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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Next on "Unsolved Mysteries,"
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a 24-year-old
Beverly Hills tennis
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pro befriends a homeless man
and invites him to move in.
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Shortly after, the
young man is missing.
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Glen and Bessie Hyde vanish
on a Grand Canyon river trip.
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50 years later, a bullet-pierced
skull turns up near the river.
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Is it a clue to the
couple's disappearance?
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A young girl vividly recalls
a car crash that happened
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17 years before she was born.
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Could she be the reincarnation
of her own great-grandmother?
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And Sally Garrity thought
she had met Mr. Right.
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Now Sally's been
murdered and Mr. Right
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is nowhere to be found.
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Five stories of crime,
deceit, and intrigue.
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I'm Dennis Farina, and this
is "Unsolved Mysteries."
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[theme music]
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Beverly Hills, California,
one of the nation's wealthiest
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communities, filled
with glamorous people
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living a life of luxury.
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But there is another side
to Beverly Hills, a growing
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population of
homeless people that
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live on its affluent streets.
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And one of those homeless
found a surprising friend
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in 24-year-old Adam Hecht.
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Adam was born into Beverly
Hills luxury, the son
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of a successful Hollywood
producer he spent
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his childhood
surrounded by movie
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stars, mansions, and privilege.
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After graduating from
Beverly Hills High School,
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Adam made his living
as a tennis instructor.
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All who knew him recalled
a bright, independent,
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and friendly young man.
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And then one day at breakfast,
Adam's brother noticed
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that he seemed different.
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In front of the restaurant,
they met a street person,
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apparently blind in one eye.
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I'll have the orange juice.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): A few minutes
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later, Adam left the table
and went back outside.
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Excuse me.
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HAROLD HECHT, JR (VOICEOVER):
Adam said, excuse me.
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He went outside and started
talking to this person.
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And I could see
through the blinds,
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and I couldn't understand it.
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I was quite surprised.
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I didn't understand what was
his reason for being out there.
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What was all that about?
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HAROLD HECHT, JR (VOICEOVER): So
we went on, had our breakfast,
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and when we finished, we left.
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I went to my car.
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Listen, I've got a 10:00
o'clock at Mulholland,
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but I'll catch up
with you later.
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I'm going make a
quick call, all right?
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All right.
All right.
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Bye.
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HAROLD HECHT, JR (VOICEOVER):
And just before I
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got in my car, I
looked back, and he
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was talking to this person.
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I was very surprised.
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The young man said
that his name was Tony.
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Within a few weeks,
Adam had invited Tony
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to move into his apartment.
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Why?
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Well, his brother says
that Adam was disillusioned
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with his pampered life.
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It started out as a
gesture of kindness,
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but today Adam Hecht is missing.
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ACTOR AS ADAM HECHT: Tony,
this is where my mom lives.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Soon after Tony moved in,
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Adam brought his new roommate to
his mother's house for dinner.
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She was surprised that
her son would give
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shelter to a street person.
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I thought, my
goodness, that's strange.
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But knowing Adam, the
way he is, I could
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understand it until I met Tony.
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You know, I really
understood it.
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I thought, oh, my goodness,
it's so nice that he
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wants to help him, you know.
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Oh!
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What a surprise.
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Who's this?
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Mom, this is Tony.
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Tony, this is my mother.
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OK.
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Pleased to meet you.
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Won't you come in?
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When When I saw Tony and how he
talked, and, my god, the smell.
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It was unbelievable.
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Wow, it was scary.
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It was really scary.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
During the meal,
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Tony began to wave his
hands over his food,
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as if he were blessing it.
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MARTINE HECHT: Adam
was very, very much
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wanting to talk about Tony.
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And they seemed to have
a good relationship.
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Adam seemed to understand Tony.
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And I was led to
believe that Tony
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was being very kind to
Adam, as far as helping
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him grow up as a person.
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Mature, that's
what he said to me.
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He's helping me
mature as a person.
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REBECCA HECHT: Adam, he was
an elite, preppy businessman.
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Drove a great car,
taught tennis.
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And then me met Tony, and I
mean, it just all changed, and
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he became a mystical person.
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And I just-- I didn't
know him anymore.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
With Tony by his side,
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Adam began to visit a
homeless area of Los Angeles
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and often stayed out on
the streets at night.
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HAROLD HECHT, JR: I know
that when Adam sets his mind
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to something, he really
goes wholeheartedly
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into any type of project.
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Part of me was
torn, because I felt
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for what he was trying to do.
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I mean, it was a
very noble thing.
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Hey, Tony, I got some food
and stuff in back of my car.
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Maybe help me pass it out?
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OK, cool.
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Let's go.
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HAROLD HECHT, JR: His
involvement with street people
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increased when he met Tony.
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I think he started to
understand their problems.
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There's going to be
some food coming up.
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I want to make sure
you guys get some.
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Yeah.
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ACTOR AS TONY: All
these things you have,
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Adam, it's never what counts.
