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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a kind-hearted truck driver
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treats a young man to breakfast and
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becomes a key witness in a missing
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person's case it's one of world war II's
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strangest Mysteries a Navy blimp crashes
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on a city street and there's no sign of
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the
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crew two Canadian High School
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sweethearts travel to Washington state
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for their first romantic
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getaway but they never make it home and
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a brutal serial killer murders at least
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eight women in New Orleans police need
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your help before he strikes
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again five compelling cases I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries
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join us won't
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com
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Memphis
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Tennessee 26-year-old John Chek seemed
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destined for Success fresh out of
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business school he had been hired as the
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Chief Financial Officer for one of
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Tennessee's largest real estate
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companies never in their wildest dreams
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that John cheek's family and friends
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imagined that he would wind up the focus
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of an endless missing person search his
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face peering out from thousands of
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Flyers plastered all over their
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hometown by the age of 28 John had
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bought this house in East Memphis and
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was hard at work putting together the
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deal of a lifetime for months Jan had
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helped lay the groundwork to take his
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company public he was working 18 hours a
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day and flying all over the world to
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meet with
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investors finally the deal was on the
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verge of closing millions of dollars
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were on the line the company was about
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to be thrust into the national Spotlight
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literally
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overnight John was very proud of his
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accomplishment of getting this job and
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he worked very hard non-stop almost to
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see that his duties were fulfilled and
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that every eye was dotted and every tea
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was
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crossed but one winter day John didn't
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show up for work and surprise quickly
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turned to concern at company
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headquarters it was out of character and
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then as the day went on and then that
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night uh when no one had heard from John
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we began to know that something terribly
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was
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wrong early the next morning John's car
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was found abandoned on Interstate 55
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where the highway crosses over the
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Mississippi River it was about 12 mi
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from John's
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home there was no signs of Foul Play on
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the car the car was checked uh
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everything appeared to be intact the
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cheek family examined a car also and it
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appeared to be just the way John would
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have left
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it police theorized that John had
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committed suicide by jumping into the
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rapid Waters of the Mississippi River
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however Searchers of the river and its
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banks failed to locate his body and to
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those who knew him best suicide seemed
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to be out of the
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question we didn't believe that he could
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be normal right up until 11:00 p.m. one
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night and then all of a sudden jump off
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the bridge the next day we were just
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left with the same position we are right
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now that it was just some big mystery
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had happened to him and we didn't know
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what two months passed with no leads no
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word from John and no reason to believe
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that he was EV been
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alive until a trucker named Ron Jackson
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rolled into
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town over the years Ron had seen
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hundreds of missing persons Flyers at
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truck stops all across the country so he
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was stunned when he saw the face of
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someone that he actually
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recognized the young man that he had met
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just the day
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before you never really expected to jump
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right out and say hey I know this person
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I had breakfast with this person the
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other morning so that was added to my
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surprise of seeing this poster and this
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identity was so strong and it just kind
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of grabbed a hold of me and shook me
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like this is the individual
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period do you have breakfast yet no I
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have no money Brown found the young
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Drifter sleeping at a Virginia Truck
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Stop 700 mil from John chek's hometown
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this morning my first impression of this
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man when I saw him is that he was not
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homeless people he was clean and the
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white shirt was so white it looked like
