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tonight on unsolved mysteries responding
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to a routine call Lufkin Texas
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firefighters made a gruesome discovery
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the partially burned body of a young
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woman was tied to her own bed
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authorities now need your help to find
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the murderer of 26 year old Megan Kerik
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it was a brazen crime spree committed by
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an unlikely suspect that left three dead
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bodies in his wake in 1970 18 year-old
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Margo freshwater was convicted of murder
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but she escaped custody
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she has abated authorities for more than
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three decades and tonight a shocking new
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development an apparent drowning cause
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of suspicion for the suppose a victim
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turns out to be a man awaiting trial for
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rape authorities need your help to
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determine if Strider starfire is dead or
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alive a man and a woman inexplicably
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vanished in America's heartland the
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massive search for the Peris failed to
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turn up anything except for a single
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bizarre clue
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growing up Virginia burns never knew
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that her father had a hidden secret the
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previous marriage and another daughter
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mal Virginia and her sister are finally
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together and thanks to you our viewers
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join me for these stories of intrigue
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and deception prime ingredients unsolved
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mysteries
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four am Lufkin Texas awakened by the
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smell of smoke an apartment resident
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investigates flames are raging out of
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control in a unit on the second floor
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the man immediately calls 911 Fire
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Department arise within minutes with
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hoses drawn the firefighters waste no
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time racing to the apparent source of
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the blaze apartment six one six is
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locked requiring a forced entry to be
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made
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the fire is confined to the bedroom of
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the small apartment as firefighters
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extinguished the blaze a chilling sight
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is revealed tied to the posts of the bed
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is a charred body of a woman homicide
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investigators are immediately called in
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she had been suffocated with a plastic
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bag and her throat had been cut very
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deeply two different cuts one on each
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side and then the bed had been set afire
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this crime was absolutely the meanest
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thing I've ever seen one person do to
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another dental records would identify
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the victim as apartment resident Megan
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curl the 26 year-old woman who worked at
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a local chicken processing plant and
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have been a Lufkin resident for five
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years investigators continue to face a
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perplexing question who could commit
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such grisly acts on this well-liked
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young woman Megan curl was born into a
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military family younger brothers Josh
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and Sean soon followed in first grade
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Megan was diagnosed with mild
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retardation requiring that she attends
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special education classes her life was
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never really easy she wasn't always
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accepted
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people would make fun of her put her
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down and she'd always come back with a
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kind word for them when Megan was in
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high school her family settled in Lufkin
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175 miles southeast of Dallas Megan
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would marry at 18 and moved to Arkansas
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but according to Sherri McClung that
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marriage was abusive when they separated
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Megan returned to Lufkin and insisted on
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getting her own apartment because Megan
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was so trusting and was so outgoing she
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tended to be an easy target for some of
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these men men who are accustomed to
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looking for women who could be easy prey
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absolutely could tell that Megan wanted
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to please that Megan wanted somebody to
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care for her and that she was lonely and
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I think that that is part of what
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happened here Megan's mother suspicions
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maybe on the mark earlier on the night
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of her murder
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Megan curl went to the electric cowboy
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in a local nightclub she was seen
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talking with a man at the electric
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cowboy club and that man did buy her one
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or two drinks she talked with him off
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and on through the night at the club she
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wasn't with him the entire night no one
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at the club knew who this man was and no
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one reported ever seeing him there
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before our sense
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Megan loved to dance and sometimes her
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dancing was a little bit provocative
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particularly for that area of Texas
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she was asked to leave the club
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she went to another club called the
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sport Shack just a little ways down the
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road from the electric cowboy club she
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talked to some people there and caught a
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ride with an employee of the sport Shack
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home
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Megan arrived home just after 1:30 a.m.