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What counts is what's inside.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Tony and Adam
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also shared in strange mystical
rites invented by Tony.
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In one of these rituals, Adam
burned his hand severely.
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MARTINE HECHT: All I know
is when I saw it, I said,
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my god, Adam, what
happened to you.
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He said, oh, he said,
you know, he said, I was
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testing a test of endurance.
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He said, Tony told me we
were experimenting that-- see
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how would make me stronger.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): And then came
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the day when Harold
Hecht realized
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that he hadn't heard
from his brother, Adam,
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for several days.
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Concerned, he went
to Adam's apartment.
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Adam?
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Oh gosh, Tony.
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Is Adam here?
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HAROLD HECHT, JR (VOICEOVER):
My brother was not there.
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His car was not there.
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And I tried to get in.
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I said, where's Adam?
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I said, where's he gone?
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And in his strange, strange way,
did not answer that question,
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or seemed to really know.
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Everybody's really worried.
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Will you let me in?
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Let me in.
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It's really hot in here.
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Let me in the door!
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Adam's mother
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also went to his apartment.
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Adam?
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MARTINE HECHT
(VOICEOVER): As I'm
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walking back down the
corridor, he's following me.
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And he says, "Give us a kiss."
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He starts to put
his arms around me,
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and I was-- oh, it was
the most scary thing.
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What's wrong?
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Are you afraid of me?
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I just want to
know where my son is.
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Where my son is.
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Where is he?
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I'm your son.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): The family
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contacted the
Beverly Hills Police
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to file a missing persons
report and arranged
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to have Tony evicted.
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You're the manager?
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OK.
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Right up the stairs.
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Come on out here.
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Come on out here.
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Put your hands up
behind your head.
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Man, this is my
friend's house.
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Come on, you know the routine.
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Come on.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): Tony
made no effort to avoid police.
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Local detectives interviewed
him and came to the conclusion
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that he had nothing to do
with Adam's disappearance.
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One month later, Adam's
car was found abandoned
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on a Beverly Hills side street.
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There were several parking
tickets on the windshield.
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Inside, the keys were
still in the ignition.
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Police also found Adam's
wallet, credit cards,
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and hundreds of dollars
in cash and checks.
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There were no other clues.
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ROBERT CURTIS: We wish
we knew specifically
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what happened to Adam Hecht.
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Apparently, he in
the past occasionally
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had gone away for a
few days at a time,
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but always had returned.
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And whether he did this time
and just decided not to return,
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we don't know.
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HAROLD HECHT, JR: He had a very
solid business, very active
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with people on a number
of different levels.
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For him just to disappear
does not fit his character.
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ROBERT CURTIS: We have no
real evidence of any foul play
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or any criminal
involvement, so we're
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not handling it as
a crime, strictly
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as a missing person case.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Does Tony
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know more about
Adam's disappearance
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than he's telling?
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Or did Adam reject his
former life of luxury
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and choose to lose himself
among the homeless?
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MARTINE HECHT: What can I say?
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I just love him, and I
just want him to come home.
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I miss him with all my heart.
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It's not a complete
family without him.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): Adam
Arthur Hecht is 5 feet, 11"
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and weighs 160 pounds.
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His eyes are hazel,
and his hair is black.
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Today, Adam would be in his 50s.
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If you have any information
about Adam Hecht,
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please log on to our
website at unsolved.com.
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Next, Glen and Bessie Hyde
disappear while rafting down
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the Colorado River.
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Four decades later, a
woman claiming to be Bessie
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says that she
murdered her husband.
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[theme music]
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Grand Canyon, Arizona.
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The Colorado River
runs some 1,400 miles
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through five states.
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More than 250 miles cut
through the Grand Canyon.
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Some of the rapids were once
considered the most dangerous
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in the world.
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In 1928, two newlyweds
set out to navigate
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this treacherous whitewater.
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They were never seen again.
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Emory Kolb, a Grand
Canyon photographer,
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was perhaps the last
person to see them alive.
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50 years later, when
Kolb died, authorities
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were surprised by what was
discovered in Kolb's boathouse
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on the rim of the canyon.
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Carefully hidden away in a canoe
was a single human skeleton.
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Upon close examination,
it would show
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evidence of a violent death.
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Whose bones were they?
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And who killed the victim?
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WALTER BIRKBY: It would be nice
to know who this individual was
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somebody is missing,
somebody was out there,
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and there may be friends
or relatives who would very
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much like to know who it is.
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The disappearance of
the honeymoon couple
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and the discovery of human
remains in the boathouse
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happened almost 50 years apart.
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And yet, many people
believe that there
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could be a connection.
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Glen and Betsy Hyde
were married in Twin
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Falls, Idaho when
Glen was 27 and Bessie
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was just 18 years old.
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That fall, they built a boat for
a special honeymoon adventure,
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a trip down the Colorado River
through the dangerous Grand
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Canyon.
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Glen, it turns out,
was a thrill seeker.
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SCOTT THYBONY: Glen wanted
to make a record run
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through the Grand Canyon.
