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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - Full Episode

May 22, 2019 / 45:17

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers the search for Noah's Ark, the murder of Tracy Wofford Bunn, and a man's long quest to find his sister.

The segment on Noah's Ark discusses claims of its existence on Mount Ararat in Turkey, with two separate expeditions led by Don Schock and David Fassold. Schock's team believes they found the Ark's remains based on satellite images and eyewitness accounts, while Fassold claims to have discovered iron fittings that suggest a man-made structure.

The episode also details the tragic murder of 26-year-old Tracy Wofford Bunn in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Investigators explore her last known movements, including her interactions with her boyfriend and the circumstances surrounding her death, which remains unsolved.

Additionally, the episode features the emotional story of Donald Stratton, who searches for his long-lost sister Dolores after being separated during childhood. The reunion takes place decades later, highlighting the impact of family separation.

Finally, the episode concludes with a brief mention of a kidnapping case in Austin, Texas, involving Colleen Reid, who was abducted from a car wash.

TL;DR

This episode covers the search for Noah's Ark, Tracy Wofford Bunn's murder, and Donald Stratton's quest to find his sister.

Episode

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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast the saga of Noah's Ark one of
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the Bible's most enduring stories is now
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the focus of a tantalizing debate was
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there truly a great flood which Noah
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following the instructions of God
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managed to survive
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in recent years two research expeditions
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have combed the mountains of Ararat the
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turkey the incredibly poor be they may
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have found the remnants of Noah's Ark in
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two separate locations in Austin Texas
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freemen noticed a strange car cruising
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their neighborhood moments later they
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heard the desperate screams of a woman
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and they were caught up in the search
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for a brutal kidnapper
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join me for another edition unsolved
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mysteries
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[Applause]
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Noah's Ark one of the most famous and
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evocative of all Bible stories as
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recorded in Genesis the first book of
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the Bible God looked down upon the earth
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he had created and saw to become evil
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and wicked he came to a righteous man
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named Noah and ordered him to build an
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ark and God said to Noah make rooms in
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the Ark and covered inside and outside
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with pitch you shall make it with lower
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2nd and 3rd decks and of every living
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thing of all flesh you shall bring two
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of every sword into the ark to keep them
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alive with you and so it came to pass
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God brought forth a great flood
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forty days and forty nights rain
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descended from the heavens
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all living things were destroyed save
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for the occupants of the Ark
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when the waters receded God said to Noah
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bring out with you every living thing of
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all flesh that is with you so that they
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may abound on the earth and be fruitful
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and multiply so ends the story of Noah's
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Ark but for centuries people have
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wondered was a story based on fact or
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was it a legend handed down from
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generation to generation as a symbolic
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morality play in a hostile and corrupt
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world contrary to popular belief the
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Bible was not the original telling of
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the story of Noah and the Great Flood in
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ancient Babylonia and Samaria the same
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story was recorded thousands of years
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before the Bible was written even here
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in North America the early Spanish
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explorer restarting to discover the Hopi
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Indians told a tale that was remarkably
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similar to the story of Noah's Ark in
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fact no fewer than two hundred
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variations of the legend can be found in
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cultures throughout the world leading
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many to believe it there was indeed a
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cataclysmic flood thousands of years ago
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in recent time some researchers have
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seized upon this speculation had gone in
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search of definitive proof the remains
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of Noah's Ark
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accoding the middle-eastern versions of
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the story the ark was built near the
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ancient city of shuruppak and what is
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now Iraq in the book of Genesis chapter
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8 the Bible says the ark came to rest on
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the mountains of Ararat which are in
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present-day Turkey more than 500 miles
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from sure Epoque it is a desolate
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sparsely populated region rising above
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the headwaters of the Tigris River in
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recent years several separate research
