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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you were about to see is not a news
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broadcast tonight on unsolved mysteries
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the story of an undercover cop who
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allegedly went wrong in the day of his
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trial he fled into the Louisiana swamps
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and his fellow officers believe he is
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playing a lethal game of hide and seek
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according to history in Hollywood legend
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a notorious outlaw Billy the Kid was
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gunned down by his friend Sheriff Pat
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Garrett in 1881 recent memories suggest
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that Garrett killed the wrong man
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in 1987 donald smith accompanied by a
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mysterious hitchhiker had a tearful
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reunion with his long-lost daughter the
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next day both men vanished these
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intriguing stories all need one final
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clue one final piece of information
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before they can be solved perhaps
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someone watching tonight can help
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perhaps
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may the sixteenth 1987 Denver Colorado
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at two o'clock in the morning two
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vehicles collided on a downtown street
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one driver fled the scene abandoning his
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pickup truck a few minutes later and
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police arrived to investigate the scene
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of the accident they made a thorough
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search of the abandoned pickup truck
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inside they found a bloody jack handle
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and a room key from a local motel police
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went to the motel and discovered that
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the driver of the abandoned vehicle was
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registered there under the name of Larry
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Munroe in his room they found a pair of
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pants and a sweatshirt both covered with
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blood still fresh Denver police tracked
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the abandoned pickup truck to a white
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man named Donald Smith from Hemet
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California if the driver who ran from
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the collision in Denver was black police
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could get no information at all about
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the man who registered at the motel
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under the name of Larry Munroe but they
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were able to check out Don Smith they
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found the Smith's wife had not heard
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from him for 12 days ever since he left
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home to begin a cross-country trip what
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started out as a simple traffic accident
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would soon turn into a bizarre murder a
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murder that police are still trying to
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solve Don Smith the owner of the
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abandoned vehicle lived with his second
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wife in Hemet a small town in Southern
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California
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he'd been feeling despondent because he
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was not well enough to work so he
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decided to drive cross-country to visit
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relatives
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Smith left hammered on May the 11th 1987
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driving the pickup truck and towing a
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trailer he was accompanied only by his
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two Labrador Retrievers Don was anxious
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to visit his daughter Brenda in Idaho
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Brenda was the only child from Don's
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first marriage for most of her life she
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and her father have been kept apart my
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mother kept me away from my father they
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didn't get along real well after the
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divorce and I think I only saw him like
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once up until the time I mother died and
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then I started searching for him he was
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searching for me as well
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when brenda was 26 years old and herself
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a divorced mother of two she and her
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father were finally and joyfully
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reunited oh it was a really good
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relationship it was almost like we had
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always known each other you know it was
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real close I could tell him anything you
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know he was very protective of me and if
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anyone ever you know if I ever had a
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problem he said you know just let me
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know I'll take care of it for you you
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know he was kind of a macho man I guess
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basically it was a real good
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relationship with the exception for my
