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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 in real New York two intruders
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bound and gagged Esther greasy ransacked
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her house and shot her husband
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point-blank just recently a police
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informant revealed as Stanley gryszek
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may have died because he was a man who
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knew too much
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the FBI is searching for an electronics
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whiz kid allegedly used his talents to
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break into classified government
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computer networks obtained military
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secrets and wiretap private phones an
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innocuous case of computer hacking or a
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breach of national security also tonight
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a poignant update on our story about a
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seven-year-old girl who made a solemn
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vow to a sick friend 21 years ago thanks
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to our viewers Nicki Crowder has finally
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fulfilled her promise and we filmed
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their joyous reunion join me for another
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edition of unsolved mysteries
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Rome New York 240 miles northwest of
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Manhattan this is a kind of small town
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that finds its way to Norman Rockwell
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paintings
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there's a working-class community where
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everybody knows everything about
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everyone else at least it seemed that in
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1957 the 1976 Stanley greasy and his
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family own a small liquor store and gas
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station in the heart of town
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Stanley was in charge of the liquor
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store his brother Peter ran the gas
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station along with a third brother
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Bernard Stanley and his wife Esther live
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right next door to the family business
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their life seemed happy and secure until
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the night of November 6 1976 dad had
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just gone upstairs to run fans bathwater
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mom went through the house doing her
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nightly check
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she did a nightly ritual where she would
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go and check all the windows and doors
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and make sure everything was life
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my mother was deaf and she were hearing
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aid with hearing aid she could hear very
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well and she had just finished in the
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kitchen when she heard a loud noise and
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as she turned around a back door just
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flew open two men came into the house
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they both had ski masks one was short
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and stocky and one was tall and thinner
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I think my father probably heard the
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initial noise of the screen door being
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broken and heard my mother scream and it
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came down the stairs as he turned go
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into the dining room I think he startled
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the perpetrator yeah
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the shorter stockier man was already at
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my mother's throat and was choking her
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and in the process knocked her hearing
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aid out of her ear
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and she said she just played dad she
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just wouldn't move she just laid there
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she tried to hold her breath so she what
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they would thought she died
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while she was laying on the floor she
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said she laid this pearl-handled gun
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next to my face she says I could see it
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I opened my eye just a little tiny bit
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and I could see
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they spent a good hour in the house just
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ransacking it totally they took all the
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stuff out of the desk threw everything
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on the floor their pillows they ripped
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moms knitting in her yarn they threw all
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over I mean they obviously were looking
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for something but what they were looking
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for I have no idea she said I just
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waited there until I could feel no more
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vibrations in the house as she figures
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that that is when they left somehow she
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managed to get her hands untied from her
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feet and her feet untied her hands were
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still tied behind her back but she did
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manage to go into the dining room and
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find my dad laying on the floor dad
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the shock of her husband's murder was
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too much for Esther breezy she herself
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died within two years
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my mother you could say died that night
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she's just existed for the next 21
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my father had one of those where
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marriages where they were extremely
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close
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without dad I mean her life was gone
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from the beginning a cloud of suspicion
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loomed over the investigation of Stanley
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Gris six murders the night of the
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killing
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police bar the gryszek family from
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entering the home after through
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researching the ransacked house
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investigators determined that the only
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things missing were two bottles of beer
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from the refrigerator
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it appeared to investigators as if the
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ransacking was to look for an item
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possibly or a piece of paper that mr.