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expeditions have explored the mountains
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of Ararat incredibly two separate teams
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both believe they may have found the ark
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in two different locations 17 miles
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apart one of the site's lies on the
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northeast side of Mount Ararat under a
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permanent 23 square mile glacier in 1969
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a Turkish businessman named George
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Hagopian went public with a remarkable
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story
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he claimed that as a young boy in 1906
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he had actually seen Noah's Ark wedged
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in a glacier from which the ice had
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temporarily receded ago bein describes a
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vessel to archaeological illustrator
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alfred lee he said it looked like a long
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box is rectangular and the corners were
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kind of rounded a little bit the the
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sides sloped in slightly the roof he
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said was basically flat with just a
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slight pitch to it and there was a stair
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kind of a apparatus at one end his uncle
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hoisted him up onto this ladder and he
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walked on up onto the roof and there all
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the way down the middle of the roof he
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saw these holes and he stuck his head in
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and it was dark he shouted in his voice
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echoed and re-echoed inside it was
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Hollow
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giorgia golpean went back a couple years
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later saw the same thing but ice and
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snow were beginning to cover it up again
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17 years later Alfred Lee was introduced
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to a man named Eddie Davis who in 1843
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was stationed in Iran with a US Army he
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too claimed he had seen the ark when
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Eadie Davis started talking the hair on
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the back of my head just stood out
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because I could like hear an echo of
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Georgia go peon from years before
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Davis's sighting occurred in roughly the
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same areas Georgia gobiins however when
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Davis saw what he thought was the ark it
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had broken into we waited a while fog
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kind of lifted and it shone through kind
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of a funnel and it showed the ark in the
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end you could see in the end of it and
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we saw both parts you stand there with
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your mouth wide open ed Davis described
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three decks inside and large cages on
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the bottom deck smaller cages on the
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second deck and on the roof a venting
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system with many holes on it and so that
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you could see how the light and
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ventilation could go clear to the bottom
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deck in this illustration
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elfrid lee has reconciled the two
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accounts the intact art depicts Georgia
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go beyond sighting in 1906 below are the
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two pieces as described by Ed Davis
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however Hagopian and Davis were unable
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to pinpoint the exact locations of the
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sightings but their stories helped spark
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the interest of Don shocky an amateur
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archaeologist I can't think of anything
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more exciting that I could be doing in
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my lifetime and having a small part and
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seen this whatever it is verified and we
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have good reason believe it's there's
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something there we got it we got it
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prove it
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in 1989 Don shocky launched an
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expedition to Mount Ararat
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the mountain is on the easternmost edge
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of Turkey ordered by Iran and the
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Georgia Democratic Republic formerly a
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part of the Soviet Union shocky chose
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his destination based upon classified US
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satellite photographs which had been
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analyzed by an expert for three days
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Don shocky and his guides made their way
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up the south side of the mountain our
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whole goal was to get to this part over
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the top down the glaciers to this
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particular location in verify what the
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satellite information in told us however
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the turkeys government restricts access
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to the north side of Mount Ararat
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foreigners are forbidden one of the
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Turkish guides are met continued on with
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camera in hand Ahmet crested Mount
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Ararat and started down the North Slope
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at this point at null evasion of nearly
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16,000 feet he spotted something half
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buried in the snow from a distance of