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a close friend who lived in the same
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apartment complex was waiting up for
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Megan to hear the details of her night
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out Megan's friend requested that we
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alter her voice and protect her identity
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what was dead out there talking and all
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of a sudden there was this guy in his
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car and he was speeding really fast and
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he just did it did stop but instead of
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getting out the driver remained in the
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car then I says well cause the guy just
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sitting there I think I'm gonna go say
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hi to him yeah well you be careful okay
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okay as Megan's friend watched Megan
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approached the driver she seemed to
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recognize him they began to talk into
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the apartment to give me something to
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eat because I'm hungry and the one who
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went back out she was next time she was
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sitting inside the car and which you
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know each little thing I was getting
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more worried you know what she was doing
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I mean but I went back game again and I
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come back out the car was still there
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but neither one of them was there they
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were gone and I was like oh Lord
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Megan's friend was so concerned she went
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up to Megan's apartment to check on her
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she said hi she says I was robbed once
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my friend from the club and I looked
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down to him and he does nodded his head
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slowly didn't say a word and I didn't
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speak to him at all either
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and I says well are you sure you're okay
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and she says yes I'm fine okay
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that would be the last time she would
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see Megan alive when Megan curls body
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was found there was a remnant of a
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nightgown on her most of it had burned
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off in interviewing men from her past we
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learned that her normal sleeping attire
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would be something along the lines of
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shorts and a t-shirt but if she were
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going to be romantically involved she
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would sometimes wear negligee or
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nightgown we feel like because of that
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possibly she knew this person and was
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preparing for an intimate evening with
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them the very thought that Megan was
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killed by someone she trusted compounds
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Sherri McClung grief I believe that
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Megan knew who the murderer was because
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she got in the car with this person
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Megan would have gotten in the car with
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a person that she knew
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there was not a forced entry so this is
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someone that she led into the apartment
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and that she had trusted investigators
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question men with who Megan curl was
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known to have had relationships however
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each man was able to account for his
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whereabouts on the night of the murder
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this sketch is based on Megan's friends
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description of the man she saw with
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Megan in her apartment he is a prime
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suspect in the murder of Megan curl the
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man is white in his mid 20s to early 30s
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blond hair and a light mustache he wears
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gold rimmed glasses
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investigators would also like to find
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this man he was seen with Megan by the
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bartender at the electric cowboy club on
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the night she was murdered
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he is described as having a dark
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complexion and possibly being Hispanic
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this man is not viewed as a suspect
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investigators simply want to question
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him about what he may have seen on that
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night
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the year was 1970 Argo freshwater the
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blonde wide-eyed teenager from Columbus
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Ohio found herself in an unlikely place
