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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5

March 09, 2017 / 42:53

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers three main cases: the disappearance of Don Kemp in Wyoming, the haunting of the Moss Beach Distillery, and the mysterious disappearance of Leah Roberts.

The first case centers on Don Kemp, a 35-year-old man whose abandoned SUV was found in Wyoming. His mother, Mary Kemp, believes he was murdered despite the sheriff's conclusion that he died in a blizzard. Evidence includes mysterious phone calls made five months after his supposed death and sightings of him in Casper, Wyoming.

The second segment discusses the Moss Beach Distillery, a former speakeasy haunted by the ghost known as the Lady in Blue. Legend says she was killed by her jealous husband, and employees report strange occurrences, including cold winds and objects moving on their own.

The final case features Leah Roberts, a 23-year-old college student who disappeared after embarking on a journey inspired by Jack Kerouac's writings. Her SUV was found wrecked in Mount Baker National Forest, but there was no evidence she was inside at the time of the crash. Theories about her fate range from abduction to voluntary disappearance.

Each case raises questions about the truth behind the mysteries, leaving viewers to ponder the unresolved details.

TL;DR

Unsolved Mysteries covers Don Kemp's disappearance, the haunted Moss Beach Distillery, and Leah Roberts' mysterious vanishing after a road trip.

Episode

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next on unsolved mysteries an SUV is
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found abandoned on a remote Wyoming
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Highway what happened the dark in my son
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was murdered I followed this this
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upscale restaurant south of San
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Francisco was once a haunt for
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bootleggers now it's haunted by the
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ghost of a bootleggers life a 23 year
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old college student takes off on a
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cross-country journey following in the
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footsteps legendary writer Jack Kerouac
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then she disappears in there an hour
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after doctors pronounced him dead a
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newborn baby miraculously
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some hoc cases some cold cases and some
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cases with surprising revelations
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I'm Dennis Farina and this is unsolved
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mysteries
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in the middle of the desolate Wyoming
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Prairie an SUV is found abandoned its
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doors are open the engine is running and
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clothes are scattered all over the
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highway the owner of the car 35 year old
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band camp is nowhere in sight
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four years after he disappeared Don's
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body is found just a few miles from
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where his blazer was abandoned the
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sheriff believes that Don froze to death
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in a blizzard three days after he was
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lost however the band's family is not
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convinced my son was murdered I
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definitely believe this absolutely he
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was murdered Mary Kemp began her own
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investigation she has turned up alarming
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evidence that her son's death was not an
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accident most disturbing is a series of
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telephone calls that Don made five
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months after he supposedly died Don Kemp
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was a promising young advertising
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executive in New York City until he was
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severely disabled in a traffic accident
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after he recovered he chose not to
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return to Madison Avenue
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he had become disillusioned with
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materialism and I think he wanted a
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simpler a simpler time in a quieter time
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and I think that's what drew him to that
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area
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Don sold almost everything he owned and
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began a long drive west his destination
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was Jackson Hole Wyoming where he
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planned to write a book about Abraham
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Lincoln's assassination
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the day before he disappeared don was
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seen at a museum in cheyenne he wanted
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through the small galleries for two
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hours speaking to no one when he left
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Don apparently forgot his at the chez
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case and it were his traveler's checks
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diaries and his driving glasses the next
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day at 10 a.m.
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highway patrolman Randy teeters came
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upon an eerie sight John's abandoned car
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was 40 miles from any town on an
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off-ramp running stuff strung out of it
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the doors open neither of us to see
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anything like this when he found the car
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Randy noticed a single set of footprints
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leading from the roadside into that
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lonely empty Prairie the local sheriff's
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department concluded that Don wandered
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off alone but Don's mother believes he
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was abducted
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I was certain he was in a horrible Jam I
