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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're about to see is not a news
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broadcast
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in new hampshire freak accidents take
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the lives of a mother and her son 25
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years apart
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some believe that rena and danny
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paquette were in reality murdered
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because he had seen the face of the same
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killer
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in aurora illinois lavelda richmond was
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injured in a car crash on a lonely
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country road
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simultaneously her identical twin sister
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lavona claims that she saw the accident
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from her living room 20 miles away
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could this be a case of esp between
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identical twins
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and fbi director william sessions will
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announce the latest addition to the
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fbi's 10 most wanted list perhaps you
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can help track down a serial child
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molester
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also we have a heartwarming update from
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our story of a tennessee adoption home
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which abducted children and sold them to
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wealthy clients
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after our broadcast one of those orphans
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was reunited with her two brothers after
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a 30-year separation
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you can share in their joyous reunion
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tonight on unsolved mysteries
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thirty years ago hooksett new hampshire
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was home to 2500 people and many of them
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farmers
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the surrounding woods concealed an
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abundant population of deer that
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attracted hutters from all over new
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england
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but by the winter of 1964 a hunter of a
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different kind had arrived in the area
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two teenage girls had been found
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murdered after having first been
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tortured
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the second victim was a 15 year old high
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school sophomore named pamela mason
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it was thought that her killer lived in
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the area a neighbor regarded neighbor
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with suspicion
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one area resident had good reason to be
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frightened
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forty-seven-year-old rina paquette told
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her friends and family that she believed
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she knew who had killed the two teenage
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girls
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at the time nobody took her seriously
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february 3rd 1964 rena's son 13 year old
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danny paquette had the day off from
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school mom
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danny and reina were alone at the family
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farm but when the boy came down for
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breakfast his mother was gone uncle
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charlie this is danny speaking yeah i
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can't find my mom
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well she said she was gonna take me to
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the dentist today
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when danny got up that morning i
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couldn't find my mother all right
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bye
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dan couldn't understand where she was
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because her purse and her winter coat
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were there
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and it was extremely
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bitterly cold and it was highly unlikely
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that she went anywhere without her coat
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or her purse
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she's not in there until charlie let's
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try the big barn
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danny's uncle immediately came over to
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help look for rena though the two
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searched for over an hour arena was
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nowhere to be found
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smoke
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rina mom was dead
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her charred body was found in the
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paquette barn one mile from the family
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home
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police concluded that she had somehow
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set herself on fire and then crawled
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into the barn to die
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however no flammable substances or
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containers were found near the area
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though where death was ruled as suicide
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her other son victor believes that she
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was murdered
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i don't really believe my mother
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committed suicide
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because of the
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tremendous amount of fear and panic in
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the community because of the two earlier
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brutal murders
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that uh
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i think it was just kind of like
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kept
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on a very low profile not to create more
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public hysteria i feel at the time of my
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mother's death the person that was found
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to be the person responsible for killing
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the young pamela mason girl was the same
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person that was responsible for my
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mother's stuff
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in february of 1964 a local delivery man
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was arrested convicted and sentenced a
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life in prison for the murder of pamela
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mason
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at long last the nightmare seemed over
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but 20 years later reena's son danny was
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also found dead gunned down in front of
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his house
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there are those who believe that danny
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and his mother both died for the same
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reason
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they knew too much
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lorena paquette left behind five
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children her son danny seemed the most
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affected by her death
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his brother victor became his closest
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friend
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mom being killed was very traumatic for
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danny
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i think everybody's mom is a little
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security blanket
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and from there you lose that
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emotionally it leads to a lot of
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problems
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danny grew from a troubled adolescent
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into a troubled adult he married became
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a father but then divorced in 1981.
