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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries it's a dark Forbidden World
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inhabited by black magic and Mystical
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Creatures two people visit and never
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come
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back meet the osens a family that seems
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to be a magnet for bolts of
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lightning why is
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that like a real life thalma and Louise
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a middle class mother and her best
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friend go on a rampage terrorizing
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unsuspecting
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men a guard is taken hostage during a
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prison break authorities wonder if she
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was part of the
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plan five intriguing stories stories
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that you won't want to miss I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries
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Tacoma
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Washington and I believe that takes
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that one night four young people were
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playing a game that involves mystical
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creatures fantasy and Magic you know I'm
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getting kind of tired I think we should
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call it a night you got to go yeah what
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time is it what you got it's it's like
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11: is it it's early I got to
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go the next night two of them were
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dead the victims of a hideous devil
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murder 25-year-old Michael Johnston was
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married with two
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children Melle Robinson 19 was studying
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to be a teacher a detective soon
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discovered that Michael and relle had
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been
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lovers detectives think the motive for
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the double murder was jealousy over the
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affair others believe that the couple
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was lured by a charismatic killer into
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the dangerous world of the
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occult Michael Johnston's body was found
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near Rochelle's car less than 6 hours
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after they left the card
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game his throat had been cut and he had
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been shot once in the head at Point
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Blank
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Range Michelle's body was was found
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later that day on a remote Road 5 miles
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from where Michael's body had been found
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she had been stabbed repeatedly and her
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throat was slashed to the Bone a large
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cardboard box covered Michelle's
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body police believe that sometime after
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1:00 a.m. Michael and Michelle parked
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their car on a quiet Road near a popular
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shooting range called the Tacoma
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Sportsman's
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Club they were alone for a
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while they were forced to dress hastily
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uh relle Robinson had Michael Johnson's
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t-shirt on inside out when her body was
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found and uh they were removed uh from
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her vehicle probably at gunpoint all
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right look look evidence suggest that
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that Michael was handcuffed then forced
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to kneel near the front of Rochelle's
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car don't need to do this no please law
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enforcement believes that Michael
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Johnson was a passive victim the real
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Target was relle Robinson there were
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several knife Pricks in her neck which
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would indicate to me that somebody held
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a knife to her throat to force her to
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accompany
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him detective ranicki believes the
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killer then drove relle to an isolated
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Road and brutally murdered
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her he also believes that it was a crime
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of passion you just killed my what did I
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just do for you just killed my I did it
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for you I did it for you
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no investigators believe that the
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perpetrator of this crime knew Rochelle
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well and probably wanted to have a
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boyfriend girlfriend relationship ship
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with her or was an ex-boyfriend of hers
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relle felt that she was being stalked by
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a guy that came into her work
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approximately 3 or 4 months before they
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found her
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um she felt that that he had followed
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her home several times that he'd came to
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work and just stared at her until she
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left
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work this sketch of the stalker is based
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on eyewitness descriptions his
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connection to the crime is unknown
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after a year with no new leads Michael's
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wife Janet hired private investigator
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Jim Wright Janet uh as part of this
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investigation I'm going to have to ask
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you some uncomfortable questions first
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Jim had de cleare the victim's family
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starting with Michael's wife Janet he
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asked her about life insurance policies