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father drank which he didn't do very
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often you know thank God he turned into
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kind of a different person when he was
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drunk the day after Don Smith left
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Hemant he and another man pulled up in
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front of the hospital where Brenda
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worked as a psychiatric nurse Smith
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stayed in the truck but his companion
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got out and walked into the hospital the
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receptionist referred the man to
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Brenda's Supervisor John slain this is
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John looking for Brenda Walker she's not
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here today who is this please a friend
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of her father's and I need to get in
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contact with her over the phone I'll
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tell you what why not I'll meet you in
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the parking lot
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slain went outside to talk to Don Smith
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oh your Brenda's dead yeah he was
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obviously been drinking
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and he said you know Worth Brenda and I
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said well see some fishing with her
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girlfriends the guy that was driving you
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named over you know to get the
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directions once I explained to him how
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to get out the one intersection he he
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seemed to know where that was
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just 15 miles away Brenda and her
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friends had given up fishing and stopped
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by a saloon near the lake the three of
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them were having a drink at the bar
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we're sitting there at the bar near the
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window by the front door the door opened
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and everyone in the bar turned around
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there was a black man that had come in
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and he closed the door he had sunglasses
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on tip the sunglasses off and looked
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around for a few minutes I think he's
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probably allowing this eyes to adjust to
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the darkness then he walked into the
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restroom and about probably a minute
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later this man came in with wild hair
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and his shirt was untucked
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the water in here yeah it took me a
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minute to really realize who he was was
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my father he looked so different from
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the last time I saw him and he hugged me
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and sat at the bar with me for a minute
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and I realized that he was drunk and I
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went into the restroom I was a little
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upset because he had showed up drunk and
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it kind of embarrassed me in front of my
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friends she's such a sweetheart I sure
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messed I went into the restroom I came
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back out so much he starts crying
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immediately and he's babbling and he's
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talking about how he doesn't want to be
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alive anymore and how he's got cancer
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and he was going to be with my mother in
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heaven and then his companion came out
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of the restroom Hey
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they don't serve whiskey in here the
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black man just kept on walking you know
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he kind of looked over at my father and
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then just kept walking like he didn't
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really know who he was kind of ignored
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him a little bit and went out and got
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into the truck and got into the driver's
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seat of my father's truck I kept looking
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out the window at him you know he sits
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there and he had his you know his head
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leaning on the steering wheel staring
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out at the lake and I don't know he
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looked real impatient what disgusted
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with being there
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I'm just sorry I thought your life up
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for all these years I don't want to hear
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you cry I don't want to hear this but
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you just go get a motel room silver at
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tomorrow but her father became
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belligerent Brenda walked out of the
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saloon after a few minutes Brenda's
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father followed her outside but she left
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without speaking to him I wish that I
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would have had more patience with him I
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wish I would have understood his
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situation I wish I would have you know
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tried to be more compassionate with him
