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tonight on unsolved mysteries a 14 year
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old girl awakens hogtied in her own
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bedroom with her entire home viciously
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ransacked she tells police she has no
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memory of an attack or even of her own
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identity what happened to Sarah Powell
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her Harvey McLeod life as a cab driver
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was routine and uneventful until the day
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he was hijacked by one of his fares
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turned into a human time bomb and
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ordered to rob a bank and we'll take you
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to Egypt an ancient land of mystery and
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intrigue for centuries the immense
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treasures of the Pharaohs lay buried in
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the valley of the kings but when the
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tomb of King Tut was opened in 1922 was
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a deadly curse unleashed on those who
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trespassed upon his grave join me for
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this intriguing and compelling edition
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unsolved mysteries
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Egypt the cradle of long-lost
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civilizations home to the Magnificent
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pyramids the inscrutable Great Sphinx
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giant statues of wants powerful
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Pharaoh's truly a land of intrigue and
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mystery buried beneath the shifting
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sands in the Valley of the Kings lay
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secrets the hidden tombs of ancient
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rulers their bodies mummified and
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surrounded by the golden treasures meant
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to accompany them to the afterlife
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treasures that have proven irresistible
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by the end of the 19th century nearly
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every tomb in the Valley of the Kings
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have been picked clean
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riches carried away by both
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archaeologists and thieves nevertheless
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Howard Carter a self-taught British
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Egyptologist was sure there was one more
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tomb that of a little-known pharaoh
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named Tutankhamun he had no idea the
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discovery of King Tut's final resting
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place would unleash one of the most
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sensational legends of the 20th century
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The Legend of the Mummy's curse by the
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fall of 1922 Howard Carter had been
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searching for the tomb of King
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Tutankhamun for five years
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his financial doctor was george herbert
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the 5th Earl of Carnarvon an avid
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amateur archaeologist Lord Carnarvon had
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already spent the modern equivalent of
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half a million dollars and was about to
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give up
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Carter begged him to give it one last
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chance
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you and the workers are digging
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furiously carnival longtime devotee of
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the occult sought the advice of a noted
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psychic horse who are deeply disturbed I
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see a hurricane of lightning a new Lord
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carnival are standing alone given what I
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have seen I suggest you make your
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excuses to the public and cancel the dig
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but that's impossible
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I must despite the warning the dig
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continued with spectacular results on
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November 26 1922 Howard Carter Lord
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Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn Herbert Karn
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Arvin's daughter descended next cavaties
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staircase and stepped into history they
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came to a doorway
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sealed by the priests of the Dead long
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before Christ was born or Rome was built
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the first thing is this unbelievable
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feeling of smelling and feeling in a
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woman how comes this air of what how
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many thousands of years right and then
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he puts up this the light
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my god marvelous let me have a look who
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could possibly describe what he sees you
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know this helter-skelter go don't go go
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go fantastic and one after the other
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look in and everybody's trying and
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there's no longer your lordship and you
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know let me have a look I'd pay for this
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you know who kept me in there and then
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of course they go in they went probably
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bananas they're suddenly in a place the
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last person had been in there was a
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3,600 whatever years before I and spooky
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things went on they began to feel I mean
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they were no different in thieves it was
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the ultimate treasure trove a jumble of
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King Tut's favorite and most precious
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possessions a toys yet played with as a
