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tonight on unsolved mysteries Shawn and
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Jody Bordeaux had been married two years
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they had great jobs at a casino on the
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Kickapoo Indian Reservation in Kansas
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and Jody was expecting their first child
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tragically their dream wife would be
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dealt a devastating blow who wanted to
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kill Jody Bordeaux for hundreds of
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working-class families a school that
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offered affordable music lessons for the
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kids seemed too good to be true
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it was one owner loved the limelight the
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other was a chameleon who mysteriously
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changed identities allegedly both were
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ruthless con artists over the course of
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a decade at least four young girls
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vanished under similar circumstances
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from towns in the San Francisco Bay Area
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many suspect the cases are somehow
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connected
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one day Gilbert Ortiz was a happily
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married family man and the next fighting
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for survival after his wife allegedly
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poisoned him and ran away with her son
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we'll bring you an update on Ortiz's
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heart-wrenching journey
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join me for these intriguing stories and
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more you may be able to help solve a
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mystery
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a dark November night in Powhatan Kansas
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a small farmhouse on the edge of the
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Kickapoo Indian Reservation Jodi
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Bordeaux and her husband Sean have lived
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here for over a year for weeks he have
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been receiving disturbing anonymous
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phone calls but on this night they
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weren't just calls Jodi was sure someone
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was in their yard
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one night she had heard noises outside
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of the house and I tried to convince her
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that it was probably a raccoon or a
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coyote or something and as she really
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didn't have nothing to be a work to be
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afraid of but Shaun was wrong the danger
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Jodi proceeded was very real and would
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ultimately lead to her murder Shaun and
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Jodi worked at the Golden Eagle it was a
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first Indian owned casino in the area it
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held great potential for the Kickapoo
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tribe with an annual revenue stream in
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the millions and job opportunities for
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the local tribes people Shawn who is
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part Lakota Indian and Jodi were part of
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the management team hired to run the
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casino
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although the Kickapoo tribal council
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retained the final word in all decisions
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Shawn and Jodi were also trying to start
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a family after several miscarriages Jodi
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sought out a fertility expert and within
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a few months the couple's dream had come
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true Jodi was pregnant with a baby girl
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she was absolutely ecstatic over this
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pregnancy and that her happiness was
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something that spilled over into her
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friends and her acquaintances and
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everybody were just pretty much felt
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happy for her and with her everything
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seemed to be going Jodi's way soon her
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take-charge personality got her promoted
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to staff supervisor of the [ __ ] machine
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department so he was a little fireball
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she put a lot of energy a lot of effort
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into everything she did so to see her in
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the casino you
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would think she was running most things
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and even that perception in and of
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itself is kind of a little bit it can
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draw jealousy and envy some from some of
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the people who may be in the same
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position saying how does she get all the
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attention
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judi believe the some of the staff were