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had just come out of the laundry okay
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Help Yourself he didn't tell Ron his
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name but the man did say that he had
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spent some time in an Arkansas homeless
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shelter there for a while I didn't press
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him he just was rambling on in cafeteria
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line I would have to say that he was
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definitely not 100% in all mental
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capabilities you have a good breakfast
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yeah where you
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headed Richmond Richmond Ron and The
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Drifter were headed in opposite
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directions good
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luck outside the cafeteria they said
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goodbye well there were several things
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about the encounter that made us feel
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optimistic that it was a positive
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identification for John the first was
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the white shirt and tie because that
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would be typical for him to be wearing
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that because that's what he wore every
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day he also mentioned the fact that he
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used very correct English and sounded
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like he was well educated person which
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was obviously correct for John's parents
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the most promising detail was Ron's
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description of the young man's shoes
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slipon moccasins John had a pair that
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was identical and his parents believed
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that he might be wearing them we knew
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that John had a pair of shoes like this
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we had not mentioned that to anyone up
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until this point in time immediately my
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thought was we've got to find him quick
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and get him home he's uh wandering
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around and not knowing who he
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is no one could be sure why John
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vanished his father believes that he
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suffered a sudden episode of stress
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induced Amnesia it's sort of a
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self-preservation mechanism if something
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in their past has become so stressful
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that they can't stand it any longer then
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that's how they deal with it they just
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block it all out and you're no longer
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John Chek and you're no longer a
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financial officer and you no longer
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putting together a big
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deal since Ron Jackson's sighting there
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has been no other sign of John
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cheek he has brown hair blue eyes and
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stands 6 feet tall at the time of his
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disappearance John weighed 150 lb
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there's a hole in my heart and I'm
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hoping that all of this publicity will
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find someone that can um feel that void
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and a mother never gives
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up if you have any information that can
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help return John Chek to his family and
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friends please log on to our website at
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next two young lovers are murdered while
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on vacation the killer then PPS the
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family with vicious
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our next story is about a young couple
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who had been dating for 6 months Jay
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cook and his high school sweetheart T
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van kenborg took the ferry from Victoria
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Canada to Washington State to go camping
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Jay was 20 years old Tanya was 17 and
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they were in
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love the couple's Journey began in
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Victoria where they took a late
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afternoon car furry headed to Port
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Angeles Washington it was their first
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trip together and they planned on a
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romantic
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getaway Jay and T had been going out for
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about 6 months I think I think she was
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quite special to them they certainly
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seemed to be good for each other from
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everything that I could gather uh I
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certainly had no apprehension about
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Tanya being with Jay I I felt very
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comfortable with
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that it's
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windy but sometime during their Journey
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Jay and Tanya's peaceful vacation turned
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into a violent
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nightmare Jay was driving his father's
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van Witnesses reported seeing a drive
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off the ferry and heading south on
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Highway 101 authorities believe they
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were headed towards a second car ferry
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from Bremerton to
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Seattle it was just an overnight trip
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Jay and Tanya were expected home the
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next
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day if Tanya was late for anything she
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would always phone so when Tanya did not
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phone the next evening when they were
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supposed to be returning my wife became
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apprehensive the following day when she
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didn't call we knew there was something
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wrong Tanya's body was found partially
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clothed she had been uh raped and
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murdered we found some wire ties but you
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would bundle wires together with laying
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alongside the road we assume that they
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were used to secure Tanya in the
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van well we didn't know what to think