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baby the throne he had ruled from as a
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king the golden jars had held his heart
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and lungs
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the Egyptians literally believed you
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could take it with you since the next
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world was gonna be a continuation of
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this world you would want your
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possessions you would want a bed you
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would want your utensils you would want
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your game boards that you could play
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your games that you enjoyed so the
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priests upon death and your family would
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prepare it would be a group activity
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would put whatever they thought you
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would need for the big journey word of
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the incredible fine flew around the
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world
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crowds watched in astonishment as Howard
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Carter brought each prize into the light
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dignitaries and reporters from dozens of
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countries converge on the Valley of the
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Kings hungry for every detail Carter and
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Carnarvon became household names
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international celebrities then slowly a
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shadow began to eclipse their limelight
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it began with Howard Carter's pet bird
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in the days after the tomb was opened a
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Cobra
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the royal symbol of the Pharaohs
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attacked and killed the bird
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the Sun the meeting was cleared the
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king's serpent had struck a blow of
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vengeance against the man who had
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desecrated Tutankhamun's grave
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the natives said before winter was out
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someone would die that someone was Lord
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Carnarvon five months after the opening
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of the tomb
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Carnarvon died of blood poisoning in
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Cairo legend has it that at that very
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moment in England carvings dog howled in
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anguish fell dead
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in Cairo all the lights went out
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punching the city into blackness as dark
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as the tomb of Tutankhamen then a
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newspaper broke word of a curse written
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in hieroglyphs in King Tut's tomb they
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who enter this sacred tomb shall Swift
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be visited by wings of death they didn't
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have a concept of Hell so you didn't go
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to a bad place if you die but if you
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went out of existence that was the worst
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thing that could happen and that's why
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the tomb was so crucial to assure that
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you wouldn't go out of existence that
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all the necessary parts would be there
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intact ready to go again in the next
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world and this is why we see sometimes
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what we call the cursor descriptions I
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discovered here at Giza a tool with the
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first cursor in a scripture never
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happened and listen what the man is
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saying in this tomb if anyone will
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disturb my tomb he will be eaten by
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crocodile loin and the hippo in his wife
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lifted the same inscription and she
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added more and the scorpions and the
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snakes would eat you
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fear of the Mummy's curse tweeted a
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panic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the creator
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of Sherlock Holmes fuelled the hysteria
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when he stated it was probable that Lord
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Carnarvon had been killed by a
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malevolent spirit hundreds of tourists
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who had bought Egyptian antiquities as
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souvenirs rushed to ship them back
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including in one case a mummy's severed
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arm the United States Congress even
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debated passing a law banning Egyptian
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antiquities from American museums
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nevertheless Howard Carter continued
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clearing out the tomb of Tutankhamun one
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exquisite piece after another even the
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boy Kings mummified body was carried out
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his wrappings removed his bones laid
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bare some say King Tut took his revenge
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Carn Arvin's death was only the
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beginning over the next two decades the
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Mummy's curse was blamed for more than
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20 deaths including that of Howard
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Carter himself most Egyptologists
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however don't buy it
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this whole curse think is total Buncombe
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Lord Carnarvon gets this infection he
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goes to the hospital he dies all the
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lights go out in Cairo now today in your