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300 yards he took this photograph which
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seems to show the end of a rectangular
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object with a peaked roof
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he came back and I said is anything
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showing he said a coupe a coupe and I
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said why are you talking about I met a
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Kubek ooh like a chicken coop
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oh it's kind of had two pointed top and
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he said you could see the outline of it
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in the side he said in all of my years
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you've never seen anything like it he
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said there's some artifact there Don
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shocky believed that Ahmet might have
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discovered the remains of Noah's Ark
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shocky returned to the United States
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where he took the photograph to forensic
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anthropologist dr. Jim Ebert it
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certainly does not look natural
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it looks very strikingly man-made to me
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of course there are no scale cues in
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here so we can't really tell how big it
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is what I see when I look at this is
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something that stands out from the rest
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of the terrain and that is a what looks
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like a solid structure you'll never know
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until you get up there and can see it
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and stand next to it but it's the the
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rectilinear outlines suggest to me that
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this isn't a normal part of a glacier
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in 1990 shocky returned to Mount Ararat
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and undertook an extensive aerial search
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unfortunately the site photographed by
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Ahmet had been completely covered with
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snow shock he was forced to abandon his
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effort but remains convinced that he has
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probably found the resting place of
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Noah's Ark others disagree we've been
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told for years that Noah's Ark is on top
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of Mount Ararat because that's what the
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Bible says and that's not what the Bible
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says the Bible says the ark came to rest
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on upon the mountains of Ararat that
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word is in the plural and if we David
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Foster is a former Merchant Marine
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officer and merchant Salvage expert who
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believes that the ark is buried beneath
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this unusual mound a full 17 miles south
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of Mount Ararat fassl's team has made
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several expeditions to the area they
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have combed the site with a metal
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detector and discovered traces of iron
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beneath the mound which do not appear to
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be natural deposits
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every 20 to 30 inches approximately we
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have the remains of an iron fitting or
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an iron pin of sorts that are still
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there in the soil and discernible well
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this is one of 5,400 iron fittings that
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we've located of course we haven't
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pulled them all out of the boat it's
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been it's been cut in half by a diamond
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saw scanned by electron microscopes at
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Los Alamos National Laboratory and this
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particular iron fitting is 94 point 84
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percent man-made wrought iron looking at
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the mound from above the iron deposits
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form a distinct pattern of intersecting
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lines which fossil believes as a
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framework of the arc from end to end the
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lines measure 515 feet or 300 cubits the
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length of the arc as recorded in the
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binding
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the width averages 85 feet or 50 cubits
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which also corresponds to the biblical
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dimension given the shape of the thing
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and the size of the thing and where they
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found it I mean if it walks like a duck
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and quacks like a duck until somebody
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finds something else what else could it
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possibly be but Noah's Ark are the metal
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fittings remnants of Noah's Ark some
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have suggested that david fassold has in
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reality found the remains of an ancient
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mongol fort others say it is merely a
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geological formation however the Turkish
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government has declared the mall as the
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official site where noah's ark came to
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rest the man who is in charge
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professor sali by dr. tom who is also a
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geologist he says it's it's Noah's Ark
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200 percent it is not a geological
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Anatomy it's a man-made structure as one
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of mankind's Greek mysteries finally
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been solved and this remote mountain
