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next on Unsolved Mysteries a man is
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found dead apparently from natural
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causes but then an odd Topsy reveals
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he'd been
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murdered Wild West Outlaws battle over a
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Fortune of gold and jewels is the
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treasure buried here in skeleton Canyon
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a bank president and his family are
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taken hostage by robbers who make off
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with close to a million
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and it was a terrifying case of home
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invasion three people are left dead and
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a killer is on the
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loose these are stories you won't want
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to miss I'm Dennis finina and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries
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Hood River
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Oregon Eric tamaso and Diana Anderson
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had been just friends for years and then
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they decided to take it to the next
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level it was just kind of checking each
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other out and seeing if maybe this is
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someone that I would like to spend more
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time with and I think it was the same
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for both of us what do you do for fun
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golf late in the evening the date seemed
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to be going very well until the couple
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heard some mysterious tapping noises
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outside what was that then
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someone was at the front
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door they heard the sound of footsteps
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running away but they didn't see
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anyone it was not funny at that time of
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night when I have to get in my car and
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drive home by
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myself this would be the first and last
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date Diana Anderson would ever have with
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Eric
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amasu Eric's home was located in a
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remote area outside of
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town a week after Eric's date with Diana
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Don Dixon a friend and business
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consultant went to Eric's house to check
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on
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him hey
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Eric Eric it's done you home Dixon says
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that for several days he had been
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getting phone calls from Eric's friends
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who also had not been able to reach
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him Eric you
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home St Dixon claims he he used the key
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Eric had given him to get in through a
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back door he was hit by a foul smell
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Eric it was an odor that I'd never
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smelled
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before my initial Hope was that this was
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the garbage that I had seen left
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out there was no question in my mind
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that he was
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dead so I set a prayer I went
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downstairs and I called 911 and asked
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for
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assistance when I first walked in it
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appeared to me that we were dealing with
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an unintended
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death a medical problem or you know a
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heart attack uh those kind of things
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there was no sign of trauma that we
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could see right off nothing to can
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indicate that there was any kind of Foul
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as Eric Tomaso's body was being removed
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from his house Hood River County Sheriff
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Joe Wampler approached Don Dixon with a
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strange request does uh Eric have a burn
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pile around here and he said we've
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looked for a gun we've looked for bullet
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holes we've looked for shells to spare
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the family grief and discomfort we're
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going to bring the bedding out and we
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want you to burn it piece of Earth over
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there I could burn it there and I said
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if it would help the family I would be
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happy to to do what I I can to
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assist the following morning Dixon Set
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Fire to the soil bedding from Eric's
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room when he was done there was nothing
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left but a metal frame and a pile of
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Ashes the next day during Eric's autopsy
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investigators were shocked to learn that
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three small caliber bullets were found
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lodged in Eric's head what at first
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seemed like a natural death was now a
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homicide
