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Chicago the 1930s notorious mobster Al
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Capone ruled the city until a young
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Treasury agent named Eliot Ness brought
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down his empires leader of the immortal
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crime busting unit The Untouchables
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but after his success in Chicago Eliot
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Ness encountered the one criminal he
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could not bring to justice a fiendish
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serial killer who may have claimed as
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many as 30 victims join us for the
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special segment Eliot Ness is unsolved
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mystery
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also the controversial murder case of
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prison reformer Michael Frankie shortly
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before he died Frankie began to collect
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information about corruption in the
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Oregon prison system in 1989 he was
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found stabbed to death just outside his
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office did someone want Michael Frankie
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silenced permanently in September 1989
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three month old Ryan Stallings was
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hospitalized in critical condition the
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apparent victim of poisoning three days
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later Ryan died his mother Patty
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Stallings was charged with murder and
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subsequently convicted Patty and her
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husband insists that Ryan died from a
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rare genetic disorder which now plays
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their second child the prosecutor
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however maintains that she is guilty
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join me as we examine this controversial
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case the final appeal of patty stories
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Chicago 1929
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prohibition was the law of the land with
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alcohol illegal speakeasies sprung up on
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every street corner in every alleyway
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bootlegging and police corruption were
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rampant
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an aggressive 26 year old Treasury agent
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was hired to smash the gangland rackets
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that gripped the city his name Eliot
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Ness
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after crushing Capone in Chicago Eliot
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Ness became one of the most respected
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lawmen in the country but I portrayed
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Ness on television I learned that like
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many well-known figures it was a secret
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private side to his public persona
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those who knew him agreed that his iron
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will quiet countless cloaked a fearless
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determination to wipe out corruption but
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he is also a man who was not above
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bending the law himself to bring a
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criminal to justice
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after the Untouchables Ness went on to
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encounter the one case he could not
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crack a case which would haunt him for
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the rest of his life
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September 1934
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Eliot Ness came to Cleveland Ohio it was
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public safety position comparable to a
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modern day police commission treatment
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police cross one nessa ride cleveland
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was a known safe haven for gangsters and
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street from over the next year arrests
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went up and crime went down
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but there was another evil afoot in the
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city which would soon overshadow neces
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primary mandate
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to boys playing in Kingsbury run come
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across these two bodies both decapitated
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in September of 1935 the mutilated
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bodies of two men were found in
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Kingsbury run a slum district swarming
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with hobos prostitutes and street toughs
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each person will give at the time the
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case was dismissed as a vicious but
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routine double homicide
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by the summer of 1936 three more parties
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had been found the discovery of a sixth
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victim that form through Cleveland into
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an uproar mr. Ness boy's been found
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under the bridge two kids found it
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runners been here nothing's been moved
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it's been here about five hours when
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number six turned up it was like a
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bombshell going on the city really
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exploded the press and and the public
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now had no doubts that there was a
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serial killer out there that this
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individual was gonna keep killing and
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they wanted it stopped
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the body count in the king is very run
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area would eventually reach 12 as many
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as 18 other murderers in Greater
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Cleveland were thought to be connected
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to the case
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the killer primarily stalked society's
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outcasts and Vegas men as well as men
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and fell prey only two of the victims
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rather positively identified Edward and
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racy a small-time hood and Florence
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Palillo a 41 year old prostitute
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all the victims had been decapitated in
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some cases while they were still alive
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five were found floating in water the
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blood drained completely out of their
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bodies the tabloids dubbed the killer
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the butcher of Kings Barry run and the
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torso Slayer
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found a body here late this morning the
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arms and legs haven't cut off scene of
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the crime the minister looking into
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capital yes sir took the same killer how
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we keeping the crowd back
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Ness got into the case quite extensively
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in fact he devoted almost full time to
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it but at the same time there's also
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sort of an uneasiness with Ness about
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this he didn't know quite how to proceed
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with this case it wasn't a matter of
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like finding out where the breweries got
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was and where the mobsters were hiding
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and go and smash your way into the end
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of the place area this was a different
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type of criminal that Eliot Ness was
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facing the bodies would kept for about
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oh I'd say six months we have no idea
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who they are but it certainly was a
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skillful dissection the murderer was
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probably Eliot had made a profile that
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he figured the killer might be thank you
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and he determined that it would had to
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be somebody from the way these bodies
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were cut up somebody with a certain
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amount of medical knowledge
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plus the fact had to be a very strong
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man to carry these bodies all over in
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Dublin where he did and
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so we had this profile it has to be a
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big man strong an expert with a scalpel
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nests had reached an impasse he was
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determined to search every dwelling in
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Kingsbury run but had no legal grounds
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to spare out search warrants
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the solution was vintage Eliot Ness
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he cleverly squirted the need for
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warrants by pairing detectives with fire
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officials and ordering widespread safety
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inspections
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there was a thought yes and other police
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officers that they were gonna find this