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range it seems obvious at Don shocky and
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david fassold are both investigating
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something very unique for only years of
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further exploration and detailed
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analysis to reveal exactly what they
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have found
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it is tantalizing to think that Noah's
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Ark may actually exist however unlikely
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it may seem such a discovery would not
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be unprecedented in fact it was less
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than a hundred years ago an
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archaeologists uncovered the ruins of
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the ancient city of Troy which had
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always been considered a myth finding
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Noah's Ark would no doubt prove more
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elusive perhaps it is a story best left
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as a metaphor a cautionary tale for a
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will that has grown ever more complex
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and chaotic next a young woman is found
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murdered in Louisiana
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perhaps you help identify her killer
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[Music]
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everything all right out there tres
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[Music]
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the November of 1988 26 year-old Tracy
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Wofford Bunn began working as a waitress
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in Baton Rouge Louisiana she arrived
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from Milwaukee Wisconsin three months
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earlier looking for a new start in a new
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city Tracy was a beautiful person
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outgoing fun to be with
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she would do things very spur a moment
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she could say well tomorrow I'm going to
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Minnesota tomorrow she'd go to Minnesota
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with no care whatsoever wondering about
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what might happen what would happen no
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care she knew where she was going
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Tracy and Salomon bunt had married in
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1986 two and a half years later the
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marriage was on the skids the Tracy
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turned to her younger sister Danielle
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who lived in Baton Rouge she had spoken
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many times about leaving Milwaukee to
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sort of spread her wings and try
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something new and so she just came to
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visit me and we had a really good time
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and I introduced her to quite a few
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different type people and so she stayed
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with me and I think a couple of weeks
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and then she went back home and stayed
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about a week and a half and came back
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down with all of the rest of her stuff
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Tracy settled in quickly she landed a
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job and even found a new boyfriend it
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seemed like life was starting all over
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again then six months later on the
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morning of April 1st 1989 it all came
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crashing down outside of an apartment
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complex a passerby noticed a young woman
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apparently asleep in the front seat of a
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car it quickly became obvious that the
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young woman was not asleep
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Tracy Wofford Bunn had been murdered but
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what time was it when you first saw the
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car um about eight o'clock when I first
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saw the car and when I came out about
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8:30 to really see what was you know was
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late asleep or what in the car Tracy had
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been raped and strangled to death
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oddly investigators found no sign of a
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struggle in fact there were a number of
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things about the crime scene which did
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not seem quite right upon examining the
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body we could see that the clothes were
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all jumbled up in a fashion and I have
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seen before and it's usually when a
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person has had their clothing put back
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on them and and they had an unconscious
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state or their deceased
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we also follow Manta the Stig ship was
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broken off in the car it's lying on the
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floor below I still believe the vehicle
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could have been driven but it would have
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taken somebody with full expertise that
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doing it to drive it with the stick she
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had broken off like that
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the motors the main thing that has me
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puzzled is because there was no robbery
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jury was still on the victim first was
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de-identification
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this was just a total loss in life for
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no reason
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with no physical evidence to go on
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detective wheeler turned to the people
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who knew Tracy best he started with a