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your modern hotels is a candle in every
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bathroom the lights go out in Cairo all
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the time sporadically right and the fact
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that the dog howl rules at the moment
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you know distant in England of the death
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give me a break
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historians scoff but the legend of the
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Mummy's curse refuses to go away believe
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it or not modern science has revealed
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that in fact the curse may be real
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though not supernatural in his diary
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Howard Carter noted that the tomb walls
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were covered with an odd pink film
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perhaps a fungus though the ancient
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Egyptians probably didn't know it
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they're sealed tombs may have harbored a
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variety of bacteria and fungi parks eat
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killers more deadly than any curse
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history records as circumstances made
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Lord Carnarvon a perfect target for
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these mysterious mycotoxins not long
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after the tomb was opened Carvin was
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bitten by a mosquito the bite became
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infected perhaps by the mycotoxins and
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Caernarfon nicked himself shaving the
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infection became worse Carn Arbenz fate
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was sealed this why I advise my
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assistants and my excavations I tell
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them do not shave why we are excavating
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because if you shave you have an open
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your beer is ready to take a measure and
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this is what happened in my opinion
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though most of the cases that happened
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during the excavations and people said
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the curse of the fairs the treasures of
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Tutankhamen have been exhibited and
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studied all over the world
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to say Egypt is to think King Tut
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if the Egyptians did in fact place a
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curse on their tools perhaps they were
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wrong in doing so for a king tut at
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least being discovered may have been the
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greatest possible blessing a guarantee
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of eternal life the Egyptians had a
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phrase to say the name of the dead is to
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make him live again and through the
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discovery of his tomb he is the most
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famous of all fairs and everybody is
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saying his name so in a sense the
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discovery by Carter and Kenard van
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assures Tutankhamen's immortality even
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in the Egyptian sense in the ancient
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Egyptian sense of to say his names to
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make him live again coming up what our
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home is ransacked by intruders a young
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girl is stricken by a bizarre case of
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amnesia but first a cab driver is wired
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with explosives and forced to
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participate in a wild robbery scheme
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65 year old Harvey McLeod has been
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driving a cab in Modesto California for
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some 10 years he's seen just about
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everything there is to see so last
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January Harvey wasn't the least bit
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surprised while a man in a turban with a
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phony looking beard and mustache and
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flagged him down was just a normal fare
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he did have a turban but we have several
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of those in Modesto so I never thought
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anything about it Jamestown the
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passenger spoke in a coarse stage
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whisper he only had about half the fare
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but he said he could pick up the rest of
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his brothers house which was along the
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way to stop by my brother's place and
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pick up the rest
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better fear lit road that's right
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he said his brother lived on that road
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so I didn't think too much about it
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until he told me to stop after a couple
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of blocks and so I stopped the car and
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turned around and hear that gun was
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staring me right in the nose exactly
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what I tell you cut the wires to the
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radio transmitter and get out that door
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so I just basically thought it was was a
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robbery but this was no ordinary robbery
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Harvey McCloud was about to be turned
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into a human time law
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a gunman chained a black metal box with
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a numeric keypad on to Harvey's party he
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ran a wire lead around Harvey's neck and
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clipped it shut
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then he activated the black box
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you do exactly what I say
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you screw up at all die
