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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 13

March 09, 2017 / 42:54

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers five intriguing cases, including the mysterious death of Vince Foster, the unsolved murder of Robert Durel, and the strange phenomenon of walk-ins.

The episode begins with the case of Robert Durel, who was found dead in his home in Dunedin, Florida. Initially ruled a suicide, a letter received 16 years later raises questions about the true nature of his death. The letter claims responsibility for his death and prompts his family to investigate further.

Next, the episode discusses Vince Foster, a White House adviser whose death was ruled a suicide. However, handwriting experts claim the suicide note found in his briefcase is a forgery, leading to ongoing speculation about the circumstances surrounding his death.

The episode also features individuals who identify as walk-ins, claiming their bodies have been taken over by another soul. Carol Parish and Sherry, now Joelle, share their experiences of transformation and the challenges they faced after their supposed soul exchanges.

Finally, the disappearance and murder of businessman Angelo Desideri in Phoenix, Arizona, is examined. After a series of events, including the discovery of his body, the episode reveals connections to organized crime and the circumstances of his murder.

TL;DR

Five mysterious cases include Robert Durel's death, Vince Foster's suicide note forgery, and the phenomenon of walk-ins.

Episode

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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries an unsigned confession and a
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bizarre psychic Vision both suggest that
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a mysterious death may have been
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murder days after the death of White
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House adviser Vince Foster a suicide
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note was found in his briefcase but some
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experts believe it's a clever forgery
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they call themselves walk-ins could
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their bodies really have been invaded by
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another person's
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soul and in Phoenix Arizona a
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businessman vanishes and his car is
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found burning 400 miles away what went
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wrong join us for five cases with twists
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and turns that you can hardly believe
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I'm Dennis finina and you're watching
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it's Sunday morning in dun Eden
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Florida an hour and a half before Robert
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durel and his wife Jenny plan to head
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off to
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church I heard a sound a loud sound but
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I assumed it was the slamming of the
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back door a few minutes later Jenny goes
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to the bedroom to dress
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she finds her husband
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Dead Shot Through the
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chest I called the police and it seemed
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like they arrived immediately what time
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did you get here
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8:15 investigators find no evidence of a
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break and no sign of a struggle a
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shotgun lies on the bed
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nearby so here the left shoe was
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off I think what he did is he sat on the
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edge of the bed put the shotgun up to
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his chest pulled the F was big Tae Jenny
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tells the police that her husband was
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applying medicine to a foot ailment
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before putting on his Sunday shoes but
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within 15 minutes the police conclude
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that Robert's death was a suicide and
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with that the case is
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closed 16 years later Robert D's son
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received a mysterious letter it was
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short just 33 words but the disturbing
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message put the theory of suicide side
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in
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question when guy durel got the letter
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he noticed that it was postmarked March
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13th exactly 16 years to the day after
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his father's death and I read it once
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and I read it the second time and I was
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just totally flooded with emotion I
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was it it it was as if I'd been kicked
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right in the chest the letter was brief
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and direct it said
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I have AIDS I am dying I must make peace
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with the Lord I killed your daddy 16
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years ago he found me in his bedroom I
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had no choice please pray for
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me the unsigned letter prompted the
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durel family to obtain a copy of the
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original police report on Robert's death
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the durels had never seen it before and
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they went over it word by word
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it was just so full of
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untruths guesswork interviews of people
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that hadn't seen my father in more than
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2 years close friends weren't spoken
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to in the report investigators had
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concluded that Robert committed suicide
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because of an unsuccessful surgery years
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earlier the one interview that they
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probably weigh most heavily is from a
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nurse who hadn't seen him in 2 years who
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gives a report about his health that is
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so far from the truth it's it's
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ridiculous she portrays him as a
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bedridden vegetable where he was a happy
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fairly healthy man had social life he
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still traveled and and still was a
