not not do what she was thinking of
00:35:03
doing so this had been thought that had
00:35:06
passed through her head before the
00:35:10
second letter was even more disturbing
00:35:12
than the first this letter gave a
00:35:14
chilling account of how Stephen Marshall
00:35:16
had allegedly murdered his wife Stephen
00:35:21
got hot under the collar he made for
00:35:24
couch and strangled Dorian
00:35:27
on a narrow dirt road he stopped and
00:35:29
deposited white spot Ian reads in a pond
00:35:34
when we first received these letters at
00:35:36
captain I felt as though that Stephen
00:35:38
Maffeo may have been the author of these
00:35:39
letters based on some of the information
00:35:41
that was contained the contents he would
00:35:42
have only been the one to know these
00:35:44
these contents what we did at that point
00:35:46
was to a reaffirm our belief we had him
00:35:49
sent up to satiric University and had
00:35:51
him examined by dr. Murray Myron who's
00:35:53
an expert in psycholinguistics for his
00:35:56
opinion is who was the author may have
00:35:57
been well it's got to be of someone who
00:36:00
knew Doreen quite well close to the
00:36:04
family the Murphy owes and then one says
00:36:10
that the easiest and simplest account of
00:36:13
this was it was designed to deceive the
00:36:16
authorities in his report dr. Myron
00:36:21
pointed a finger directly as Stephen
00:36:23
Maher field Myron concluded that Marvel
00:36:26
probably wrote both letters and was
00:36:28
quote a logical suspect in the murder of
00:36:31
his wife
00:36:33
I did not type any letters there police
00:36:37
they can say whatever they want and they
00:36:39
do and they get away with it I'm really
00:36:42
getting tired of the accusations and the
00:36:43
allegations anyone knows if you have
00:36:48
something bring it forward the police
00:36:53
seized several typewriters to which
00:36:54
Stephen had access a comparison of type
00:36:57
styles revealed at the first letter had
00:36:59
indeed been written on a typewriter
00:37:01
belonging to one of Stephens close
00:37:03
relatives establishes for the first time
00:37:10
a linkage between the document the
00:37:16
instrument and a suspect so it was a
00:37:19
major of importance to us and I mean
00:37:21
it's like a fingerprint
00:37:23
as far as identification it's easy for
00:37:26
them to suspect the spouse and they've
00:37:31
been they've been proved wrong before
00:37:32
they'll be proven wrong again everybody
00:37:36
calls me an optimist and everybody says
00:37:38
oh steve keller but i don't believe that
00:37:41
at all none of his friends do as well
00:37:44
the ones that I know that I've talked to
00:37:46
I myself don't the police do but there
00:37:50
is no evidence they've tried to convince
00:37:53
me that he did do it there's a
00:37:56
possibility but in my mind when I see
00:37:59
the way Steve acts when a male comes a
00:38:01
phone rings as I said that goes back he
00:38:06
still thinks that she's alive
00:38:14
today Stephen Murphy who lives in the
00:38:16
same house at he and Doreen shared for
00:38:18
12 years the police still believe that
00:38:21
Stephen is the only person responsible
00:38:23
for the disappearance of his wife
00:38:24
although they lack enough evidence to
00:38:27
charge him at this time I had nothing to
00:38:33
do with my wife's disappearance nor do I
00:38:36
know where she is I would like to think
00:38:40
that she's still alive
00:38:42
but I do feel that it's possible they
00:38:45
could go the other way too but I want to
00:38:47
know that she is alive
00:38:50
[Music]
00:39:00
[Music]
00:39:08
Beks
00:39:09
a businessman vanishes after scamming
00:39:12
the government out of millions of
00:39:13
dollars April 6 1993 off the coast of
00:39:28
Louisiana near the mouth of the
00:39:30
Mississippi River for businessman
00:39:36
Raymond young it had been a perfect day
00:39:37
since dawn he and his son Edward along
00:39:40
with two friends had been enjoying a
00:39:42
favorite activity scuba diving at 6:00
00:39:46
p.m. Raymond and Edward decided to make
00:39:49
one final dive 20 minutes later a
00:39:54
panicked Edward surfaced alone the
00:39:59
peaceful Audi had turned into a
00:40:01
nightmare
00:40:02
Raymond young was missing a massive
00:40:06