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investigation the investigation was not
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off to a good start Eric tamaso didn't
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seem to have any enemies so no one had
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assumed Foul Play The decomposition of
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the body had disguised the exact cause
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of his death and the most important
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piece of evidence the bed had gone up in
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smoke
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based on the lack of evidence that this
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was going to turn into a criminal case
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it was my decision to burn the bed
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because of the family might appreciate
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not having to go through the trauma of
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viewing the horrid things that were left
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behind but could the sheriff had had a
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more personal Sinister motive for
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destroying the evidence a possible
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answer may have come up in a
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conversation Don Dixon said he had with
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Eric regarding a new romantic
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relationship there's this uh Polynesian
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woman I've been seeing a little bit this
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Polynesian woman described as older than
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he was and the Rumor Mill has that the
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sheriff's wife is Polynesian and older
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than Eric but that could be purely
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coincidental I've heard a rumor that my
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wife was having an affair uh with uh Mr
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Tommy
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ASU and out of retaliation for that then
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I went up there and did these things
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even went to the the trouble of
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destroying the evidence burning the bed
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and all that stuff all I can say is
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they're looking in the wrong direction
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if Sheriff Wampler had nothing to do
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with the murder then who
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did a second potential suspect is Eric
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Smith Eric Tomaso's lifelong
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friend what have we here there's two of
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us involved here that it's just not you
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Don Dixon says that he overheard an in
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argument between the two Erics just a
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few days before the murder he and Eric
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Smith had been in business together and
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Eric tomasu felt that Eric was pocketing
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money oh what's all these expenditures
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you know it's supposed to go into the
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business and here you're going out and
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that he owed him between 50 and
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$60,000 hey Eric is everything okay
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according to Dixon Eric Tomaso was quite
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upset after the AR what he want me to do
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just eat the $56,000 I asked him if he
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was okay if everything was all right he
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said that's son of a [ __ ] and got into
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his car and that's the last words that I
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heard from Eric
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tomasu I can tell you flat out for a
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fact Eric and I did not have an argument
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Eric didn't owe me money I didn't owe
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him
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money Dawn lives in a fantasy
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world Eric tomasu and Eric Smith did
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have a side business together selling
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used cars but police believe that there
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was much less money involved than Don
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Dixon had for you when I checked into
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the business dealings with Eric Smith
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and Eric Tommy yatu we found out they
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both invested the same amount of money
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which was probably $115,000 to start
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this business not 50 or 60,000 and it
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kind of went downhill and and then they
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had to go out of
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business so who else had a reason to
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kill Eric
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taso potential suspect number three Don
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Dixon the man who discovered the body
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it was Don Dixon who notified Eric's
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sister of her brother's death just
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minutes after he discovered his
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body well I came out to his house I
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found Eric and he's dead look she
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remembers that what Don said next was
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very strange he said it didn't look like
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there was any Foul Play and it also
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appeared that there weren't any Exit
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Wounds and I said what are you what are
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Exit Wounds what are you talking about