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then because they hadn't found Jay and
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for a while it looked like Jay might
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even be a suspect they told us to be
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prepared for
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that
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soon after Jay's van was found 90 Mi
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away in the city of
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Bellingham there's one of the ties was
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just like with t down the scene there's
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another one oh we got some blood over
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here it looks like two blocks away
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police found more plastic ties the keys
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to Jay's van Tanya's driver's license
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and a half empty box of ammunition they
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also found a pair of surgical gloves
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together these Clues comprised an
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outright taunt he leaves Those Behind as
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basically a sign to the police that you
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needn't look for fingerprints because I
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wore these gloves and uh he has
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confidence that there's nothing that's
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going to connect him with these
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crimes a short time later Jay's body was
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found he had been beaten and strangled
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to
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death his hands have been bound with
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some plastic tie wraps and the things we
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found on Jade certainly raised this as
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suspicion that the person or people who
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did this have been in the prison system
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before without telling you anything else
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uh that's definitely a
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possibility police believe that it's
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most likely that Jay and Tanya met their
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killer on the 1020 PM ferry from
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brierton to
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Seattle we don't know the Killer's
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intentions when he first met these two
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we feel that he was out to do some harm
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and certainly to assault both Jay and
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Tanya and from what we have found I
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think we can say that he had set his
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sights on Tanya and Jay was in the way
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few lights how you doing hi hey what's
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up not much you guys going to Seattle
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mhm yeah how about you friendly Young on
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their first trip and I think easily
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fooled an easy Mark say I wonder if you
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could do me a favor it's pretty cold out
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there and I only live a couple miles M
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fery deck can you get me right I think
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it's safe to say that by the time they
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exited the ferry in downtown Seattle
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they probably were in the company of the
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man that killed
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them it would seem to me that it's
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logical that the person has committed
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crimes like this in the past and been
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successful at them and having been
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successful I would certainly say that
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it's likely that they'll continue to do
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them good how's the holidays great
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thanks good see you tomorrow yeah
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bye-bye then over the Christmas holidays
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Just 4 weeks after the murder of their
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children Jay and Tanya's families each
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received a series of disturbing greeting
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cards they were filled with taunting
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descriptions of the murders and the
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author claimed to be the killer
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postmarked from New York Los Angeles and
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Seattle all of these cards had been
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written by the same person so far at
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least six of these greeting cards have
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been mailed over three different
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holidays and authorities still have no
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idea who sent
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them perhaps surprisingly DNA found on
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the victim and DNA on the envelopes do
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not
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match the handwriting in these letters
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and the cards is very
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distinctive and there are some phrases
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that are very distinctive also
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Hallelujah bloody Jesus is a favorite
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phrase of his he just continues to make
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life miserable for these parents who
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have lost their
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children it's important that this
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individual be
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caught police are convinced the murderer
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is an ex-convict familiar with the
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Washington area they hope that he may
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have talked about the crime and that
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someone watching might be able to
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identify him authorities are also
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interested in finding out who wrote The
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Strange greeting
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cards if anyone has any inform
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information that might help solve this
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case please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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coming up the Fateful Flight of the
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ghost blimp whose crew vanished without
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a
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troops along the Pacific coast The Hunt
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is on for the [ __ ] submarine that brought
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the to us soil in 1942 the final outcome
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of World War II was still very much in
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doubt the United States had every reason
