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tonight on unsolved mysteries just
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before Christmas 1955 a newborn baby
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girl was abandoned in a New York City
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subway car forty years later Jean Martin
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still dreams of finding her birth mother
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perhaps someone watching make her dream
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come true if you think sea monsters are
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nothing more than fanciful legend you
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probably never visited Canada's Kepler
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Bay you probably never heard the
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incredible eyewitness accounts of a
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mysterious creature known as
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cadborosaurus in North Carolina a night
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of drinking and joyriding suddenly turns
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vicious a young mother is thrown to her
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death also a rare glimpse into the mind
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of a criminal Franklin Floyd is serving
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52 years for kidnapping but his victim 7
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year old Michael Hughes was never found
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incredibly Floyd claims a kidnap boy is
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alive and well but refuses to say where
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he is stay ones perhaps you hold the key
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perhaps your call can help solve on a
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tonight's unsolved mysteries
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immediately immediately dignity
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for centuries the stories have
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fascinated us in Scotland is the Loch
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Ness monster in New York's Lake
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Champlain is chimp there's all go Pogo
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at Lake Okanagan and British Columbia
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Canada
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and finally nearby Cadbury Bay is the
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legendary caddy the thing I noticed most
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about it was its eyes that they were big
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and they were serpent like the odor from
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it was just incredible it would permeate
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it it made you want to vomit
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it went down and Hum came up and then it
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went down and another hump came up and
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it was like it was moving
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they called it cadborosaurus caddy for
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short the sea monster of Cadbury Bay
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many people believe this is the carcass
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of just such a creature computer
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enhancement gives us an idea of what it
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might have looked like when alive like
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the biblical joke it came from the belly
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of a whale
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in 1937 there was a whaling station in
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the north part of British Columbia and
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one of the whale boats our poom this big
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sperm whale about six hours run from the
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whaling station towed it back and the
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flenders got to it fairly quickly
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cleansers are the workers of butcher the
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whales once they are brought to shore
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amazingly a sperm whale has three
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enormous stomachs inside one of them the
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flenders made an astonishing find
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instead of bringing out a book ten foot
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shark or a giant squid or a rack rag
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fish or something like that they came
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across this incredible snake-like thing
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none of them had ever seen it before in
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years of whaling and flensing they knew
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it was something different the Whalers
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took this photograph that very day James
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wakeland then a 24-year old blacksmith's
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assistant is the only witness still
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alive who saw the creature with his own
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eyes I don't know I got no idea what it
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is
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I haven't never seen anything like it
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and I guess somebody thought that's a
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queer-looking affair there we better get
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the manager or go and see him but I'm
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bought it and he got it brought down and
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he took the pictures laid out the
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creature measured some 12 feet long it
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had a head shaped like a horse or a
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camel in a thin snake-like body
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approximately 16 inches in circumference
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Norma's detail is visible especially in
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the tail region which shows us that the
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it has a pair of hind flippers that were
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webbed together with the tail to form
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this whale Lake fluke which undoubtedly
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provided the main driving force for this
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animal
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the Whalers cent part of the specimen to
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the provincial Museum and Victoria
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British Columbia there the museum
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director Frances Kermode dismissed it as