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He wanted to do it
in a homemade boat.
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He wanted to do it with
a new bride who had never
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been on rivers
before, and he wanted
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to do without life jackets.
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In the fall of the
year, about six
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months after they were married,
they were in Green River, Utah.
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An experienced
river men at Green
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River looked at
the boat he thought
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looked to him like a coffin.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): The Hydes
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navigated the first
half of the river
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in just 26 days, a new record.
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With the most dangerous
stretch still ahead,
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they stopped to see local
resident photographer
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Emory Kolb, well-known
for his stunning photos
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of the Grand Canyon.
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Kolb had navigated the
rapids twice before
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and was considered a
legend on the Colorado.
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THELMA SELF: Everybody
that I know who's
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interested in the river at
all, all the years I was there,
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first came and
talked to Emory Kolb.
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No woman has
traveled the river--
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): By the time
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the Hydes visited
Kolb, Bessie had
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grown tired of the river trip.
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Emory tried to warn them
about the dangers ahead.
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He suggested that they stay
with him through the winter
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and postpone their trip
until the weather improved.
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I just don't think
you should do this trip.
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I've mentioned this to your--
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
He even offered
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the couple his own
life jackets, but Glen
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refused all Emory's offers.
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Come on, Bessie.
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The light will be fading.
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Mr. Kolb told me
that he tried his best,
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every way in the world to
talk them out of going.
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He said, you have no idea
what you're getting into.
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He said, I've been there,
and I know what it's like.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Glen and Bessie
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ignored all of Kolb's warnings
and headed back down the river.
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Two days later,
they disappeared.
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Army aviators flew
into the canyon
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and spotted the empty boat
below a year-round stream
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called Diamond Creek.
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Emory Kolb was asked to lead the
search party to find the lost
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couple, but all he ever
found was their boat
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without a scratch on it.
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Glen!
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Bessie!
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SCOTT THYBONY (VOICEOVER):
The boat seemed to be intact.
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The clothes, food, Glen's
rifle was on board,
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a camera with exposed film.
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There was a very sketchy diary,
but a diary that Bessie Hyde
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had been keeping was on board.
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They found everything there
except for the people.
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There was no sign of them.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
50 years later,
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the discovery of the
bones in Kolb's boathouse
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got people wondering.
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Could these be the remains
of Glen or Bessie Hyde?
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And if so, how were they
connected to Emory Kolb?
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The authorities
turned the skeleton
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over to Dr. Walter
Birkby, a specialist
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in the science of
identifying human remains.
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He determined that the bones
belonged to a Caucasian male,
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20 to 23 years of age.
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He was 6 feet tall
with light brown hair.
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Dr. Birkby also discovered a
bullet embedded in the skull.
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What we found out from
the bullet that was removed
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from the skull was that not
only was this a .32 caliber
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projectile that came
from a revolver that
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began manufacturing about 1902.
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ACTOR AS WALTER BIRKBY:
2.1 centimeters.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
The production date
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of the gun and the
clothing fragments
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found with the skeleton
suggest that death
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occurred in the 1920s.
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During that time only
Glen and Bessie Hyde
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are known to have
disappeared in the area.
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Femoral length, so we can
get the stature estimate.
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WALTER BIRKBY: I heard
a rumor to the effect
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that Emory Kolb could have
murdered Glen Hyde in order
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that he could have, I
guess, beautiful Bessie.
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It's so preposterous that
I just can't believe it,
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that he would off somebody and
then keep the damn body around.
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ACTOR AS WALTER BIRKBY: You got
verticality on these mirrors?
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MAN: Yes.
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ACTOR AS WALTER
BIRKBY: Uh, we're
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going to have to rotate
that more to the left.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): To
test the rumors, Dr. Birkby
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superimposed a
photograph of Glen
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over the skull to precisely
compare the bone structure.
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ACTOR AS WALTER
BIRKBY: Even more.
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WALTER BIRKBY: The skull
is of a different shape
00:17:24
than the face of Glen Hyde.
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The eye orbits themselves
are angled in a different
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direction than Glen Hyde's.
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The cheeks are wider.
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Even the shape of
the chin is wrong.
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Those features
alone do not match.
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These remains, these bones that
were submitted for analyzes
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are not the remains
of Glen Hyde.
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Period.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): But
the story doesn't end there.
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Over four decades after
the Hydes disappeared,
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a woman was seen
on a Grand Canyon
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rafting trip who may have
been retracing Bessie's steps.
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Geologist George Billingsley
was also in the rafting party.
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GEORGE BILLINGSLEY: She
was a very serious person.
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She was always just
watching the canyon
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and helping out a
little bit around camp,
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all the time wanting
to do something,
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and fairly happy, but quiet.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Towards
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the end of the trip, they
made camp at Diamond Creek.
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GUIDE: Right around the corner
there where Emory Kolb--
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): It was
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the same spot where
Glen and Bessie's boat
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had been found decades before.
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That evening, a river
guide told the legend
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of the missing couple.