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new boyfriend that we were together and
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we just wrote around for the while you
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were in Tracy's vehicle yes yeah we
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wrote around well when I spoke with the
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boyfriend he advised me that about 4:30
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March 31st 1989 he dropped Tracy off at
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work
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and he kept our vehicle he and his
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cousin were riding around in a car and
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he was supposed to be Tracy up that
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night at 12 midnight fortunately he said
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the shift lever broke off in the vehicle
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that Texas an East Polk they parked the
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vehicle and went to load the cousin's
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house which is about a half mile away
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around midnight
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Tracy called her boyfriend and learned
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that he had damaged the car she left
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work and walked to his cousin's house
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about a mile away what em to the car
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it's in broke it's broke
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how'd it break I was just Eric and I
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were just riding right there in [ __ ]
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shifter snapped off a stick shift
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doesn't just snap off well your ship
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just snap you know all the problems you
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had getting in the third gear the shift
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this time to snap I don't have any
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problems you're the one causing the
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problem okay okay so give me the keys so
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I can go get the car and take care of it
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is it what give you the keys
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Tracy walked a half mile to her car
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police estimate that she arrived around
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12:30 a.m.
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we know she got to the vehicle because
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it was locked up by her boyfriend well
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he left it there and when we found the
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vehicle that next morning keys were in
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the view
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but that is the last place that though
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she was alive she rather to call
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an hour and a half later Tracy's car was
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driven to the apartment complex where
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she would be found murdered the next
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morning that was advised by the new
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apartment manager that there was
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possibly a witness who saw the vehicle
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who came into the parking lot around
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1:00
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you saw somebody walk away from it
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didn't pay too much attention to
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[Music]
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I feel that Tracy born now was probably
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keel between the hours of 12:30 and 1:30
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in the morning authorities are
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particularly disturbed by several
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unsettling details surrounding the
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murder
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not only had Tracy been raped and
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strangled but there were second-degree
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burns on her thighs and on the back of
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her hands we haven't been able to
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determine what caused those burns and
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we've thought about every type of hidden
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apparatus a device you could take of we
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just can't find anything that would make
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that that particular burn we also don't
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understand the method of leaving the
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body the way it was it was like they
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wanted this person to be found and they
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wanted everybody to see I don't know
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whether these guys were involved in
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drugs or not but when you have a case
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involving people in narcotics if you
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don't deal with them in the fashion that
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they want you to get make an example
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I know someone personally that was very
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heavily involved in drugs and he was I
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guess he was trying to make some sort of
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drug transaction and he was told that
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that person was the person who had
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murdered my sister authorities did
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investigate a known drug dealer but
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found no evidence linking him to the
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crime it's my feeling that her boyfriend
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knew something because he had her car
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that night while she was at work he
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didn't come and pick her up from work at
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the agreed-upon time apparently when she
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went by his cousin's house to pick up
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the car he told her that it was broken
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and that you know you go on ahead and it
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doesn't sound like a likely story for a
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person who was supposed to be involved
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with my sister to just sort of throw her
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to the wolves at 12:00 or 1:00 o'clock