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I just felt it because this was so
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unlike my son I knew that he hadn't
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walked out there I feel that he didn't
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and yet the sheriff kept saying that he
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was out there well I think he was
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mentally disturbed he was having mental
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problems and was possibly some health
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problems
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deputy rod Johnson flew over the area
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for two hours he can see for miles over
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the open terrain but there was no trace
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of done
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I felt the guy was disorientated and I
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felt that he didn't want to be found if
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he would have wanted to be found he
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would have heard the aircraft code it
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came up waved his arms got attention
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gone up to a ridge anywhere and and be
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been sighted later that day Johnson and
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two other deputies found a duffel bag
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lying near the single set of footprints
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in it were laundry soap clothes a teapot
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all belonging to Don I believe they were
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put there to look like my son had walked
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out there and I don't believe my son did
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tracks in the snow led searchers to a
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barn six miles from the highway inside
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was a pile of sticks arranged to start a
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fire and three have done sucks three
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socks that were found in the barn where
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Donnie's socks I have no idea how they
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got there I think they were put there by
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someone other than my son
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three days after he disappeared
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a blizzard made it impossible to
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continue the search three years later a
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group of hunters discovered Don's
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remains just a few miles from where his
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SUV was a bad fire an autopsy showed no
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signs of foul play
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we never did suspect foul play he was
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out there and was avoiding us stayed
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away from us and I believe on the second
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or third day he was gonna try to get
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back to his vehicle he seen he was in
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trouble
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and he didn't make it this is where the
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case of Don Kent should have ended but
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Mary Kent has been haunted by two clues
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that just don't fit a sighting of Don
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and a number of mysterious phone calls
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five months after Don supposedly died in
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the blizzard
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he was seen 150 miles away in Casper
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Wyoming not once but twice he was
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reported to be at a traveling exhibit of
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Abraham Lincoln memorabilia and at a
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local tavern Mary can't talk to a
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bartender who distinctly remembers
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serving down around that time one of
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Don's closest friends returned home from
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vacation on her answering machine
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she found six different telephone
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messages from Don I'm absolutely certain
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that it was his voice and it was a very
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brief message I'd like to speak to you
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again call me and a phone number the
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next day I called asked to speak to Don
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a man answered the phone he said that
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Don was out I'm convinced he holds the
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clue to what really happened to Don
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telephone records prove that the calls
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were made from a trailer in Casper
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Wyoming
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the young man who was renting a trailer
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at the time said the phone company must
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have made a mistake he told us that he
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had no knowledge of the phone calls and
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that he had not made the phone calls I
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had an occasion to show him a picture of
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Donald Kemp and he said that he did not
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know Donald Kemp had never seen Donald
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Kemp and knew nothing of his whereabouts
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Mary wasn't satisfied with the man's
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story so she went to Wyoming to conduct
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her own investigation god knows what
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happened to my sons in that trailer it's
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it's too horrible to contemplate I don't
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know I tried in every way I knew how to
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contact this young man I finally spoke
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with him only one time on the phone and
