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DENNIS FARINA: Next, on
"Unsolved Mysteries."
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A 21-year-old woman is killed
by a single shotgun blast.
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The authorities
say it was suicide,
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but her parents have convincing
evidence that someone
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else fired the gun.
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In Canada, an
elusive sea monster
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called Ogopogo is
finally caught on tape
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by three different
people-- or so they say.
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How did human bones
end up in this Kentucky
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stream and whose are they?
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Forensic anthropologist Dr.
Emily Craig is brought in
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to solve the mystery.
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And the day before
Molly Bish disappeared
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from her lifeguard station,
her mother saw a suspicious man
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lurking in [inaudible].
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Could he have abducted Molly?
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Five fascinating mysteries--
some just waiting to be solved.
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I'm Dennis Farina, and this
is "Unsolved Mysteries."
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[theme music]
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Roanoke, Virginia.
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At 7:53 PM, a single
shotgun blast rips
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through a quiet neighborhood.
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21 year old Rae Ann Mossor is
pronounced dead at the scene.
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She has a shotgun
wound to the chest.
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M. DAVID HOOPER: When
officers arrived at 7:57,
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they found a shotgun lying
on the trunk of the car
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pointed in the direction
of where the young lady
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would have been standing.
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She had dated a young man who
lived in that house nearby.
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--pretty heated argument.
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M. DAVID HOOPER: It was his
car that she was lying beside.
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As she stormed out, the
last thing she said to me was,
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what do I have to do to prove
my love to you-- kill myself?
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And then she ran out the door.
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You didn't come
to the door when
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you heard the shotgun blast?
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No, sir.
No, sir.
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I didn't go outside.
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I didn't even look outside.
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I-- if there was anybody
outside with a shotgun,
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I was going to stay inside.
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I feared for my life.
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DENNIS FARINA: After questioning
Rae Ann's ex-boyfriend,
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the police find no
evidence of foul play,
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and her death is
ruled a suicide.
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Rae Ann and her
boyfriend had broken up,
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and three witnesses said that
she threatened to kill herself.
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But Rae Ann's parents believe
that they found evidence
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proving that she was murdered,
and they want an investigation.
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ANN MOSSOR: When our
daughter was murdered,
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she was charged and
convicted of a crime
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she did not do to herself.
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And the power within
me and my husband
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both is to find out why,
who, and what happened.
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This is definitely
was not a suicide,
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and I really don't care
what anybody thinks.
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DENNIS FARINA: When they
examined police reports,
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Rae Ann's parents
began to discover
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evidence that cast doubt on
suicide as the cause of death.
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Rae Ann's car was parked
directly across the street
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from where she died.
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They discovered her
car door was wide open,
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music was blaring
from the radio,
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and her key was still
in the ignition.
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She seemed to have left
the car in a hurry.
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The police found
the 12-gauge shotgun
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lying on the trunk of the car.
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Her parents believe that if
Rae Ann had shot herself,
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the weapon would have fallen
to the ground beside her body.
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How long was Rae Ann's arm?
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- 29 inches.
- OK.
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29 inches.
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Right there--
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DENNIS FARINA: Rae Ann's
arm measured 29 inches.
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But the distance from
the trigger of the shot
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and to the muzzle was 36 inches.
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ANN MOSSOR: My arm
length was right close
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to my daughter's arm length.
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So I took a broomstick
and measured it out
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to be able to push that
trigger with my thumb
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and to be able to
get it in after we'd
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seen the body diagram.
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I couldn't reach it.
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There's no way.
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She couldn't have pulled
that trigger and shot herself.
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DENNIS FARINA: On the
night of Rae Ann's death,
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authorities told her parents
there would be an autopsy.
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Two weeks later, Ron
and Ann discovered
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that it had never been
performed or even requested.
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When I found out the
autopsy was not performed,
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I was shocked.
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The Mossors had Rae
Ann's body exhumed.
