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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you were about to see is not a news
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broadcast the late 12 1982 the body of a
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young Minnesota housewife washed up on
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the shore of Lake Superior her husband
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Larry Race was convicted of murder and
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sentenced to life in prison
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this day rais'd maintains his innocence
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and his dead wife's parents support his
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claim in Larry Reis guilty or innocent
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tellin rose Meyer and grew up on the
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long plane reservation in Manitoba
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Canada in 1941
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Helen Rose was banished by her father
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when she joined the Royal Canadian Air
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Force heartbroken she vanished her
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family has not seen her in nearly 50
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years also thanks to our viewers a man
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charged with murdering his wife is now
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in custody following a dramatic shootout
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with police
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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Lake Superior headwater of the Great
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Lakes the largest freshwater lake in the
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world
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the water temperature hovers near
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freezing for most of the year
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a personal adrift without a life raft
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stands little chance of survival on May
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12 1982 the lake claimed another victim
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33 year old Debbie Reis her life jacket
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was intact she had not drowned
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Debbie Race had succumbed to the icy
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lake temperatures and died of
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hypothermia
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according to the authorities Debbie
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races death was no accident her husband
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Larry race was accused of deliberately
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allowing her to freeze to death and Lake
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Superior he was subsequently convicted
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of murder yet Debbie's own Parris
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believe that Larry could not possibly
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have harmed their daughter after eight
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agonizing years and five unsuccessful
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post trial reviews this is the final
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appeal of Larry race
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Larry Reis is currently serving a life
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sentence at Stillwater state prison in
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Minneapolis Minnesota
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he maintains if the jury was convicted
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him was prejudiced because he had a long
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history of adulterous relationships what
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happened that night was an accident
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I didn't kill there be yes I was
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unfaithful but I had nothing to do with
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her death that night adultery yes I'm
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guilty for that sorry for it I am I was
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tremely sorry
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debbie and larry race along with her
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three children lived in Hoyt Lakes
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Minnesota 75 miles from Lake Superior
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Larry's hobbies were boating and scuba
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diving debbie built her world around her
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home and her children over the years
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Larry and Debbie's marriage suffered
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badly because of his affairs but by 1982
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Larry says they had vowed to try again
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may eleventh of 1982 was Larry and
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Debbie's 14th wedding anniversary to
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celebrate they had dinner at Lakeview
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restaurant and took their boat named the
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Jenny Lee after their daughters on a
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lake superior for an evening cruise
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it felt as if things were starting over
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again things we had a like a renewed
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spirit I I wanted to stop what I was
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doing and I was thinking you know maybe
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this is a chance you know I have a
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wonderful woman here there's nothing
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wrong with her and and I want to take an
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about-face after darkness fell Larry and
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Debbie drifted contentedly they stayed
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about one mile offshore enjoying the
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view of the city lights and listening to
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tapes of their favorite music suddenly
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at 9:00 p.m. the mood was broken
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Debbi noticed that the boat was taking
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on water Larry there is water Larry says
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Debbie began to panic
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she had no faith in the Jenny Lee
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because it had nearly sunk the summer
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before this is when he pinned cover off
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the engine we notice there was water
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spraying all over the place
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we shut the engine down took the
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alternator loosened up the bolt and
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dropped the Altair