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I asked him about my son and he said he
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knew nothing about Don Kemp he do
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nothing about Don Kemp he just paved
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those phone bills he didn't look at them
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and I told this young man he was lying
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you know what has happened to my son and
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he just hung up on me three weeks after
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he was questioned the young man moved
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out of the trailer and left Casper I
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have no reason to feel that the
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individual here in Casper had any
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knowledge of this man's even being in
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Wyoming other than these phone calls and
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I I I don't have an explanation for it
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neither nor did he who made the phone
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calls that's the big question who it was
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had have been my son
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[Applause]
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so what really did happen to Don kemp in
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that vast wyoming prairie sheriff Ogburn
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thinks he died in the blizzard but he
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can't explain the phone console mary
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believes that don was abducted taken to
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Casper and murdered but then why was his
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body found just three miles from the
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abandoned blazer somebody can tell me
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exactly what happened to my son as I
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know there are people who know what
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happened to my son
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I know this if you have any information
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about the disappearance of Don Kemp
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please log on to our website at unsolved
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comm next the ghostly legend of a
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beautiful lady in blue
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mas Beach is a lonely windswept Cove 20
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miles south of San Francisco a
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restaurant called the Moss Beach
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distillery overlooks the water and
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during Prohibition it was a notorious
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speakeasy in recent years strange things
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have been reported here
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waitresses say cold winds blow through
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the dining room when no windows or doors
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are open a former owner claims she's
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seen objects fly through the air the
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doors lock mysteriously for decades
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employees of the mas Beach distillery
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have reported seeing ghosts according to
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local legend one spirit dates back to
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the roaring 20s the beautiful lady in
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blue
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the speakeasy at Moss Beach was a
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hangout for bootleggers it was also the
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setting for legendary Love Train the
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lady was beautiful she always wore blue
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the piano player had eyes only for her
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but their romance was conducted in
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secret because the lady in blue belonged
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to someone else
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her husband was a bootlegger and one
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night she made a serious mistake unaware
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that he would soon arrive she signaled
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the piano player to meet around the
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beach
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the bootlegger saw his wife with the
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piano player and went crazy jealousy
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the lady threw herself between the two
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men and the struggle was over the
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beautiful lady in blue was dead a victim
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of her lover's dagger some swear that
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her ghost haunts Moss beach to this very
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day believers claim that she breathes a
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cold wind down the necks of women she
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used as rivals other employees say she
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calls out their names when they're alone
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and to dine here she's mischievous a lot
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of pranks will happen a lot of things
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will go on but I don't think that any of
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it is malicious I don't think that
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anything is supposed to be hair-raising
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zand you're running out of a building or
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anything else like that she's good she's
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it just seems to be a kind soul thank
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spirit when pat and dave andrews owned
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the mas beach distillery
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they say the lady in blue seem to enjoy
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he's locking them out of their rooms the
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lady in blue also played other tricks
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when Pat was all alone in the office
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my checkbook lifted right off the shelf
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above my head and sailed around this
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small room just put it back but I just
