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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries Christy mfield Todd Kelly and
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mafus Huck all three were players in a
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toret lovers triangle that led to
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murder a burning truck turns out to be a
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trap and now the ghost of the murder
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victim is haunting the scene of the
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crime in the Arizona desert a pass
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passenger train crashes the result of
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sabotage 60 years earlier another train
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had been derailed is there a
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connection and a rape victim turns her
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personal trauma into an amazing ability
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to sketch criminals from eyewitness
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accounts five compelling Mysteries some
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just waiting to be solved I'm Dennis
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finina join us
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Hamilton
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Indiana early in the morning Christy
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mfield arrived at the home of her
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boyfriend only to flee in Terror moments
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later I saw him laying on the floor and
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I screamed his name I could just I could
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just see just by looking at him that
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that something was very wrong wasn't
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right Christy's boyfriend Todd was dead
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he had been stabbed seven times in the
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chest back and wrist Christy was in
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shock just hours earlier the two lovers
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had been here
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together investigator spoke with
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Christie and learned that she was at the
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very center of a love triangle she had
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been involved with both Todd and another
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man christe's other lover was now the
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prime suspect in Todd's
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murder Christy met Todd Kelly during
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their junior year in high school it was
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love at first sight especially for
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Todd after graduation he asked me to
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marry him I know I guess I said no I
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said I really wasn't ready I thought
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there was other things I really wanted
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to do right now
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and that's pretty much where we broke it
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off right
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there the next fall Christy enrolled in
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a small College just 7 miles from
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Hamilton she soon began dating a student
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named mafus
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Huck he was very outgoing very energetic
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he was interested in what I had to say
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and he was interested in what I thought
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and what I believed
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in but MAFO was not what he seemed to be
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shortly after he met Christie he was
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arrested for three separate
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robberies and one of them he stole
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$100,000 worth of jewelry from his own
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ant after he was arrested and he had to
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go on house arrest he uh became very
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possessive and he said that if he ever
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saw me with anybody else that he would
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probably kill him and then kill me
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a few months later Christy rekindled her
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romance with Todd but mafus who lived
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nearby did not back
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off the day before the murder Todd was
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at the home of a friend when mafus
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showed up
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unexpectedly what can I do for you the
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asked out if he was going to quit seeing
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her and T told him no she told me she's
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in love with me their voices were never
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raised or nothing like that they shook
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hands I mean and really just it seemed
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like it was pretty much all over and
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done with you
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know 36 hours later Todd was dead and
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his house was swarming with police
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authorities determined that he had been
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murdered around 3:15
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a.m. investigators immediately noticed
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that the crime scene had been tampered
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with Stacy is this where you found the
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body yeah Todd's Body had been cleaned
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up and then moved into the living room
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from another part of the house upon
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further checking into the house we
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noticed that there were no sheets on the
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bed in the
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bedroom uh we also discovered a spot
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where there was blood on the floor in
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the bedroom it was very hard to find
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this at first because it had been wiped
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clean two eyewitnesses told Poli they
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had seen mafus between 11:00 p.m. and
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1:00 a.m. on the night of the murder he
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had been walking barefoot in the
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direction of Todd's
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house you want to get married at that
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very same moment Christy and Todd were
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together inside I thought you wanted to
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when uh we were in bed I heard noises