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gryszek may have had hidden somewhere
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the next day the family was finally
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permitted to enter the hall but
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Stanley's son made a disturbing
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discovery which curiously the police had
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overlooked my brother-in-law and myself
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were in the house and we were trying to
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straighten things up and I was in the
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dining room where my father had been
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killed and the rug was kind of messed up
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from the table being pushed so it got
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down on her hands and knees and tried to
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straighten the rug out thank you look at
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this while I was doing that I happened
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to notice the shell casing on the rug I
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mean it wasn't embedded in the rug or
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anything and was lying right out on the
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rug it's a shell casing don't touch it
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I'm sure that if anybody had done a
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thorough job of scouring the floor they
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would have found it and picked it up
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with a pencil and put it in a plastic
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bag and call up the Rome Police
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Department I one detective came over and
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I showed him where I found it on the
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floor and he looked at it yeah that's a
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shell casing all right and I proceeded
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to put it in his packet and said let's
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not mention this to anyone that's for
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the time being who's I'd argue
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the official autopsy reports data the
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stanley grease 'ok had been killed by a
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single stab wound to the heart
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i can believe the police kept insisting
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that it was a knife that killed my
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father and my mother repeatedly told him
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it was a pearl-handled gun it was a
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small gun she told me laid it right down
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next to my face she says I could see it
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it was not a knife and they kept
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insisting it was a knife well we knew
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that was totally false that my father
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had been killed by a stab wound we had
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found a shell casing we explained to the
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police that there was no guns in the
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house the only way that shell could have
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got here was that it was fired in this
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house
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Stanly Greece expiry was exhumed and a
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second autopsy performed if revealed his
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family was killed by a 25 caliber bullet
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fired through his chest there never had
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been a stab wound was the entire
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incident involving the bullet simply a
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series of unfortunate mistakes or could
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someone have been trying to protect the
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killer's identity
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Stanly greece experiment with a knife
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but who and why
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it seemed that these questions would
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remain forever unanswered until last
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year
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in March of 1989 an acknowledged drug
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dealer came to the police with a
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startling story he claimed to know the
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identity of Stan agree six killed
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although he did not know the motive in
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1976 the informant was working at a bar
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in Rome he claimed that a man associated
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with a bar made him a strange
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proposition just a few days before
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Stanley gryszek was killed that was
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tendered borg-warner
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and a person approached me and wanted me
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to take it even
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so if you drove around for a little bit
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and pulled the Denali over here needles
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I want you to break you - well stem
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cells money give me a lot of money the
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guy's got a lot of money in that house
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and I want you to go read them all why
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Stanley that's my business remember both
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of our goal
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just our bundle and never gone like you
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need anybody's house and so it was like
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disturbed with me maybe already goes to
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take you back to the bar as you can see
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here the Sistine