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told her to put it back and it went
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right back onto the shelf I just didn't
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believe it and then as as time went on
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the things that happened you know
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totally brought me around to the point
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of view that there it is here there's no
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if ands or buts about it it happened
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the mysterious lady in blue may not be
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the only ghost haunting the Moss Beach
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distillery a psychic named Sylvia Browne
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says that when she visited the tavern
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she sensed the presence of another
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spirit I walked in and said oh my god
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there is a ghost here and I'm getting
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the name Mary Ellen Morley Sylvia went
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on to say that Mary Ellen Morley had
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been killed by crushing blows to the
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chest and the head we took that
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information went over to the San Mateo
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County vital statistics and research
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documentation between 1910 and 1930 and
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in fact came up with a name that Sylvia
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Browne had had mentioned during dinner
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Mary Ellen Morley Jennifer towner and
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Jan mukil Stone continued to dig through
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the archives
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they were intrigued by the newspaper
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accounts of Mary Ellen Morley's death
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when she was killed
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it made front-page news it was really
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chilling when I came upon that cuz all
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of a sudden she became very real
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Mary Ellen Morley lived in Redwood City
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California and near the San Francisco
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Bay on the day of her death Mary Ellen
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and her husband Frederick had driven
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north to visit her mother's grave the
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cemetery was 15 miles from Moss Beach
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distillery returning home that same
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night
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Frederick lost control of his car it
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overturned and Mary Ellen was trapped
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inside
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with her last breath she begged Frederic
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to take care of their three-year-old son
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Jack
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jab movie
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frederik frantically ran for help but in
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the end he could do nothing to save his
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wife she died from crushing blows to the
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chest and the head the exact injuries
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described a Sylvia Bree the owner called
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Sylvia back to the moss Beach distillery
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for a saying because you've been walking
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so long so Sylvia claimed that Mary
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Ellen Morley's spirit was weary from
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searching for her son Jack Sylvia also
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said Mary Ellen warned that there would
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soon be a fire at the restaurant four or
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five days later we had a fire here in
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the restaurant we had to close the
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restaurant temporarily and that was
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really eerie
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that was kind of scary I've moved from a
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1 on a scale of 10 of belief to
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somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/8 I
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would say in a Tim with regard to my
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blue lady I'm convinced she's here
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whether it's the lady in blue or Mary
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Ellen Morley anyone at the los beach
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distillery is convinced that it's not
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only a place for us to consume spirits
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it's also haunted by then next Jack Kerr
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wax landmark book on the road inspires a
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woman to follow the same path but that
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path leads to her unexplained
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disappearance
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Mount Baker Washington two joggers
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notice a piece of clothing dangling from
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a tree branch there's a shirt or
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something up there it's weird
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see anyone around someone crash down
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there the SUV has plunged over a steep
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embankment there were no signs of anyone
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or any indication that someone had been
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injured the passport money and some
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clothing were found inside the car
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police traced the Jeep to a missing 23
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year old college student
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Leo Roberts nine days earlier Leah had
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left her home in Raleigh North Carolina
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without telling anyone where she was