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Tennessee State Prison for Women
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the one-time babysitter had just been
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convicted of first-degree murder but
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Marga would not remain incarcerated for
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long on October 4th Margo and another
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inmate made an audacious escape while
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being escorted by a single unarmed guard
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Margo under accomplice made a run for
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the fence the guard had to make a
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decision in order to stay with main
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route or chase fire all the guard could
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do was try to summon some help and have
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somebody go after
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Margeaux freshwater has not been seen
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since Marga freshwater has managed to
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elude capture for more than 30 years
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longer than any other woman wanted by
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the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
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police reason that she's blended back
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into the fabric of everyday life but
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Margo fresh waters a convicted killer
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with your help
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authorities hope to finally return her
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to jail
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how did Margot freshwater a young woman
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with no criminal background end up a
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murderer the story begins in the office
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of Glenn Nash a hard-drinking lawyer
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whose grip on sanity was beginning to
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slip Nash was being investigated by the
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Memphis Bar Association for legal
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misconduct he had come to the diluted
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conclusion that agents from the bar were
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conspiring against him Nash was an
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intelligent person but somewhere along
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the line is drinking and mental
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situation apparently deteriorated and he
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just took a left-hand turn
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Glenn - Marga freshwater Marga would
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come seeking Nash's help in getting her
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boyfriend out of jail who then took
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advantage of whom is open for debate in
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there well I'm here because of my
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boyfriend he's in the Memphis jail right
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now for armed robbery Margot was a young
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attractive blonde very good figure and
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Margo had two distinct ability to turn a
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man's head when she wouldn't walk by and
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I just drove down from Ohio to help him
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out
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I believe Margo or Shannon having a life
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experience especially with any kind of
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situation like this Margo has no money
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to pay Nash she couldn't even afford a
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place to stay while in town
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although broke himself Nash agreed to
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take the case pro bono
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he'll submit Margo up at a local
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boardinghouse the married 41 year old
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and the 18 year old then began a torrid
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affair but Nash was increasingly
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consumed by paranoid delusions of agents
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from the Memphis bar were after him one
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evening he told Margo's landlady they
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were going bowling instead a three state
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crime spree ensued I believe it Glenn
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Nash had lost touch with reality come on
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I think he was fantasizing that you go
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in and rob somebody and there wouldn't
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be any consequence that schroederd Margo
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to stay up front while he took the
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cashier to the back room a customer came
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into the store and later told
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investigators at Margo waited on him
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meanwhile Nash remained out of sight
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accusing the cashier of being an agent
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of the Memphis bar I seriously doubt
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Margo knew that any of this was coming
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until it gets started
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the cashier hillman Robbins was tied up
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with rope and shot five times in the
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head a 22 and 38 were both used in the
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murder he left behind a wife and two