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a fetus of a baleen whale and tossed it
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out even to untrained eyes a baleen
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whale fetus bears little resemblance to
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the carcass examined by the museum
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director if he just stopped in thought
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would these men send down a fetal baleen
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whale i dissected hundreds of these
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things out of dead whale uterus is every
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week a new one if fetal baleen well so
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that was really not complimentary to
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these professional whalers if the
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Whalers weren't wrong
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maybe the creature was a fake one of the
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most famous photos of the Loch Ness
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monster eventually proved to be a hoax
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skeptics claim the cadborosaurus photo
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is no different but that hardly explains
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all the people in the sixty years since
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who insist they've seen a caddy like sea
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monster in 1968 William Hagglund was
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sailing in a remote cold as evening fell
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he and his sons netted what he now
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believes was a baby cadborosaurus look
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back a little garter snake but it was a
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little bit more husky than that but it
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wasn't much longer about 16 inches long
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maybe the thickness of my thumb but it
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had a little shoulders with little
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flippers on its shoulders or and a bit
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of a neck not much but an a head on it
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there with two bright brown eyes looking
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at us
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Peggle and sketched the animal in detail
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he decided to take the oddity to the
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nearest biology station but he was at
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least a day's sail away
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through the evening I could hear this
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little thing making quite a fuss in the
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bucket that we'd put it into but when I
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Shawn the light down Adam he just opened
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his mouth and hissed at me and you could
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see that he was quite terrified and
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quite put out with all of this I felt
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that maybe if we tried to held him
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overnight that he might perish I just
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the great deal of soul-searching decided
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to put it back in the water and leave it
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be it was another opportunity lost for
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the second time but was thought to be a
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caddy was thrown back in the bay in
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consultation with a paleontologist we
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applied computer animation techniques to
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one of the original cadborosaurus
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photographs the skeletal structure is
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similar to that of a snake a caddy seven
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metres long would probably have at least
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360 vertebrae that would give the
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creature enough flexibility to form the
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signature hoops so frequently mentioned
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by eyewitnesses unlike a snake but
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Canole wiggle from side to side but
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cadborosaurus could propel itself
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forward with his tail fluke and steer
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with us for fin something like a sea
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lion if this is truly an accurate
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depiction of a caddy
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imagine seeing one in the wild
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that's what a Pyrus spotted while flying
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a seaplane over a cat burrow Bay two
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college boys saw just 20 yards from
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shore and a homemaker surprised the sea
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monster right on the beach I was walking
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my dog lady and as we were coming down
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the path to the beach she was struggling
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to get away from me she just didn't want
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to go to the beach come on Lady
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finally I pulled her and pulled her and
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she got closer and as I turned to look
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down I saw this face looking at me and
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it was shaped like a horse face and
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there were eyes that were like a snake
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and as that I looked at it it looked at
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me and then it dropped his head below
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the cliff sort of took my breath away
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when I saw it and I just was thinking to
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myself did I really see what I thought I
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saw you know what is it I heard a sound
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thought it was probably a whale or
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something looked out didn't see much and
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heard it again and saw like a strange
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head out of the water 50 60 feet away
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I had the definite snout with a big