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it was the last time I saw him he he
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opened up the camper and let the dogs
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out and let them run around and I just
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drove away two weeks later the high
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desert outside Twin Falls Idaho a couple
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out for their morning walk made a
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horrible discovery lys were called in to
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remove and identify the dead body we
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observed a body that appeared to have
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been thrown over the guardrail laying
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down body was decaying for approximately
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two weeks
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we could not recognize him at that point
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there was no identification found around
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him or on him at this time we had no
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idea who we had we just had another John
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Doe an autopsy was done and we found
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blunt and marks on the back of the head
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indicating cause of death was by
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plunging also outside of the guardrail
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where possibly the victim was thrown
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from we found a sac with a bottle of
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wine in it it was just taken as evidence
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it wasn't until we had the body
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identified that it all started fitting
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in to the crime scene the twin full
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service department had no idea who the
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body were only heard about the two car
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collision in Denver where the driver of
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the pickup truck had fled the scene
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the Denver police discovered the
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abandoned vehicle belonged to Don Smith
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they issued a possible homicide bulletin
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Denver Police had sent out a teletype
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indicating that they had a vehicle
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involved in an accident that possibly
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was involved in a homicide so I called
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the Denver Police Department and they
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gave me a name of a subject Donald Smith
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fingerprints from the dead man in Twin
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Falls positively identified the body as
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Donald Smith
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police began to piece together the
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events have led up to Don Smith's murder
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on May 11th the very day Smith left home
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he rented the trouble with the trailer
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he was towing just outside Las Vegas he
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arranged to leave his trailer with a
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local man one theory is that soon after
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Smith left Las Vegas he picked up a
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hitchhiker
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at some point along the way Smith
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started drinking a day after he saw his
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daughter Brendon Don Smith turned up in
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Park City Utah he called his sister in
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Vancouver asking her to wire him money
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the same day
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Smith picked up $200 he was accompanied
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by a man who looked exactly like the one
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Brenda had seen with her father in the
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bar
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police theorize of the hitch-hiker Smith
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had picked up murdered him when Smith
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stopped to let his dogs out for a run
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the murder weapon was probably a
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jackhammer grabbed from the rear of
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Smith's pickup truck
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police suspect that the man dumped
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Smith's body in the high desert where it
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was found over two weeks later I want to
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know why he killed my father
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I'm gonna know why he took my my father
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away from me and away from my children
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my father was the only family I had this
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composite of Don Smith's mysterious
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companion was compiled from various
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eyewitness accounts he is black but with
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relatively light skin and probably in
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his 30s he stands around six feet tall
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and weighs about 180 pounds he may use
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the name Larry Munro and may once have
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lived in the area of Blackfoot Idaho Lex
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the story of Billy the Kid notorious
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outlaw a legend of the West was he
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really killed by a Sheriff Pat Garrett
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or did he live to the ripe old age of 91
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legendary Billy the Kid easily the most
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notorious desperado of the Wild Wild
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West