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service station that's adjacent to the
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house based on this new information the
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case was reactivated and a new team of
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investigators assigned they contacted
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Amy Scott Standley Greece ixnay burr at
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the time of the murders on November 6
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1976 Amy Scott said she was in the house
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watching TV and at the conclusion of one
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of the programs her dog had become
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Restless and she let him out to run
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around a little bit outside Amy told
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investigators that shortly after 11:00
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p.m. she saw a man walking through the
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alley towards Stanley grease exhale I
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let my dog stay off maybe a half an hour
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to 45 minutes and then I opened the door
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I went on my porch
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to call my dog back in Sam then I looked
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up and I saw this guy coming through the
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same pathway that I noticed before only
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this time he was headed toward a white
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car
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he got in the car and then I most it was
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another man in her sleeve he found on
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the street very fast and I yelled at him
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because he just came with the answers of
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hitting my dog
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a few days after the murder Amy saw the
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men in the Lincoln again
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it was around five o'clock and I was
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headed to the bank as I drove and it was
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two cars ahead of me and I was waiting
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and I just happened to look through my
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rearview mirror and I saw this white
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tire
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and suddenly I realize this was the same
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man the same term that I had seen
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earlier at the murder scene
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I got really nervous I started my car up
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and I speed it down the street
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I was really praying at his drove like
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crazy like at the police station
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ran up the steps I'm not a policeman and
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I told him what was happening we got in
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his car and we drove around a couple of
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lives up and down but we never saw him
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again
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Amy led the investigators to Patsy Peck
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a local book store owner Patsy told him
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that on the day before kleezak shmurda
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she had met the same two men at her
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store
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she also said they were driving a white
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Lincoln cotton at her it was the tall
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dark man we had on a trenchcoat and had
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up a nylon pile collar the other man was
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shorter and sandy haired and he had been
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out of town for a while had you seen my
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husband in quite a long way okay good
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then they started reminiscing you know a
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little about when they were here before
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and all that told him they'd see him
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again before they left and they left
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investigators asked Patsy why she had
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not come forward with this information
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before surprisingly she said she had
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talked with one of the original
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detectives we do know that the
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investigators talked to Patsy and Amy
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but we looked at our files and found
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there wasn't anything put down on
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documentation form as to their interview
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with Patsy Peck investigator Saunders
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and Keyes learned that shortly after
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Stanley Gries exploiter the same two men
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were spotted at a local bar we located a
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man that was in the bar about two or
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three nights after the murder everything
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all right
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you want it he told us that a couple of
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men had come into the bar matching the
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descriptions that were published in the
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paper they met with another man in the
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back of the bar who handed him a large
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sum of money and they turned left he was
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kind of curious so he said wasn't that
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so-and-so and the individual who had
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given him the money said yes it was and