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large head really rocky looking a really
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greeny black color almost like a garbage
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bag color was a very odd-looking
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looking thing it was a hoof like a
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creature it had two vertical loops as we
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were on approach and landing we could
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see that it was moving very quickly
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through the water and I would estimate
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to be about 40 miles per hour and we
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could actually see through the two hoops
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we could see you know what was on the
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other side of the hoop so that was very
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strange
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it was the most unique thing I've ever
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seen in the in the waters around here
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I've seen lots of different things but
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I've never seen something like that it's
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our view that the animal does exist
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because of the total mass of evidence if
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these people who act independently over
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a century time and 3,000 miles of
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coastline were in collusion it would be
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the biggest con game in the history of
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science there's no way that happened
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these people are totally I've known to
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each other
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skeptics abound outnumbered perhaps only
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by believers doubters claim caddy
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eyewitnesses are mistaken but they
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really saw a humpback whales elephant
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seals basking sharks are perhaps a herd
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of sea lions hopefully the next person
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to get hold of a caddy managed to resist
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the urge to dump it back in the bay
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perhaps then this mystery will finally
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be solved we'll be back in a moment with
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an urgent appeal from the authorities in
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North Carolina they need your help to
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track down an accused killer
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most teenagers would do anything to
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avoid being with their parents but a 17
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year old April heart nothing would be
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more precious of spending a few moments
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with her mother savagely murdered when
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April was 6 I just want to go back to
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being sick so that she will be there was
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something to play with me and I'll have
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her let her know and she's there with me
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not going what she is now April's mother
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sherry was last seen alive on a January
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night in 1984 a 24 year old divorcee was
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supposed to meet a date outside a local
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restaurant sherry Hart did not come home
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that night or the next police located
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several friends who had seen her that
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evening however they found no evidence
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of foul play no explanation for Sherry's
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sudden disappearance four months
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afterwards April heard rumors that her
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mother had run off to Florida with a
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lover I just thought she hated me and
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didn't want to come back because she had
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me and she didn't feel like she was
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responsible for me and I just didn't
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that she loved him anymore sure what he
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got dogs female she's been here a while
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yeah she's pretty well decomposed the
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truth was worse far worse 11 months
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after sherry vanished an unrelated
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investigation led police down a two
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thousand foot cliff locals call it the
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jumping-off place it was there that
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authorities found the body of sherry
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Lyle Hart
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investigators immediately reopened the
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case they doing well I was supposed to
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have a day just about a half hour ago
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but they located a witness who had seen
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sherée on the night she vanished with
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two highschool friends
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Jeffrey Burgess and Richard bear where
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were you going nowhere particular just
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out cruising around no Elise
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interrogated Bear and Burgess separately
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Richard Bears brother had once dated
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sherry Hart what time would that have
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been nine nine o'clock you sure about
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that
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no I'm not sure could have been 905 it
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could have been two 855 I don't I don't
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keep a watch on me and check in every
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minute okay we have witnesses that saw
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you together after nine o'clock and
