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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast a night an unsolved mysteries
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the story of newlywed Shannan Davis who
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died in a riding accident Shannon's
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husband had purchased secret insurance
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policies totaling three hundred and
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thirty thousand dollars
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in Oklahoma Eileen Conway died in a
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mysterious car crash
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the Highway Patrol ruled it an accident
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her husband believes she was murdered
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in 1928 Glen and Bessie Hyde vanished on
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a Grand Canyon River trip fifty years
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later a secret skeleton was found
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in Concord California housewife Dottie
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catered terrified of unfamiliar places
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summoned the courage to take a train
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ride
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she has never returned
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our for mysteries tonight are connected
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by common threads unexplained
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circumstance
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deceit the suggestion of foul play that
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the heart of each is a husband and a
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wife these mysteries would be difficult
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to solve the stakes are high when
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people's lives are involved perhaps you
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can help we've recreated the events of
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each story and precise detail in the
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hope that someone somewhere knows the
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truth join me you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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on July 23rd 1980 in a small Michigan
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farming community newlyweds Dave and
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Shannon Davis prepared to go for a
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sunset horseback ride
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within an hour Shannon was dead
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according to Dave Shannon was not an
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experienced writer when they reached the
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edge of the woods she lost control and
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fell off the horse striking her head
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violently on the ground
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Dave's simple and plausible story was
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immediately accepted by the couple's
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family and friends I felt that Shannon's
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marriage was made in heaven
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I really felt this I had began to love
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David I described him probably to a lot
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of people as a man's man
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he was an outdoor person hunting fishing
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he just was very manly and very likeable
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and she'd say isn't he neat mom and I
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thought it was neat I thought he would
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protect her from anything I had no idea
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what he was really like after Shannon's
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death Bob and Lucille Moore began to
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discover that Dave Davis was not the man
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he seemed to be they began to find clues
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and days behavior which led them to
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believe that their daughter's death was
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not an accident Dave Davis has now
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disappeared there's a warrant out for
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his arrest but the Mohr's are afraid
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that their son-in-law may have gotten
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away with a perfect crime at the
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hospital
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Shannon was pronounced dead of the
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injuries caused by her fall minutes
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later Shannon's parents were surprised
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and upset on Dave insisted that their
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daughter's body be cremated I said can
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we take Shannon back to Toledo for bury
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list please let's take her back to
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Toledo let's take her home it's not what
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she wanted I suppose our voices were
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getting a little bit loud because I
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don't believe in cremation I knew
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Shannon didn't want that I felt so
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strongly that if he was going to insist
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on it I was gonna go try and find a
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judge and get a temporary restraining
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order to stop him from doing it
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that night Lucille couldn't sleep she
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remembered that her husband Bob had
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caught Dave in a lie about life
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insurance
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Bob says David do you have insurance on
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Shannon he said no and it just shot
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right through me I remembered Shannon
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coming home from her honeymoon the very
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next day saying David took out a large
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life-insurance on me that was the first
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line picked up three days later Shannon
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was buried Bob and Lucille Moore noticed
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that Dave seemed unmoved
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I blessed the body of Shannon holy water
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after the funeral Shannon's parents
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found out that David lived a life of
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deceit he bragged that he'd been wounded
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get Nam his own parents said he was
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never in the service all this was
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crowding in on me and I just all I could
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think inside is David did you kill my
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daughter and it just was there I knew
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that he had murdered my daughter I
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didn't know what to do with it I felt
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ashamed I just felt like I was going
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crazy inside
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two days after the burial six separate
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insurance companies contacted the
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funeral home requesting copies of
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Shannon's death certificate her death
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left Dave Davis the beneficiary of three
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hundred and thirty thousand dollars Bob
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Moore then discovered the Dave may have
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been involved in other insurance scams
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he burnt the farm down across the road
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and he had other fires and the fake
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injury from when he worked for the
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automotive company so I think he was
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just out to live on insurance money and
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he just kept getting bigger and bigger
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all the time
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he started out with a simple fire and
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now he was up to the point where he was
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gonna collect big insurance at Bob and
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Lucille Moore's insistence Shannon's
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body was exhumed the medical examiner
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found the injuries on the body
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consistent with a fall from a horse
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indications of an unknown drug however
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were found in Shannon's body but the
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medical report still ruled Shannon's
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death an accident three months later an
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article in the Detroit Free Press
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exposed Dave's alleged insurance
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swindles the case was reopened and Dave
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moved to Florida detective Don Brooks
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was assigned to the investigation the
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information was contained in that
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newspaper article was phenomenal I
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thought if this is even 50 percent
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accurate we're on to something here