search would turn up nothing and Young's
00:40:08
family assumed he had drowned however
00:40:11
the authorities are convinced that
00:40:13
Raymond young is alive and well and that
00:40:15
he staged his own disappearance Raymond
00:40:20
young was the type of person who liked
00:40:21
to gamble he was a chance taker
00:40:23
he spent millions of dollars in his
00:40:26
activities he liked to live the good
00:40:27
lifestyle and he saw that he could make
00:40:29
big money fast
00:40:31
Raymond Young was a fleshie self-made
00:40:34
millionaire who owned and operated a
00:40:36
wholesale fuel company on Marco Island
00:40:38
Florida opportunity of a decade
00:40:42
now would I lie to you young set up the
00:40:46
company to distribute diesel fuel for
00:40:48
offshore Marino's because he supposedly
00:40:51
sold a wholesalers only young was exempt
00:40:54
from paying federal excise taxes however
00:40:58
when customs officials discovered that
00:41:00
millions of dollars were flowing in and
00:41:02
out of Young's personal bank accounts
00:41:04
they began to suspect that his real
00:41:06
business was scamming the government in
00:41:10
reality Raymond young had been selling
00:41:12
his field or retail gas stations
00:41:14
throughout the state of Texas and
00:41:16
pocketing the money he should have been
00:41:18
paying in taxes an estimated 40 cents
00:41:21
per gallon sold 40 cents a gallon may
00:41:25
not seem like a lot of money when you
00:41:26
multiply that by the hundreds of
00:41:28
thousands of gallons that ray Yuen was
00:41:30
distributing this took place over two to
00:41:33
three year period of time so he could
00:41:35
have an actuality of defrauded the
00:41:38
government for an excess of 15 million
00:41:39
dollars in October of 1991 the IRS and
00:41:47
US Customs Service launched a joint
00:41:49
investigation into Young's activities
00:41:51
simultaneously young began to liquidate
00:41:54
his assets eventually the authorities
00:41:57
would decide to charge Raymond young
00:41:59
with 17 counts of tax evasion but young
00:42:02
left Florida while the investigation was
00:42:04
still under way in May of 1992 young
00:42:09
surfaced in New Orleans
00:42:11
federal agents set up a surveillance and
00:42:13
observed his Mercedes parked alongside a
00:42:15
luxury yacht which was being primed for
00:42:18
an ocean voyage although the vessel was
00:42:21
flying a foreign flag records confirmed
00:42:24
that the boat belonged to Raymond young
00:42:28
somebody news up on the bridge
00:42:33
could be our man
00:42:37
it is our man let's get him you have the
00:42:42
right to remain silent anything you say
00:42:44
can and will be used against you in a
00:42:45
court of law when Raymond young was
00:42:47
arrested by all indications Raymond did
00:42:50
not think he was going to be found
00:42:51
guilty on these charges had told all of
00:42:53
his friends that he would not be
00:42:54
convicted and felt very confident that
00:42:56
would be the case Raymond young could
00:43:02
not have been more wrong
00:43:04
On January of 1993 he was found guilty
00:43:07
on 16 counts counselor I am NOT going to
00:43:10
prison
00:43:13
even though young faced up to 13 years
00:43:15
in prison his eventually granted bail
00:43:18
that clean up his personal and business
00:43:20
affairs two days before he was to be
00:43:26
sentenced Raymond young was scuba diving
00:43:28
in the Gulf of Mexico and has not been
00:43:30
seen since
00:43:35
[Music]
00:43:46
[Music]
00:43:52
[Music]
00:44:02
but our next unsolved mysteries a
00:44:04
modern-day cowboy is found shot to death
00:44:06
and his girlfriend turns up missing is
00:44:09
she also dead or a she's a key figure in
00:44:12
a sinister murder plot my daughter did
00:44:14
not kill that man I would like to think
00:44:16
she's still alive but I believe she's
00:44:19
dead I've come to terms with God I just
00:44:21
want him to help me settle this case to
00:44:23
find out who did it and let them pay the
00:44:26
penalty that they should pay
00:44:29
for every mystery there is someone
00:44:31
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
00:44:34
that someone is watching see you next
00:44:37
Wednesday
00:44:42
[Music]
00:45:04
[Applause]
00:45:08
[Music]
00:45:19
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