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laboratory that was going to have blood
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splattered walls and have arms and waves
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lying over in a corner and maybe a catch
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of heads in another corner that's what
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they were looking for and NASA's men
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spent almost a full week searching
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almost every place almost every
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apartment every dwelling they could find
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in in that area and they weren't able to
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turn up a thing
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less next pinpointed every doctor and
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hospital worker in Cleveland there has
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its call even the County caller was not
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above suspicion entity
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hundreds of people were put under
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surveillance
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questioned hospital and detained I fell
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asleep got a few hours oh yes are you
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doing in Cleveland
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and town on business
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what
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I'm a Salesman I sell surgical supplies
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but the investigation still led nowhere
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I come up to three times a month the
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killer remained it longer any Kingsbury
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Ron wins and the case began to consume
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Eliot Ness he used to go out and hit a
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couple of bars have a drink
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in august of nineteen thirty eight
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victims number eleven and twelve were
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found the last scattered in a rubbish
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heap just 200 yards from Elliot meses
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office
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it was evident after the last two bodies
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were found that the killer was now
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becoming more daring by where he left
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the bodies right really under a head
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NASA's window and
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it was it was almost like it was a
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cat-and-mouse game and so sort of a
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catch me if you can type thing they were
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bragging Cleveland was now one of the
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safest cities in in the United States
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except for the killer who was built
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chopping off heads and cutting up bodies
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and all this kind of stuff and he knew
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he had to do something desperately
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because the people were clamoring and
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all the people in town were insane about
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this insanity that was going on and they
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were frightened they were scared to
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death
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the storm of public criticism gold nest
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to take drastic measures
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less than 48 hours after the discovery
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of victims number 11 and 12 the police
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descended upon Kingsbury runs hobo
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jungles they rounded up more than 60
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transients hoping that the killer might
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be among
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this was his old untouchable style great
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where you know where the bad guy isn't
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going and get him he really thought that
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this might work and at the very least he
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could remove some of the people that the
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killer was preying on but it completely
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backfired for him there was a great
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wave of public opinion that this was the
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act of a desperate man and that his
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tactics had been brutal and they didn't
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really solve anything
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in a final radical attempt to stop the
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slaughter Ness ordered the shanty town
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burned to the ground
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of those arrested that night none turned
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out to be the killer
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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after the shanty town was destroyed a
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murders in Cleveland mysteriously
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stopped but the case was not over for
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Eliot Ness he remained bitter and
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dissatisfied according to some experts
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he was all the more frustrated by the
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fact he believed he knew the killer's
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identity but could never come up with
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enough evidence to make an arrest
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Nessa's suspect belonged to a prominent
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Cleveland family in 1938 the man had
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himself committed to a state mental
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institution
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ness believed that he had caught the
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killer
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primarily because
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after this man committed himself to a
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mental hospital
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the killing stopped and
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he said I am certain this is this is the
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man the profiles fit fits the profile
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and I'm sure that this is a bird who was
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doing all these killers
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it's pretty clear that if nested accused
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this man whose family was socially
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prominent
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he
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could have been libelous and been sued
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and he was a very cautious guy as far as
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covering the letter of the law
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incredibly more than 10 years later
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Eliot Ness received a number of
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postcards from a patient in a mental
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institution taunting you with references
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to the brutal slayings
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the man who was sitting in these post
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guard might have just been another kook
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but he was convinced
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that he had found a guy
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Eliot Ness never fully recovered from
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his disappointment and being unable to
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close the case he resigned as Public
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Safety Director in 1942 five years later
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he ran for mayor of Cleveland when
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questioned about the torsos names during
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the campaign Ness enigmatic Leigh
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replying that case has been solved
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Eliot Ness lost the election by a
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landslide and left Cleveland he never
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returned to law enforcement
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[Music]
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next a young mother convicted of murder
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wins her final appeal
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[Music]
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July 9th 1989 st. Louis Missouri a young
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mother rushed her critically ill son to
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Cardinal Glennon Hospital
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the baby was three month old Ryan
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Stallings nearby Jefferson County since
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birth he had suffered from chronic
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gastric distress
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on the day Ryan was brought to the
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emergency room his breathing had become
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extremely labored and he was vomiting
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uncontrollably
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Ryan was immediately placed in the
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pediatric intensive care unit
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he was hooked up to a respirator and all
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kinds of tubes going in and out of him
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and it was awful it
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was just a shock to see a little baby
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incapacitated the way he was it was to
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the point where they said whether they
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don't know how long he's gonna be here
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we don't know what's wrong when he met
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so you might as well just go to the
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waiting room and stay out there until we
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can tell you what's wrong
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yes sir I'm dr. Bailey chief of
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pediatrics happy to see you this is mrs.