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resentful over a new position her
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grandmother died
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for instance one employee a slot
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technician accused her of fabricating
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excuses to get extra time off our
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busiest weekend good time to have to go
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out to a funeral
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there's some competitiveness when it
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comes to these jobs and having two
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people coming from other tree no one
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from another tribe and one from no tribe
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at all and going into high positions in
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the casino I'm sure rubbed a lot of
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people on the Kickapoo reservation the
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wrong way to complicate things as a
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department supervisor Jody's position
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required her to oversee job performance
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according to Shawn
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Jody often had to report the slot Tech's
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bad attitude and tardiness he kept
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coming back with more problems for her
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and eventually you know she had to take
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a little bit more of a hard line on him
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and start writing him up and holding him
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to the letter of the law as our policies
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and procedures mandated we're here to
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talk about some reports we have about
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you being late for work when things
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didn't improve the employee was brought
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before the casino management board for
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review I don't even know why some of
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those reports are even written it's like
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everybody else gets away with everything
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he was reprimanded and put on probation
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but the problems persisted and the slot
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tech was eventually fired it was just
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weeks later when Shawn believes out of
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vengeance the slot tech brought a
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grievance against Jody directly to the
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Tribal Council
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the complaint ultimately led to Jody
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losing her job so judy spent the next
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month petitioning to get it back she
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hoped the tribal council would
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reconsider Jody was hoping that she
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would be rehired at the golden eagle and
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that was discussion that her and I had
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participated in and there was a
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possibility that she would have come
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back to work after golden eagle when the
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news spread that Jody might return to
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the casino the anonymous phone calls
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began never in my wildest dreams did I
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think they had anything to do with
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having to worry for our lives I had no
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idea that we were being threatened
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late on November 21st Shawn and Jody was
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spending a quiet night at home on a
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strange noise startled the Bordeaux's
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dog Shawn followed him to the back porch
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the next thing I hears a popping noise
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kind of over and behind my head and then
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it was like somebody lit a 20 pack of
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firecrackers Jody got to the bedroom and
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she turned to see if I was okay and one
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bullet went into the bedroom Jody Jody
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and that one bullet struck her in the
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head
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Shawn could see that Jodi was dead
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he quickly dialed 911 to save his unborn
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baby and as I pick up the phone and I
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look up at the wall I notice that it's
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riddled with bullets
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Jody didn't suffer and that she died
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instantly
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my baby suffered you know here's my
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little baby in there and she's relying
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on mom and next thing you know there's
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no mom and she dies too slow death
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that really hurts so I think when I
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kissed her I think it was her calling me
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in a spiritual way is to say I have to
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go now and that was goodbye