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And the woman, matter-of-factly,
revealed her true identity.
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I'm Bessie Hyde.
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GEORGE BILLINGSLEY
(VOICEOVER): She
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told us seriously enough
to where we wasn't sure
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what else to say.
- I killed him.
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GEORGE BILLINGSLEY (VOICEOVER):
But we all figured she was
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just making up her own story.
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But later on, you know,
we got to thinking
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maybe she really was Bessie,
because the age was right.
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I got a knife,
and I stabbed him.
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GEORGE BILLINGSLEY
(VOICEOVER): And she
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never smiled when she
said what she said,
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as if she really knew.
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ACTRESS AS BESSIE HYDE: Well,
it was right along here,
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we had a bad fight.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
According to the woman,
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Glen was obsessed with
completing the trip,
00:19:09
no matter how dangerous.
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When she tried to
leave, a fight erupted.
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SCOTT THYBONY: I got the
full name of the woman
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and eventually contacted
her back in Ohio.
00:19:21
When I asked her about the
Hydes and their disappearance,
00:19:24
she denied everything.
00:19:26
She said she hadn't
told the story.
00:19:29
She said she didn't
know anybody named Hyde.
00:19:31
And she said she
wasn't Bessie Hyde.
00:19:34
My gut feeling, though,
is that she was.
00:19:39
DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Update.
00:19:40
Detectives have
moved a small step
00:19:42
closer to identifying the young
man whose remains were found
00:19:46
in Emory Kolb's boathouse.
00:19:49
This photo was one of
several recently donated
00:19:52
to the National Park Service.
00:19:54
It shows a skeleton
found in the Grand Canyon
00:19:57
during June of 1933.
00:20:00
A skull and a .32
caliber revolver
00:20:03
were discovered nearby.
00:20:06
Authorities are confident that
this skeleton is the one found
00:20:09
decades later in the boathouse.
00:20:12
In addition to
forensic similarities,
00:20:15
this shoe is identical to one
found with the Kolb skeleton.
00:20:20
Detectives believe the
unidentified young man
00:20:23
committed suicide
some time before 1933.
00:20:28
The case of Glen and Bessie
Hyde remains a total mystery.
00:20:32
We know little more
about their fate
00:20:34
than the day they disappeared
more than 80 years ago.
00:20:41
Next, a young girl
recalls things
00:20:43
only her great-grandmother
would know.
00:20:46
Are they reincarnation memories?
00:20:50
[theme music]
00:20:59
Crofton, Maryland.
00:21:02
When Cece Klepper was
a young mother of 26,
00:21:05
she experienced an amazing
event that completely
00:21:08
changed her view of the world.
00:21:11
ACTRESS AS DEE KLEPPER:
Mommy, mommy, stop.
00:21:12
What's wrong?
00:21:14
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): While
driving to a friend's home,
00:21:15
her daughter Dee suddenly
became very upset.
00:21:18
It's OK.
00:21:19
CECE KLEPPER: Dee started
crying uncontrollably.
00:21:23
I went through the intersection,
I pulled over to see what was
00:21:25
wrong, and I said, what is it.
00:21:29
and she goes, oh, mommy, you
have to be so careful here.
00:21:32
This is such a dangerous place.
00:21:35
People get really hurt here.
00:21:37
And I was just flabbergasted.
00:21:39
I don't know why she
could be so upset.
00:21:44
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Later that day, Cece
00:21:46
told a relative what happened.
00:21:48
She was shocked to learn that
her grandmother, Ocelia, was
00:21:52
nearly killed at that exact same
intersection 17 years earlier.
00:21:58
[screaming]
00:22:01
Dee seemed to be
remembering that accident,
00:22:04
but how was that possible?
00:22:06
Ocelia had died seven
years before Dee was born.
00:22:12
Cece Klepper is convinced
that her daughter
00:22:14
is the reincarnation of
her grandmother, Ocelia.
00:22:19
Is this wishful
thinking or could it
00:22:21
be possible for the
living to have access
00:22:23
to the memories of the dead?
00:22:27
Ocelia Davidson died
at the age of 73.
00:22:30
Her great-granddaughter,
Dee Klepper,
00:22:33
was born seven years later.
00:22:35
At first, Dee appeared to be
a perfectly ordinary child,
00:22:40
but as she grew, she sometimes
behaved as if she was actually
00:22:45
her great-grandmother Ocelia.
00:22:48
CECE KLEPPER (VOICEOVER): We
were in the grocery store,
00:22:50
and there was an older
woman who came over.
00:22:53
Mommy, mommy,
there's my old friend.
00:22:56
CECE KLEPPER (VOICEOVER):
And Dee said, mommy,
00:22:58
this is my friend.
00:23:00
In fact, the woman was a
friend, but not of Dee's.
00:23:05
Cece learned that the
woman had been a neighbor
00:23:07
of Ocelia's for 30 years.
00:23:11
Before that day, Dee
had never met her,
00:23:13
and had no way of
knowing who she was.