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Jorgenson her family's David and Patti
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starlings rented a room at the hospital
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to be near their son after three
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agonizing days the stallings learned
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that Ryan would recover Ryan's fine
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there are no problems in the diagnosis
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however was stunning Ryan had apparently
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been poisoned when the lab tests came
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back we found a couple of substances
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those substances are ethyl glycol and
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acetone ethyl glycol is the substance
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that you'll find in radiator antifreeze
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and acetone is in fingernail polish
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remover for exams yes do you have any
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analysis yeah Patti uses it on her
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friend Hills to remove her old fairy
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nail polish because well that's got
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acetone in it so okay so do you have any
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phrase that said yes I have any fries I
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just rebuilt a radiator on my vehicle
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and I had a partial gallon left in the
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basement he says well that's what we're
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saying he may have gotten do you happen
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to know how he could have gotten it they
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were very polite yet suspicious
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they would not allow us to see Ryan
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alone there would have to be at least
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two nurses or a doctor present and we
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were never allowed to be on his bedside
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alone you know that bothered me but I
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still didn't understand because I wasn't
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looking at it the way they were I guess
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just have to ask you a few questions if
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you could come in for a moment
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David did you ever see they'll come
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catch any man that same day the police
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were brought in to investigate
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we were split up and talked to by
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detectives and then that's when I knew
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because they immediately started asking
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me well is there a problem at home are
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you and David fighting they were saying
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that they knew that that baby had been
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poisoned by either me or my husband and
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infuriated me and I was just I was
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devastated I was blown away I just could
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not believe that they could even think I
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mean Ryan was my world you know I'm
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right he was so beautiful
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it was perfect
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Ryan's condition improved after 12 days
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he was released from the hospital but
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not to the custody of his parents
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a social worker come up to us and told
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us that they were taking custody of ryan
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from us and at that point I became very
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angry why are you doing this to us is
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what I told her and
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she said well this is policy when
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there's a suspected poisoning we take
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children from the parents and put him in
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foster care
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Patti and Davis contact with Ryan was
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severely restricted they were allowed
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only a one-hour visit each week on
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Thursdays
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Ryan knew when we've met him the first
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time he was so happy to see both of us
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again he just smiled the biggest smile
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you could ever possibly see on a baby's
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face and it was we were just totally in
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love with our child that was so glad
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that we finally was able to see him
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again I just could not wait till
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Thursday you know I would just my whole
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week I would tell everybody over / know
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how last Thursday went and that was my
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life Thursday Thursday morning
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for five weeks the parental visits
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continued during the sixth visit Patti
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was left alone with Ryan for a short
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time three days later Ryan would suffer
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another severe attack of vomiting once
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again he would be rushed to the hospital
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once again the diagnosis would be
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poisoning I
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[Music]
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have a warrant for your arrest
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the car and they said stop right there
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and you know I turned around I was like
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well come on into the house you know and
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they said no you're not allowed to go
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into the house they immediately slap
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handcuffs on me and said you're under
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arrest for assault
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[Music]
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hattie Stallings was booked on charges
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of poisoning her infant son I
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knew it wasn't true I don't care what
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they thought I just thought long you
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know I'll be home in a couple hours this
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to be over with you know I'll get to go
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be with Ryan
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and then the day turned into a night and
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then it got really serious I got really
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scared
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while Patti languished in jail her son
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was dying Brian was placed on
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life-support systems David Stallings
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found himself trapped in a private hell
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the doctors come up to me and tell me
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that uh
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they have a feeling clients not gonna
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make it and that maybe I should get in
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contact with the minister and have him
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baptized in that I
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had tried to get Patti up there and all
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I got from the judge
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was no absolutely not I'm not going to
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let a baby killer up there
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and I I said this lady did not kill this
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baby
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and when they finally come back to me
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and told me that we need to know if we
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can turn him off I
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told him I go ahead and shut the
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machines at home
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but I wanted to be in there with him