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Mama's remote-controlled
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I have to do is dial a number and my
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cell phone you're gone I was terrified
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mine was going 100 miles an hour and I
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was trying to figure out how am I going
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to get out of this ten minutes late
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Harvey was on his way back to Modesto
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[Music]
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they're gonna rob a bank you want you to
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listen to me very carefully
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in this box I want you to take this
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briefcase
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at the bottom into the bank I want you
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to leave the bomb in the bank when
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you're done you understand me yeah
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the gunman got out of the cab across the
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street from his intended target
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Glendale Federal Bank we kept reminding
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me that he could set this bomb off by
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his cellular telephone and me I don't
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know that much about electronics but
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what you see you know on papers and TV
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you can do about anything with
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electronics nowadays so I believe we
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need to see the bank manager I need to
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see the bank manager now it's important
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please wait I understand that of course
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how did you see the manager how to use
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the manager I am may I help you and I
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thought I was dealing with an irate
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customer because he was agitated
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overseed him to read the letter and
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about midway through it shocked me and
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it upset me did you read this look what
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he did to me I'm just a poor cab driver
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I looked around the lobby saw how busy
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we were saw how many customers were in
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the bank and saw my staff just doing
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what they're supposed to be doing and it
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it was very scary that if I didn't do
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the right thing that all of us could be
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blown up as a result of that Denise
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Hutchison decided to comply with a
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gunman's orders she and another Bank
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employee filled the briefcase with the
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exact amount of money demanded in the
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letter the robbery had gone according to
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plan with one exception
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Harvey performed a quiet act of heroism
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I didn't want to see innocent people get
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killed well I couldn't do much about me
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but I could least take the bomb with me
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and to protect the other people in the
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bank and and the bank itself too so I
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walked out the door with it in the back
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of the cab Harvey found a neatly typed
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set of instructions first he drove to a
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hardware store 15 minutes away he parked
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the cab leaving behind the cash and the
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car keys then Harvey walked half a mile
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to a payphone
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I was terrified because note on the
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instruction was that
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don't try to flag down an office or
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anything because we've got people
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watching you all the time know every
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step you make we've got people watching
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you the instructions have specified that
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the gunman would phone with directions
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for dismantling the bomb when and I
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waited about 5-10 minutes and no call
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came in so I went over happen look at
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the telephone and said no incoming calls
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so then I knew if something was up so
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then that's when I called my dispatcher
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and told her what happened within
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minutes police were on the scene and the
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area was being evacuated
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Harvey McLeod sat alone in the eye of
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the storm
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and they say I looked calm but I wasn't
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very calm inside I was shaken and my
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stomach was rolling and then I had all
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these things going through my mind and I
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just wondering how long I was gonna be
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there in this old world eventually a
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County bomb squad arrived and released
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Harvey from the device x-rays later
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determined that it was a fake as was the
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second robbery had been perfectly
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executed the gunman got away undetected
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almost when the gunman was dropped off
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across the street from the bank there
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were two witnesses that observed a male
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adult that was unusually dressed they
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thought at first that since there was a
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bank in close proximity that possibly