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productive salesman it was strictly
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investigated as a
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suicide I don't think there were any
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fingerprints taken of the gun or any
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place in the house and that was the
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biggest mistake they made not
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investigating in law enforcement we have
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to deal with what the evidence tells us
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there seemed to be no sign of struggle
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no forcible entry no disarray of any
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description in the bedroom where this
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encounter allegedly occurred which again
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was one of the gives us uh more belief
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that this was a
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suicide for Robert's wife Jenny and
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their children the case was far from
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over while traveling by train from
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Florida to California Jenny's sister
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Fran met a psychic who was able to
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describe Robert's death in Eerie detail
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Fran well
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yes was your husband a doctor the young
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woman was a total stranger but she
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seemed familiar with Fran and the durels
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well then your husband's name was Earl
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he yes that's
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right well they're
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here with Bob your sister's
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husband and he was
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murdered I think it's best that I write
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this down so that you can keep it with
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you and give it to your sister
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Jimmy my first reaction to psychic
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was I mean I didn't believe in psychics
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I'm
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sorry and yet the more I heard I had to
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say I believe in
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this I see a narrow door
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opening with a gun case
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showing and your sister's
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husband is going to another
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cabinet to look for foot treatment for
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athletes
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foot he looks up and he sees a stranger
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in the adjoining room the robber fights
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with
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Bob the things that were written by the
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young lady on the Amtrak train were
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startling in that some of this
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information wasn't anywhere to be found
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it was just too real it was as if this
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person was in the
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room she's made no effort to gain from
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it there's been no no approach to us
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which you would expect if there was a
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hoax and I honestly believe it was a a
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situation that uh that took place that I
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can't explain in the reality of this
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world
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uh it's kind of
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spooky Bob durel died at 54 well before
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his time to this day his family would
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like to know
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why in my own mind my father is a victim
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of murder and I would like to be able to
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tell my children without a question that
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this is what happened there may be
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somebody out there who was talked to by
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the
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killer revealed something in prison to
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an attorney to a parent to a friend
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that's one of my hopes is that somebody
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out there can fit the last piece of the
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puzzle into
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place Robert D's wife passed away
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without ever resolving the mystery of
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her husband's death but Robert's
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children hope the truth will someday be
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revealed
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if you have any information about this
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case please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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next handwriting experts make a stunning
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Claim about the suicide note found in
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Vince Foster's
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briefcase the White House Washington DC
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DC I have just met with the White House
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staff uh to basically talk with them a
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little bit about the death of my friend
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of 42 years Vince Foster early in the
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Clinton presidency his Deputy counsel
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Vincent W Foster died
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unexpectedly Foster was
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48 his body was found in a park across
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the pomac river from
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Washington far had been shot once in the
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head the wound was apparently
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self-inflicted at the time of his death
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Foster had been implicated in the
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Whitewater scandal the United States
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Park police and the FBI concluded that
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Foster had taken his own life but
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journalists raised serious doubts about