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he said well why did you give him that
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large amount of money and he said they'd
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done a job for me and now they had to
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leave town authorities begin searching
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for a connection between Stanley Drew's
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exposure and the bar where the informant
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had worked and the two men had been seen
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they discovered that the bars liquor
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license had been held by Peter greasing
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Stanley's older brother then Stanley's
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children related a puzzling incident
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that had occurred eight months before
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the murder the key degrees it was
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gravely ill and Stanley went to visit
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him
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close the door away across the door
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close the door
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no one knows what was sent behind that
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closed door but the two brothers who had
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always been close never spoke again
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Peter died four months later and his
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family's behavior seemed to change I had
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spent a three-day weekend with my dad he
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seemed in a good mood but he seemed a
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little distant when he hooked me goodbye
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he said a very strange thing I don't
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know when I'll ever see you again and
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that was the last time I saw him again
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the barn question had his liquor license
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revoked in 1982 the reason on sight
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gambling in the illegal sale of
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controlled substances today the bar
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remains closed I think he knew that
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there was a great deal of drug activity
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happening in that bar gambling it
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happens almost everywhere
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I think people learned to adjust to that
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but the drug situation I know that my
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father would never be able to condone or
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have his name linked to it
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why was Stanley crazy murdered had he
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learned something from his dying brother
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that put his own life at risk
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if my father knew something he did not
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share that information was my mother or
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my brother and my sister or I it was
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just something that he kept to himself
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and that was why being honest as he was
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was the cause of his death
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why did Stanley's assailants ransack his
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home
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remain in the house for 45 minutes to an
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hour and then leave apparently taking
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only two beers from the refrigerator
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and finally is there a connection
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between the bar Peter gryszek and
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Stanley's death although crucial
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evidence in the case has mysteriously
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disappeared investigators believe that
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it may take but one vital clue to piece
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together the bizarre puzzle of Stanley
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gryszek smarter these are composite
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drawings of the two men seen driving the
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white Lincoln Continental authorities
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are asking anyone with information
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regarding these men to come forward on a
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previous broadcast we profiled a con man
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who allegedly seduces lonely middle-aged
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women with promises of wealth and
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romance then skips town with our money
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police have dubbed him the sweetheart
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swindler
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[Music]
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in August of 1989 a woman who asked that
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we call her Sarah met a man named Jerry
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Gable Sarah quickly succumbed to Jerry's
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hypnotic charms he told her that he was
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a successful traveling jewelry salesman
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now that she was just the type of woman
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he wanted to share his life with less
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than two days Jerry asked Sarah to be
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his wife he was a type of a man that
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took control this was something that I
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liked I like someone to kind of take
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over take charge you know it's really
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nice to think that I'm maybe would be
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able to relax to travel to have all