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Finally, six months
after her death,
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an autopsy was performed
by Dr. David Oxley,
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the original medical examiner.
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--in the anterior
chest, corresponding
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to the wound seen at the
previous examination of--
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DENNIS FARINA: According
to Oxley's report,
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Rae Ann was killed by a
contact wound to the chest,
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meaning the muzzle of the
gun was against her skin.
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In addition, powder burns were
found on Rae Ann's left wrist.
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After the autopsy,
the medical examiner
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declined to change
the ruling of suicide.
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ANN MOSSOR: There
was nothing matching.
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Things weren't adding up right,
so that's where we started
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back for another opinion.
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DENNIS FARINA: The
Mossors contacted Dr. John
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Butts, the chief medical
examiner for the state
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of North Carolina.
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His conclusions differed
significantly from the findings
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of the autopsy.
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JOHN BUTTS: It seems that
suicide is extremely unlikely.
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I could see that the
muzzle of the weapon
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was several feet from her body
at the time it was discharged.
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The appearance of the
powder on her hand
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indicate that that hand
was close to the muzzle
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of the gun that discharged.
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Perhaps grabbing at the gun,
perhaps holding the gun.
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Now, whatever was at the other
end of that gun, I don't know.
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DENNIS FARINA: Based
on Dr. Butts's finding,
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the medical examiner officially
changed the manner of death
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from "suicide" to "pending."
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Still, there was
no investigation.
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ANN MOSSOR: We knew
when we read Dr.
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Butts's statement it
had to go on until we
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found out what happened.
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DENNIS FARINA: The Mossors set
out to get a third opinion.
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They contacted Dr. Vincent
DiMaio, one of the country's
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leading forensic scientists.
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VINCENT DIMAIO: When I
received the material
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that they had-- well, I think
the case was screwed up.
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The police had a preset notion
as to what had happened,
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and they just didn't follow
through with an investigation.
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The medical examiner should
have performed an autopsy--
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he should have been
suspicious as soon as he
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saw the pattern of injuries.
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It's not a contact wound.
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She couldn't have inflicted it.
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DENNIS FARINA: With the
help of an assistant,
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Dr. DiMaio showed
that it was physically
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impossible for Rae Ann to have
shot herself in the chest.
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This is the closest that
the muzzle was to the body.
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So if we move it
even further away,
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she'd have even greater
trouble getting to the trigger.
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But if we move it to
the closest and then,
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if she tries to reach-- look
what happens-- as she reaches,
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the body rotates,
and there is no way
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she can get to the trigger and
yet have the gun pointed almost
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directly at her right chest.
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What this means,
is that somebody
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else pulled the trigger.
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It's possible that the
reason her left hand was
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adjacent to the muzzle
at the time it was fired
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was that she had grabbed it and
was attempting to push the gun
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away at the time it was fired.
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DENNIS FARINA:
Again, the Mossors
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asked for the investigation
to be reopened.
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And again, the
request was denied.
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RONALD MOSSOR: We was working
with a Commonwealth attorney
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that just would not help us.
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He was stonewalling us.
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He just would not do anything.
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He just was setting on his buns
and he wasn't doing anything,
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you know.
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DENNIS FARINA: The Mossors
next contacted RJ Breglio,
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a ballistics investigator.
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He tried to figure out if Rae
Ann could have accidentally
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discharged the gun by
dropping it on the ground
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or hitting it against
the car in anger.
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The butt test is a test to
see if, by dropping or slamming
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the butt against the floor when
it is cocked, if it could fire.
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I performed this test many
times with the shotgun
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and I could not get
it to discharge.
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In my opinion, I don't see how
it would have landed neatly
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on the trunk of that car.
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I think it would slide off to
the ground in whichever way
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it happened to fall.
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DENNIS FARINA: Again, the
Mossors sent their new evidence
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to Donald Caldwell, the
Commonwealth attorney,
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and requested that
the case be reopened.