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Brooks contacted the toxicologist who
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had earlier found traces of the unknown
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drug in Shannon's body I explained to
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him that we had a very large number of
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chemicals that we were looking at
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there's over 250 thousand chemicals in
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common use and we had searched for and
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ruled out maybe a thousand and I said
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what I need is some help
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metagraph right this is it you see the
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deepika right here and you see how nice
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and clean it is because it's so clean
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that means that I think it's a drug this
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is important to the case it's gotta be
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if we can identify he asked me actually
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for information about Davis's background
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one of the things I told him was that he
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was a Dirt Farmer and he had some large
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animals on the farm doctor 49 then
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discussed the idea of contacting
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veterinarians in the area that may have
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serviced Dave Davis I talked to you a
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little bit earlier I happened to ask
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three different vets in area if they
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knew of any drugs that may affect the
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muscular system or the nervous system
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that they would use on large farm
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animals and when I did so one of the
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veterinarians I talked to provided me
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the name of a drug dr. Forni tested that
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drug an animal tranquilizer it matched
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perfectly the sample taken from
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Shannon's body now Brookes needed to
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connect the drug the Dave Davis we're
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able to determine that several years ago
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Dave Davis took part in a deer hunting
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camp at which members of the camp used
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this drug to hunt deer with with bow and
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arrows Sharon was exhumed a second time
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to injection marks were found one on
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Shannon's shoulder and one on her wrist
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Dan Brooks called and he said bingo they
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found Shannon is injected with something
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and we're going to move now we're going
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to get him on October 13th 1981 a grand
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jury issued a first-degree murder
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warrant for Dave Davis
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detective Brooks believes that Dave
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Davis pushed or coaxed Shannon off her
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horse wrestled her to the ground and
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paralyzed her with a lethal tranquilizer
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Brooks believes that Dave then struck
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her head on a rock so that the injuries
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would appear accidental I don't think
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there's any question that this is
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premeditated murder
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I believe he married shannon davis to
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kill her and to profit i want to get him
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and I want him see him locked up and I
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want him to feel at all times that were
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breathing right down his back because I
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will not let go that can't bring her
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back but put him put him away before he
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does it to some other girl and he will
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he will after our broadcast a viewer
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recognized Dave Davis as an acquaintance
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living in American Samoa a small island
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in the South Pacific Davis was arrested
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nine days later by FBI agents at the
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time of his arrest Davis was living in
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this house with a 20 year old Samoan
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wife he told her that his first wife had
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died in a tragic accident
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three-and-a-half weeks later Davis was
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returned to Michigan to stand trial for
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murder
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didn't do it police say your wife was
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poisoned
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after only two and a half hours of
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deliberation a Michigan jury convicted
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Dave Davis of first-degree murder for
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Shannon's parents the verdict brought an
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end to their nine years struggle for
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justice this is what we waited for your
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life that we got what we wanted he's
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gonna be locked up the rest of his life
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that's what we wanted but we're on the
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rest of her life missing her that's why
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I said he gave us the death penalty now
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we're giving it to him
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last September he presented the mystery
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of George Marsh a Kansas City laborer
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who died alone in a nursing home in 1982
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he had no known heirs or relatives but
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he left behind a legacy of a hundred and
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seventy-five thousand dollars we hope to
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someone watching the broadcast might
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have known George Marsh or his heirs
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there were a few clues a birth
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certificate showing that George Marsh
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had changed his name from Joseph Zelenka
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and some family photos including this
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portrait of a young woman inscribed your
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loving niece
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Eleanor when I looked up and saw my
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senior high school picture on TV I
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couldn't believe it so then when he read
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your loving niece Eleanor did that
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that's how I signed I was just stunned I
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was just amazed and then the very next
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picture was Uncle Joe and I said to my
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gosh that's Uncle Joe this woman Eleanor
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taller is George Marcia's long-lost
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niece in the high school photo
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the Zelenka family lives in Rock Springs
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Wyoming Joseph's brother Jim has been
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looking for Joe since 1931 I'd never
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know they're no idea why he kept away
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from the family because there's no hard
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feelings we were all United always in
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everything the zelenka's are currently
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waiting for a final judgment from the
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public administrator's office in Kansas
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City Jim and Eleanor planted divide the
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hundred and seventy-five thousand
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dollars among Joe's surviving relatives
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but more importantly they want to
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preserve Joe's memory they intend to
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bring his body back to the family burial
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site
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the money you don't mean as much as
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finding out where he's at
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I just feel good all over to know that I
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located him and no worries that and I'd
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be able to bring his body back to rest
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with her rest of his family
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in our next story we'll meet a man who
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returned home to find his house empty
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the bathtub full of water a phone off
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the hook and his wife missing
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April 29th 1986 10:40 a.m.