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outside who's that what thought say it
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was probably just a dog cuz he had a dog
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tied up about back and he there was
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nothing to worry about it was getting
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kind of late and I told him I had to go
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home because I hadn't hadn't really been
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home home in quite a while and I knew my
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father would be upset so uh so we left
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and he said he was going to stay up all
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night and he wanted to get something to
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drink Christy says that at 2:30 a.m. she
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and Todd drove into town she believes
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mafus entered the house while they were
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gone we drove back to my to his house
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and um said goodbye in the car and they
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gave me a kiss I forget to come
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back Christy says she dropped hot back
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at his house around 300 a.m. the coroner
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determined that he was murdered just 15
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minutes
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later at 4:30 a.m. MAFO called Christie
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from his parents' home 10 mil away
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hey morning what time is it 2 hours
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later he showed up in her bedroom
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according to Christie she had broken off
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the relationship for good not knowing
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what he had done hope you're
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happy excuse
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me I hope you have a happy life it kind
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of scared me the tone of voice he I said
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excuse me he says I hope you have a
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happy life and then he walked out
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at first glance it seemed like an open
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and shut
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case mafus hu had murdered Todd Kelly in
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a fit of jealous rage and
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fled but Todd Kelly's family noticed
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some inconsistencies in christe's story
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they think she knows much more than
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she's saying according to all the
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evidence that we have dug up and the
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evidence that the police have there is
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no way that she was not there she had to
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be there during the
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murder when Todd and christe returned
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home and they probably started making
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love and mafus waited in the
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bushes when he saw what was happening
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that's when his jealousy took over and
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he could no longer control himself and
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decided to finish the
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ACT what was that what when Christy said
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she heard the noise it was MAFO coming
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in the door
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I do believe at that point mafus
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convinced her to help him cover up the
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murder I don't know why they want to
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blame me I mean I know T I had our
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hardships and I hurt him and he hurt me
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the possibility of an accomplice is pure
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speculation at this point in time
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there's no hard evidence it amazes me
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how a man could alone could clean up
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that entire room clean up the entire
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messy he made move the body entirely
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clean the body and also walk all the way
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back home in the amount of time that
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they had reported receiving another
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phone call he had to have some
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help the Kelly Family believes that
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christe actually gave mafus a ride home
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they also question her statement about
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what happened when she returned to
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Todd's house at 7: that morning Christy
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claims that she did not immediately
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notice Todd's Body when she returned yet
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it was lying right at the front door
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we're not accusing Christie the only
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problem is is we feel that there's some
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inconsistencies in the things that she
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has told us um we've asked chrisy uh for
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a polygraph
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examination and she has refused to do
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that Tod's family they've just
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they've they've been very hard on me
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from the beginning they um they harassed
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me they accused me unjustly accused me
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of of
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everything they wouldn't even let me go
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to his
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funeral I I realize they're hurting and
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I and I don't think that they realize
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that I'm hurting
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too mafus Huck is still the prime
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suspect he was last known to be in
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Bangladesh but authorities believe he
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travels to to the United States
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frequently Huck is 5' 10 in tall and
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weighs
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approximately 160 lb he has a dark
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complexion with brown eyes and black
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hair
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update mafus hu has finally been
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captured and American officials have
