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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 3 - Full, Episode

March 09, 2017 / 42:48

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers three main cases: the disappearance of Margie Gelic, the tragic deaths of six firefighters in Kansas City, and the alleged alien abduction of four men in Maine.

The first case focuses on Margie Gelic, who vanished after becoming involved with Randy Joer, a leader of an outlaw biker gang. Her sister, Naen Gelic, expresses concern over Margie's sudden change in behavior and her relationship with Joer, especially after he became a fugitive. Margie's family fears she may have been abducted or is in hiding, and her mysterious phone calls provide a glimmer of hope for her return.

The second case recounts the devastating explosion that killed six Kansas City firefighters during a routine call. The firefighters were responding to two small blazes when a trailer exploded, leading to a public outcry and a lengthy investigation. Eventually, five suspects were indicted for deliberately setting the fires in an attempt to steal equipment.

The final segment features the Allagash Four, four men who claim to have been abducted by aliens during a camping trip. They describe terrifying experiences and undergo hypnosis to recover repressed memories of their abduction. Despite skepticism from some, their stories remain consistent and they passed polygraph tests.

This episode highlights the complexities of unresolved cases involving disappearances, tragic accidents, and extraordinary claims.

TL;DR

Margie Gelic's disappearance, firefighter deaths, and alien abduction claims are featured in this episode.