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going
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there are very few clues in this
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disturbing case for instance no one
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knows for sure if Lea Roberts was even
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in her car when it crashed only one
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thing is certain that Lea Roberts left
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home on a journey of self-discovery and
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she never returned Lea is just a very
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awesome person everybody that meets her
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likes are very personable great smile
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but um you know she was kind of private
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also when Lea was in her early 20s
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her mother died unexpectedly then Lea
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was involved in a near-fatal car
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accident and finally after a long
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illness her father died I think that all
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of those things together had the
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cumulative effect of making Lea even
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more introspective and probably more
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aware that although she didn't know what
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she wanted to do I think she was unhappy
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that she wasn't achieving it Lea found
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comfort in the writings of Jack Kerouac
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The Beat Generation author who wrote
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about the free-spirited road trips he
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took across America Lea's favorite was
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called the Dharma bums it's a story that
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encourages the reader to leave behind
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the materialism of modern life
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part of that book takes place at a
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forest fire lookout tower on desolation
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peak near Mount Baker in Washington
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State from the last conversation that we
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had we were talking about Dharma bombs
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when Kerouac talks about and about how
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Caroline was up on desolation peak just
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taking in all the beauty around him I'd
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love to go to desolation take it appears
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that Lia Roberts secretly decided to
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turn your dreams into a reality just
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three months before she was to graduate
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from college she packed but most of her
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cherished belongings and her cat be and
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took off for desolation Peak 3,000 miles
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across the country
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it had been a period of like four days
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where we hadn't seen her and we began to
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worry Lea's family and friends filed a
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missing-persons report
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and checked the bank records for any
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activity on her account she had made
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several cash withdrawals tracing a route
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towards the west coast it took her only
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three days to get to Oregon the day
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after we thought the missing-persons
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report I went over to Leah's house just
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to kind of check through things see if I
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could find any clue you know just
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something to give me an answer on Leah's
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dresser Kara discovered a cryptic note
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this is to cover bills while I'm gone
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have faith in me yourself everyone
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Kerouac Leah's night said I'm not
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suicidal I'm the opposite remember Jack
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Kerouac that might be part of her trip
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five days later Lea's SUV was discovered
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in Mount Baker National Forest near
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desolation peak but Lea was nowhere to
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be found
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authorities estimated that the car was
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traveling about 40 miles an hour when it
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plunged over the embankment well with
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the speed that the vehicle was traveling
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and the amount of damage to the vehicle
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you would anticipate some type of injury
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to the person inside at least some type
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of evidence to indicate contact damage
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that the person had been inside the
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vehicle there was no blood inside the
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SUV or in the surrounding area
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investigators wondered if Lea had even
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been in the car when it went over the
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edge there's nothing to indicate the
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wheel was tied and that was pushed off
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the road but couldn't find any marks on
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the back they indicate anybody had
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pushed it to make things even more
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confusing blankets had been placed in
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the car's shattered windows it appeared
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that someone used it as a shelter after