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in a bitter legal battle danny lost
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custody of his children
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i believe that danny loved his children
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more than anything
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i'm sure that danny was extremely upset
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angered
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at the thought of losing
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his children it would of course mean to
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to him another loss
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in the summer of 1983 frustrated by not
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being allowed to see his children danny
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went to his former wife's home steve
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dude open the door what are you doing
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here dee i want to see the kids i
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haven't seen him in a month now open the
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door to see the kids you're not even
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supposed to be around here dee i'm
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telling you if i have to come through
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this plate glass door i want to see my
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kid
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after this frightening outburst danny's
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former wife called police they took him
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into custody
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i'm gonna take you back
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to february the 3rd
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1964. danny was ordered to undergo
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psychiatric examination at concord state
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mental hospital it was during this time
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that the tragedy from his past began to
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catch up with his present
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under hypnosis danny began to recall
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details of the morning that his mother
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was killed i remember i
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i woke up because i heard down
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i
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a man's voice
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and i remember i went back to my room i
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was i was scared
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danny became convinced that he had seen
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his mother's murder
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he told friends that he was certain that
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the killer was a same delivery man
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imprisoned for the murder of pamela
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mason
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however there has never been any
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evidence to support this belief
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how's things going here anyway
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during this troubled time dany's brother
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would visit every day and when danny was
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released after five months he found that
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victor had paid all of his bills
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mailed out
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after danny went home he tried to pick
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up the pieces of his life he and victor
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would spend many afternoons together
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motorcycling through the countryside
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we spent time together and we started to
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uh enjoy life it was a real turning
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point for him
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saturday morning november 9 1985
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danny was repairing a bulldozer while
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two of his friends worked on a car in
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the garage
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at 11 am danny's friends heard a loud
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pop
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i ran up
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towards where danny was working
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it appeared to me that he'd been
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electrocuted
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we noticed the air escaping from a hole
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in the middle of his chest
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and i thought that it was a welding
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probe that he fell on when he hit the
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ground
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i the time i didn't know it was a bullet
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wound i'm just looking around
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something wrong danny paquetted and shot
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through the heart with a single bullet
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he died instantly
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after police arrived they discovered
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footprints behind danny's house where
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the bullet may have come from
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the distance between the individual
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footprints raised the possibility that
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someone had been running from the scene
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search of the area revealed about
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50 to 80 yards away uh footprints
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heading toward the woods whether it was
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coincidental or in fact
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someone's footprint that was fleeing the
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scene
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is speculative at this time
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telephone service had been interrupted
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at about the time danny was shot their
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linemen had discovered a projectile in
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the telephone cable
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we did recover a bullet from it that was
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in line with danny's position
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investigators determined that the bullet
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in the telephone line was the same one
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that had killed danny
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the day of dany's death was also the
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beginning of hunting season and police
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began to theorize that he had been shot
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accidentally
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in order to test this theory they tried
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to pinpoint the location of the gunman
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we were able to ascertain that there
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were hunters in a gravel pit
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approximately a mile away that was
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sighting their weapons and at the time
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if danny was shot accidentally the fatal
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bullet may have come from this gravel
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pit
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for this to happen
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the bullet had to travel nearly a mile
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climb one thousand feet pass through
