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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 were about to see is not a news
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broadcast Nashville Tennessee in 1989 a
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young journalist covering the country
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music scene was gunned down to what
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seemed a shocking act of random violence
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some believed it was a contract hit ray
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Higginbotham was an army intelligence
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expert his top-secret assignment was
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breaking codes from behind the Iron
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Curtain suddenly without warning he
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vanished Eastern Connecticut a lonely
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country road last year a young woman
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driving to work was harassed by a
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mysterious assailant he then calmly and
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methodically shot her in the face also
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the poignant story of patty English who
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was born partially deaf Patty's
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childhood was a lonely and silent world
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brightened only by occasional visits
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from natural father
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now patty would like your help finding
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the father she is not seen in 17 years
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jointly perhaps you could help solve a
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mystery
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according to the Justice Department
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nearly half of all violent crimes in the
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United States is committed by a perfect
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stranger
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our next story focuses on a young woman
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whose peaceful life was shattered
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forever when she was caught in a
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horrifying game of cat and mouse with an
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unknown assailant on a lonely road still
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haunted by what happened she's asked to
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remain anonymous
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we'll call her Carol
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Monday August 22nd 1988 Carroll drove to
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work along Bremen Hollow Road
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a quiet two-lane highway that passes
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through the rolling countryside of
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Eastern Connecticut Carroll was employed
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as a social worker at a hospital in
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nearby puttan where she counseled
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depressed mentally ill patients she had
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been using Bremen Hollow Road as a
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shortcut for more than a year this
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morning Carol found herself running 30
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minutes late the road I took that
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morning was my normal Road in the way
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that I always go to work sometimes I
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think I was at the wrong place at the
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wrong time
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you know why me I didn't do anything
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wrong
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as I was driving I all of a sudden
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became a black truck that was in front
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of me it was driving very slow so I
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slowed up right behind it as Carole
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followed the pickup it began to behave
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in a bizarre fashion speeding up and
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slowing down erratically crossing the
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center line as if out of control
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Carroll began a census something was
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clearly wrong
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shortly after that he stopped the truck
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in front I can see it all happening in
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slow motion he just slid out of his
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truck and I realized he had a gun in his
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hand
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I can remember seconds after it happened
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that I was gonna die
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I just felt or heard a rushing in my
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ears and then I heard the radio on and I
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knew that I wasn't gonna die
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so my next thought was I'm paralyzed but
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I moved my feet and kicked off my shoes
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it was like it wasn't a dream that it
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wasn't really happening the way it was
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Carol was semi-conscious she could hear
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the few cars that passed by but was
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unable to signal for help
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because she was slumped across the front
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seat she was out of the view of the
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other drivers a few minutes elapsed
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before a utility servicemen built by
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from his elevated cab he was able to see
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into Carol's car
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the man immediately summoned medical
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assistants detectives also arrived