00:23:17
Two months later, Dee made
a second mysterious comment.
00:23:21
CECE KLEPPER (VOICEOVER):
We walk into the restaurant
00:23:23
and she goes, mommy,
there's Helen.
00:23:27
And this older
waitress comes over.
00:23:30
How did you know my name?
00:23:31
CECE KLEPPER (VOICEOVER): And
before I could say anything,
00:23:33
my daughter piped up
and said, because I used
00:23:36
to come here when I was big.
00:23:37
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Dee had never been
00:23:39
to the restaurant before,
but her great-grandmother
00:23:42
had been a regular.
00:23:45
CECE KLEPPER (VOICEOVER): I
asked this waitress how long
00:23:46
she had worked there, and she
said she had been a waitress
00:23:49
there for about 20
years, so she definitely
00:23:51
would have been there at a
time when my grandmother came.
00:23:54
And since my grandmother
went on a weekly basis,
00:23:57
it's quite likely my grandmother
did know her pretty well.
00:24:01
This seemed pretty
strange that my daughter
00:24:04
seemed to have memories
from my grandmother's life.
00:24:09
And to me, reincarnation
was really the only thing
00:24:13
that could explain that.
00:24:15
In the typical case,
a child at a young age--
00:24:18
two or three-- describes
having lived before,
00:24:22
and will continue to talk
about this until he or she
00:24:25
gets to be seven or eight.
00:24:27
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
In San Rafael,
00:24:28
California, a similar case.
00:24:31
Ron Ortega and his wife
had a baby they named Gus.
00:24:35
The family had no prior
belief in reincarnation
00:24:39
until Gus began to speak.
00:24:42
RON ORTEGA: I was changing
his diaper when he was about 1
00:24:44
and 1/2, and he
abruptly just said,
00:24:48
you know, when I was your age,
I used to change your diapers.
00:24:53
And that kind of
threw me for a loop.
00:24:55
I kind of stopped to look
back, and I said, well,
00:24:58
what a weird thing to say.
00:25:01
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
As Gus got older,
00:25:03
he made more puzzling
references, often
00:25:06
talking as if he were grown up.
00:25:08
One day Ron showed Gus
some old family photos.
00:25:13
RON ORTEGA: One of the photos
was a class photo of my father
00:25:16
when he was about 10, with
about maybe 15 or 20 other kids.
00:25:23
That's me.
00:25:24
DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Gus was
00:25:25
pointing to his
grandfather, August Ortega,
00:25:28
a man that he had never met.
00:25:30
August had died one year
before Gus was born,
00:25:33
and the child had never
seen a picture of him.
00:25:37
And now Gus was picking August
out in photo after photo
00:25:40
and claiming that he was
August in a previous life.
00:25:45
RON ORTEGA: He was shown
a picture of my family's
00:25:48
business, and when
asked what this was,
00:25:52
he said that's my shop.
00:25:53
He said, I used to be big,
and know I'm a kid again.
00:25:59
And he was giggling
when he was saying this.
00:26:02
I mean, it was just
like, isn't this great,
00:26:04
this is absolutely cool.
00:26:06
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): If
that wasn't strange enough,
00:26:08
Gus soon began talking
about a tragic event
00:26:11
in the Ortega family's past.
00:26:14
The incident had
occurred more than a half
00:26:16
a century before Gus was born,
and Ron claims that his son
00:26:20
knew nothing about it.
00:26:23
RON ORTEGA: He said, I had
a sister, and she died.
00:26:27
She's a fish.
00:26:29
And bad guy made her die.
00:26:32
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
August Ortega's sister had
00:26:34
been murdered by her husband.
00:26:36
He wrapped her body in
a blanket and dumped
00:26:38
it into the San Francisco Bay.
00:26:41
RON ORTEGA: That blew
me away because there
00:26:45
was no way, at all,
that this kid could
00:26:48
have known anything about that.
00:26:51
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Over the years,
00:26:52
Gus' memories of his grandfather
have slowly faded away.
00:26:58
Experts say that most children
who remember past lives usually
00:27:02
lose those memories
by the age of seven.
00:27:06
JIM B TUCKER: We certainly
have not proven reincarnation.
00:27:08
In fact, we're not
even attempting to.
00:27:10
I think what these cases
can do is open our minds
00:27:15
a little bit of where we may not
understand everything about how
00:27:19
the world works, that
there may be more to life
00:27:23
than we really know.
00:27:27
DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Next, police
00:27:28
need your help to
find a man suspected
00:27:31
of killing his girlfriend and
beating her 60-year-old aunt.
00:27:37
[theme music]
00:27:45
San Francisco, California.
00:27:51
Sally Garrity was
looking to settle down
00:27:54
but had not yet found
the man of her dreams.
00:27:57
Oh, excuse me.
00:27:59
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): And
then, at a neighborhood tavern,
00:28:01
Sally thought that she
had met the perfect mate,
00:28:05
a young man named Sal Guardado.
00:28:08
- What's your name, anyway?
- Sally.
00:28:10
What's yours?