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someone was having a a birthday party
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and they hired this person to do some
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type of gig for them inside of the bank
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and the secondary thought that the male
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witness had was maybe this person had
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just robbed a bank when this person
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reached the van he took off a turban as
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well as dark sunglasses and a fake beard
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mustache as well as his sweater which
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contained padding to make this person
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look 25 to 30 pounds heavier
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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next a teenage girl is found hogtied and
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hysterical in her bedroom
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the apparent victim of a horrifying home
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invasion
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but the police wonder how much is truth
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and how much is fiction
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[Music]
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November 16 1993 the middle-class home
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in Clear Lake Texas a suburb of Houston
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approximately 9:30 a.m. I remember this
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little dog was licking my face and
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that's what woke me up I tried to move
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and I realized that I was tied up I had
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no recollection of who I was or why I
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was tied up I tried to remember things
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but as soon as I started asking myself
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who I was and what I was doing there it
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upset me more
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I grabbed the phone cord with my teeth
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and pulled it off the bed and that
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knocked the phone off the hook and then
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I thought Who am I gonna call I don't
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know anybody I don't even know where I'm
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at and then I looked down I saw that
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there's a redial button hello I need
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some help when she hit the redial button
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or their tongue the girl reached the
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local post office one of the employees
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was a woman named Deborah Powell they
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had a child on the phone the child said
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that everything in the room was pink and
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there were teddy bears everywhere
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and I knew at that point that there if
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there was no doubt in my mind it was
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Sarah Sarah was Deborah's 14 year old
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daughter she has stayed home sick from
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school by the time Deborah got to her
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house police were already on the scene
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[Music]
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when we went into the house and I saw it
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was ransacked I knew she was in big
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trouble I was scared I was frightened I
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didn't know what I was gonna find
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[Music]
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Sara honey it's mommy it's what's wrong
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it's mommy don't know me Sara its mommy
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it's mommy I didn't know what to think
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what to do the more I tried to go toward
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her and help her she began to panic it's
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all right Sara I'm a policeman just let
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me get you out of this just take a
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minute or two you know where you are
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do it where am I
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you're at home and you're safe now can
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you give me a description of the people
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did this to you
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were they friends of yours I don't know
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can't remember anything no my first
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impression was she was a teenager that
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was up to something and probably did not
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want her parents to find out what had
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happened that day the police had good
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reason to be suspicious crime-scene
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experts combed every inch of the house
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but found no evidence of forced entry
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and no fingerprints to catch most
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puzzling of all it was a rainy day and
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there was not a single wet or muddy
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footprint and we later learned that
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nothing was taken so these sort of
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things make us think that she's going to
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be able to tell us what went on and she
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will know who it is and we'll solve this
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as as soon as Sarah's ready to deal with
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it
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what about before you were tight enough
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to remember anything that happened
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earlier no Sarah did you get yourself
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into some trouble here
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is that why you're afraid to say
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anything to me I can't remember anything
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that happened I just know that I woke up
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all tied up I could tell that they
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thought I was holding something back
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I was trying as hard as I could there