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so as we drop the alternator shut the
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engine down the water leakage stopped
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I think they don't work I'm gonna have
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to tape it though things were pretty
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well under control okay then we work
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together to get to both fixed we work
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together to get up the water stopped and
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everything was okay now we feel endanger
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the light on can you cut this tape right
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here once we got all the repairs done
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Debbie went to start the engine well I
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figured she just didn't know how to
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started to the right so I went to start
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I made it to almost a battery was so did
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I we had two batteries on the boat
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you know what start from either so now
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we're both back by the engine wondering
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why it won't start the fear came to both
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of us when we heard that gushin and that
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whooshing noise from the bottom of the
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board I mean I was scared long with her
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she made me scared no I didn't know how
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to I wasn't thinking right I didn't I
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didn't listen to what I what I should
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have done
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I made poor judgments I listened to what
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she said get off the boat first thing we
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did was hold her life pass out to get
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her blowing up we always carry scuba
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tank on the board for that purpose we
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tossed that one aside by the second one
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and we filled that one up the same way
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we started the first one and that was
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filled it worked fine even though these
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are two main rafts
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you're gonna get in here I'm gonna drag
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it to shore okay okay Debbie put her
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personal evaluations as well as Larry
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shoes into a gear bag she took the bag
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at a scuba tank wither in the life raft
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Larry Reese had his dry suit and scuba
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tanks on board he was a strong swimmer
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and thought he could tow Debbie and the
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raft to safety he had done the same
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thing with his daughters when the Jenny
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Lee had run into trouble before I knew I
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had to push her to shore and I knew I
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could I was strong enough she said the
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same thing - Larry you're strong enough
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you can
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they pushed and pushed things making it
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I was saying okay but I started getting
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cold
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Oh
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she was terrified and at that time I
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knew I couldn't get interacted and uh
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and I thought that you know I would die
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at that time I made a lot for judgement
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looked off to the right and there was
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lights coming it's not good for him
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nights were closer swimming ashore
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Debbie was going that way toward Shore I
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was going the opposite way for help one
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of us were going to get help one of us
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were going to get the shore the
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everyone's gonna get to shore for help
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or I was gonna get to devote for help
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one of us we're gonna get somebody to
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help
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the light Larry race it seems his own
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boat this time the engine started after
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catching his breath he was search for
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Debbie all the wild firing distress
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flares in the end Mary would return to
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shore and notify the Coast Guard they
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would conduct a grid search of the lake
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to avail
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the next afternoon a teenager on his way
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home from school saw Debbie raises body
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on the lakeshore gallery' race was
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charged with murder
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at his trial Larry races attorneys
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advised him not to take the stand on his
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own behalf
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after he was convicted Larry hired a new
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team of lawyers insisting that he'd been
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the victim of incompetent counsel
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Larry Reis believes that if he had
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testified the jury would not have found
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him guilty the prosecuting attorney at
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Larry races trial with john de santa
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with duluth minnesota even though the
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case against larry was circumstantial de
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santé was able to convince a jury that
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larry race had the opportunity means and
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motive to murder his wife I have