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these nice things and I wouldn't have to
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work to me this was very appealing
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a few days later Jerry asked Sarah to
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deposit not a state check into
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withdrawal $3,000 in cash for him at the
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time Sarah had no idea that the check
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was stolen that afternoon Jerry gable
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disappeared Sarah never saw him or her
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$3,000 again I was angry truly I was
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angry it's a very devastating feeling
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and I'd like to see him pay for it
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update the sweetheart swindler has been
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captured on March 28th 1991 police in
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Kenosha Wisconsin arrested a man calling
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himself Robert cook after he allegedly
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romanced a woman and then swindled her
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out of ten thousand dollars at the time
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of cooks arrest police recovered a dozen
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false identification cards all issued in
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different aliases from various states
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they also found blank checks apparently
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stolen from previous victims
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[Music]
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when we return the intriguing saga of a
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young computer wizard who may be using
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his skills to obtain classified
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government information
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[Music]
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inside the labyrinth of the telephone
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companies huge computer system one feels
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a sense of insignificance it seems
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impossible that any single person could
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jam up these sophisticated works yet
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think of it all the interactive
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computers across the country are linked
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by telephone lines both private citizens
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and classified government operations can
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be vulnerable to a computer genius run
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amok
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[Music]
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Kevin Poulsen grew up in the Los Angeles
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suburb of North Hollywood his mother
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died when he was still young one of
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Kevin's friends describes him as very
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bright with great potential but always
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painfully shy
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[Music]
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Kevin Poulsen received his first
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computer on a 16th birthday
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like most devoted hackers he adopted a
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colorful pseudonym Kevin Poulsen became
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dark Dante eventually he discovered a
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telephone number for ARPANET a computer
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network funded by the Pentagon it links
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university and think-tank computers
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across the country by telephone lines
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for dark Dante our planet was a
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tantalizing challenge
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after connecting his modem with the
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ARPANET telephone number
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Kevin realized he was hooked up to
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military research at the University of
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California Berkeley he needed a password
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that would allow him access to sensitive
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documents in the Berkeley computer he
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guessed several passwords with no luck
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then he tried the university's initials
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UCB Kevin was inside ARPANET he liked
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the idea of having power that was
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Kevin's thing he wanted to have power
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over other people over the people that
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he saw as being beneath him dark Dante's
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activities were soon detected by UCB and
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Kevin slipped and on one occasion only
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used his real name as said of dark Dante
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he was trapped blissfully unaware Kevin
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continued his hacking activities giving
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authorities even more ammunition against
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him
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dan would just put that in my car please
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you're taking my computer as alimony of
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September 22nd 1983 the Los Angeles DA
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confiscated Kevin's computer look Kevin
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you and your buddy
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have committed a crime here you're only
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17 we're gonna try to keep you out of
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this but your buddy's going to jail
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because of his age he was not officially
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charged totally warned that his computer