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Exit Wounds like from a bullet I said
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said what why would there be gunshot
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wounds well I I clearly looked closely
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at the body to try and see if if he had
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shot himself I mean because that was one
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of my First Reactions was it was it was
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suicide um he had been very depressed um
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and I had looked closely because of that
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I mean I honestly believe that a
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logical reason Eric was dead in bed was
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suicide
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with three bullets lodged in his head
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Eric's death was clearly not
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suicide did one of these three men
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murder Eric tamaso or could someone else
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have pulled the
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trigger not again in one final twist
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Diana Anderson says that when she and
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Eric heard the strange noises outside
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they went to investigate and they found
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a single
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footprint could that clue have
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identified Eric's
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killer investigators will never know
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heavy rains washed it away days
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later I don't know if the events on
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Saturday night had anything to do with
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Eric's murder or if it was just
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coincidence I think it's a
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possibility but I don't
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know did the sheriff deliberately
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destroy evidence in the case I did not
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have anything to do with the death with
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the death of Eric tamasu now could Eric
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Smith have wanted Eric tamasu dead Eric
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was my best friend I mean he was the
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best man at my wedding he was like my
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brother did Don Dixon tell the truth
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about his connection to the murder I
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have no way of knowing who was involved
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with Eric Tam yasu's death the only ones
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that I know that didn't do it are my
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wife and myself other than that
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everybody else in my mind is suspect
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all the suspects in this case passed
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polygraph tests arranged by the Hood
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River County Sheriff's Office except Don
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Dixon Dixon eventually took an
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independently administered polygraph the
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sheriff's department says the results
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were
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inconclusive someone in Hood River has
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gotten away with
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murder if you have any information in
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this case please log on unsolved.com
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coming up a wild west Ambush entails of
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a multi-million dollar buried treasure
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but first a young computer wizard packs
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into the pentagon's secret computer
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network Los Angeles
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California Kevin pson got his first
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computer on his 16th birthday it turns
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out that pson was a natural computer whz
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and it wasn't long before he was hacking
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into computer networks using the Alias
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dark
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Dante pson uncovered a telephone number
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which gave him access to a restricted
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computer network funded by the
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Pentagon pson managed to hack into a
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computer that held sensitive documents
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on Military research being conducted at
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the University of California at
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brookley the University became aware of
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dark Dante's visits when one day pson
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accidentally logged on using his real
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name Dan would you just put that in my
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car please well you taking my computer
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the Los Angeles da confiscated pson
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computer because of his age he wasn't
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charged but he was warned that his
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computer activities were illegal or
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anything but that warning didn't stop
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Kevin P your Bud's going to
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jail 4 years later in Northern
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California the owners of a storage
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facility opened up a unit on which the
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rent hadn't been
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paid W the locker contained what looked
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like stolen Telephone Company equipment
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the owners called the police we found a