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that
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theory Vince Foster was the highest
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federal official to die under suspicious
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circumstances since the death of
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President Kennedy I don't push a
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non-suicide theory I have never said
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Vince Foster was murdered I have said
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that police are trained to treat every
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suicide no matter how apparently as a
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homicide as a murder first until the
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facts prove otherwise what is clear in
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this case is that police procedure was
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never
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followed one of the key clues in this
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case is a note allegedly written by
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Vince Foster the message was
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unsigned this is a copy of the
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reconstructed note which when found had
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been ripped into 28 pieces it read in
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part I made mistakes from ignorance
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inexperience and overwork I did not
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knowingly violate any law or standard of
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conduct no one in the white house to my
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knowledge violated any law or standard
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of conduct I was not meant for the job
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or the spotlight of public life in
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Washington here ruining people is
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considered
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sport the shredded note was found in
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Foster's briefcase 4 days after his
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death curiously White House Council
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Bernard nusom had searched the brief
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case earlier but did not find the note
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this put the document's authenticity in
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question more than 2 years after Foster
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died a team of well-known handwriting
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experts
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held a press conference in Washington
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each of these experts examined a
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photocopy of the alleged suicide note
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and concluded that it was a
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forgery was there any substance to the
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claim that the suicide note was forged
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we invited these same handwriting
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experts to meet with us in Boston to
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explain their
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conclusions the experts compared the
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suicide note to 12 other samples of
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Foster handwriting ronal writ a
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handwriting examiner who has worked for
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the state of Massachusetts is convinced
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that the note was forged if we compare
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the formation of the cursive capital i
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here on the question document to the
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formation of the capital I here on the
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known document authored by Mr Foster we
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can plainly see it is not the same it's
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an entirely different letter of
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formation
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rice went on to describe other
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discrepancies for example in the suicide
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note the letter O is open in the known
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samples it's closed in addition rice
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claims that the letter b and the note
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was made with at least four strokes of
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the pen he says that in the known sample
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the letter was written with one
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continuous stroke you plainly see the
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weakness and the rice discovered new
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numerous other discrepancies and
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believes the suicide note was not
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written by Foster my study and
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examination concluded that this was a
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document that um was very skeptical and
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it was my opinion that it was a
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forgery handwriting experts say that
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Foster's writing was typified by
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u-shaped Strokes known as swags action
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another end Reginal Al of Oxford
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University in England believed the
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forger had a difficult time imitating
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Foster's graceful style Foster writes
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clintons the i n is an elegant double
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swag when the forger writes clintons we
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find The Strokes are not easy and
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elegant and not really on form at
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all there were an inordinate amount of
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hesitation dots found in the document
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hesitation dots are small Blobs of ink
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left where the pen starts or stops
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Anthony aosa explains that when a
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document has many dots it's a tip off
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that the penmanship was being copied
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take a look at the capital letter N
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you'll see four distinct hesitation dots
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starting at the top where the pen comes
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in contact with the paper it stops he
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comes down and it stops at the bottom
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he comes back up and retraces he comes