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dany and lodge in the telephone wire
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in the summer of 1990 ballistics expert
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r.j breglia was brought in from new york
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city in order to determine if such a
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shot could have occurred
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after examining the locations breglio
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concluded that such a shot would have
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been impossible
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i would rule out the possibility that
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there was an accident that the gun was
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fired from
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a mile or more away
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rather
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it was a shot
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fired in the vicinity
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deliberately
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you would have to traverse through woods
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would have to travel around vehicles
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get through a 24-inch opening on a
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bulldozer and hit somebody directly
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through the heart
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before being projected upwards into the
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telephone cable i think that's
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very hard to believe that that could
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happen
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i'm not any expert but i just don't buy
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that
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if anybody thinks that i'm going to lay
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down or go away on this one oh they're
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wrong
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we as a family are
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i think pretty well determined that the
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system is going to have to work the
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system is going to have to
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get out there and do its job
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was danny paquette the victim of a freak
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hunting accident
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or was he deliberately murdered
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he knew anything about me did someone
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want him silenced about what he claimed
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to have witnessed the morning of his
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mother's death
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you've been telling everybody in town
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that i did something that i did not do
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i got danny upstairs i don't care about
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danny let's go outside or did someone
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just want danny dead
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no one knows
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in 1949 the tennessee children's home
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society in memphis was considered a
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model orphanage
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director georgia tan was credited with
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placing five thousand orphans with new
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families and one national praise for her
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efforts
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the georgia tans orphanage had a darker
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side
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when i was growing up i was told that i
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was adopted from memphis tennessee
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after my adopted mother passed away
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i found correspondence from the
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tennessee children's home
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and that's when i started my search
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two and a half years later
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i found my name two hours later i found
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my mother
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cindy lapresto discovered that her
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mother had never placed her for adoption
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i was playing on the playground
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and georgia tan drove up in her
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proverbial black limousine
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okay george let's go home now
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georgia tan had simply abducted cindy
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good morning children
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a few days later judge camille kelly
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ordered the custody of cindy be given to
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the tennessee children's home society
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miss tan
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thank you judge kelly
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i'm confident
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that camille kelly
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was involved with georgia tan in this
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operation georgia tan could not have
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carried it on without her
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and camille kelly could not have lived
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in the style she lived unless she had
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outside income
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in 1950 robert taylor investigated
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georgia tan in the tennessee children's
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home society
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he discovered that tan was using the
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orphanage as a cover for a black market
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baby ring and that she was making a
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fortune in the process
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on september 12 1950 robert taylor
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presented his report to the governor of
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tennessee
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three days later georgia tan died of
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cancer two months later judge camille
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kelly resigned
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the tennessee children's home society
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was shut down
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i get very angry when i think of georgia
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tan and camille kelly because what
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they've done to me and thousands of
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other people
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it makes me very angry because my mother
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missed my growing up
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and those years can never be replaced
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we've been robbed
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tonight we are pleased to announce that
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because of our broadcast another orphan
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from the tennessee children's home
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society has been reunited with her
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family
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lynn hines was five years old when she
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was adopted by a wealthy california
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couple