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activities were illegal the warning
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apparently fell on deaf ears
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during the next year Kevin took a high
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school equivalency exam and moved out of
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his Paris house to Northern California
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[Music]
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but dark Dante had not died with Kevin's
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move he had simply changed locations in
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his off hours Kevin Poulsen continued to
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cruise the electronic highways cloaked
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with a pseudonym this time he never gave
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his real name or his location
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on February 9th 1988 the owners of a
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storage facility in Northern California
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made a routine stop at a locker which
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the rent had not been paid standard
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procedure in such cases is to confiscate
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the material in the locker but the
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contents of this locker here's something
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the men had never seen before it
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appeared to be stolen telephone company
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equipment the owners notified the
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authorities telephone company
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investigator John von Braun along with a
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local police arrived immediately we
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found a storage locker that can obtain
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pieces of electronic equipment payphones
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computer printouts including the
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printout of the published number of the
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Soviet embassy San Francisco that's not
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the type of equipment or material that
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one would buy at a swap meet or find in
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a dumpster
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it was quite obviously stolen property
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whose Locker is some guy by the name of
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John Anderson her name John Anderson was
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a fake but several items in the locker
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bore the name Kevin Poulsen it appeared
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as if dark Dante had been caught again
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authorities apprehended Kevin who agreed
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to a consent search of his apartment
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they were astonished to find that Kevin
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had a complete wiretapping facility in a
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spare bedroom the equipment is switch
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room allowed mr. Paulson not only to
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enter computer databases ours and others
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and it also gave him the ability to
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monitor telephone conversations without
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the parties to the conversation being
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aware that they were being monitored how
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about the test set over there connected
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to Kevin's computer was an unauthorized
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test set which could be used to tap into
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private phone line only the telephone
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company and through them legally
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authorized law enforcement officers are
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allowed to use test sets incredibly the
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authorities found photographs Kevin
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Poulsen had taken of himself breaking
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into a telephone switching trailer then
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using the equipment inside Kevin's Eagle
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provided the phone company with the
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evidence they needed to bring in the FBI
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we determined that the acts that Paulson
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was involved in had escalated we found
00:27:09
evidence that Paulson had penetrated the
00:27:12
United States government computer and it
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transferred the passwords of that
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computer the electronic mail to other
00:27:19
individuals
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investigators found that over the last
00:27:26
year someone matching Kevin Poulsen
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description had illegally entered
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several northern california california
00:27:32
cities using a false ID we discovered
00:27:36
that mr. paulsen and we documented at
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least three cases where he had actually
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entered the buildings hi can I help you
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yeah Menlo Park office
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I'm here to check out the ESS the SS
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equipment is up on the second floor once
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inside the building the intruder found
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telephone numbers he could use to get
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inside the phone company's computer
00:28:03
system he also stole manual switching
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equipment and a test set like the one
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found in Kevin Polson's apartment Kevin
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Poulsen had allegedly infiltrated u.s.
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military computer transmissions
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obtaining classified army information