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back down again you see a third
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hesitation dot he stops he comes back up
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and you'll see a heavy concentration of
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ink right here for the fourth hesitation
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dot retired homicide investigator
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Vincent scalesi is a certified document
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examiner he points to the fact that the
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words beginning with the letters th are
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much more crudely written in the suicide
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note than in the known
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samples some suggest the differences can
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be explained by stress the stress of a
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man about to kill himself but these
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experts
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disagree your handwriting would not
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change because you were under that type
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of stress it might get a little sloppier
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it might get a little less clear but
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your your style of writing normally
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would not
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change our four experts all concluded
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that the note was forged but at least
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one other expert says it's authentic
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there's nothing in the question document
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that would support any finding of
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forgery and the things that are brought
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forth the apparent fragmentation and
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those things are explained by the fact
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that we have a deteriorated copy and the
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fact that the man was under some
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emotional stress at the
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time Marcel matley is convinced that the
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other expert
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are wrong and he demonstrates why on the
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left side is writing from the suicide
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note on the right side are other writing
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samples of Fosters they are labeled K1
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through
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K1 you have three th from the suicide
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note three from the first known sample
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you cannot tell the difference in these
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words the only thing that uh that might
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be a difference is here where it's
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deteriorated this is from the be
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photocopy that's been copied too often
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the loop is gone and the stem is gone
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the second word two we have four of them
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in the question document one of which is
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where the tear is so we can ignore it
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but you notice these three twos have
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differences among them we go to K9 and
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K10 we get three more words too we have
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the same difference from comparing these
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words the conclusion is the same person
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wrote both
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writings did Vince Foster write the
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suicide note or as Clinton critics
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contend is the note part of an elaborate
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cover up there have been three official
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investigations into Foster's death the
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most comprehensive took three years and
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was conducted by Kenneth star all three
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concluded that his death was a
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suicide yet the doubt still Pro
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and if the note is in fact the forgery
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who wrote it and why these lingering
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questions may never be laid to
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rest next meet two people who claim that
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their bodies have been taken over by
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someone else's Soul they call themselves
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walk-ins
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is it possible that a person's body can
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be invaded by someone else's Soul well
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it sounds improbable but there are
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thousands of people who say it has
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happened to them they call themselves
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walk-ins I began to feel that I had to
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change my name and this happens very
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often to
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Watkins um and I didn't know
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why I felt like a Stranger in a Strange
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Land I didn't fit here I didn't
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understand this world I didn't
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understand how it worked Let's do an I
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an I the doctor patted me and he said
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young lady you gave us quite a
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scare and I said oh I'm not who you
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think I
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am Believers say it's not possession
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it's an even Trade One Soul for another
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and they say that it could Happ happen
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to any one of
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us a hospital in Clearwater Florida is
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where Carol Parish first experienced
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being a walk all right okay okay here we
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go while giving birth to her sixth child
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doctors gave Carol a shot of sodium
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penthol to ease her pain two cc's of
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sodium penthol but Carol had an allergic