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what type of an insurance policy did you
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have on Michael and we both had very
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large life insurance policies on each
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other and that was at my insistence
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because I was felt if something happened
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to me I wanted to make sure that Mike
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had the financial stability so that he
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wouldn't have to work so that he could
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take care of the kids were you ever
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aware of any uh extramarital
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relationships that Michael's
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had he and Michelle were seeing each
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other I don't know how long it had been
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going on I don't know if they were going
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to stop soon or if he was going to leave
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me or what a case like Janet passed a
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polygraph test Jim Wright concluded that
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she wasn't involved in the
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crime but he did discover that Michael
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loved the world of Fantasy games black
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magic and the
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Occult Jim believes that's how Michael
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and Rochelle met their
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killer because of the nature of this
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crime we believe that people who are
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involved in possible occult type
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activities could be the kind of people
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that would commit this type of a Murder
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another year passed and still no leads
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Jim decided to employ an unorthodox
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approach Wright turned to Nancy Meyer a
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well-known psychic who has helped police
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on more than 300
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homicides it was very hard on Jim
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because I said you will not tell me
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anything because it has no validity if
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you tell me things ahead of time
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I don't want someone else's theories
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because to me if you're going to work
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psychically and do it purely you should
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not pre-read you should go out there and
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work at
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Cole without telling her where they were
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going Jim took Nancy to the road near
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the Sportsman's Club where Michael had
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been
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murdered I Can
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Feel Michael
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here I can feel his pain I can feel the
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fear I can feel him bleeding we don't
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need to do this no no
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please I can also get images of what's
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just happened to relle so I feel he must
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have died
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second because I can feel
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that the awful images in his mind of
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what Melle has gone
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through
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please I would not be able to agree with
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the theory that would have Michael as an
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innocent bystander not the object of
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this killing to me from what I can sense
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it's the other way around Michael was
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the actual object man don't do this come
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on Nancy felt that Michael and the
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murderer knew each other from their
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involvement in Black
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Magic as she saw the crime Michael and
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Michelle were parked on an isolated Road
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the killer a man in his late 30s and two
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young accomplices crept up on the
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unsuspecting lovers
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come on out Mikey I need to talk to you
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man no I need to talk
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coming they seem to be accusing him of
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violating some kind of
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regulations it almost felt like a cult
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type of
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situation Nancy said that after the
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killer stabbed relle he and his
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accomplices drove Michael to the
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sportsman's club shut up shut up
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feeling of of a Nancy was able to
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vividly picture all three
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asants and artists sketched her
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impressions she believes the killer
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might teach at a local college and has
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probably killed
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before these are nany's impressions of
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the two accomplices both in their early
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to mid
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20s Nancy also saw this dragonwing
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Medallion she feels the symbol somehow
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links Michael and the killers
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the authorities however do not agree
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with nany's Theory they remain convinced
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that the killer knew relle and was a
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friend or
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acquaintance meanwhile relle and
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Michael's families can only hope that
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the mystery will someday be solved it's
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a horrible horrible feeling it's almost
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like a marry go around and some days you
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just want to say let me off I can't take
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it and you can't you'll never never get
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off of it I know these people whoever