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at night
00:23:37
Tracy's boyfriend and his cousin are
00:23:39
each given two polygraph examinations
00:23:42
they both passed the tests and are not
00:23:44
considered suspects in the transmission
00:23:48
given that third time the number of
00:23:50
homicides and this one I feel has just a
00:23:53
few pieces of the puzzle that haven't
00:23:56
felt in place yet and I know it's a
00:23:59
solvable case and it's frustrating for
00:24:02
me as well as for Tracy's family to not
00:24:05
know who these killers are because we
00:24:09
know they're walking around scot-free
00:24:10
today and and trace is gone it's it's
00:24:16
even now it's hard to believe even
00:24:18
though I've seen her body I've seen her
00:24:21
I've buried her I've heard all this
00:24:25
different information all that all the
00:24:27
details and everything and still it's
00:24:29
really difficult to believe cuz I really
00:24:31
don't know what happened and I think if
00:24:33
I knew what happened I'd be able to
00:24:35
believe that it's happened and sort of
00:24:38
leave it behind me
00:24:41
[Music]
00:24:56
[Music]
00:24:59
when we return the touching story of a
00:25:03
man's search for his sister a search
00:25:05
which is spanned half a century 1941
00:25:19
Ottumwa Iowa a family is about to be
00:25:22
torn apart three brothers and a sister
00:25:25
have been left in the care of their aunt
00:25:27
who fearing for the children's
00:25:29
well-being has contacted the Child
00:25:31
Welfare Department Walter
00:25:37
Richard Dolores I need to take you to
00:25:40
your new home now come out please
00:25:43
you kids get on out here we're gonna
00:25:45
take you to a decent home come on out
00:25:49
[Music]
00:25:53
Walter your big boy are you going down
00:25:55
to that car at that time there was four
00:26:00
of us and another one on the way and
00:26:03
this probably about five and a half
00:26:06
years old I didn't know anything about
00:26:08
adoption or stuff like that and I
00:26:13
thought we were just going to this home
00:26:16
and later on we was you all go back to
00:26:19
mama saying Donnell strats mother could
00:26:27
do little to prevent the state from
00:26:28
taking her children she was pregnant
00:26:31
with her fifth child and unable to work
00:26:33
a few months earlier Donald's father had
00:26:37
suffered a nervous breakdown and had
00:26:39
been institutionalized the children who
00:26:42
ranged in age from 2 to 9 years old were
00:26:44
usually left to their own devices until
00:26:47
the authorities stepped in two of the
00:26:52
brothers were sent to Iowa State youth
00:26:54
facilities Donald and his sister Dolores
00:26:57
were taken to a Lutheran children's home
00:26:59
where they were placed in the care of
00:27:01
the head nurse you need to take a little
00:27:03
rest
00:27:04
Dolores here's your bottle
00:27:10
[Music]
00:27:12
even though I wasn't told us boy I was
00:27:14
the babysitter and I played with my
00:27:17
sister and I enjoyed that and push
00:27:21
around tricycle and brush her hard to
00:27:25
take care of her you know I always like
00:27:29
to help this is my sister
00:27:32
Donald here's some bananas you feed it
00:27:34
to your sister within days
00:27:37
Donald realize that he and his sister
00:27:39
would not be going back to their mother
00:27:41
Donald cooperated with a nurse but was
00:27:44
always alert for a chance to take his
00:27:46
sister and escape this dearth basically
00:27:52
she was busy in the kitchen she had her
00:27:55
back turned test and yes the brass say
00:27:58
she is intent on her job and so I just
00:28:03
took my sister out the door right fire
00:28:13
this was our chance to go home and speak
00:28:17
to out the door down the steps after
00:28:21
this little blob laid forward and I
00:28:25
opened it up to helped her in on for and
00:28:29
helped her up on the seat that's hard
00:28:31
now you sit right there cuz we're going
00:28:33
home see Baba I didn't know anything
00:28:43
about hard really but I do if you push
00:28:45
that button down on the floor that car's
00:28:47
go I had to look out the window halo the
00:28:57
stairwell then I'd get down and push
00:28:59
that back that cargo head a little bit
00:29:01
you know and I'd get up and take another
00:29:03
look you I'm trying to get this car down
00:29:06
there on that main road I didn't know
00:29:08
where I was going when I got there but I
00:29:10
do that with that road I came in on it
00:29:13
and I need to leave by its you know what
00:29:20
did you think you're doing let go of me
00:29:22
and see my mama you get out of that car
00:29:24
right now don't you know you could card
00:29:26
over just kind of just jerked Oakley
00:29:29
series didn't grab me up by the collar
00:29:32
and went thrash you don't know and I
00:29:35
couldn't tell you today whether she
00:29:36
whipped me with her hand or whether she
00:29:38
had a board or whether she had a strap
00:29:40
or anything but but I didn't do Sheila's
00:29:46
work for me but I didn't feel no pain
00:29:48
and I fight her cuz I smoked to go
00:29:51
Donald there's some cookies for you in
00:29:54
the kitchen if you like them thank you
00:29:56
two weeks later
00:29:57
unbeknownst to Donnelly Delores was
00:30:00
adopted come on baby we're gonna get you
00:30:02
a new home
00:30:06
these people couldn't took Dolores away
00:30:09
I didn't know what you know what the
00:30:11
deal was but I thought well they're you
00:30:14
know they're gonna bring her back here
00:30:15
because being her was family and that's
00:30:19
all I had
00:30:26
kept bastard this book worse my sister
00:30:30
and my sister and she tell me well you
00:30:36
just don't need to do it does your
00:30:39
business and stuff like that ofcourse I
00:30:44
got a ruling Audrey cuz I was won't my
00:30:47
sister the separation was short-lived
00:30:52
Dolores has adopted parents sent for
00:30:55
Donald as soon as they realized that she
00:30:57
was more than they could handle
00:30:58
like the nurses at the home they turned
00:31:01
to Donald for help Dolores went to
00:31:05
adjust to these folks our bond with
00:31:08
these folks at first and just cried and
00:31:11
wanted her brother and stuff because you
00:31:15
know we'd been together and these people
00:31:18
were strangers terrorists
00:31:28
she just cried and would indeed or
00:31:31
whatever not to read they can be got me
00:31:33
so I could be a fighting factor you
00:31:36
might say
00:31:53
under Donald's influence Dolores began
00:31:56
to adjust Donald even stayed on for a
00:31:58
few days who was expected to remain well
00:32:01
in the background these people got the
00:32:07
large brush eat eat formed play with
00:32:11
them they treated her quite well you
00:32:14
know and I don't know a day or two
00:32:18
whatever this dirt coming back and she
00:32:21
said Donny you want to go downtown with
00:32:25
me I've ever looked up and this what
00:32:30
would was fadin little ancestor and I
00:32:33
thought well everything's alright you
00:32:36
know and yeah I got to go downtown you
00:32:41
know five and a half years old I love to
00:32:44
ride automobiles you know we're sighted
00:32:47
realized this automobile would never go
00:32:49
bring me back and we got in the car and
00:32:53
we drove off and then I haven't seen my
00:32:55
sister said
00:32:57
[Music]
00:33:00
I think it Dolores you know almost every
00:33:04
day she's still my flesh to do better
00:33:07
and what time is dead well it tries to
00:33:11
catch up with 50 years the title somehow
00:33:14
I'd like to hug her there could tell her
00:33:17
mister
00:33:22
donal stratton his two brothers as well
00:33:24
as another sister born after the family
00:33:26
was split apart were all reunited 1965
00:33:30
their father remained institutionalized
00:33:32
for the rest of his life and their
00:33:34
mother was granted a divorce
00:33:36
Velma strat remarried and had five more
00:33:39
children so now there are nine siblings
00:33:42
all looking for their lost sister
00:33:44
Dolores update just minutes after we
00:33:48
first broadcast this story a woman named
00:33:51
Penelope su Lewis of Bolivar missouri
00:33:53
called our telecenter and identified
00:33:56
herself as Donald strats long-lost
00:33:58
sister
00:33:59
Donald was overjoyed to discover that
00:34:01
Penelope lived just 50 miles from his
00:34:03
home in Scotland Missouri three days