Episode

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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a young Widow the charismatic
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leader of an outlaw biker gang did she
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willingly join him as he fled charges of
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murder or was she
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abducted a frightening case of arson
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becomes murder when a fire and explosion
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take the lives of six Brave
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firefighters in Maine four young men
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fell of a horrifying story of alien
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abduction she was 24 years old blonde
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pretty and Olympic hopeful could her
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husband have masterminded Amy beckel's
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disappearance murder missing persons
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wanted fugitives and the Paranormal I'm
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Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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Gary
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Indiana naen gelic was terribly worried
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she hadn't heard from her sister Margie
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for several days not a single word so
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she went to Margie's
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house I was looking for Clues did she
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write something down did she leave
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something that I could pick up on to
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know that she would return I looked in
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the closets luggage was there clothes
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were there all of her things so whatever
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she left with it had to be just enough
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for a few
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days naen was concerned to find many
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personal items that Margie always took
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when
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traveling and Margie's car was left
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behind abandoned in the driveway
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Gathering
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dust why did Margie gelic suddenly leave
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was it of her own free will or was there
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something else something very Sinister
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going
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on recently Margie had run a to some
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really tough times and then she began
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dating the leader of an Outlaw Biker
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game her sister naen suspect that she
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was either in hiding or had been
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abducted 6 months earlier Margie's life
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seemed ideal she was a happy newly wood
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planning for a bright future with her
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husband Nasser in
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Detroit but just 6 months after the
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wedding he was killed in a traffic
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accident
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Margie was
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shattered she decided to move back to
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Gary
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Indiana was really really hard on her
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she spent a lot of time crying and
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trying to decide what to do she insisted
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to come back and help my mom with the
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business Margie immersed herself in her
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new job she managed the night shift at
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the tavern owned by her
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mother there she first encountered a
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biker named Randy joerger
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what's your name I haven't seen you here
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before my name's Margie Margie how do
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you do my name's Randy Randy nice to
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meet you Randy was a high ranking member
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of a notorious biker gang The Outlaws he
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possessed an outgoing scruffy charm in
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an era of danger which was attractive to
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the young
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Widow I think that he complimented her
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in ways that she needed to be
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complimented and she needed perhaps
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those accolades that made her feel good
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and he knew how to say the right things
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to charm her and she in ter was in turn
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was Charmed by him well you should hook
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up with us sometime I mean meet a lot of
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new people go out have a good time maybe
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Randy's Charisma however covered up a
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darker
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side Margie had no idea that he was an
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ex-convict with a long criminal
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record he and other members of The
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Outlaws were under investigation for
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racketeering drug dealing and murder
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two of The Outlaw members murdered this
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old couple because they had a lot of
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money inside their house and actually
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stabbed them with a screw driver through
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the throat I mean this is these are bad
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people to do
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that soon after they met Margie began
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dating
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gagger Margie was a good girl for lack
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of a better term who seems to have taken
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a walk in a Wildside this is
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uncharacteristic from what I've learned
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of Earth
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her family is not sure if or when Margie
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found out about Jagger's criminal past
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the only thing they know for sure is
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that she began to
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change she became extremely distant how
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about I makeing some coffee no I got to
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go are you sure she became distant with
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me and my children and distant with the
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customers and I don't know whether she
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was told to be distant and not to speak
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or she just totally started to remove
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herself from society
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3 months later Margie left with joer on
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a trip to Las
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Vegas at that very moment United States
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Marshals had already begun an operation