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i was adopted into a very very fine
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family
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but there wasn't a lot of love in the
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family
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and even though you know
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you try to make the adopted child part
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of the family you're always still just a
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little bit different
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and so it meant a great deal to me to
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find that i really had a true family
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lin was born martha jean goocon and was
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placed in georgia tannen's orphanage in
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1949
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she never saw or heard from her natural
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family again
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then just three weeks after our
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broadcast lynn learned that her father
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and two brothers paul and randall were
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still living in tennessee
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one of the things that i had been
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fearful is that the family did not want
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me to find them
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when i did finally get hold of randall
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randall said if you don't come here
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we're coming there
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like tomorrow
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you know it wasn't soon enough
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the next day lin flew from her home in
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denver colorado and saw her brothers for
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the first time in more than 40
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took me that years to find you guys
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she walked all the plane i knew she was
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just like that
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well she spitting image of her mother
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a very spitting image
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you haven't your void
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that
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had never been filled
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but it wasn't
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that afternoon randall and paul took
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lynn to meet their 86 year old father
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rufus guccin yeah
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i had pictures of myself
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when i was adopted that the adopted
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parents had taken and they had pictures
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of
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randall and i and mother before i had
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been adopted so we naturally had to
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compare all our pictures and all that
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type of thing and i guess we decided
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that we really were brothers and sisters
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it was very exciting very thrilling
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as we grew older while we just always
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had a
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the thought there the love there
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but she wasn't
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you want me to take it with me when i
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leave
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just like
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yesterday you know somebody to love be
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loved by
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that you never had before
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i would have to say that this is like
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christmas
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new year's everything rolled up into one
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when i found the family i felt like i
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was queen for a day and all
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[Music]
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there are over 15 million sets of
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identical twins living in the world
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today
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throughout history they have fascinated
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and delighted us all
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their mirror images are a perfect
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example of nature's whimsy
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the physical similarities of identical
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twins can easily be explained by
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genetics but in the three stories you're
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about to see these eerie likenesses go
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beyond the realm of science and defy
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explanation
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[Music]
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mark newman and jerry levy are identical
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twin brothers who were separated at
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birth
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for 32 years neither one knew the other
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existed
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when they met for the first time three
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years ago they were amazed to discover
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that their uncanny resemblance was more
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than skin deep
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too much
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that first time we met when we went into
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the bathroom and looked in the mirror
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uh
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it was tomatoes a little spooky
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uh
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now i was seeing
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four of my faces
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instead of just a one when i normally
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look in the mirror
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i graduated
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incredibly mark and jerry's separate
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lives and personal habits were nearly
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identical
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both are volunteer firemen and have
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worked in the lawn care industry both
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are confirmed bachelors they always
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drink the same brand of beer and they
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even carry their keys in the same
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distinctive manner
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we were instantly comfortable each with
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each other uh
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the only way i could explain it was it
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was almost like
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a brother who moved away for 32 years
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and then came back and you know what
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we've been doing for for the last 32
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years
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and as it turned out we were doing the
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same exact things
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and still after you know 32 years of