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within minutes
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Carroll was near death she had already
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lost two pints of blood
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from the beginning police viewed this
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case as an impending homicide they knew
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they were racing against time to get
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crucial information can you hear me
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I'm detective Turner I'm with the State
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Police we want to find out what happened
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to you today what I'd like you to do is
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I want you to blink your eyes once for
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yes and twice for no do you know the
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person who shot you
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was this person driving in a vehicle
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it was the person driving in a car
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was it a truck
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slowly but carefully police are able to
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piece together in an accurate
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description a suspect and his vehicle
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Carroll was barely clinging to life and
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she reached the emergency one but bullet
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tore through her face about two inches
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below her left eye her carotid artery
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had been severed paralyzing her left
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vocal cord police would later determine
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that the assailant was just ten feet
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away when he pulled the trigger
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immediately following the shooting we
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had troopers and detectives on Bremen
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Hollow Road in all the main
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intersections looking for both the
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suspect vehicle and also a vehicle
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similar in style to the one driven by
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the victim
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two drivers told police that in the hour
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prior to the shooting a black pickup
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truck had pulled on and off the highway
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repeatedly taunting other motorists
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it's entirely possible that all of the
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incidents are related it was the same
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black pickup truck involved in all these
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incidents
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with the traffic
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a careful check was run on Carol's
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background including her current and
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former patients doing the background
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investigation on our victim she had no
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enemies that she was aware of we weren't
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able to find anything either it appears
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that it's a totally random shooting and
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the victim just happened to be the next
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motorist to encounter this this fell on
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Raymond Hollow Road the investigation
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then focused on finding the black pickup
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truck police learned there were more
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than 300-thousand trucks in connecticut
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that fit the description of the
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suspect's vehicle investigators checked
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auto body shops garages and gas stations
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throughout the state they found nothing
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the vehicle is described as a
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well-maintained black stepside pickup
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truck it had flared fenders standard
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with Blackwall tires and shiny plain
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wheel covers it's the general feeling of
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investigators that the suspect is still
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out in the area still going to work
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still go into the same gas station he's
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just your average citizen who for
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whatever reason on this particular
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Monday morning either under the
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influence or angry we just don't know
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what provoked him to do this three
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months later Carol's condition that
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improved dramatically but she was left
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with a grim physical reminder of the
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incident
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the bullet that pierced carol's cheek is
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still lodged in the back of her neck
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close to her spine
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at first I thought about the bullet
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being in me every day
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I have wanting it out and not being in
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me I'm afraid that if I do go through an
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operation that something may go wrong
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and it could be worse so I will just
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leave the bullet in me until there's
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complications or pain we have a
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motiveless crime at this point we're not