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to fear that the Japanese would launch
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an allout attack on the west
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coast they were known to be Japanese
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submarines operating off the coast there
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had been an attack on an oil refinery
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down in near Santa
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Monica there was a great fear that there
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would be uh more
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attacks
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the Navy responded to the threat by
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putting together a fleet of 12 blimps to
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patrol the California coast the mission
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of Airship Squadron 32 as they were
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called was largely
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uneventful until August of
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1942 that's when one of the blimps
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crashed on a city street with no one on
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board it was almost impossible for them
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him not to have been seen by somebody
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but nobody saw him go nobody saw him
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jump and there's no relics of them at
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all a real
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puzzle it was perhaps one of the
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strangest events that happen here in the
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United States during World War II
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incredibly Airship Squadron 32 only lost
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two men during the entire War the two
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men who disappeared that day decades
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later
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their exact fate remains a
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mystery San
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Francisco August 16th
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1942 it was early on a Sunday morning
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when Flight 101 prepared to take
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off the pilots were 27-year-old
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Lieutenant Ernest dwit Cody and
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34-year-old insen Charles Ellis Adams
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both were experienced and reliable
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which made the events of the next 5
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hours even more
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mysterious Aviation machinist mate Riley
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Hill was supposed to go with Adams and
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Cody that
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morning Adams had flown in the large
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durables and was thoroughly checked out
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but he had never flown in the small
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blimps and this was an indoctrination
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flight for him that Sunday morning just
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before departure Riley Hill was ordered
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off the blimp for some unknown
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reason no need for you to go Riley Adams
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and I will take it yes sir hill now
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believes that the heavy moisture in the
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air was weighing the blimp down making
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it unsafe to take off with three men on
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board I got out shut the door and locked
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it and they took
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off the Flight Plan called for the Blimp
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to leave Treasure Island pass over the
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Golden Gate Bridge then head to the
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Falon Island
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25 M off the coast from there Flight 101
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would continue North to point Rays then
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South along the
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coastline the first leg of the patrol
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went smoothly but then an hour and a
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half after takeoff Lieutenant Cody
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radioed Squadron headquarters and said
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investigating suspicious oil
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standby go
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101 those were the last words ever
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received from flight
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101 when it came time for further
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explanation and we didn't get it we just
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assumed well it was negative and they
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went on their way but when 3 hours
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passed and still no one had heard from
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the crew flight commanders became
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alarmed frantic attempts to contact the
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blimp went unanswered no sir no
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Communications from the crew since they
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report at
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7:42 I'm investigating suspicious oil s
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yes sir finally a message was received
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but it was not from Flight
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101 San Francisco sh Patrol one blimp
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cross Beach to play crashed into the
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golf course and dropped the dev charge
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peeled it off let's get a team over
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there right away the blimp had somehow
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drifted 8 Miles off course and came
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ashore just south of San
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Francisco there was a swimmer there a
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man called Mr capala who was standing
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ready to go into the water and all of a
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sudden he saw this huge gray Mass just
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coming right at him remember this thing
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is 47 ft wide and it wasn't too high off
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the water and he watched it come in it
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dragged a wheel along the sand at the
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water's edge then hit a little sand null
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it bounced up into the air and then slid
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up a little bit of a canyon and then hit
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rather heavily on the side of the canyon
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and this knocked off a depth charg
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the collapsing blimp was seen by
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hundreds of people bunny gpie was 16
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years old at the
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time I was on the way home from Sunday
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school and I saw this big gray thing
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coming in over what I thought was going