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reaction to the drug and her lungs
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collapsed all right we've got an
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anaphylactic shock nurse let's get some
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oxygen going
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Carol was on the edge of
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death suddenly I wasn't there it was
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just like I had been totally engaged in
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that struggle and the next thing it's
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cool and I'm floating and I look
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down and and you hardly
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know that that's you all right Carol
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watched while her baby was being born
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then she says her soul entered a tunnel
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of light where she felt that she was not
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alone she described it as a near-death
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experience and I stood there and in that
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light was like a whole flow of
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information just came into my mind and
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this love and this wisdom just permeated
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wave after wave
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of understanding
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wisdom
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richness this floating to
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me defying all expectations Carol
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survived but she says that when she woke
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up her body had been taken over by a
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different soul you're lucky to be alive
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I saw young Carol move off into the care
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of some other
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beings I'm not who you think that I am
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it's okay as I look at each person their
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eyes just the veil comes over their eyes
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and I turned my head toward the wall and
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big tears started coming my eyes and
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down my cheeks and I
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thought how will I ever get anybody to
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believe me who's going to
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listen from then on everything about
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Carol's life changed she began having
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outof body
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experiences one day I was nursing the
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baby and I found myself standing in the
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door looking at myself and immediately
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thought oh that's happening to me again
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when I thought that I popped back
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together and it
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passed and I tried to talk about that to
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my
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family her husband thought she had gone
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crazy where's your medicine and her
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doctor tried to put her on valium I'm
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not taking it
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anymore why
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not it's not good for the baby Carol the
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doctor said You' got to take that
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medicine the new Carol made big changes
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in her life bill I am not taking the
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medicine anymore she went back to school
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to study bookkeeping and became a
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manager at a local bank her new identity
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seemed to threaten her husband who
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eventually left her the years after the
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experience were very lonely I was lonely
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for other people that valued the things
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that were so meaningful to me 7 years
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years later Carol began to study
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religion and became a minister her faith
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gave her a new perspective on being a
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walking I believe young Carol went as
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All Souls do into tender hands to care
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for her and help her reorient herself to
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the world of spirit the idea that life
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is ongoing and if you are you always
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will be that's the piece that I think is
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so important partly it's important
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because we would live life more
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courageously if we really believed
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that an exchange of souls is this really
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possible a woman named Sherry claims
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that it happened to her too she was a
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high school principal and while visiting
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a friend in Wyoming Sherry began to feel
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disoriented she asked her friend a
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metaphysical healer to lay hands on
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suddenly the room began to
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change there was a globe of golden
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pulsating
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energy the core of the energy just
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punched right into the base of my
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spine I raised up on my knees and sat
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immersed in this colorful light and
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found myself wanting to just flow with
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it and and and dance with it with my
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hands and my
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[Music]
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arms after the experience sher's life
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changed
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dramatically she claimed her old soul
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was exchanged for a new one she even
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gave herself a new name I'm
00:24:26
Joelle but her new identity came with
00:24:29