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that night Shawn lost both Jodi and the
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baby and despite an exhaustive
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investigation four years later no one
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has been charged with the murder
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the Bordeaux's home was so isolated
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there were no witnesses no weapon was
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found today a killer is still on the
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loose
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Kevin Hill is a County Attorney assigned
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to the bordeaux murder he has been
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working with local estate authorities on
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the investigation gone from a point
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where just about everyone was the
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possible suspect to a point where we're
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focusing on an individual or group of
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individuals that may have been
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responsible for this these individuals
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were not strangers to Jodi Bordeaux
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individuals knew her and they would have
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had an axe to grind with her due to
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employment issues but there are a few
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key roadblocks to capturing anyone
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involved I believe that part of the
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problem is just that there's not a lot
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of trust with Indian people and
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non-indian law enforcement and that's
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probably part of the problem with with
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the Inquisition and any other
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investigations that are taking place
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there's been serious question about
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retribution of anybody coming forward
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if there are members of the Kickapoo
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tribe that have any information that
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would help us solve this they have a
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responsibility to their fellow tribal
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members to their fellow community
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members to come forward this is an
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unsolved crime here on our lands let's
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do something about it I I go through
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each day thinking of my family thinking
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of what could be thinking of my little
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girl and so the most difficult thing is
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just watching my life go by without a
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family since the murders Shawn has left
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Kansas but he still holds out hope that
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someday there will be justice for Jody
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despite Shawn's belief that a casino
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employee was somehow involved in his
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wife's murder
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authorities at this time have not
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released a list of official suspects
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they seek your help in providing new
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information necessary for an arrest in
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this case
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in a mostly working-class Hispanic
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neighborhood in North Hollywood
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California something extraordinary was
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going on
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a new music school had opened and
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hundreds of pairs eagerly signed up
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their children for low-cost lessons the
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school was owned by Mario Yunus and Omar
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Arroyo who hired veteran instructors
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that teach students a lost art of
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playing the accordion I knew they had
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hold of something big and I knew it was
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gonna be a lot of money I just knew it
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and I wanted it to work
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Mario unis and Omar OTO Leah were an odd
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couple Eunice was a studio musician
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flute in several languages
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Arroyo an aspiring salsa singer and
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used-car salesman however there was
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nothing unusual about their carefully
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crafted sales pitch their enthusiasm hit
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all the right notes Wow
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that was excellent I'm very very proud
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of you and I I think it's time for you
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to move up to the next level they said
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that my daughter had won a scholarship
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to learn piano accordion in Oregon I
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thought oh great you know this is the
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perfect opportunity for my daughter to
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to get some lessons what I need for you