00:28:11
Sal, Sal Guardado.
00:28:12
Sal, Sally.
00:28:14
That's neat.
00:28:15
SHERI YSIT: She said, I
think I met Mr. Right, Sheri.
00:28:18
So I was very happy for
her to have a good--
00:28:21
meet someone that
would make her happy.
00:28:24
And I'd seen that in her
face, that Sal had made her
00:28:27
happy by just the
short time that she
00:28:30
had met him and known him.
00:28:33
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Sally was half Irish,
00:28:34
half Shoshone Paiute Indian.
00:28:37
She was making and selling
Native American handicrafts
00:28:40
when she met Sal.
00:28:43
Sal worked part time in
a local pizza parlor.
00:28:46
Sally brought her
family there to meet
00:28:48
him, her sister, Sheri,
and her Aunt Lydia,
00:28:51
who raised the two girls.
- This is my sister, Sheri.
00:28:54
- Hi, Sheri.
- Nice to meet you.
00:28:55
- And this is my auntie Lydia.
- Hi, Lydia.
00:28:57
How are you doing?
00:28:58
SHERI YSIT: Sally
was really glowing,
00:29:00
and she said, did
you see his car?
00:29:03
Do you see him?
He has a job.
00:29:05
And her expression
and her glowing
00:29:08
was so overpowering
that she was so happy.
00:29:14
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Within a week of meeting,
00:29:16
Sal proposed to Sally and took
out a loan for a diamond ring.
00:29:20
But things didn't stay
romantic for very long.
00:29:26
Sal lost his job and
his car, and the couple
00:29:29
was forced to move in
with Sally's aunt Lydia.
00:29:32
It seemed that Sal was
always in a fowl mood.
00:29:36
This place is a dump!
00:29:37
- So get a job.
- Shut up!
00:29:39
I'm working on it.
00:29:40
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): He
did nothing but watch TV and go
00:29:42
bowling with his friends.
00:29:44
Big words from a big man.
00:29:49
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
When they visited
00:29:50
a Native American festival,
Sheri got a firsthand look
00:29:53
at Sal's dark side.
00:29:55
--so rude today.
00:29:56
God, I can't take him.
00:29:57
I hate him.
- Oh!
00:29:59
I don't want to
be with him anymore.
00:30:00
And he just--
00:30:01
SHERI YSIT: That was the
first indication to me
00:30:03
that she was unhappy with him.
00:30:07
So do you want to tell her?
00:30:08
Just forget about it, Sal.
00:30:10
It's not going to work out.
- What's the matter?
00:30:11
What are you talking about?
00:30:12
Sal doesn't want to take the
train back to San Francisco.
00:30:14
He wants to borrow
your van instead.
00:30:16
Oh, I'm sorry, Sal.
00:30:17
You can't take it.
00:30:18
What is the problem?
00:30:19
We the van, so
we'll just take it.
00:30:21
Sal, it's not mine.
00:30:22
I just borrowed it for the day.
00:30:23
I have to get it back.
- Don't give me that lie.
00:30:25
Where are the keys?
00:30:26
ACTRESS AS SHERI
YSIT: It's not a lie!
00:30:27
SHERI YSIT: That was a big
change from the pizza parlor.
00:30:29
She indicated to me that
she wished he would leave.
00:30:37
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): Three
months into the relationship,
00:30:39
Sal was at home when Sally
was dropped off by a friend.
00:30:45
When he noticed that the friend
was a man, he flew into a rage.
00:30:49
ACTRESS AS SALLY
GARRITY: --will you, Sal?
00:30:50
I already told you I
didn't do anything.
00:30:52
I know what you were doing.
00:30:53
I could see you in the car!
00:30:54
He's a friend.
He gave me a ride home.
00:30:56
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Sally's aunt Lydia
00:30:57
returned home in the
middle of the argument.
00:31:00
ACTRESS AS LYDIA HENRY: Hello.
00:31:01
I'm home.
00:31:02
LYDIA HENRY (VOICEOVER):
Oh, I just hated him.
00:31:04
He was very aggressive.
00:31:08
He might have got jealous,
yes, but there's nothing
00:31:11
between the man and Sally.
00:31:13
She just rode home with him.
00:31:17
Lydia, I need you to
go to the store for me.
00:31:19
I need some smokes.
00:31:21
OK, Sal.
00:31:21
Here's some money.
00:31:22
I need them right away.
00:31:23
OK.
00:31:25
LYDIA HENRY: He never asked
me to do anything for him.
00:31:28
He just wanted me out
of the house that day.
00:31:30
When I think about
it, that's what--
00:31:33
I think that's what
he wanted, me out.
00:31:39
Sally?
00:31:40
Sal?
00:31:41
DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): A short
00:31:42
while later, Lydia returned.
00:31:44
LYDIA HENRY
(VOICEOVER): I didn't
00:31:45
see anything when I came back.
00:31:48
It was so quiet.