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Burgess gave us a different time as well
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so are you sure it was nine o'clock okay
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look let me tell you something it was
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dark it was cold we dropped her off by
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her car I don't know what time it was
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but stores were open they were opened
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okay Richard bear volunteered little
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information so detectives pushed forward
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with other leads we interviewed a great
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deal of people many people and as a
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result of those interviews we feel that
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we have developed a scenario as to what
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occurred that evening
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I feel we go cruising first a couple
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buddies minor down there meet up with
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them and then made me go to the toilet
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club afterwards
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sounds good at some point in time this
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riding around led them to an area
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possibly in the vicinity of a high club
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or a party and during this riding around
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Shea Hart asked to make a arrest op
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authorities allege that sherry and the
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two men pulled off the highway about 1/4
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of a mile from the jumping off place
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I think the woods are a dangerous place
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for a little girl that night Richard
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bear was apparently carrying a handgun
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are you doing shut up and stay in the
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car richard bear' and jeffrey burgess
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were charged with a murder of Sherri
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Hart
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our DUI conviction could have led
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straight to the gas chamber however four
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months after his arrest Richard Baer
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managed to escape from the County Jail
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Jeffrey Burgess was released on bail
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pending his friends recaptured more than
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10 years later the trial has yet to
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begin we let those people down we let
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the victim down and we certainly like to
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have an opportunity to get him back to
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let them know that we wants to see we
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want to see justice done this is
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probably his brutal of crime as you will
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ever encounter because the horror the
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fear and the fried that that victim had
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to feel for several minutes before she
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went over that clip because she would
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have in my opinion known enough
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to know where she was she was a outgoing
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person she liked people she liked to
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have fun she was the mother that lived
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her daughter very much
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she thought more of April than anybody
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or anything
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it won't never get behind me I can't
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actually from that power grade knowing
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she's down there and I want her to be
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here with me so I can just give her a
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hug and just have her in my life for
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Jenna
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recently we profiled a pair of cunning
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criminals two women who in some circles
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that achieve near folk hero status the
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police knew them as a real-life Thelma
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and Louise if you passed them on the
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road you would think they were just best
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friends out for a joyride but over a
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three-month period nearly 1995 roaster
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Fred and Carolyn Stevens told more than
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a quarter of a million dollars from at
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least ten men their mo was simple yet
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devious frozen Carolyn lured their
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victims to hotel so the promise of an
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adventurous date rose and Carolyn from
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the onset wanted to be the real life
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that woman Louise it they wanted to
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experience that thrill and the
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spontaneity and the only thing is I
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don't believe they ever considered what
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they were going to do to their families
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in March of 1995 rose and Carolyn were
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finally arrested in Houston Texas their
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families put up almost everything they
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owned a post a $500,000 bail the Thelma
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and Louise bandits were released and
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promptly disappeared as it turned out
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our broadcast was a catalyst for a
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full-scale media blitz aimed at tracking
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down the two women here's Keeley che
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Smith with the details
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Bob the story of the Thelma and Louise
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bandits appeared everywhere in