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to arrest Randy and several members of
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The
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Outlaws 17 members of The Outlaws were
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indicted for a Midwest crime spree that
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included bombings robberies and six
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murders I saw the pictures and I said oh
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my God my daughter went with that man
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you know oh my God what's going to
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happen to her
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now meanwhile 1500 mil away in
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Nevada federal agents traced jger to Las
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Vegas but it was too late he and Margie
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had apparently fled the
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city the first thing I could think of
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was was he going to hurt her cuz she's
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with this guy who now everyone in the
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country is looking for and she with him
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and what if by mistake they find him and
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they hurt her two weeks passed then
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Margie returned to Gary safe but shaken
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good morning her family was relieved but
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Margie remained distant is everything
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all right yeah everything's fine but do
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you want to talk no I don't want to
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talk she felt that they would try and
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find him through her she was led to
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believe that her apartment was bugged
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that um people were following her in her
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parking lot she had an extreme paranoia
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and I said Marge what should you be
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paranoid about nobody's after you you've
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not done a
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thing 3 months after her return Margie
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disappeared
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again at first it just seemed like that
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that she had run off and and joined jger
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wherever he was at but upon
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investigation we found out that she had
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taken none of her clothes her car or
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anything else it just seemed that she
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was gone um we're really not sure what
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happened
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there it's been several years since
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Margie disappeared her family believes
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that even if she is with jerger that she
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is no longer his girlfriend but his
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victim I feel that he is holding her
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back and he won't let her communicate to
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her family if and at this point he's
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brainwashed her because this is so OD of
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character for Margie not to make a phone
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call to us
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hello over the years several mysterious
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phone calls have been made to the tavern
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during the mornings the caller never
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speaks and only after a long pause hangs
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up for her family these calls offer the
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Slender hope that they will one day see
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Margie
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again I want Margie I want her to come
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home whatever she did she did but come
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home my heart and my door is always open
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for her I'm waiting for her
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update there are new developments in
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this case here's one of our staff with
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details Randy joer and Margie gelic were
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discovered living together in a Mexican
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Beach town called Rosarita when Mexican
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authorities arrested jger and found him
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in possession of a gun Margie fled in
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their car leading police on a high-speed
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chase she lost control of her car
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flipped it three times and was found
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dead beside her
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vehicle coming up it seemed a routine
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call two small blazes at a construction
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site but
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then and later the legendary alash UFO
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incident Kansas City
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Missouri it was just after Thanksgiving
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firemen raced to extinguish two small
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blazes at a construction site it seemed
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like a routine call the firemen were
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bringing the blazes under control then
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in the blink of an
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eye one of the fires exploded with
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terrible
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Fury he could have retired several years
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ago but he loved it so much that he just
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stayed he wasn't even supposed to have
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been working he was fing in for somebody
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else I'd rather have him go this way
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than to lay in a coma or be sick cuz
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that would never be jimm kilit he didn't
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want to fly an airplane because he
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didn't want to risk his life on an
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airplane and I said but you risk your
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life every day being a fireman and he
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said well he can he's in control when
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he's at the fire
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department that night six Kansas City
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firemen died in the explosion all were
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married all had children and there was
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the ugly fact that the fires had been
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deliberately set it was now a case of
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arson and
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murder the first minutes gave no hint of
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what was to come at about 3:40 a.m. two
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security guards at a highway
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construction site discovered a pickup
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truck in
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Flames yes I I want to report a fire
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some 500 yd away a second Blaze had been