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separation it was
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like there wasn't any separation
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our lives were basically parallel
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that's too much coincidence
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too much
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these identical twins wear it apart
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are remarkably alike on almost
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everything we look at
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okay mark and jerry let's have you stand
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up against the wall over here mark and
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jerry are alike in a wide
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array of ways
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they have a lot of gestures and postures
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they're the same they tend to hold their
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beer can in the same way they tend to
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laugh
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in the same way there's kind of a cycle
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and a pattern
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to their laughter and i've watched them
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sit in chairs and just watch the way
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they cross their legs things of that
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sort there's a whole pattern to their
00:22:37
behavior that's very much alike now that
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raises the question
00:22:41
how is it the two individuals reared
00:22:44
apart in entirely different environments
00:22:47
come 40 years later when they're
00:22:49
reunited to be so similar
00:22:52
we really as scientists simply do not
00:22:54
know
00:22:58
in some cases the unique bond between
00:22:59
identical twins is even more mystifying
00:23:02
some identical twins claim to have
00:23:04
paranormal experiences such as
00:23:06
telepathic communication or esp
00:23:09
and even a bizarre phenomenon known as
00:23:11
shared pain
00:23:12
scientists can either dismiss or explain
00:23:14
these strange occurrences
00:23:17
there's a saying among twins that's very
00:23:19
very common it's us against the world so
00:23:23
when we go back to back we can see 360
00:23:26
degrees we're not blindsided we see
00:23:29
things that other people don't and we
00:23:31
protect each other
00:23:33
identical twins lewis and donald keith
00:23:35
have lived in separate cities for most
00:23:37
of their lives but believe they are
00:23:38
connected by a sixth sense
00:23:43
they even claim to have experienced
00:23:45
shared pain
00:23:47
the first incident occurred three years
00:23:49
ago while lewis was working out at a
00:23:51
health club in chicago
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i took a swim
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i did a few bicycle exercises and i
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tried this
00:24:00
exercise
00:24:02
which had been told to me was good for
00:24:05
getting rid of those
00:24:06
uh i guess they're colloquially called
00:24:09
love handles that everybody would like
00:24:12
to get rid of anyway i tried the
00:24:14
exercise it was going along very well
00:24:16
it's not difficult it's not painful it
00:24:19
doesn't take any great intellectual
00:24:21
talent but uh i hurt myself
00:24:26
it was
00:24:27
probably the most intense pain that i
00:24:29
ever felt in my life
00:24:35
at that exact moment donald was over 500
00:24:38
miles away at his office just outside of
00:24:40
washington dc
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[Music]
00:24:43
i had some papers to xerox at the office
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and as i was walking down the corridor
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there was this pain
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in my
00:24:52
right groin area
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this pain was unlike any i had ever
00:24:57
experienced in my life
00:24:59
and then it was gone
00:25:01
and and i wondered what was the pain and
00:25:04
what caused it
00:25:06
later that day i called louis and his
00:25:08
secretary said that he had injured
00:25:10
himself and he was home and then my
00:25:15
uh curiosity got the best of me and
00:25:18
curiosity or sixth sense
00:25:20
i don't know i really don't know whether
00:25:22
it was curiosity or sixth sense but i
00:25:24
wanted to know where you hurt yourself
00:25:27
and then i found out that he had injured
00:25:31
himself
00:25:32
in the same place that i felt this pain
00:25:35
and then i asked him
00:25:36
about the time and when the time clicked
00:25:40
that i remember distinctly the hair on
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the back of my neck standing up it was
00:25:46
electric i could just feel every hair
00:25:50
sticking straight out
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[Music]
00:25:53
the experience of sharing pain
00:25:57
proved
00:25:58
again that we were identical twins again
00:26:01
that we were very close again
00:26:03
that
00:26:04
psychologically and psychically we were
00:26:07
able to communicate with us it didn't
00:26:10
surprise it it just confirmed what we
00:26:12
already knew
00:26:15
we feel pain for each other
00:26:18
whenever anything happens
00:26:20
to one the other one can experience like
00:26:22
if they're going through the same thing
00:26:24
herself for example i fell downstairs at
00:26:27
school they came in to tell my sister
00:26:29
they were taking me to the hospital and
00:26:30
she was unconscious
00:26:32
[Music]
00:26:34
lavona and lavelda richmond were born in
00:26:36
1933 and have lived together ever since
00:26:40
even after they married their identical
00:26:42
twin husbands alwyn and arthur
00:26:47
we are what they call identical mirror
00:26:49
image twins our medical history has been
00:26:52
pretty much the same throughout our life
00:26:54
in fact when one gets ill anymore they
00:26:56
check the other one to make sure she's
00:26:58
going to be okay
00:26:59
we've had tonsils taken out together
00:27:02
we've had breast biopsies the same time
00:27:04
and we had major surgery together the
00:27:06
eye correction is the same except for
00:27:08
opposite eyes my left eye is my weak eye
00:27:11
and my right eye is my root guy and our
00:27:14
cavities have appeared on opposite sides
00:27:18
lavona and lavalde have taken part in
00:27:20
many scientific studies of twin behavior
00:27:23
in one study they were rated highest
00:27:25
among the 300 sets of twins tested for
00:27:27
extrasensory perception
00:27:31
we feel among every set of twins one is
00:27:33
the sender and one is the receiver i
00:27:36
happen to be the receiver and i am the
00:27:38
sender
00:27:39
and whenever lavelda has been in an
00:27:40
occasion where she has felt pain or has
00:27:43
been in trouble
00:27:44
i have sensed it
00:27:48
the most starting example of this unique
00:27:50
psychic bond occurred in 1952
00:27:53
lavelda was riding in a car with a young
00:27:55
man who had asked her to join him in
00:27:57
town for a cup of coffee
00:28:00
where are you going coffee shops this
00:28:01
way relax don't worry about it go
00:28:03
somewhere nice and quiet where you and i
00:28:05
can talk when this gentleman turned the
00:28:07
opposite direction of what he was
00:28:09
supposed to turn i knew something was
00:28:11
wrong
00:28:12
i got very very uneasy
00:28:15
and i moved over as close to the
00:28:17
passenger side of the door as i could
00:28:20
and the more he drove the more agitated
00:28:23
he got and the more frightened i got
00:28:26
and i thought i was in trouble
00:28:30
then when the car skidded
00:28:32
the only thing i could think of was oh
00:28:34
my god what are they going to tell my
00:28:35
sister
00:28:38
and evidently that's when i got the
00:28:40
strong message was when she started
00:28:42
thinking to me how i was going to react
00:28:45
to if something had happened to her
00:28:48
i was sitting in the living room
00:28:49
studying
00:28:51
and all of a sudden it's just like if i
00:28:52
went into a trance
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could see what was happening
00:29:00
but i could not stop the vision from
00:29:02
happening
00:29:04
[Music]
00:29:09
i wonder what's wrong
00:29:11
dad call the police police what for sis
00:29:14
has been in an accident and i told
00:29:16
father to call the police and i could
00:29:18
not convince him that sis was in trouble
00:29:21
she's hurt that she's she's been in an
00:29:23
accident how do you know i can see it
00:29:25
she's on a country road he told me i was
00:29:27
jealous i couldn't be with him that this
00:29:29
was the first time we had been separated
00:29:31
for any events and i better get used to
00:29:34
it because there'd be other times that
00:29:35
would be separated from her also
00:29:39
the car stopped just inches before
00:29:41
plummeting into a water-filled ravine
00:29:44
are you okay
00:29:46
lavelda hit her head on the dashboard
00:29:48
but was not seriously hurt
00:29:50
i did not see her hit her head on the
00:29:52
dash at the time
00:29:54
what i did see
00:29:56