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he killed 21 men one for every year of
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his life by ignite that Palomino over
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there one without the witnesses Billy
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the Kid Billy the Kid in 1941 Buster
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Crabbe played the role in one of over
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250 movies made about the famous author
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Hollywood had started legend traditional
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wisdom tells us that Billy the Kid was
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born William buck in New York City in
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1859 he fought against the rich ranchers
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in the Lincoln County cattle war and was
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given a death sentence for killing
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sheriff William Brady according to
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history and the movies in 1881 Billy the
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Kid was hunted down by Sheriff Pat
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Garrett who tracked him to Fort Sumner
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New Mexico Billy was hiding in the home
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of a friend Pete Maxwell unaware of
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Garrett's arrival he went out back to
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wash up Garrett crept into Maxwell's
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house to ambush Billy he was eager to
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collect the $500 reward that had been
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offered for Billy the kid's death
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who is it
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history tells us that Billy was buried
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the following day in a simple grave but
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history may be wrong this whole
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legibility kid was absolutely no truth
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ninety percent of what we've heard in
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Minto as students and schools it's not
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true sixty-eight years later the
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Hollywood legend was turned upside down
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when in 1950 a 91 year old man from
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heiko Texas named brushy Bill Roberts
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came out of obscurity and alleged that
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he was Billy the Kid despite a massive
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controversy his claim still stands there
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is no doubt whatever in my mind but what
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brushy Bill and Billy kid was one and
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the same person
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historian Donna lavash disagrees there
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is absolutely no comparison whatsoever
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between brushy Bill Roberts known as
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Olie Partridge Roberts and William
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Bonney alias Billy the Kid while the
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rest of America believes the Hollywood
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legend of Billy the Kid in heiko Texas
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the tiny community of 1300 is absolutely
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certain the famous outlaw was really
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brushy Bill Roberts many historians
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scoff at brushy bill story but William
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tussles belief that brushy bill really
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was Billy the Kid cannot be dismissed
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out of hand
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there is evidence supports this claim
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and if that claim is true and this
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chapter in the history of the American
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West may have to be rewritten
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in 1948 a Florida Attorney William
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Morrison first uncovered evidence that
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Billy the Kid did not die in 1881 a
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client told him that years ago he had
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actually fought Billy the Kid in the
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Lincoln County Wars that the kid was
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still alive yes my father was talking to
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the man he referred to Lincoln County
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my father said oh he said that's where
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Billy the Kid he said he was killed up
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there at Pete Maxwell's house and the
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man said oh no no he wasn't killed
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he's still around fascinated Morrison
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criss-crossed the West talking to other
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old-timers about Billy the Kid he
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discovered that many thought that Billy
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was indeed still alive quietly living
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under the name brushy bill finally in
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1949 Morrison made the trip to heiko
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Texas to confront brushy and Percy and
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asked him if the rumors were true
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rusha bill hare nice to meet you in
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person I am Billy the Kid
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come on in we'll talk about this little
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further we must keep in mind that this
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man did not seek publicity he did not
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seek to come out from seclusion he was
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drawn out brushy bill wanted Morrison's
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help and finally getting the pardon that
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was promised to him in 1879 by the