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did it they're going to pay either in
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this life or the next and I have
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complete faith that that's going to take
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place authorities believe a key clue in
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this case is the cardboard box that
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covered Michelle's body originally the
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Box held large sheets of professional
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printing paper forensics revealed that
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the killer brought the box to the scene
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after storing it in his home or office
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for several
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years perhaps someone watching tonight
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has seen the Box
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before a $166,000 reward has been
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offered in this case if you have any
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information please log on to our website
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at unsolved.com
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next an entire family seems to attract
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bolts of
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lightning only a lucky few have lived to
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tell their story
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it's a force of nature so powerful that
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it's been called The Finger of God no
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one knows where or when it will strike
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but one Illinois family seems to have
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been targeted time and time again for
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them every thunderstorm means possible
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death I think the lightning likes us
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once in a while would get a bolt that
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strikes you know real real close and uh
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start thinking about
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it since I've told you know co-workers
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and friends this they tend to they tend
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to kid me a lot and uh you know nobody
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wants to give me a ride home when it's
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raining
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out I think it'll strike me again and
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that someday is going to get me and kill
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me 1941 I stayed with her El in the
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country meet the Olen family of Elgen
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Illinois
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was there anybody else early on they um
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over the last four generations at least
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10 members of the Olsen family have had
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close encounters with
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lightning two of them have
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died the first person that was um killed
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by lightning was chryst Olson and he
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died in
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1899 that day in May of 1899 it was very
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very St Army drct Chris is here come in
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Chris come in Chris Dolson was just 23
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years old that afternoon he visited his
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fiance and her father rain I hear you
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having trouble on the farm yeah yeah the
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north fence
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shifted hi
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hello
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Chris Christ Olsson died instantly
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the lightning never touched the others
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oh
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CHR more than two decades later Chris's
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older brother oie went out to feed the
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animals during a summer
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storm lightning struck him dead at the
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barn door it was then that the Olsen
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began to wonder if death by lightning
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was a fate they all
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shared Christine Olsen Chris and oie's
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sister lived her life terrified of
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lightning I came out for the summer my
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summer visit and uh had a day that was
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very cloudy outside and it uh was dark
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early and so she put me to bed and I was
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laying there probably a half hour and
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then could hear thunder in the
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background and the lightning start bolts
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of it coming
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down come Billy quickly we've got to go
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outside but why well because we we' got
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to get away from the lightning we'll go
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out to the old car more got out the
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bedroom door and his Bat of lightning
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hit blew a hole in the
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wall across the metal
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ceiling and the ceiling lit up like a
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neon
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sign but I think after that we didn't
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stop too long we just tore out the back
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door and ran out to the
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car bill and his grandmother stayed in
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the car for the rest of the night
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but Against All Odds this wasn't Bill's
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last brush with death by
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lightning ball lightning was shot in
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through the window hit the toaster blew
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the toaster off the table went over
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missed the little girl in the he chair
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this one buyer his ball hit the phone on
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the wall and knocked the phone off the
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wall and went out through the phone
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area during the summerstorm 5 years
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later lightning struck yet again this
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time it was Bill's Cousin Connie she was
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waiting to be picked up from work by her