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set look there's some some explosives
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there that are burning near the fire
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okay we'll get somebody
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started at Station 41 Captain Jim Kil
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Venton firemen Robert mccum and Mike
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Olden were out the door in 90
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seconds pper 41 news cor information
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from the calling party there may be
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explosiv stored in that construction
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site the pickup truck may be in the
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construction site 41
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the the trucks total but there is a fire
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on the other side of the EXP side of the
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high yes sir the two fires were 500 yd
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apart and had been set almost
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simultaneously Captain Kil Venton and
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his crew soon had the truck Blaze under
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control however the fire in the trailer
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still burned out of control
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within minutes Captain Gerald howerin
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and his crew from station 30 joined
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kilvin what we got well J looks like we
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Captain hin was told that the explosives
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at the construction site were safely
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stored in fireproof
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bunkers just the fact that the bunker
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was there in fact there was two bunkers
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there LED that Captain to believe that's
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where the explos was and this trailer
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was just a regular normal construction
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trailer with tools and equipment in it
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and therefore there was no danger that
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he was going to put that fire out and
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they'd be down for the night with the
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truck fire contained both fire Crews
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began tackling the burning storage
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trailer at 4:08 a.m. the battalion chief
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pulled into the construction C we
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understand there's some explosives here
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in a bunker we think that there's some
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in the trailers over there as
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well trailers that are on fire yeah
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let's get him out of there
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John
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10 it was just the loudest noise I'd
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ever heard it just kind of went through
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you it was just so loud I can't describe
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it I'm I'm serious it was just
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incredible and we live about 12 Mi away
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from where the explosion
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was knocked me out of bed and I got up
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and look to the East and I saw a big
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great big ball of fire and uh I said to
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myself home Gerald's going to have to go
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to that because that's his district and
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I just knew he had to go I knew he'd be
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there explosion just as we pulled up in
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here get us all kinds of am
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and at least a couple three more
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companies 15 companies of Kansas City
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Firefighters rushed to the aid of their
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comrades but they were forced to wait
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from the sounds of the explosion they
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were pretty sure that nobody had
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survived and so we made the decision uh
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that we were going to wait until
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daylight cuz we didn't want to go up
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there and stumble around on on more
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explosives and get more people injured
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and
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killed then a second explosion ripped
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through the
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site pumper 41 or pumper 30 answer
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pumper 41 or pumper
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30 at that same moment Jim kenton's wife
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was listening on a police scanner a
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visit from the battalion chief soon
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confirmed her worst
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fears he says they're gone I said no way
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they're still alive he said no they're
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gone his camp Captain came to the door
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and when he came in and I said don't
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tell me it isn't
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true and I I just started
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crying daylight revealed a devastated
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landscape as investigators sifted
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through the wreckage for
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Clues it was evident that nobody could
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have survived that it was just totally
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devastated I don't think any of the
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group that went up there was expecting
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we found I I don't think anybody had any
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idea that it was that bad I'd been in
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Vietnam and seen B52 strikes what the
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aftermath of those were and these
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craters were much larger than 2,000lb
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bombs leaves and as we found the
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firefighters we came to the last one and
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he was laying there and His Radio was
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still on and you could hear the voice of
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the dispatcher still coming out over the
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radio calling and it just kind of
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shattered the Stillness of it it's just
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a very surreal looking
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scene a public outcry erupted angry
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citizens inundated the police department
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with hundreds of
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leads the tips have ranged anywhere from
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uh someone out trying to steal someone
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out just for fun someone out just
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because they like to set fires wanted to
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see what would happen uh But as time
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wore on uh these leads soon wore out