was a farmer coming
00:29:59
with a tractor pulling them out of a
00:30:01
ditch and i turn a desert it's all right
00:30:04
dad the danger has passed she's going to
00:30:07
be okay
00:30:10
see dad i told you
00:30:15
you okay i was not surprised when
00:30:17
lavelda came in the house
00:30:19
showing a little bit
00:30:21
where for her adventure
00:30:23
because i could sense what was happening
00:30:26
and i knew what was happening
00:30:28
but i was surprised at dad's reaction
00:30:31
listen i don't say a word
00:30:33
lavona you said you saw this thing
00:30:35
happen right
00:30:36
we're gonna get in the car right now and
00:30:38
you're gonna take us to where this thing
00:30:40
happened
00:30:41
and i said how am i gonna do it dad i've
00:30:43
never been there he said you saw it you
00:30:45
can show me where it is
00:30:49
just keep going this way all right
00:30:54
dad
00:30:55
asked lavonna which way to go and she
00:30:57
directed him
00:30:59
i sat in the back seat and i kept very
00:31:01
quiet all the way
00:31:04
and as we were driving i tell that you
00:31:06
turn here dad he said you ever been here
00:31:08
before i said no
00:31:10
how do you know i said feel it turn here
00:31:13
and she directed dad to the actual road
00:31:16
and when she got there you could see the
00:31:18
tire tracks where we went off and where
00:31:20
we were pulled back onto the road
00:31:24
this place honey yes it happened right
00:31:26
here
00:31:28
after we reached the crash site he said
00:31:31
you were right
00:31:32
i never actually believed it could
00:31:35
happen
00:31:36
before he said i know you told me it has
00:31:38
happened in the past but he says it's
00:31:39
the first time i've actually sought i
00:31:41
would never doubt you again if you tell
00:31:43
me one of you is in danger he said i'll
00:31:45
believe you
00:31:46
[Music]
00:31:50
three intriguing stories three sets of
00:31:53
identical twins
00:31:54
are they born with a paranormal ability
00:31:56
to silently communicate
00:31:58
if you were an identical twin perhaps
00:32:01
you already know
00:32:02
the rest of us can only wonder
00:32:05
[Music]
00:32:11
when we return the poignant story of a
00:32:13
tennessee family's search for their
00:32:15
missing sister
00:32:16
[Music]
00:32:25
our next story is about a family in the
00:32:27
best sense of the word
00:32:29
a family that has survived hard times
00:32:31
and endured to see better times
00:32:33
but for the hinkle family of tennessee
00:32:35
there is a sadness that the passing of
00:32:37
65 years has not managed to erode
00:32:40
it began when two infant girls were torn
00:32:42
from their home
00:32:43
tonight with your help those painful
00:32:45
memories may finally be put to rest and
00:32:48
you may be able to help reunite a family
00:32:53
greenville tennessee a small rural
00:32:56
community 60 miles northeast of
00:32:58
knoxville it was the summer of 1924 and
00:33:01
though the great depression was five
00:33:03
years away it arrived earlier for the
00:33:05
tobacco farmers who carved out a
00:33:07
marginal living in the countryside
00:33:13
times were tough that summer and tenant
00:33:15
farmer rufus hinkle was forced to make
00:33:17
an agonizing decision
00:33:20
shortly after giving birth to twin girls
00:33:23
rufus wife of 22 years had died
00:33:25
with nine other miles to feed rufus felt
00:33:28
incapable of making ends meet
00:33:31
where are you going with the twins where
00:33:33
they're a little bit sick sons i'm gonna
00:33:35
take them to the hospital for a couple
00:33:36
of weeks here hold your sister while i
00:33:38
get in the truck now be careful
00:33:40
be careful with her now
00:33:42
now well i'm gone son lord is in charge
00:33:44
so you pay attention to what lord says
00:33:46
you hear me you'll be a good boy
00:33:48
he was a man that loved his family
00:33:51
and he hated to part with any of us
00:33:53
especially the twins but uh sometime you
00:33:57
gotta sacrifice and uh
00:33:59
just do the best you can do
00:34:01
bye mary
00:34:03
bye martha
00:34:04
bye
00:34:11
on that hot july afternoon in 1924 rufus
00:34:15
henkel took his two baby girls on a
00:34:17
one-way trip to the orphanage he hoped
00:34:19
to reclaim mary and martha once his
00:34:21
fortunes improved
00:34:25
i'm sure that after he left the twins at
00:34:28
the orphanage that he worried about him
00:34:30
and thought about him a lot
00:34:32
and one of his
00:34:34
sons lloyd
00:34:36
remembers going to the orphanage with
00:34:38
rufus to see about the twins and see if
00:34:40
they could take them back
00:34:42
[Music]
00:34:44
sadly it was too late the twins had
00:34:46
already been given away
00:34:48
we did try to place them together but
00:34:50
that was just not possible they'll be
00:34:52
well taken care of you say you don't
00:34:53
have to worry about that they're with
00:34:55
fine families
00:34:56
well must be the lord's will i'm very
00:34:59
sorry mr hinkle thank you man
00:35:03
[Music]
00:35:07
come on son
00:35:09
we're going home
00:35:11
rufus hinkle never saw his two daughters
00:35:13
again
00:35:15
he passed away in 1950
00:35:20
later on i heard
00:35:22
that they would not tell us where they
00:35:24
were at until my father died
00:35:27
so shortly after he died
00:35:30
we started looking for the twins and we
00:35:32
found mary
00:35:35
in 1955 rufus's son shorty contacted the
00:35:39
orphanage the one able to locate martha
00:35:41
they were able to trace mary
00:35:45
in september of that year shoddy and his
00:35:47
wife drove into bluefield west virginia
00:35:49
to meet the sister he never knew
00:35:53
as we drove by my wife said to me he
00:35:55
said
00:35:56
right there she said said i know that's
00:35:58
her she looks just like your brother and
00:36:00
sure it was mary we know the first look
00:36:03
that it was
00:36:05
and it was a very happy time
00:36:09
very much
00:36:14
it's great to see you it was like
00:36:16
finding a part of you that had always
00:36:18
been missing
00:36:19
and just like putting something together
00:36:21
and when you put two and two together
00:36:23
you got to hold you know
00:36:25
and it was just great
00:36:26
oh it feels great to know that we can we
00:36:29
all be together at times and be a family
00:36:32
that they are part of me and part of
00:36:34
my i'm part of their blood they're part
00:36:36
of mine
00:36:37
why don't you come on over here and have
00:36:39
a seat let me take your picture okay sit
00:36:41
down
00:36:42
okay
00:36:43
smile
00:36:46
oh great
00:36:48
you know shorty it's amazing how much
00:36:50
she looks like dalton i can't believe it
00:36:52
she
00:36:53
that afternoon mary learned that she had
00:36:55
a twin sister
00:36:57
mary i've got some news for you
00:37:00
you have a twin sister named martha
00:37:03
really really i just don't can't explain
00:37:05
how i did feel not knowing that i had a
00:37:08
twin sister
00:37:10
a part of me
00:37:12
where is she well we don't know that
00:37:14
exactly
00:37:15
shorty told mary that the orphanage had
00:37:17
lost track of martha she had never been
00:37:20
officially adopted but had instead been
00:37:22
sent to a temporary home
00:37:24
we can't seem to find her oh
00:37:26
i've often wondered if it's been good
00:37:30
or if martha's life has been bad
00:37:33
uh you wonder about them things
00:37:37
30 years later rufus's granddaughter
00:37:39
jackie took on the family quest
00:37:43
well i started my search for martha at
00:37:45
holston home for children in greenville
00:37:48
where she was placed along with mary in
00:37:50
1924
00:37:51
and they showed me what records you know
00:37:53
that they could that were available
00:37:55
mary's okay
00:37:58
yeah
00:37:59
in 1986 jackie uncovered the original
00:38:02
orphanage records greenville tennessee
00:38:06
she learned that in november of 1924
00:38:08
martha had been given temporarily to a
00:38:10
charles and lida meek in johnson city a
00:38:12
small town 30 miles away from greenville
00:38:16
[Music]
00:38:20
so then i centered my search in johnson
00:38:23
city
00:38:24
and i went through old record books and
00:38:27
uh census records and city directories
00:38:30
and things of that sort went down sydney
00:38:32
street where she was supposed to live
00:38:34
and
00:38:36
i've never found any trace of the mix
00:38:38
whatsoever so i really don't know what
00:38:40
happened to him
00:38:42
from there
00:38:44
[Music]
00:38:46
not much is known about the meeks other
00:38:48
than the fact that charles was a 34 year
00:38:50
old farmer and a member of the holiness
00:38:53
church
00:38:57
in april of 1990 three generations of
00:38:59
hinkles got together for a family
00:39:01
reunion
00:39:02
there was only one person missing
00:39:07
today the family refuses to give up the
00:39:09
search for martha they are certainly she
00:39:11
is alive somewhere
00:39:13
they wanted to become part of a family
00:39:15
that has never stopped caring about one
00:39:17
another
00:39:20
our family has been very close very
00:39:22
close but uh
00:39:24
we're not a complete family without
00:39:26
finding the other sister
00:39:28
and when we found mary this was the the
00:39:30
part of it but
00:39:32
there's still a part of us missing yet
00:39:35
oh it would just be
00:39:37
the happiest day of my life
00:39:40
to get to be reunited with
00:39:43
my twin sister martha
00:39:46
there are no known pictures of martha
00:39:48
but there is a chance that mary and
00:39:49
martha are identical twins
00:39:52
these photographs of mary may help
00:39:54
identify her lost sister
00:39:57
the first was taken when she was eight
00:39:58
years old
00:39:59
[Music]
00:40:00
the second when she was 17.