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able to determine any particular reason
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why this gentleman would get out of his
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truck and without any provocation shoot
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the only other person face into it so
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very quickly and leave the girl for dead
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we don't have any idea why someone would
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do that
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I think of it everyday especially when I
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look in the mirror and I see the scars
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and think about the incident that I'm
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afraid and I'm also angry that this
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happened to me and that he's still out
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there and maybe leading his normal life
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without any cares to what happened to my
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life
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the suspect is a white male between 26
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and 32 years of age he is approximately
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5 feet 10 inches tall of medium build
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with brown curly hair covering his ears
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next the story of Carol Saltzman an
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investigator who has reunited dozens of
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families with their lost loved ones but
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carol has been searching for her own
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father for over 40 years
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between May and September of 1945 a
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jubilant spirit reigned in the United
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States American GI is justifiably hailed
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as conquering heroes and finally begun
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coming home from World War two by the
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thousands they around
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rushed for the optimism of victory the
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Welcome of ticker tape parades and open
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avenues
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one of the returning soldiers is
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lieutenant ray Hickey bottom a decorated
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war hero he was assigned to Army
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Intelligence and settle down with his
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wife Dorothy and three-year-old daughter
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Carolyn at the Vint Hill Farm Army
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stationed outside Arlington Virginia my
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memory was one of a kind of magical
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summer it was the first time I had a dad
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at home and my mom there there was just
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a lot of fun a lot of time for the
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family to be together
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in no time the jubilant would a victory
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faded and an era of fear and suspicion
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began Stalin and communist Russia our
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valiant Allies in 1945 were our deadly
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enemies by 1947
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a senior Vint Hill Farm station served
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as headquarters for Ray hicking bottoms
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army intelligence unit the station house
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a top-secret radio operation it is
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believed that Ray was part of a select
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group of expert code breakers who
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monitored radio communications from
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behind the newly created Iron Curtain
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Cold War had begun that's a good ol sir
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Joe you're sitting at a desk you're not
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mobile you can't get up I've seen them
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scream sometimes and in just the
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physical frustration yeah you know this
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and it's just you know trying to
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ventilate the frustration while they
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continue plotting away with this boring
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but potentially incredibly fascinating
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job this just came in over the channel
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in less than a year the Central
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Intelligence Agency would be created and
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the group Advent Hill farm would be
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absorbed into the CIA sweetie daddy's at
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work tonight you know he can't always be
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here but that doesn't mean he doesn't
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love you ray found himself working long
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hard hours the work at Vint Hill farm
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took more and more time away from his
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family
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be back to pick me up at 3:00 in late
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summer of 1947 ray was transferred to
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another top-secret group at the
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arlington hall intelligence station he
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did not tell Dorothy about the new
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assignment Cisse watch what I can do
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right yes very good
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right can you give some attention to
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your daughter my mother was worried
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because he seemed so tired I'm so