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petitioned for his return here's one of
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our staff with details after hiding out
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in Bangladesh and India for 24 years
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mafus Huck was extra inded to the US he
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pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40
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years in
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prison next a family in Florida claims
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the ghost of a murder victim has
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returned to haunt the scene of the
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crime for several months June Ferris had
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the same disturbing dream about a
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strange house that she had never even
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seen I would come out of the bedroom go
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out into the
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hallway and I would turn to the right
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and go down the narrow
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staircase I knew the house had a front
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staircase but I never used the front
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staircase in the dream it was always the
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back and I would turn to the left and go
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through the
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kitchen around refrigerator and stove
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that were on the one
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wall I had a feeling of anxiety that
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something was going to happen that I
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should know
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about and I would go out the kitchen
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door onto the
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porch and that's where I would wake
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up and I suppose that uh this dream
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continued maybe once a month until we
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moved to Orlando four years later
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after June and her family moved to
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Florida she was driving through the
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small town of Claremont when a
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particular house caught her attention
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this is great she returned with a friend
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for a closer
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look soon after entering June
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experienced an eerie
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sensation we went through the downstairs
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and went up the front
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staircase and I had a feeling of I guess
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you would say deja Vu I had definitely
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been here before oh and look more stairs
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I wonder where they
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go I know where they
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go they go down through the kitchen so
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as we walk through the house it
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definitely was the same house of the
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dream and I knew every room in the house
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every closet where everything was it it
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was it was just a real unusual
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experience
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not scary it was a good feeling it was a
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feeling like I had come
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home June her husband and three of their
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children moved into the old house almost
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immediately odd things began to happen
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my father had brought the boat out on
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the trailer and the trailer hitch was on
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a saw horse type stand and it looked as
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if if someone had reached over picked
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the trailer hitch up and just dropped it
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on the ground Robin what are you doing
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do
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it it happened several times again
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afterwards it was so fast that you
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really wanted to think to yourself did I
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really see that did that really
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happen over the next few years the
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strange events became more frequent
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the music boxes coming on really assured
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me that we definitely had a ghost in
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that
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house but the switches were not on they
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were just wound up and they were playing
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all of them were playing and I felt like
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we did before then but it wasn't scary
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to me anymore it was kind of
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fascinating June's younger daughter Lori
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and her boyfriend Bob had another
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strange experience
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just my
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mom I heard something with boots come
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through the kitchen not your mother and
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walk down the hallway and stop in the
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opening going into the Parlor and I had
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feeling that whatever it was was
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standing right there watching
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us and the sound of its boots continued
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down the hallway and I followed it and
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at that point I was really very very
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scared
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I never encountered anything like that I
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was just so terrified I couldn't even
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move I was a firm disbeliever in ghost
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but after everything that's happened to
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me in that house there is such a thing
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as ghosts and there is a ghost in that
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house everyone was convinced the house
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was haunted but no one had actually seen
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a ghost yet
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I was walking up the stairway in the
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foyer of the house I felt a cold chill