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absolutely no doubt that Larry Reis is
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guilty of first-degree murder
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and that's why I believe that this is
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not an appropriate case for unsolved
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mysteries it simply is not an unsolved
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mystery I believe the evidence showed
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that he wanted out of an unhappy
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marriage at this time in his life and at
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the same time he had a hundred and eight
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thousand dollars of life insurance on
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her life in place that he had purchased
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within the seven months previous to her
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death through credit life insurance
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part of it about $37,000 was mortgage
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insurance that came along with the
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mortgage on his house the rest of it
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came as part of a group policy from his
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credit union and there was some
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testimony in fact that Debbie had been
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the one to seek out this additional
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insurance coverage
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very racist defense was built around his
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story of mechanical problems of the
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jenilee the prosecution claimed Larry
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concocted the entire episode after his
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trial the Jenny Lee was sold an
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independent mechanic examined the
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starter the mechanic said that it was
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worn and that the type of problem that
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he saw there would cause an intermittent
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starting failure at the knot the engine
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on some occasions would not start at one
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of Larry races post-conviction hearings
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following the trial a man did come
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forward and testify that he had found a
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starter problem in the Jenny Lee
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in late May or early June of 1984 or two
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years after Debbie's death the night
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have made 11th and 12th of 82 he simply
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could not say that this was a problem he
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that would that was on the boat the
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night of Deborah races death and
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therefore was ruled irrelevant both in
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the trial court and ultimately in the
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appellate courts larry race is adamant
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that he had two life rafts on board the
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Jenny Lee well the evidence clearly
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showed there was but one raft on the
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Jenny Lee the night of May
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twelve of 1982 every one of Larry races
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diving companions or friends or both
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that testified at the trial said that
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they had never seen him in possession of
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two blue and yellow rafts as he claims
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and also as significant is the fact that
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the search and rescue people from the
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Coast Guard said that if that raft had
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existed they would have found it we
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don't have that Larry racist remain a
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deputy sheriff testified that Larry had
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told him there were two life rafts on
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board mention any noisemakers of any
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sort no we don't have a noisemaker but
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we do have two rafts I just have got
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another raft this deputy testified that
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Larry specifically told him quote what
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about rafts I have to that deputy
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testified about that happening over two
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weeks beforehand well sounds like he got
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just about everything yeah
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the prosecution points out that the
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deputy's testimony was inconsistent
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running his first question eleven days
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after Debbie races death he said he knew
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nothing about to rat
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the prosecution claims that Larry pushed
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Debbie in the raft well away from a
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Jenny Lee then returned to the boat and
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donned his scuba equipment
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they say there he swam back under
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Debbie's raft and slashed it with a
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knife leaving her to freeze to death in
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the icy waters this was very significant
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evidence at the trial and it was that
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there were five punctures or cuts in the
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bottom of the raft placed in in the raft
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while it was inflated because as the
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experts testified there was no knife cut
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on the top of the raft that would
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correspond with the bottom puncture
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meaning the the air chambers were
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inflated and strategically placed in
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that they cut both air chambers it
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wasn't a random thing like vandalism