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uptight
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he became very tense and it became worse
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it just got worse and worse ray Dorothy
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I don't want to drag you and Carol into
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my problems at work ray that's what
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we're here for we're a family ray I just
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want to talk to you three weeks later
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Dorothy took Carol to Long Island for a
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two-week visit with her grandparents
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when Dorothy tried to phone Ray at their
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event Hill Farm apartment she was given
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the surprising news that he had gone on
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leave what
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that her former neighbor at the army
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station discovered that a moving crew
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had suddenly appeared at Dorothy and
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Ray's apartment what's going on here
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it's official army business ma'am that's
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all I can tell you okay go ahead and get
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this chair and take it out to the truck
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my mother received a phone call from the
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downstairs neighbor another officer's
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wife if she said to my mother
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there are movers upstairs packers from
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the government packing up your things
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and taking them out of your apartment
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what is happening and my mother was just
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frantic because she didn't know what to
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make of this
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indeed military authorities had emptied
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ray and Dorothy's apartment without a
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word of explanation
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two weeks later moving van showed up at
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Dorothy's parents house on Long Island
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in the boxes and trucks there was not
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one single item belonging to ray no
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pictures no letters no writing enough It
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was as though he had been purged from
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our lives as though he was completely
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gone and wiped out and my mother just
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didn't know what to make of it
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a month then a man claiming to be from
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the Army visited Dorothy on Long Island
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he brought shocking news about ray well
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this is all I know
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on October 14 1947 he was listed as AWOL
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30 days later he was dropped from the
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military roles and classified as a
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deserter captain did you know my husband
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well if you did I think you would agree
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he could never be classified as a
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deserter I want to know what's really
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going on here I'd like to be able to
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tell you but I'm not at liberty to
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discuss the matter any further thanks
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for the coffee
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look I don't want to have to be the one
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to tell you this because Ray's been
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classified as a deserter you and Carol
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have lost all your military benefits
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look I have my px card could I take you
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over to the post get some groceries
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something thank you but that won't be
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necessary
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goodbye
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Dorothy later tried to get in touch with
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a mysterious visitor the army said they
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had never heard of it
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my mother was alone she was frightened
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and she was afraid something terrible
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had happened to my father
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perhaps he found overseas and been
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killed in the line of duty she could not
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comprehend that he would just disappear
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she really thought the government was
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withholding information from her it is
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absolutely not
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total paranoia to wonder if the CIA or
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another intelligence branch had
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something to do with his disappearance
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just sitting right here in my own
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experience which didn't include that
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wild era of intelligence I can think of
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a half-dozen cases where people you know
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there were that weird things like that
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happened where the family was not told
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the truth and the loved one did
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disappear or or died and they weren't
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told how they died Ray Higginbotham was