00:40:04
this is how mary appears today
00:40:07
she and martha were born in the spring
00:40:09
of 1924
00:40:11
they were taken to the holston orphanage
00:40:13
in greenville tennessee when they were
00:40:15
four months old
00:40:20
shortly after our broadcast one of our
00:40:22
viewers sandy detained of san bernardino
00:40:24
california contacted the hinkle family
00:40:26
with surprising news
00:40:28
during a search for her mother's
00:40:29
biological family sandy accidentally
00:40:32
discovered the location of martha
00:40:34
henkel's adoptive family
00:40:38
martha lived with john and lyda meeks
00:40:39
for three years
00:40:41
when the couple divorced
00:40:43
martha was taken in by the dan jackson
00:40:45
family of johnson county georgia
00:40:48
in 1940 she married james thomas and
00:40:50
together they had four sons
00:40:52
[Music]
00:40:54
sadly martha passed away just weeks
00:40:57
before the hinkle family could contact
00:40:58
her
00:41:01
i'm glad that i found her
00:41:03
we won't have to do no more searching
00:41:07
but it's so sad that i couldn't need her
00:41:09
that
00:41:10
that i couldn't be with her just to talk
00:41:11
to her just for
00:41:13
just for an hour or two
00:41:15
and tell her that i loved her
00:41:19
although she never realized her dream of
00:41:21
meeting her twin sister mary's 35-year
00:41:24
search was not in vain
00:41:26
on july 27 1991
00:41:29
martha's four sons met mary and a side
00:41:32
of the family they had never known
00:41:35
that day in a bittersweet reunion two
00:41:38
families came together as one
00:41:43
we were part of the family before we
00:41:45
ever
00:41:46
walked up and touched one of them it was
00:41:48
written all over their faces when we saw
00:41:50
those smiles and tender hearts
00:41:54
all the little fears big fears the
00:41:56
apprehensions just left it was all over
00:41:58
with
00:41:59
glad to be home with our family
00:42:06
i'm proud that she left four sons
00:42:09
left part of her here
00:42:11
for me to get together and know know her
00:42:13
through
00:42:14
her sons but part of them is gone
00:42:18
that i never that i never found and i
00:42:20
never will find
00:42:22
but she'll always be in my heart
00:42:26
[Music]
00:42:35
next a cunning and disturbed child
00:42:37
molester is added to the fbi's 10 most
00:42:40
wanted list
00:42:50
forty years ago the federal bureau of
00:42:52
investigation initiated his ten most
00:42:54
wanted list to alert the public of the
00:42:56
most dangerous criminals in america
00:42:58
now from washington d.c a special appeal
00:43:01
by fbi director william sessions
00:43:05
since 1950 125 fugitives on the fbi's 10
00:43:09
most wanted list have been captured
00:43:11
thanks to your help
00:43:13
tonight with this broadcast of unsolved
00:43:15
mysteries we are announcing the most
00:43:17
recent addition to the most wanted list
00:43:19
he is kenneth roberts stanton who is
00:43:21
wanted on charges of child molestation
00:43:23
burglary unlawful flight to avoid
00:43:25
prosecution and impersonating a police
00:43:28
officer
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please watch carefully
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in 1964 kenneth robert stanton was
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convicted of child molestation
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he was committed to a state mental
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hospital in ionia michigan
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stanton was diagnosed as a criminal
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sexual psychopath
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a few years later staten was declared
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fit to re-enter society and set free
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in 1989 kenneth stanton was identified
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by a young girl in jackson mississippi
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the events she described matched the
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modus operandi of numerous molestations
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attributed to stanton
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kenneth robert stanton quite frequently
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scouts an upper middle class white
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neighborhood
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and carefully selects a house where a
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victim is quite often home alone
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usually a young white female is between
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the ages of 7 and 12
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and his job as a traveling salesman
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permits him time to do this
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he is careful to approach the houses not
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to disturb anybody
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he usually wears a conservative suit
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he's nice looking he's well dressed
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quite often stanton comes to the front
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door of the house presents himself as a
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person of authority and quite often
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shows a badge as though he were a
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policeman dressed in plain clothes
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[Music]
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hi is your mother home
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no well i'm officer tom coles i'm with
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the local police department we're
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helping out the county health service
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there's been a report of contaminated
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milk in the area and i'd like to come in
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and check if i could i'm not supposed to
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let strangers in the house well i'm not
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a stranger i'm a policeman i've been up
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and down the neighborhood all day
00:45:13
checking your neighbor's ice box for the
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milk and the expiration date he often
00:45:17
has a clipboard and indicates to the
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child
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in the house that he's taking a survey
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or that he's looking for contaminated
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milk and that he is there to test the
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milk in the refrigerator
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do you know where your milk is coming
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from
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no
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well that's even more reason i should
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come in and check it'll only take a
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minute
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if a young person would resist entry
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stanton quite often displays a bag of
00:45:45
marijuana or marijuana cigarette
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stating that he found this on the front
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porch and he's is entitled to search the
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house for evidence well how do i know
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that you're really a policeman well
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here's my badge
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[Music]
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he has a high iq and he's very
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intelligent and he's able to gain their
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confidence to get inside the house i'll
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be gone okay all right
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[Music]
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once he's inside and he's determined
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that
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the children or child
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is alone
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he
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blindfolds them frequently quite often
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he uses eye drops and a thermometer
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possibly for a distraction it's at that
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time then that he continues on and
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assaults the children
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in the summer of 1989
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at jackson mississippi stanton