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to be right over Templeton Avenue when I
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saw this thing coming in through the sky
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I was very surprised as were a lot of
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other people because things like that
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just didn't happen in Daily City Flight
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101 quickly lost altitude and headed
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straight for the homes in the hills of
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Daily City one woman's house almost
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became the point of
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impact it was a Mrs Appleton she said
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that all of a sudden this huge Behemoth
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had settled and scraped across the the
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top of her roof and she said it sounded
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like chains
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dragging but the entire house was
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blacked out because of the the size of
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this thing and she raced to the front
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window Wonder wondering what in the
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world was going on and she saw the rest
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of it the gondola hit the crossarm break
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off part of the uh uh mechanism there
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and gradually settled down to the ground
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I missed the actual Landing of the thing
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but when I got there it was just like
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great big gray monster with the gondola
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jutting up towards the tops of the
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houses it was
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huge miraculously no one was injured
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when the blimp landed in the middle of
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the street Street almost immediately
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Daily City officials were on the scene
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when Navy personnel arrived they were
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shocked to discover that there was no
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sign of Lieutenant Cody or inen Adams
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apparently the blimp had pilot itself
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straight into
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downtown the legend of the ghost blimp
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was
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born investigators were puzzled by what
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they found the door was latched open a
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highly unusual inlight position the
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safety bar normally used to block the
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doorway was no longer in place and a
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microphone hooked to an outside
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loudspeaker dangled from the
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gondle the ignition switches were still
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on the uh radio was still on and working
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nobody had touched my uh fuel valves
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they were set up just exactly the way
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that I'd left them we still had another
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6 hours of
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fuel Lieutenant Cody's cap rested on the
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insulin panel and two of three life
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jackets on board were missing suggesting
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the crew had put them on before takeoff
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as regulations required a locked
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briefcase containing top secret codes
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was still in its place it was as if Cody
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and Adams had opened the door and simply
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stepped out Into Thin Air
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the machine gun was still there the
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expandable life raft was there uh and
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one more life jacket there was nothing
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missing the Navy investigation revealed
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that Flight 101 was seen by several
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ships and planes between 7 and 11: a.m.
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some of the eyewitnesses said they were
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close enough to see Cody and Adams in
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the gondola and everything seemed normal
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theories emerged almost immediately
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about what happened to the two men some
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believe that Cody and Adams spotted an
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enemy submarine when they descended to
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investigate they were taken
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prisoner according to one rumor the
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pilots were involved in a lovers
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triangle with an unknown woman
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supposedly one killed the other during
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the flight and then fled when the blimp
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crashed Naval investigators came up with
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their own Theory they believe that one
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of the officers climbed out of the
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gondola to fix a mechanical problem and
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had some kind of trouble the second
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pilot came to his Aid and then both men
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fell
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overboard a year later Lieutenant Ernest
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Cody and inston Charles Adams were
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officially declared
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dead the blimp itself was repaired after
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the war it became this Goodyear blimp
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seen by millions at sporting events
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across the country few were aware that
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the Airship circling overhead was the
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infamous ghost
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blimp coming up there's someone in town
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who looks just like Jim boom Garden
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could he have a
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twin
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imagine that there's someone who looks
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walks and talks just like you well
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that's been a bizarre fact of life for
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Jim bomgarden Jim has been haunted for
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years by a mysterious double a man who
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seems to be everywhere or at least
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everywhere Jim is
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not baby the place is Rockford Illinois
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and the event is a regular Saturday
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morning company softball game