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storage locker that contained pieces of
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electronic equipment payones computer
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printouts including the print out of the
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non-published number of the Soviet
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Embassy San Francisco that's not the
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type of equipment or material that one
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would buy at a swap meet or find in a
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dumpster it was quite obviously stolen
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property the storage unit had been
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rented to Kevin pson who was now 21
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years
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old when police searched his apartment
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they found a wiretapping facility in a
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spare
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bedroom what are you doing with all this
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stuff
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Kevin I don't know Happ the equipment in
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the switch room allowed Mr pulson not
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only to enter computer databases ours
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and others but also gave him the ability
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to monitor telephone conversations
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without the parties uh to the
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conversation being aware um that they
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were being
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monitored how about the test set over
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there with f lettery on it connected to
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poon's computer was an unauthorized test
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set which can be used to tap into
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private phone lines I know I got that
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from a buddy of mine only the telephone
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company and law enforcement officials
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are allowed to use test
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sets but the Smoking Gun was a series of
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photographs pson had taken of himself
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breaking into a telephone switching
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trailer and using the equipment
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inside it was time to bring in the
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FBI we did determined that the acts that
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pson was involved in had escalated we
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found evidence that pson had penetrated
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the United States government computer
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and had transferred the passwords of
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that computer via electronic mail to
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other
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individuals investigators found out that
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someone matching pulson description had
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illegally entered several Northern
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California telephone facilities using a
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fake ID hi can I help you yeah in the
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menow Park office I'm here to check out
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the ESS uh the ESS equipment is up on
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the second
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floor once inside the Intruder found
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telephone numbers that he could use to
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hack into the telephone company's
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computer
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system he had also stolen manuals
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switching equipment and a test set like
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the one found in Pen's
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apartment using the stolen equipment
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pson had allegedly infiltrated US
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military computer Transmissions to
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obtain classified Army
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information authorities believe he also
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obtained information about the US
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government's investigation of former
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Philippine president Ferdinand
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Marcus the FBI suspected that pson might
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have been engaging in
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Espionage after a 2-year investigation a
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19c count indictment was handed down
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against Kevin pson and two fellow
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hackers they were charged with
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conspiracy Computer Fraud wiretapping
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embezzlement and theft of public
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property and Records the two other men
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were arrested but pson
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disappeared
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update shortly after this story aired
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the FBI received information that Kevin
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pson was living near Los
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Angeles our San Francisco office advised
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us that pson had some acquaintances in
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the Los Angeles area and we went out and
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interviewed those acquaintances and one
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of them advised us that he had been seen
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in the not too distant past at Hughes
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Market we then went out and interviewed
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all the employees at Hughes market and
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displayed his
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photograph the FBI informed me that
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Kevin pson had been seen at the van IU's