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almost like when you open your freezer
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in the hot
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summertime it was just like a vape or
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just like a cloud of smoke kind of you
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know it's there and then it's gone but
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it was very definite it was very
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definitely a
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person 3 months later Lor's boyfriend
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Bob had another ghostly
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encounter I was upstairs preparing to
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paint paint I uh opened the attic door
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and there in front of me was a a white
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Vapor almost in the shape of a
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human and as I took another step forward
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this Vapor came at me and it went right
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through
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me Bob checked out old
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newspapers he was surprised to discover
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that the previous owner of the house had
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been gunned down in his own backyard
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the victim's name was John Harden and
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Bob began to believe that he was their
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ghost Bob learned that on the night John
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Harden was killed he was awakened by a
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disturbance
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outside his pickup truck was on fire
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Harden was shot once in the chest with a
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single barrel
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shotgun he died less than an hour
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later it was later determined that the
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fire had been deliberately set and no
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one was ever
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arrested had to have been a motive we
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could have proceeded with the case
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investigation a lot better there was
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several things that was brought to our
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attention but they uh was never a firm
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motive
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established could John Harden Spirit be
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haunting his former home there do seem
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to be similarities between The Ghost and
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the man
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himself according to his first wife
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Harden was a loving and overprotective
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parent when our children were little
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Johnny would be very concerned about
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them always going to the other room to
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check them even as they got older was
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always
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concerned the feris family believes that
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the spirit in their house has the same
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nurturing attitude apparently he was
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very fond of children and babies because
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my grandson had an experience with
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him he would wake up and see this man
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standing over his bed and of course that
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would scare the beas out of me Mom Mom
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and it happened several times until
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Robin went into the room one night
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before Raymond went to
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sleep and uh she spoke to The Ghost and
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she said please do not come back in this
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room anymore and please leave raymon
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alone and after that uh he didn't come
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back or at least if he did Raymond
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didn't wake
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up when June Ferris learned the details
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of John Harden's life and death she saw
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a startling connection with the dream
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that had bothered her for
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years when I first learned that John
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Harden came down the back stairs into
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the kitchen and out the back door which
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was the same path that I took in my
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dreams I felt like there was something
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there that I should know maybe if the
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dream had continued I would have learned
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something that there was a link and in
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some way he's trying to tell us what
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happened to him him and even help us
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find the
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killer the ferris family eventually
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moved out of the old mansion the new
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owners also told Tales of a Restless
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Spirit roaming the Halls at night as for
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the murder of John Harden Florida police
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reopened his case but it has never been
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solved coming up a sabotaged train in
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the Arizona desert and its Eerie
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resemblance to a train wreck 50 years
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earlier and next a veteran wounded in
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Vietnam is searching for the GI who
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saved his
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life we're going to take a little run in
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1964 Mitchell shimoto made it through a
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rigorous training course and joined a
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prestigious Airborne Division of the
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army
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the next year Mitchell and his unit were
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transferred to Vietnam here within the
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ranks of his own Army Mitchell ran into
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a strange bias because he looks so much
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like the enemy move on Jeb hey you got a
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problem yeah I don't serve