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third baseman Rick holder is coming up
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to bat when suddenly his brother-in-law
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Jim boomgarden who should be 20 miles
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away at home enters the game to pitch
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for the other
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team hey
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Jim Jim I would say hi Jim hello Jim and
00:26:17
I wasn't getting no response from the
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guy so I just thought you know after the
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game was over I'd go up and I'd talk to
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the guy hey
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Jim how Cindy and the kids he said the
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guy just kind of looked at him weird
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give him a funny look and turned around
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walked away from
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him 5 years later and just a few miles
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away Jim's father Ernie was leaving the
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doctor's office when he saw his son
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Jim my dad came after this guy and was
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yelling at him
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Jim
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this guy ignored him got into a car
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which he said was very similar to mine
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drove off and didn't even acknowledge
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Him now we had two people who knew me
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very well and they were both fooled
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especially my dad who reared me this guy
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fooled my
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dad he has to look almost identical to
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me Jim had been adopted when he was an
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infant by a loving family in Illinois
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his childhood was happy and uneventful
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except for one strange
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incident when Jim was 11 and visiting
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his adoptive grandparents he was
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approached by a group of neighborhood
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boys
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Billy you talking to me yeah do you want
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to play basketball with us my name isn't
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Billy what are you talking about it's
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not Billy my name is Jimmy it's Billy
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look if you don't call me by my right
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name I won't play basketball with
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you I couldn't understand if why they
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want me to play basketball so much and
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they wouldn't call me my by my name and
00:28:08
why they were making this name up I
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could not understand that Jim didn't
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think much of it after high school he
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joined the army returned home got
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married and had two
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children Jim says that many times people
00:28:22
that he didn't know seem to know him
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how's it going man I've Haven seen a
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long time what's going on not
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much I'll see you around okay and I've
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met a lot of people and there's no way
00:28:35
that you can remember every face you see
00:28:38
so I kind of brushed off as as nothing
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until some people would see me in places
00:28:45
that I I never was or I wasn't at that
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time finally the strangest of all the
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encounters took place at a mini Mark
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just five blocks from Jim's home Shirley
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hurling was behind the cash register
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pump number three I was working and this
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gentleman came in I assumed it was Jim
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no not today he looked like him he
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walked the same talked the same same
00:29:13
mannerisms I assumed it was
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Jim within minutes Jim and Cindy walk in
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do you forget something no why well you
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were just here a few minutes ago oh
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first time I've been here today and I
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looked over at said I said he's kidding
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right and she said no this is first time
00:29:31
he'd been out today and I said well then
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my god there was somebody that came and
00:29:35
look just like
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you if i' had been just 15 minutes
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earlier just maybe we could have ran
00:29:43
into each other as he was coming out and
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I was going in and met face to
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face the lady who was there said she saw
00:29:51
a man who looked exactly like Jim and
00:29:54
they're not 15 minutes ago she said it
00:29:56
could have been Jim twin 3 weeks later
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Jim's wife Cindy was visiting his
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adoptive grandmother Sophie she became
00:30:04
noticeably silent when Cindy told her
00:30:07
about the odd case of mistaken identity
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at the mini Mark what's wrong Sophie
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then revealed a family secret about
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Jim's
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adoption Jim's father Ernie who had
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since passed away told her that
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Jim had a twin brother Jim had a twin
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she said that Ernie didn't like keeping
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it a secret but yet he figured that you
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know if Jim had never known his brother
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he would never miss him I
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was
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excited you know all the
00:30:40
speculations are now true I am looking
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for a twin
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brother Jim obtained a family history
00:30:49
from the adoption agency and learned
00:30:51
that his birth mother had a nephew who
00:30:53
drowned at the age of 14 desperate for
00:30:57
the details Jim spent hours in the
00:30:59
library until he found the newspaper
00:31:01
story about the tragedy finally Jim had
00:31:05
a family name
00:31:09
heronimus Jim found a woman with that
00:31:11
last name living just 20 miles
00:31:15
away may I help you is your last name
00:31:17
aonomus oh yes I think we might be
00:31:21
related you don't have to tell me we're
00:31:23
related you look exactly like my brother
00:31:26
bud she was his aunt Myrtle his birth
00:31:30
mother's sister the mother of the boy
00:31:32
who had
00:31:33
drowned for the first time Jim saw a
00:31:36
picture of his mother Hazel and learned
00:31:39
that she had died just 3 years
00:31:42
earlier Myrtle told Jim that his mother
00:31:45
had cut herself off from the family and
00:31:47
that they had never known anything about
00:31:50
the birth of the
00:31:53
twins Hazel never told you about me and
00:31:56
my brother no she never said anything