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was show me pictures and asked me if I
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remembered my parents and I couldn't
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remember anything my first impression
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was that she perhaps had been threatened
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and she was afraid to say anything we
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had always been very close and I felt
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assured that when the police left that
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this child was going to tell me what
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really happened however even after the
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police left Sarah's story did not change
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I even tried to trick Sarah to prove
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that she really could remember and after
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three days of watching her a mother
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knows her child her movements her
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characteristics everything about her
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after three days I knew something was
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wrong
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how about this your first portrait you
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remember that green dress Deborah and
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her other daughter Helen tried to jog
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Sarah's memory with family photos that's
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you and me in front of the house
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it was after church we changed clothes
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and we were gardening
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I was extremely hurt that my child
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didn't remember me and didn't connect
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with me and I tried very hard not to
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take it personally
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[Music]
00:27:06
you know honey it's okay if you don't
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feel like having me
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you're obviously my mother you have all
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my baby stuff I mean you've got to be my
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mother but I have no feelings for you it
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was like someone kidnapped my child her
00:27:27
body was there but she was not her mind
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was not there I want you to write Sarah
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Powell for me I'll spell it for you s a
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are a H at first Sarah couldn't remember
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how to write her name tie her shoes or
00:27:45
even brush her teeth after two months
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however she had relearned most basic
00:27:51
skills Sarah school agreed to help set
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up a home study program
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00:28:03
I was scared to death I didn't know what
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was happening I thought what in the
00:28:23
world this looks like a seizure
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I didn't with the moon and the only
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words out of her mouth was I didn't let
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him in and I remember thinking maybe
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this is the memory coming back but I
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couldn't be sure
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in fact the memories had returned in a
00:29:01
terrifying rush it was 8:30 in the
00:29:04
morning of the attack Sara had just
00:29:07
taken her medicine and put her dog in
00:29:09
the laundry room I remembered walking up
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the stairs when I heard a loud noise so
00:29:17
I started running up the stairs and I
00:29:19
heard a second loud
00:29:22
I had rounded the corner and I could see
00:29:24
straight into my room and that's when I
00:29:28
saw people trying to break in the window
00:29:30
I saw the phone sitting on the bed so I
00:29:34
just don't want to my bed and call my
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mom at work
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the front door was locked with a double
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deadbolt and Sarah couldn't find her
00:29:54
keys and suddenly it was quiet
00:30:08
I started sneaking up the stairs and
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stood up slowly and I looked in my room
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and nobody was there
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00:30:39
shut up
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okay go downstairs and get the job done
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if you just push my head down the bed
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and put a pillow on my head I believe he
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was trying to kill me I was at the point
00:30:59
where I just couldn't hold my breath
00:31:00
anymore so I just went limp and
00:31:03
pretended like I believed her passed out
00:31:04
or dead
00:31:11
when he realized that I had seen them he
00:31:14
got mad I just had to get a look didn't
00:31:17
you
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are you doing this last thing I
00:31:26
remembered we were passing out and
00:31:30
that's what I remembered in my first
00:31:32
seizure and I thought that was all at
00:31:34
the time but it turned out that it
00:31:36
wasn't I was angry I was shocked I
00:31:41
couldn't believe that she had suffered
00:31:43
such an ordeal and I had no idea at that
00:31:47
time that I hadn't even heard the worst
00:31:49
of it
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those memories broke through during a
00:31:54
second flashback
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I remembered waking up and nobody was in
00:32:02
the room except for the smaller guy why
00:32:06
are you doing this to me
00:32:08
but just got to be quiet okay and I tie
00:32:11
you up but to be alright
00:32:13
bigger guys that's when he walked in and
00:32:15
saw us talking
00:32:22
you're not gonna get that guy
00:32:26
the bigger guy he had to guard for such
00:32:29
good friends now he had it to my head I
00:32:39
know what I'm doing
00:32:40
tie her up you do a good job cuz I'll be
00:32:43
back to check on it I know that they
00:32:47
were downstairs ransacking the house
00:32:48
because I could hear things falling to
00:32:50
the floor
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I knew that there were girls because
00:32:53
they were talking to each other
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00:33:05
a smaller guy unraveled the phone cord
00:33:08
once and plugged film back in and set it
00:33:11
on the bed I think you felt sorry for me
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[Applause]
00:33:20
Sarah was literally in a
00:33:24
life-threatening situation and then two
00:33:26
things happened that probably insulted
00:33:28
her brain
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one was that she got hit in the head and
00:33:31
the other one was that she was
00:33:32
suffocated so that the combination of
00:33:35
terror and a psychological heaven Asian
00:33:38
component and then the physical insults
00:33:41
I think combined and to result in this
00:33:45
unique amnesia presentation to date
00:33:52
sarah has had nine apparent seizures
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including this one documented on