00:34:09
later at a park near Penelope's home
00:34:11
Donald Penelope and their extended
00:34:14
families gathered for a heartwarming and
00:34:16
all overdue really so many years
00:34:27
my lover always have loved you and you
00:34:31
know sometimes when I get along just
00:34:33
take back that just said mm cries and I
00:34:37
don't mind crying this time because I'm
00:34:40
already there
00:34:43
ready there got another surprise for you
00:34:48
soon after Donald arrived
00:34:50
Penelope shared a poignant moment with a
00:34:52
natural mother Velma whom she had not
00:34:54
seen in more than 50 years the reunion
00:35:07
was a culmination of an emotional roller
00:35:09
coaster ride which had begun 72 hours
00:35:11
earlier when Penelope sat down to watch
00:35:14
unsolved mysteries I try not to miss any
00:35:18
because I like to watch it into the
00:35:20
reunions and things and I thought you
00:35:23
know I've always thought well maybe
00:35:23
someday it'll be my turn and all of a
00:35:26
sudden it dawned on me
00:35:27
well that's me that's my family for
00:35:32
Penelope the gathering was also the
00:35:34
chance to meet all the family members
00:35:36
she never knew she had one full sister
00:35:39
two half sisters three half-brothers and
00:35:42
countless nephews nieces and cousins
00:35:44
[Music]
00:35:47
we'll just probably try to get everybody
00:35:50
acquainted with everybody and just go
00:35:54
from there and get together yeah knock
00:36:00
out so helpless I felt like I didn't
00:36:04
belong and and now I'm at peace next a
00:36:14
woman is brutally abducted from a car
00:36:16
wash in Texas
00:36:18
[Music]
00:36:26
most of us never imagined that we will
00:36:29
become part of an unsolved mystery and
00:36:32
we will suddenly hear a scream in the
00:36:34
night find ourselves involved in a
00:36:36
criminal investigation yet that is
00:36:39
exactly what happened to three young men
00:36:40
in Austin Texas on December 29th 1991
00:36:44
all because they happened to cross paths
00:36:47
with a kidnapper
00:36:49
at 8:55 p.m. Steve marks was on his way
00:36:53
to meet his two brothers-in-law at a
00:36:55
friend's house on Powell Street less
00:36:57
than a block from the house he pulled
00:36:59
behind a tan colored car
00:37:03
that evening in question I was driving
00:37:05
down pal Street and unnoticed a car in
00:37:08
front of me driving very slowly I
00:37:10
followed it down the street and I pulled
00:37:14
in front of my friend's house
00:37:20
the car in the meantime had pulled up
00:37:22
into the parking garage ahead of my
00:37:25
friend's house and my brother-in-law's
00:37:28
arrived about a minute later
00:37:33
mic and bill Goins had encountered the
00:37:36
same car two blocks from the house going
00:37:38
the wrong way on a one-way street and
00:37:40
when they stopped and we stopped they
00:37:42
looked at us like what do we do next and
00:37:45
we looked at them like okay you fools
00:37:47
get out of the way and that gave us an
00:37:50
opportunity to see them but
00:37:51
unfortunately there was no reason for us
00:37:54
to try to memorize their faces or
00:37:56
anything there was just two people
00:37:57
passing in the night at 9 p.m. Mike and
00:38:07
Bill Goins rendezvous with Steve marks
00:38:09
the house where they met was just 200
00:38:12
feet from a 24-hour do-it-yourself car
00:38:14
wash I don't know we were thinking about
00:38:16
going out to eat we go over to my house
00:38:18
for some spaghetti
00:38:24
when we were on the porch all we could
00:38:26
see was the side of the car wash and the
00:38:29
vacuum canisters where cars are vacuumed
00:38:32
outside of the stalls so when we heard
00:38:35
the scream and the car door or trunk
00:38:38
slam all we saw was the car pull out as
00:38:47
we saw the car pull out the wrong way on
00:38:49
Fifth Street I realized that that was
00:38:52
the same car that I had pulled behind on
00:38:55
Powell Street and that had made the
00:38:58
u-turn in the parking garage
00:39:00
and the car that later Mike and Bill had
00:39:04
said had confronted him going the wrong
00:39:05
way on Powell Street pulling out on to
00:39:08
6th Street a few seconds later Steve
00:39:12
marks Bill Goins arrived at the car wash
00:39:17
unlike most nights it was eerily
00:39:19
deserted we walked up to the car we saw
00:39:24
a purse see a fuse and then bill
00:39:28
suggested I go back to the house and
00:39:30
call the police
00:39:31
as we figured something was wrong
00:39:36
the owner of the abandoned car was
00:39:39
identified as 28 year old Colleen Reid a
00:39:42
certified public accountant who had
00:39:44
lived in Austin for four years police
00:39:48
traced Colleen's movements in the day of
00:39:50
the crime she arrived at the car wash
00:39:53
around 9:00 10:00 p.m. earlier that day
00:39:56
she had gone to church with her
00:39:57
boyfriend then she spent several hours
00:39:59
doing community volunteer work that
00:40:02
evening Colleen went to the market and
00:40:04
then withdrew cash from her bank machine
00:40:06
before ending up at the carwash police
00:40:09
believed that Colleen was kidnapped by
00:40:11
the two men in the tan colored vehicle
00:40:15
[Music]
00:40:30
[Music]
00:40:40
[Music]
00:40:45
we have a situation where after they
00:40:49
have abducted Colleen Reid they went the
00:40:51
wrong way on Fifth Street and almost
00:40:54
collided head-on with two vehicles we
00:40:56
have not heard from the drivers or the
00:40:58
people that have occupied those two
00:41:00
vehicles so hopefully this show
00:41:02
well maybe bring these two people
00:41:05
forward that may have some information
00:41:06
that will help us
00:41:07
I've almost convinced myself that we
00:41:11
will someday see her again that she's
00:41:12
being held somewhere and I know that
00:41:14
that's what we want to believe and the
00:41:17
reality is that's probably not true but
00:41:20
there is a possibility I think about
00:41:23
when when do I just say okay it's over
00:41:28
something happened something horrible I
00:41:31
don't know if I'll ever be able to do
00:41:33
that I've gone on with my life in a lot
00:41:38
of ways I'm I work and take care of my
00:41:42
children and do the things I need to do
00:41:44
but there's an empty place that I've had
00:41:50
a hard time filling
00:41:54
update a suspect is in custody just last
00:41:58
week a man named Alva Hank Warren he was
00:42:00
arrested in Belton Texas he admitted
00:42:03
involvement in the kidnapping but denied
00:42:05
knowing Colleen Reed's current
00:42:06
whereabouts
00:42:07
however Worley insisted that she was
00:42:10
still alive
00:42:10
the last time he saw her police are now
00:42:13
looking for this man Kenneth Allen
00:42:15
Macduff he is 46 years old 6 feet 3
00:42:18
inches tall and weighs 245 pounds
00:42:21
Macduff was last seen Waco Texas
00:42:25
[Music]
00:42:33
[Music]
00:42:44
[Music]
00:42:51
[Music]
00:42:57
diabolical mind the very phrase evokes a
00:43:01
chilling mystique on Sunday unsolved
00:43:05
mystery will present a special report an
00:43:07
exploration of the mysteries of this
00:43:09
psychopath what forces but transform
00:43:13
this impoverished young boy into one
00:43:15
ruthless dictator Saddam Hussein's
00:43:18
bloody and brutal rise to power was
00:43:20
ignited by a single disturbing trait a
00:43:22
cunning mind unchecked by remorse or
00:43:25
conscience gee Daniel Walker has been
00:43:29
convicted of crimes ranging from fraud
00:43:31
to armed robbery to murder in a
00:43:34
remarkable interview Walker provides a
00:43:36
revealing glimpse into a diabolical mind
00:43:39
violence because fearless with you 24
00:43:41
hours a day fear never goes away if you
00:43:43
kill somebody it's over when her husband
00:43:48
and children fell victim to a series of
00:43:49
mysterious illnesses Marie Hilley was a
00:43:52
devoted and caring wife and mother in
00:43:54
time her son began to suspect the worst
00:43:57
his mother was poisoning her own family
00:44:00
the world as I knew it at that point
00:44:04
just fell apart everything that my
00:44:06
mother had taught me right from wrong I
00:44:10
had to go back and reexamine join me
00:44:15
Sunday night at 8:00 with his very
00:44:17
special and very different edition
00:44:19
unsolved mysteries key studies of the
00:44:22
diabolical mind
00:44:27
[Music]
00:44:50
[Applause]
00:44:53
[Music]
00:45:02
you
00:45:02
[Music]