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a farmer in rural Oklahoma notices an
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ominous plume of smoke rising from a
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nearby road we call the authorities
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20 minutes later the Oklahoma Highway
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Patrol arrived at the scene
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they found a burning car embedded and
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deserted bridge the heat was so intense
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that the cart actually melted into the
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metal guardrail and to which it had
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crashed when Highway Patrol arrived a
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body was inside the car at the time but
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it was futile exercise whatsoever to try
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to get two documents in the car due to
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the car had already burned so bad by the
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time the flames subsided the body behind
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the wheel was burned beyond recognition
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skid marks indicated that the car speed
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at impact was 50 to 60 miles per hour to
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the Highway Patrol is seemed like just
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another senseless accident a computer
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check revealed the car belonged to Pat
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Conway who lived with his family in
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Lawton Oklahoma 15 miles from the crash
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site the next day the victim was
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identified as Pat's wife of 33 years
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Aileen the Oklahoma Highway Patrol ruled
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Aileen Conway's death is a one vehicle
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fatality accident within hours of the
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crash however a number of mysterious
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discrepancies emerged which led Pat
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Conway to believe that his wife had in
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fact been a victim of foul play there's
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no doubt in my mind it was murder and if
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I live to be a hundred years old I'll
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still be pushing to try to find the
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individual or possibly two individuals
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whoever was involved
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Patt first became suspicious when he
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returned home a few hours after the
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accident the patio door was wide open
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Hayley's purse which she always carried
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with her was sitting by an armchair her
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driver's license and glasses were still
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in it an ironing board is setup and the
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iron had been left on water from a
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garden hose was running into the
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backyard swimming pool and most
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significantly in the master bathroom at
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the back of the house
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the tub was still full of water and the
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phone was off the hook
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the thing that really got my attention
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was the phone being off the hooker so
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she had attempted to make a phone call
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possibly the police department we have
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no way of knowing who between me and the
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kids one would say one thing and one
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another and we start putting it together
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and and right away we find out when
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there was no accident at all another
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disturbing detail magnate Pat what was
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Aileen doing out on that lonely country
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road neither of them had ever been in
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the area and there was certainly no
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reason for Aileen to be there by herself
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nothing about his wife's death made
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sense Pat contacted ray Anderson at the
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district attorney's office the first
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impression that I had of this case when
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I met with mr. Conway was that of a