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was in the house of a young white female
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attempted assault when she screamed and
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scared him away
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when he ran out of the house a neighbor
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boy saw him jump into a car
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and correctly wrote down his license tag
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number
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thereafter police were able to use that
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license number and identify that car as
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being registered to kenneth robert
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stanton of mobile alabama christy what i
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need you to do is i need you to look at
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each and every picture and think in your
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mind what this man looks like
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and then look at each and every picture
00:47:16
and pick out the picture that looks like
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him
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okay
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the young girl who was a solid on that
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day thereafter picked out a photograph
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of stanton from a spread presented to
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her by the jackson mississippi police
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department
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that's the man
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that's the man that's him
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after the jackson mississippi assault
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stanton apparently traveled east through
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alabama and georgia and committed
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several crimes before he was identified
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at houston county georgia
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there were identifications of stanton at
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jackson mississippi and columbus
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mississippi as well as tuscaloosa
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alabama
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leesburg georgia douglasville georgia
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and warren robbins georgia
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stanton is suspected of at least 11
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child molestations from mississippi
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alabama and into georgia
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after reviewing a number of these cases
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and looking at stanton's history from
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the early 1960s we were able to conclude
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that he apparently was a lifelong child
00:48:20
molester and probably could be described
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as a serial child monster
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kenneth robert stanton is 52 years old
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approximately six feet tall and weighs
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170 pounds
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he has blue eyes and brown thinning hair
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he usually wears glasses and
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occasionally sports a mustache and beard
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stanton travels frequently and works as
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a heavy equipment
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he is known to have relatives in indiana
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in december of 1989 his car was found
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abandoned in terrysburg ohio
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[Music]
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update kenneth robert stanton has been
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captured
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within minutes of our broadcast several
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viewers called our telecenter to report
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that stanton was living in a trailer
00:49:04
park in moraine ohio with his wife he
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had been married just a few weeks
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earlier
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local police and fbi agents arrived to
00:49:12
staten's trainer only to learn that he
00:49:13
himself had seen our broadcast and fled
00:49:16
stanton's wife and neighbors were
00:49:18
stunned
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i've talked to my son and i've had him
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in front of the house staying in the
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yard just in case he come back
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you know i don't want someone like aunt
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running around the streets at all you
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know anyone that does anything like that
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should be put away
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five days later stanton was identified
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in rock hill south carolina after he
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allegedly attempted to molest a
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nine-year-old girl
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based on seeing the segment on the
00:49:43
program
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coupled with the police report
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we suspected there's a strong
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possibility that stanton was in rock
00:49:50
hill
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or somewhere in this area
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and we proceeded on an assumption that
00:49:55
he was
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possibly staying at a local motel
00:49:59
two days later fbi agents spotted
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stanton's car in the parking lot of this
00:50:03
motel
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after identifying the vehicle we
00:50:07
established the surveillance of the
00:50:09
motel
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with fbi agents in york county sheriff's
00:50:12
department detectives
00:50:14
incredibly a check with a motel office
00:50:17
revealed that staff met registered under
00:50:19
his own name
00:50:20
he
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had indicated to the clerk previously
00:50:24
that he wanted to stay an additional
00:50:25
week but he also wanted to move to the
00:50:27
main building
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the clerk
00:50:31
in our direction called his room
00:50:33
told him
00:50:35
the new room was ready and he could move
00:50:38
when stanton emerged from his room we
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arrested him we asked stanton his name
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he said you know who i am
00:50:45
and he indicated
00:50:46
that he was not a threat to us he was
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only a threat to himself
00:50:51
he did indicate that
00:50:53
the following day was his birthday
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[Music]
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next week unsolved mysteries falls on
00:51:16
halloween
00:51:17
in keeping with that tradition four
00:51:19
intriguing mysteries of eerie people and
00:51:22
events which cannot be explained
00:51:25
scores of witnesses in south carolina
00:51:27
say they have encountered legendary
00:51:29
ghosts called a grey man
00:51:31
some even claim that he has saved their
00:51:33
homes by warning them of approaching
00:51:35
hurricanes
00:51:37
we'll also meet a woman named katie
00:51:39
whose apparent psychic powers have left
00:51:41
eyewitnesses baffled and skeptics crying
00:51:44
fraud
00:51:45
on halloween just two years ago 29 year
00:51:48
old david stone set forth on a spiritual
00:51:50
odyssey in the bleak desert in new
00:51:52
mexico he never returned
00:51:54
authorities are still perplexed by a
00:51:56
trail of mystical clues he left behind
00:52:01
join us on halloween for a special
00:52:03
edition of unsolved mysteries
00:52:07
[Music]
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so
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[Music]
00:52:35
[Applause]
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[Music]
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you
