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next on unsolved mysteries
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tulsa
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boston
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fort lauderdale
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three cities three contract killings
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what's the connection
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for decades albert desalvo was believed
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to be the notorious boston strangler
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but new dna evidence suggests that at
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least one of his victims may have been
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killed
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by someone else
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a canadian woman has captured these
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eerie lights on film
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she believes they are ufos but skeptics
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are unconvinced
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and when a woman is murdered the police
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suspect her boyfriend now he has
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mysteriously disappeared and so has his
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son
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join us for five cases with twists and
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turns that you can hardly believe
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i'm dennis farina and this
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is unsolved mysteries
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[Music]
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boston massachusetts
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today the city is peaceful
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but decades ago these same streets
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exploded in horror
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the year
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1962
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the first known serial killer in
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american history was on the prowl
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victim number one
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anna slicers
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55 strangled with her bathrobe and raped
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with a blunt object
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victim number two helen blake 65
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sexually mutilated and strangled her bra
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twisted into an enormous bow under her
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chin
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victim number three nina nichols 68
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strangled her nylons tied into yet
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another gruesome bow
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it was only the beginning
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over the next two years eight more women
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fell victim to the psychopath
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all but one were choked to death in
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their own homes their bodies posed in
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hideous positions
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the city was gripped by fear and
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paranoia
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then albert de sal facing a prison term
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for a series of other rapes confessed
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that he was the boston strangler
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some believe however that disavow had
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reason
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to falsely confess
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first i
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put my arm around backwards right right
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the first thing that albert hoped to get
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out of
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being known as the boston strangler was
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the fame of it
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because he desperately wanted to be
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famous
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even if it were something terrible
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his second goal was to avoid
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a prison sentence
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he had apparently been convinced that if
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he confessed to the stranglings he would
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be sent not to prison
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but to
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a very fancy private institution
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where doctors would study him
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do you remember tying any knots in it
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yeah many detectives were convinced that
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he had to be the killer if he was lying
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disalvo's confession was incredibly
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accurate that makes two
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if you had heard him go into detail
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and tell you exactly how the furniture
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was
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and
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what it was adjacent to and so forth
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you know nobody could tell you that
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unless they were there
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after eight years of research on this
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case
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one thing i'm certain of and that is
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that albert de salvo was not the boston
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strangler
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there are a number of very good suspects
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none of them happen to be albert de
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salvo
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in november of 1973 albert de salvo
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called his former psychiatrist from
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prison
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he said that now he was ready to tell
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the truth about the boston strangler but
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that same night de salva was murdered
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and now dramatic new evidence suggests
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that the salvo was not the notorious
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serial killer
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on january 4 1964
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mary sullivan was found by her roommate
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strangled to death and sexually
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assaulted
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in a final morbid gesture placed at her
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feet was a happy new year card
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the police collected semen left on
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mary's body by the killer
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but in 1964 there was no way to match it
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to a suspect
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albert desalvo later admitted he killed
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mary but two families have formed a
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surprising alliance to challenge his
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confession
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the family of mary sullivan
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and the family of albert de salva
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i never believed my brother was the boss
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of strangle from day one
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i just want the name cleared
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that's all
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albert was not perfect albert did some
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bad things
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albert was not a murderer