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His only reply was, I am
in receipt of your letter.
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ANN MOSSOR: I made a
promise to my daughter
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before that cask lid was closed.
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I told her-- I said,
Rae Ann, if this is not
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what it looks like-- if it
takes me the rest my life,
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I'll find out what
happened to you.
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DENNIS FARINA: Three
years after Rae Ann died,
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the state medical examiner
changed the manner of death
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to undetermined.
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There still has been
no investigation
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and the medical examiner
and Commonwealth attorney
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declined to be interviewed
for this program.
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Next, the incredible
tale of a monster
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called Ogopogo that
just might exist
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in a lake in British Columbia.
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Lake Okanagan in the Canadian
province of British Columbia.
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For centuries, it has
been the reputed home
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of a mysterious water beast
that resembles a sea serpent.
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The lake is 79 miles long and
in some places 800 feet deep--
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a lot of room for a monster
to make itself at home.
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In the 1700s, local Indians
called the beast the Naitaka,
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or lake demon.
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They often sacrificed
small animals
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to appease the creature.
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300 years later, many
locals still believe
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that the sea monster is real.
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They've even given it
a new name-- Ogopogo.
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I saw it back in 1937.
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We were facing the
lake at the time
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and there's this head of
something or other swimming
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around out there and
we were all convinced
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that it was the Ogopogo.
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Very big.
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It was very scary.
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About two feet out of
the water, the head part--
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and the head itself was round.
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And then the kind of a neck
part went down in the water
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and it had a great
big long tail.
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All you could see was just a
little bit of a hump, sort of,
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just coming out of the
splashes and stuff.
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And it went on for a
little bit, and we saw it
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and then we didn't
know what to do.
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And then it just went back in
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And then it went
under, so we just
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got out of there because we
were, like, scared in a canoe.
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DENNIS FARINA: Hundreds
of sightings of Ogopogo
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have been reported,
but no film footage
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was ever captured until 1968.
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That year, Art
Folden and his wife
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were driving next
to the lake when
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they noticed something strange.
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We had seen something
in the lake near the shore
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and I said, hey, look, just
jokingly, there's Ogopogo.
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I said, I want to stop and
see if I can get a picture.
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I stopped filming every time
it dove under the water.
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And as it reappeared,
I began to film again.
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Yeah, that's
Ogopogo, I tell you.
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ART FOLDEN: The film shows
a dark object diving,
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reappearing in a
sequence of moves that
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indicates that it's moving
out from shallow water
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into deeper water.
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DENNIS FARINA: The pine
trees along the shore
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are about 25 feet tall.
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The dark mass in Art's film is
estimated to be 40 feet long.
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12 years after the
Folden film was made,
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a group of vacationers thought
they, too, had seen Ogopogo.
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One of them, Larry Thal,
had a home movie camera.
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I was taking pictures
of the kids and the wife
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and, bingo, all of a sudden
the Ogopogo, supposedly,
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or whatever it may have been,
appeared on Lake Okanagan
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and I was right
there with my camera.
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It was a strange
sight in the water.
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DENNIS FARINA: Played
in slow motion,
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the fall film shows
intriguing details.
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ARLENE GAAL: Larry's film
shows how the animal swims.
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It shows the speed and the
massive waves that it creates.
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It actually shows
that it has some form
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of appendage that seems to
pop up every now and then.
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But the interesting
thing, again,
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is that the animal
that Art Folden shot
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and the animal that
Larry Thal shot-- they're
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basically the same size.
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They're very large creatures.
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And in Larry's film, we're
seeing a creature at least 40
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to 60 feet from head to tail.
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No doubt.
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DENNIS FARINA: Nine years
later, 78 year old Clem Chaplin
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showed his son,
Ken, an inlet where
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he thought he had seen Ogopogo.
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Ken took his video camera
and staked out the area.