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sister Karen as is often the case with
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lightning the charge actually shot up
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from the ground there was a different
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kind of feeling about the
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atmosphere it felt like it was full of
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um electrical charges and it was like an
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eerie kind of
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feeling
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Connie every single joint in my body
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violently jerked
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Connie I don't remember anything after
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that because I was knocked
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unconscious Connie's boss helped her to
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Karen's
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car to everyone's complete surprise
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Connie was
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unharmed when I came to in the car my
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body had a tingling sensation um my arms
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in my chest area were
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numb when my sister told me that um I
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was struck by lightning I was just
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really surprised I had absolutely no
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idea that that's what happened but then
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I thought well that's what lightning
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feels
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like lightning has always kind of scared
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me and I'm sure some of it's due to that
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when when that occurrence that happened
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when I was
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young Bradley hample is a fourth
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generation Olen when he was 15 he
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visited his grandmother's Farm in
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Burlington
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Illinois he didn't know anything about
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the family's
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with
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lightning the light was so bright that I
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couldn't see for a second finally when
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it kind of shook off and I realized what
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had happened you know lightning hit
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somewhere and there was a probably a
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10-in diameter charred circle on the
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door that was
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smoking since that time I have been very
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scared of lightning it wasn't
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necessarily A life-changing experience I
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didn't turn good or anything because of
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it but it it was something that uh it
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was probably the first time in my life
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that realization is wow you could have
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just you could have just been
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killed do you have being struck by
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lightning next to your name no I don't
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probably should add that we should put a
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little lightning bolt
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on what is the link between this family
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and
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lightning I've never heard of another
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family where two family members had been
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killed by lightning whether the whole
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Olsen family has a genetic predis
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disposition to be struck by lightning I
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would answer no because from a
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scientific point of view the lightning
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starts in the cloud has no idea what's
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going on in the ground uh just works its
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way down randomly and then hits what's
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under uh wherever it gets
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to I believe that um there's an organic
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reason why lightning strikes my family
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Connie and I also feel that what you
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fear most
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is what you attract and many members of
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my family fear lightning and therefore
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they attract lightning to them everybody
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squeeze together so we can get a good
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family picture here given their family
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history the Olen can't help but wonder
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who's next one more let's say lightning
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this time for the
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occasion next a woman leaves a bar with
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with a man and disappears he claims he's
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innocent the trouble is he's killed
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before when we first heard this story
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millions of viewers watched our profile
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of accused killer Dennis Keith Smith who
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knew that one of those viewers was Smith
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himself at the age of 22
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Dennis Keith Smith brutally murdered his
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own
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sister he was sentenced to life in
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prison but served only 10 years shortly
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after his release Smith then became a
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suspect and The Disappearance of Carolyn
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Kilby of Vancouver
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Washington eyewitnesses saw Smith leave
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a Vancouver bar with Carolyn she had had
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several
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drinks and that was the last time she
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was seen
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alive what happened when he was
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questioned by police Smith said he had
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nothing to do with her disappearance
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what's going on like what happened
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detectives didn't believe
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him especially after they impounded his