some problems everyday tasks became
00:24:33
nearly
00:24:35
impossible there was a hyp sensitivity
00:24:38
to energy fields around people energy
00:24:42
fields around
00:24:44
things so to go into a supermarket see
00:24:47
the energy Fields hear all the thoughts
00:24:50
it was so difficult to stay focused on
00:24:53
what my task was I tried to narrow my
00:24:56
task down to five 10 items so I could
00:24:59
get through that Express line as quick
00:25:01
as
00:25:02
possible over time Joelle managed to
00:25:05
accept her new identity and so did her
00:25:08
husband and daughter it's as though
00:25:10
there are two chapters in our lives as a
00:25:13
family there's the before and there
00:25:15
there's the after and in many ways our
00:25:19
life as a family started after my mother
00:25:21
experienced the walkin a lot of the
00:25:23
healing that wasn't able to take place
00:25:26
before did after we were so so much
00:25:28
stronger as a family unit Joelle is now
00:25:32
dedicated to educating others about the
00:25:35
walk-in experience I travel the country
00:25:38
I travel the world speaking to different
00:25:40
groups of people doing private
00:25:43
counseling sessions with people however
00:25:46
Joelle says that she still retained some
00:25:49
traits from before the change when she
00:25:52
was still Sherry one of the beautiful
00:25:55
memories that came from Sherry was her
00:25:58
ability to teach was her ability to
00:26:02
speak to people I've taken that aspect
00:26:05
and I've just taken it to the next
00:26:08
phase people who claim a New Soul
00:26:11
resides inside them say that the new
00:26:13
spirit has changed them for the
00:26:16
better when it comes to Walkins
00:26:19
perhaps that's all that
00:26:23
[Music]
00:26:27
matters com up The Secret Life of an
00:26:30
Arizona businessman erupts in violence
00:26:33
and
00:26:39
[Music]
00:26:43
murder Phoenix
00:26:45
Arizona 57-year-old Angelo desideri was
00:26:50
a devout Catholic who had once studied
00:26:52
for the
00:26:53
priesthood Angel was a very ordered neat
00:26:56
individual very very meticulous and need
00:27:00
individual a perfectionist in it in its
00:27:03
true sense of the word a
00:27:05
perfectionist Angelo had several close
00:27:07
friends but never married with hard work
00:27:10
he built a small business Empire that
00:27:13
included a shopping center and an import
00:27:17
store on Monday morning a neighboring
00:27:20
shop owner noticed that Angelo's store
00:27:22
was not open one of Angelo's friends
00:27:26
drove to his house to see if anything
00:27:28
was was
00:27:30
wrong after seeing certain things that
00:27:33
Disturbed me like a alarm that was not
00:27:36
on and other things of that nature I
00:27:39
went next door and made a decision to
00:27:42
phone 911 and bring out a police
00:27:44
officers for get out of the
00:27:47
house inside Angelo was nowhere to be
00:27:50
found it looked like he had been
00:27:52
interrupted while preparing lunch piles
00:27:56
of bills were laid out on the kitchen
00:27:57
table ready to be paid in the living
00:28:00
room were two new pairs of pants with a
00:28:03
receipt that showed that Angelo had
00:28:05
bought them the day before when my
00:28:09
brother disappeared on that Sunday
00:28:10
afternoon he left the house with
00:28:12
absolutely nothing he didn't take a
00:28:13
toothbrush pair of slippers nothing the
00:28:16
only thing that we discovered that was
00:28:17
missing was his attache case some
00:28:20
jewelry and money was missing from the
00:28:22
home in the garage investigators found
00:28:25
Angelo's car cover crumpled on on the
00:28:28
floor that was unusual and not a good
00:28:32
sign Angelo was compulsively neat and
00:28:35
always folded the cover after removing
00:28:39
it a neighbor told police that he had
00:28:42
seen Angela's Cadillac speed away and
00:28:45
the Sunday he disappeared it was very
00:28:48
difficult to see of course I couldn't
00:28:50
see any facial characteristics and it
00:28:52
wasn't like Angelo to pull out without
00:28:54
acknowledging me he'd returned from out
00:28:56
of town just a few days before had given
00:28:58
him his mail and we spoke briefly Friday
00:29:00
night which was prior to this was on a
00:29:03
Sunday and it just all kinds of
00:29:06
questions you wonder
00:29:09
why only 30 hours after Angelo vanished
00:29:13
a 1985 Cadillac was found on fire in the
00:29:17
San Diego Parking Lot 400 mil from
00:29:21
Phoenix an accelerant had been used to
00:29:24
set the blad the car belonged to Angelo
00:29:28
desert
00:29:29
da inside there were no personal
00:29:32
belongings and no signs of forced
00:29:35
entry the ignition was untampered with
00:29:38
there were no signs or indications of
00:29:39
any hot wiring of any type we looked in
00:29:42
the trunk and found absolutely nothing
00:29:43
in that trunk that would have been there
00:29:44
other than the Jack no carpet No padding
00:29:47
no spare
00:29:48
tire basically this tells us that there
00:29:51
could have been something in the vehicle
00:29:53
that was transported in the vehicle and
00:29:54
when it was taken out they took the
00:29:56
carpet and the padding and wrapped it
00:29:57
all in one unit and took everything out
00:29:58
of the vehicle including the spare
00:30:01
tire Phoenix police retraced the route
00:30:04
to San Diego stopping at gas stations
00:30:06
and car washes along the way nobody
00:30:09
matching Angelo's description had been
00:30:11
seen and none of his credit cards had
00:30:14
been
00:30:16
used authorities did find two witnesses
00:30:20
who saw the car just minutes before it
00:30:22
was torched both described a man who
00:30:25
looked like Angelo in front of the
00:30:26
Cadillac how neither was positive that
00:30:30
it was actually him the
00:30:32
investigation hit a dead end we can
00:30:35
narrow that down to about 5 minutes
00:30:38
prior to the fire the results of our
00:30:41
case rest on who that person was it
00:30:44
could
00:30:45
possibly uh close our case if it was
00:30:48
Angelo standing by that
00:30:51
car I cannot conceive that he would burn
00:30:53
the car it just seems incredible that
00:30:56
this is possible of my brother
00:30:59
I can't comprehend something like this
00:31:02
all the pieces they just don't fit we
00:31:06
have a gentleman who would go out of his
00:31:08
way for people someone who was devoted
00:31:11
to his family and yet we have this whole
00:31:15
case there's another life or there's
00:31:17
another dimension to Angela that we've
00:31:20
never been able to find and I think that
00:31:23
if I could ever find that piece I'd find
00:31:25
Angela
00:31:29
Update 9 months after Angelo disappeared
00:31:33
Phoenix police charged a local man Joe
00:31:36
callow with conspiracy to commit armed
00:31:38
robbery on Angelo it turned out that
00:31:41
callow was a business associate of
00:31:43
Angelos and had detailed information
00:31:46
about his disappearance Joe Kell told us
00:31:50
that all the information he had was told
00:31:52
to him by James Major James Majors had
00:31:56
worked with callow and instruction at
00:31:59
the time of Call's arrest Majors was in
00:32:01
a California jail facing several counts
00:32:04
of
00:32:05
murder during the interview of Joe Kell
00:32:09
he stated that Majors went to the house
00:32:12
got into the house by ringing the
00:32:13
doorbell and asking for a glass of water
00:32:15
then took Angelo at
00:32:18
gunpoint and robbed the house he was
00:32:22
taken out of the house at that time by
00:32:24
majors and driven out into the desert
00:32:28
K claims that between Phoenix and San
00:32:31
Diego Majors murdered Angelo he then
00:32:34
placed the body in the trunk of the
00:32:36
Cadillac and continued on towards San
00:32:40
Diego the following morning Majors goes
00:32:44
to a hardware store where he purchased a
00:32:47
pick and a shovel have
00:32:50
an Majors told cow that he then drove
00:32:53
down a desert back road and buried
00:32:56
Angelo near a large tree
00:32:58
tree according to Kell Majors did a real
00:33:02
unique
00:33:03
thing as he's leaving the grave site he
00:33:07
stopped and gave the shovel in the pick
00:33:10
to the poor people that lived in that
00:33:13
Shack and then he exited onto the
00:33:15
highway and drove into
00:33:19
California callow also told
00:33:21
investigators that Majors had a storage
00:33:23
locker when the police searched it they
00:33:26
recovered property that belonged
00:33:28
to
00:33:29
Angelo 6 weeks later two campers
00:33:32
discovered the body of Angelo desideri
00:33:34
buried beneath the tree in Kitchen Creek