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mary sullivan's sister diane also
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believes that de salvo was not the
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killer
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i
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mainly come here to say hi to mary and
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i'm gonna try to do my
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what i can
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i'm gonna do everything i can
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to find her murderer
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to the disalvo and sullivan families
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there was a clear solution to the
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controversy
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dna profiling
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i made several inquiries to the boston
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police department and they told me flat
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out that they did not have any physical
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evidence left in the boston strangler
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case to test for dna evidence
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so mary sullivan's family turned to the
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only evidence available to them
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mary's remains
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we had to do the examination of my
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aunt's body
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it was a horrible experience we didn't
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want to do it but it was
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our last and only recourse we thought
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and it was the only chance to find her
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killer
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the sullivan's got help from a team of
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forensic experts
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we were obviously looking for any
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seminal fluid
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and we do know that seminal fluid will
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fluoresce under uv light so we look and
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seminal fluid for us
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and it also was in the right location
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for cellular fluid it's on pubic hair
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so we examined that and went after that
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as far as could we get any dna from it
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we had to be extra careful because
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obviously her hair is going to have her
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dna in it so one of the tricky parts
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becomes isolating dna only from this
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material that's stuck in the pubic hair
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and not from the hair itself
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dr ferrand successfully isolated a dna
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sequence and compared it to albert de
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salvo's genes by using dna taken from
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his brother richard
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the results were virtually indisputable
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the seamen was not albert de
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salvos when he said that there was dna
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they believed from mary's killer on her
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body
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and that dna didn't match albert de
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salvo it was just complete vindication
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as far as i was concerned for those who
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say that albert de salvo did do it it
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the shoe is on their foot now it's for
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them to come forward and show the
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evidence to prove that albert de salvo
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did do it
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but if disalvo did not kill mary
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sullivan
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then who
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did
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the detectives who first investigated
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the killing found a strange piece of
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evidence in her bathroom and it
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implicated mary's abusive ex-boyfriend
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they found an ascot
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caught up in the toilet
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when my sister dated this person that's
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all she bought him for presents with he
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loved ascots
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so i could see him definitely cutting
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that mascot up in the bathroom and i
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could absolutely see him killing mary
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another suspect emerged based on an
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eyewitness account
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a neighbor saw a man in mary's apartment
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at the approximate time of the murder
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mary's roommate had a boyfriend who
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matched the neighbor's description
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he may have had access to mary's
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apartment explaining why there were no
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signs of forced entry
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what are these for they're the keys to
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the apartment an extra set
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i'm gonna go pat on my nose
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her apartment key had gone missing the
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day before she was killed now this key
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hadn't fallen off the key chain it was
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taken off
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you live in vermont the suspect was
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brought in for a polygraph test
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according to the police his responses
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were deemed untruthful
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once deselvo had confessed however
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investigations into the suspect and
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mary's ex-boyfriend were closed
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did you kill mary sullivan no face front
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please
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the police also had strong suspects in
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several of the other murders
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if albert wasn't the boston strangler
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who was the boston strangler
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from what my research
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indicates
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there wasn't one
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there were many
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on june 14 1962 the strangler claimed
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his first victim 56 year old anna
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schlessers
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earlier that day a painting crew was
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working at her apartment
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sixteen days later the same painting
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crew arrived at the apartment building
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of helen blake
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she became victim number two
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two of the members of the painting crew
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their alibis couldn't be corroborated by
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their boss or by their fellow workers