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considered a deserter and was in
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disgrace
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Carol and her mother struggled to make
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ends meet Carol grew up married and
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moved to Oklahoma where she lives today
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ironically Carol's search for her father
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developed into a career she is a private
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investigator specializing in reuniting
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lost families Carol has hundreds of
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grateful clients most the people I deal
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with our children looking for parents
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have been either separated by divorce or
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who were never married to the other
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parent in the picture and they want to
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create a family relationship but I have
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found brothers and sisters I have found
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grandparents I have found boyfriends and
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girlfriends even an old teacher the most
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satisfying thing for me is when someone
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tells me I feel good for the first time
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in many years this pain that I felt from
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separation is relieved and I feel like
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I've accomplished something and I've
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overcome situations that have built up
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over the years but I also feel a sense
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of sadness because I can't do it for
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myself
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Carol has never given up on her own
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search she requested a copy of her
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father's military records under the 1971
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Freedom of Information Act in the summer
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of 1979 the documents finally arrived as
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I look through the material that I
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received I began to get a picture of
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someone very special someone very highly
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trained someone who had performed to the
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at the top level and I came to believe
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that this was a man who would not just
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disappear
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one of the documents revealed that there
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had been no investigation requested by
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the army into my father's disappearance
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that the FBI had never been brought into
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the act at all and that appeared to be
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very strange to us that a highly trained
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highly cleared officer could disappear
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for off the face of the earth and no one
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went looking for him after 25 years of
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butting heads with a government
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bureaucracy Carroll finally went to the
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media a newspaper article about Carol
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and her missing father appeared in the
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local Arlington newspaper three hours
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later she received an intriguing
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telephone call but Carter identified
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himself by a coated Archangel he was
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using a car phone but would not reveal
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his exact location he said that my
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article had really rattled cages at the
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CIA and then it really shook people up
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those were his words
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in August of 47 an attempt was made in
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his life his superior decided to bury
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who is he's you to drop out 20 years ago
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thanks were different the man calling
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himself archangel told Carol and her
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father was not a deserter because Ray's
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life had been in danger a paper trail
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has been created to cover his
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disappearance time he was a few miles
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from arlington archangel revealed the
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astounding news that for nearly a year
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ray Hickenbottom had lived only three
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miles away from Carol and her mother
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hidden by the government in the suburbs
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of Washington DC where is he now your
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father is still alive his name is Nelson
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he lives in a NATO country where there
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are high mountains that's all I can say
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look I have to get off goodbye
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when I hung up the phone I felt very
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drained maybe he was a jokester or con
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artist maybe he was gonna call back and
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want money I just didn't know what to
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believe but there was a part of me that
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kept saying my dad's alive there's a
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chance Carole never heard from a