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Market at about 10: or 10:30 in the
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evening I decided to surveil the market
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thinking Kevin may show up
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again at about 10 minutes till midnight
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Kevin pson arrived drove up and parked
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immediately in front of the
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market once Kevin was in the store I
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took a position near the front door and
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asked the security guard to go find the
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evening manager so I could tell him that
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Kevin pson was in the
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store but as pson was checking out and
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about to leave the store he was grabbed
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by two
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employees
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security a security guard escorted pson
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to a store room where he was held until
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FBI agents arrived and placed him under
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arrest Kevin pson pleaded guilty to
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seven counts of male wire and Computer
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Fraud money laundering and obstruction
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of justice he was sentenced to 51 months
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in prison and ordered to pay
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$56,000 in
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restitution when Kevin was released from
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prison he was also given 5 years
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probation after prison Kevin pson
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reinvented himself as a journalist and
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put his criminal past behind him he
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wrote a computer script capable of
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searching the membership of Myspace for
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sex offenders he ultimately confirmed
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the identity of more than 700 sex
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offenders who had Myspace
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profiles next unsolved mystery searches
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for buried treasure in a place called
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skeleton Canyon and later a pair of
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violent criminals take a bank resident
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and his family hostage
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along Arizona's eastern border is a
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jagged Ravine called skeleton
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Canyon more than a 100 years ago a gang
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of Mexican smugglers were ambushed and
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red within the Steep Canyon
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walls some say the take from that
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robbery was buried in this area an
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Undiscovered treasure worth millions
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for years treasure Hunters have searched
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in skeleton Canyon they've turned up
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bleach bones and old Mexican coins but
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no treasure not yet anyway so is there
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really a buried treasure in skeleton
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Canyon well it all depends on who you
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ask it's a known fact that it's a real
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treasure this is one of the treasures
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it's absolutely real real no I don't
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believe that there is a uh skeleton
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Canyon treasure waiting out there to be
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found the legend of the skeleton Canyon
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treasure starts in a small Mexican
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Village Jim Hughes a member of Arizona's
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Infamous curly bille grous gang learned
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that Mexican Bandits looted the town of
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Monteray
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Mexico we done they were planning to
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smuggle the fortune into the in States
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through skeleton
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Canyon Hughes was able to infiltrate him
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because he spoke uh fluent Spanish and
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he found out that the gang was coming
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back through Skelton
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Canyon the Myriad of books and treasure
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magazines reported the treasure to be
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worth anywhere from $2.5 million all the
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way and I've seen reports of it being
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worth up to 8
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million Hughes rode back to Arizona and
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made plans with curly Bill bres to
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Ambush the Mexican
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gang the men of the Rocks shot the
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Mexicans off their mouths and the coins
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and the Contraband were being scattered
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all over the canyon in order to stop the
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mules from scattering and taking the
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loot with them the Curly Bill br's gang
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was shooting the
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mules The Outlaws now had their treasure
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but without mules they had no way of
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moving it out of the
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canyon part of the loot was divided up
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on the spot the rest was buried to be