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newspapers magazines and on television
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but it was a t-shirt just like this one
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which led to their capture in Toronto
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Canada less than five months after they
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had vanished the gentlemen that gave us
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the tip saw the pictures in the
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Maclean's magazine of me holding the
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t-shirt and call the number on the
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t-shirt the tipster knew the whereabouts
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of rose turf 'red she was working at a
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telemarketing firm in Toronto within 24
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hours both of the fugitives were in
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custody probably the weirdest thing in
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this whole chase was watching those two
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smile
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going to jail looking at all the time
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that they're looking at they smile for
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the camera terr furred and Stephens were
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extradited to Texas and are currently
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being held here at the Harris County
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Jail in Houston I think that anyone who
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does a series of aggravated robberies
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are nothing more than criminals they're
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not anything special they're not
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anything to admire they're not anything
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to emulate
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they're just robbers
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next a provocative case study of a
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criminal mind meet kidnapper franklin
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delano floyd and later the poignant tale
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of a baby girl abandoned on a subway as
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a grown woman she dreams of a Christmas
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reunion with her birth mother
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this is Michael Hughes is seven years
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old and has been missing for more than
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14 months in 1994 Michael was living
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with foster parents when he was abducted
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by a man who claims to be his father
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you're acting like I walked up to the
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McDonald's and took a strange boy and
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walked off with and that's where you're
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wrong this is Franklin Delano Floyd in
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fact he is not the father of Michael
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Hughes today Ford is serving a 52 year
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prison sentence for kidnapping Michael
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Floyd insists the boys alive and safe
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but he refuses to tell anyone where
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Michael is or who is sheltering him the
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case of Franklin Floyd Michael Hughes is
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one of the most bizarre we have ever
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profiled a twisted tale of deception and
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deceit that truly defies rational
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thinking we now joined Kevin ogle from
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our NBC affiliate kfo our TV in Oklahoma
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City this is Indian Meridian elementary
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school just outside of Oklahoma City on
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September 12 1994 Franklin Delano Floyd
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walked into the office of principal
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James Davis Floyd said he was the father
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of six year old Michael Hughes and then
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Floyd said he had a gun he came in he
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was acting rather nervous he said what
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I'm doing is very difficult he's I think
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I should tell you I've got a gun in my
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pocket at that time he was sitting right
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here he reached his pocket he pulled the
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gun partway out of his pocket enough
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that I could see the handle in the palm
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of his hand and then he put it back in
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his pocket he said I'm ready to die if
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you don't help me you won't live either
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principal Davis led Floyd down this
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hallway to Michael's classroom
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Floyd then forced both of them into
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Davis's pickup truck and ordered Davis
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to drive out into the country and when
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we got down here aways he told me to to
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stop and he had meeting you down the
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truck and go into the woods he left
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Michael and in the truck and he followed
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me into the woods he said sit down with
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that tree and put your arm between those
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two trees so I couldn't see it so I just
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did like yes and put my hands behind me
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and he handcuffed my hands behind me
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like this five hours later principal
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Davis was rescued for the next two
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months there was no sign of either
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Franklin Floyd or Michael Hughes police
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were on a warrant for kidnapping finally
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Floyd is arrested in Louisville Kentucky
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but Michael was nowhere to be found