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mysterious caller again but she and her
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son Ian have never stopped trying to
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decipher archangels clue it's crystal
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clear Lake's
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it is possible that my father chose to
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follow his prayer and that that was what
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he wanted above all else including
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myself and our family and that's very
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painful I have compassion for a young
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man who may have made a wrong choice we
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all make wrong choices and I want my
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father to know that we love him and that
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it's it's forgotten we just want the
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pain of not having him to end tonight an
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unusual update concerning a case
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featured last season on unsolved
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mysteries gary golf who's been charged
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with first degree murder in the brutal
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shooting death of an arkansas man was to
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make a personal plea to his former lover
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and ledged accomplice to turn herself in
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on the night of October 19th 1986 39
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year-old Charlie Sigmund showed up at
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the home of his estranged wife an r/a
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boyfriend Gary Goff according to an
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Charlie arrived in a drunken rage and
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forced his way into the house
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once inside and claims that shadi began
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to beat her severely then Gary Goff came
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to a rescue despite a broken arm
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Gary fought with Charlie then shot him
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seven times
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Charlie died before police arrived
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during interrogation by the police and
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and Gary claimed that the shooting was
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in self-defense no charges were filed
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and they were released suspicious of an
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and Gary story authorities continue to
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investigate the shooting they wired one
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of Anne's friends for sound I will wait
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until tomorrow and then she in talking
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with misstatement and told her she was
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fixing to go to the police
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miss Sigmund ultimately told her not to
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go to the police or ask her not to go to
00:24:22
the police and give her time to her in
00:24:24
the mr. Goff time to leave town
00:24:27
she incriminate herself on the tape
00:24:30
authorities issued a ward for Anne and
00:24:32
Gary's arrest but before they could
00:24:34
serve it a couple disappeared
00:24:38
on May 22nd 1989 Harry Gough voluntarily
00:24:43
surrendered pema Scott County Sherriff's
00:24:45
on the charge of first-degree murder
00:24:46
Goff is currently being held at the Pema
00:24:49
Scott County Jail where tonight he wants
00:24:51
to make a personal appeal to an Sigmund
00:24:53
I would like for Han to turn herself in
00:24:58
and try to get this straight now and all
00:25:02
I ask to do is come back and tell the
00:25:03
truth that's what's got to come out the
00:25:05
truth whatever it is and I need some
00:25:08
help because I don't know everything it
00:25:10
went on that night and the only way I'll
00:25:12
ever know was financed
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[Music]
00:25:29
[Music]
00:25:40
Nashville Tennessee country is a capital
00:25:44
of the world
00:25:45
each year millions of fans flocked to
00:25:48
the city to see and hear their favorite
00:25:49
performers the music business also
00:25:54
attracts a host of aspiring stars
00:25:55
looking for a foothold in the music
00:26:00
Nashville is like dreamland you know
00:26:03
people have these big fantasies and
00:26:05
everyday people come here just to make
00:26:08
their fantasy or their dream come true
00:26:10
and a lot of those people sacrifice you
00:26:13
know their whole life savings they'll
00:26:14
spend their entire life savings
00:26:17
everything they've got on that dream
00:26:21
like thousands before him 23-year old
00:26:24
Kevin Hughes came to Nashville with
00:26:26
dreams of making it big in the business
00:26:28
side of the music industry but just
00:26:31
after Kevin began to establish himself
00:26:33
in the Nashville music scene
00:26:36
his leaves came to a violent end
00:26:41
I'll talk to you next week in 1986 Kevin
00:26:45
left college to become the director of
00:26:47
cashbox Magazine's top 100 Country and
00:26:49
Western chart for Kevin it was a chance
00:26:53
of a lifetime
00:26:54
a couple hours late great school he
00:27:02
started listening to music and started
00:27:04
buying the magazines we'd have to go and
00:27:06
pick up billboards about 40 miles away
00:27:08
because we couldn't get them where we
00:27:10
lived and he always read the billboards
00:27:14
and even we make up his own charts and
00:27:16
that type of thing as chart director
00:27:21
Kevin received playlist reports each
00:27:23
week from radio stations across the
00:27:25
country
00:27:26
based on these reports he would rank
00:27:28
records from 1 to 100 according to their
00:27:30
popularity a high position and one of
00:27:33
these charts can be very influential to
00:27:35
the career of a new artist it was a lot
00:27:38
of work it's a lot of work and in my
00:27:41
tenure as a promoter I've been through
00:27:44
probably 12 15 maybe even more chart
00:27:48
directors and he was probably overall
00:27:55
not only the best but the most fair yeah
00:27:59
I'll just leave the front door unlocked
00:28:01
he was real rare for any and just any
00:28:03
type of business not just music business
00:28:05
he was just very kind and very religious
00:28:09
and just a Christian on the way around
00:28:12
he's very honest and trustworthy and
00:28:14
loyal and and he loved his job and so he
00:28:17
put in you know dozens of hours after
00:28:20
hours
00:28:21
you know after five o'clock he was here
00:28:22
you know several nights a week working
00:28:24
on the chart till 9 or 10 o'clock at
00:28:26
night