00:32:00
about having had twin boys of course I I
00:32:03
knew about the little girl she had
00:32:05
little girl another bombshell not only
00:32:08
did Jim have a twin brother but he also
00:32:11
had an older sister now the mystery is
00:32:14
even harder now I got two to find
00:32:16
instead of one but I'm bound determin
00:32:18
I'm want to find him one way or the
00:32:26
other
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update after we aired this story Jim
00:32:31
tried to access his adoption
00:32:33
files a sympathetic judge agreed to
00:32:37
contact his sister's adoptive family and
00:32:40
tell them of Jim's search 47-year-old
00:32:43
Judy Sullivan learned for the first time
00:32:46
that she had a
00:32:48
brother Judy and Jim met the very next
00:32:51
day however Jim died a little more than
00:32:55
a year after their reunion
00:32:57
he had never met his twin
00:33:00
brother Jim's son James and Jim's sister
00:33:03
Judy would still like to find Jim's twin
00:33:06
or any other family
00:33:09
relatives Jim's twin brother whose first
00:33:11
name might be Billy was born in the
00:33:14
Salvation Army hospital Cook County
00:33:16
Illinois on March 29th
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1947 his brother was adopted by a family
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in Rochelle
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Illinois
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00:33:31
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coming up police in New Orleans hunt for
00:33:42
a brutal serial killer their best lead
00:33:45
is the woman that he left for
00:33:55
dead LA centa
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California we recently told you about
00:34:02
Diane hanline since her mid-40s Diane
00:34:06
has battled a rare and often fatal blood
00:34:08
disease Diane needed a bone marrow
00:34:11
transplant and only one person was a
00:34:14
potential
00:34:15
donor her younger sister Marilyn but
00:34:19
Diane had no idea where to find her bye
00:34:25
by years before when their parents
00:34:28
separated Marilyn went to live with
00:34:30
their father Diane stayed with their
00:34:33
mother over the next few years they saw
00:34:36
each other just a few times and then for
00:34:39
reasons long since forgotten the sisters
00:34:42
became
00:34:43
estranged I feel I'm asking a lot of my
00:34:46
sister to do this bone marrow for me but
00:34:49
even if she doesn't agree to a
00:34:51
transplant if she doesn't says I don't
00:34:53
want to do this I would still like to
00:34:55
make peace with her
00:35:00
update when we aired Diane Story a
00:35:03
private investigator named Robin Lee was
00:35:06
watching Robin was touched by Diane's
00:35:09
search and volunteered to help find
00:35:12
Marilyn I contacted the show got a
00:35:15
little more information started out with
00:35:18
the sister's name Marilyn Jones was her
00:35:20
ma name started with that and a date of
00:35:22
birth and went on from there and it took
00:35:26
me about days to find her Marilyn and
00:35:29
Diane finally met face to face for the
00:35:31
first time in 30
00:35:36
years it's so good to see
00:35:39
you once we hugged it was like it hadn't
00:35:43
been 30 years it had been just short
00:35:47
time I guess maybe that's why I feel
00:35:49
comfortable is because I can feel the
00:35:52
love and when you feel that love you
00:35:54
feel comfortable over you haven't
00:35:55
changed a bit know
00:35:58
you I think I'm still in shock you know
00:36:00
it's still like I don't you know I'm not
00:36:02
here yet it's just it's just a dream you
00:36:05
know but it's it's a great dream and we
00:36:07
have a lot of catching up to do and
00:36:09
we're going to have a lot of fun
00:36:10
together enjoy the time we have isn't
00:36:13
that
00:36:15
beautiful the day of the reunion just
00:36:18
happened to be Diane's birthday and
00:36:20
Marilyn had not
00:36:22
forgotten this is the best gift I've
00:36:24
ever had in my whole life is to have my
00:36:26
sister and to have my family for my
00:36:31
birthday it'll be the best birthday I've
00:36:33
ever had in my whole
00:36:36
life Marilyn hoped that she could be a
00:36:39
bone marrow donor for her sister but as
00:36:42
it turned out she was not a match sadly
00:36:45
a little more than a year after their
00:36:48
reunion Diane passed
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away New Orleans
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Louisiana one summer day across the
00:37:00
Mississippi River from the French quar a
00:37:02
lone recycler was collecting trash along
00:37:05
a deserted Road often used illegally as
00:37:07
a dump he was about to set off one of
00:37:10
the city's most complex murder
00:37:17
investigations the body was identified
00:37:20
as 17-year-old Danielle Brittain who
00:37:23
lived nearby with her mother she had
00:37:25
been strangled
00:37:27
and possibly
00:37:29
raped just 10 minutes into the
00:37:32
investigation detective Elizabeth wion's
00:37:35
instincts told her that she was dealing
00:37:37
with a serial killer I don't know if it
00:37:39
means anything or not a man approached
00:37:41
me regarding an attack of a woman which
00:37:43
had occurred approximately 2 weeks
00:37:48
earlier at this time I realized that
00:37:50
there was a possibility that this attack
00:37:52
and the murder of Danielle Britain could
00:37:54
be connected somehow with one strike
00:37:56
making difference that this victim has
00:37:59
survived her
00:38:02
attack assumed that I was dead in order
00:38:05
to leave me there the surviving victim
00:38:07
will'll call Brenda had her voice
00:38:09
permanently damaged in the strangulation
00:38:13
attempt police believe that she was
00:38:15
attacked by the same man who killed
00:38:17
Danielle Brittain Bren I need for you to
00:38:20
tell me as in as detail as possible what
00:38:22
happened that night Brenda was able to
00:38:25
clearly recall the attack in specific
00:38:28
detail started following me in his
00:38:31
car I was at my house and I decided that
00:38:34
I wanted to go and visit a friend of
00:38:37
mine say you need a ride no I'm okay I'm
00:38:39
just going so the man in the car got
00:38:42
side by side with me as I was walking
00:38:44
and ask me where I was going okay and I
00:38:47
kept on walking and he kept on insisting
00:38:49
that he could get me a ride to wherever
00:38:51
I was going and the car stopped and
00:38:54
before I knew it the man grabbed me and
00:38:55
put me into the the
00:39:00
car despite Brenda's protest the man
00:39:03
drove about a half a mile past her
00:39:05
friend's house to the same deserted Road
00:39:08
where Danielle's body would be found 2
00:39:10
weeks
00:39:12
later what are you
00:39:14
doing he on top me and began to choke
00:39:18
me he looked at me and I looked at him
00:39:21
and I realized this man was trying to
00:39:22
kill me I tried to fight him off but I I
00:39:26
couldn't I didn't have any
00:39:31
strength the killer strangled Brenda
00:39:33
with his bare hands stripped off her
00:39:35
clothes and dumped her body by the side
00:39:37
of the
00:39:40
road 6 hours later Brenda woke up and
00:39:44
found herself covered with garbage
00:39:47
finding Brenda had certainly been a
00:39:49
lucky break in this case we had now a
00:39:51
live victim who could identify an
00:39:53
attacker who could be responsible for
00:39:55
the murder of Daniel Britain I knew this
00:39:58
guy was out there stalking his victims I
00:40:00
had no idea it was going to get
00:40:03
worse about a month later the killer
00:40:06
attacked his third victim Charlene price
00:40:09
her body was dumped within one mile of
00:40:12
where Danielle was
00:40:14
found after another 3 months a fourth
00:40:17
victim was found in the same
00:40:20
area this is a sketch of that woman who
00:40:23
is still unidentified she was 5' 2 in
00:40:27
tall weighed 125 lb and had protruding
00:40:31
front
00:40:33
teeth only 2 and 1/2 Weeks passed before
00:40:36
the killer struck again the nude body of
00:40:40
29-year-old Lydia Madison was found in a
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different dumb site this one only eight
00:40:46
blocks from Police
00:40:48
Headquarters detective soon learned that
00:40:51
three other bodies had been found in a
00:40:53
nearby Town bringing the total number of
00:40:55
victims
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to8 these bodies closely resembled
00:41:03
bodies found in our investigation in
00:41:05
previous months leading me to believe
00:41:08
that the same killer may be responsible
00:41:11
for all these victims the killer always
00:41:14
strangled his victims and always left
00:41:16
them nude face down in or near illegal
00:41:19
dump sites seven of the eight women were
00:41:22
found within a 3M
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radius I'm still afraid because I still
00:41:28
don't know where this man is and I know
00:41:31
he knows me just like as well as I know
00:41:33
him with me it's more now like
00:41:37
I'm living in fear every minute or every
00:41:40
second of the day on the night that she
00:41:42
was murdered Danielle Britain was seen
00:41:44
with a man resembling Brenda's attacker
00:41:47
outside a local bar police are convinced
00:41:51
that he is the
00:41:53
killer the man was driving a blue late
00:41:55
model Buick Regal or Monte
00:41:58
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