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I guess I feel like if I knew who did it
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we'd know why they did it and I don't
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think they were trying to kill six
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firemen but somebody was trying to do
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something to somebody and six men are
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gone and that's hard to deal
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with we were all very proud of our
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husbands and we were proud of the people
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in Kansas City because they gave us such
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support we weren't alone
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update when we filmed the story Kansas
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City firemen had to push aside painful
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memories of the blast to help us film
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The
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Recreations their efforts paid off in a
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big way after the broadcast more than
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600 viewers contacted us their leads
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tips and information led directly to the
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indictment of five suspects 9 years
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after after the explosions all were
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found
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guilty they are George Frank Shepard his
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brother Earl their nephew Brian
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Shepard Frank Shepard's girlfriend
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Darlene
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Edwards and Richard W
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brown at the trial prosecutors said the
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fires had been set deliberately during
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an attempt to steal equipment and
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Dynamite from the construction
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site each of the defendants was sent to
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life in
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prison next the remarkable story of four
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men whose camping trip turned into a
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close encounter of the most terrifying
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kind in our next story four men describe
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terrifying events that happened while
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they were camping in the main Wilderness
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they claimed that they were abducted by
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aliens they've been polygraphed
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hypnotized and ridiculed but their
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stories never
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change I was starting to have nightmares
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really terrible nightmares that I could
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not
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explain I found myself in a very
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brightly lit room I had no idea where I
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was or why I was there to my left I
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could see my brother Jim Chuck rack and
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Charlie fult sitting on some type of
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bench and they were all
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naked I was wondering why they weren't
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helping me because I felt like I was in
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danger and while I'm trying to figure
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this out I notice this dark shadowy
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figure emerging from this bright light
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in front of
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me I would wake up sweating and
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breathing heavily and just in in a state
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of Terror and
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shock for years Jack weiner told no one
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about the nightmares except his wife
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Mary then Jack's twin brother Jim
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confessed that he too was being haunted
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by exactly the same disturbing
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nightmares
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it was a real surprise to find out that
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Jim was having identical dreams there
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were always certain elements of the
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dream that were the same some type of
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creature and uh being helpless being uh
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violated was a feeling I often woke up
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with in every dream the Twins were with
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Charlie folz and Chuck wck two friends
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they had met in
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school they wondered if these nightmares
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could be connected to a camping trip 12
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years earlier in
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Maine that summer the four men spent 2
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weeks in Main's Allagash
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Wilderness the Allagash covers thousands
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of acres in the northernmost part of the
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state on the second night out Jim
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noticed a bright object in the sky it's
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right over
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there it was just floating above the
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Treetops it didn't seem to be moving in
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any direction and I looked at it through
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the binoculars for maybe 15 seconds 30
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seconds and it suddenly just winked out
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from the outside edges inward it's gone
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where is it I mean it literally just
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went like that and it was
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gone there was something about this
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thing that left me with an odd feeling
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that wasn't quite right but I really
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didn't dwell on
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it the men continued through through the
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Allagash
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Wilderness on the fourth day they
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decided to try some night fishing they
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built a bonfire to mark their campsite
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hey guys someone want to give me a hang
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with this fire let's pitch black out
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there we'll never find way back it was
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it was a fairly good fire that would
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have lasted 4 hours bare minimum and
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then we struck out onto the lake just as
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it was getting
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dark Chuck rack was the first to realize
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that they weren't
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alone I had a feeling that there was
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someone staring at me from behind me I
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turned over my right shoulder like that
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and I saw this large round globe of