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that's what for three hours i
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sat there with him in my arms
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knowing that Patti couldn't be there
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watching this meet her on this machine
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go down each time his heart would beat
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it was hard
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it's something I've never asked anybody
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ever to do
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approximately about 6:30
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doctor came in
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and she shut the Machine down so I could
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not see any more of
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his heart rate
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she took him from me and said it's over
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with he's gone
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they called me back about
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nine o'clock that night
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and I I went up to the phone and it was
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David's voice and he told me he died and
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I
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started begging that he could come up
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and see me and there's a deputy on duty
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said he could so
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[Music]
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Brian Stallings died on September 7th
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1989 he was not yet six months old his
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mother Patti was now charged with
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first-degree murder and held without
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bail she was not allowed to attend
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Ryan's funeral a
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few weeks later Patti Stoney's
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discovered she was pregnant again
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for six months she remained incarcerated
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subject to a battery of mental fitness
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tests on February 27th nineteen ninety
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david Stallings jr. was born at a
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Madison County Hospital
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even though Davis stalling senior was
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not a suspect and they've been charged
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with no crime at all he is not allowed
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to take David jr. home with him the baby
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became a ward of the state and was
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placed in foster care
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ironically this devastating blow would
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turn out to be a stroke of good fortune
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without it Patti and David Stallings
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might have been accused of poisoning
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their second son
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when David Stallings jr. was 2 weeks old
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he began to exhibit symptoms identical
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to the ones that had played his brother
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Ryan the st. Louis Children's Hospital
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diagnosed Davis illness as a rare
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genetic disorder
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methylmalonic acidemia or MMA in which
00:23:50
the body produces chemical byproducts
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that may be remarkably similar to the
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ethylene glycol found in antifreeze
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unsolved mysteries contacted an
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independent medical expert about MMA
00:24:03
it would be very simple to confuse the
00:24:06
diagnosis of MMA with multiple
00:24:08
poisonings because the symptoms are very
00:24:10
similar but more importantly than that
00:24:14
MMA and other similar disorders are very
00:24:17
rare and the majority of doctors either
00:24:21
will never have seen a case or if they
00:24:24
have seen a case didn't know that they
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saw it and actually confused it
00:24:29
while prosecutors reevaluated the
00:24:32
medical evidence Patti Stallings was
00:24:34
released from jail pending the outcome
00:24:36
of the investigation
00:24:37
Patti was denied visitation rights with
00:24:39
David jr. I
00:24:42
thought it was over you know as far as
00:24:45
the nightmare of being accused of
00:24:48
hurting Ryan I was positive that you
00:24:51
know even my lawyer said it was over you
00:24:54
know there was no way that they could
00:24:57
not see the truth right in front of
00:24:59
their eyes
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Jefferson County officials continued to
00:25:03
pursue the case the prosecution's
00:25:06
position was that Ryan Stallings had not
00:25:08
died from MMA in the judge's chambers
00:25:11
they cited for expert witnesses
00:25:14
Patti's lawyer presented no expert
00:25:17
opinions
00:25:18
the judge agreed with a prosecution
00:25:22
neither David Stallings jr. no the
00:25:24
symptoms he shared with Ryan were
00:25:26
allowed to be presented as evidence at
00:25:28
Patty's trial
00:25:30
we were concerned that if it came out
00:25:33
that David jr. or Ryan for that matter
00:25:36
had this myth malonic acid doses
00:25:39
unless it could be shown that he
00:25:42
actually died of that or it was some
00:25:44
kind of a contributing factor to his
00:25:46
death we believe that that would not be
00:25:48
relevant and in fact might cause the
00:25:50
jury to go off on a wild goose chase and
00:25:53
make a decision based on something's
00:25:55
really not relevant first cases in the
00:25:57
family are often missed and it's only
00:26:00
when it reoccurs again that the medical
00:26:04
practitioners are tipped off to the fact
00:26:06
that this may well be a genetic disorder
00:26:08
and maybe the first child had that as
00:26:11
well without the medical testimony the
00:26:14
case against patty Stallings seemed
00:26:16
virtually airtight the prosecution
00:26:18
focused on the events of Thursday August
00:26:20
31st 1989 Patti and David's sixth
00:26:24
parental visit with Ryan
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[Music]
00:26:30
buddy
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on the sixth visit my parents were
00:26:36
invited for the first time
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and then about 20 minutes into the visit
00:26:42
my mom and dad decided they were going
00:26:44
to go ahead and leave and I had the rest
00:26:47
of the time with it I'll be right back
00:26:50
so I accorded my mom and dad out of the
00:26:53
room walked down the hall I
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was out of the room no more than 45
00:26:58
seconds at the most
00:27:01
on one visit Patricia was left alone
00:27:04
with the child and anywhere from about 3
00:27:07
minutes to about 8 minutes and during
00:27:10
that time did actually feed the child a
00:27:12
bottle
00:27:14
the child again got the same symptoms
00:27:17
had before came back into the off into
00:27:19
the hospital was diagnosed with ethylene
00:27:22
glycol poisoning at that time a number
00:27:26
of bottles were also
00:27:28
examined for possible traces and
00:27:31
while they were negative effects and in
00:27:34
all the bottles but one one bottle which
00:27:37
was identified as the bottle she had fed
00:27:39
the baby with actually contained traces
00:27:43
of ethylene glycol that bottle had
00:27:46
actually been prepared by the foster
00:27:48
mother and retrieved from the baby bag
00:27:50
during a visit but State believes and
00:27:53
certainly circumstantial evidence
00:27:56
suggests that she slipped ethylene
00:27:58
glycol or antifreeze into the bottle
00:28:00
during that feeding
00:28:01
what they were trying to say was she
00:28:04
started feeding him before anybody got
00:28:06
in there and that's wrong that's
00:28:09
incorrect
00:28:10
what happened was I walked back to the
00:28:13
cubbyhole where petit was with Ryan he
00:28:17
just started getting a little cranky and
00:28:18
so I reached into the bag and took the
00:28:21
baby bottle out and started feeding him
00:28:23
I saw the bottle I did not smell I did
00:28:28
not see any discoloration in the bottle
00:28:30
whatsoever there was nothing done to
00:28:33
that bottle absolutely nothing
00:28:36
according to Paddy's lawyers Ryan's
00:28:39
symptoms did not appear until three and
00:28:41
a half days after the visit I
00:28:44
would be amazed if something as volatile
00:28:48
and as easily diffuse' Balazs ethylene
00:28:50
glycol would require eighty hours in
00:28:53
order to cause symptoms in the young
00:28:55
child I believe it would have to happen
00:28:57
a lot faster than that and and therefore
00:29:00
it seems much less probable that this
00:29:03
was a poisoning Ryan was taken from the
00:29:06
visit by the DFS worker to the foster
00:29:10
parents home but later that day or early
00:29:14
actually early the next morning was
00:29:15
taken to what we call respite home a
00:29:18
temporary foster parents who kept him
00:29:21
just for the weekend
00:29:23
the second set of foster parents not
00:29:25
knowing what the child was like may well
00:29:29
have overlooked symptoms at the first
00:29:30
set would a sane defendant will rise and
00:29:33
face the court
00:29:37
on count one assault with a deadly
00:29:39
weapon the Court finds you guilty as
00:29:42
charged
00:29:44
on count two murder in the first degree
00:29:47
the Court finds you guilty as charged
00:29:52
on March 4th 1991 Patti Stallings was
00:29:56
sentenced to life in prison without the
00:29:57
possibility of parole her son David jr.