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the authorities began to probe into
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Floyd's background they discovered a
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past remarkable for his demented
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behavior in 1975
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Floyd then 32 had turned up in Oklahoma
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City going by the name Trenton B Davis
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with him was a young girl floyd claims
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she was his daughter Suzanne over the
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next decade Suzanne and Floyd moved from
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town to town
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using a variety of aliases in 1988
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Suzanne then seventeen gave birth to his
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son Michael incredibly Floyd claimed to
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be the boy's father even more incredibly
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he then turned around and married the
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woman he claimed was his daughter
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then in 1990 when Michael was 2 Suzanne
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was killed in a mysterious hit-and-run
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accident a prime suspect though he was
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never charged was none other than
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Franklin Floyd Floyd vanished but only
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after he had left Michael with foster
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care Michaels foster parents remember
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him as a child with many difficulties he
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was not up to grade for his age he was
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he didn't have muscle control like he
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should have he did not talk at all
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he was very hysterical so he just
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wouldn't he was once a mighty Trish
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ain't the right word he was delayed that
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so severely that he was in an infant
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stim class and he tested out at nine
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months when he was 2 when he was 2
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six months after abandoning Michael
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Franklin Floyd was arrested on a parole
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violation at that time a routine blood
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test delivered a stunning revelation
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Floyd was not Michael Hughes his
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biological father after all when Floyd
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got out of jail he requested that
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custody of Michael be returned to his
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request was denied six months later
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Floyd would abduct Michael Hughes from
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this first-grade classroom
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Michael has not been seen since we would
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like to have some information from the
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public indicating that this child is
00:28:08
either has been seen out there is out
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there somewhere or they may know
00:28:11
something about him being a solid or
00:28:13
possibly murdered that's what our
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interest is well you know what people
00:28:17
say the reason you won't tell where he
00:28:19
is yeah because they think he's dead
00:28:21
that's right well they just have no
00:28:24
evidence of that Michael is not dead why
00:28:28
won't you tell us where he is it's none
00:28:31
of your damn business where he said you
00:28:33
don't have a right to love him care for
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him in church cuz he ain't yours
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from the start the case of young Michael
00:28:42
Hughes had been marked by disturbing
00:28:43
unexpected twists and now there is one
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more only recently the police learned
00:28:49
that Michael's mother Suzanne was not
00:28:52
Franklin Floyd's biological daughter in
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fact she may also have been kidnapped by
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Floyd how did she come into your life as
00:29:01
a little girl I very bluntly say and she
00:29:08
was abandoned to me and I raised her if
00:29:11
I actually told you and you believed it
00:29:13
or I could prove it to you you know what
00:29:15
you do you try to pin a medal on me for
00:29:16
taking her where'd you go you really
00:29:19
would I can't tell you that I was good
00:29:21
but I'm gonna tell you right now I did
00:29:26
her a favor that's one of the biggest
00:29:28
mysteries that we have in this case as
00:29:30
to who this girl is we have absolutely
00:29:32
no idea we know that she is not the
00:29:34
biological daughter of mr. Floyd and we
00:29:37
feel that there's a very good
00:29:38
possibility that this young girl may
00:29:39
have been abducted or kidnapped when she
00:29:42
was probably 3 4 years of age and we
00:29:44
would like to find out her true identity
00:29:45
we don't know that
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in a moment two armed robbers hit a
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small-town post office and terrorized
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the postmaster
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[Music]
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epps Alabama of the population of just
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300 is a very definition of
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off-the-beaten-path the local post
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office as much like the town itself
00:30:38
small quiet and friendly a most unlikely
00:30:41
target for robbery
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October 30th 1987 began like any other
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day for opal Johnson the postmaster in
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UPS everyone that came into office was
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people that I knew almost except hunting
00:30:57
season and then there were strangers who
00:31:00
came into post office quite often so
00:31:03
that's why I did not really notice this
00:31:05
guy when he came to the window because I
00:31:07
thought he was someone there hunting at
00:31:11
around 11 a.m. to strangers one white
00:31:14
and one black came in for stamps after
00:31:25
the blackmailer jump told the county he
00:31:27
immediately began to give orders he
00:31:32
seemed to be real familiar with the
00:31:35
operation of a postal service the black
00:31:38
mail gave all the orders he would he
00:31:41
told the white male everything to do and
00:31:44
he did it
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I never took money to work with me I had
00:32:03
a dollar in 38 cents killa and the white
00:32:15
male sis man let's don't do that sister
00:32:18
said she did everything we told her to