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to do is to choose one of those I'm
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gonna recommend that Vaudrey take the
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Mercedes back
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Mario unis acted as a frontman charming
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and persuasive he often met with parents
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about his partner work behind the scene
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was the Mercedes package is 2500 and the
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Toyota package is 1,800
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see I think I'll take that to you in a
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package the package was that it was the
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accordion that you were fine but they
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were gonna teach three different
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instruments by the end of the three
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years $32 increments every month that's
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okay and part of it would be also taking
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them on field trips like Disneyland
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however the ink was barely dry on the
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contract when everything fell apart
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early one morning Martha Guyardo dropped
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off Vaudrey for her weekly lesson it was
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a day mother and daughter would never
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forget she said nobody's there they're
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gone and I first like the oho don't be
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silly you know but then he just like hit
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me and I said oh my god fraud that's the
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first thing that came into my mind
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because I knew I had given them my
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credit card
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according to police Martha's instincts
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were right
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she had been targeted for fraud
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reportedly arroyo and Eunice even duped
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their own employees lying about the
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credit card scheme and paying them with
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bogus checks that tired of getting bad
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checks I don't know how many bad checks
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I got from how many different banks and
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they said well we got another class for
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it it's a job I gotta be paid and they
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said well after you do this class we'll
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pay you
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John : well taught the class but he says
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he never saw the money and let Martha
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gang out he'll receive her credit card
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bill she found a single charge for the
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entire cost of the accordion more than
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eighteen hundred dollars allegedly it
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was a cheap import worth about $300
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however many other unsuspecting families
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unaware of laws designed to protect
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consumers from credit card fraud were
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reportedly hit much harder
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the parents were mad they were angry
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they were hurt because you know they
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felt like okay wait a minute we have no
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money and what are we gonna do these
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people the credit cards were up to like
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10,000 20,000 one particular guy was
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39,000 according to police Omar or you
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and Mario Yunus had swindled the money
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through identity theft by using personal
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information lifted from music school
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applications Arroyo on you know cerebral
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open fraudulent credit card accounts
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some with substantial lines of credit in
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just over a year
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authorities say their take was an
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incredible one-and-a-half million
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dollars but these alleged con men also
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had another trick up their sleeves one
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that would surprise and shock everyone
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the alleged scheme began two one rival
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when Martha Guyardo and some of the
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other parents found out the music school
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had reopened at a new location a
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confrontation with a school's director
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the police believe was also a part of
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our oil and unis quickly became heated
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especially when a TV reporter shoulder
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leave right now I'm calling the police
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moments later officers arrived on the
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scene unaware that the school was