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children witnesses saw two people
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matching Margo and Nash's description
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fleeing the liquor store and hopping
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into a white Ford Fairly 12 days later I
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witnessed a describe an almost identical
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scene at a Florida convenience store
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a couple exited the building has sped
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off on a Ford Fairlane inside the store
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was a body of s-sir boy she had been
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shot in the neck police at first did not
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connect the murders until they found
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Nash's car abandoned on a highway show
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in the trunk they found rope and bullet
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casings that match what was used in the
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Hillman Robyn's murder
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the car was traced to Glenn Nash an APB
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was issued but the couple's murderous
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rampage was not over a cab driver CC
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surrett was shot to death shortly after
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picking up Glenn and Margo the police
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staked out all the nearby bus stations
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their efforts soon paid off when they
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arrested him they were transported to
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Hernando Mississippi on the show to
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County Jail where they were charged in
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connection with CC syrettes murder
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Glenn Nash was declared insane ruled
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incompetent to stand trial and
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incarcerated at a mental hospital
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Margo stood trial for the murder of ceci
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surrett she testified that she was held
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prisoner by Nash and forced to
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participate in the crimes under threat
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of death investigator disagree over
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Marcos culpability in the crime spree
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take this place Margo fresh water my
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opinion was in a psychological condition
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where she wouldn't attempt to escape
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from Nash fearing being killed I don't
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think that fresh water was a victim in
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any way she had opportunity after
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opportunity to leave not commit these
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crimes but I think she enjoyed it
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the jury could not decide either and
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failed to reach a verdict twice three
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years later Marga was tried for the
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murder of the first victim hillman
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Robbins she was found guilty and
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sentenced to 99 years in state prison 18
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months later Margo and another inmate
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faith Fairchild scaled a barbed wire
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fence hitched a ride and disappeared
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once fy'y and Margo escaped they went
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from there to Baltimore Maryland
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Fay Fairchild was arrested in Chicago
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sometime later the last time Margo
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freshwater was seen was on street killer
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in Baltimore Maryland where she said her
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goodbyes to Fay in-phase nice and left
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after that Marga freshwater seems to
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have disappeared off the face of the
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earth I would say that she has changed
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her life around she is probably living
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as a mother or maybe even a grandmother
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at this time
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Margo committed a crime and she needs to
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spend her time in prison and serve that
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sentence
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update Margo freshwater has been caught
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police found her in Columbus Ohio living
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under the alias Tanya McCarter a married
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mother of three she was taken into
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custody outside that buddy club by Aegis
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for the Ohio Bureau of Investigation at
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the time freshwater was with her husband
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youngest son and grandchild none of whom
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were aware of her criminal past she said
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nothing and was surprisingly emotionless
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she then wanted to say goodbye to her
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son and husband and we allowed her to do
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that she first gave her son a hug and
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was clearly whispering in his ear and he