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videotape at her grandparents house with
00:33:59
each episode she appeared to recover
00:34:01
more shards of her shattered memory can
00:34:06
you describe those people to me the
00:34:09
police however were still skeptical once
00:34:11
you see they put Sarah under hypnosis to
00:34:13
see if her story would hold up there's a
00:34:17
big muscles
00:34:20
she told the same story that she had
00:34:22
always told and at that time the
00:34:26
hypnotist told me in his opinion she was
00:34:28
being truthful
00:34:29
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00:34:31
but the police are still not sure too
00:34:34
many questions remain who are the
00:34:37
intruders why did they ransack the house
00:34:40
get steal nothing why did they leave no
00:34:42
evidence behind but even a fingerprint
00:34:45
or a footprint and finally does Sarah
00:34:48
have any of the crucial answers we're
00:34:51
not saying that she's being untruthful
00:34:54
we're saying we believe that she
00:34:56
believes she's telling the truth
00:34:59
but we're searching for more facts we
00:35:01
want to verify details and we want to
00:35:03
see if she's still repressing something
00:35:05
I believe that I remember detect
00:35:08
accurately I don't think there's
00:35:10
anything else to remember it's always
00:35:12
possible but I really feel like
00:35:14
everything is here and I'm ready to
00:35:20
maybe see if I can get some answers and
00:35:22
find out why this all happened
00:35:27
over the last three years sara has
00:35:29
gradually recovered the precious
00:35:31
memories that connect her to her family
00:35:33
once again Sara knows and loves her
00:35:36
mother her father and her sister but she
00:35:39
will never be the same
00:35:40
I think I'm completely recovered but
00:35:43
there still a few things just like
00:35:45
having nightmares I still have
00:35:47
nightmares you know there's a few things
00:35:50
like that but I think I'm I'm to where I
00:35:55
can at least handle it now based on
00:35:59
Sarah's description a police sketch
00:36:01
artist created a composite of the taller
00:36:03
male intruder as he might appear without
00:36:06
the stocking mask as several remembers
00:36:09
he is Caucasian approximately 5 feet 10
00:36:11
inches tall and very muscular he had a
00:36:14
tattoo of a cobra inked in blue on his
00:36:16
right bicep or shoulder
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in a moment the sabotage of an Amtrak
00:36:29
passenger train last October evokes
00:36:31
haunting memories of a similar tragedy
00:36:33
that occurred nearly 60 years ago
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00:36:51
October 9th 1995 by now the disturbing
00:36:55
images are familiar a twisted wreckage
00:36:58
of Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train
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strewn across the Arizona desert the
00:37:04
trainer jumped the track 60 miles
00:37:06
southwest of fields four cars
00:37:09
plunged more than 30 feet off a trestle
00:37:11
into a dry riverbed one person was
00:37:15
killed scores were injured cause of the
00:37:18
tragedy sabotage
00:37:21
when we arrived at the scene it was
00:37:25
apparent that someone had tampered with
00:37:27
the rails the investigation determined
00:37:30
that 29 spikes were removed purposely
00:37:33
removed and not only were the spikes
00:37:35
removed but someone had pushed the rail
00:37:37
inside so that the two rails were not
00:37:41
connected the tampering was simple but
00:37:45
deadly in a typical section of track the
00:37:48
rails are connected at a joint or the
00:37:50
spikes remove one rail was shifted a
00:37:53
mere four inches just enough to cause
00:37:55
the crash another piece of evidence
00:37:59
convinced authorities that the saboteur
00:38:01
or saboteurs had a working knowledge of
00:38:04
railroads
00:38:06
despite the break in the range the
00:38:08
signal circuits electrical wires that
00:38:11
run through the track remained intact
00:38:13
consequently the train crew had no
00:38:16
warning
00:38:18
the FBI believes that they picked that
00:38:20
particular spot in order to create the
00:38:22
most damage and possibly the most
00:38:25
injuries or death the train was going
00:38:28
about 50 miles an hour it's on a curve
00:38:30
and it occurred right before trestle hoe
00:38:36
derailed the Sunset Limited was it a
00:38:38
violent political statement by domestic
00:38:40
terrorists or an isolated act of revenge
00:38:43
by a describe a railroad employee
00:38:46
investigators soon discovered
00:38:48
frightening parallels to another act of
00:38:50
sabotage more than a half century ago in
00:38:54
1939 24 people were killed and 117
00:38:59
injured in a suspicious train wreck in
00:39:01
the Nevada desert the most mysterious
00:39:05
connection between both accidents the
00:39:06
1939 wreckin and the Sunset Limited
00:39:08
wreck of last year is the fact that the
00:39:11
sabotage was done ahead of a bridge in a
00:39:14
desert country of remote location there
00:39:17
was definitely care in advanced you know
00:39:20
that the wires were intact at all times
00:39:23
merely moving one piece of metal in this
00:39:26
case one rail a matter of less than four
00:39:28
inches allowed both trains to careen off
00:39:31
on the curve as they crossed the river
00:39:33
and the damage occurred curiously the
00:39:38
1939 crash had been profiled in a
00:39:40
journal for railroad buffs shortly
00:39:42
before the Amtrak accident the author
00:39:46
John Sigmund rejects the notion that his
00:39:48
article may have inspired the would-be
00:39:50
saboteur I see absolutely no connection
00:39:54
there my magazine was released only the
00:39:58
week of the derailment it was still
00:40:00
being distributed
00:40:01
I didn't even receive mine until five
00:40:02
days after the derailment in the mail
00:40:06
there's been a whole book published on
00:40:08
it there's been numerous articles on
00:40:10
that over the years it's it's widely
00:40:14
known the railroad Journal has a short
00:40:18
subscriber list federal authorities have
00:40:20
questioned many of the readers and come
00:40:22
up empty-handed leaving investigators
00:40:24
with just one other concrete clue in the
00:40:29
immediate vicinity of the accident site
00:40:31
FBI agents found four copies of a
00:40:33
computer written diatribe against the
00:40:35
United States government it was signed
00:40:38
sons of the Gestapo we have not been
00:40:43
able to determine the existence of such
00:40:46
a group but we're still trying to
00:40:49
investigate to determine whether or not
00:40:51
that is a red herring
00:40:53
to try to throw us off the investigation
00:40:55
or whether or not that particular group
00:40:57
exists
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00:40:59
the note was entitled indictment of the
00:41:01
ATF and the FBI and seemed to espouse an
00:41:04
extreme right-wing viewpoint it
00:41:07
denounced the federal sieges at Waco
00:41:09
Texas and Ruby Ridge Idaho but also
00:41:12
posed the question who is policing the
00:41:14
ATF FBI state troopers County Sheriff's
00:41:18
and local police but the no specific
00:41:21
reference to the shooting of a police
00:41:23
officer's wife who quote knows too much
00:41:26
about drug kickbacks may ultimately hold
00:41:28
the key to the author's identity based
00:41:33
upon that particular statement if we can
00:41:35
pinpoint that police officer or that
00:41:38
police department that might give us an
00:41:40
investigative leave to help us solve
00:41:42
this sabotage in Arizona people have to
00:41:46
feel safe when they take public
00:41:48
transportation and it's important to
00:41:51
solve this case so that we can show the
00:41:54
motive behind this particular sabotage
00:41:56
that this person is going to jail as a
00:41:59
result of this sabotage for an extremely
00:42:01
long time and that'll send a message to
00:42:03
anybody who might think about committing
00:42:06
sabotage in our rail system
00:42:12
the one person killed in the crash of
00:42:14
the Sunset Limited was a sleeping car
00:42:16
attendant named Mitchell Bates because
00:42:19
of his death the individual or
00:42:20
individuals responsible will be charged
00:42:22
with murder as well as sabotage
00:42:33
join me next Friday for the dramatic
00:42:36
season finale unsolved mysteries
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