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authorities believe he also obtained
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classified information about the FBI
00:28:30
investigation of overthrown Philippine
00:28:32
President Ferdinand Marcos in addition
00:28:36
he may have wiretapped and tape recorded
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the phone conversations of his friend
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Sean Randall the test set found in
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Kevin's apartment and his possession of
00:28:47
the unlisted Soviet number led the FBI
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to believe that Kevin Poulsen might be
00:28:52
engaging in espionage
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for the investigation we learned that
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Paulson had a secret clearance because
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of this his penetration of the united
00:29:04
states army government computer he is
00:29:07
obtaining of a non published number the
00:29:09
Soviet consulate gave his grave concern
00:29:11
as to how far Paulson was going with
00:29:16
these criminal acts on October 19th 1989
00:29:20
a two-year investigation resulted in a
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19 count indictment against Kevin
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Poulsen and two fellow hackers they were
00:29:28
charged with conspiracy Computer Fraud
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wiretapping and bezel montt and theft of
00:29:33
public property and records the two
00:29:37
other men were arrested and now await
00:29:39
trial but Kevin Poulsen has fled the FBI
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is making him out to be a dangerous
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person because he has the knowledge to
00:29:49
do things that he is not supposed to do
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you know and that is he does things that
00:29:54
are illegal but as far as hurting people
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goes Kevin is the kind of person who
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would rather know how to do things than
00:30:05
actually do them
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we feel that Paulson probably started
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off as any hack because of curiosity but
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as the years wore on his curiosity
00:30:17
became unsatisfied he crossed the life
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of mere curiosity into that
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intentionally committing criminal acts
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to further this quest for power
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that gives us concern law enforcement
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government or even private citizens of
00:30:35
their Paulson's certainly as a potential
00:30:38
danger to any one of these three Kevin
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Poulsen is 25 years old and five feet
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eight inches tall with a slim build he
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has used the surnames break lock and
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Cooper as well as alias as Walter Kovacs
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and John Anderson
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the FBI is information that Paulson may
00:30:59
be living in the Los Angeles area and
00:31:00
driving a white late 70s van he is an
00:31:04
expert in the computer operating system
00:31:06
called UNIX and may be working in a
00:31:08
related field
00:31:12
one can only speculate about what
00:31:15
motivated Kevin Poulsen those who knew
00:31:18
him before he fled agree that he's an
00:31:19
unusually talented bright young man
00:31:21
possibly a genius
00:31:23
but now he is a wanted man facing up to
00:31:26
37 years in prison update shortly after
00:31:31
our broadcast the FBI received
00:31:33
information that Kevin Poulsen was
00:31:34
living near Los Angeles California our
00:31:39
San Francisco office had advised us that
00:31:41
Paulson had some acquaintances in the
00:31:43
Los Angeles area and we went out and
00:31:45
interviewed those acquaintances and one
00:31:47
of them advises that he had been seen in
00:31:50
the not-too-distant past at a huge
00:31:52
market we then went out and interviewed
00:31:54
all the employees at huge market and
00:31:55
displayed his photograph
00:31:57
three weeks later Polson returned to the
00:32:00
supermarket
00:32:02
I walked past Kevin and they dawned on
00:32:09
me that that's the person in the photo
00:32:11
and adrenaline was pumping in me I felt
00:32:14
really nervous and didn't want to be let
00:32:18
out let any suspicion onto Kevin that we
00:32:21
were on to him
00:32:23
Brian immediately notified the FBI
00:32:26
however Poston was able to leave the
00:32:28
store before agents could respond
00:32:31
it's the FBI informed me that Kevin
00:32:34
Paulson had been seen at the VMI used
00:32:37
market at about 10:00 or 10:30 and
00:32:39
evening I decided to surveil the market
00:32:43
thinking Kevin may show up again
00:32:47
at about 10 minutes to midnight Kevin
00:32:50
Poulsen arrived drove up in park
00:32:53
immediately in front of the market once
00:32:59
Kevin was in the store I took a position
00:33:02
near the front door and asked the
00:33:04
security guard to go find Brian bridges
00:33:07
the evening manager and bring him to my
00:33:10
location so I could tell them that Kevin
00:33:12
Poulsen was in the store
00:33:15
believing that postal would again elude
00:33:17
capture two store clerks made a daring
00:33:20
move
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security
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a security guard escorted Polson to a
00:33:31
store where he was held until FBI agents
00:33:34
arrived and placed him under arrest
00:33:37
during the search of mr. Colson
00:33:41
we found some handcuff keys in his high
00:33:44
glass cases during the time that he was
00:33:47
in custody he claimed that his contact
00:33:49
lenses were drying out and he hadn't
00:33:51
asked for his eyeglass cases to be sent
00:33:53
to him so I'm assuming that he was
00:33:55
looking for the handcuff keys the
00:34:19
friendships he make his children often
00:34:21
fate of the passage of time during all
00:34:23
his pleasant memories but for the woman
00:34:26
in our next story a friendship with a
00:34:28
young girl who is battling cancer is
00:34:30
survived the years and become a lifelong
00:34:32
search tonight she asks for your help
00:34:34
and finding her special childhood friend
00:34:36
fulfilling a promise she made more than
00:34:39
20 years ago
00:34:45
good morning
00:34:46
the Moody we admit our daughter Harriet
00:34:49
wait I'm Harriet how are you I've been
00:34:53
expecting you
00:34:54
when she was seven years old the Harriet
00:34:56
Wade was admitted to Children's Hospital
00:34:58
of Los Angeles California she was
00:35:01
scheduled to undergo surgery to remove
00:35:03
several large tumors from her throat
00:35:05
although extremely painful by Harriet's
00:35:07
condition was not life-threatening
00:35:09
I was a little nervous about being left
00:35:14
in there alone because it was all new to
00:35:16
me I had gone back before for her tests
00:35:18
but I wasn't actually you know placed in
00:35:21
there before and this time I would be in