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started sobbing quite noticeably
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freshwater was reincarnated at the same
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Tennessee prison she escaped from 32
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years earlier
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Washington's Snake River
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before we get in
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after a late summer fishing trip Strider
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Starfire and another man headed for home
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as dusk approached concerns were raised
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about getting back before dark
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as the votes sped across the water
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Strider reach for a beer from an ice
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chest the boats driver heard his dog
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young and when he looked around Strider
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was gone
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never to be seen again
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the apparent accidental drowning of
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Strider Starfire has been in question
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ever since investigators quickly learn
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the Starfire had a murky past or may
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have had reason to disappear 10 days
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after he supposedly slipped and fell
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overboard Strider Starfire was due to
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stand trial in Roseburg Oregon one thing
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was certain this charming and
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charismatic man was not who he appeared
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to be Strider Starfire first surfaced in
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Oregon in the mid-1980s within weeks the
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enigmatic Starfire had met a local woman
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they fell in love and were soon married
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by the early 1990s the Starfire's had a
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son and daughter and has settled into a
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seemingly idyllic life in Roseburg
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Oregon the teenage daughter of a dear
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family friend was a frequent guest to
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the Starfire
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the girl visited so often that she
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became a second daughter to Strider in
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his wife and a beloved sister to their
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kids
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who ever spent any time with Strider
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eventually would fall under the spell of
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his incredible charisma meet him when
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his foxhole all right and were pinned
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down we can't get up and leave he often
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told romantic tales revolving around his
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suppose an exploit serving with special
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forces in Vietnam spying for the CIA
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fighting alongside the Irish Republican
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Army drag him drag to get to the man
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when he told us about being this Savior
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this crusader to help the little man to
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pull the the poor guy up by his boots
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and and give the underdog his day you
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tended to believe him he wove his
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stories very well so the reason why we
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call the clan of starfire he's bigger
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but there was one particular story even
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more fantastic than the other no no no
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Strider starfire claimed he was the last
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surviving member of a Scottish clan
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called the house of Ellen Star and he
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apparently had proof this is real
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Strider possessed a letter on a vast
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parchment stationery proclaiming him the
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sole heir to the clams fortune as a
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young friend grew up she continued to
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spend time with the Starfire's
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and Strider always made himself
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available to her he was a father figure
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when she had no father figure she had no
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qualms of believing and feeling safe
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with him because he'd always been safe
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so they needed I gotta tell you but
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according to the then 14 year old girl
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those feelings of trust insecurity were
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stolen from her one night in the
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Starfire home
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out of the blue he started to profess
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his love to me and told me he'd been in
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love with me for years that was it was a
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really terrifying moment after making
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his advance Strider starfire a married