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zipperheads let's go you want to go come
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on come on hey what's the problem why
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don't you just do your job and serve the
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soldier all right just relax
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one soldier James Pearson stood up for
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Mitchell Mitchell and James had become
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best friends when they were stationed in
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okanawa they were sent to Vietnam
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together once on the ground their unit
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ran into heavy
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gunfire when Mitchell caught a bullet in
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the thigh James came to the r
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turn there was one sniper that was
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keying in on us James took a position
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right in front of me just like he was
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trying to block off the shots you know
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James actually saved my
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life what I say to him I said James I
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never had a chance to thank you
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personally I want to thank you now I
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really appreciate everything that he did
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for
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me James and another the soldier left
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the firing line to carry Mitchell to
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safety a few weeks later Mitchell was
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sent home to Hawaii he never saw James
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Pearson again until his story aired on
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Unsolved
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Mysteries on the night of our broadcast
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one of our viewers retired lieutenant
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colonel Truman plants was deeply moved
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he took it upon himself to track down
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James Pearson and found him in Chicago
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we arranged a reunion for the two
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veterans and their
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families the two buddies saw each other
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for the first time in 30
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years
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M how you doing great God it's great to
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see you great to see you K the
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te I wasn't going to leave him out there
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alone under those condition I couldn't
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have did it were regulations premitted
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it uh rules PRM not I just couldn't have
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did
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it it took a lot from a from a real
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special person to do something like
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that and my wife she you know when she
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heard that story she she made it a point
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to try to locate him with no success
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until you we found you guys
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that's my next for James and Mitchell
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the joy of being reunited is impossible
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to
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describe they haven't come up with that
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word
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yet when they come up with that word
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I'll write you and let you know but
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there's no word for this feeling you
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know for for right now they haven't come
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up with that
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word James is retired now and lives in
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Chicago Mitchell is still working at the
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Navy shipyard at Pearl Harbor despite
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the distance they still keep in touch
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their friendship will never
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die one October night 60 Mi Southwest of
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Phoenix Amtrak Sunset limited passenger
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train jumped the track at 50 m an
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hour four cars plunged more than 30 ft
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off a Trestle into a dry rivered one
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person was killed scores were injured
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the cause of the wreck was
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sabotage when we arrived at the scene it
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was apparent that someone had tampered
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with the rails the investigation
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determined that 29 spikes were removed
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purposely removed and not only were the
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spikes removed but someone had pushed
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the rail inside so that the two rails
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were not
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connected a additional evidence
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convinced authorities that the sabot
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knew a lot about railroads the signal
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circuits electrical wires that run
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through the track had been kept intact
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that meant the train crew had no warning
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that there was a problem with the rails
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the FBI believes that they picked that
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particular spot in order to create the
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most damage and possibly the most
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injuries or
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death the train was going about 50 mph
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it's on a curve
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and it occurred right before
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Trestle investigators soon discovered
00:26:04
many similarities to another Act of
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sabotage more than a half a century
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before in
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1939 24 people were killed
00:26:14
and7 injured in another suspicious train
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wreck in the Nevada desert the most
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mysterious connection between both
00:26:22
accidents is the fact that the sabotage
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was done ahead of a bridge in a desert
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country of remote location there was
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definitely care in advance that the