Badges

This episode stands out for the following:

  • 75
    Most heartwarming
  • 70
    Most emotional
  • 65
    Most heartbreaking
  • 60
    Most shocking

Episode Highlights

  • The Mystery of Noah's Ark
    Exploring the enduring story of Noah's Ark and the search for its remnants.
    “Was the story based on fact or a legend?”
    @ 03m 36s
    May 22, 2019
  • Tracy Wofford Bunn's Tragic Murder
    The unsolved case of a young waitress found murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
    “It's hard to believe even though I've seen her body.”
    @ 24m 18s
    May 22, 2019
  • Reunion After 50 Years
    Donald and his siblings reunite with their long-lost sister Penelope after decades apart.
    “My lover always have loved you... I don't mind crying this time because I'm already there.”
    @ 34m 31s
    May 22, 2019
  • A Mother's Heartbreak
    Colleen Reid's mother struggles with the pain of her daughter's disappearance, holding onto hope.
    “There's an empty place that I've had a hard time filling.”
    @ 41m 50s
    May 22, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • Was the story based on fact or a legend?
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - Full Episode
  • It is tantalizing to think that Noah's Ark may actually exist.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - Full Episode
  • It's hard to believe even though I've seen her body.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - Full Episode
  • I didn’t know anything about hard really but I do now.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - Full Episode
  • I’d like to hug her, there could tell her mister.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - Full Episode
  • I’ve almost convinced myself that we will someday see her again.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Unsolved Mysteries00:03
  • Noah's Ark Debate00:24
  • Tracy's Murder17:12
  • Search for Truth24:16
  • Childhood Separation27:39
  • Escape Attempt27:46
  • Adoption News30:00
  • Hope and Despair41:11

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