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spouse that was left alone and behind
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not expecting the tragedy that happened
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and looking for an excuse or looking for
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some reason why this happened other than
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than just being an accident
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however when you start looking at the
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extenuating and surrounding
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circumstances the way that she left her
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house then it leads you to believe that
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there is possibility that there can be
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foul play that you and I take that side
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of the road and I'll take this dad just
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kind of look for anything a few days
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later Pat and Ray Anderson went to the
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crash site looking for clues any clue
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hey could you come over here a minute
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200 feet from the bridge they found a
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church bulletin in the grass yeah this
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is the church built and out of our car
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from the previous Sunday can it was on
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the dash of the car all right are you
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sure that side of your car you think I'm
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positive no doubt that's where it was a
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lien always drove with the windows
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rolled up and the air conditioning
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turned on the bulletin could not have
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flown out of a moving car the car would
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had to have been stopped someone else
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may have been with her opened the door
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set the accelerator and slammed it into
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drive hoping to run mrs. Conway off into
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the creek and to make it appear as
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though it was an accident
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as a result of Anderson's investigation
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the Lawton District Attorney changed the
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official cause of death from accidental
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to unexplained the DA then asked the
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Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
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and the State Fire Marshal to evaluate
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the likelihood of arson what made me
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suspicious at first was looking
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photographs and seeing how much burn
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that was in the vehicle this thing was
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completely burnt destroyed the burn was
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similar that were gasoline or something
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that like that was used in it and
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another thing that brought my curiosity
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up was in fact that the gas cap was
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missing and most arson cases and this is
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documented of a vehicle the gas cap is
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removed and that was the case here
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in formal burn tests on dashboard and
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upholstery samples from a car similar to
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a liens suggest the inside of her car
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may have been doused with gasoline we
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took the material and we applied a
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blowtorch to it set the material on
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florrum then remove the wrote orange and
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the buyer went out which is consistent
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with a flame retardant type material and
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then we took some gasoline and sokka
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material and then of course the thing
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was completely destroyed and being
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without some type of an accelerant like
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gasoline the fire would not burn that
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back if a lien Conway was murdered on
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the bridge that day one question still
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remains why we don't really have an
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answer for what put her out there a lot