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picked up later but two members of the
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gang had other
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plans zwing hunt and Billy grounds were
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friends and they decided that while the
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rest of the gang was out in the local
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bars spending their money they would
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double cross the gang and come back into
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the
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canyon according to Legend uh they were
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able to find a Mexican Teamster talked
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him into bringing his team and his
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horses into skeleton Canyon and removing
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the treasure and of course he was later
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killed because they wanted to keep the
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new hiding place as a
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secret I feel very sure my own mind that
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it's very likely that the treasure is
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still buried within the vicinity of uh
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Skelton Canyon probably no more than 30
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mil
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away zwing hunt and Billy grounds hid in
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a desert cave where they lived for close
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to 4
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months during this period Billy grounds
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wrote a number of letters to his sister
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Maggie in San Antonio Billy wanted her
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to know where the treasure was hidden in
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case anything happened to him
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Billy would venture out once a week to
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give the letters to a passing stage
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coach
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get yeah you
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bet treasure hunter Fern haml claims
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that he's seen the nine
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letters one of the letters he's writing
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to his sister he said there's a cave at
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the mouth of the the canyon I found that
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cave and it goes back 80
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ft and in one of things in the letter it
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said from our Lookout you can see the uh
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Turf growing back over where we buried
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the treasure down in the valley
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there I have found all the clues that
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there is in the letters every one of
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them everything is there so I know the
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treasure is I'm near where it's at it's
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there Billy grounds who is supposed to
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have written the letters was a
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19-year-old Texas Cowboy rustler type
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it's unlikely to me that he would have
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been writing home detailed letters about
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hey we rob these Mexicans and buried
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this huge treasure here's how to find
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it Maggie was Billy ground's sister and
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she her and a man had spent 2 years
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living in a cave out there looking for
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this treasure
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and we found this vase in a cave it says
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Maggie on 1885 World's Fair so I know
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that was Billy gr's sister that was
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there looking for this
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treasure a sheriff's posi finally
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cornered Billy ground and Wing hunt
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during the shootout Billy was killed
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zwing seriously
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injured turf grass as the story goes
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after his capture zwing revealed the
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secret location of the treasure to his
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uncle here come
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Springs his uncle then Drew up a
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detailed
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map it seems to me that it's another
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typical treasure hunting
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yarn we never get to see the map we
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never get to examine it for its
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genuiness or see if it matches up with
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any handwriting samples we might
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have bur Hamill says that he's seen the
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map that was made up by zwing Hunt's
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Uncle the map shows the canyon and it
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shows where the cave is everything
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matches but on account of the earthquake
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in
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1886 I think the treasure is around 20
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ft deep part of the mountain caved off
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on
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it is there really a treasure bared in
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skeleton Canyon or is it just another
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tall tale from the days of the old
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west I think the skeleton Canyon
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treasure is a very plausible story from
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the standpoint that every time it would