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allegedly a front for fraud the irate
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parents were immediately escorted from
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the building and told to take their
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grievances to civil court however many
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families chose to file criminal
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complaints including Martha and her
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husband do you have a copy of the
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contract with you I've seasoned some
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real unique case but I've never handled
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a case as this were you know it has so
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many victims
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we have over I could say 200 victims and
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it involves a large amount of monies
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have you seen any two males that might
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have looked like the owners of the place
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detected by your quickly discovered that
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the two alleged swindlers ran a number
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of music schools under a variety of
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aliases and cash is OK
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yes meanwhile according to police homer
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Arroyo and Mario Yunus went on separate
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spending sprees with some of the stolen
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cash Royer reportedly spent more than
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$100,000 to cut a salsa CD under the
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name Luis Omar
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Yunus had also crafted a new identity
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but he was playing a very different tune
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I am his twin sister she's from Israel
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are all yours real estate Asian did a
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double-take and with good reason
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Mario Yunus had undergone much more than
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a makeover
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he was now a she using the name Delia
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Leon placed on take a look at ya
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Mario Yunus had undergone a sex change
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operation up in San Francisco and paid
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for this operation with one of the kids
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parents credit card charges amounted to
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over $33,000 and that was only a portion
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of the cost the rest was also reportedly
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charged to various credit cards then
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according to police Omar Arroyo and
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Delia Leone became lovers the couple
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lived like royalty running a luxurious
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home in LA's Woodland Hills they give
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the impression they were a family
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Arroyo brought his two daughters from a
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former marriage over from Puerto Rico
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however life in shangri-la soon hit a
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sour note when a new office assistant
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reportedly received by complaints from
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angry parents decided to go to the
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police so why are you working I'm
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working at kids music and that's in
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Mission Hills it was a break detective
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Bao needed but with only a dia sister
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gone he would need to conduct a stakeout
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to nail the alleged con artists we
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conducted a surveillance in order to try
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to identify the true identity of our
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suspects we were able to come up with
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their true names
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[Music]
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detective bio then followed the suspects
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to their upscale neighborhood a few days
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later armed with a search warrant police
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raided the home reportedly Delia Leon
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attempted to escape through the backyard
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but was quickly apprehended she denied
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any involvement in the credit-card scam
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police weren't so lucky with her alleged
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partner in crime
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Omer Arroyo had left town just hours
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before the raid I was surprised I'm not
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finding Omar and I later learned that he
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had left to Puerto Rico the night before
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Omar was in the process of doing
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promotions on his CD thanks to some
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parents who refused to be victims
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skillful police work by Detective by old
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Delia Leon aka Mario Yunus was in
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custody and the music schools were
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closed down
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fortunately Martha Garda was able to