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where someone who isn't really intent on
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cutting both air chambers but just
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damaging a piece of property they were
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placed in both their chambers from the
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bottom while the raft was inflated the
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prosecution failed to produce the knife
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used to cut the raft the puncture marks
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did not match the only knife found on
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board the Jenny Lee
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the prosecution asserts that once debbie
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had been set adrift larry drive the life
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raft back to the Jenny Lee so you'd have
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support for his story about attempting
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to inflate a first draft or of the
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events that leads to the action of Larry
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according to the prosecution required
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superhuman effort a super feat that were
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not just physically possible witnesses
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placed the Jenny Lee here near the mouth
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of the Tallmadge River at 8:30 p.m. and
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again at 9:30 Debbie's body was found
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here seven miles away according to Jean
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will be no it would have been impossible
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for a body to drift that far without a
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raft if she had been in a water with a
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parka with a life vest she can only
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travel one to two miles and will he'd
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show somewhere the only way she could
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have landed seven miles down was on a
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raft the fact that we just don't know
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where the Jenny Lee was on the lake at
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the time he persuaded that the primary
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race persuaded Debbie to leave it makes
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it impossible to then start with a drift
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theory that would put her body at such
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in such a place whether she's in a raft
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or without a raft because we again don't
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have a precise starting point we never
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did have one and that's what makes it so
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difficult to give any credibility to the
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Abha no drift theory that was presented
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by the defense
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according to Larry races attorneys the
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skin lividity and Debbie's body also
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proves that she came ashore in a life
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raft
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Debbie's blood had not sunk to her feet
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they claimed it would have done so if
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she'd been kept afloat in an upright
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position by a life vest the lividity of
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Debbie races blood following her death
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was to the back and that was consistent
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or is consistent with the fact that she
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floated in the water with that life
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jacket without a raft available to her
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because as the expert testified at trial
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this particular life jacket would have
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kept her basically face-up on her back
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as she floated after following her death
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her body of course was then found
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face-up on its back on the on the shore
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of Lake Superior as well which would
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continue the lividity to her back and
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the autopsy report clearly indicates the
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lividity was to her back
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after hearing all the evidence but
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without hearing from Larry Reis himself
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a jury of four men and eight women found
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him guilty of murder I couldn't believe
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it
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because there was no hard cold evidence
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hard facts
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there wasn't anything was all
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circumstantial
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there was nothing concrete about his
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case at all except he had his affairs
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it's hard to take you know when so many
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people think he was guilty but it's
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never been a problem with us we just
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don't believe he was guilty if you only
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knew Larry you wouldn't think that Larry
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would ever do anything like that today
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I'm angry at the fact that he was able
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to convince 12 jurors that this happened
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without without any facts without any
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evidence he just says we think Larry did
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it we want him convicted and that's what
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he did
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[Music]
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[Music]
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in 1981 seventeen-year-old Annette
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shockers fell in love with Jim Burns
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Sylar a butcher at the grocery store for
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a networked a year later the couple
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married the bride was just 18 the groom