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wires were intact at all
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times merely moving one piece of metal
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in this case one rail a matter of less
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than 4 in allowed both trains to carine
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off on the curve as they crossed the
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river and uh the damage
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occurred curiously the story of the 1939
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crash had been published in a journal
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for train Buffs shortly before the the
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Amtrak accident federal agents
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questioned many of the readers but came
00:27:03
up empty-handed investigators have just
00:27:06
one other concrete clue near the
00:27:09
accident site FBI agents found four
00:27:12
copies of a computer printed letter
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attacking the federal government it was
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signed sons of the
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gapo we have not been able to determine
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uh the existence of such a group but
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we're still trying to investigate uh to
00:27:30
determine whether or not that is a red
00:27:32
herring to try to throw us off the
00:27:34
investigation or whether or not that
00:27:36
particular group
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exists the one person killed in the
00:27:40
crash was a sleeping car attendant named
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Mitchell Bates whoever is responsible
00:27:46
for this tragic wreck will be charged
00:27:48
with murder as well as
00:27:51
sabotage if you have any information
00:27:54
please log on to our website at
00:27:56
unsolved.com
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next over 1,000 criminals have been
00:28:03
arrested because of this sketch artist
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incredible
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Talent you're about to meet a police
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sketch artist whose drawings are
00:28:21
amazingly accurate Lois Gibson is her
00:28:24
name and her sketches have resulted in
00:28:27
the arrest of more than 1,000 criminals
00:28:30
but Lois's Story Goes far beyond
00:28:33
artistic talent she herself was the
00:28:36
victim of a vicious
00:28:45
crime Lois Gibson has been a police
00:28:47
sketch artist in Texas for more than 20
00:28:51
years now for the easy part just relax
00:28:54
to be able to look through the eyes of
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the victim I think you have to have a
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lot of empathy you have to be in their
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shoes and I've gotten real good at that
00:29:03
and I empathize greatly well you know I
00:29:07
know people Lois's ability to relate to
00:29:09
a victim of crime comes from an incident
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that happened when she was a young
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aspiring actress in Los
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Angeles listen can I call you back some
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isit my door okay all right
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okay yeah who is it
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oh
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hey what's going on a man pretending to
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be a neighbor pushed his way into her
00:29:35
who are you look like you need a little
00:29:38
he immediately started choking me he
00:29:40
went to my throat and just almost
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snapped my head off the ass salent
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sexually assaulted Lo and nearly
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strangled her to death before
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flame she never reported the assault
00:29:53
because she was overwhelmed with shame I
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was so destroyed I couldn't even walk
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out of my
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apartment and the idea that I would
00:30:01
actually tell anybody was ridiculous it
00:30:04
was absurd it was
00:30:07
undoable 6 weeks later an amazing
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coincidence
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happened I drove up this street that I
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didn't mean to drive up and then when I
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got to the top of this winding Hill I
00:30:19
looked on a balcony and I saw that guy
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that attacked me you filthy pigs I know
00:30:25
my rights neighborhood look at everybody
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what are you looking I got to see
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Justice and that's when I fell in love
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with what police
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do following her attack Lois moved to
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San Antonio got married and had a family
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she continued to keep her traumatic
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memories to
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herself as an outlet she began to
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develop her talent for
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art it would become her answer to the
00:30:52
rage she felt when confronted by crime
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so business is good I was over visi on
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my girlfriend and they came on the news
00:31:01
talking about a dance instructor who had
00:31:05
been raped in front of her 11 and
00:31:06
12-year-old
00:31:08
students God that's horrible I had these
00:31:12
vicious feelings I couldn't stand it and
00:31:14
then all of a sudden in less than a
00:31:15
second it hit me and I told her Diane I
00:31:18
could draw that guy that would help the
00:31:20
cops catch him and if they did I knew in
00:31:23
my mind I didn't tell her that would
00:31:25
make me healed that would would heal up
00:31:29
my bad feelings from my
00:31:31
attack but Lois realized she needed to
00:31:34
prove to herself and the police that she
00:31:37
could draw someone only from an
00:31:39
eyewitness description so a friend of
00:31:41
hers went to a nearby gas station looked
00:31:44
at the attendant and then returned to
00:31:46
describe the man to a lot harder than I
00:31:49
thought it was and all of a sudden I
00:31:50
started relieving my attack and I
00:31:52
realized I needed to be able to do this
00:31:55
really bad and that it was going to kill
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me if if I couldn't do
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it the two women brought the sketch to
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the gas station and compared it to the
00:32:04
attendant it matched
00:32:09
perfectly the Houston Police Department
00:32:12
decided to give Lois a
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shot the results were
00:32:17
astounding her sketches have helped
00:32:20
capture suspects in 30% of the cases she
00:32:23
worked on over 1,000 criminals have been
00:32:27
arrested
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the drawings that Lois uh has done in
00:32:32
the past for us have proven to be
00:32:34
extremely accurate it is almost uncanny
00:32:37
the resemblance that the composite
00:32:40
carries to the actual physical
00:32:42
appearance of the individuals that we
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have
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arrested Lois's sketches are
00:32:48
significantly different than the ones
00:32:50
that you traditionally see there's a
00:32:53
three-dimensional depth there it's like
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Lois is seeing the suspect just the way
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the victim
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did Lois was called in to help with a