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governor of New Mexico for turning
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state's evidence I suspect a full pardon
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out of this so wanna die why Leslie
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it'll be clean help you if I can but you
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have to be able to prove to me you are
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who you say you are I can do that I've
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still got the scars and I didn't get
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these sets around and no rocking chair
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the scars seemed to match the reported
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wounds received by the kid during his
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short-lived outlaw career this one here
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on my shoulder is from a knife wound
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down south of the border I'm really not
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too proud of that there were 17 points
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of identification of similarity between
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the two both men had small hands and
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large wrist protruding teeth protruding
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ears blue eyes same head size same boot
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size and the weight there's no record
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anywhere where there's anything having
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to do with a boot size of Billy the Kid
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a waist size of Billy the Kid or a hat
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size of Billy the Kid nothing but it
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does tell us something about his eyes
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they's Heath this reporter states
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unequivocally without question that they
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were clear blue eyes brushy bill had
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speckled eyes
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some of these spots and steel friction
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my memory right over that hill there in
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1950 brushy bill took Morrison on a
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guided tour the kids former haunts in
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Lincoln County Morrison died in 1976 but
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he told his daughter about the trip
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brushy bill would give incidents that
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only someone that was actually involved
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in the Lincoln County War would have
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known my father became convinced that
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this man was brushy bill Roberts was
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actually Billy the Kid Morrison then
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contacted five people who had known
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Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County
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War each of them separately met brushy
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bill in person all five witnesses signed
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sworn affidavits stating that brushy
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bill Roberts was indeed Billy the Kid
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if brushy bill really was Billy the Kid
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one nagging question remains what really
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happened on July 14 1881 in Fort Sumner
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according to brushy bill on the night of
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the shooting he was with his girlfriend
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salsa and his partner Billy Barlow at
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hey sue Silva's house these are the
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precise words brushy bill use of his
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testimony to William Morrison to
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describe the events of that fateful
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night Silva said if one of us would go
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next door and get beef he would cook it
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for us I sensed a trap
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he started out after I refused to leave
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the house I thought that Garrett might
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still be in town and I wanted to meet
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him in the daytime so I could beat him
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to it
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unknown to the kid Garrity's Posse had
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taken cover across the yard one of their
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flu shots had killed my partner I ran
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out into the yard I ran through the gate
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and started shooting at shadows the
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first shot struck me in the lower jaw
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mother stopped me in the shoulder and
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then another stuck across the top of my
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head when I woke up a Mexican woman was
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putting beef tallow on my head to stop
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the blood
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I told her to reload my 44 then celsa
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came running in and said they killed
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Barlow and were passing off his bodies
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mine she begged me to leave town
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brushie claims of the next day Billy
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Barlow is buried in his place in a
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normal procedure the sheriff would have
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brought the corpse to a place for anyone
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to witness he would have demonstrated
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his guns his clothing his poops his
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rifle that Garrett did not follow that
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procedure he took every precaution to