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46 for Annette the marriage marked the
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beginning of a nightmare
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she became afraid of him almost
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immediately because he was jealous of
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her and when he was drinking he was
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violent and and made remarks to her all
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the time that she would never ever leave
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him that well he started telling her
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right from the beginning that he would
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kill her if she ever tried to leave him
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in 1987 after five years of nearly
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constant emotional and physical abuse
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and had finally found the courage to
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leave Jim
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two months later Jim Burnside brutally
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attacked Annette at one of her
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co-workers
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[Music]
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but if coworkers survived the attack a
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net had been stabbed 15 times of the
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butcher knife and is pronounced dead at
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the scene
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that afternoon Jim Burnside disappeared
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it's bad enough knowing that a net had
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to die but to know that he is still out
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there it's horrible we just want him
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caught and I just hope and pray that
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somebody spots him update the night to
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story aired to viewers contacted our
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telecenter to report the Jim Burnside is
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living in Shelby County Alabama under
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the assumed name L Wilson when I saw his
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actual picture I just looked at my
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husband and I just started pointing and
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I'm going you know tell me my eyes
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aren't deceiving me you know that is al
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and he goes yes that's al the first
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thing I thought to say well they you
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know let's call up the authorities and
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get this guy off the street
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Burnside was employed as a carpenter the
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280 flea market just outside of Chelsea
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Alabama we hadn't saved a call from the
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FBI office in Birmingham stating that
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they felt pretty sure that James
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Burnside would be at this flea market on
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highway 280 located in Shelby County the
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morning after our broadcast FBI agents
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and sheriff's deputies checked out the
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flea market right there on the roof and
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apparently Burnside saw them and went
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towards his truck the fugitive drew a
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357 magnum and pointed it at the officer
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Burnside was struck by two bullets he
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was placed under arrest and taken to a
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Birmingham hospital but what we've been
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able to determine and again talking to
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his co-workers that he hadn't made a
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statement on Thursday morning that he
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had anticipated having problems that day
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so apparently he had viewed the unsolved
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mystery since that wins tonight
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[Music]
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[Music]
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on April 1st 1988 gene Ito very wealthy
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socialite from Phoenix Arizona was
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murdered in her own bed while she slept
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at the time of her death she was worth
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several million dollars most of it
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inherited from her late husband a genie
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Tori's origins were humbled genie was
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born in a small Arkansas farming
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community and married fresh out of high
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school in 1953 her marriage failed and
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genie eventually wound up in Phoenix
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working as a cocktail waitress Jeannie
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had no intention of spending her life
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waiting tables on her rest breaks she
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studied real estate law determined to
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make a better life for herself
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several years later Jeannie was well on
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her way she had obtained her real estate
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license in 1970 and become an immediate
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success in 1971 one of Jeannie's clients
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introduced her to Edward Tovar II the
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charming wealthy divorcee genes the one
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that helped us on that real estate knew
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I was telling you about which did a
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great job congratulations that was super
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thanks you're embarrassing they should
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never be embarrassed when somebody tells
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you you've done something well it's part
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of the business I think you're gonna do
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well because of your people skills I bet
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you're good at it had all the qualities
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that Jane was looking for like to