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of theories floating around perhaps she
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interrupted a burglary we backtracked a
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little bit into the neighborhood and
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apparently there had been reports of
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burglaries in the weeks and months
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preceding this situation so the
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possibility of an interrupted burglary
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is there it had to be robbery whoever
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came in didn't know she was here and
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once they found out she was here they
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didn't want to leave her to identify
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them so then this makes murderers out of
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them if this case is so Billy because
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that there will be somebody that talks
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there will be somebody that admits their
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involvement in this and of course I'm a
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firm believer that that's what normally
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captures they're criminals is their
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inability to keep their mouth shut
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no one knows exactly what happened to a
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lien Conway on a remote country bridge
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in Oklahoma that day a year later at
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Conway is still searching for answers
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even though you're discouraged you you
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keep pushing it every day you constantly
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think about it when you go to bed of an
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eider get up in the morning it's on your
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mind on time but somehow it needs to be
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solved
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I'll never quit as far as trying to
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solve the case
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next the story of Glen and Bessie Hyde
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who disappeared on a perilous rafting
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trip on the Colorado River
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both were soon lost until a woman
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claiming to be Bessie Hyde said she
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murdered her husband
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the Colorado River cuts through the
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grande cap perilous stretch of water
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that was once considered the most
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dangerous in the world
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in 1928 two newly weds set out to
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navigate these pressures whitewater
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rapids were never seen again every cold
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a Grand Canyon photographer was one of
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the last people to see them alive 50
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years later when the cold died
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authorities were surprised by a gruesome
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discovery in his boathouse on the rim of
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the canyon hidden in a canoe was a
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single human skeleton that appeared to
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have suffered a violent death
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whose bones were these
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how did the victim die
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one good option would be that the
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individual met death by homicide a
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second option would be suicide it would
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be nice to know who this individual was
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I mean somebody is missing somebody was
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out there and there may be friends or
00:25:36
relatives who would very much like to
00:25:38
know who it is
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the disappearance of the honeymoon
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couple and the discovery of the human
00:25:43
remains in the boathouse happened almost
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50 years apart yet they were connected
00:25:48
by an article in an Idaho newspaper and
00:25:51
by the Arizona law authorities they
00:25:54
suggested that the bones might be those
00:25:56
of the adventurous young river after
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Glen Hyde tonight we'll examine these
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mysteries of the Grand Canyon what
00:26:04
happened at Glen Hyde and his bride
00:26:05
Bessie is their disappearance connected
00:26:08
to the secrets of the bones in the
00:26:10
boathouse Glen and Bessie Hyde were
00:26:15
married in Twin Falls Idaho on April
00:26:17