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and that's an unusual connection
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victim number seven was 23 year old
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patricia bessette
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in this case police also had a strong
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suspect
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patricia
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patricia's boss
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the man who discovered her body
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detectives found out that patricia
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bessette was having an affair with her
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happily married boss at the time she was
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killed
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while i found her autopsy report it
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shows that she was one month pregnant
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when she was murdered
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not only do you have motive but you have
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a suspect there
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but investigation of all the other
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suspects stopped cold when albert de
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salvo confessed
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but many still believed the confession
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was bogus
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there's a possibility that some of the
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older women
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died at the hands of the same person
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each of the young women
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who died
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was murdered by a different individual
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who had his own motives
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if you hated a woman back in the early
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1960s you could kill her loosely wrap a
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stocking around her neck and hope that
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the police would think it was the boston
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strangler all the grizzly details were
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printed in the papers at the time
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if you wanted to commit a murder here
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was your diagram
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the sullivan family continues to hope
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that mary's killer will one day be
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identified and prosecuted
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i want closure from my mother
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my mother has had to live without any
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answers in this case
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we want to publicly identify mary's
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killer look him in the eye and and tell
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him what what he stole from us
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when albert de selva was murdered in
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prison the truth about the boston
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strangler may have died with him
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he had told his psychiatrist that he
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would tell the real story the next day
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but the families of some of the victims
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are still searching for the truth
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they do not believe that the real story
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has ever been told
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update
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there are new developments in this case
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and here's one of our staff with details
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in 2013 albert de salvo's body was
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exhumed recent developments in dna
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testing have shown an indisputable link
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of de salvo to the death of mary
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sullivan believed to be the strangler's
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last victim
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authorities said that the odds that a
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white male other than desalvo
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contributed to the crime scene are 220
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billion to one
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and that this is definite proof that
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albert desalvo was indeed the boston
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strangler in the case of mary sullivan
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coming up a woman claims that she
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communicated with bizarre lights in the
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canadian sky
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could they be
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ufos
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vancouver british columbia
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for many years this city has had a high
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number of ufo sightings
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the most frequent and well documented
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have been attributed to one woman
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i had a sensation that something was
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watching me
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so i went over to the window and here
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was this enormous object sitting up in
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the sky
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it was so beautiful to look at
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i wasn't afraid at all you know i was i
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felt really privileged to be able to see
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something like that
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dorothy's husband and children did not
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take her seriously she was determined to
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prove that what she had seen was not
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simply a star or an airplane
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i said i must find some way of
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communicating with this thing up there
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so i picked up a flashlight and flashed
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the light three times to the left and
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this object went three times to the left
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then i flushed it three times to the
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right and the object went three times to
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the right
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so i say i'm not imagining this i said
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this is really happening so it's
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intelligent
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dorothy decided to try to capture the
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ufos and film
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the results were startling
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what i saw in the sky was just round
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objects of light
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round balls of light
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but what was on the film
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you see the balls of light but after a
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couple of frames there will be this
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enormous blast of light
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dorothy moved the film back and forth
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until she isolated a single bright frame
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but what had first appeared to be a
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simple flash of light was actually a
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maze of colored streaks
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strangely the light did not spill over
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onto any other frames