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[Music]
00:28:29
on the night of Thursday March 9th after
00:28:31
nearly a year on the job Kevin was once
00:28:33
again working late making the final
00:28:35
adjustments for that week's chart
00:28:37
[Music]
00:28:41
come on a man's unlocked that evening
00:28:45
Kevin's friend Sammy Sadler an aspiring
00:28:47
singer-songwriter dropped by to say
00:28:49
hello okay yeah right
00:28:53
working hard yeah in a long day how much
00:28:58
longer you think you'll be working I can
00:29:00
go I can finish this up tomorrow
00:29:02
it can suggest the two young men left
00:29:05
the office at approximately 8:30 p.m. to
00:29:08
go to a nearby restaurant for dinner
00:29:12
[Music]
00:29:13
after dinner Kevin insanity late none
00:29:16
plans stopped at Evergreen records the
00:29:18
company or semi would said you could use
00:29:20
the phone you know we would have started
00:29:27
having a good time I mean you know we
00:29:29
didn't know that we were going to eat I
00:29:30
didn't know I was going to eat when I
00:29:31
got down there we didn't know we was
00:29:33
gonna stop by evergreen it just popped
00:29:34
in our head you know he popped in his
00:29:36
head let's go eat and I just wanted to
00:29:38
use the phone to call my parents we come
00:29:45
into Evergreen and we didn't hear about
00:29:48
I would say approximately 10 minutes mom
00:29:52
hey he doing I was using a phone and
00:29:57
while I was on the phone I heard
00:29:58
something around the door what was that
00:30:02
I don't know check it out
00:30:05
[Music]
00:30:07
so Kevin got up and walked out into the
00:30:10
front I don't know where he looked out
00:30:11
the front door the other side window
00:30:14
[Applause]
00:30:16
[Music]
00:30:20
and when he come back in I just said
00:30:23
what was and he said well it looked like
00:30:24
a black guy but I'm not for certain he
00:30:26
said I really couldn't tell and that's
00:30:29
when I said well I told my mother I said
00:30:31
we'll call you later I said we're gonna
00:30:32
go on home you know maybe if I'd have
00:30:37
been alone down here maybe something
00:30:38
when it's you know sparked in my head
00:30:40
that something was wrong or you know
00:30:43
that something wasn't right but I had
00:30:45
you know I was with somebody and I mean
00:30:49
never in a million years do you think
00:30:51
you're gonna get shot how's it good
00:30:56
man a guy he would he went away he's
00:30:59
gone you know you kind of used to get up
00:31:01
feeling inside you if somebody's behind
00:31:03
you're walking up to you or something
00:31:05
and I never got that fader we are yeah
00:31:08
we're out but eight strange and even
00:31:12
when we was walking across the street I
00:31:13
turned around and looked behind us and I
00:31:16
didn't see anything so I walked in front
00:31:20
of Kevin's car and open the door and sit
00:31:22
down as soon as I sit down and started
00:31:23
reached for the door that was a guy on
00:31:25
the sidewalk and that's when he shot
00:31:43
[Music]
00:31:48
Sammy Sadler survived the brutal attack
00:31:51
despite a bullet December 2 major artery
00:31:54
in his arm
00:31:56
Kevin Hughes was shot three times two of
00:31:59
the bullets entered the back of his head
00:32:00
he was dead when police arrived at the
00:32:03
scene we have no motive
00:32:07
we have no suspect we have no no solid
00:32:12
witnesses even though we have five
00:32:14
people that witness this we have none
00:32:16
that can tell us what the suspect looked
00:32:19
like the next day rumors began to
00:32:23
circulate through Nashville that Kevin's
00:32:25
murder was a professional hit some
00:32:28
people in the music industry and media
00:32:29
speculated that Kevin had either been
00:32:31
mixed up in or had refused to
00:32:33
participate in a chart manipulation
00:32:35
scheme on a surface it looks like a
00:32:39
pretty good theory that Kevin was in a
00:32:41
position to make a number 100 song so he
00:32:43
couldn't make it number five well the
00:32:45
the charts could be padded and in Kevin
00:32:47
if he was taking money from somebody
00:32:50
from a promoter or whoever from the
00:32:51
singer he could in theory push it this
00:32:54
person is recognized but we found no
00:32:56
evidence of that Kevin was not involved
00:32:58
in that he was not the type of person to
00:32:59
be involved in that if he was involved
00:33:01
in something and he didn't want to
00:33:02
participate a phone call could be made
00:33:05
and he could be fired or he could be
00:33:07
terminated for but why kill him his job
00:33:10
wasn't that important to be killed for
00:33:11
that's what we've determined if it's a
00:33:15
professional hit why do it with a
00:33:17
witness there was Sammy Sadler there if
00:33:19
Sammy wasn't the target
00:33:20
why even include Sammy why not wait
00:33:22
until Kevin was alone
00:33:27
a second theory is that Sammy and Kevin
00:33:30
were the tragic victims of a robbery
00:33:31
gone wrong
00:33:33
happen to be a robbery when nothing has
00:33:36
ever spoken and the shooter chased Kevin
00:33:38
down and killed and made it a point to
00:33:40
make sure he was dead even after he'd
00:33:46
shot Kevin twice in the head he never
00:33:48
once made any attempt to take any money
00:33:50
from Kevin he ran away as soon as he
00:33:52
fired the shots you're up three but
00:33:55
you're gonna lose a bullet this week
00:33:56
another Theory connected to Kevin's work
00:33:59
is that he may have been the target of
00:34:01
an angry manager or performer with a
00:34:03
misguided grudge I just do what radio
00:34:05
tells me to do I got no control over it
00:34:09
that's might be a person didn't
00:34:11
understand that maybe blame Kevin for
00:34:14
the failure because he wrote a song and
00:34:17
it didn't become successful and he
00:34:18
needed somebody to blame
00:34:20
I could say that could be a theory but
00:34:23
that's the only way that I would ever
00:34:24
believe that it was music related if you
00:34:27
want to call that music related I don't
00:34:32
for Sammy Sadler the nightmare that
00:34:34
began on that cold spring night
00:34:36
continues
00:34:38
[Music]
00:34:41
he has undergone surgery on his right
00:34:43
arm and may need more to repair nerve
00:34:45
damage caused by the assailants bullet
00:34:48
[Music]
00:34:49
although he continues to pursue a
00:34:52
singing career he has been unable to
00:34:54
play the guitar since being a shot you
00:35:00
know I would like to know why because I
00:35:02
don't know why I don't know who or why I
00:35:05
mean I can sit here and talk about it
00:35:07
now you know then you know I couldn't
00:35:09
but it still hurts you know you can't
00:35:16
bring you back I just hope you know I
00:35:20
hope that this helps solve the case
00:35:22
because nobody knows nobody understands
00:35:25
one one possible clue to the gunman's
00:35:30
identity is a baseball camp found near
00:35:33
Kevin Hughes body the night of his
00:35:34
murder it bears the inscription World
00:35:37
War two veteran and damn proud of it as
00:35:39
well as a drawing of a Combat
00:35:40
Infantryman police theorize that it may
00:35:43
have fallen from the killer's coat as he
00:35:45
leaned over Kevin and fired the fatal
00:35:46
shots they have been unable to locate
00:35:48
the owner or manufacture
00:36:07
next a story of a woman who has been
00:36:09
partially deaf since birth
00:36:11
and was to reunite with her father she
00:36:13
has not seen for 17 years
00:36:16
[Music]
00:36:25
unsolved mysteries is broadcast in a
00:36:27
closed caption version so that the
00:36:29
hearing-impaired may also participate
00:36:31
recently we received this letter from a
00:36:33
woman named patty English partially deaf