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pickup truck oh man that's more than a
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cigarette Burn yeah it looks like he
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took a torch to
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it there was a huge hole on his front
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seat and the seat cover was gone also
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every inch of carpeting had been
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stripped off the
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floor at that point basically I knew
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that Dennis was hiding something from us
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maybe any evidence that Carolyn was in
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his truck or that something bad happened
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to her in the
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truck but suspicions alone were not
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enough to keep Smith locked
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up by the time authorities had enough
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evidence to charge him with murder Smith
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had already left town
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[Music]
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update on the night of our broadcast two
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viewers Tracy hodman and John Cummings
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had gotten together with a new friend to
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watch Unsolved Mysteries the friend said
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his name was Dave sandborne he kind of
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started getting nervous and I said oh my
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gosh Johnny I said look who that looks
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like and he was sitting right next to me
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and um they started describing the color
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of his tattoos that were on his arm
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and I said I looked over and I said you
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have those color tattoos you know and he
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asked me is there anything else on he
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didn't want to watch the show and I said
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no I like this show I'll watch it and he
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you know got up and went in the kitchen
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he started pacing
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around their new friend Dave sandborn
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turned out to be Dennis Keith
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Smith Smith asked to borrow their car
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but he never returned John and Tracy
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called the police
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authorities caught up with Smith two
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days later at this intersection he did
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not give up easily he turned and charged
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the officers in a fight ensued during
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the course of that fight he attempted to
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remove the firearm from one of the
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officers the Second Officer fired a
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single shot striking Mr Smith in the
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neck Smith was also shot in the
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wrist after 2 weeks in the hospital he
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appeared in a Florida court and was then
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and extradited to Washington
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State Dennis Keith Smith was charged
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with the murder of Carolyn kbby because
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police never found Carolyn's body they
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turned to a new form of DNA testing they
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compared her mother's and daughter's DNA
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with blood found in Smith's
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truck the samples were indeed related
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and it was enough for a conviction
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Smith was sentenced to 70 years in
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prison for the murder and an additional
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99 years for violating Pearl after 6
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years behind bars he committed suicide
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by hanging himself with a bed sheet
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attached to an air vent in his
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cell
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Carolyn yeah okay we're running a little
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late they met while working as nurses at
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a psychiatric hospital in Houston
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Texas almost immediately the two women
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were up to no good eventually the police
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would come to know them as thalma and
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Louise by day Rose turford was a loving
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wife devoted mother and dedicated
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professional but by night here we are
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got the Y the key the Rim's right here
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oh good rose began meeting men through
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personal ad and then she would lure her
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dates to out of the way motel
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rooms a little soft music a good bottle
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of wine and it was time for her friend
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Carolyn Stevens to
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enter sit down on the
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bed the Felman Lou Bandits moved quickly
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and methodically now take off your
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clothes
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I'm going to the bank Carolyn would
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stand guard while Rose ran out to use
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the victim's credit
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cards Rose and Carolyn from the onset
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wanted to be the real life th Lou that
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they wanted to experience that thrill
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and the spontaneity and only thing is I
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don't believe they ever considered what
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they were going to do to their
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families in 3 months Rose and Carolyn
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robbed at least 10 men of more than a
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quar of a million dollar but eventually
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their luck ran out Carolyn and Rose were
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caught and arrested bail was set at
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$250,000
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each it seems as though prior to both