00:31:51
Then the TV was on, so I
just sat down on the daybed
00:31:55
and thought, well, I'd
better watch the news,
00:31:58
because it was coming on.
00:32:01
I heard the bedroom door open,
and I didn't hear nothing else.
00:32:06
I just kept watching the news.
00:32:09
He tried to strangle me.
00:32:11
I wouldn't let him.
00:32:12
I start biting him.
00:32:15
Before I know it, I
got hit on the head.
00:32:19
I heard the bones
crushing and the ball
00:32:22
roll over or something.
00:32:23
That's what I heard.
00:32:25
But I was out.
00:32:28
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Lydia eventually
00:32:30
regained consciousness.
00:32:32
LYDIA HENRY (VOICEOVER):
When I came to, I got up,
00:32:33
and I was so weak, I was
just staggering around.
00:32:37
And then I went in the bedroom.
00:32:40
My niece was laying there.
00:32:44
I knew right away she was dead.
00:32:46
Oh no!
00:32:47
No!
00:32:51
And I just went to my neighbor
and knocked on the window
00:32:54
and told her to call the police.
00:32:56
I was hurt.
00:32:57
OK.
00:32:58
Take it away.
00:32:59
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): Sally
had been strangled to death.
00:33:01
During the murder
investigation that followed,
00:33:04
Sally's family learned
a disturbing truth
00:33:06
about Sal Guardado.
00:33:10
Authorities discovered that
Guardado was a convicted felon
00:33:14
with a long criminal history.
00:33:16
He spent five years in prison
for arson and for the attempted
00:33:20
murder of a former girlfriend.
00:33:22
Investigators searched
the San Francisco area,
00:33:25
but Sal Guardado
had already fled.
00:33:29
JEFF BROSCH: We thought we'd
solve this case right away.
00:33:32
We had the FBI involved.
00:33:33
We had local law
enforcement involved.
00:33:36
We had all the tools, and we
just couldn't find out where
00:33:40
he'd gone or where he was.
00:33:42
Boggles the mind
to understand how
00:33:44
he avoided us all this time.
00:33:46
SHERI YSIT: In the Native
American beliefs, our culture,
00:33:49
we believe that if
someone's life is taken
00:33:52
before they're ready,
their spirit can't
00:33:56
rest until justice is served.
00:34:00
So Sally's spirit, we believe,
isn't at rest until Sal will
00:34:05
be caught and put to justice.
00:34:07
DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Salvador
00:34:09
Nunez Guardado is 5 feet 10
inches and weighs 210 pounds.
00:34:13
He has black hair,
brown eyes, and a tattoo
00:34:16
of a heart and arrow with a name
Rachel on his upper right arm.
00:34:22
Authorities believe that he
may be living in Florida.
00:34:27
If you have any information,
please log on to our website
00:34:31
at unsolved.com.
00:34:35
Next, two teenage
girls and their mother
00:34:38
are found murdered after
setting out on a boat ride.
00:34:42
And now, Florida
investigators are
00:34:44
hunting down a serial killer.
00:34:47
[theme music]
00:34:56
Tampa, Florida.
00:34:59
Joan Rogers and her daughters,
Michelle and Christe,
00:35:02
checked into a motel for their
long-awaited Florida vacation
00:35:06
after a cold Ohio winter.
00:35:09
Boy, long trip.
00:35:11
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
But the Rogers'
00:35:12
carefree vacation
was about to come
00:35:14
to a sudden, and
horrifying, end.
00:35:19
I knew they were supposed
to back maybe on Saturday,
00:35:22
Sunday, maybe a Monday.
00:35:24
But Tuesday morning, I got
a little concerned about it.
00:35:27
And I called her mom, and
she hadn't even called her,
00:35:30
and I knew something had
happened then, because she's
00:35:32
not type that don't call.
00:35:35
I just figured she
couldn't get a hold of me.
00:35:38
And that's when I think
I reported them missing.
00:35:42
DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Within days,
00:35:43
their bodies floated to
the surface of Tampa Bay.
00:35:48
Each had been bound
with tape, weighed down
00:35:50
with a cinder block, and dumped
into the bay while still alive.
00:35:55
All three had been
sexually assaulted.
00:36:00
Authorities were confronted
with the grim knowledge
00:36:02
that a psychopathic
killer was on the loose.
00:36:06
JANA MONROE: We
believe that they
00:36:07
were victims of opportunity.
00:36:09
What that means, basically,
is he surveilled them,
00:36:14
he knew that they were the ones
that he wanted to approach,
00:36:16
and he had planned this.
00:36:17
But it wasn't that
much in advance,
00:36:19
because the circumstances
of their travels
00:36:22
wouldn't lend to that.
00:36:23
DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): Authorities
00:36:24
believe that in order to
bring Joan and her daughters
00:36:27
under his control, the
killer first had to overcome
00:36:31
their natural suspicions.
00:36:34
JANA MONROE: We feel that the
offender presented himself
00:36:36
in a very non-threatening
manner, something
00:36:39
where he made it enticing
or inviting to them,
00:36:41
struck up a conversation.