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light that looked exactly like what we
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had seen two nights
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previously it had this roiling effect to
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it like a miniature Sun very very bright
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it lit the tree tops up like daylight
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hey guys look at that and it was abs
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absolutely
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silent after looking at it for what
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seemed like several moments we decided
00:22:35
to Signal this thing and that's when
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Charlie picked up the flashlight and
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squeezed off a a message
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SOS the response was
00:22:48
instantaneous when the light started
00:22:50
coming toward us my curiosity was
00:22:53
satisfied I just dropped the flashlight
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the only thought in my mind was to get
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to sure I never looked
00:23:02
back I remember looking over my shoulder
00:23:06
trying to keep an eye on this object as
00:23:08
it was coming up behind us and and it
00:23:10
was getting very close I mean it was
00:23:12
almost on top of us at this point and I
00:23:15
remember thinking that we're not going
00:23:17
to outrun this thing let's go let's go
00:23:20
keep let's go let's get the shore come
00:23:26
on their next memory was being back on
00:23:30
Shore just staring up at the bright
00:23:35
object I remember thinking my God I
00:23:38
could pick up a stone and bounce it off
00:23:40
the side of this thing that's how close
00:23:42
it was and then all of a sudden it just
00:23:44
stre
00:23:46
away very very fast and within a few
00:23:48
seconds it was like a star just another
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light in the
00:23:52
sky I remember stepping out of the canoe
00:23:55
and going up to the campsite and I
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remember remember there was no
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Panic people seemed to be very relaxed
00:24:03
hey guys what do you want to do about
00:24:05
this fire it's out all four men agree
00:24:08
they were out on the lake for less than
00:24:10
20
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minutes the huge bonfire should have
00:24:13
burned for
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hours and yet
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inexplicably only coals
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remained the unusual thing is that we
00:24:24
didn't stay up for hours and discuss
00:24:26
this thing which is what you would think
00:24:28
you know four young guys on a camping
00:24:30
trip would do and uh we just seemed very
00:24:34
fatigued and we just wanted to go to bed
00:24:36
the next morning we got up and um got
00:24:38
our camp together and and paddled to the
00:24:41
next
00:24:44
campsite the men spent another 10 days
00:24:47
in the Allagash Wilderness but never
00:24:49
again saw the bizarre light as the years
00:24:52
went by they told friends and families
00:24:54
about the UFO sighting but no one really
00:24:57
believed them the men hardly believed it
00:25:01
themselves then the nightmares began for
00:25:03
Jim and Jack weiner hi Ray hi Jim
00:25:07
finally Jim contacted UFO researcher Ray
00:25:10
Fowler for
00:25:12
help Fowler suggested the Allagash 4
00:25:15
undergo hypnosis with a trained
00:25:18
hypnotherapist to recover details of the
00:25:21
sighting one by one they underwent
00:25:24
hypnosis
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[Music]
00:25:29
it's cold like a doctor's office it's
00:25:32
cold when we return the chilling details
00:25:35
of those sessions I don't like these
00:25:38
things I don't care where they come from
00:25:42
they shouldn't be doing this to
00:25:47
[Music]
00:25:51
people see you it's right there deep in
00:25:54
the wilderness of northern Maine four
00:25:57
men witnessed with a believed was a
00:26:00
UFO years later they underwent hypnosis
00:26:03
to probe the Forgotten details of their
00:26:08
experience under hypnosis each of the
00:26:10
men experienced terrifying repressed
00:26:13
memories memories of being
00:26:17
abducted they were almost exactly
00:26:21
alike independently of one another each
00:26:24
of them Drew illustrations of their
00:26:26
incredible recollections
00:26:28
these are the actual paintings and
00:26:31
[Music]
00:26:33
drawings all four said they were taken
00:26:35
aboard the
00:26:37
craft the aliens forced them to strip
00:26:40
naked and seem to be conducting medical
00:26:44
[Music]
00:26:46
examinations the aliens took samples of
00:26:49
the men's skin and body fluids their
00:26:51
blood urine and
00:26:57
seamen what follows are excerpts from
00:27:00
the actual
00:27:04
sessions they don't know what to do I
00:27:07
think they think I'm going to come after
00:27:08
them I feel like I want to I feel like I
00:27:11
want to the first one that comes near me
00:27:14
I'm going to throttle them I don't like
00:27:16
these things I don't care where they
00:27:18
come from they shouldn't be doing this
00:27:20
to
00:27:23
people Jack weiner found the faces
00:27:27
terrifying they're right
00:27:29
there their face is right in my
00:27:34
face I don't know
00:27:37
why I don't want to
00:27:39
know I don't want to know what they
00:27:42
want they're saying
00:27:46
things in my head they're
00:27:50
saying don't be
00:27:53
afraid they say do what we say just do
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what we
00:28:01
say Charlie folz was the next to be
00:28:06
examined it's cold like a doctor's
00:28:08
office it's
00:28:10
cold they put the panel over your
00:28:15
chest and then they scrape your
00:28:17
arms your chest your legs and
00:28:23
thighs we shouldn't be
00:28:26
here this
00:28:29
I just keep thinking I want to be back
00:28:30
in the
00:28:33
canoe Chuck R could actually see what
00:28:36
the aliens were doing to
00:28:39
Charlie see some sort of device on him
00:28:42
they've got a this looks like a silvery
00:28:45
like it's got curves on it it's almost
00:28:49
like like it sucks
00:28:52
something he's got his head tipped way
00:28:56
back it's almost like he in pain we
00:28:59
can't help him all we can do is watch
00:29:06
him I don't know if you're aware of it
00:29:09
you probably aren't because you haven't
00:29:10
been talking to each other it was not
00:29:12
until after the hypnosis sessions that
00:29:15
the Allagash Ford discovered that each
00:29:17
of them had recalled the same horrifying
00:29:20
events you saw the same things
00:29:22
experience the same we were amazed that
00:29:24
Jack would say something about how he
00:29:26
remembered the light or or Chuck would
00:29:28
say something that he remembered or
00:29:29
Charlie would say and we'd sit there my
00:29:32
God that's exactly what we remembered
00:29:35
one person would pause to take a breath
00:29:38
and the next person would pick up and
00:29:40
you knew what they were going to say you
00:29:42
knew what they were going to say and
00:29:44
when they paused for a breath you could
00:29:45
continue and it was also kind of uh nice
00:29:49
to know that I wasn't going
00:29:51
insane having these nightmares that they
00:29:53
were in fact me real memories of an
00:29:56
event that did happen
00:29:58
ultimately each of the Allagash 4 took
00:30:01
polygraph tests and passed
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[Music]
00:30:05
easily for Skeptics however stories of
00:30:09
alien abduction do not stand up to
00:30:11
scrutiny some suggest that images from
00:30:14
popular culture or horror movies may
00:30:17
have triggered false memories of alien
00:30:21
abduction some of the stories that you
00:30:24
hear about abductions are right out of
00:30:26
the films I mean almost verbatim
00:30:28
media driven it's cyclical you get some
00:30:31
good cases on TV people hear about them
00:30:34
they think they may have had the same
00:30:36
thing happen uh it it sort of feeds upon
00:30:38
itself hey guys look at that usually
00:30:41
these are people have no interest in
00:30:42
abductions have not read about it or
00:30:44
even unfamiliar with the nature of the
00:30:46
beings and are shocked and astounded
00:30:49
when they hear someone else has had
00:30:51
these experiences as well or that there
00:30:53
is material in the media about it the
00:30:55
investigators have a very clear-cut
00:30:57
agenda about what they're what they're
00:30:59
looking for so if you get somebody
00:31:00
that's doing uh UFO Abduction research
00:31:04
this is a person that generally has
00:31:06
already decided that UFO abductions are
00:31:08
real that thousands of people are having
00:31:10
them they have a symptom list and if you
00:31:12
come in the door with those symptoms
00:31:13
then you must have been abducted it
00:31:15
really doesn't work like that I'm open
00:31:18
to listen to something which other
00:31:21
therapists or uh other mental health
00:31:25
professionals have not been able to
00:31:27
listen listen
00:31:29
to this is not a club anyone wants to
00:31:31
belong
00:31:34
to this happened if you believe it
00:31:38
that's all right if you don't believe it
00:31:40
I don't care I don't care cuz it
00:31:45
did for the skeptic UFO stories may seem
00:31:48
dubious or even
00:31:50
Preposterous so until there's an alien
00:31:53
spacecraft placed on public display
00:31:55
somewhere there will be doubters