10th 1928 Glen was 27 Bessie just 18
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years old
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that fall they built a boat for a
00:26:29
special honeymoon adventure a trip down
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the Colorado River to California through
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the dangerous Grand Canyon Glen was a
00:26:38
thrill seeker this journey would mean
00:26:40
instant notoriety Glen wanted to make a
00:26:45
record run through the Grand Canyon you
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want to do it in a homemade boat you
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want to do it with a new bride who had
00:26:52
never been on rivers before and he
00:26:54
wanted to do without life jackets in the
00:26:57
fall of the year about six months after
00:26:58
they were married they were in Green
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River Utah an experienced River man at
00:27:03
the Green River looked at the boat and
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he thought it looked to him like a
00:27:06
coffin it was unlike anything that had
00:27:08
run down the Colorado before
00:27:18
the hides took 26 days to get from Utah
00:27:21
to the Bright Angel Trail to the heart
00:27:23
of the Grand Canyon a new record where
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the most dangerous stretch still ahead
00:27:29
they stopped to see Emery Kolb who had
00:27:32
already twice navigated the Colorado
00:27:34
River Rapids Kolbert arrived at the
00:27:39
canyon in 1902 and said about
00:27:41
documenting its grandeur his stunning
00:27:44
photographs and immense knowledge of the
00:27:46
river soon made Emery Kolb a legend he
00:27:51
was a very enthusiastic about his River
00:27:55
trips and so proud of everybody that I
00:27:58
know those interested in the river at
00:28:01
all all the years I was there first came
00:28:03
and talked to em Rico well the Hyde's
00:28:11
visited cold Bessie had grown tired of
00:28:14
the river trip Henry tried to warn them
00:28:18
of the certain dangers ahead he asked
00:28:21
them to stay with him through the winter
00:28:22
and postpone their trip until the
00:28:23
weather improved he even offered the
00:28:27
couple his own life jackets but Glenn
00:28:29
refused all coab's offers there's really
00:28:31
no reason to fear both Bessie and I are
00:28:33
good strong swimmers come on Bessie the
00:28:35
light will be fading mr. cope told me
00:28:38
that he tried his best everywhere in the
00:28:40
world are talking about it going he said
00:28:42
you have no idea of what you're getting
00:28:44
into he's not been there and I know what
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it's like
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Thank You me exactly there isn't and
00:28:55
even inner tubes in the went flat for
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you he said that I'm gonna do it without
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or else
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two days later Glen and Bessie
00:29:16
disappeared
00:29:18
Army aviators flew into the canyon and
00:29:20
spotted the empty boat below Diamond
00:29:23
Creek
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00:29:30
Emery Kolb was asked to lead the search
00:29:33
party to find the last couple
00:29:36
surprisingly when he discovered the boat
00:29:38
it was undamaged boats seemed to be
00:29:48
intact it closed food
00:29:51
Glen's rifle was on board camera with
00:29:54
exposed film there's a very sketchy
00:29:57
diary but a diary that Bessie Hyde had
00:29:59
been keeping was on board they found
00:30:02
everything there except for the people
00:30:04
there's no sign of them
00:30:11
the bodies of Glen and Bessie Hyde were
00:30:14
never recovered 50 years later the
00:30:18
discovery of the bones in Kolb's
00:30:20
boathouse fueled speculation could these
00:30:23
be the remains of Glen Hyde and how are
00:30:26
they connected to Emery Kolb
00:30:28
get him examined the authorities turned
00:30:33
the skeleton over to dr. Walter Burke be
00:30:36
an expert in the science of identifying
00:30:38
human remains he discovered that the
00:30:42
bones are of a male Caucasian 20 to 23
00:30:45
years of age 6 feet tall with light
00:30:48
brown hair dr. Brooke B also discovered
00:30:53
a bullet embedded in the skull what we
00:30:57
found out from the from the bullet that
00:31:00
was removed from the skull was that not
00:31:04
only was this a 32 caliber projectile
00:31:06
that came from revolver that began
00:31:11
manufacturing about 1902 two point one
00:31:15
centimeters the production date of the
00:31:17
gun and clothing fragments found with a
00:31:19
skeleton suggest the death occurred in
00:31:21
the 1920s during that time only two
00:31:26
people Glen and Bessie Hyde are known to
00:31:29
have disappeared in the Grand Canyon
00:31:30
stature still somewhere along the line I
00:31:35
heard a rumor to the effect that Emery
00:31:39
Kolb could have murdered Glen Hyde in
00:31:44
order that he could have I guess
00:31:47
beautiful Bessie it's so preposterous
00:31:50
and that I just can't believe it that he
00:31:53
would off somebody and and then keep the
00:31:56
damn body around you got verticality on
00:31:59
his marriage yes we're gonna have to
00:32:03
rotate that more than the left dr. Burke
00:32:06
be hoped up with the rumors to rest you
00:32:09
superimposed a photograph of Glenn over
00:32:11
the skull to precisely compare bone
00:32:13
structure even more this was the only
00:32:17
way to determine if the skeleton was
00:32:19
indeed
00:32:20
knives these skull is of a different
00:32:27
shape than the face of Glenn hide the
00:32:30
eye orbits themselves are angled in a
00:32:33
different direction than Glenn heights
00:32:34
the cheeks are wider even the shape of
00:32:38
the chin is wrong when hides chin was
00:32:41
somewhat rounded as we can see on the
00:32:43
photograph whereas the chin of the
00:32:45
submitted skull tends to be fairly
00:32:47
squared off so those features alone do
00:32:52
not match these remains these bones were
00:32:58
submitted for analyses are not the