00:36:43
And that in his
physical appearance,
00:36:44
he was probably pleasing to
look at, someone that they
00:36:46
felt comfortable with.
00:36:48
That appears to be the car.
00:36:49
It's a two-door
Olds, blue in color.
00:36:51
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Several days after the bodies
00:36:53
were discovered, police from
the Rogers' car at a boat
00:36:56
ramp near their motel.
00:37:00
GLEN MOORE: We found a note
in that vehicle that indicated
00:37:04
directions for the victims
to go to the boat ramp
00:37:07
and to meet someone there
with something that's blue
00:37:11
slash white.
00:37:12
That would lead us to
believe that they went there
00:37:14
to meet a blue and white boat.
00:37:20
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Police believed
00:37:21
that Joan and the girls
were lured to their deaths
00:37:24
probably by the
promise of a boat ride.
00:37:28
- Hi.
- Hi.
00:37:29
How you doing today?
00:37:30
Good.
00:37:31
Let me give you a hand.
00:37:33
CINDRA CUMMINGS:
They got on the boat
00:37:34
with this person
or these people.
00:37:37
And at that time, I'm sure
they felt very safe with them.
00:37:41
And that was the killer's plan.
00:37:45
He knew what he was going
to do to those victims
00:37:47
before they ever
got on his boat.
00:37:52
JANA MONROE: We think a person
like this will kill again,
00:37:54
and in all probability
has killed again.
00:37:58
We think that he was surprised
that the bodies surfaced as
00:38:01
quickly as they did, and in his
killings subsequent to this,
00:38:05
he will change his
manner and his method
00:38:07
of disposal of any bodies.
00:38:10
DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): A guest
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at the motel on the day
of the Rogers' deaths
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reported seeing a young,
well-groomed, white male
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loading a cooler
into a white boat
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with dark blue racing stripes.
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The boat was towed by
a dark-colored Chevy
00:38:24
Blazer or Ford Bronco.
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Update.
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Acting on a tip from
one of our viewers,
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authorities tracked down
and arrested Oba Chandler
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in Pinellas County, Florida.
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Police say a palm
print on the brochure
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found in the Rogers' car focused
the investigation on Chandler.
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He was convicted on three
counts of first degree murder
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and was sentenced to death.
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Artists hope to live
forever through their work,
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but one painter's
chance at immortality
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has literally been stolen.
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14 of his large-scale
paintings were spirited away
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in a single night.
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The artist was Ben Stahl,
born in Chicago in 1910.
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As a young man, he
honed his skills
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on beautiful illustrations
for books and magazines.
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Norman Rockwell once wrote in a
letter to Ben, "The rest of us
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are just illustrators, but
you are among the masters."
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At the height of Ben's
career, the Catholic Press
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commissioned him to paint
the Stations of the Cross
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for a special
edition of the Bible.
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The 14 small paintings
were so popular
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that Ben decided to paint them
again on a much larger scale.
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DAVID STAHL: Well, he spent two
years painting these paintings.
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There was something very special
going on while he was painting
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these paintings, because when
he did the face of Christ,
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or the head of Christ, he pulled
it off in 30, 40 brushstrokes
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without ever having
to do it over again,
00:40:10
and he was really
amazed at that.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
With the paintings completed,
00:40:16
Ben opened the
Museum of the Cross
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so that the public
could enjoy his work.
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DAVID STAHL: It was almost holy,
I mean, just the atmosphere
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of the museum.
00:40:27
And people would come out
with tears in their eyes.
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It was very moving
for a lot of people.
00:40:33
DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER): But
three years after the museum
00:40:35
opened, thieves broke in.
00:40:40
Somehow, they knew that there
were no security guards on duty
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and no alarm system in place.
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Instead of cutting
the canvas out,
00:40:49
the thieves painstakingly
removed each staple
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and then rolled the paintings
up and made a clean getaway.
00:40:57
JOHN TOWNSEND: There had to be
at least three to four people
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do this.
00:41:02
And we felt that they
were probably in there
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a minimum of four hours.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): The next day,
00:41:08
Ben responded to a frantic call
from the museum's director.
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All 14 paintings
had been stolen.
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Oh, no.
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DENNIS FARINA (VOICEOVER):
Ben was crushed.
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DAVID STAHL: He had a
lot of trust in people.
00:41:25
Insurance is very expensive.
00:41:26
He didn't have any--
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there were no burglar
alarms or anything like that
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because of this trust.
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So when the place was robbed,
he was in total shock.
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DENNIS FARINA
(VOICEOVER): What happened
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to Ben Stahl's paintings?
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Ben died without
ever finding out,
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and now his children
are offering
00:41:46
a reward for their safe return.
00:41:49
The statute of limitations
has run out on this theft,
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so anyone who might
have unknowingly
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bought the stolen paintings is
in no danger of prosecution.
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If you have any information
about the paintings
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or any of the other cases that
we profiled in this program,
00:42:08
please log on to our
website at unsolved.com.
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