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Rose and Carol and going to jail and
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being arrested they had this pack that
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if one got out they both got out look
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I'm sorry I have to keep calling you but
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Avery is putting pressure on me Carolyn
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repeatedly begged Rose's parents to bail
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them both out she claimed that a
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mysterious private investigator named
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Avery was threatening Rose's
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children but Rose and I know what he's
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capable of and we should all take him
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seriously probably the weirdest part
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part of this whole scenario was the man
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named Avery I never bought that he was
00:26:05
real it was just
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too far-fetched
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but Rose's Family believed Avery was
00:26:14
real and so did her husband's family
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they even put up their house and
00:26:19
restaurant for
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bail I tried to convince the parents
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don't make both
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bonds and um it's not often that you sit
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and try to speak to someone about not
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giving you
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$25,000 but I I just knew it was a
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problem and I knew it wasn't going to
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work and it
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didn't sure enough after posting bail
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Rose and Carolyn took off
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again this time they left a letter
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behind which claimed they had been
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kidnapped by the mysterious
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Avery in reality the Thelma and Louis
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Bandits were on the run and now Rose's
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in-laws were in danger of losing their
00:27:03
home and their business we wanted to
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help in any way we could I never once
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once entered my
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mind
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that they would disappear
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never I really hope that Rose and
00:27:22
Carolyn just stop and think they're
00:27:25
going to basically throw really really
00:27:28
good honest hardworking people out in
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the
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streets and if they have to go to jail
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well that's just kind of the price you
00:27:36
pay for making a mistake but it's a lot
00:27:38
better to pay price once than to pay it
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all your
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life
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update a few months later the Royal
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Canadian Mounted Police received a tip
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and arrested Carolyn Stevens and Rose
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turford both women were extradited to
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use them there they were charged with
00:28:02
aggravated robbery and kidnapping Rose
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turford was convicted of robbery and
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given 30 years she served her time and
00:28:12
has been released Carolyn Stevens was
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also convicted of robbery but because of
00:28:17
a plea bargain arrangement she was given
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10
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years she served nine of those years and
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was released
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next a well-respected child therapist
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disappears and everyone fears the
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worst Cherry Hill New
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[Music]
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Jersey it seemed like the beginning of
00:28:53
an ordinary weekend at a neighborhood
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biker bar what's that
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but bartender Gloria Brown would soon
00:29:01
become a key witness in a bizarre
00:29:04
missing person's
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case can I get you something honey no
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thanks I'm sorry if you're going to sit
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here if you have to order
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something I don't have any
00:29:19
money do you want a
00:29:22
soda she seemed very depressed she
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didn't smile she didn't hard they
00:29:29
speak and very strange very
00:29:33
strange several days later Gloria saw
00:29:37
this missing person's flyer it was a
00:29:39
girl who looked just like the stranger
00:29:41
she had seen in the
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bar her name was Dei Rosenthal and she
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had vanished a week
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earlier Gloria's encounter was the first
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clue that Dee might still be alive
00:29:58
Gloria called the police but they were
00:30:00
never able to track down the young woman
00:30:02
from the bar and since then there have
00:30:04
been conflicting Clues unexplained phone
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calls and not one but two possible
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sightings of
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Dei 32-year-old D Rosenthal was a
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well-respected therapist who worked with
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autistic
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children one of her co-workers reported
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her missing one day when she didn't show
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up for work police met at DD's
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apartment it was immediately clear that
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something was wrong the front door was
00:30:38
unlocked the Sunday paper was
00:30:41
untouched inside everything seemed to be
00:30:44
in order there were no signs of
00:30:46
ransacking or a struggle but
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investigators soon learned that Dei was
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being evicted from her
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apartment the missing girl had been
00:30:58
having some financial difficulties
00:31:01
though it gave rise to the belief maybe
00:31:05
uh became overwhelming and she left of
00:31:07
her own
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valtion Dei just would not be the person
00:31:12
just to take off if she was going to
00:31:14
take off or was going to go away she
00:31:16
would either call her mom or she would
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call
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me curiously dei's purse had been left
00:31:24
behind with her keys identification and
00:31:27
credit cards
00:31:30
inside there's a cat out here John and
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she had abandoned her cat Dei took her
00:31:37
cat everywhere Where She Went she would
00:31:39