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rain somebody's skull would show up or
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another coin would become evident
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and uh compared to a lot of other
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stories it's got a lot more plausibility
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than I would say the lost Dutchman mine
00:27:05
for
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instance it is possible that there's a
00:27:09
skeleton Canyon treasure out there to be
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found somewhere but the initial reports
00:27:15
given by the Mexican Government given in
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the local press indicate that there was
00:27:20
a very small amount of money taken which
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would have been spent very very quickly
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thus I don't think there was a treasure
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given historical sources to
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find when I find the treasure I'll stop
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looking for it that's it will be when
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I'll
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stop because I know it's real this
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trasure is real and I know I found the
00:27:42
right place where it's
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at today Fortune hunters from all over
00:27:47
the world search through the skeleton
00:27:49
Canyon trying to find the lost treasure
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despite the doubts of the Skeptics they
00:27:54
will continue to look and look because
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the them The Treasure of skeleton Canyon
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is still an unsolved
00:28:12
mystery coming up an escaped convict is
00:28:15
finally in custody after 9 years on the
00:28:19
run but first the story of two bank
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robbers who took a family hostage and
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vanished with close to a million
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West Dallas Wisconsin after locking 14
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Bank employees in a store room two armed
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robers clean out the
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Vault when they leave their duffel bags
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are stuffed with 3/4 of a million
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dollar the thief were identified as
00:28:59
Terry Lee Connor and Joseph dockerty
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they were serial bank robbers the tools
00:29:04
of their trade were Dynamite grenades
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submachine guns and
00:29:12
hostages 18 months earlier Connor and
00:29:15
dockerty were inmates at a federal
00:29:17
prison in
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Oklahoma one morning they were Shackled
00:29:21
by US Marshals before being taken to a
00:29:23
courtroom in Oklahoma City
00:29:28
in the strip search they missed the
00:29:30
Handcuff key which one story has it that
00:29:32
Tor had planted it down inside his
00:29:39
mouth St took firearm he's got my all
00:29:43
right take that
00:29:44
AC somewhere along the way Connor and
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[ __ ] took possession of the
00:29:49
vehicle understand from talking to the
00:29:51
deputy that he stripped the gun from him
00:29:53
in about 2
00:29:55
seconds the convict's handcuffed two
00:29:58
Marshals and then forced them into the
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back seat go go outside
00:30:03
bur they drove to a secluded
00:30:08
area the deputies were I'm sure very
00:30:11
scared anybody would have been in that
00:30:13
situation there was a quiet moment when
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the two deputies were handcuffed around
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the tree when Connor indicated that he
00:30:20
wanted to eliminate the two deputies he
00:30:22
Advanced toward the deputies with his
00:30:24
weapon and had the weapon pointed at
00:30:26
them and looked over at dockerty and
00:30:29
nodded his head as if to say I'm going
00:30:31
to go ahead and kill them let's go go
00:30:33
Joe dockerty replied to him now they've
00:30:35
been good guys they'll be okay if we
00:30:37
leave them handcuffed around this tree
00:30:39
so it looked like there was a few
00:30:40
moments there where the deputies were in
00:30:42
Jeopardy of their
00:30:44
lives Connor and Dockery fled from
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Oklahoma North all the way to Vancouver
00:30:50
Washington their plan was to pull off
00:30:52
their biggest bank robbery yet they went
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to the home of Ray Dearing on the
00:30:58
pretext of buying a car but they weren't
00:31:00
interested in the
00:31:02
car Ray was the vice president of a
00:31:05
local bank is it possible we go inside
00:31:07
and talk about it yeah I guess so
00:31:10
neither one would ever let me walk
00:31:12
around him they would always turn their
00:31:14
bodies and I never saw their backs and I
00:31:16
realized later they had their 45s and
00:31:19
belts behind their
00:31:21
back once inside Ray and his son Tom
00:31:25
were easily overpowered Ray's wife
00:31:27
Ronnie was brought in from the
00:31:32
bedroom the fugitives held the family
00:31:34
hostage overnight early the next morning
00:31:38
they changed into business suits to look
00:31:40
like Bank
00:31:43
Executives okay you drive I'll drive we
00:31:46
didn't know what to expect when we got
00:31:48
there we didn't know if we were in for
00:31:49
problems that the police had have drive
00:31:51
and certainly we didn't want the police
00:31:53
there at this point because we knew
00:31:54
there'd be a shootout if there was he
00:31:56
said if the police arrived they would
00:31:58
spray the bank with uh
00:32:02
gunfire the group arrived at the bank
00:32:04
before any of the employees but the
00:32:07
Vault couldn't be open without two keys
00:32:10
held by separate tellers r i want you to
00:32:13
come with
00:32:14
me my biggest concern during this whole
00:32:17
time was that they separated us I had no
00:32:19
idea what was going on with my
00:32:22
family for the next 20 minutes as Bank
00:32:25
employees arrived their tellers keys
00:32:28
were confiscated and they were taken to
00:32:30
a back room let's
00:32:34
go Connor and doery then entered the
00:32:37
Vault and stuffed
00:32:40
$250,000 into two duffel bags in less
00:32:43
than 60
00:32:46
seconds after they got their money they
00:32:49
took me into the room with the rest of
00:32:50
the employees and my
00:32:51
family all right nobody opens the door
00:32:54
for 10 minutes at that time I knew we
00:32:57
were finally safe they were not taking
00:32:59
any
00:33:00
hostages my sole thought was thank God
00:33:03
you're all safe and I put my arms around
00:33:05
the family and and employees and broke
00:33:11
up
00:33:13
update Terry Lee Connor and Joseph
00:33:15
dockerty have been arrested the FBI and
00:33:19
the US Marshals suspected that the
00:33:21
fugitives were in a suburb of Chicago
00:33:23
and distributed wanted posters in the
00:33:26
area
00:33:28
a local Motel clerk noticed a guest
00:33:30
registered under the name Steven posik
00:33:33
one of Connor's
00:33:35
aliases she called authorities and