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clear the excessive charges from her
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credit card but many families paid a
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heavy price
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on a previous broadcast we presented the
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puzzling case of Sandra Oriana she
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plummeted ten stories to her death from
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this hotel balcony in Southern
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California investigators run certain if
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it was an accident suicide or murder
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Sandra had come to California on a
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business trip with her boss Robert
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Salazar they checked into adjacent rooms
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on the eighth floor
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the next morning Sandra's body was found
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sprawled on the ground below police
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interviewed Robert Salazar he said he
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had escorted Sandra to her room around
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midnight he left her alive and well but
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suspicions arose and detectives found
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articles of his clothing in her room
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when questioned again he offered a very
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different story he said that he had in
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fact gone into the room with Sandra and
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that they had engaged in sex and that at
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one point they were on the balcony
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Sandra had positioned herself on the
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railing of the balcony in such a way
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that she threw one of her legs over the
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top of the balcony and lost her balance
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and had fallen
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Sandra's family was outraged by
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Salazar's allegations they asserted she
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would never have consensual sex with him
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that she was devoted to her fiance
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police used a dummy to test Salazar's
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account of what happened we tried it
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several times and we actually ended up
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trying to make it land where she landed
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and we had to basically throw the dummy
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in that direction to make it land there
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despite the suspicions of the police
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Robert Salazar was not charged with any
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crime until now on March 2nd 2001 nearly
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five years after Sandra's death Robert
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Salazar was arrested for her murder on
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May 30 if he appeared at a preliminary
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hearing in West Covina California
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investigators said a reevaluation of
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evidence as well as DNA tests led to the
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district attorney finally charging
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Salazar
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[Music]
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one Friday afternoon
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Kim Schwartz was preparing dinner when
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her seven-year-old daughter Amber asked
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permission to play in front of the panel
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california home but our friends are
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gonna be here in five minutes me
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no amber asked if she used to jump rope
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in the hall closet and jump rope outside
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so I walked with her over the closet
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open up the door and she grabbed the
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jump rope and on her way out the door
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she just stopped and turned said I love
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you mommy and then out the door she went
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Amber planted jump rope until Kim's
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friend Debbie and her daughter Marissa
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came by
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[Music]
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they walk in the door and you know
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Maurice instantly asks where amber was
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and I said she was outside jumping rope
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and so both of them at that point said
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we didn't see her out there so I said
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well maybe she was over in the vacant
00:25:30
lot she's out there it's a Marie so
00:25:33
quickly ran right up back outside
00:25:34
looking for amber she came running back
00:25:39
inside saying she didn't see her so at
00:25:42
that point I went outside I started
00:25:45
hollering Amber's name and she wasn't
00:25:52
there so I would called the only two
00:25:55
people that I thought that amber may
00:25:57
have wandered off to
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and I got answering machines so
00:26:02
obviously they weren't there I couldn't
00:26:11
find amber it was afraid I didn't want
00:26:16
anything to be wrong I wanted her to be
00:26:19
home Kim Schwarz would never see her
00:26:25
only daughter again
00:26:28