never have let it let alone alone in the
00:31:41
apartment but let it alone sitting out
00:31:43
on a balcony she would not have put it
00:31:45
out the door and say all right goodbye
00:31:47
I'm leaving that that's not that's
00:31:49
totally out of D's
00:31:53
character police found de's car parked
00:31:56
in its usual spot but oddly her
00:31:59
briefcase with all her clients records
00:32:01
had been left in the car if dii were to
00:32:06
take off on her own why wouldn't she
00:32:09
take her
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car I knew
00:32:13
something was horribly wrong with this
00:32:19
scenario investigators worried that Dei
00:32:22
had been kidnapped and perhaps murdered
00:32:25
sometime between 10 p.m. Friday and
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early Sunday
00:32:29
morning that conclusion was supported by
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one of dei's neighbors she said that she
00:32:34
was awakened around 3:45 a.m. on Sunday
00:32:38
by strange sounds coming from Diddy's
00:32:45
apartment she heard what it sounded like
00:32:47
a scream followed by a thud and she
00:32:51
likened it to uh someone falling out of
00:32:54
bed and being startled
00:32:58
5 hours later the same neighbor heard
00:33:00
the balcony door open she just assumed
00:33:04
it was Dei but it could have been her
00:33:09
kidnapper but a week later unexpected
00:33:12
evidence surfaced that Dei was still
00:33:14
alive when the young woman visited the
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biker
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bar do you want a
00:33:23
soda I do believe it was her I really do
00:33:28
you go she she looked so much like the
00:33:32
picture if she had only smiled I I would
00:33:36
have known definitely but it looked like
00:33:40
her
00:33:42
hi hi you're uh not from around here are
00:33:46
you she said her name was Lori and that
00:33:49
she was trying to get to Florida she
00:33:51
left with one of the bikers he told
00:33:54
police that he dropped her off the next
00:33:56
day at a liquor store near a major
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highway just one week later de's Aunt
00:34:08
Celia received a mysterious phone call
00:34:11
Mama who is this mama mama Didi I'm okay
00:34:18
didy is that
00:34:20
you sheilia called me she was very
00:34:25
excited uh she told me that she just
00:34:28
received a phone call from someone that
00:34:31
she swore was my sister
00:34:35
Dei 5 weeks went by with no more news
00:34:39
then dei's brother received the tip that
00:34:41
his sister was in
00:34:43
Florida they said we've seen Dei in the
00:34:46
Fort Lauderdale
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area as I started talking the phone
00:34:55
disconnected a year passed and the woman
00:34:58
who called herself Lori returns to the
00:35:00
biker
00:35:02
bark she had dyed her hair blonde and
00:35:05
claim to have been in
00:35:08
Florida my impression was that she had
00:35:10
had a nervous
00:35:12
breakdown excuse me is your name
00:35:15
deei no it's
00:35:17
La well if you are deei you better get
00:35:20
in touch with your mother she's pretty
00:35:23
upset she just turned away from me
00:35:26
because she didn't want want to have
00:35:29
anything to do with what I was saying
00:35:32
because I
00:35:33
knew and she knew that I
00:35:38
knew a customer from the biker bar
00:35:40
dropped her off at a nearby Tavern it
00:35:43
was the last time the woman known as
00:35:45
Lori was ever seen once again she
00:35:48
disappeared before she could be
00:35:50
interviewed by authorities many people
00:35:53
including the police are skeptical that
00:35:55
Dei and Lori are the same
00:36:02
person
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update almost 5 years after Dei
00:36:08
Rosenthal disappeared Charles reddish
00:36:11
the maintenance man in her apartment
00:36:12
complex confessed to killing her he said
00:36:16
he entered de's apartment and smothered
00:36:19
her he returned 2 Days Later picked up
00:36:22
her body and dumped it in a field of
00:36:25
weeds her remains were never
00:36:28
found reddish admitted killing DD after
00:36:32
police charged them with killing his
00:36:34
former girlfriend and raping her
00:36:37
14-year-old daughter reddish is now
00:36:39
serving two life sentences plus 60 years
00:36:43
in a New Jersey
00:36:46
prison next the story of a bold prison
00:36:50
break and two unlikely lovers an escaped
00:36:53
convict and his female guard
00:37:06
I like for her to come home and tell me
00:37:09
why she did
00:37:10
it and to turn herself
00:37:14
in cuz I don't want her to get
00:37:19
hurt I do love her just I'm confused
00:37:24
right
00:37:25
now Lesly being has been in anguish ever
00:37:29
since her mother disappeared K Beeman is
00:37:32
either a hostage or she's a criminal
00:37:35
Leslie hopes that her mother is Innocent
00:37:37
but no matter what she just wants her
00:37:40
mother to come
00:37:45
home K Bean was divorced when her son
00:37:49
and daughter were nearly grown for 10
00:37:51
years she had worked as a corrections
00:37:53
officer at a local prison in Cumberland
00:37:56
Maryland
00:38:00
one night Kay was on duty in the prison
00:38:02
control center with another female
00:38:04
officer Michelle
00:38:06
pbau Michelle I'll take this round are
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you sure
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yeah it was just after 2: in the morning
00:38:17
Kay left the control center to conduct a
00:38:19
routine check of the cell block all the
00:38:22
inmates were behind bars except one low
00:38:25
security prisoner who was working in a
00:38:27
nearby
00:38:29
room everything seemed normal
00:38:34
until come on lady coming with us what
00:38:36
are you doing in here I said come on you
00:38:38
know how serious this is and how serious
00:38:40
I am I ain't got time to listen to this
00:38:43
Barnes just coming down with beam he's
00:38:44
got a weapon the escaped inmate was
00:38:46
maximum security prisoner Edgar Kars 22
00:38:49
TR and somebody's I didn't know what
00:38:51
they were going to do and I saw the
00:38:53
bathroom door was standing a jar so I
00:38:56
just darted out out and
00:38:59
ran at first I felt a relief that I was
00:39:02
at least for the moment
00:39:04
safe but then I was thinking but my God
00:39:07
you know what are you going to do here
00:39:09
and they have K what are they going to
00:39:11
do to
00:39:12
her it appeared that Kay had been taken
00:39:15
hostage by James Barnes kar's
00:39:19
cellmate that a it which one I heard the
00:39:22
buttons click and the controls and so I
00:39:26
I thought well they're
00:39:31
gone a couple of days later Kay called
00:39:34
her daughter
00:39:35
Lesley it was about4 after 5: in the
00:39:39
morning and she called
00:39:40
collect and she told me she was all
00:39:42
right and that she loved me and she
00:39:44
missed me and not to worry about her
00:39:47
that she was all
00:39:49
right and she said she told me she goes
00:39:52
I went with
00:39:54
them 3 days after the Breakout Barnes
00:39:58
was captured he served his time and was
00:40:01
released he told authorities that Kay's
00:40:03
car was used in the getaway he said that
00:40:06
she helped plan the Escape because Kay
00:40:09
was in love with Edgar
00:40:13
Kars Edgar Kars had been convicted of a
00:40:16
theft and forgery in West Virginia he
00:40:18
was awaiting sentencing in Maryland for
00:40:20
passing bad
00:40:23
checks Barnes said that Kay and Kars had
00:40:26
been Roman atically involved for 3
00:40:30
months I haven't complained have I Mr
00:40:33
bnes told us that she would spend
00:40:35
sometimes a half an hour 40 minutes in
00:40:38
the maximum security area just talking
00:40:40
to Curr so there definitely was a
00:40:42
relationship there sleeping as usual I
00:40:46
guess you maybe fall in love with
00:40:48
somebody and you do some strange things
00:40:51
but uh Kay's pretty well lost about
00:40:54
everything that she ever had over this
00:40:56
one incident
00:40:58
once there was almost a certainty in my
00:41:01
mind of what had happened I felt so
00:41:04
betrayed I
00:41:06
felt I just couldn't believe she could
00:41:09
do
00:41:10
that I want to know why she did it and I
00:41:14
like to have her home so she can explain
00:41:17
it to
00:41:19
me and um it just hurts a lot
00:41:31
update on the night of our broadcast a
00:41:34
hotel owner near Toronto Canada
00:41:37
recognized K Beeman and Edgar Kars from
00:41:39
our
00:41:41
program they were staying at his hotel
00:41:44
he called the police and 6 hours later
00:41:46
they were
00:41:48
arrested Kars was given 5 years for his
00:41:51
part in the crime and Beaman 41 months
00:42:00
after serving their time Kars and Beaman
00:42:03
lived together until Beaman died from an
00:42:07
undisclosed disease
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