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It paid off.
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What Ken taped was
a creature that
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appeared to be hairless,
greenish in color, spotted,
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and about 15 feet long-- less
than half the size measured
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in the Folden and Thal films.
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KEN CHAPLIN: I saw its
features very clearly
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as being snake- or
lizard-like-- no fur or hair--
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and you can see the body
thrashing behind it.
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And then brought its tail
section out of the water.
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Dad and I were
stunned into silence.
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And then Dad turned to
me and he said, you know,
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if that tail hit a man
it'd probably kill him.
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And I agreed.
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That was our
impression as to size.
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It appeared, swimming,
parallel to the shore
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and swam right past us at
maybe 60 to 75 feet away.
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DENNIS FARINA: Ken's
video made headlines.
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Time magazine and
many other newspapers
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carried the story of
what appeared to be
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a new Loch Ness type monster.
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Experts were called in
to analyze the video.
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It was not a hoax.
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There was nothing in there
that gave us the impression
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this was fabricated in any way.
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It was a live, living animal.
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The discussion revolved around
the two species most likely,
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and that is a river
otter and a beaver.
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Ogopogo could exist elsewhere in
Okanagan Lake but, in our view,
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this particular video
was of a beaver.
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KEN CHAPLIN: You
know the largest
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recorded beaver in the interior
is 4 and 1/2 feet long.
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Now at 75 to 100 feet
away, I just can't see Dad
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and I being very impressed.
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On this side, we
have a still photograph
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taken from the video
recording by Mr. Chaplin.
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On this side, we have
a color photograph
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of a beaver with its tail
held vertically in the air
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just prior to a tail slap.
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The two photographs
seem, for the most part,
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to be mirror images
of one another.
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DENNIS FARINA: Ken disagrees.
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He says the creature he
saw was 15 feet long,
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not four feet like a beaver.
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I've asked myself
thousands of times,
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is there a possibility
I could be mistaken,
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and I just can't see
where I could be.
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For those who want to call
it a beaver, I'll say no way.
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An otter, I can't buy it.
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A miniature Ogopogo,
in all probability.
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DENNIS FARINA: Experts may
disagree about Ken's footage,
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but there is still
no explanation
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for the 40 foot long creature
seen in Art Folden's film
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or the similar one churning up a
wake in the Larry Thal footage.
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And hundreds of other
sightings attest
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to the presence of something
unusual in Lake Okanagan.
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ROBERT LINCOLN: I would be
delighted to find that Ogopogo
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really existed in Okanagan Lake
and I would encourage everybody
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to keep not only
their minds open,
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but their eyes open when
they're in the Okanagan.
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Who knows what really
exciting wildlife
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encounter that they may enjoy.
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DENNIS FARINA: Is Ogopogo real?
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Well, the Canadian
government thinks so.
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It even issued a postage
stamp depicting an artist's
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conception of Ogopogo.
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Coming up, a renowned
forensic scientist
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helps identify a murder victim
from just a few bone fragments.
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I told you before
you had no right--
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DENNIS FARINA: A bitter
argument erupts on the streets
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of Covington, Kentucky.
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Because that's our money.
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DENNIS FARINA: After
a night of drinking,
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Diane Washer and her husband,
Jimmy, are at it again.
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I'm so tired of fighting
with you about this.
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Look, there are two
names on that account--
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your name and my name-- and
that makes it our money.
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TODD KENNER: Diane Washer and
Jimmy Washer, that evening,
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were fighting over money
and fighting over the fact
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that she had just
received a $10,000 SSI
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settlement due to her bed back.
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As he approached her and
they got into an argument,
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she struck him with the phone,
on the payphone called 911,
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and, by the time the
Covington police got there,
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Jimmy Washer had already left.
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You called?
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Yeah.
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DENNIS FARINA: Diane disappeared
and police immediately
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questioned her husband, Jimmy.