00:36:36
since birth patty asked for our help and
00:36:38
locating her father whom she'd not seen
00:36:40
for 17 years in her touching letter
00:36:42
patty writes I want to hold my dad so
00:36:46
much I remember his feeling love and
00:36:49
kindness with your help tonight Patty's
00:36:53
wish may come true
00:36:55
[Music]
00:36:57
when Paddy's mother brought her new baby
00:37:00
girl home from the hospital on Christmas
00:37:01
Day of 1958 patty was already a victim
00:37:05
of circumstance
00:37:07
her mother Helen was just 17 years old
00:37:10
and pregnant when she married 21 year
00:37:12
old Robert Wilson Miller the couple
00:37:15
separated before patty was born Patty's
00:37:17
premature birth was responsible for her
00:37:19
deafness I was a tiny baby my mother
00:37:24
carried me only six months but they
00:37:27
thought I'll never make it and but I
00:37:30
make it the day patty was brought home
00:37:36
her father had reappeared with a crib in
00:37:38
a beautiful white dress
00:37:40
hi Helen how you doing hello
00:37:43
Robert I got some presents for the baby
00:37:46
that was good hey can I hold her she's
00:37:52
your daughter
00:37:53
[Music]
00:38:01
sadly the marriage was doomed and a
00:38:03
couple divorce within weeks of Patty's
00:38:05
birth
00:38:05
[Music]
00:38:08
Patty's mother eventually remarried and
00:38:11
Patty spent her early childhood assuming
00:38:13
that her mother's new husband was her
00:38:15
real father
00:38:19
patty
00:38:20
one day when she was 5 years old patty
00:38:23
saw a strange man at her door I'm a
00:38:26
Robert Wilson Miller yeah
00:38:32
fell on home nope can I see Patti nope
00:38:38
patty was unable to hear what they said
00:38:40
but through lip-reading she was able to
00:38:42
get the gist of their conversation she's
00:38:45
my kid I want you to relive what he is
00:38:48
saying and it's hard for me
00:38:50
understanding what he's talking about
00:38:55
got blue minutes Betty he said I have to
00:38:59
write to Steen her because she's my
00:39:02
daughter
00:39:03
and he talked real nice and the real
00:39:06
friendly
00:39:07
and I really like this man you're such a
00:39:10
big girl
00:39:12
you know the last time I held you
00:39:16
I'm just a baby you may not understand
00:39:20
this okay
00:39:22
I'm your daddy
00:39:25
time's up pal by the time a stranger
00:39:30
left paddy was bewildered my stepfather
00:39:34
said he's not your father and I'm your
00:39:37
father and I didn't know what's
00:39:40
happening then that time as the years
00:39:45
went by
00:39:46
paddy remembers enduring the pain of
00:39:48
separation on the loneliness of growing
00:39:50
up unloved hi can I help you I'm Robert
00:39:55
Wilson Miller we spoke earlier about oh
00:39:58
this is my wife but in 1971 when patty
00:40:01
was 12 her father found her again her
00:40:03
junior high school allowed him into the
00:40:05
classroom to see his child
00:40:07
[Music]
00:40:11
I patty how are you
00:40:16
do you remember me
00:40:21
Patty's father had hoped that his
00:40:23
daughter would recognize him but patty
00:40:24
was confused I'll see you again someday
00:40:32
I have a dreams feeling he's so good to
00:40:37
me he hugged me and kissed my forehead
00:40:39
and he started crying and his wife start
00:40:44
come floor put his arm around him and I
00:40:46
feel that he cares my mother and my
00:40:51
father never give me a hug and I want
00:40:53
their tation their loves but never had
00:40:57
one from them when I was the kid
00:41:00
patty he is your real father when patty
00:41:06
finally realized who the man was she ran
00:41:08
after him I found out that he's my
00:41:12
really father because I had the feeling
00:41:14
warmth daily from him and I know then
00:41:17
he's my dad
00:41:23
and I come out and I saw HIPPA car going
00:41:26
out of the parking lot and I thought way
00:41:28
that I might think dad don't go
00:41:31
- lake elect
00:41:32
[Music]
00:41:44
I cry in the pain and all this nightmare
00:41:50
I ever had and I really want my dad
00:41:54
Patti remembers enduring a traumatic
00:41:57
adolescence and finally at the age of 14
00:41:59
ran away from home and ended up in a
00:42:01
shelter I was sitting by the window
00:42:05
looks out
00:42:07
I was thinking about my past live
00:42:11
terrible things in my mind
00:42:15
at the shelter a social worker took an
00:42:18
interest in Patty's case and after
00:42:20
calling every Robert Miller in the phone
00:42:22
book finally located Patty's father he
00:42:25
arrived and heard his daughter's sad
00:42:27
story he explained that he would call a
00:42:35
lawyer but a few days later patty was
00:42:38
sent back home to her mother and
00:42:39
stepfather
00:42:40
[Music]
00:42:48
her father had promised to visit Patty
00:42:50
and for an agonizing week after coming
00:42:53
home from the shelter Patty waited for
00:42:54
him to arrive my stepfather had the
00:43:06
hammer with him and he come up to my
00:43:09
natural father and I thought oh no
00:43:11
please don't go please don't go I want
00:43:14
patty to come with us she's not going
00:43:15
anywhere I don't want any trouble but we
00:43:17
talked to her at the shelter and we
00:43:19
spoke to a lawyer get out of here and he
00:43:22
laughs I mean he looks at me at the
00:43:24
storm door and then it was sad it was
00:43:29
and he left
00:43:32
[Music]
00:43:35
get out stairs
00:43:37
so I ran in my bedroom cries I cried to
00:43:40
cry then I went up to the window and I
00:43:43
looked to say my prayer I thank God
00:43:46
please break him back I need him I love
00:43:51
him
00:43:52
Patti never saw her father again
00:43:54
she believes that he was blocked from
00:43:56
visiting by legal action and feels
00:43:58
certain that he would have taken her if
00:44:00
it was possible
00:44:04
fortunately as Patti grew into an adult
00:44:07
her life began to improve after meeting
00:44:10
her husband James in 1977 she soon began
00:44:13
to raise her own family though her
00:44:16
husband is also dead their two children
00:44:18
can hear perfectly and they have grown
00:44:20
up in an atmosphere of love and
00:44:22
affection
00:44:22
[Music]
00:44:25
today patty was to find her real father
00:44:28
and introduce him to the husband she
00:44:30
loves and the grandchildren she is so
00:44:32
proud to have brought into the world I'm
00:44:35
happy with my marriage
00:44:37
I'm happy with my children and I really
00:44:41
want my dad and I hope I could see him
00:44:45
again
00:44:46
it'd be rejoicing just minutes after her
00:44:51
story air patty received a surprise
00:44:53
phone call from one of our viewers her
00:44:55
half-sister who's also named patty two
00:44:58
days later
00:44:58
Patty and her father met for the first
00:45:00
time in more than 17 years
00:45:05
[Music]
00:45:10
I first met dad I was really crying and
00:45:15
we were hugging we were crying and it
00:45:19
was good who's it
00:45:24
just a beautiful filling you know just
00:45:26
it's sad but it's beautiful you just
00:45:30
just choked up you you know you heard me
00:45:32
inside and everything it was just it was
00:45:35
just wonderful you know it's a lot of
00:45:37
years we got a lot of catching up to do
00:45:41
the patties of the union with her father
00:45:44
marked the beginning of a new chapter in
00:45:46
her life one of love fulfillment and
00:45:49
family LD tears in my heart I feel that
00:45:55
I'm still his daughter and I know I'm
00:45:57
still your daughter and I want to have
00:46:01
it like a chance of life like a chance
00:46:03
of family and I'm very excited I'm very
00:46:07
grateful
00:46:08
[Music]
00:46:16
join me next week for another edition on
00:46:19
the song mysteries
00:46:25
[Music]
00:46:47
[Applause]
00:46:50
[Music]