00:30:01
is now one year old Patti has seen him
00:30:03
only three times twice just after his
00:30:06
birth the third time when he was a week
00:30:08
old each visit was limited to one hour
00:30:11
David stalling senior is allowed to see
00:30:14
his son once a week I
00:30:16
cannot see how they can live with
00:30:18
themselves
00:30:19
knowing they sent an innocent woman to
00:30:21
jail the rest of her life
00:30:23
for something that she didn't do
00:30:26
if Bryan would have been correctly
00:30:30
diagnosed with mmm a
00:30:33
none of this would have happened
00:30:35
none of the series of events in the last
00:30:38
two years what have happened
00:30:40
it all dependent on whether he was
00:30:43
correctly diagnosed which he was not not
00:30:47
truly to believe in the system and I
00:30:49
think that when 12 people heard the
00:30:51
evidence and they returned the verdict
00:30:54
that they did that it's the right
00:30:55
verdict it's not the right verdict
00:30:58
they're already started the ball rolling
00:31:00
and the appellate
00:31:02
procedures and and if there is a problem
00:31:05
or if new evidence does come up which
00:31:07
could link Ryan's death to MMA well
00:31:10
certainly it will and should be retried
00:31:12
but in the meantime I'm comfortable with
00:31:15
it
00:31:16
I've lost
00:31:19
one child to MMA my second child is
00:31:24
striking with him MA it may not live
00:31:28
he's year old though if there was still
00:31:32
not sure how to treat him I
00:31:34
lost my freedom
00:31:39
I've lost everything
00:31:42
on the night this story aired cause some
00:31:45
physicians familiar with MMA poured into
00:31:47
our telecenter patty starlings new
00:31:50
attorneys petitioned the court to grant
00:31:52
her another trial based on the fact that
00:31:54
she had previously received ineffectual
00:31:56
counsel on July 30th 1991 patty
00:32:00
Stallings was granted a new trial and
00:32:02
released from prison
00:32:06
after the enzyme mr. is air people are
00:32:08
writing and calling and just want to
00:32:10
know how can we help and I can't think
00:32:13
those people enough because I mean
00:32:15
through all of that
00:32:18
wheels started turning and everything
00:32:20
just started pushing forward really fast
00:32:23
along with Ron's remaining serum
00:32:26
September 20th 1991 a press conference
00:32:29
was held in st. Louis dr. Pierre Ronaldo
00:32:32
of Yale University revealed an
00:32:34
independent serum tests showed Rian
00:32:36
Stallings had definitely died of MMA
00:32:40
consequently the prosecuting attorney
00:32:42
dropped all charges against Patti
00:32:44
Stallings
00:32:46
unfortunately we can't undo the
00:32:48
suffering that the stallings have
00:32:50
endured during this entire ordeal
00:32:52
and I apologize to them both personally
00:32:56
and for the state of Missouri
00:32:57
during the press conference Patti and
00:33:00
David heard for the first time the
00:33:02
custody of their son DJ had been
00:33:04
returned to thanagar
00:33:06
[Music]
00:33:10
in October of 1991 just over two years
00:33:14
after his brother's death DJ came home
00:33:17
for the first time
00:33:18
[Music]
00:33:19
just want to make up for the year and a
00:33:22
half that we didn't have him and it's
00:33:25
hard to make up that much time but I'm
00:33:27
doing the best I can
00:33:29
[Music]
00:33:31
his condition is very scary but we've
00:33:35
checked with so many hard things that
00:33:37
you know we've just kind of said we'll
00:33:40
beat this too and with that attitude I
00:33:42
know that DJ will do alright and that
00:33:45
will do okay he is a miracle child and
00:33:48
we're lucky to have DJ and we have our
00:33:51
whole life back it's like we're starting
00:33:53
over
00:33:54
it's undescribable
00:33:56
wonderful
00:33:58
[Music]
00:34:01
when we return a prison reformer is
00:34:05
murdered outside his office in Salem
00:34:07
Oregon his family believes he may have
00:34:09
been assassinated to keep him quiet
00:34:22
in February 1980 the New Mexico State
00:34:25
Penitentiary in Santa Fe was rocked by a
00:34:28
violent uprising
00:34:30
by the time order was restored 33
00:34:33
prisoners had died at the hands of
00:34:34
fellow inmates New Mexico
00:34:36
scandal-plagued penal system became
00:34:38
front-page news across America State
00:34:41
Deputy Attorney General Michael Frankie
00:34:44
was brought in to investigate the riots
00:34:46
and revamp the prison system
00:34:51
Frankie a former college football star
00:34:54
an ex Navy Commander achieved dramatic
00:34:56
results in New Mexico he was a man of
00:34:59
the hour and his reforms gained national
00:35:01
recognition
00:35:02
Mike was very much his own man not a
00:35:06
follower in any sense of the word he
00:35:08
loved making decisions he liked tackling
00:35:10
difficult problems he had a very quick
00:35:13
mind
00:35:14
Michael Frankie's growing reputation