00:33:37
within an hour the FBI and US Marshals
00:33:40
began a state
00:33:43
up Connor was arrested the next morning
00:33:46
when he left his room he was returned to
00:33:48
prison where he began serving out a life
00:33:52
sentence 2 weeks later Joseph doerty was
00:33:55
arrested at a laundromat in antiac
00:33:57
California
00:33:59
incredibly agents were keeping
00:34:01
surveillance on a different suspect but
00:34:03
at the laundromat they recognized Joseph
00:34:06
doerty as a wanted fugitive doerty was
00:34:09
arrested and sent back to prison he
00:34:12
won't be eligible for parole until
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00:34:18
2019 next two violent fugitives are on
00:34:21
the Run they were armed and dangerous
00:34:23
until our viewers saw them on Unsolved
00:34:26
Mysteries
00:34:34
next we have two stories and thanks to
00:34:37
our viewers two cases
00:34:41
South Las Vegas
00:34:46
Nevada businessman Frank Allen from Los
00:34:49
Angeles bought a home just outside the
00:34:54
city he kept a room there to use during
00:34:57
his frequent trips to
00:34:59
Nevada he rented the rest of the house
00:35:02
to a man named Joseph welen Smith and
00:35:05
his wife Judith Two Daughters from a
00:35:08
previous marriage 12-year-old christe
00:35:11
and 20-year-old Wendy also live
00:35:14
there what Frank Allen didn't know was
00:35:17
that Smith had a long history as a con
00:35:20
man he had once been convicted of
00:35:22
attempted Grand Theft but that was
00:35:25
nothing compared to what Joe Smith did
00:35:27
next
00:35:29
Frank Allen arrived at his Las Vegas
00:35:31
residence on a night when he expected
00:35:33
Smith and his family to be out of
00:35:37
town I locked the door behind me and
00:35:40
went up the top of the steps and
00:35:42
unlocked the bedro and went in I started
00:35:45
undressing took off my jacket shirt tie
00:35:48
and suddenly stopped in my track and
00:35:51
said something is
00:35:53
wrong I said I don't know what it is but
00:35:56
something is wrong
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Joe what the hell are you doing I
00:36:04
grabbed him at the wrist and that's when
00:36:06
I shook him and I said Joe what in the
00:36:08
hell are you trying to do and then it
00:36:11
was clear to me that he was trying to
00:36:13
murder
00:36:15
me coming down the steps I said I've
00:36:17
locked myself in with these Double Dead
00:36:19
boats and I don't have time to Fumble
00:36:21
for key so I went straight through the
00:36:23
door
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I drove my car up to the guard gate and
00:36:32
said to the guard call the police
00:36:34
there's a man in my house come on out
00:36:36
Joe the police searched the
00:36:39
house they thought they had cornered Joe
00:36:41
Smith hiding under a
00:36:43
blanket instead they found the body of
00:36:46
12-year-old Christy Cox Smith's
00:36:49
stepdaughter think we got a homicide
00:36:51
here she had been strangled and bludgeon
00:36:54
to death it was obvious that she would
00:36:56
been dead for quite some time she had
00:36:58
several wounds to the face and to her
00:37:03
head in the next bedroom they forcefully
00:37:05
ENT her that also and that's when Wendy
00:37:07
Cox was found laying beside the bed she
00:37:10
had approximately 32 wounds to her head
00:37:12
and hands defensive wounds to her hands
00:37:15
and she had also been
00:37:18
strangled then officers searched the
00:37:20
master
00:37:22
bedroom they found the body of Joe
00:37:24
Smith's wife Judith she had also been
00:37:27
bludgeon to death all three have been
00:37:30
dead for approximately 18
00:37:36
hours Joe Smith was now wanted for
00:37:39
murder and attempted murder with a
00:37:41
deadly
00:37:44
weapon
00:37:46
update just minutes after we aired the
00:37:49
story on Unsolved Mysteries a viewer
00:37:51
reported that Smith was living near Los
00:37:53
Angeles
00:37:55
California Smith was arrested at a local
00:37:58
Motel where he was registered under an
00:38:00
assumed
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00:38:03
name at the time of his arrest Joe Smith
00:38:06
indicated to me that he had seen the
00:38:07
last heiring of the unsolved mystery
00:38:09
program he also told me that it was very
00:38:12
tough being a fugitive and he always
00:38:14
knew that someone be knocking at the
00:38:16
door one day he kind of glad it's all
00:38:17
over at this point 2 days later Joe
00:38:20
Welden Smith was returned to Nevada he
00:38:23
was convicted for the murder of his wife
00:38:25
and two daughters and
00:38:28
sentenced to
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00:38:32
death in our next update a bank robber
00:38:35
escapes from prison to live a life on
00:38:37
the run with his
00:38:44
wife for 8 years Thomas Leo langstone
00:38:48
and his wife lived in this small
00:38:50
Bungalow in St Paul
00:38:53
Minnesota no one ever suspected that
00:38:56
langstone was an an escaped convict
00:38:58
named Richard seones with a long
00:39:01
criminal
00:39:03
record sealon and two accomplices had
00:39:07
robbed the bank in wubber Massachusetts
00:39:09
and made off with more than
00:39:18
$177,000 sealon was convicted of bank
00:39:20
robbery and armed assault he was
00:39:23
sentenced to between 58 and 82 years in
00:39:26
prison
00:39:27
then he met Karen
00:39:29
Walters Karen was an aspiring teacher
00:39:32
whose class assignment was to write
00:39:34
letters to inmates eventually she
00:39:37
visited Richard you're much prettier
00:39:39
than your picture and a relationship
00:39:41
began how was the drive oh it was fine
00:39:44
thank you your typical inmate in prison
00:39:48
I find takes advantage of people out in
00:39:50
the
00:39:50
community often times they'll latch on
00:39:53
to women who are lonely uh want some
00:39:56
attention uh um and they take advantage
00:39:58
of them um and I think the women are
00:40:00
beguiled by all that attention I Caren
00:40:03
take Richard to be my husband hi Karen
00:40:06
take Richard to be my husband 8 years
00:40:09
after they met Richard seones and Karen
00:40:12
Walters got married in the prison
00:40:16
Chapel 2 years later seph alonis escaped
00:40:20
and the couple disappeared
00:40:28
update after our broadcast a viewer in
00:40:31
Minneapolis who had done business with
00:40:33
the couple recognized Karen's
00:40:36
photograph during a stake out of their
00:40:38
home officials tailed sep balonus to a
00:40:41
nearby convenience
00:40:43
store soon as he pulled into the uh
00:40:46
parking lot and got out of the vehicle
00:40:49
uh one of the task force members was uh
00:40:51
right there with him so he jumped out uh
00:40:54
drew his weapon uh ordered sepulus not
00:40:56
to move and at that point other task
00:40:59
force members got there uh jumped out
00:41:01
and assisted in the
00:41:03
arrest Karen Walters was picked up 20
00:41:06
minutes
00:41:07
later when I found out that they were
00:41:10
who they were I was shocked I couldn't
00:41:13
believe it my mouth fell to the floor I
00:41:15
never would imagine in a million years
00:41:18
that these two people would be the would
00:41:20
do anything wrong despite what neighbors
00:41:23
thought a bag of suspicious items found
00:41:26
inside the house
00:41:27
suggested that sealon was still an
00:41:30
active
00:41:32
criminal the discovery of the bag with
00:41:35
the face mask the gun the rubber gloves
00:41:38
the large amount of cash and small bills
00:41:41
we think that perhaps he's been back in
00:41:43
the bank robbery or or robbery business
00:41:46
again Karen Walters and Richard seones
00:41:49
were extradited to
00:41:52
Massachusetts SE lonus was sent back to
00:41:55
prison Karen Walters served the short
00:41:57
sentence and was
00:42:02
released if you have any information on
00:42:04
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