00:32:21
he says okay we'll take her with us the
00:32:28
thieves made off with about 700 dollars
00:32:30
in cash and stamps one of the men forced
00:32:33
opal into her car and followed the other
00:32:35
out into the country it would turn out
00:32:39
to be just a 10-minute ride for opal the
00:32:43
most frightening ten minutes of her life
00:32:45
when a white ball got into the car he
00:32:48
put his gun across his lap with this
00:32:53
thing are still on the trigger
00:32:54
and it was poking me in the side and he
00:32:58
was extremely nervous don't do anything
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stupid or they'll be all right
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finally the tiny convoy pulled into a
00:33:12
remote clearing near Goggins lake three
00:33:15
miles from town whatever you do don't
00:33:18
make you mad I can't control when he's
00:33:20
mad okay don't talk
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he said give me your rings I like those
00:33:42
rings and as I was taking my rings off I
00:33:46
looked at him in his eyes looked as if
00:33:48
he hated the world they were just
00:33:52
piercing he was just angry it's like he
00:33:54
was angry with everyone in the world I
00:33:57
was sure that they were gonna kill me
00:34:01
let's go when he took the car and I
00:34:02
thought well it'll drown Mike off into
00:34:04
the lake
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they got in their car and they left and
00:34:23
I could not hear it anymore I began to
00:34:26
feel around in the corner you could see
00:34:28
if I could go into the coffee through
00:34:30
the back seat and it's metal across
00:34:32
there
00:34:33
no posh boy so then I found a tattoo and
00:34:41
I took that tattoo and I began to work
00:34:44
on that lock and when I broke the
00:34:47
locking up the trunk popped up and I
00:34:50
come all that trunk running within an
00:34:56
hour
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Opel had provided police with a detailed
00:34:59
description of the two men the first
00:35:03
suspect would now be in his late 20s he
00:35:06
was 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed
00:35:08
approximately 130 pounds he had brown
00:35:11
hair and green eyes and was probably not
00:35:14
from the south the second suspect was
00:35:17
about 6 feet tall and slender he would
00:35:20
now be in his late 30s yet long heavy
00:35:22
sideburns greasy hair and dark eyes
00:35:25
authorities believe he may have had
00:35:27
family in the EPs area that he may have
00:35:29
previously worked in the mail service
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when we return 40 years ago a baby girl
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was abandoned on the subway in New York
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City
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can you help turn a Christmas mystery
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into a Christmas miracle
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forty years ago the approach of
00:36:18
Christmas brought no joy to a lonely
00:36:19
young woman in Brooklyn New York on the
00:36:25
afternoon of December 11th 1955 she
00:36:28
boarded a subway train rode four stops
00:36:31
and exited without a word for reasons
00:36:35
unknown she left behind a tiny baby girl
00:36:40
by the next day the infant was something
00:36:42
of a celebrity dubbed miss Subway's by
00:36:45
the local press despite the publicity
00:36:48
no one ever claimed the baby and a year
00:36:50
later she was adopted Christmas means
00:36:55
different things of different people
00:36:57
brigene Martin of Long Island New York
00:37:00
the holiday season is a time of
00:37:02
reflection and hope genius II is Miss
00:37:05
Subway's and the mysterious woman on the
00:37:07
train was her birth mother perhaps
00:37:10
tonight someone watching can help jeans
00:37:12
Christmas dream of a reunion come true
00:37:17
Jean grew up in a happy loving home from
00:37:21
an early age he knew she had been
00:37:22
adopted but through the years geez
00:37:25
questions about her past fell on deaf
00:37:27
ears almost as if her parents were
00:37:30
protecting her as her own children grew
00:37:39
Jean became more and more curious
00:37:44
finally in July of 1992 Jean once again
00:37:48
pressed her mother for answers you know
00:37:52
ma this may not be the best time to
00:37:55
bring this up again oh no gee but I
00:37:57
really feel I need to for the kids sake
00:38:00
for medical reasons you're gonna hate me
00:38:02
no you're gonna hate me you were
00:38:13
abandoned
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abandoned on assembly I was shocked at
00:38:23
her reaction which threw me it was
00:38:27
basically the driving home that day it
00:38:30
was a total identity crisis cuz nothing
00:38:35
belonged to me there was no name there
00:38:39
was a name on the adoption papers which
00:38:42
I thought to be my birth name but that
00:38:45
wasn't mine
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I had no birth date my religion wasn't
00:38:52
mine there was nothing just nothing once
00:38:59
she got over the initial shock gene
00:39:01
began the search at the local library
00:39:03
she spent hours in front of the
00:39:05
microfilm viewer sifting through
00:39:07
newspapers from 1955 the year of her
00:39:10
birth I was letting the the microfilm
00:39:15
roll and I saw the top of the
00:39:16
policeman's hat and it said Miss
00:39:18
Subway's and I saw this baby and I was
00:39:23
devastated I just felt like all the
00:39:29
blood had just drained out of my face
00:39:31
and my fingers I went numb
00:39:33
I was nauseous I felt faint it was
00:39:39
incredible
00:39:45
the newspaper account gave Gina
00:39:48
tantalizing glimpse into her unknown
00:39:49
past a past which began when the lonely
00:39:53
young woman entered the subway station
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at Coney Island
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she walked slowly and carried an old
00:40:02
battered suitcase the woman took a seat
00:40:05
off to herself in the lead car several
00:40:09
passengers recalled that the woman
00:40:11
opened her suitcase shielding it from
00:40:13
view and took something out she exited
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the train at the band's sickliness
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Street Station seconds later
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it was gene no more than five days old
00:40:32
and wrapped in a blanket with a full
00:40:34
bottle of milk tucked inside hey tell
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the motor not to leave the station so
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the baby was just left on the train the
00:40:47
passengers are able to provide police
00:40:48
with a vague description of the young
00:40:50
mother but no one had any idea who she
00:40:53
was or why she had abandoned her baby
00:41:00
the next day the saga of Miss Subway's
00:41:03
are splashed across the front pages this
00:41:06
photograph of baby gene was seen by
00:41:08
thousands but jeans mother never came
00:41:11
forward now some 40 years later Jean
00:41:16
Martin is convinced that her birth
00:41:17
mother had her best interests at heart
00:41:19
choosing to leave her in a place where
00:41:21
she was certain to be quickly found and
00:41:23
turned over to the authorities my
00:41:28
feelings are desperate people do
00:41:29
desperate things I need information I
00:41:34
need somebody who remembers something
00:41:36
somebody who remembers a neighbor maybe
00:41:39
even someone who was on the train who
00:41:42
saw her or maybe even recognized her but
00:41:45
at the time was afraid to come forward
00:41:48
I'm ready to meet her anytime anywhere
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from all of us at unsolved mysteries to
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all of you our best wishes for a safe
00:42:07
and joyous holiday season may peace be
00:42:10
with you and may all your mysteries be
00:42:13
solved
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