00:33:04
case that involved the Abduction of Two
00:33:07
Brothers Jason and Philip
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Bowmer gentlemen gentlemen excuse us
00:33:14
excuse how you guys doing the boys were
00:33:16
at a shopping mall when they were
00:33:17
approached by two well-dressed men who
00:33:20
said they had a computer to sell
00:33:22
cheap the men LED them to a van in the
00:33:25
mall's parking lot get in the van get
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at gunpoint Jason was forced into the
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back seat of the van and philli into the
00:33:36
front the kidnappers then headed for the
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freeway a lot of stuff goes through your
00:33:42
mind when you're sitting there with a
00:33:44
gun at you how you going to get out of
00:33:46
the situation or what that's basically
00:33:49
main thing that was in my head how am I
00:33:50
going to get out of this as the van
00:33:52
approached 70 mph the brothers became
00:33:56
convinced they were going to die both
00:33:59
felt there was only one thing to do hey
00:34:02
hey hey what are you
00:34:05
doing they both hit the freeway shoulder
00:34:08
with devastating Force Philip suffered
00:34:11
cuts and asphalt burns from head to toe
00:34:14
Jason's collar bone was shattered and
00:34:16
his leg was severely
00:34:22
fractured shortly after being released
00:34:24
from the hospital Jason sat down for a
00:34:27
session
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with Lois Gibson I don't know if I going
00:34:31
to be able to pick out different eyes I
00:34:34
tell the witnesses immediately that
00:34:36
someone tried to kill me for fun so I
00:34:38
understand and they always like hearing
00:34:40
that what's the letter and number under
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my attack has turned into a tool to
00:34:44
relax my Witnesses and help them get
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Justice police are looking for these two
00:34:50
men in connection with the kidnapping
00:34:52
and attempted robbery of Jason and
00:34:55
Philip Bower
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if you have any information please log
00:35:00
on to our website at unsolved.com
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next patients put their faith in a
00:35:08
doctor and his wonder drug but both are
00:35:22
fakes Helen root packs her bags for a
00:35:25
trip to the Dominican Republic sounds
00:35:28
like you're in good hands but she is not
00:35:30
headed for a tropical vacation she's on
00:35:32
a mission to save her
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life I had third stage colon cancer and
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the whole right side of my colon was
00:35:42
removed they wanted me to have uh 6
00:35:45
months of
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chemotherapy and I did chose not to have
00:35:50
that and I look was looking for an
00:35:52
alternative so Helen and her husband
00:35:55
William mortgaged their home for $40
00:35:57
,000 that's what they needed for the
00:36:00
experimental drug
00:36:07
therapy a friend told them about Dr
00:36:10
kaplinger in the Dominican Republic on
00:36:14
his resume was a long list of medical
00:36:16
schools including Harvard
00:36:20
University Klinger's remedy a drug
00:36:23
called Imus could supposedly fight
00:36:25
cancer AIDS and
00:36:28
hepatitis in Santo Domingo this drug did
00:36:31
not need FDA
00:36:36
approval at first Helen was not
00:36:39
impressed by Klinger's facility right
00:36:41
down here is Dr caplinger's office but
00:36:43
within a few hours she was relieved to
00:36:45
finally meet the doctor she had heard so
00:36:48
much about nice to meet you nice to meet
00:36:51
you he looked very professional and very
00:36:54
caring and very concerned about my
00:36:57
condition
00:36:58
and so I thought well finally I'm going
00:37:00
to get some good help here it could
00:37:03
become malignant and Klinger said his
00:37:07
review of her file revealed a small
00:37:10
tumor that needed aggressive
00:37:14
treatment because of the degrees that he
00:37:16
had because of his background I thought
00:37:20
I was in excellent
00:37:23
hands hello 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning
00:37:26
and it's my husband
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on the phone almost hysterical saying
00:37:31
Helen you've got to come home that man
00:37:35
is not a
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doctor Helen's husband discovered that
00:37:40
kaplinger was a fugitive wanted by the
00:37:43
FBI and his cure all drug probably just
00:37:47
a combination of illegal steroids
00:37:50
vitamins and
00:37:54
amphetamines kaplinger was a medical
00:37:56
impostor he had more phony credentials
00:37:59
than any other medical impostor in
00:38:02
history kinker is a conman because he
00:38:06
plays on the people that are dying he
00:38:08
plays on their families he gives them
00:38:11
that one last hope to live takes their
00:38:14
money and provides very little care he
00:38:18
never went to any medical school he got
00:38:20
some of his
00:38:22
papers by sending money to British
00:38:25
diploma Mills that
00:38:28
simply issued them when they got his
00:38:31
money Dr Barrett has created an
00:38:34
extensive website dedicated to Medical
00:38:37
scams that's how Helen's husband learned
00:38:40
the disturbing truth about
00:38:43
Klinger when I heard that he was a fraud
00:38:45
I feared for her life there she is down
00:38:47
there all by herself I thought boy how's
00:38:50
she going to handle this she doesn't
00:38:51
speak any Spanish she doesn't know
00:38:54
anyone and now her friends or the
00:38:58
enemy what could be more important than
00:39:01
your life he said there's no emergency
00:39:04
at home that's more important Helen than
00:39:08
your health I can save your life I think
00:39:12
you're making a great
00:39:14
mistake Helen
00:39:16
insisted the next day kaplinger agreed
00:39:19
to return half of the $40,000 payment
00:39:23
she
00:39:25
made years after her ordeal Helen is
00:39:29
cancer-free but she's one of the lucky
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ones in many many cases they'd never
00:39:35
make it out of of the Dominican Republic
00:39:37
most of them many of them died
00:39:39
there Linda and Dave cernon also put
00:39:43
their faith in kaplinger Dave was
00:39:46
suffering from hepatitis C and could not
00:39:48
get a liver
00:39:50
transplant so they decided to use
00:39:53
Linda's inheritance and go to Santo
00:39:56
Domingo I'm Mrs cernon and I'm here to
00:39:59
check in my husband Dave the money that
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we had to come up with you know was
00:40:02
worth every penny because Dave wanted to
00:40:05
live we would have done anything in
00:40:07
which we did do everything we could and
00:40:09
by going down there I felt like you know
00:40:11
it was an answer from
00:40:14
God Dave was hooked up to an IV for 6 to
00:40:17
8 hours a day and on alternating days he
00:40:20
received vitamins the other days was a
00:40:23
clear liquid that we were told that was
00:40:25
the Imus stem
00:40:28
Dr kaplinger assured us that Dave's
00:40:30
chances of living were very very good
00:40:34
kaplinger was lying Dave's condition got
00:40:38
worse well with mu stem things actually
00:40:41
get worse before they can get better Dr
00:40:43
kaplinger reassured me that a lot of
00:40:46
times a patient will go downhill before
00:40:49
the drug really kicks in before the
00:40:50
vitamins really kick in before the
00:40:53
treatment really produces extravagant
00:40:55
results
00:40:57
look I'm going to go
00:40:59
home want to see
00:41:02
John Dave hadn't been strong enough to
00:41:04
get out of bed for weeks but Linda
00:41:08
wanted to get him home to see his
00:41:10
son we realized we had made a mistake at
00:41:13
this point and we were going home and we
00:41:17
left when we got to Santa Domingo Dave
00:41:21
was weak but he was walking he was
00:41:24
eating at the end of 6 weeks my Dave
00:41:27
could not stand he could not eat he
00:41:30
could not even talk to me he was too
00:41:32
weak to even hold a
00:41:34
phone Dave cernon died just 24 hours
00:41:38
after returning to the United States I
00:41:42
very much believe Dr kaplinger killed my
00:41:46
husband
00:41:48
update after avoiding arrest for 2 years
00:41:51
Gregory kaplinger turned himself in to
00:41:54
Dominican Republic officials he was
00:41:57
brought to the US for
00:41:59
trial it is estimated that Gregory
00:42:02
kaplinger swindled over a million dollar
00:42:05
from patients and investors at his trial
00:42:09
he was convicted of Fraud and is
00:42:11
currently serving a 14e sentence
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