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father of two allegedly seduced and then
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had sexual relations with the miner for
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more than a year the traumatized 14 year
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old would keep secret what had allegedly
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happened that night but Strider
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Starfire's carefully crafted persona had
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already begun to crumble according to
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his wife her suspicions that he was
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being unfaithful to her were confirmed
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the day he brought home an unexpected
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guest his new internet business partner
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I had been getting a little bit of rumor
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that there was more than just business
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going on between him and when they came
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home it was exceedingly obvious that
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they were being intimate
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you find Strider apparently stunned his
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wife by proposing it she welcomed this
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woman into their home as his second wife
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this was the last straw and within weeks
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she filed for divorce but it was not
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until after their divorce was fighting
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the Striders now former wife would
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apparently learned the true depth of his
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lies and deceit after Strider did that
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to me my life really spiraled out of
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control I couldn't make any friends at
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school so I quit going and I did a lot
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of drugs and I decided that I couldn't
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couldn't deal with it anymore she wrote
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a note saying she was running away with
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her boyfriend and she finally revealed
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the dark secret she said she'd been
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keeping
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Striders ex-wife then receive a
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disturbing call from the teenage girl's
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stepfather he said she left a note and
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in the note she states that Strider
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molested her no I just and I was torn
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between disbelief and belief the
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fifteen-year-old girl returned home
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safely the following day but Striders
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former wife was sickened by what he had
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allegedly done I was just overwhelmed
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with everything that had happened I just
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been through a whole time during the
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divorce of finding out that he wasn't
00:25:59
who he said he was that the last levan
00:26:01
years really had nothing to do with
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reality Strider Starfire was formally
00:26:07
indicted on felony rape and sexual
00:26:09
assault charges authorities would learn
00:26:11
from this fifteen-year-old that there
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may have been more secrets to uncover in
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the Starfire hole now when going over
00:26:18
her case she brought up another girl's
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name that she was aware was living there
00:26:25
at the house during that time she was
00:26:27
that's when and victim number two was
00:26:30
brought up in this years earlier victim
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number two as she became known had
00:26:37
become close to the Starfire family and
00:26:40
often babysat their children this
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alleged victim was just a ninth grader
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at the time she was first seduced by
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Strider Starfire gaming
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really she told authorities he had
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charmed her with fantastic tales of his
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Scottish inheritance and promises to
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make her his princess anything you want
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because you're the princess you get
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anything in the entire kingdom even
00:27:06
horses yeah yeah it's like he made the
00:27:10
fairy tale you know and strider really
00:27:13
created a fantasy world for a lot of
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people and for me it was the fantasy
00:27:18
that was sort of where I really wanted
00:27:19
to be in life not where I was no it
00:27:23
obviously wasn't just an isolated
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incident
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I had to come forward not only to give
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validity to the other girl's claims but
00:27:32
also just to try and prevent this from
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happening to somebody else
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these were classic cases of strider he's
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in his 40s
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obviously a mature adult been around
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quite a while these young girls haven't
00:27:47
he's learned to find these young girls
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that are in an emotional time in their
00:27:51
their life and he was zeroed right in on
00:27:55
and was able to manipulate them and do