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the accident
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we brought in dogs we brought in
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search-and-rescue and did a complete
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grid search up and down the road when
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they weren't able to find any indication
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that aimed I had left that vehicle the
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SUV was carefully examined at a police
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garage it was full of Lea's personal
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belongings a large amount of cash
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an empty cat carrier solid diamond ray
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and Lea's mother's diamond engagement
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ring as long as I've known Lea she has
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worn her mother's engagement ring and it
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was her most prized possession and when
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we discovered that the ring had been
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found in the car it was definitely a bad
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sign there are several theories about
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the disappearance of Lea Roberts
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she could have caught a ride with the
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wrong person after the accident she
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could be living somewhere with no memory
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of who she is or where she came from or
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perhaps Leo Roberts was inspired by her
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favorite author Jack Kerouac and left
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her former life behind in one final
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dramatic gesture
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I can understand Lee as needing to get
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away and find some peace within herself
00:25:33
but considering the loss that our
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families experienced it's difficult for
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me to think that that she would leave us
00:25:43
open for another loss like this you
00:25:47
don't ever know what someone's thinking
00:25:48
in their head no matter what they tell
00:25:50
you you still don't know
00:25:52
one week after Leah's car was found a
00:25:55
man called police to report that his
00:25:58
wife had just seen Leah at a gas station
00:26:01
30 miles from Seattle he didn't give his
00:26:05
name but said Leah appeared confused and
00:26:08
disoriented before police could get more
00:26:11
information the caller hung up Leah
00:26:17
Roberts is 5 feet 6 inches tall and last
00:26:20
seen weighed 130 pounds and had sandy
00:26:24
blonde hair she has a beauty loop on the
00:26:27
right upper lip and a surgical scar on
00:26:30
her right hip
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if you have any information about this
00:26:35
case please log on to our website in the
00:26:38
south
00:26:42
coming up a rapist attacks women
00:26:46
throughout New York and a man wrongly
00:26:48
convicted of two of those rapes is
00:26:51
finally set free
00:26:56
[Music]
00:27:02
Kansas City Missouri during a previous
00:27:06
broadcast we told you about George Marsh
00:27:10
a Kansas City labourer who died alone in
00:27:14
a nursing home in 1982 George left
00:27:20
behind 175,000 dollars
00:27:23
but had no known heirs or relatives
00:27:26
there were a few clues one is this birth
00:27:32
certificate showing that his original
00:27:34
name was Yosef Zelenka there were also a
00:27:38
few family photos including this
00:27:41
portrait of a young woman inscribed your
00:27:43
loving niece help we were hoping that
00:27:48
someone who saw this story might have
00:27:50
known George Marsh or his heirs update
00:27:56
thanks to unsolved mysteries
00:27:58
George Marcia's relatives have been
00:28:00
found one of them was actually watching
00:28:04
our broadcast when I looked up and saw
00:28:07
my senior high school picture on TV I
00:28:11
couldn't believe it so then when he read
00:28:15
your loving niece Elinor did that that's
00:28:18
how I signed I was just stunned
00:28:21
I was just amazed Elinor Kohler is
00:28:26
George Marcia's long-lost niece the one
00:28:30
who signed this high school
00:28:32
for him her family lives in Rock Springs
00:28:35
Wyoming Joseph's brother Jim has been
00:28:39
looking for Joe since 1931 I have no
00:28:44
idea why he kept away from the family
00:28:48
because there's no hard feelings we were
00:28:51
all United always in everything the
00:28:57
Zilla Lincoln's plan to divide 175,000
00:29:01
dollars among Joe's surviving relatives
00:29:03
but more importantly they want to bring
00:29:06
his body back to the family burial site
00:29:10
I just feel good all over to know where
00:29:14
he's at and I'd be able to bring his
00:29:15
body back to rest with her rest of his
00:29:17
family for more than 20 years
00:29:25
police in Buffalo New York tried to
00:29:27
catch a serial killer and rapist and for
00:29:30
more than 20 years
00:29:32
an innocent man remained behind bars for
00:29:35
crimes that he did not commit and I was
00:29:41
walking this summer school I was running
00:29:44
a little bit late for school so I
00:29:47
decided to cut through the pass and then
00:29:50
I was almost at the end of the path and
00:29:51
I heard something behind me
00:29:56
are you doing and I didn't think
00:29:57
anything of it so I turned around and I
00:29:59
kept walking you know I mean he didn't
00:30:02
look like someone I could I had to fear
00:30:04
he looked like a normal everyday guy he
00:30:13
started dragging me back into the woods
00:30:15
and then he started strangling me
00:30:18
and then I thought dad said I was gonna
00:30:21
die it was I really thought I'm never
00:30:24
seeing my family and when he was
00:30:28
finished I asked him what's gonna happen
00:30:31
and he told me he said nothing he's
00:30:34
almost sounded sorry and then he left
00:30:37
a few months later the rapist was lying
00:30:42
in wait as a 16 year old girl walked to
00:30:46
school along an isolated railroad track
00:30:49
once again he double wrap the rope
00:30:52
around victim's neck and take the rice
00:30:54
shot almost a year later another young
00:30:58
girl was using this as a shortcut on her
00:30:59
way to school
00:31:00
the same individual pastor and
00:31:03
immediately afterwards double wrapped a
00:31:05
rope around her neck gained control of
00:31:06
her and took her to the bush area behind
00:31:08
me he forced her to place tape over eyes
00:31:11
he bound her and sexually assaulted her
00:31:16
the four victims all described the
00:31:19
rapist as a short stocky man in his
00:31:22
mid-30s who had massage for months past
00:31:27
Blayne fifth victim Amherst New York a
00:31:34
woman alone in a secluded place early
00:31:38
one they placed a rope around her neck
00:31:42
he wrapped it twice she described him as
00:31:44
a very powerful man he lifted her over
00:31:47
this fence and took her into the wooded
00:31:50
area over here where he bound her hands
00:31:54
behind her back and he placed surgical
00:31:56
tape over eyes and at that point he
00:31:58
raped her the rapist would attack two
00:32:04
more victims in inversed a 32 year old
00:32:08
female was using this path early in the
00:32:11
morning for exercise as she got to this
00:32:13
point right here a rope was placed
00:32:17
around her neck and she was immediately