00:33:37
California the question is why was he
00:33:42
murdered it turns out that there was
00:33:45
another side to Angelo desider he and C
00:33:48
belonged to the same organized crime
00:33:51
family when Angelo wanted out callow was
00:33:54
ordered to have him killed James Major
00:33:58
was the
00:33:59
Hitman callow was also implicated in
00:34:02
several other murders and in order to
00:34:04
avoid the death penalty he pleaded
00:34:07
guilty and was sentenced to 11
00:34:09
consecutive life sentences James Majors
00:34:13
was not tried for killing Angelo
00:34:15
desider he had already been sentenced to
00:34:18
death for three other
00:34:22
[Music]
00:34:25
murders next after 20 years years a
00:34:28
young man is reunited with his lost big
00:34:31
brother who was his inspiration in life
00:34:35
and coming up is the power of
00:34:38
aphrodesiac a myth or
00:34:51
reality Elkart
00:34:53
Indiana it's
00:34:56
1971 Big Brother of America has just
00:34:59
opened a new chapter here their first
00:35:01
little brother is 7-year-old Jeff fiser
00:35:05
Jeff's big brother is John nney a local
00:35:09
salesman and the father of a 2-year-old
00:35:11
daughter John gave me the companionship
00:35:13
that I really needed at that time just
00:35:15
the fact that this was you know an older
00:35:17
guy that I could hang around with and
00:35:20
not you know not having tell me to go
00:35:21
away and you know come back later and
00:35:23
stuff some you know a guy that wanted to
00:35:25
spend some time with me you know maybe
00:35:27
feel it really good get this tied up and
00:35:30
then we're just about after Jeff and
00:35:32
John started seeing each other I noticed
00:35:34
that Jeff had a lot more confidence in
00:35:37
himself and he was very proud of the
00:35:40
fact that he had a big brother and and
00:35:42
he would tell the other kids well well
00:35:44
John and I are going to go do this or my
00:35:46
big brother and I are going to go do
00:35:48
this he was very proud of the fact that
00:35:50
that he had a a man in his life ready to
00:35:53
lie a year and a half later John and his
00:35:56
family moved the way Jeff never saw John
00:36:00
again but he never forgot the friendship
00:36:03
and the adventures that changed his
00:36:06
life he just introduced me to a world
00:36:09
that I had never seen before and if I
00:36:11
finally see him again I just want to
00:36:13
thank
00:36:14
him he made a lasting impression it's
00:36:16
been 20 years and he's still a really
00:36:19
Vivid part of my
00:36:20
[Music]
00:36:22
memory
00:36:24
update on the night of our broadcast
00:36:26
several calls from our viewers connected
00:36:29
Jeff and John 9 days later they were
00:36:32
reunited in Tacoma Washington there they
00:36:36
are there they
00:36:39
are hi
00:36:45
guys
00:36:47
can't yeah you look just like your
00:36:49
picture
00:36:50
man you doing great great it's
00:36:53
unbelievable I was absolutely stunned I
00:36:56
had absolutely no idea that Jeff was
00:36:59
looking for me and then as the show
00:37:02
aired people from Elkart and from
00:37:05
Michigan started calling me on the phone
00:37:07
telling me that I was on television and
00:37:10
and Jeff fiser was looking for me and we
00:37:13
must have got 35 calls that night and at
00:37:15
least that many the next night you know
00:37:18
I've been wanting to say thanks to this
00:37:19
guy for 18 years and you know whatever
00:37:22
it took to uh come out and say that you
00:37:25
know I was willing to do
00:37:27
[Music]
00:37:32
admit it unless you're some kind of a
00:37:34
rock star you've probably wished for a
00:37:36
magic potion that can make you seem like
00:37:39
a tantalizing love machine that cannot
00:37:42
be resisted well join the crowd folks
00:37:46
for the last few thousand years men and
00:37:48
women have searched the world over for
00:37:50
the perfect
00:37:54
aphrodesiac but Arthur actually res
00:37:57
piece for romance that do deliver the
00:38:00
goods persistent scientific study has
00:38:03
produced a surprising
00:38:06
answer one of the traditions in Europe
00:38:09
was that uh newly wed couples would
00:38:11
drink a wine made of Honey every night
00:38:13
and this would be a way for them to help
00:38:16
increase their energy during the first
00:38:17
month of their marriage and that's where
00:38:18
the word honeymoon came about and of
00:38:21
course we know honey is very very high
00:38:23
in B vitamins and amino acids and is a
00:38:27
very very highly nutritious product plus
00:38:29
it gives the body energy which is
00:38:31
required also for healthy
00:38:34
sex oysters have always had the
00:38:36
reputation as the food for lovers for
00:38:40
some just a Peak at this succulent
00:38:42
mollusk can provoke thoughts of sex lamp
00:38:46
tests indicate that the oyster's fame is
00:38:50
honestly
00:38:51
earned zinc is a mineral that's required
00:38:55
for the production of testosterone and
00:38:57
testosterone is the most important
00:38:59
hormone for sexual response in both men
00:39:01
and women and oysters have more zinc
00:39:04
than almost any other
00:39:05
food though Dr Watson has spent several
00:39:09
years studying
00:39:10
aphrodesiac many patients who come to
00:39:12
her don't realize that they're just
00:39:15
Lovick so Charlie are you having trouble
00:39:18
sleeping yeah Charlie was there because
00:39:21
his 18-hour work days had grounded him
00:39:23
down Beyond exhaustion I get up and walk
00:39:26
around I can't get back back to sleep
00:39:28
she starts to steer her questions to
00:39:30
what are my activities like am I
00:39:32
energetic do I exercise you know how's
00:39:34
my love life uh that was kind of an odd
00:39:37
switch because most doctors don't take
00:39:39
you down that path and how are these
00:39:41
problems affecting you sexually well
00:39:43
it's taken its toll on my relationship
00:39:45
to the point where it's non-existent Dr
00:39:48
Watson prescribed a slower pace for
00:39:50
Charlie plus some herbs and vitamins she
00:39:54
also suggests that he bring his
00:39:56
girlfriend a box of chocolate for
00:39:58
dessert but these were chocolates that
00:40:01
Dr Watson had spiced with South American
00:40:04
herbs known for giving the libido a
00:40:07
[Music]
00:40:13
lift that was so delicious Charlie
00:40:16
invited his girlfriend for dinner he put
00:40:18
on special music and remembered his
00:40:20
plans for dessert and he hopes for the
00:40:24
best we're not done yet I have a little
00:40:25
dessert for us oh chocolate Hearts not
00:40:28
just ordinary chocolate Hearts though
00:40:30
that's these are um
00:40:34
aphrodisiacs where did you get them
00:40:37
about half an hour later I'm sitting
00:40:38
there and she's playing with my hair and
00:40:41
I'm sitting going it's working so glad
00:40:44
you didn't have to work late tonight she
00:40:46
said oh I just feel normal well I can
00:40:49
tell you she wasn't normal she was
00:40:51
better than normal cuddly Huggy you know
00:40:54
paying attention to me and it progressed
00:40:56
into a really nice steamy evening which
00:40:58
was after all we could all use one of
00:41:00
those once in a while the mind is the
00:41:02
best aphrodesiac we have yet there are
00:41:05
really physical components that happen I
00:41:07
see it in my practice I see men and
00:41:10
women who really want to have great sex
00:41:13
but something's wrong physically
00:41:15
chemically something's just not
00:41:16
happening and definitely when they take
00:41:18
the herbs which react in the body in
00:41:21
that chemical process uh definitely
00:41:23
there's a change there's an improvement
00:41:25
when people say you're taking an
00:41:27
aphrodesiac you know you're taking an
00:41:29
aphrodesiac isn't it all in your mind
00:41:31
isn't it a
00:41:32
placebo and I look at them and I say
00:41:36
it's very possible that it is I mean
00:41:38
there's tons of medical records that
00:41:40
show people been given Placebo medicine
00:41:42
have cured themselves but hey who cares
00:41:44
as long as it gets you there what
00:41:47
triggers our passion well that's one of
00:41:50
life's great Mysteries as for
00:41:53
aphrodisiacs perhaps the most potent of
00:41:55
all are these three
00:41:57
Tim honored
00:41:59
words I love
00:42:01
[Music]
00:42:02
you of course not all stories end
00:42:05
happily if you have any information
00:42:07
about the cases we profiled tonight
00:42:10
please log on to our website at
00:42:11
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00:42:28
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This episode stands out for the following:

  • 80
    Most shocking
  • 75
    Most heartbreaking
  • 70
    Most emotional
  • 70
    Most surprising

Episode Highlights

  • The Mysterious Letter
    A letter reveals shocking details about Robert Durel's death, challenging the suicide ruling.
    “I was just totally flooded with emotion.”
    @ 03m 18s
    March 09, 2017
  • Walk-Ins: A New Soul
    Carol Parish describes her near-death experience and how it changed her identity.
    “I’m not who you think I am.”
    @ 18m 48s
    March 09, 2017
  • Joelle's Transformation
    After a soul exchange, Joelle embraces her new identity and educates others about walk-ins.
    “It’s as though there are two chapters in our lives.”
    @ 25m 13s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Disappearance of Angelo Desideri
    Angelo's sudden vanishing raises questions and leads to a shocking investigation.
    “All the pieces they just don’t fit.”
    @ 31m 02s
    March 09, 2017
  • Reunion After 20 Years
    Jeff and John reunite after two decades, rekindling a cherished friendship.
    “I just want to thank him.”
    @ 36m 13s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • I was just totally flooded with emotion.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 13
  • I have AIDS I am dying I must make peace with the Lord.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 13
  • I’m not who you think I am.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 13
  • It’s as though there are two chapters in our lives.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 13
  • He made a lasting impression.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 13
  • I was absolutely stunned.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 13

Key Moments

  • Mysterious Death00:17
  • Suicide Note Forgery11:41
  • Near-Death Experience19:56
  • Soul Exchange23:12
  • Mysterious Disappearance27:26
  • Investigation Unfolds28:20
  • Shocking Revelation33:45
  • Brotherly Reunion36:32

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