00:35:16
soon brought him a new challenge in 1987
00:35:19
the governor of Oregon has Frankie to
00:35:22
take over his state's troubled prison
00:35:24
system Michael Frankie was the best
00:35:27
selection that the governor made and in
00:35:30
all of his new appointments and I think
00:35:32
we all felt that there was going to be
00:35:34
some very very good things happening in
00:35:38
Corrections we were all excited about
00:35:40
him and I really can't tell you just how
00:35:44
much of a shock it was when when he was
00:35:47
murdered
00:35:50
tragically on January 17th 1989 Michael
00:35:54
Frankie's distinguished career came to
00:35:56
an abrupt violent end he was found
00:35:58
stabbed at now just outside his office
00:36:01
building in Salem or
00:36:05
before he died Michael Frankie told his
00:36:08
family that he was in the midst of a
00:36:09
top-secret investigation to detail
00:36:11
corruption in the Oregon prison system
00:36:13
particularly drug trafficking he
00:36:16
apparently planned to name names and
00:36:18
implicate several highly placed
00:36:19
government officials the district
00:36:22
attorney believes Michael Frankie fell
00:36:23
victim to a robbery gone wrong but
00:36:26
Frankie's family is convinced he was
00:36:28
assassinated they think someone wanted
00:36:30
Michael Frankie silenced and his
00:36:32
findings on the Oregon prison system
00:36:34
suppressed forever
00:36:38
the three main criminal activities that
00:36:41
I observed
00:36:42
working in Corrections was the
00:36:44
introduction of drugs into the
00:36:46
institution falsifying records and
00:36:50
thefts of state property basically
00:36:54
anything that was not nailed down was
00:36:57
subject to be stolen there was a
00:36:59
constant flow of drugs being brought
00:37:02
into the institutions one of the most
00:37:04
common ways was staff bringing them in
00:37:06
in their own lunch buckets because there
00:37:08
was no searches being conducted on staff
00:37:10
as they entered or left the facility I
00:37:13
was told by my superiors to keep my
00:37:17
mouth shut and mind my own business or
00:37:19
I'd be looking for a job and Mike came
00:37:22
in he's he's got a good old boy system
00:37:24
to contend with a lot of these guys have
00:37:26
been him here for 20 or 30 years
00:37:28
the system has run the way they wanted
00:37:31
to run for that so here comes some guy
00:37:33
from out of state who has all these
00:37:35
high-minded ideas about what he's going
00:37:38
to do and it just rubbed a lot of them
00:37:40
the wrong way
00:37:42
Michael Frankie gathered was some
00:37:44
believe was concrete evidence confirming
00:37:46
that the state prison system contained
00:37:48
corrupt elements reaching all the way to
00:37:49
the top by the end of 1988 he was
00:37:53
conducting an intense personal
00:37:54
investigation Michael Frankie knew he
00:37:57
was juggling political dynamite that
00:37:59
could blow up in his face at any moment
00:38:01
he had uncovered a lot of organized
00:38:05
crime and I said you mean like the Mafia
00:38:07
and he said no an organized criminal
00:38:09
element in the system and that he was
00:38:12
going to do a thorough housecleaning
00:38:13
immediately after the first of the year
00:38:16
and that his quote was a lot of heads
00:38:18
were gonna roll and
00:38:19
he said it may cost him his job
00:38:27
yellow
00:38:29
who's this
00:38:32
okay how you doing on January 13th I
00:38:36
called Michael and he said that he was
00:38:38
going to go before the legislature and
00:38:40
clean house the following Wednesday
00:38:44
wow you did that New Mexico you cleaned
00:38:47
the house before
00:38:48
yeah I know Katie but this is different
00:38:52
seems I really ruffled some feathers it
00:38:54
was very very concerned
00:38:56
and I think he had had covered something
00:38:59
far bigger than he expected
00:39:03
four days later Michael Frankie was
00:39:06
found murdered on a side porch of his
00:39:07
office building police quickly began to
00:39:11
piece together the last hours of his
00:39:12
life
00:39:14
at 6:50 p.m. after the regular Tuesday
00:39:17
staff meeting Frankie spoke briefly with
00:39:20
one of his subordinates
00:39:21
30 minutes later two other corrections
00:39:24
employees notice that the light and
00:39:26
Michel Frankie's car was on and the
00:39:28
driver's door was standing wide open it
00:39:32
was 7:20 p.m.
00:39:39
this is this is kind of weird he never
00:39:41
leaves his car like this with the door
00:39:43
betray the two women could not find
00:39:46
Frankie or could they reach him on his
00:39:48
pager which he carried with him at all
00:39:49
times
00:39:50
they call their superiors two officials
00:39:54
arrive at 8:30 p.m. and conducted in
00:39:56
their words a meticulous search of the
00:39:58
building Frankie was nowhere to be found
00:40:03
the two men did not call the police and
00:40:06
left around 9:30 p.m.