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conceal the identity of the corpse he
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realized he had killed him
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Pat Garrett enlisted some 21 people that
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purportedly knew William Bonney and they
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assembled passed by the casket and said
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yes that's William Bonney Billy the Kid
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in that casket
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by 1950 Morrison felt he had gathered
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enough evidence to request a pardon from
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governor Mabry of New Mexico he agreed
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to meet them in person brushy bill was
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very nervous he saw some deputy standing
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there and they had guns in their
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holsters this is a man 91 years old did
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not want to hang and they were all
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saying if he is Billy the Kid he's an
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outlaw he's a criminal you don't bargain
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emu hanging the interview turned into a
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press circus 90 year-old brushing is
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confused and scared by the reporters
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historians and even Pat Garrett's
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relatives brushy who's buried in that
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grave of Pat Garrett didn't kill Billy
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the Kid how many aliases have you had
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all these years
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governor Mabry do you really intend to
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give this man a parvo I am taking no
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action now or ever on this application
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for a pardon for Billy the Kid because I
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do not believe this man to be Billy the
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Kid the governor never even gave him a
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chance to present the evidence by just
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flatlock telling him he wasn't even
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going to consider it Morrison's legal
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arguments and affidavits were not even
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entered into evidence brushy bill felt
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he had been humiliated his claims
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ridiculed his pardon was not granted
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shortly after the meeting with governor
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Mabry brushy bill suffered a heart
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attack and died on a street in heiko
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Texas
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all he wanted was to have his name
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cleared that's all he was trying to do
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giving back his dignity I have no doubts
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in my mind at all and the more the more
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I get into my father's papers the more I
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get into his records the more I read no
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one would ever convince me the man was
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not there she bill was not Billy the Kid
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brushy Bill's friends and neighbors have
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erected a memorial to brushy bill
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Roberts which reads he spent the last
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days of his life trying to prove to the
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world his true identity we believe his
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story
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and pray to God for the forgiveness he
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solemnly asked for
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on a previous broadcast we examined a
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strange disappearance of Angelo
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desiderio a 58 year old businessman who
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lived in a suburb of Phoenix Arizona on
00:26:40
the morning of Monday June 6 1988 Angelo
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failed to open his gift shop concerned
00:26:45
his friends called the police they
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arrived at Angelo's house and discovered
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it undisturbed
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it appeared that Angelo had been
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interrupted while preparing a
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mid-afternoon meal a neighbor fueled
00:27:02
police suspicions when he said he had
00:27:04
seen Angelo's Cadillac speed off the
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Sunday he disappeared it was very
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difficult to see first I couldn't see
00:27:11
any facial characteristics and it just
00:27:13
appeared to be a person taller than
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Angelo
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it wasn't like Angelo to pull out
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without acknowledging me at 6:32 on
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Monday evening
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30 hours after Angelo disappeared 400
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miles away from Phoenix 1985 Cadillac
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was found ablaze in a san diego parking
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lot gas then used to set the fire
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investigators traced the owner
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it belonged to Angelo desiderio we
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looked in the trunk and found absolutely
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nothing in that trunk that would have
00:27:50
been there other than the jack no carpet
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no padding no spare tire basically this
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tells us that there could have been
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something in the vehicle that was
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transporting the vehicle and when it was
00:28:01