00:33:00
remains of Glenn hide period end of
00:33:04
story
00:33:08
but the story in fact does go on the
00:33:11
mystery deepens
00:33:13
if the balls did not belong to Glen Hyde
00:33:15
and what happened to Glen and Bessie
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[Music]
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the answer may lie in the eyewitness
00:33:23
reports claim Bessie Hyde is still alive
00:33:26
and that she was seen back in the Grand
00:33:28
Canyon retracing the steps of her
00:33:30
ill-fated honeymoon adventure 43 years
00:33:33
after she disappeared in 1971 an unknown
00:33:39
woman took a 20-day rafting trip through
00:33:41
the canyon geologist George Billingsley
00:33:44
was also in the party she was a very
00:33:48
serious person she was always just
00:33:50
watching the canyon and helping out a
00:33:53
little bit around camp all time wanted
00:33:55
to do something and very happy but quiet
00:33:59
and pretty much to herself towards the
00:34:03
end of the trip they made camp at
00:34:05
Diamond Creek the same spot where Glen
00:34:09
and Bessie Spode had been found four
00:34:11
decades earlier that evening a river
00:34:15
guide told the legend of the missing
00:34:17
couple and the woman matter-of-factly
00:34:19
revealed her true identity I'm Bessie hi
00:34:25
she told us seriously enough to where we
00:34:27
wouldn't sure what else to say
00:34:29
but we all figured she was just making
00:34:31
up her own story now but later on you
00:34:34
know we got to thinking now maybe she
00:34:36
really was Bessie because the age was
00:34:38
she never smiled when she said what she
00:34:40
said as if she really knew he beat me up
00:34:53
according to the woman Glenn was
00:34:55
obsessed with completing the trip no
00:34:57
matter how dangerous when she tried to
00:35:00
leave a fight erupted
00:35:02
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00:35:17
I've got the full name of the woman then
00:35:19
eventually contacted her back in Ohio
00:35:22
the one I asked her about the hides and
00:35:24
their disappearance she denied
00:35:27
everything she said she hadn't told the
00:35:30
story she said she didn't know anybody
00:35:32
named Hyde and she says she wasn't
00:35:34
Bessie Hyde my gut feeling though is
00:35:37
that she was the mystery surrounding the
00:35:43
story still remain unsolved if the bones
00:35:49
at Emory copse boathouse are not Glen
00:35:50
hides whose are they and why did coke
00:35:54
keep them hidden in that canoeing for so
00:35:55
many years the mysteries have survived
00:35:58
the years and for now they remain part
00:36:02
of the legend of the Grand Canyon
00:36:05
[Music]
00:36:11
next the story of a woman trapped in her
00:36:14
house by agoraphobia the irrational fear
00:36:17
of unknown people and places strangely
00:36:20
she has vanished
00:36:31
the Bay Area Rapid Transit System known
00:36:34
to commuters as the Bart trains link San
00:36:37
Francisco with the East Bay cities
00:36:42
On June 12th 1985 jewel Kaler drove his
00:36:46
wife Dottie to the BART station in
00:36:48
Pleasant Hill California 18 miles from
00:36:51
Oakland she entered the station and
00:36:54
purchased a ticket a simple task
00:36:57
performed each day by millions but this
00:36:59
was a test of courage for Dottie Caylor
00:37:02
Dottie suffers from agoraphobia an
00:37:05
irrational overwhelming fear being in
00:37:08
public places facing the unknown and the
00:37:12
possibility of panic shadows every step
00:37:17
no one knows if Dottie overcame her fear
00:37:20
that day and actually boarded the train
00:37:22
what is certain is that for two and a
00:37:24
half years there's been no trace of
00:37:27
Dottie King
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[Music]
00:37:32
Oh after the first few days I thought
00:37:35
that she had left temporarily too well
00:37:41
simply make things inconvenient for me I
00:37:45
think that Dottie could have disappeared
00:37:48
to get even with her husband who had
00:37:51
disappeared on her for half of their
00:37:53
married life she could have done that in
00:37:56
the beginning it's very hard to imagine
00:37:58
her doing that for a great long period
00:38:00
of time immediately after she
00:38:04
disappeared daddy's friends wondered why
00:38:06
a woman so afraid of the unknown would
00:38:08
leave behind everything she had and
00:38:10
everyone she knew at first they thought
00:38:15
she may have left to escape an unhappy
00:38:17
marriage start a new life in another
00:38:19
city but as a months and years elapsed
00:38:22
there was no word from Dottie holidays
00:38:25
birthdays and anniversaries went by now
00:38:28
daddy's friends and family are wondering
00:38:30
could she really have vanished
00:38:31
voluntarily or was her disappearance
00:38:34
more sinister in 1973 Dottie married
00:38:39
jewel cater an entomologist with a
00:38:41
national forest service they settled in
00:38:45
the Oakland suburb of Concord but over
00:38:48
the years her home became a self-imposed
00:38:50
prison
00:38:52
Dottie had what doctors have called
00:38:55
agoraphobia she would stay inside most
00:38:58
of the time she couldn't even apply for
00:39:01
a job much less hold one down it was a
00:39:04
real problem
00:39:05
[Music]
00:39:09
dottie and Jules Mary's deteriorated da
00:39:12
D was often a home alone because jewel
00:39:14
was working out of town over 50% of the
00:39:16
time then in November of 1981 the
00:39:20
relationship erupted in violence she
00:39:25
told me that they got in an argument it
00:39:27
escalated to the point where he finally
00:39:29
hit her with a board or something and
00:39:31
she received a wound in her head and and
00:39:36
that she did grab some scissors and said
00:39:39
you keep away from me and protected
00:39:41
herself and she was standing over top of
00:39:44
me with those scissors Jewell says that
00:39:47
dotty started the fight swearing at me
00:39:50
and saying I'll kill you you son I'll
00:39:53
kill you and I grabbed her little typing
00:39:59
stand and hit her with it dotty needed
00:40:05
to pull together the threads of her
00:40:07
disintegrating life so in 1984 she
00:40:10
joined a support group called women in
00:40:12