00:40:09
[Music]
00:40:12
at 12:45 a.m. a security guard found
00:40:16
Michel Frankie's body on the side porch
00:40:19
of the building that had been so
00:40:20
thoroughly searched just four hours
00:40:21
earlier a pane of glass in the side door
00:40:25
was shattered no one knows whether or
00:40:27
not Frankie was carrying documents
00:40:29
concerning his prison investigation
00:40:30
however his briefcase appeared to be
00:40:33
missing a body here at least Frankie
00:40:35
[Applause]
00:40:37
police theorized that Frankie had been
00:40:39
murdered by someone who was trying to
00:40:41
rob him they interrogated a number of
00:40:43
known drug dealers and Street criminals
00:40:45
I need to know where you were that night
00:40:47
you told me earlier you were there at
00:40:49
9:30 and then you come back and each one
00:40:51
of them claimed that he witnessed the
00:40:53
murder and fingered an admitted drug
00:40:55
dealer named Frank gable
00:40:57
according to this witness gable was in
00:41:00
the act of burglarizing Michel Frankie's
00:41:02
car when Frankie came out of the office
00:41:04
building around 7 p.m.
00:41:08
what's going on let's go around just
00:41:11
give me your briefcase nothing are you
00:41:12
gonna get I want to know what you're
00:41:13
doing my car but do nothing your car
00:41:14
just give me the briefcase okay punk I'm
00:41:16
taking you aside Oh gave me allegedly
00:41:18
stabbed Frankie mortally wounding him
00:41:21
some believe gable also stole Frankie's
00:41:23
briefcase before fleeing
00:41:28
Michel Frankie apparently staggered up
00:41:30
the stairs of a side entrance to the
00:41:32
building he broke the glass door in a
00:41:34
desperate attempt to get back to his
00:41:36
office
00:41:37
[Music]
00:41:42
bright gable was charged with a murder
00:41:45
of Michael Frankie but for many people
00:41:47
the evidence simply did not add up
00:41:50
bruises operations and other wounds on
00:41:53
Frankie's body seemed to indicate a
00:41:55
struggle with more than one man I
00:41:57
think Frank Abel is a scapegoat because
00:42:01
I think it goes much higher up in the
00:42:04
Oregon government and
00:42:07
he's just being used to take the fall
00:42:11
from the onset of the Frankie
00:42:13
investigation it appeared that the
00:42:15
police put the blinders on as far as
00:42:19
what they were most inclined to believe
00:42:22
it seems as though there has been
00:42:24
some reluctance to really really just
00:42:29
scorched the earth to find out what
00:42:30
happened
00:42:32
Michael Frankie's family and supporters
00:42:34
found what they felt were other
00:42:36
disturbing discrepancies in the official
00:42:38
explanation of Michael's death
00:42:41
Michael had a state-of-the-art car alarm
00:42:43
system if the killer had broken into the
00:42:46
car why was the alarm not set off and of
00:42:49
why were there no signs of forced entry
00:42:53
and what's going on
00:42:56
if the killer had stabbed Michael at the
00:42:58
car puncturing his heart and lungs why
00:43:01
was there no trace of blood within 100
00:43:04
feet of the car
00:43:08
and finally if Michael Frankie was
00:43:10
killed at 7:00 p.m. as police estimating
00:43:13
why was neither his body or the book and
00:43:16
glass noticed when building was
00:43:17
meticulously searched between 8:30 and
00:43:20
9:30 p.m. a
00:43:25
number of people in orange believe that
00:43:27
Michael Frankie was the victim of a
00:43:29
premeditated murder carried out by
00:43:31
several and possibly instigated by
00:43:34
high-ranking officials who feared they
00:43:36
would be maimed and Frankie's
00:43:37
investigation and eyewitness at the
00:43:39
scene appeared to corroborate this
00:43:41
theory
00:43:42
at 10:15 10:20 on January 17th a young
00:43:46
man riding in the car looked over at
00:43:48
there where the scene of the crime was
00:43:49
it saw five to six men running toward a
00:43:52
Volkswagen van if Michael Frankie had
00:43:55
been abducted and then brought back to
00:43:57
the building where he was killed this
00:43:59
would fit in with the abduction Theory
00:44:02
the abduction theory holds it on the
00:44:05
night of his death Michael Frankie
00:44:07
unlocked his own car deactivating the
00:44:09
alarm
00:44:12
simultaneously a group of men approached
00:44:14
him
00:44:15
Oh
00:44:19
[Music]
00:44:22
Frankie did not keep regular office
00:44:24
hours except for Tuesday staff meetings
00:44:27
it would seem that the perpetrators were
00:44:29
familiar with his schedule
00:44:31
the abduction theory would have that
00:44:35
Michel Frankie was later brought back
00:44:37
perhaps going to his office to find
00:44:39
whatever paperwork or computer files or
00:44:42
his sort of things in his office
00:44:45
[Applause]
00:44:48
I don't there he gets out of the car
00:44:52
perhaps sees his only chance for getting
00:44:54
away tries to make a break for it
00:44:56
perhaps receives one or more of his
00:44:59
wounds at that time goes to the north
00:45:01
porch where he is finished off
00:45:07
[Music]
00:45:16
[Music]
00:45:18
unfortunately the impression has been
00:45:21
given that there is that things are
00:45:24
being held back that many things are
00:45:26
being stonewalled it is given the
00:45:30
impression again not saying it's the
00:45:31
fact but it's given the impression that
00:45:33
that there's some type of a cover-up on
00:45:37
the night of the murder several people
00:45:40