taken out they took the carpet in the
00:28:03
padding and wrapped it all in one unit
00:28:04
and took everything out of the vehicle
00:28:06
including the spare tire for over eight
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months investigators and friends were
00:28:12
baffled as to the moody four Angelo's
00:28:14
disappearance update on March 16th
00:28:20
Phoenix police charged a local resident
00:28:22
Joe Campbell with conspiracy to commit
00:28:24
armed robbery and burglary on Angelo
00:28:26
desiderio they learned that Keller was a
00:28:30
friend and business associate of Angelo
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and had detailed information concerning
00:28:34
his disappearance joe callow told us
00:28:38
that all the information he had was told
00:28:41
to him by James majors James majors have
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worked with Calhoun construction
00:28:47
he is currently in a California jail
00:28:49
facing several counts of murder
00:28:52
during the interview of of Joe gallo
00:28:55
he stated that majors went to the house
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got into the house by ringing the
00:29:01
doorbell and asking for a glass of water
00:29:04
then took Angelo at gunpoint and robbed
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the house he was taken out of the house
00:29:15
at that time by majors and driven out
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into the desert
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Calo claims it's somewhere between
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Phoenix and San Diego majors murdered
00:29:26
Angela and then placed the body in the
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trunk of the Cadillac and continued on
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toward San Diego the following morning
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majors goes to a hardware store we're
00:29:41
not sure where we believe it's in some
00:29:43
small town between here in California
00:29:47
where he purchased a pick and a shovel
00:29:54
Cannell claims that after buying the
00:29:56
tools majors told him that he had driven
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down a desert back road to an area
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adjacent to a rundown house he then
00:30:03
buried Angelo near a large tree
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according to kal-el majors did a real
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unique thing and that is he's leaving
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the gravesite he stopped and gave the
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shoveling in the pit to the poor people
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that lived and then that show Joe Cala
00:30:36
also told investigators if majors had a
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storage locker
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police searched the locker and recovered
00:30:41
property belonging to Angelo these items
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were traced back to the desiderio all
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[Music]
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next the story of Charles Malay a model
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policeman I saw his partners thug in
00:31:08
reality
00:31:09
Charles Malay is the accused child
00:31:10
molester and wanted fugitive surrounded
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by swamps and bayous Slidell Louisiana
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lies on the outskirts of New Orleans
00:31:29
Slidell is a conservative community an
00:31:32
unlikely setting for a shocking series
00:31:34
of crimes that ended in a local motel
00:31:36
room over four years ago while evening a
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March 1st 2 1985 36 year-old Charles
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Millay escorted a twelve-year-old girl
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to his rented room
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moments later police arrested delay they
00:32:01
charged him with a sexual molestation of
00:32:03
a - the authorities knew the suspect
00:32:06
where Charles Malay was a fellow police
00:32:08
officer in fact he was a sergeant in
00:32:11
charge of sexual offences at the Slidell
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Police Department the young girl was a
00:32:16
child he was consoling one of the most
00:32:20
wrenching things that could face law
00:32:21
enforcement officers as well one of
00:32:23
their own goes bad
00:32:24
Charles malays arrest outraged his
00:32:27
former partners they found it hard to
00:32:29
believe that one of their own could have
00:32:30
betrayed the public trust such a
00:32:32
shocking fashion but the evidence was
00:32:35
all too convincing because of the nature
00:32:38
of these offences we've used actors to
00:32:39
portray the 12 year old victim and her
00:32:41
family they've also changed their names
00:32:51
sergeant Boulais was a highly regarded
00:32:53
undercover officer Slidell Police
00:32:55
Department 1983 he was chosen as Slidell
00:32:59
Police Officer of the Year moulay was so
00:33:03
adept in his undercover disguises but he
00:33:05
once arrested the same felon three
00:33:07
different times without being recognized
00:33:10
during the arrest
00:33:14
after his transfer to the sectional
00:33:16
molestation to tailor 1981 he was
00:33:19
assigned to the case of a 12 year old
00:33:21
girl he'd been upset by the advances of
00:33:23
an older boy my daughter and a friend of
00:33:26
hers in the neighborhood had come to me
00:33:29
complaining about a boy who had been
00:33:30
harassing him very badly in the
00:33:32
neighborhood and I talked to the other
00:33:36
girl's mother and we both decided it
00:33:39
might be a good idea to call the police
00:33:41
station to report this boy now I did
00:33:51
appear at the police station and that
00:33:53
was the first encounter we had with
00:33:55
sergeant knew like we the Joseph Oh
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Sarge Amelie you must be Claire well
00:34:01
come on in I had no reason not to trust
00:34:04
him I never regarded him as anything but
00:34:07
a policeman sergeant you are a policeman
00:34:10
if you folks on mine you could sit out
00:34:12
here you lay not only deceived the
00:34:17
parents but his fellow officers had no
00:34:19
idea of his activities and I worked most
00:34:24
of the sex crime cases that were
00:34:26
reported to the slider Police Department
00:34:28
at that time adult and juvenile we saw
00:34:33
each other of course every day we worked
00:34:35
cases together
00:34:36
I thought he handled himself very
00:34:38
professionally when I worked with him I
00:34:42
thought Charlie was pretty good
00:34:44
policeman well folks think I've got this
00:34:47
figured out and we may have a problem I
00:34:50
don't want you to be too concerned I'm
00:34:53
gonna have to interview your daughter
00:34:54
I'm gonna have to interview the boy
00:34:55
again later on when he would call the
00:34:58
house about her he would say why don't
00:35:02
you bring her down here and you don't
00:35:03
need to wait it's ridiculous but you
00:35:05
just sit there and wait and I said okay
00:35:08
no sooner had I turned the block he was
00:35:12
leaving the police station with her
00:35:15
walking past other policemen put her in
00:35:19
the car and they would leave
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nearly took the young girl to a motel
00:35:27
room that he had reserved for undercover
00:35:29
work