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just what he's obviously probably done
00:28:02
before Strider Starfire was arrested and
00:28:06
released on his own recognizance while
00:28:08
awaiting trial
00:28:10
than just ten days before that trial was
00:28:13
due to begin starfire vanished we have a
00:28:16
lot of people come up missing or drowned
00:28:17
in the Snake River but I in my 13 years
00:28:20
experience I've never had one like this
00:28:23
the suspicions of investigators were
00:28:26
quickly around the Strider start fire
00:28:30
stage his own disappearance police found
00:28:33
it strange that the boat was dry it
00:28:35
didn't appear to have been used that day
00:28:37
all of fishing gear on board was clean
00:28:39
and neatly stowed away inside Starfire's
00:28:43
pickup truck investigators were
00:28:44
surprised to find a fishing license in
00:28:46
the name of Daniel chase which was
00:28:48
determined to be Starfire's legal name
00:28:50
they learned Striders start fire was
00:28:53
only an alias one of two he was known to
00:28:55
use some knew him by the name of Curtis
00:28:58
Jacobi further investigation determined
00:29:03
the Strider star fire had never served
00:29:05
in Vietnam worked with a central
00:29:07
intelligence agency fought with the IRA
00:29:10
I'm sure mr. Starfire is alive and well
00:29:14
this point I don't believe mr. star fire
00:29:17
was ever on that boat I don't believe he
00:29:20
was ever on that River
00:29:21
I believe he's hoping that at some point
00:29:24
hopefully all this will just go away and
00:29:26
he can lead on with a happy life
00:29:32
stridor star ferris wanted on 13 felony
00:29:35
charges related to the rape and sexual
00:29:37
abuse of minors authorities fear he may
00:29:40
be committing similar crimes
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last summer bill Rundle and Tracy
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kentley set out for a leisurely drive
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along the remote country lanes of the
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Nebraska farmland the pair had vague
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plans to meet Tracy's boyfriend
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later that evening bill and Tracy had
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met six months earlier and by all
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accounts their relationship was platonic
00:30:33
Tracy a health care specialist who
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worked with the elderly and Bill a
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forklift operator got together at around
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4:30 p.m. on August 17th they drove off
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into the afternoon Sun and vanished into
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thin air hey Belle the following day
00:30:53
bill Rundle failed to show up for work I
00:30:57
was concerned he would have not just not
00:31:00
shown up for work absolutely not and he
00:31:02
would have called one way or the other
00:31:05
he would have let somebody know that he
00:31:06
wasn't gonna be there Tracy can be lived
00:31:10
with her boyfriend of seven years
00:31:12
Doug Wolfe she was also a no-show at her
00:31:15
job we're looking for Tracy have you
00:31:18
seen her I knew it was pretty serious
00:31:20
because Tracy if she wasn't gonna go to
00:31:22
work first thing she'd do it would be to
00:31:23
call in to work and let him know that
00:31:25
she was sick or whatever the first thing
00:31:27
I did was just hop up my clothes on and
00:31:30
head out the door and start looking I
00:31:31
didn't know what to think I didn't know
00:31:33
what to think at all
00:31:35
it's not something is supposed to happen
00:31:38
in Hastings Nebraska residents of the
00:31:41
tightly knit rural community all new
00:31:43
bill Raoul and Tracey Kenley and cannot
00:31:45
imagine how the two could have simply
00:31:47
disappeared nearly a year is passed and
00:31:50
the leads in the case are non-existent
00:31:52
except for one solitary clue bill
00:31:56
Randall's hat mysteriously surfaced one
00:31:58
week after he and Tracy were last seen
00:32:01
in an area that had already been
00:32:04
thoroughly searched
00:32:10
on the day bill and Tracy vanished there
00:32:12
was little to foreshadow the bizarre
00:32:14
events about to unfold that afternoon
00:32:18
the two paid a visit to Tracy's parents
00:32:20
house 38 miles southeast of Hastings
00:32:23
Nebraska we had never met bill before
00:32:33
this so we don't don't know anything
00:32:35
about him and but we you know it's like
00:32:38
her dad said any friend of Tracy's as a
00:32:41
friend of ours we never talked about
00:32:44
where they were going when they left or
00:32:46
what they were gonna do I guess we felt
00:32:49
that she would make it home safe
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but Tracy Kenley didn't go home instead
00:32:57
she called her boyfriend Doug at 11 p.m.
00:32:59
and made tentative plans to meet him at
00:33:02
a local bar at 12:30 a.m. I'm just
00:33:05
leaving my parents house with Bill what
00:33:07
are you gonna do after work Tracy and
00:33:11
Bill were never heard from again
00:33:17
by examining cell phone records and
00:33:20
transmission signals police are able to
00:33:22
pinpoint Tracy's location at the time of
00:33:25
the call a junction in the road 16 miles
00:33:28
east of Hastings
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the Clay in Adams County sheriff's
00:33:34
departments organized a search of that
00:33:35
intersection in the surrounding area
00:33:38
authorities worried that bill may have
00:33:39
crashed his car into the towering corn
00:33:42
fields that blanket the region a 30
00:33:49
square mile area was painstakingly gone
00:33:52
over but no sign of bill Tracy or the
00:33:55
Jeep turned up a lot of dedicated
00:33:59
individuals came out and searched for
00:34:01
two solid days some areas were searched
00:34:05
two and three times I believe in a
00:34:09
30-mile circumference we've done a very
00:34:12
thorough job of searching not finding
00:34:14
anything with as many searches as we've
00:34:16
had you know you would think you'd find
00:34:20
something there's there's just nothing
00:34:23
nothing police began to consider where
00:34:30
the Bill and Tracy left voluntarily
00:34:35
at the time that he disappeared bill was
00:34:37
he was really lonely
00:34:40
from what I know of Tracy she was a
00:34:43
really gentle sweet person and I think
00:34:45
that bill is probably really attracted
00:34:47
to that as a friend and at that point he
00:34:50
did need a friend and I think maybe they
00:34:55
needed each other could bill and Tracy
00:34:58
have been having an affair kept
00:35:01
completely secret from both their
00:35:02
families and Tracy's longtime boyfriend
00:35:05
and could they have decided to run away
00:35:07
together to start a new life away from
00:35:10
the small-town scrutiny of Hastings
00:35:14
Tracy's a very responsible person there
00:35:17
was no way that she would run away from
00:35:18
her responsibilities she was very close
00:35:22
to her parents she was close to me I
00:35:23