reported seeing a man in a pinstripe
00:45:42
suit working in the corrections building
00:45:44
after hours he was Olive complected 5
00:45:47
feet 10 inches tall and weighed
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approximately 180 pounds a
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composite drawing based on witness
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descriptions was made but the DA's
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office did not release the drawing for 5
00:45:58
months they claimed the quality was not
00:46:01
good enough for publication even though
00:46:03
the composite had been drawn by a top
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police artist
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one other disturbing fact added to the
00:46:12
speculation about a cover-up no
00:46:14
paperwork detailing Michael Frankie's
00:46:17
investigation into the Oregon prison
00:46:18
system has ever been found
00:46:22
shortly after Michael Frankie's death
00:46:24
some people some employees some inmates
00:46:27
spotted approximately 23 bags of
00:46:30
shredded
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papers coming out of Michael Frankie's
00:46:35
office and some surrounding offices
00:46:36
that's something you have to wonder
00:46:38
about who authorized shredding of
00:46:41
documents from a murder scene
00:46:44
the officials investigating Mike's
00:46:48
murder don't want it solved
00:46:51
because it goes much higher in the
00:46:54
Oregon government my family is dedicated
00:46:57
to bring this to a successful conclusion
00:47:00
we're gonna find out what the hell
00:47:02
happened and we're gonna see that the
00:47:05
people who are involved
00:47:06
receive their full punishment
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next a mother in New England needs your
00:47:24
help to find her autistic son
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[Music]
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when he was 8 years old Oded Gordon was
00:47:42
diagnosed with a minor learning
00:47:44
disability at age 12 he began to
00:47:47
withdraw from his friends by the time he
00:47:49
was 18 Oded was totally withdrawn
00:47:52
unwilling to communicate with anyone a
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dead was afraid of the responsibility of
00:47:58
growing up because he didn't have the
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emotional wherewithal he was too anxious
00:48:02
he was too afraid he couldn't do things
00:48:05
on his own a
00:48:07
year later Oded was diagnosed as having
00:48:09
autism a neurological disorder that
00:48:12
affects physical social and language
00:48:14
skills there is no known cure for the
00:48:16
affliction and doctors had little hope
00:48:18
that Oded would ever return from his
00:48:20
dark and silent world
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Odette's mother enrolled him in a
00:48:26
facility in Greenfield New Hampshire
00:48:28
where young people with mental and
00:48:29
emotional disabilities participate in
00:48:32
work therapy and receive counseling Oded
00:48:35
seemed to respond to his new environment
00:48:37
and even began communicating with one
00:48:38
staff worker
00:48:40
when Odette came he spoke very little
00:48:43
but then we would hear him speak
00:48:47
occasionally and he could say things
00:48:51
when prompted and encouraged
00:48:55
approximately six weeks after he arrived
00:48:57
at the farm Oded and several other
00:48:59
residents were doing their after the
00:49:01
insurance somehow Oded managed to wander
00:49:04
away from the group an hour later he was
00:49:06
nowhere to be found
00:49:10
the dogs were brought in and originated
00:49:14
the search over by the brook area over
00:49:18
to the lower left field
00:49:19
the search dogs followed Oh dead set for
00:49:22
approximately three miles along a
00:49:25
stretch of highway 31 the set abruptly
00:49:27
vanished authorities believe that Odette
00:49:30
may have been picked up by a passing
00:49:32
motorist
00:49:35
my feelings out that he will be found
00:49:38
he's out there he's out there among the
00:49:40
population wherever it may be but he's
00:49:43
out there there have been several
00:49:45
reported sightings of Oded the most
00:49:48
recent last January Oh Dead's mother
00:49:51
believes her son is still alive and
00:49:53
hopes that wherever he is he will hear
00:49:55
her appeal a
00:49:57
dead I really would like to hear from
00:50:01
you if you
00:50:04
can I hope that you'll call
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call me you'll call your grandmother or
00:50:17
your uncles you don't have to tell us
00:50:20
where you are we just want to know that
00:50:22
you're okay
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Odette Gordon is five feet eight inches
00:50:27
tall weighs 140 pounds and has black
00:50:30
hair and brown eyes at the time of his
00:50:33
disappearance
00:50:34
Oded was 21 years old authorities
00:50:37
speculate that he may have hitchhiked
00:50:39
out of the area and could be anywhere in
00:50:41
the United States
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for every mystery there is someone
00:50:55
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
00:50:58
that someone was watching perhaps
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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