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[Music]
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our daughter she tarted changing I knew
00:35:42
that something was bothering my daughter
00:35:45
because she would say daddy don't look
00:35:47
at me the girl stated that muley had
00:35:51
been seeing her for four months finally
00:35:53
she could no longer take the emotional
00:35:55
strain she told her parents what had
00:35:57
been occurring and all I could keep
00:35:59
saying was over and over in my mind was
00:36:02
I can't believe that he did this I
00:36:04
remember her telling me how relieved she
00:36:08
was to get it all out in order to gather
00:36:15
more incriminating evidence police in
00:36:17
consultation with a reluctant Joseph's
00:36:19
family asked the twelve-year-old girl to
00:36:21
make one more rendezvous with new lady
00:36:24
this time the motel room would be used
00:36:27
as a trap with a hidden video cameras
00:36:30
secured just enough evidence for
00:36:31
prosecution
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00:36:38
Sheriff's Office
00:36:39
three runner arrests before the girl
00:36:44
could be compromised mule a was arrested
00:36:46
by his fellow officers and booked for
00:36:48
child molestation
00:37:02
I received a phone call that Charlie had
00:37:07
been arrested and charged with
00:37:08
molestation of a juvenile and I was
00:37:11
flabbergasted I didn't know how to act I
00:37:13
really didn't I was sick on my stomach I
00:37:15
thought it was somehow a mistake because
00:37:19
I'd known him for a long time and this
00:37:21
was nothing new his personality that I
00:37:22
ever saw having to investigate another
00:37:32
policeman especially one that I had been
00:37:34
partners with was hardest thing I've
00:37:36
ever done I don't I don't know what else
00:37:45
to say it was the hardest thing that
00:37:46
I've ever done I was mad I was unhappy
00:37:57
I'm mad now okay we're gonna record our
00:38:04
conversation and then I'm going to ask
00:38:07
you some questions about Charlie new
00:38:11
life one of those questions will be how
00:38:13
did you come to meet him yeah
00:38:18
when dad brought me to a police station
00:38:20
he was probably the hardest statement I
00:38:23
ever took it was hard for me to sit
00:38:26
there and listen to their child say some
00:38:28
of the things she said yeah what do you
00:38:32
talk to your to your mom to me he would
00:38:38
say to make up a story to my mom or dad
00:38:41
and he would meet me somewhere
00:38:50
officer Porter began to go through
00:38:52
malaise personal files she was hoping
00:38:54
that the alleged molestation of the girl
00:38:56
was an isolated incident
00:38:58
apparently it was not if your honor
00:39:02
please considering the serious gravity
00:39:05
of these offenses on September 27th 1985
00:39:08
Charles moulay was indicted on over 25
00:39:11
counts relating to the molestation and
00:39:13
rape of six young girls in fact that the
00:39:16
defendant has no prior record in his
00:39:18
service to the community in the past
00:39:21
muley was released on 150 thousand
00:39:23
dollars bail he adamantly denied all of
00:39:26
the charges eight months later on May
00:39:35
11th 1986 meal a was reported missing it
00:39:38
was a morning of his trial two days
00:39:41
later his pickup truck was found
00:39:43
abandoned on the past Manchac bridge the
00:39:46
initial assumption was that he had taken
00:39:47
his life rather than face the ordeal of
00:39:50
a public trial
00:39:54
I was one of the first officers to show
00:39:56
up at the scene of that when the truck
00:39:58
was located
00:39:59
it was my gut feeling at that time that
00:40:02
no he had not jumped had not committed
00:40:04
suicide
00:40:06
of course you have to go on more than
00:40:09
God feeling so we had to drag the lake
00:40:12
the Sheriff's Department spent several
00:40:14
days searching the Bayou Manchac lead in
00:40:17
the hopes of finding Malays body
00:40:20
tributaries and back waters were also
00:40:23
searched as there was a chance the body
00:40:24
might have washed ashore nothing was
00:40:27
found
00:40:31
two days later an anonymous phone call
00:40:34
was made to the Sheriff's Department the
00:40:37
person told them that his suicide note
00:40:39
signed by moulay had been left in a
00:40:41
service station restroom five miles away
00:40:44
from where the pickup had been found the
00:40:48
letter read in part I was not guilty of
00:40:51
any of these charges they have
00:40:54
persecuted me for no reason
00:40:56
please forgive me for what I have done
00:41:00
there is no way you can convince me that
00:41:03
Charlie Mew like mid suicide I do not
00:41:08
believe that at all I did not believe it
00:41:11
the day the note was found I did not
00:41:18
believe the note at all
00:41:20
I believed that the note was part of the
00:41:24
game that Charlie's playing and he's
00:41:27
been playing since he left here whatever
00:41:28
the rest of it is
00:41:33
the day after the discovery of the
00:41:36
suicide note a fisherman believed he saw
00:41:38
a mule a emerging from the swamp this
00:41:42
was closely followed by another sighting
00:41:43
in this case the witness was fired upon
00:41:46
by a man dressed in hospital clothes a
00:41:49
favorite outfit of Malays just later
00:41:56
when he made his report to the police he
00:41:59
picked out Charles mule a as the person
00:42:00
who shot him that's it right there
00:42:02
that's number five we were convinced
00:42:05
more than ever that Charles was alive
00:42:06
that he was in this area and he had not
00:42:10
moved far from this area almost two
00:42:21
years after mule A's disappearance
00:42:23
another anonymous tip led police to a
00:42:25
traitor near a local swamp they had been
00:42:27
told that relay was in some
00:42:39
authorities believe that mule a was
00:42:41
tipped off by some of his former police
00:42:43
associates
00:42:44
I think somebody told him we were coming
00:42:47
in the law-enforcement community I think
00:42:50
a notifying that we were looking at him
00:42:52
that we were close to him and then he
00:42:53
write of course Charlie was a policeman
00:42:57
too so he is aware of the way policemen
00:43:02
handle a case surveillance and so forth
00:43:05
and so on Charlie did a lot of
00:43:06
surveillance looking back at it now I
00:43:11
think that he enjoyed working undercover
00:43:13
so much that right now he's just playing
00:43:16
undercover game but now it's real form
00:43:18
before he was playing the police officer
00:43:21
working on the curve but now he has to
00:43:24
go undercover so I think he's enjoying
00:43:26
it almost three years of passed since me
00:43:34
lay disappeared police believe he may be
00:43:36
hiding in the swampland near Slidell
00:43:38
living a solitary Rambo like existence I
00:43:44
think Charlie enjoys the thrill the
00:43:47
chase he enjoys the game and Charlie
00:43:52
always needs to win the game I don't
00:43:56
want him to win this time he doesn't
00:43:58
have the right to win this time
00:44:01
Oh Charles mule a has been captured
00:44:05
within minutes of our July broadcast the
00:44:08
FBI received several calls from viewers
00:44:10
who reported the mule a was living in
00:44:12
Ocala Florida
00:44:13
30 miles south of Gainesville under the
00:44:16
assumed name Joseph John Tran chena mule
00:44:20
a had seen our broadcast left the Ocala
00:44:22
area for approximately three weeks when
00:44:25
he returned on August 3rd he was
00:44:27
arrested by FBI agents and Marion County
00:44:30
Florida sheriff's deputies
00:44:47
for every mystery there is someone
00:44:49
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
00:44:52
that someone is watching perhaps it's
00:44:54
you
00:44:58
[Music]
00:45:20
[Applause]
00:45:24
[Music]