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i noticed that
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while i'm filming these objects they'll
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suddenly stop and then i'll notice one
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object like
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shooting out a little beam at the other
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object and and that object was shooting
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a little beam back at it and sort of i
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guess it must be messages or something
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that they're passing back and forth on
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these beams of light
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dorothy had the single frames of film
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blown up into photographs
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bright kinetic beams shot out in all
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directions she also blew up frames of
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the mysterious balls of light
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these photographs began to show more and
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more
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amazing details
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sometimes they'll beam the light down at
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me
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and i'll be all lit up with this light
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i used to ask them to come closer and
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closer because i wanted better shots
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and they did you know like come closer
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and closer
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i don't think she's lying about what
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she's doing i feel that she's quite
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sincere
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on the other hand i'm not able to assess
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her her photographs professionally
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because that's not part of my
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expertise
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but
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her personality makeup would make me
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believe that she's not making things up
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bottom line
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what is the truth about dorothy's
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photographs
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like as in most ufo cases dorothy's
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sightings and her photographs seem to
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defy conventional logic she says that
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she used three different cameras and
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each one yielded similar results we
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asked the photography expert to evaluate
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dorothy's film
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i have seen several similar examples of
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photography like this
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light sources in the sky with dark
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backgrounds are quite easy to manipulate
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but these are more extraordinary in the
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sense that they were done with a eight
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millimeter camera a motion picture
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camera rather than a still camera and
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they have so many different types of
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effects
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dorothy isaac became well known in the
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ufo community
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one day a businessman named jerry mackay
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came to visit hoping to learn more about
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her sightings
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these are like daytime type shots
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try and get some pictures in the daytime
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as well and that's where i got these i
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was listening very intently to what she
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was saying at which time i noticed that
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i was hearing some kind of audible
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sensing thing that was happening only in
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my right ear so that they know it's
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solid and it's not just uh excuse me
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dorothy i i don't mean to interrupt you
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but i'm getting a strange sensation in
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my ear here you can hear that
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and i looked at her and i said yes i can
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what is it
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and this brilliant beam of
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smile went from ear to ear on her face
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and i remember the look that she gave me
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and she said
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they're here
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jerry mackay was the first person to say
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that he actually heard the same thing
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that dorthy heard
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to my complete shock and amazement
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what appeared to be sitting right out in
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front of the window just to our left
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was a hard metallic object
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and as soon as it disappeared dorothy
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let out a giggle that
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was like there you go
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what do you think of that
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jerry commissioned an artist to draw
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what he and dorothy had seen
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i feel there is some sort of message in
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there for us
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they're trying to tell us something from
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these pictures
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my mission is to
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just keep filming i guess and receiving
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these pictures for as long as i am able
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to
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and hope that one day someone somewhere
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will be able to understand what it's all
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about
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next
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in tulsa oklahoma a wealthy businessman
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is gunned down in the parking lot of
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this country club
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why are authorities calling it the
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highlight hit
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our next story is about three murders in
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three different cities thousands of
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miles apart
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most would say they were unrelated but
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authorities were convinced that the
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killings were all connected to gambling
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on the sport
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of highline
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in the early 80s highlight was big
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business and big betting
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now played only in florida it was once
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legal in four states where 700 million
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dollars was bet on the sport each year
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three years before his death oklahoma