transition without ever telling jewel
00:40:15
she attended meetings for over a year I
00:40:18
met her in the fall and of course the
00:40:21
last time I saw her was in late spring
00:40:23
and I thought she'd made a tremendous
00:40:25
amount of progress actually as time went
00:40:28
on I would notice she's adding a little
00:40:29
more color to her outfits she is taking
00:40:34
a little more care with her hair she cut
00:40:36
her hair in a new style which was very
00:40:38
scary thing for her It was as if a new
00:40:41
Dottie were emerging
00:40:43
she had secret lives a secret existence
00:40:47
that I knew nothing about and she wanted
00:40:51
it that way she pursued that I only
00:40:55
began to become aware of it Oh near the
00:40:58
time that she disappeared I wasn't even
00:41:00
aware of it I was just suspicious
00:41:02
Dottie secretly rented a post office box
00:41:05
as she could receive mail without jewels
00:41:07
knowledge she opened a personal bank
00:41:11
account and transferred five thousand
00:41:13
dollars into a cashier's check then one
00:41:16
month before Dottie disappeared jewel
00:41:18
told her he had to accept a job transfer
00:41:20
to Salt Lake City
00:41:24
dottie had said in the event that i got
00:41:27
transferred that she was not interested
00:41:29
in going with me so I wasn't expecting
00:41:33
her to go with me and wouldn't even have
00:41:37
wanted her to I guess according to
00:41:41
Jewell on Wednesday June 12th dotty set
00:41:44
off on an overnight trip he drove her to
00:41:47
the Pleasant Hill BART station I took
00:41:54
her down to the BART station she had
00:42:01
with her a little overnight bag and I
00:42:06
dropped her off then she walked around
00:42:09
the corner of the station and
00:42:11
disappeared jewel is certain that dotty
00:42:17
had her purse as well as her overnight
00:42:19
bag as she walked into the station for
00:42:21
the last time but he can't be sure that
00:42:24
Dottie ever boarded the train
00:42:33
the next day around noon Jill returned
00:42:36
home early from work and got off the
00:42:38
train at the Concord BART station in the
00:42:41
parking lot he was surprised to find
00:42:43
daddy's Volkswagen next to his car
00:42:46
so I walked over and looked inside and
00:42:49
then I noticed her purse and that was
00:42:54
very very strange she told me how
00:42:58
important it was to her to have her
00:43:00
purse with her all the time she felt
00:43:02
secure if she felt she had a lot of her
00:43:05
things with her and she felt safe out in
00:43:07
the world that's one of the things that
00:43:09
made me feel so terribly upset when I
00:43:12
realized that she had not taken her
00:43:14
purse with her jewel left a note on
00:43:17
Daddy's car asking her to contact him
00:43:21
over the next four days he left two more
00:43:23
notes talking about problems he was
00:43:26
having with a house he also expressed
00:43:28
his love and pleaded with her to come
00:43:31
home I spoke to jewel and jewel told me
00:43:36
that he hadn't seen her for three or
00:43:38
four days and he didn't know where she
00:43:39
was and that she that her car was was
00:43:44
there her purse was there and he didn't
00:43:46
know where she was I was extremely upset
00:43:48
I asked him if he called the police and
00:43:51
he said that he had not and this made me
00:43:54
very just almost hysterical five days
00:43:59
after Dottie vanished jewel filed a
00:44:02
missing persons report with a Bay Area
00:44:04
Rapid Transit Police the following day
00:44:06
the Concord Police Department was
00:44:08
finally notified of Dottie's
00:44:10
disappearance not by jewel but by the
00:44:13
BART police
00:44:15
two weeks after Dottie vanished jewel
00:44:18
moved to Salt Lake City where he still
00:44:20
lives and works back in Concord Dianne
00:44:26
hired a private investigator
00:44:27
Francie Kohler
00:44:30
the status of the case of this coin is
00:44:33
we view it as I view it as 10%
00:44:36
missing-persons case and 90% potential
00:44:39
foul play as their attempts to locate
00:44:43
dotty turned up no new leads Diana and
00:44:46
Francie started to worry that dotty
00:44:47
might be dead they began to consider
00:44:50
jewel as suspect we don't know for sure
00:44:53
if dotty ever got to the BART station
00:44:56
the only one that has reported that
00:44:57
dotty went to the BART station is her
00:44:58
husband jewel we don't know if she ever
00:45:00
got there if this was proves to be
00:45:05
anything other than a straight
00:45:06
disappearance case jewel will be a
00:45:08
suspect in her disappearance or in her
00:45:12
death whatever it may be you know along
00:45:13
with anybody else that may have been
00:45:16
close to her at the time or prior to her
00:45:18
disappearance you would certainly
00:45:20
consider those around that person as
00:45:24
being possible possible suspects no that
00:45:28
doesn't bother me at all I suspect that
00:45:31
she either willfully disappeared and
00:45:38
then was helped to permanently disappear
00:45:41
or perhaps just got in with the the the
00:45:49
wrong person right at the start
00:45:56
two and a half years have passed and
00:45:58
still no one knows if dotty cater built
00:46:01
a secret life for herself to escape an
00:46:03
unhappy marriage or if she was simply
00:46:06
the victim of foul play
00:46:09
I think there's a chance that Dottie is
00:46:11
dead which is very disturbing to think
00:46:13
about I have many dreams about this and
00:46:16
the authorities I speak to and the
00:46:18
friends I speak to come up with hundreds
00:46:20
of ideas there's no peace there's no
00:46:23
rest
00:46:24
there's no conclusion and we won't
00:46:28
forget her it was hell living with
00:46:33
Dottie it was hell having her disappear
00:46:40
the way that she did and yet since I've
00:46:46
gotten here and gotten settled and into
00:46:51
a new job and that whole problem is
00:46:54
behind me
00:46:57
things are really pretty good
00:47:02
[Music]
00:47:10
tonight's mysteries are stories without
00:47:12
endings all missing that one vital clue
00:47:16
perhaps someone watching tonight knows
00:47:18
what happened and can reveal the truth
00:47:20
perhaps as you
00:47:24
[Music]
00:47:54
[Applause]
00:47:56
[Music]