00:31:59
even so the stories are hard to explain
00:32:02
in some of the most fascinating Unsolved
00:32:04
Mysteries we
00:32:09
encounter coming up in Wyoming a
00:32:12
marathon runner mysteriously disappears
00:32:15
could her husband have been involved
00:32:29
Lander
00:32:30
Wyoming her name is Amy Beckel she's
00:32:33
just 24 years old a dedicated athlete
00:32:37
and Olympic hopeful Amy and her husband
00:32:40
Steve seem perfectly matched both
00:32:43
dedicated athletes both bright and
00:32:47
attractive on this day she runs alone in
00:32:49
the tall trees of the shishoni national
00:32:53
forest and
00:32:56
disappears as time went by and there was
00:32:58
no sign of Amy police suspected Foul
00:33:03
Play and her husband Steve became a key
00:33:09
suspect Amy and Steve beell had been
00:33:11
married for a little more than a year
00:33:13
both loved the outdoors running for Amy
00:33:16
and climbing for Steve they moved to
00:33:19
Lander because its rugged terrain made
00:33:21
it a perfect training
00:33:23
ground Amy's always really fond of
00:33:25
saying you know let's retire now and
00:33:27
then will work when we're old have to
00:33:29
work some odd jobs and things like that
00:33:31
but basically every day we live the way
00:33:34
we want
00:33:36
to hi Emy hey Sam and I are going to do
00:33:40
Bo check out a new route it was a
00:33:42
typical day for Amy and her husband
00:33:44
Steve bye hi Steve was going rock
00:33:47
climbing with a friend Amy had a long
00:33:50
list of vand call a phone company get
00:33:52
the gas turned on buy some home
00:33:55
insurance once those tasks were done she
00:33:58
turned to something fun planning a route
00:34:01
for a 10K Mountain
00:34:03
Run when Steve returned from his all day
00:34:06
climbing trip Amy wasn't home yet found
00:34:09
a nice friction climb we was talking
00:34:11
casually and he asked about Amy I said I
00:34:13
don't know she's up somewhere she goes
00:34:15
okay no problem hey guys hey Steve early
00:34:18
evening what's cooking Steve stopped in
00:34:20
on Todd and his wife Amy still wasn't
00:34:24
home where's Amy I think he was getting
00:34:26
more and more worried at this time
00:34:28
she usually leaves a note he wasn't
00:34:30
panicking by any means because it was
00:34:32
still light and still you know she could
00:34:34
have been out doing something it was it
00:34:36
was not an an unordinary day for Amy so
00:34:40
we didn't think it was unusual that she
00:34:43
was gone but when we got back from the
00:34:45
movie I was really
00:34:48
worried am's not back yet she's not back
00:34:52
no I haven't heard anything from her I
00:34:54
called the police they're out looking
00:34:55
for Todd and his wife a search roads
00:34:58
where Amy beel most likely went running
00:35:01
Steve stayed behind hoping his wife
00:35:03
would call Tod and I had been driving on
00:35:06
the loop road for about an hour or so
00:35:09
and right around 1:00 we glimpsed Amy's
00:35:12
car pulled off the side of the
00:35:15
road okay we'll find her now we saw our
00:35:18
car there and it was like you know we
00:35:19
were
00:35:20
relieved it's like oh man we thought
00:35:22
we'd found her so I walked up ex
00:35:26
completely expecting for her be in the
00:35:28
car she's not in there like and had um
00:35:31
run out of gas or not been able to start
00:35:33
it or a dead battery or who knows what
00:35:35
the heck I'll go call the sherff
00:35:39
[Music]
00:35:42
heyy at that point it was relief you
00:35:44
know and concerned because you know her
00:35:47
car's still up there and it's it's you
00:35:48
know after midnight and you know she's
00:35:51
probably cold and maybe has a twisted
00:35:53
ankle
00:35:54
Amy but Amy was nowhere to be found not
00:35:58
in a few minutes not even a few hours
00:36:03
Amy by morning dozens of volunteers were
00:36:06
scouring the mountains more than 500
00:36:09
people covered a 20m radius not a single
00:36:12
clue was
00:36:15
found we should have found Amy Beal if
00:36:18
she were a runner up there and nothing
00:36:19
else entered the
00:36:21
picture could she still be there yes but
00:36:25
given the circumstances the lack of
00:36:26
Clues
00:36:28
I don't think she
00:36:30
is after 8 Days the massive search was
00:36:33
called
00:36:34
off Dave King suspected Foul Play and
00:36:38
accused Steve of knowing much more than
00:36:41
he was
00:36:43
saying Steve you know what this
00:36:46
is no this is evidence that ties you
00:36:50
directly to Amy's
00:36:52
disappearance I was pretty blown away
00:36:54
you know and I turned to Dave I was like
00:36:55
you know Dave what's going on here then
00:36:57
this is this is not cool he was floored
00:37:02
basically he slumped down in the chair
00:37:05
we have some serious questions about you
00:37:07
and your wife's
00:37:10
relationship the best thing you can do
00:37:12
right now is
00:37:13
cooperate the guy says look if you take
00:37:15
a polygraph test we'll get this cleared
00:37:17
up right now and I was like wait a
00:37:18
minute you know if you guys are accusing
00:37:20
me of something I didn't do I'm going to
00:37:22
want to talk to legal counsel here I
00:37:25
wouldn't let any client take a lie
00:37:26
detector test or completely
00:37:28
inaccurate uh they come in about
00:37:31
onethird of the time as a false positive
00:37:33
and it would be a terrible Injustice to
00:37:36
Steve if he fell within that one-third
00:37:38
false positive and it was used wrongly
00:37:40
against
00:37:42
him deputies searched Steve and Amy's
00:37:45
home among the items They confiscated
00:37:47
were a series of journals Steve had been
00:37:50
keeping since high school journals
00:37:52
investigators found
00:37:55
incriminating we've obtained many pages
00:37:58
of writings there are song lyrics in
00:38:00
there and there are writings about power
00:38:02
and death some about killing
00:38:08
people Sheriff's investigators asked
00:38:10
Amy's family and friends to read exerpts
00:38:13
did you see that I was floored wondered
00:38:17
about this guy you
00:38:19
know at that point my wife and I we both
00:38:21
thought you know there are some things
00:38:22
that we've seen in the past that you
00:38:24
know maybe somebody should be aware of
00:38:27
brother told the sheriff about one night
00:38:29
Amy and Steve were over for
00:38:32
dinner how did you get that bruise it's
00:38:35
nothing it's just a bruise just a bruise
00:38:37
just a bruise you know Steve can get a
00:38:39
little rough
00:38:41
sometimes Amy just laughed it off would
00:38:43
not look me in the eye and I said that
00:38:46
is not a normal reaction it's
00:38:48
particularly for
00:38:51
Amy deputies also found a camper who
00:38:53
claimed that on the day Amy disappeared
00:38:56
she had seen a blue pickup up truck
00:38:57
driving fast on the Mountain close to
00:39:00
where Amy's car was
00:39:03
found a man was at the wheel and a
00:39:05
blonde woman was in the passenger
00:39:08
seat the next day the camper saw the
00:39:11
same truck at the search
00:39:14
site based on that information we showed
00:39:16
her pictures of Steve beckler's truck
00:39:19
and she concluded that that was the same
00:39:21
truck she had
00:39:24
seen evidence was mounting against the
00:39:27
Steve Beckel but was that evidence
00:39:31
conclusive statistically he did it first
00:39:33
person we have to eliminate in the case
00:39:35
where there may be Foul Play involved in
00:39:37
one's disappearance is the person
00:39:39
closest to that
00:39:40
person hey Sam and I are going to
00:39:43
Sheriff's investigators believe that
00:39:44
there were incriminating gaps in Steve's
00:39:47
activities that day time when he could
00:39:50
have harmed Amy he was with people all
00:39:52
that afternoon and evening so I don't I
00:39:55
don't have any question question about
00:39:58
about that he just didn't have the time
00:40:01
but what about the camper who said she
00:40:03
saw what might have been Steve's
00:40:05
truck according to phone records Steve
00:40:08
made a call from his house at 4:43 that
00:40:12
afternoon Johnny hey it's Steve that's
00:40:16
about the same time the camper saw what
00:40:18
she alleged was the truck on the
00:40:20
Mountain Road a 45-minute drive from the
00:40:23
beckel's home I don't see how Steve ever
00:40:27
had the time to get up to where Amy's
00:40:29
car was and
00:40:31
[Music]
00:40:33
back and what about motive investigators
00:40:37
believe Steve's Journal show a desire
00:40:39
for power and control that may have led
00:40:41
to murder Steve and Amy's friend tdd
00:40:44
Skinner strongly
00:40:46
disagrees a psychologist can read
00:40:49
anything into any writing that you can
00:40:51
ever wish to put in there and to me I've
00:40:53
never seen more innocuous writing taken
00:40:56
out of context more heavily to you know
00:40:59
to a worse
00:41:01
result Amy's family still wants answers
00:41:06
they want Steve to take a polygraph test
00:41:09
I don't feel like me going in and
00:41:12
getting attacked is going to solve any
00:41:14
problems I feel like uh you know I went
00:41:17
and I tried to work with Dave and it
00:41:20
didn't work out um and you know things
00:41:24
need to get solved a different way now
00:41:27
7 years after she disappeared Steve had
00:41:31
Amy declared
00:41:33
dead he has since
00:41:38
remarried did Steve Beckel murder his
00:41:41
wife the town of Lander Wyoming is still
00:41:44
divided he says a stranger could have
00:41:47
kidnapped Amy or a car could have
00:41:49
accidentally hit her her family will
00:41:53
never be
00:41:55
convinced if you have any any
00:41:57
information about Amy Beckel or any of
00:42:00
the other cases we profiled tonight
00:42:02
please log on to unsolved.com
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This episode stands out for the following:

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    Most shocking
  • 75
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  • 75
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  • 70
    Most dramatic

Episode Highlights

  • The Disappearance of Margie Gelic
    Margie Gelic's sudden disappearance raises questions of abduction or voluntary escape after meeting a biker gang leader.
    “Was it of her own free will or was there something else?”
    @ 02m 19s
    March 09, 2017
  • Tragic Explosion in Kansas City
    A devastating explosion claims the lives of six firefighters, revealing a case of arson and murder.
    “The first minutes gave no hint of what was to come.”
    @ 10m 45s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Allagash Abductions
    Four men recount their terrifying experience of alien abduction during a camping trip in Maine.
    “I was starting to have nightmares, really terrible nightmares that I could not explain.”
    @ 18m 46s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Allagash 4's Terrifying Experience
    Four men independently recall abduction memories under hypnosis, revealing chilling similarities.
    “We were amazed that Jack would say something about how he remembered the light.”
    @ 29m 22s
    March 09, 2017
  • Skepticism Around UFO Abductions
    Experts discuss how popular culture may influence alien abduction memories.
    “Some of the stories that you hear about abductions are right out of the films.”
    @ 30m 28s
    March 09, 2017
  • The Disappearance of Amy Beckel
    A young athlete vanishes during a run, leading to suspicions against her husband.
    “I don’t think she is after 8 days the massive search was called off.”
    @ 36m 30s
    March 09, 2017

Episode Quotes

  • This is so out of character for Margie.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 3 - Full, Episode
  • I’d rather have him go this way than to lay in a coma.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 3 - Full, Episode
  • We were all very proud of our husbands.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 3 - Full, Episode
  • I feel like I want to throttle them.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 3 - Full, Episode
  • I don’t care if you believe it or not.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 3 - Full, Episode
  • I was pretty blown away.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 3 - Full, Episode

Key Moments

  • Margie's Disappearance07:13
  • Firefighters' Tragedy10:26
  • Hypnosis Revelations26:00
  • Abduction Memories26:17
  • Chilling Illustrations26:24
  • Fear and Confusion27:11
  • Search for Amy36:03
  • Suspicions Arise36:34

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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 1, Episode 10 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 15 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 15 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 6, Episode 23 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 6, Episode 23 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 10, Episode 4 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 10, Episode 4 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 16
March 09, 2017
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42:48
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 16
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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42:53
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 13 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 1 - Updated Full Episode
July 26, 2021
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42:53
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 1 - Updated Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 6 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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42:52
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 6 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 8