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businessman roger wheeler purchased
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world highlight which operated arenas in
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florida and connecticut
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on a spring afternoon two men drove into
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the southern hills country club parked
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near wheeler's cadillac and waited for
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him to finish his golf game
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my father never expressed concern to me
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that
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his life might be in danger
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i've often wondered what he might have
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known if anything but
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no one knows
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if there was any words said at all
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one of the men walked up to wheeler's
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car and shot him point blank in the face
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witnesses said the assailant concealed
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his handgun in a towel and paper bag as
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he calmly walked across the parking lot
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[Applause]
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at the crime scene detectives found four
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unspent bullets from the killer's gun
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near wheeler's body
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they may have been left behind as a
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signature or a warning from wheeler's
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killers
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i feel the people that murdered my
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father
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are obviously very intelligent
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they're very cunning
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very calculating
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the one thing that they cannot stand
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is publicity
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they cannot stand the pressure of people
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knowing
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who they are and what they are
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and the thought that somebody
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might talk
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a year later a second execution-style
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murder this time in boston
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the target was brian halloran a reputed
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underworld figure
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before he died halloran told the fbi
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that he had been offered the contract on
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roger wheeler but he had turned it
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down claimed that a man named john
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callahan ordered the hit on wheeler
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callahan had been the president of world
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highlight before it was purchased by
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wheeler however callahan was forced to
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resign because of reported links to
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organized crime
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callahan indicated that he was going to
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lose a lot of money
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if wheeler wasn't eliminated
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implying that he still had some
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connection to highline
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one evening brian halloran and a friend
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left the boston restaurant for a six
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o'clock meeting
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outside three men waited in a
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dark-colored sedan
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the driver of the car was killed
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instantly
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the car rolled across the street and
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halloran still alive tried to make it
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back to the restaurant
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brian halleran had substantial
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information
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truthful information
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that
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was in line with the way mr wheeler was
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killed
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it's too big of a coincidence
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to lay it off as only a coincidence we
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feel that the two are definitely
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connected
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south florida three months later
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john callahan flew to fort lauderdale
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though he lived in boston he kept a
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condominium and at least cadillac in the
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area
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eight hours after he arrived callahan's
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car was parked at the miami airport
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three days later a foul odor coming from
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the trunk caused the parking attendant
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to call the police
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inside the trunk
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was callahan's body
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by no means wasn't an amateur job it was
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extremely professional
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it's very easy for these people to
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commit murder and get away with it they
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know every step of the way what they're
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going to do how they're going to do it
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it just becomes second nature to them
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they do it and they walk away no
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problems
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callahan died of multiple gunshot wounds
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his car had been washed vacuumed and
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wiped clean so the only evidence on the
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scene was the body itself and several
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unspent bullets found in the trunk
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it is our belief that all three
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homicides are connected the homicide of
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mr wheeler in tulsa the homicide of mr
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howler in boston and the homicide of mr
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callahan here in miami
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there are little bits and pieces of
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information evidence that linked the
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three together and it all seems to tie
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back to their dealings with world
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highlight
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john callahan had been forced to resign
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as president the world highlight because
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of his links to known underworld figures
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roger wheeler purchased the company two
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years later
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at the time he received a letter warning
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him
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if you knew what was going on behind the
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scenes you would not be involved if i
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were you i would get out quick