00:32:18
rendered unconscious she was then
00:32:20
dragged into these woods up this way the
00:32:23
woman was found one hour later still
00:32:25
unconscious double wrap marks on her
00:32:29
neck told police who they were dealing
00:32:31
with but this time it was different
00:32:34
this time he nearly killed its victim
00:32:39
twenty-two-year-old Linda yeh l'm a
00:32:41
student at the University in Buffalo was
00:32:44
next
00:32:45
she was the seventh known victim and she
00:32:49
would be the first to die
00:32:52
Linda was left in the woods the mouth
00:32:55
and nose wrap tight with duct tape it
00:32:59
was premeditated murder he planned on
00:33:02
killing her when he went he grabbed her
00:33:04
that day once he put that tape over her
00:33:07
nose in her mouth there was no chance
00:33:08
for survival after Linda's murder the
00:33:13
attacks stopped authorities wondered if
00:33:17
the suspect had moved gone to prison or
00:33:19
even died and then four years later a
00:33:24
14-year old girl was raped in Buffalo a
00:33:27
serial rapist was back
00:33:31
this guy strikes so and frequently he's
00:33:34
very hard to to profile very very
00:33:37
difficult he's either got tremendous
00:33:40
self-control or else he's hitting in
00:33:43
other parts of the country that were not
00:33:45
aware of update more than 20 years after
00:33:51
the so called bikepath rapist first
00:33:53
struck
00:33:54
police arrested and held hemiola sanchez
00:33:57
whose DNA matched samples found at the
00:34:00
crime scenes he was convicted of two
00:34:03
murders and sentenced to 75 years to
00:34:07
life during their investigation police
00:34:10
learned that Sanchez had committed two
00:34:13
other rapes in the same part where he
00:34:15
claimed his first victim they also
00:34:21
discovered that an innocent man was
00:34:23
serving a 35-year sentence for those two
00:34:27
rapes the wrongly convicted man Anthony
00:34:30
Capozzi was finally set free after
00:34:33
serving 21 years behind bars in a moment
00:34:41
an infant who is pronounced dead at
00:34:43
birth makes a miraculous recovery
00:34:56
Jefferson in the end when Todd and Tammy
00:35:01
Carroll arrived at the hospital for the
00:35:04
birth of their third child a son named
00:35:06
Logan
00:35:10
they had far greater fears than a
00:35:13
typical expected parents their second
00:35:16
child Megan had been still Tami everyone
00:35:20
I was worried is anything gonna be wrong
00:35:22
with this baby is everything gonna be
00:35:24
all right
00:35:24
and after the ultrasound and everything
00:35:26
looked good on it and then we were in
00:35:29
some other tests that looked fine that
00:35:31
eased my mind I really tried to look at
00:35:35
it as a separate incident Tammy's sister
00:35:40
Ruth stood near the fetal heartbeat
00:35:43
monitor the red numbers showed a normal
00:35:45
rate 120 to 140 beats per minute at
00:35:49
least at first
00:35:51
Logan Carol was born 12 minutes later
00:35:55
then his heart stopped feel any pulse at
00:36:01
all and that's when we started CPR
00:36:03
[Music]
00:36:05
what is he crying call a code
00:36:08
[Music]
00:36:15
the emergency team tried desperately to
00:36:18
revive history an eventful pregnancy we
00:36:30
lost the heart right immediately before
00:36:31
delivery after 15 minutes
00:36:35
Logan still had no vital signs no
00:36:38
heartbeat no breathing no heart rate
00:36:44
flatline continue this hesitation here
00:36:48
continued doing CPR throughout that time
00:36:51
and I began inserting the line into his
00:36:54
umbilical cord to try to administer some
00:36:56
drugs to help revive him they had put
00:37:00
EKG monitor on him and the tracing was
00:37:03
not showing any electrical activity so I
00:37:05
knew it didn't look good at all well I
00:37:11
was still hoping he was there so long I
00:37:14
don't know how five or six doctors
00:37:16
they're working on him
00:37:18
I just couldn't lose this baby I just
00:37:20
could not believe this could happen
00:37:21
again
00:37:22
Logan James Carroll was officially
00:37:25
pronounced dead at 5:15 p.m. at some
00:37:36
point you know you always have to just
00:37:38
say we've done what we can do this baby
00:37:41
is not going to respond and we finally
00:37:45
called it and pronounced him dead at
00:37:47
that time I don't think there's any
00:37:49
lower feeling than holding the dead
00:37:51
child seeing they're holding him and
00:37:53
looking in his face I just wanted him to
00:37:55
be alive so bad
00:37:57
Tammi and Todd agreed to an autopsy they
00:38:02
wanted to know why I don't mean to sound
00:38:06
crass or anything but we usually take
00:38:09
pictures of the baby for the family you
00:38:11
never know how people are going to take
00:38:12
that when you come in and say I'd like
00:38:14
to take pictures of you and the baby but
00:38:17
they were very receptive because they
00:38:18
said they didn't get enough pictures the
00:38:20
last time that this had happened to them
00:38:23
these photos were taken that horrible
00:38:26
afternoon sat portraits meant to
00:38:30
commemorate the end of a young life
00:38:33
instead they were the beginning of a
00:38:37
miracle what was that what was what he
00:38:44
just made the noise that was just a
00:38:46
reflex action Tanner I'm sorry
00:38:49
while I was holding Logan he made the
00:38:51
gasping sound it was a very eerie
00:38:53
feeling but we had been told that that
00:38:55
was normal it is called agonal gasping
00:38:58
and it can happen because of the
00:39:01
medication it can go on for quite a
00:39:03
while so I wanted to let them know
00:39:05
because every time he would do that he
00:39:07
did it a couple of times for Tammy they
00:39:09
would just their eyes would light up and
00:39:10
then they would be really let down when
00:39:12
he wouldn't do it again
00:39:15
[Music]
00:39:17
forty minutes had passed since Logan was
00:39:19
pronounced dead the time for his autopsy
00:39:23
was approaching
00:39:25
[Music]
00:39:28
Schuyler looks so good
00:39:30
ready he's getting warmer
00:39:43
I'll get the nurse
00:39:50
just look
00:40:02
I'll be right back
00:40:04
what's going on roofie I understand
00:40:10
about agonal breathing but is there such
00:40:12
a thing as an agonal heart rate susan
00:40:14
has a heart rate please come and take a
00:40:19
look at him I think I was afraid that
00:40:21
she was reacting in a way that was going
00:40:22
to upset the family even more because I
00:40:25
mean the baby was dead it was total
00:40:36
unbelief I don't know how soon it was
00:40:38
but it was real soon they came in took
00:40:41
my IV out and I had monitors on me and I
00:40:43
had a blood pressure cuff I mean they
00:40:45
were taking wires and just pulling them
00:40:47
off of me and willed me into the nursery
00:40:49
and I reached in and I held his arm and
00:40:53
I was talking to him tell him that he
00:40:55
had to hang in there and then I loved
00:40:57
him and then I was proud of him for
00:41:00
being so strong
00:41:00
[Music]
00:41:02
earlier six physicians and eight
00:41:05
registered nurses were all certain that
00:41:07
Logan Carroll had died
00:41:11
hi-tec meters and monitors confirmed
00:41:14
that judgment I figured God's hand and
00:41:18
I've been in it but that's not in the
00:41:21
medical literature it's account for the
00:41:23
miraculous as an explanation dr.
00:41:26
Valentine you get the baby it's amazing
00:41:29
I mean we're all trained to do something
00:41:31
as doctors and here we did nothing and
00:41:34
he came back word spread through the
00:41:36
hospital very quickly it was it was
00:41:38
incredible the emergency room doctor
00:41:41
came up and was totally amazed it was it
00:41:46
was something into something
00:41:51
Logan's transformation from the lifeless
00:41:54
infant in this photo to the squirm baby
00:41:57
boy videotaped just one day later was
00:42:00
amazing Logan remained in the hospital
00:42:04
for the next five weeks and his vital
00:42:07
signs never faltered again
00:42:29
[Music]
00:42:45
[Music]