00:35:22
there and my parents wouldn't be there
00:35:31
the Harriet shared a room with
00:35:33
eight-year-old Sherita Lynne Hardin
00:35:35
Sherita had been diagnosed with a rare
00:35:38
form of cancer and she too was scheduled
00:35:40
to undergo surgery thank you I have dogs
00:35:46
too would you like to play with one yes
00:35:49
I looked up tissue meet him because once
00:35:52
she was older she's about a year older
00:35:54
than I and she was there first so she
00:35:58
kind of initiated me of what you know to
00:36:00
being in a new place new atmosphere
00:36:04
in the days that followed a warm and
00:36:07
caring friendship blossoms the Harriet
00:36:10
and Servetus spent their days playing
00:36:12
games and pulling pranks on the hospital
00:36:14
staff
00:36:15
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00:36:22
we were in our home of the world
00:36:24
there was no adults around to come in
00:36:27
and tell us what to do we created a
00:36:33
closeness so she was kind of like a
00:36:35
sister we had gotten to that
00:36:37
relationship there was a bond there
00:36:39
because we mattered to one another we
00:36:41
looked out for what when we you know
00:36:43
went on and we had something in common
00:36:45
and that was our illnesses itself as a
00:36:52
time for sherita's operation near she
00:36:55
was forced to endure a nightly routine
00:36:56
of painful pre surgical treatments I
00:37:00
would watch when they would come in for
00:37:03
the testing she wouldn't really scream
00:37:06
out but you'd hear a little shrill or
00:37:08
something like that when I look over she
00:37:12
would turn away and you know like this
00:37:14
is not happening to me I would be angry
00:37:18
with the doctors because it was it was
00:37:20
like why are you hurting her but through
00:37:22
it all she was tough and actually she
00:37:26
was a lot stronger than I and her
00:37:28
problem really as I got older and
00:37:31
understood more was worse than my
00:37:34
[Music]
00:37:45
10 p.m. tonight or surely his operations
00:37:49
after several hours of surgery Arita was
00:37:52
returned to the room
00:37:53
I was afraid really afraid I felt them
00:38:00
taking her way did something to her that
00:38:03
changed her all together mommy is this
00:38:06
going to happen to me no honey this
00:38:09
isn't gonna happen to you she has a
00:38:11
different type of operation then you're
00:38:13
gonna have Jenna when she grows up she's
00:38:16
not gonna be able to have any babies so
00:38:19
that's what my mother explained to me
00:38:21
that
00:38:22
Charita had had a very very delicate
00:38:25
surgery and that she wouldn't be able to
00:38:28
have kids and I remember feeling like oh
00:38:31
that you know was just the worst thing
00:38:33
in the world
00:38:39
everybody sherita's parents the doctors
00:38:41
they all went out in the hall to talk
00:38:43
and Sherita she was lying in her bed
00:38:47
just lying there and she had tears in
00:38:49
her eyes so it made me feel real it made
00:38:52
me feel sad that I couldn't help her are
00:38:56
you feeling all right I'm sorry you look
00:38:59
so bad I said you don't have to cry
00:39:10
I said because
00:39:15
if
00:39:16
[Music]
00:39:17
if I ever have a baby I said you can
00:39:21
share it with me and we can both be its
00:39:23
mommy I saying I'll even name it
00:39:26
Charita after you
00:39:29
[Music]
00:39:34
[Applause]
00:39:40
five weeks after la Harriet Wade and
00:39:43
Sherita Harding first met the day came
00:39:45
for them to say goodbye
00:39:47
the Harriet's operation was a success
00:39:49
and she was sent home but Sherita had to
00:39:52
remain in the hospital for further
00:39:53
treatment when we left we took pictures
00:40:02
and I remember not one to say goodbye to
00:40:07
her I felt like I was the two girls
00:40:14
agreed to continue their friendship by
00:40:16
phone but two months later Harriet's
00:40:19
family moved to New Mexico and a young
00:40:21
friend soon lost touch Charita Harding
00:40:28
in 1975 the Wade family returned to Los
00:40:31
Angeles a Harriet called every Harding
00:40:35
listed in the phone book that was unable
00:40:36
to locate Sherita
00:40:41
seven years ago a Harriet married and is
00:40:44
now known as Nicki Crowder
00:40:46
today she is a mother of a healthy
00:40:48
three-year-old daughter whom she plans
00:40:50
to baptize Sherita
00:40:51
it is Nicki's hope - Arita Lynne Harding
00:40:54
can become godmother to Nicki's little
00:40:56
girl I want my daughter to know
00:40:59
Charita because she's a very special
00:41:01
person in my life and bringing those two
00:41:04
together will be perfect I think of
00:41:10
Sherita all the time I've never ever
00:41:14
stopped really ever thinking about
00:41:15
shalida
00:41:16
even though she's not around she's still
00:41:18
the best friend in the sense of the
00:41:21
memories I think when you hold on to a
00:41:23
memory it can't be altered you know so
00:41:25
she's still a best friend Charita gave
00:41:28
me a lot and she never took anything
00:41:31
back from me and that's what a real
00:41:33
friend is if I have a baby we can share
00:41:38
and I promise I promise I mean with you
00:41:44
if I saw Cerreta I tell her that I
00:41:49
didn't forget the promise you know
00:41:51
that's what I tell her I didn't forget
00:41:53
the promise
00:41:58
I promise I'm into you
00:42:02
a few minutes after Nicki story aired we
00:42:05
learned that Sherita Ellen Harding was
00:42:07
alive and well and living in Oklahoma we
00:42:09
immediately contacted Nikki with a good
00:42:12
news
00:42:16
just ten days after I brought dues to
00:42:18
more than 21 years after they said
00:42:20
goodbye
00:42:20
Charita Len Harding and Nicky Crowder
00:42:23
were finally reunited Nicky's home in
00:42:25
Los Angeles
00:42:26
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00:42:32
I don't think Nicky has changed that
00:42:38
much she was always caring giving person
00:42:41
what seems like she feels the same she
00:42:44
would have to be to try to find me and
00:42:47
you know all these years and be so
00:42:49
persistent about
00:42:51
father in the name of Jesus what's up
00:42:55
over this child detective all of the
00:42:58
days of her life she perform on October
00:43:01
20th 1999 keek Rotter was finally able
00:43:04
to fulfill her promise a child is
00:43:08
listens it's a gift you can't buy it's
00:43:10
the most perfect gift in the world and
00:43:12
it comes from God and nobody should be
00:43:15
deprived of that whether they have it
00:43:17
naturally working shared with somebody
00:43:19
you know and that's something that I
00:43:24
wanted to share with Sherita because of
00:43:28
all the joy and strength she you know
00:43:29
she gave me I could give her back
00:43:31
something that she missed lord bless
00:43:35
them even as godparents caused your
00:43:37
spirit to rest being a godmother is
00:43:40
special to me because I don't have any
00:43:43
you know this is giving me a catch out
00:43:47
on my own that I you know can share
00:43:50
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I'm just honored and so I try to live up
00:43:55
to any best as I can I'm very happy now
00:44:03
I can go on and I can go on a positive
00:44:07
note because she's bi and I just like to
00:44:11
say thanks to everybody
00:44:15
i christen thee sharia Kennedy
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for every mystery there is some
00:44:32
somewhere who knows the truth join me
00:44:36
next week another edition of unsolved
00:44:39
mysteries
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[Applause]
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you
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