the disappearance of amber was a second
00:26:31
devastating tragedy Kim Schwartz was
00:26:33
forced to endure her husband Bernie a
00:26:36
Pinole police officer was killed in the
00:26:38
line of duty when Kim was pregnant with
00:26:40
amber this latest tragedy would
00:26:43
transform the widowed mother of three
00:26:45
into an activist following hours of
00:26:48
searching investigators concluded amber
00:26:51
Schwartz had been abducted the morning
00:26:53
after she disappeared a pair of pink
00:26:56
socks was discovered in a park a short
00:26:58
distance from Amber's home when the park
00:27:00
had been searched the previous night the
00:27:02
socks were not there to come back the
00:27:06
next morning and find these socks in a
00:27:08
place that had already been searched
00:27:10
certainly sent up a lot of red flags
00:27:12
they were just like the socks at amber
00:27:14
had on her feet I could say that because
00:27:16
I had helped amber put her new shoes on
00:27:19
the we had just bought we knew fairly
00:27:21
quickly that this was going beyond our
00:27:23
resources and we reached out to the FBI
00:27:26
and to the neighboring agencies and
00:27:28
pulled in other resources so that we
00:27:30
could conduct a proper investigation
00:27:33
mrs. Swartz I just have a few more
00:27:35
questions that I'd like to ask you okay
00:27:36
okay okay
00:27:37
when FBI agents visited her home Kim was
00:27:40
struck by the unusual questions they
00:27:42
asked and even is social security in the
00:27:44
last two or three days no questions like
00:27:47
had I or amber received anything in the
00:27:50
mail there's someone that we didn't know
00:27:52
she had amber come home with anything
00:27:55
she couldn't really explain who it came
00:27:57
from to me had I received phone calls
00:28:00
from anyone I didn't know it just really
00:28:03
bizarre questions but the way they were
00:28:05
being asked kind of led me to believe
00:28:09
they were so specific that they had to
00:28:11
be about somebody in the days following
00:28:15
Amber's disappearance many strangers
00:28:17
offered to help but three days after her
00:28:20
daughter vanished
00:28:21
Kim was visited by a man she will never
00:28:23
forget
00:28:24
his name was Tim bindler my name's
00:28:27
Timothy
00:28:28
I'm with the search for amber for your
00:28:31
dear amber he looked like he'd been up
00:28:34
all night basically was saying how he
00:28:37
wanted to be the one to save places her
00:28:39
he wouldn't be the one to bring her home
00:28:41
to me I've been searching in a lot of
00:28:43
places that and I think some of the
00:28:45
authorities might not be searching for
00:28:46
because I know kids I'd been nurse Val
00:28:49
it's also caught Kim's attention she
00:28:51
didn't almost have like a van that he
00:28:53
painted himself he's got these plates
00:28:55
that say love you he's got that posters
00:28:59
on the outside of the van I said want
00:29:02
you to know want to be the one to find
00:29:06
her according to Kim bender became
00:29:09
extremely emotional as he talked to
00:29:11
members to be the one is safer and bring
00:29:13
her back to you thank you see amber
00:29:18
sports on June 3rd no Tim bender was
00:29:23
questioned extensively by the FBI
00:29:24
following Amber Swartz's abduction
00:29:27
according to authorities the results of
00:29:30
his polygraph were inconclusive did you
00:29:34
speak to Amber Sports on June 3rd no Tim
00:29:39
bender is a very bright man he's he's
00:29:42
very intelligent man he's a Berkeley
00:29:44
grad right up John Phil pin is a trained
00:29:47
forensic psychologist he spent more than
00:29:50
1,000 hours interviewing Tim bindler for
00:29:53
his book stalemate there are law
00:29:56
enforcement agencies which consider him
00:29:58
a suspect there's also the perception
00:30:02
shared by a number of people that Tim
00:30:06
has done absolutely nothing wrong
00:30:08
and and that he is a misunderstood good
00:30:11
Samaritan
00:30:14
to vendors attorney John Burroughs
00:30:16
maintains that benders actions should
00:30:17
not be viewed with suspicion point of
00:30:21
fact is he is trying to be helpful he
00:30:24
does that voluntarily it is a sense that
00:30:26
he has that he has an obligation and a
00:30:29
duty to go out and try to find missing
00:30:32
children according to John Filton Tim
00:30:35
bender seemed to have a particular
00:30:37
interest in the grave of a girl named
00:30:39
Angela boug a five year old Angela
00:30:42
disappeared four and a half years before
00:30:44
amber and was later found sexually
00:30:46
assaulted and strangled the FBI placed
00:30:51
Tim bender under surveillance his
00:30:53
alleged habit of visiting Angela bougas
00:30:55
grave site up to 90 times a year had
00:30:58
caught their attention to have been to
00:31:03
this little girl's grave this little
00:31:05
girl that he never knew I just can't
00:31:07
imagine anybody going to somebody's
00:31:09
grave that many times in a that period
00:31:11
of time unless there's something else
00:31:13
going on in that person's mind according
00:31:19
to John Burroughs the fact that Ben
00:31:21
their business grave sites should not
00:31:23
cast suspicion on his client
00:31:26
for him it has a special kind of
00:31:29
significance that is personal to him but
00:31:32
certainly not an indication that he's
00:31:34
putting by in that graveyard 11 days
00:31:40
after amber vanished a bloodhound from
00:31:42
the Contra Costa County Sheriff's
00:31:44
Department tractors sent to Angela's
00:31:46
gravesite police say the dog also picked
00:31:51
up amber sent in benders van however
00:31:54
California courts are often leery about
00:31:56
the reliability of bloodhound evidence
00:32:01
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00:32:03
sadly five months after Amber's
00:32:05
disappearance the East Bay Area was shot
00:32:07
by the abduction of another young girl
00:32:09
nine year-old Michaela Garrett outside a
00:32:12
hayward market as Michaela went to
00:32:16
retrieve her scooter a man forced her
00:32:18
into his car
00:32:25
by now parents and the surrounding
00:32:28
communities were living in fear then two
00:32:30
months later and nearby Dublin
00:32:32
thirteen-year-old Eileen Mitchell off
00:32:34
disappeared despite the fact that some
00:32:38
suspicions had been directed at him Tim
00:32:40
bender helps search for Eileen a few
00:32:46
years later a mother in the town of
00:32:48
Fairfield informed the police that her
00:32:50
daughter had begun receiving mail from a
00:32:52
man they didn't know one young girl was
00:32:56
getting letters from Tim oddly enough
00:33:00
these letters were written backwards and
00:33:02
had to be held up to a mirror to read
00:33:05
which I'm sure would set any parent on
00:33:07
edge you know to have your kid all of a
00:33:10
sudden get this really weird letter just
00:33:18
a few blocks from where the letter was
00:33:19
received another young girl disappeared
00:33:22
four-year-old Nicky Campbell was playing
00:33:25
in her driveway
00:33:27
Nicky lived on Salisbury Drive in
00:33:29
Fairfield and she had been out playing
00:33:31
with her brother in the afternoon mom
00:33:36
came home from work mass where's Nicky
00:33:38
while she's out playing they couldn't
00:33:40
find her four days after Nicky's
