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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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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
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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
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instantaneous when the light started
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coming toward us my curiosity was
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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
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back I remember looking over my shoulder
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trying to keep an eye on this object as
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it was coming up behind us and and it
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was getting very close I mean it was
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almost on top of us at this point and I
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remember thinking that we're not going
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to outrun this thing let's go let's go
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keep let's go let's get the shore come
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on their next memory was being back on
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Shore just staring up at the bright
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object I remember thinking my God I
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could pick up a stone and bounce it off
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the side of this thing that's how close
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it was and then all of a sudden it just
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stre
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away very very fast and within a few
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seconds it was like a star just another
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light in the
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sky I remember stepping out of the canoe
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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
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hey guys what do you want to do about
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this fire it's out all four men agree
00:24:08
they were out on the lake for less than
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20
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minutes the huge bonfire should have
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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
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didn't stay up for hours and discuss
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this thing which is what you would think
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you know four young guys on a camping
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trip would do and uh we just seemed very
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fatigued and we just wanted to go to bed
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the next morning we got up and um got
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our camp together and and paddled to the
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next
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campsite the men spent another 10 days
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in the Allagash Wilderness but never
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again saw the bizarre light as the years
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went by they told friends and families
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about the UFO sighting but no one really
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believed them the men hardly believed it
00:25:01
themselves then the nightmares began for
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Jim and Jack weiner hi Ray hi Jim
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finally Jim contacted UFO researcher Ray
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Fowler for
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help Fowler suggested the Allagash 4
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undergo hypnosis with a trained
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hypnotherapist to recover details of the
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sighting one by one they underwent
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hypnosis
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it's cold like a doctor's office it's
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cold when we return the chilling details
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of those sessions I don't like these
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things I don't care where they come from
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they shouldn't be doing this to
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people see you it's right there deep in
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the wilderness of northern Maine four
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men witnessed with a believed was a
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UFO years later they underwent hypnosis
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to probe the Forgotten details of their
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experience under hypnosis each of the
00:26:10
men experienced terrifying repressed
00:26:13
memories memories of being
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abducted they were almost exactly
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alike independently of one another each
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of them Drew illustrations of their
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incredible recollections
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these are the actual paintings and
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drawings all four said they were taken
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aboard the
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craft the aliens forced them to strip
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naked and seem to be conducting medical
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examinations the aliens took samples of
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the men's skin and body fluids their
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blood urine and
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seamen what follows are excerpts from
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the actual
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sessions they don't know what to do I
00:27:07
think they think I'm going to come after
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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
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these things I don't care where they
00:27:18
come from they shouldn't be doing this
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to
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people Jack weiner found the faces
00:27:27
terrifying they're right
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there their face is right in my
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face I don't know
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why I don't want to
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know I don't want to know what they
00:27:42
want they're saying
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things in my head they're
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saying don't be
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afraid they say do what we say just do
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what we
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say Charlie folz was the next to be
00:28:06
examined it's cold like a doctor's
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office it's
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cold they put the panel over your
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chest and then they scrape your
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arms your chest your legs and
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thighs we shouldn't be
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here this
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I just keep thinking I want to be back
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in the
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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
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like like it sucks
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something he's got his head tipped way
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back it's almost like he in pain we
00:28:59
can't help him all we can do is watch
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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
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continue and it was also kind of uh nice
00:29:49
to know that I wasn't going
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insane having these nightmares that they
00:29:53
were in fact me real memories of an
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event that did happen
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ultimately each of the Allagash 4 took
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polygraph tests and passed
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easily for Skeptics however stories of
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alien abduction do not stand up to
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scrutiny some suggest that images from
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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