Badges

This episode stands out for the following:

  • 80
    Most heartbreaking
  • 75
    Most shocking
  • 70
    Most dramatic
  • 70
    Best performance

Episode Highlights

  • Lea Roberts' Journey of Self-Discovery
    Lea Roberts disappears after leaving home for a journey inspired by Jack Kerouac's writings.
    “Lea Roberts left home on a journey of self-discovery and she never returned.”
    @ 01m 58s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Mysterious Disappearance of Don Kemp
    Don Kemp's abandoned SUV leads to a chilling investigation into his death, with his mother believing he was murdered.
    “My son was murdered, I definitely believe this.”
    @ 02m 26s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Ghostly Legend of the Lady in Blue
    A haunting tale of a beautiful woman in blue who met a tragic fate at a speakeasy.
    “Some swear that her ghost haunts Moss Beach to this very day.”
    @ 13m 17s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Bikepath Rapist Arrested
    After more than 20 years, police arrested Hemiola Sanchez, whose DNA matched the crime scenes.
    “This guy strikes so frequently, he's very hard to profile.”
    @ 33m 31s
    March 09, 2017
  • Miraculous Recovery of Logan Carroll
    Logan Carroll was pronounced dead at birth but made a miraculous recovery after CPR efforts.
    “It was something into something.”
    @ 41m 38s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • Lea Roberts left home on a journey of self-discovery and she never returned.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5
  • God knows what happened to my son in that trailer; it's too horrible to contemplate.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5
  • I can understand Lea as needing to get away and find some peace within herself.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5
  • I just feel good all over to know where he's at.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5
  • I just couldn't lose this baby. I just could not believe this could happen again.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5

Key Moments

  • Long-lost Niece28:21
  • Family Reunion28:30
  • Premeditated Murder33:02
  • Miracle Birth35:01
  • Logan's Transformation41:51

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