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propose a toast
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it's just that simple old friends and to
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new friendships you have to kiss a lot
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of frogs before you find their friends
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and she considered that a prince
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ed tovrea embarked on an intense
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courtship the genie was swept off her
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feet
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Ed's ancestors had made millions in the
00:25:22
cattle business and were among the
00:25:23
founding fathers of Phoenix but ed tove
00:25:27
remade his old name as a pilot in World
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War two he was shot down and taken as a
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prisoner of war by the Germans Eadie
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helped engineer the famous Great Escape
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digging tunnels which allowed 79 other
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POWs to go free less than a year after
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they met Jeanne and ed were married in a
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private ceremony in Hawaii GD became an
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instant hit with a Phoenix upper crust
00:25:53
she seemed to fall right into it as if
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though she'd had that money forever she
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was welcomed and very very well loved
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extremely liked I don't know of one and
00:26:03
I can honestly say this I don't know one
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person that disliked Janie she was just
00:26:07
well as very special people with very
00:26:08
special qualities she treated people
00:26:11
like she wanted to be treated I never
00:26:14
saw any heirs with Jean they entertained
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a lot very casual entertaining had
00:26:21
friends in they had a very good marriage
00:26:24
they both liked to do the same things
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but there was one cloud darkening Jeanne
00:26:29
and Ed's life together respiratory
00:26:32
problems had played dead ever since his
00:26:34
POWs by 1982 he was virtually bedridden
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and Jeanie nursed him around the clock
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[Music]
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Jeanie I think it's about time we talked
00:26:47
about what we're gonna do after I'm gone
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yet please don't talk that way I just
00:26:54
want to make sure you're taken care of
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you get the house and you're comfortable
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okay
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jean was not a greedy person
00:27:07
it wasn't like well I I have married you
00:27:11
everything you have is mine this was not
00:27:14
Jane
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on July 11th 1983 ed toll-free died he
00:27:21
left Cheney and estate worth millions
00:27:23
including the house and a valuable art
00:27:25
collection it was hard for her to
00:27:30
visualize life without him because he
00:27:33
was her steadying factor I think it was
00:27:36
scary for her
00:27:39
after a period of morning Jeannie threw
00:27:42
herself back into the Phoenix social
00:27:44
world I think was her way to get over
00:27:47
everything and meet people became quite
00:27:51
through the socialite and chaired many
00:27:54
of the balls and her circle of friends
00:27:56
all went so it became a very free Jean
00:27:59
it became a way of doing things for
00:28:02
herself well I'm gonna finish these last
00:28:04
few invitations and call it a night the
00:28:07
evening of March 31st 1988 found Jeannie
00:28:09
Tori preparing the final few invitations
00:28:11
for yet another high society party at
00:28:15
7:00 p.m. she spoke with her sister by
00:28:18
1:00 a.m. the next day
00:28:20
she would be dead
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she had mailed those invitations and
00:28:25
then they came right after he found out
00:28:27
that she had been murdered and it did do
00:28:30
a number on all of us it was almost like
00:28:33
remember my party
00:28:35
it was very spooky at the murder scene
00:28:42
police found several fingerprints but
00:28:45
little other physical evidence Jeannie's
00:28:47
purse along with her identification and
00:28:49
credit cards were missing sure those
00:28:56
credit cards have never been found and
00:28:58
they've never been used to this day the
00:29:01
fingerprints that we have have been
00:29:03
compared to every name that's been
00:29:05
mentioned to us has been through our
00:29:08
computer system and we have not
00:29:10
identified who those prints belong to my
00:29:15
opinion and that opinion of two
00:29:17
detectives all felt that she was the
00:29:20
victim of a hit she was killed
00:29:22
intentionally for somebody
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[Music]
00:29:31
police theorized that the killer was
00:29:33
familiar with Jeannie's neighborhood
00:29:35
because he had so easily gained access
00:29:37
to her home
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[Music]
00:29:42
I would say the suspect at least had
00:29:44
some knowledge of the house entry into
00:29:47
the house was made through a window but
00:29:49
it was done in a manner not to set the
00:29:51
alarm system all
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[Music]
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there's white carpeting throughout the
00:30:02
house and there was no indications in
00:30:05
any room except her bedroom that anybody
00:30:07
had been in there it appears that he
00:30:10
knew the direct path from the point of
00:30:12
entry to her bedroom and where she was
00:30:14
[Music]
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she was shot while she lay in bed asleep
00:30:27
there was no obvious signs of the
00:30:30
struggle
00:30:37
police believe that the killer's
00:30:39
scattered genies costume jewelry simply
00:30:42
to give the appearance of a burglary
00:30:43
attempt he left thousands of dollars
00:30:46
worth of real jewelry untouched in the
00:30:48
next room also it seemed that he wanted
00:30:51
someone to be alerted
00:30:54
the alarm was set off when the sliding
00:30:58
door was opened by the suspect it could
00:31:01
have went out the same way he got in
00:31:03
without ever setting the alarm off it's
00:31:06
only a theory but one of the reasons we
00:31:08
considered is that this person if he was
00:31:11
paid to kill her wanted to let the
00:31:13
person who paid him know that the job
00:31:15
was done
00:31:18
who could have bought a genie toll-free
00:31:20
dead police were at a loss until they
00:31:23
were given the old tapes from her
00:31:24
answering machine that was when they
00:31:28
heard the voice of a mysterious man who
00:31:30
called himself Gordon Phillips beautiful
00:31:39
place another in 1987 Phillips who
00:31:42
claimed to be a magazine writer and
00:31:43
tried to interview Jeannie about her
00:31:45
late husband's powa experiences as I
00:31:49
told you on the phone I'm writing a book
00:31:51
about prisoners of war I'd like to talk
00:31:52
to you specifically about your husband
00:31:54
Edie
00:31:54
well you know that was a very long time
00:31:57
ago I I'm not that familiar with that
00:31:59
pass well surely he must have said
00:32:01
something to you about his sub P Oh w
00:32:03
experienced him and as a a big part of
00:32:06
his life he didn't like to dwell in the
00:32:07
past you know he'd be better off talking
00:32:10
to the first mrs. Topher but you me
00:32:11
sorry about Ed himself your husband the
00:32:14
man what was he like ister Phillips you
00:32:15
say you work for a time life yes well