00:33:43
disappearance her scent like amber
00:33:45
Swartz's before her was allegedly
00:33:47
tracked by bloodhounds to angela Bugis
00:33:49
grave
00:33:51
the gray that Tim Binda reportedly
00:33:53
visited so regularly you put all of
00:34:02
these coincidences together you see them
00:34:04
pile up the dogs the cemetery the the
00:34:07
various sense in the various places and
00:34:09
and you really have to question which is
00:34:13
what I believe law enforcement was doing
00:34:15
and I think it's their role to do it you
00:34:18
you really have to question you know is
00:34:20
this a coincidence or is there something
00:34:21
to it if there was something more to it
00:34:23
then you would think after all this time
00:34:26
there's been some more evidence that was
00:34:27
more definitive and there hasn't been
00:34:29
any following a Nicky Campbell
00:34:32
disappearance the Fairfield Police
00:34:34
Department searched Tim benders home and
00:34:36
found nothing believing that his
00:34:38
reputation had been unfairly tarnished
00:34:40
by the Fairfield Police Department's
00:34:42
handling of the Nicky Campbell
00:34:43
investigation Tim bender brought a
00:34:46
defamation lawsuit against the city of
00:34:48
Fairfield the city settled out of court
00:34:51
for $90,000 citing the advice of his
00:34:56
attorney Tim bender turned down our
00:34:57
request for an interview although he has
00:35:00
been questioned by police it's important
00:35:02
to note that bender has not been charged
00:35:04
with any crime relating to the
00:35:05
disappearances of these girls and he has
00:35:08
consistently claimed he is innocent
00:35:10
Kim Schwartz refuses to give up even
00:35:13
though amber would today be in her 20s
00:35:16
Kim will not rest until she finds out
00:35:18
what happened to her daughter within
00:35:22
weeks of Amber's disappearance
00:35:24
Kim Schwartz created the amber
00:35:25
foundation for missing children the
00:35:28
Foundation's goals continue to be
00:35:30
educating parents on ways to prevent
00:35:32
child abductions so that what happened
00:35:34
to Kim Schwarz may never happen to them
00:35:37
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00:36:09
the previous broadcast we brought you
00:36:11
the story of Gilbert Ortiz who was
00:36:13
looking for his young son Jonathan
00:36:15
authorities suspected that Gilbert's
00:36:17
wife had taken Jonathan after she'd been
00:36:19
accused of committing a heinous crime
00:36:22
after eight years Gilbert and his son
00:36:25
had finally been reunited after serving
00:36:31
in the military
00:36:32
gilbert ortiz moved with his wife and
00:36:34
child to Redwood City California though
00:36:38
they were happy at first gilbert and
00:36:40
elizabeth fought frequently over money
00:36:42
and gilbert received a promotion at work
00:36:45
he thought that his future suddenly
00:36:47
seemed brighter but within a week
00:36:49
gilbert ortiz was in a hospital
00:36:51
suffering from cardiac arrest kidney
00:36:54
failure and pneumonia and fighting for
00:36:56
his life doctors worked feverishly to
00:36:59
determine what had caused him to become
00:37:01
so violently ill after lapsing in and
00:37:04
out of consciousness for two weeks
00:37:06
Gilbert told police he thought he might
00:37:08
have been poisoned I lift weights and of
00:37:11
it I I I could never get picked that's
00:37:17
the kind of guy she likes Gilbert said
00:37:20
Elizabeth met him in a store parking lot
00:37:22
to give him a special bodybuilding drink
00:37:24
which had already been mixed in a
00:37:26
plastic sports bottle he looked like a
00:37:28
real shake I mean like a chocolate shake
00:37:31
and then I want to try to sort of like
00:37:34
burn my throat and then my throat really
00:37:36
really burning you know and I was all
00:37:38
shaky and then I feel like getting sick
00:37:44
paramedics came and washed we'll go to
00:37:46
the hospital
00:37:47
Elizabeth Ortiz met them in the
00:37:49
emergency room doctors hoped that she
00:37:51
could provide an explanation for
00:37:53
Gilbert's sudden mystery illness
00:37:57
we needed to know where that sports
00:37:59
bottle came from if it was something
00:38:02
that was purchased from a fast-food
00:38:04
store and it was really a bad mixture
00:38:08
that really made him sick or whether it
00:38:09
was a deliberate mix after he had had
00:38:16
been determined that the shake had been
00:38:17
tainted with a common insecticide police
00:38:20
obtained a search warrant to see if they
00:38:22
could trace it or the plastic bottle to
00:38:24
Elizabeth but when they arrived at the
00:38:26
Ortiz apartment they discovered that
00:38:28
Elizabeth Ortiz had vanished along with
00:38:31
Jonathan then that's when it hit me she
00:38:35
did want to tell me so where's the baby
00:38:38
sure he's gone that's that's the main
00:38:41
point that when he got me with the
00:38:45
evidence they gathered police are able
00:38:47
to make a case against Elizabeth went is
00:38:49
Ortiz accusing her of attempted murder
00:38:52
with special circumstances for torture
00:38:58
after following thousands of tips with
00:39:01
possible sightings of Elizabeth Ortiz
00:39:03
sergeant Catherine Anderson finally
00:39:05
received a phone call from an FBI agent
00:39:11
basically March 14th of 2000 - call from
00:39:16
the FBI telling me that they had
00:39:18
Elizabeth Ortiz in custody in Mexico
00:39:20
when Elizabeth was arrested in Mexico
00:39:23
she was by herself
00:39:24
the FBI gave me their word that they
00:39:26
would continue to look for the little
00:39:27
boy in Mexico in the area that they had
00:39:29
arrested Elizabeth in Elizabeth Ortiz
00:39:32
was brought to Redwood City for trial
00:39:34
but where was Jonathan assuming that
00:39:38
Elizabeth would want to see her son
00:39:40
Anderson had an H progressed composite
00:39:43
created and posted at the jail then
00:39:46
sergeant Anderson received the second
00:39:48
phone call she had been hoping for I
00:39:50
received a phone call it from a deputy
00:39:52
telling me that they had a little boy at
00:39:54
the jail and the little boy was a dead
00:39:56
ringer for the composite picture that we
00:39:58
had Jonathan had been brought to the
00:40:00
jail by a relative according to the
00:40:03
police the boy had been living in Mexico
00:40:05
during the time he was missing the
00:40:08
following day Gilbert finally was able
00:40:10
to see the son he had never stopped
00:40:13
thinking about it was two years old when
00:40:16
he disappeared and when I got him back
00:40:19
he was 10 oh yes soon as I saw him you
00:40:24
you just come and hug me that's all it
00:40:27
took
00:40:29
one big hug I cannot explain what that
00:40:32
feel like it's too much of an emotion I
00:40:36
guess
00:40:36
[Music]
00:40:39
Gilbert and Jonathan have begun the long
00:40:41
process of healing and getting to know
00:40:44
one another as father and son the
00:40:46
hardest part of this experience was
00:40:48
losing a little movie that I really
00:40:50
loved
00:40:50
now what she did now what I went through
00:40:53
just wasn't him
00:40:55
[Music]
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[Music]
00:41:13
join me more intriguing true tales on
00:41:16
the next unsolved mysteries
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