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wheeler
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ignored that warning
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when my father was shot one of his
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friends said this type of murder is
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never solved and i just can't accept
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that
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i cannot bury my father until his
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killers are brought to justice
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all i would take
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is just one person to come forward
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with a little bit more information
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and we can break this case
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update
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there have been several important
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developments in this case
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a government informant identified john
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vincent martirano as a suspect martino
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pleaded guilty to being the trigger man
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in the killing of both roger mueller and
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john callahan
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john martirano ultimately pleaded guilty
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to ten murders but because he helped the
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fbi prosecute other mafia members
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he was given a reduced sentence he was
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released from prison after serving only
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12 years
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two leaders of boston's winter hill gang
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james whitey bulger
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and stephen the rifleman flemmi were
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also charged in the wheeler and callahan
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hits
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in addition a former fbi agent named
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paul rico was linked to the wheeler
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killing case but died before he could be
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put on trial flemmi is in prison for
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life
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bulger was also wanted in the murder of
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brian halloran
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and since we broadcast this case after
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years on the run james whitey bulger has
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been captured he was later convicted and
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sent to prison
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next a texas man accused of killing his
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girlfriend
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takes off with his nine-year-old son
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lockhart texas
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jack white is worried when he arrives at
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his daughter's house
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latricia white a 38 year old nurse
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hasn't been seen or hurt from in almost
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24 hours
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everyone was concerned about electrician
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because
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she just hadn't gone to work monday
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and she never
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never fails to go to work
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or at least call
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fresh
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i just called her and then then i went
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over and felt her
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i knew that she was dead
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latricia white had been shot six times
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in the head with a 22-caliber weapon
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her death stunned her friends and
00:29:36
neighbors she left behind two children
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and a lot of unanswered questions
00:29:46
investigators were puzzled
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despite the violent nature of the crime
00:29:50
there were no signs of a struggle and
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nothing in her house had been disturbed
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got some blood here looks like it's
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going into the kitchen area paul just as
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puzzling was the disappearance of
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latricia's live-in boyfriend lee walker
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hogan a local trucker nicknamed dub
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also missing was dub's nine-year-old son
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chance who had been visiting for the
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holidays
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the fact that her boyfriend dub walker
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hagin could not be found led us to
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to several different areas to
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investigate number one
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uh is he a suspect
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could he have committed this crime the
00:30:29
other one is or is he a victim
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has he also been injured
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three days later dubs pickup truck was
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found abandoned in austin texas about 30
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miles from the crime scene
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in the truck investigators found dub's
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hunting rifle which had not been fired
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his checkbook and his wallet
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in back a toolbox a spare tire and
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christmas gifts still unopened but all
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streaked
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with blood
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initially in the investigation we felt
00:31:04
that this blood could have come from our
00:31:06
victim that was later ruled out
00:31:08
the blood type was not the same as our
00:31:10
victims so we feel like that someone
00:31:12
else was injured
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not seriously but someone else was
00:31:17
injured
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could that someone else have been dub or
00:31:21
chance
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the question could not be answered all
00:31:25
of the blood tests were inconclusive
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00:31:30
the police and the white family believe
00:31:33
that dub murdered latricia in a jealous
00:31:36
rage
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but dubb's family and friends are
00:31:38
convinced that he and chance
00:31:41
also met with foul play
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it's been
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going on 11 months now and we haven't
00:31:50
heard anything from him at all and that
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tells me if if we haven't heard from him
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then he's got to be dead
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i don't know who did it
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i just know that he
00:32:02
that he couldn't have couldn't have done
00:32:04
it
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and then just disappeared off the face
00:32:07
of the earth
00:32:10
to the police however dub was the
00:32:13
obvious suspect especially after they
00:32:15
began to take a close look at his
00:32:17
relationship with latricia hi guys hi
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trish
00:32:22
who the hell were you last night
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according to latricia's family double
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was extremely jealous
00:32:28
and suspicious i wish that in the future
00:32:31
if you're gonna be late would you please
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give me a call let me know or try to be
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home on time