00:32:18
then of course she would have some
00:32:19
identification you could show me well
00:32:21
actually I'm a freelance writer I'm not
00:32:23
really on staff I can't provide you with
00:32:25
some references you know I'm going to
00:32:28
have to cut you short I have a plane to
00:32:30
catch in the morning and a lodging had
00:32:32
him checked out and Time magazine had
00:32:35
never heard of him
00:32:36
and Jane once again told him that she
00:32:40
was the wrong person to talk to if she
00:32:43
couldn't seem to make him understand
00:32:44
this
00:32:51
Gordon Phillips continued a hound genie
00:32:53
toll-free by phone if she was not in he
00:32:56
left messages on her machine and Jeannie
00:32:59
became certain that Phillips was
00:33:01
following her mr. Phillips I told you I
00:33:03
do not want to meet with you maybe she'd
00:33:06
be at a party or out shopping or
00:33:08
something and she thinks she saw this
00:33:09
guy for a while there it was every time
00:33:13
she went somewhere she would see him he
00:33:16
never came up to her but she was seeing
00:33:20
a crowd and she was extremely nervous
00:33:22
about this police still have no idea who
00:33:37
Gordon Phillips is where he is gone or
00:33:39
whether he was involved in the murder of
00:33:42
Jeanne Tovar II my greatest fear is that
00:33:46
I'll never know why it's inconceivable
00:33:51
to me that Jean was murdered this
00:33:55
happens to other people it's what you
00:33:58
read in the newspaper it doesn't happen
00:33:59
to my family
00:34:01
I miss her as she was my sister she was
00:34:05
my best friend she was mine and she
00:34:09
didn't deserve to die
00:34:11
[Music]
00:34:24
[Music]
00:34:33
when we return the saga of a young
00:34:36
Indian who ran off to join the air force
00:34:38
and never came home
00:34:50
in Manitoba Canada just across the North
00:34:53
Dakota border as a family called the
00:34:55
Myron clan they are part of the Plains
00:34:58
Ojibwe Indian nation in the 1940s a
00:35:02
Myron's found themselves caught between
00:35:03
the global politics of the Second World
00:35:05
War and the deeply rooted traditions of
00:35:08
the Ojibwe there were seven children in
00:35:14
the myrin family the youngest girl Helen
00:35:16
Rose was just six months old when this
00:35:18
picture was taken in 1925 her family is
00:35:22
not seen her for more than half a
00:35:23
century it's been going on too long with
00:35:29
mystery too long too many years have
00:35:32
gone by and would like to find her now
00:35:35
no matter where she is we still love her
00:35:43
and all concerned about churches
00:35:49
when the myrin children were growing up
00:35:51
they spent the winter months in a
00:35:52
government boarding school every summer
00:35:57
they came home to their Paris log cabin
00:35:59
on the Ojibwe reservation
00:36:01
[Music]
00:36:03
Oh Rose come and sit beside me
00:36:08
in September of 1932 the children
00:36:12
prepared to return to school even though
00:36:14
their mother was gravely ill I might not
00:36:18
be here on your turn from school be a
00:36:22
good girl and make me proud of you my
00:36:28
[Applause]
00:36:30
a month later Archie Myron showed up at
00:36:34
his children's school unannounced when
00:36:37
you children left last summer your
00:36:39
mother was very sick Oh dad came and
00:36:44
told us that her mother had passed away
00:36:49
right away I saw what it was gonna do to
00:36:54
her
00:36:55
Helen Rose
00:36:56
[Music]
00:36:59
all of the children were devastated
00:37:01
especially Helen Rose always her
00:37:04
mother's favorite she would never fully
00:37:06
recover from the death
00:37:13
[Music]
00:37:19
by 1941 Helen Rose was in her junior
00:37:22
year at the boarding school she was 17
00:37:25
and the world had become a very
00:37:27
different place right now as I'm
00:37:32
speaking the German courts are marching
00:37:34
across Europe causing havoc destruction
00:37:36
and death Hitler's armies were
00:37:39
threatening to overrun the globe the new
00:37:42
principal at the boarding schools
00:37:43
actively interventionist a mock and
00:37:45
Helen homes became swept up in the
00:37:47
anti-fascist fervor you know I've talked
00:37:50
to you about joining the reserve this is
00:37:52
your opportunity to join the world that
00:37:55
really matters he was teaching them the
00:37:57
role of the other society and I presume
00:38:02
that such were Helen got her idea to
00:38:06
better her life with the outside world
00:38:10
and to join the airport
00:38:16
Helen Rose dropped out of high school in
00:38:19
an unprecedented move for an Ojibwe
00:38:21
woman she had listed in the Royal
00:38:23
Canadian Air Force when they discovered
00:38:25
that Helen Rose is underage the Air
00:38:28
Force ordered her to obtain her father's
00:38:30
permission
00:38:30
[Music]
00:38:35
Helen Rose returned to the reservation
00:38:38
in July as a tribal elder
00:38:41
Archie Myron was helping preside over
00:38:42
the annual summer thirsting dance when
00:38:45
the plains Ojibwe erect traditional
00:38:47
structures and offer prayers to the
00:38:49
Great Spirit papers and she asked my dad
00:38:56
to sign those papers what is this paper
00:38:59
all right join the Canadian Armed Forces
00:39:01
I don't think I want you to join the
00:39:04
airforce my daughter
00:39:05
why not and you told her that I don't
00:39:09
want you to die someplace else if you go
00:39:12
to war you may not come back so he
00:39:15
didn't sign those papers and Haran Rose
00:39:19
got mad said you'll never see me again
00:39:26
[Applause]
00:39:29
very proud to see Helen in the airport
00:39:35
I often think now if he had consented to
00:39:39
signing his name on there this would
00:39:44
have been very different we would have
00:39:47
I'm sure that we would have had Halden
00:39:49
roles with us here all this time yet
00:39:55
Helen Rose did not return to her
00:39:57
father's cabin she spent the night with
00:40:00
an aunt the next morning she said her
00:40:02
last goodbyes you take care of yourself
00:40:06
I'm gonna miss her
00:40:08
yeah I'm gonna miss you too when she was
00:40:11
leaving her auntie's place she told her
00:40:15
aunty well I'm leaving now and you'll
00:40:18
never see me again I'm not don't ever
00:40:20
coming back
00:40:23
take care okay sure very disappointed
00:40:27
she was actually never disappointed why
00:40:32
she didn't get that signature
00:40:40
[Music]
00:40:42
two years later Helen Rose did return to
00:40:45
the area and where are you stationed
00:40:47
miss when Angus Merrick walked into the
00:40:49
general store 15 miles from the
00:40:51
reservation he was shocked to see his
00:40:54
sister-in-law hello
00:40:56
Angus nice to see rose how you doing I'm
00:41:01
fine
00:41:01
she had her uniform on and all should
00:41:04
have good thank you
00:41:06
I said your father just across the
00:41:08
street here I'll go together maybe they
00:41:12
want to see you too I'll be right back
00:41:14
okay just won't take long
00:41:16
so I went over and told her
00:41:19
Archie that his daughter or Helen was
00:41:23
there and still if you would you like to
00:41:27
come and without hesitation he came
00:41:29
right away
00:41:31
[Music]
00:41:36
when a time we cut the store I couldn't
00:41:39
find our she disappeared
00:41:41
[Music]
00:41:44
he was your
00:41:45
[Music]
00:41:52
sixteen years later Archie Myron died
00:41:55
without ever having made peace with his
00:41:57
youngest daughter
00:42:00
[Music]
00:42:03
each year our team iris family gathers
00:42:06
at the cemetery to honor the entire
00:42:08
Myron clan while Ojibwe ceremony the
00:42:11
extended family now numbers 150 and
00:42:14
still they long for the return of Helen
00:42:16
Rose even if she has passed away her
00:42:21
family wants to know so that Helen roses
00:42:24
spirit can be honored in accordance with
00:42:26
the Ojibwe tradition
00:42:32
I don't know what's keeping her away I'm
00:42:35
sure she cannot hold a grudge this long
00:42:38
we have no part in it just between her
00:42:42
and my dad not us she said she wasn't
00:42:49
going to come back and she has sucked
00:42:51
your word true but a real in general
00:42:58
[Music]
00:43:18
join me next week for another edition
00:43:21
unsolved mysteries
00:43:26
[Music]
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you
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[Music]