mean if she didn't want to call me if
00:35:25
she ran off or something the first
00:35:27
person first people she would call her
00:35:28
be your parents they didn't run away I
00:35:31
feel that in my heart because neither
00:35:33
one of them took the toothbrush neither
00:35:35
one took their any change of clothing
00:35:38
there hasn't been no evidence as far as
00:35:41
their credit cards ATMs phones have ever
00:35:43
been powered up from the day they
00:35:45
disappeared no evidence has led us in
00:35:47
that direction that they're still out
00:35:49
there
00:35:52
then one full week after Bill and Tracy
00:35:54
went missing a baffling piece of
00:35:57
evidence suddenly appeared it was found
00:36:00
at the same intersection where Tracy
00:36:02
made the final phone call to her
00:36:03
boyfriend an area that had already been
00:36:06
searched several times we had a farmer
00:36:11
come to us who had recovered a hat and
00:36:13
the hat was sent into the lab just in
00:36:14
case through lab analysis it was found
00:36:18
that the Hat was Bill Randall's
00:36:25
that was laying right down here we do
00:36:28
not believe that bill was wearing the
00:36:29
Hat when Bill and Tracy disappeared just
00:36:36
the hat laying there there had been
00:36:38
three inches of rain in two nights after
00:36:40
they had disappeared and the Hat was
00:36:44
clean and did not appear to be out in
00:36:46
the weather plus most of our search
00:36:48
teams went directly by that area and we
00:36:53
believe our search teams would have seen
00:36:55
it if it would have been there police
00:37:00
are now convinced that the Hat was
00:37:01
planted but by whom and why
00:37:07
Phil and Tracy knew that they didn't
00:37:09
have to meet Doug for at least an hour
00:37:12
it would've been very normal for bill to
00:37:15
find a place to pull over and maybe
00:37:21
pulled into a shaded area possibly and
00:37:24
just open up a few beers and talked is
00:37:30
it possible that Bill and Tracy
00:37:32
inadvertently put themselves in the path
00:37:34
of a roaming killer Nebraska is an area
00:37:39
where you travel through to get from the
00:37:40
east or the west there's always a
00:37:43
possibility of somebody coming through
00:37:46
the area that may have been a more
00:37:49
severe criminal than we're normally used
00:37:51
to but who could have murdered two young
00:37:54
healthy people dispose of their bodies
00:37:57
and car without leaving any trace of a
00:37:59
crime and why would a killer then plant
00:38:02
Bill's hat
00:38:03
one week later friends and relatives
00:38:08
cling to the hope that Bill and Tracy
00:38:10
are out there somewhere and will somehow
00:38:13
turn up unharmed
00:38:15
until that day the search continues I'll
00:38:21
never stop looking we need some kind of
00:38:24
clue we have no clue there has been
00:38:27
nothing it's just like they just
00:38:28
disappeared
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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they're snapshots from another place and
00:39:03
another time a proud young father
00:39:06
cradles his newborn daughter Virginia
00:39:09
burns always thought there were photos
00:39:11
of her after Virginia's father died her
00:39:14
mother revealed the truth the little
00:39:17
girl in the pictures was in fact
00:39:19
Virginia's half-sister her name was
00:39:22
Susan
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[Music]
00:39:25
as a young man virginia's father had
00:39:27
been previously married daddy's gonna
00:39:30
miss you but circumstances of a
00:39:32
long-standing dispute with his
00:39:34
mother-in-law had forced him to leave
00:39:35
his wife and his baby daughter Susan
00:39:38
sorry Joe
00:39:40
in later years his attempt to locate
00:39:42
them met with failure
00:39:43
my mother admitted that she didn't tell
00:39:47
me to protect me she had no way of
00:39:51
knowing where my sister was and why tell
00:39:56
me if there was no way I could meet her
00:40:00
looking back
00:40:02
Virginia suddenly understood the points
00:40:04
of one memorable incident from her
00:40:05
childhood for her sixth birthday
00:40:09
Virginia's Paris gave her the doll of
00:40:11
her dreams so what are you thinking how
00:40:15
sweet beautiful what's her name I don't
00:40:19
know what do you think I should call her
00:40:22
he says why don't you call her sweet sue
00:40:25
about sweet sue and I did not realizing
00:40:29
that that was the name of my sister she
00:40:34
needs to know she has a father who loved
00:40:36
her and secondly I have a sister out
00:40:43
there and I'm more than ready to be a
00:40:46
sister but we heard the story last
00:40:51
spring we had high hopes of sweet sue
00:40:53
would be found
00:40:54
we weren't disappointed bathenosh oozin
00:40:57
King lived in Oklahoma City only a short
00:40:59
fight from Virginia's home near Denver
00:41:01
Colorado the two women spoke in the
00:41:03
telephone that Dighton sensed an instant
00:41:05
bond when they met that bond was
00:41:07
confirmed
00:41:08
I watched each person as they got off
00:41:13
the airplane and I just none of them I
00:41:16
knew that they weren't her but when she
00:41:19
came walking out those doors I knew her
00:41:21
instantly
00:41:22
I just knew that's my sister
00:41:26
I was really nervous I didn't know what
00:41:28
to expect
00:41:29
so when I walked through their wrist in
00:41:32
II and her husband and Jenny was holding
00:41:34
this huge sign that says desperately
00:41:36
seeking Susan and I had planned on just
00:41:39
walking by to see if she would recognize
00:41:41
me but I couldn't I got to her and
00:41:43
dropped my suitcase and we hugged and
00:41:46
cried and kissed and hugged some more
00:41:47
and had a crowd looking at us and just
00:41:50
fell in love with her instantly since
00:41:56
the reunion Virginian Susan have been
00:41:58
thrilled to discover how much they have
00:42:00
in common they like the same food the
00:42:06
same clothes enjoy the same hobbies even
00:42:09
talk alike we finished sentences for
00:42:12
each other we they have the same things
00:42:15
my husband has just you know these sits
00:42:17
here and shakes his head he says they
00:42:19
are so much alike
00:42:24
my daddy I feel like that if our dad was
00:42:28
here right now that from what jenny has
00:42:30
told me about him he would be tickled to
00:42:31
death to have both of us together he's
00:42:34
looking for national expression I would
00:42:36
love to give him a hug to tell him that
00:42:39
you know I'd search for him since I was
00:42:40
21 thought about him since I was 12 I
00:42:44
think he would be happy for us he'd
00:42:46
probably think Oh Lord the world's not
00:42:49
safe now with two of them the doll that
00:42:53
had stood in for Susan for so many years
00:42:55
now has special meaning for both women a
00:42:58
tangible reminder of their father's love
00:43:01
I knew it was a gift from our dad to her
00:43:07
but I also felt like at this at that
00:43:10
moment that it was mine too mm-hmm his
00:43:14
arms
00:43:15
definitely
00:43:24
I don't feel for every mystery there is
00:43:35
someone somewhere who has the answer
00:43:37
join me again
00:43:39
run saw mysteries
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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