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i saw that he was a good man when i met
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him and when i left him i was scared to
00:32:41
death of him
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he had a temper
00:32:45
he treated my oldest boy terribly
00:32:47
and i was scared
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dub son chance was often the focus of
00:32:54
their arguments he's only nine years old
00:32:56
what do you expect excuse me chance it's
00:32:59
not your fault your father raised you to
00:33:01
be a spoiled brat brat he's my son he's
00:33:04
not yours and you have no right you
00:33:06
understand me well it's my house
00:33:10
dub packed his bags and threatened to
00:33:12
leave i'm tired of your threats you
00:33:14
don't have the guts to leave
00:33:18
just three nights later dub chance and
00:33:20
latricia were seen enjoying themselves
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at a local restaurant the incident was
00:33:26
apparently forgotten
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but late the very next day latricia's
00:33:31
father found her shot to death in her
00:33:33
bedroom
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dub and chance
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had disappeared
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three days later dub was formally
00:33:41
charged with first-degree murder
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four months passed with no sign of dub
00:33:48
or chance
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and then at the house of chance's
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maternal grandfather
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all he said was help me
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and then the phone was jerked out of his
00:34:02
hand
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slammed down
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and
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i looked over my wife and i said that
00:34:09
was chance
00:34:12
could the plea for help actually have
00:34:14
been from chance
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dubb's family is convinced that the
00:34:18
answer is no
00:34:20
they believed that the phone call was a
00:34:22
hoax and that dub and chance were
00:34:24
murdered
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patricia's family and the police believe
00:34:28
that dub is a killer and that he is
00:34:30
still very much alive
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update
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there are new developments in this case
00:34:39
and here's one of our staff with details
00:34:42
the texas state department of public
00:34:44
safety announced recently that
00:34:46
investigators now have evidence that dub
00:34:48
walker hogan and his son chance were
00:34:51
also victims of foul play
00:34:54
it is now believed that this was a crime
00:34:56
of passion by someone closely associated
00:34:58
with the family
00:35:00
we will bring you more information as
00:35:02
the investigation proceeds
00:35:07
if you have any information about this
00:35:09
case please log on to our website at
00:35:12
unsolved.com
00:35:18
next when a man dies no one notices for
00:35:22
an entire year and no one claims the
00:35:25
small fortune that he left behind
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mccormick south carolina
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walter rice lived alone in a modest
00:35:42
trailer he was a reclusive man no one
00:35:45
came calling and he liked it that way
00:35:50
walter rice was quite a mystery man
00:35:53
he kept to himself he didn't he didn't
00:35:55
have anything to do with his neighbors
00:35:57
he never ventured out to meet any of his
00:35:59
neighbors
00:36:02
walter took a cab home one day after his
00:36:05
own car had been wrecked in a traffic
00:36:06
accident
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sometime during the next week he
00:36:12
suffered a heart attack and died before
00:36:14
he could call for help
00:36:19
incredibly a full year passed before
00:36:22
walter's body was even discovered
00:36:25
the power company and the cable tv
00:36:27
company turned off service to his
00:36:29
trailer
00:36:30
eventually the post office stamped his
00:36:33
mail returned to sender
00:36:35
it was two strangers who finally found
00:36:38
walters body
00:36:39
two strangers who weren't exactly making
00:36:42
a social call
00:36:45
two people
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attempted to break into the trailer
00:36:48
they broke in the front window
00:36:51
and then went around to the back door
00:36:53
and his body was laying right at the
00:36:55
back door
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they were frightened away after finding
00:36:57
his body and sometime later this could
00:37:00
be a month or two later they got a
00:37:03
girlfriend of one of the people who
00:37:04
attempted to break in to call
00:37:07
the police department to notify them
00:37:08
that there was a dead body in the trail
00:37:10
on oak street
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walter rice was 73 when he passed away
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probate judge ronnie kidd took on the
00:37:20
task of sorting through his possessions
00:37:23
i started looking through his papers all
00:37:26
of his effects in his trailer
00:37:29
initially i didn't expect to find any
00:37:31
anything of value but after searching
00:37:33
through walter rice's
00:37:35
personal effects papers bank papers i
00:37:38
found him to have an estate of
00:37:39
approximately a hundred and forty
00:37:41
thousand dollars
00:37:44
one hundred and forty thousand dollars
00:37:47
the judge began to piece together the
00:37:50
few known facts of walter's life
00:37:53
paystubs showed that for 10 years he
00:37:55
worked as a cook at the griswold inn
00:37:58
near essex connecticut
00:38:01
walter rice also had a passport it
00:38:04
stamped with visas from curacao jamaica
00:38:06
belize trinidad and tobago guyana and
00:38:10
guatemala but nothing is known about
00:38:12
walter's travels outside of the united
00:38:14
states
00:38:18
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after three years of searching no errors
00:38:25
were found and walter rice's assets were
00:38:28
liquidated the money went to the state
00:38:30
of south carolina
00:38:32
if there had been any surviving
00:38:34
relatives they waited too long to make a
00:38:36
claim
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but
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if any of them is watching
00:38:40
at least they'll know what happened
00:38:42
to mr walter rice
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[Music]
00:38:49
on a recent broadcast we profiled a
00:38:52
fugitive named jim burnside
00:38:56
he was wanted for the vicious murder of
00:38:58
his wife annette shoplocker
00:39:03
you getting off work now
00:39:04
yeah i'm gonna go home in a few minutes
00:39:06
it didn't look like trouble at the start
00:39:08
they worked together at a grocery store
00:39:10
she was a checker and he was a butcher
00:39:13
however
00:39:14
she was only 18 years old when she
00:39:16
married jim
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when the honeymoon ended
00:39:21
the abuse began
00:39:23
she became afraid of him almost
00:39:26
immediately because he was jealous of
00:39:29
her and he started telling her right
00:39:31
from the beginning that he would kill
00:39:32
her if she ever tried to leave him
00:39:35
it took five years but annette finally
00:39:38
worked up the courage to walk out
00:39:42
two months later jim bernstein struck
00:39:45
back
00:39:48
he found the net
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alone
00:39:51
with one of her co-workers
00:39:53
hey
00:39:54
get over here what are you doing
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[Applause]
00:40:08
and that's co-worker survived the attack
00:40:11
annette
00:40:13
died at the scene
00:40:15
she had been stabbed 15 times with a
00:40:18
butcher knife
00:40:22
by that afternoon burnside was on the
00:40:24
run
00:40:26
it's bad enough knowing that annette had
00:40:29
to die but to know that he is still out
00:40:32
there
00:40:33
it's horrible
00:40:35
we just want him
00:40:36
caught update
00:40:39
the night this story aired we received
00:40:41
calls from two viewers from shelby
00:40:44
county alabama
00:40:45
they recognized jim burnside but they
00:40:48
knew him as al wilson
00:40:51
when i saw his actual picture
00:40:53
i just looked at my husband and i just
00:40:55
started pointing and i'm going
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you know tell me my eyes aren't
00:40:59
deceiving me you know that is al
00:41:02
and he goes yes that's al
00:41:04
the next morning fbi agents and
00:41:07
sheriff's deputies converged on a flea
00:41:09
market where burnside worked
00:41:13
when burnside saw them he took off
00:41:22
the fugitive pulled out a gun
00:41:24
and took aim down
00:41:32
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00:41:36
was shot twice
00:41:37
he was arrested
00:41:39
and then hospitalized
00:41:41
from what we've been able to determine
00:41:44
talking to his co-workers that he had
00:41:45
made a statement on thursday morning
00:41:48
that he had anticipated having problems
00:41:50
that day so apparently he had viewed the
00:41:53
unsolved mysteries himself wednesday
00:41:55
night
00:41:56
james burnside recovered from his wounds
00:41:58
he pleaded no contest to first-degree
00:42:00
murder and attempted first-degree murder
00:42:03
he is now serving a life sentence
00:42:06
without the possibility of parole
00:42:09
if you have any information about other
00:42:12
cases we have profiled
00:42:13
please log on to our website at
00:42:16
unsolved.com
00:42:18
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