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Jimmy Washer was my number one
suspect, primarily because he
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hadn't reported her missing.
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OFFICER: And eyes straight
forward, feet on the floor
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in front of you.
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CHARLES VALLANDINGHAM:
And I had asked Mr. Washer
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if he would consent to taking
a polygraph in reference
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to his wife.
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Yes.
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OFFICER: Did you cause
the death of Diane Washer?
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No.
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CHARLES VALLANDINGHAM: The
test was ruled inconclusive
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because some of what he
was answering was truthful,
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some wasn't.
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There wasn't enough credibility
to his answers to totally
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erase Mr. Washer as a suspect.
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DENNIS FARINA:
Three years passed.
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Outside of Covington,
deputies searching
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for an illegal marijuana field
came across something else.
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Looks like a skull.
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DENNIS FARINA: A
crushed human skull
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and seven other bone fragments
were found in a creek bed.
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Covington police
brought in Emily Craig,
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one of the country's
leading experts
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in forensic anthropology.
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EMILY CRAIG: From here, it
looks like blunt force trauma.
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I was able to determine
that the bones
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hadn't been there that long.
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The end of the long bone
still had some remnants
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of soft tissue, and the bones
had kind of a greasy feel,
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which indicates the
post-mortem interval really
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hasn't been that many years.
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And my initial estimate
of the time since death
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was between 12 and 36 months.
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There's another one.
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There's another one.
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Oh, look, there's bones
all over the place.
00:20:23
EMILY CRAIG: We did a
line search of the area.
00:20:25
We started where the
bones had been found
00:20:27
and basically worked upstream.
00:20:30
Once we got all the
evidence back to the lab,
00:20:32
then we were able to get a
better biological profile
00:20:35
of the victim.
00:20:37
She was female, she was white,
just a little over 5 feet tall,
00:20:41
and I also was able to determine
from the bones of the skull
00:20:45
that she had
sustained massive head
00:20:47
trauma at the time of death.
00:20:50
There was one particular
bone that was intriguing,
00:20:53
and that was a bone
from her lower back.
00:20:56
This particular bone showed
a lot more arthritis.
00:21:00
Some bony lipping
and changes that
00:21:02
were just not consistent with
the rest of the skeleton.
00:21:06
So I was able to offer an
opinion that this individual
00:21:10
suffered from back pain.
00:21:12
DENNIS FARINA: From their
missing person's files,
00:21:14
police find a match for
the profile-- Diane Washer.
00:21:18
Shortly before she vanished,
Diane injured her back
00:21:21
in a traffic collision.
00:21:23
LISA BAYNUM: When they called
me and said they found my mom,
00:21:27
I totally went into shock.
00:21:29
I mean I kind of knew she
was dead by that point,
00:21:34
but like I said,
I carried on hope.
00:21:36
Being able to bury
her was great.
00:21:39
It did help a lot.
00:21:41
DENNIS FARINA: When the
discovery of Diane's remains
00:21:43
was made public, an
informant came forward.
00:21:47
He said a local house
painter, Larry Freeman,
00:21:50
was responsible
for Diane's death.
00:21:54
This is Diane
Washer right here.
00:21:56
DENNIS FARINA: When
police brought in Freeman
00:21:57
for questioning, he confessed.
00:22:01
He said he and Diane
got drunk together
00:22:03
and then went joyriding.
00:22:05
He lost control of
the car and Diane
00:22:07
was ejected from
the passenger seat.
00:22:10
When the vehicle finally came
to a stop, he ran back to her,
00:22:14
saw that her hair
was blood soaked,
00:22:16
and realized he had
probably killed her.
00:22:18
It was at that point that
he took her down to an area
00:22:20
where he was raised, where
he fell comfortable in,
00:22:23
threw her into the creek.
00:22:27
DENNIS FARINA: Larry Freeman
pleaded guilty to manslaughter
00:22:30
and received a 20 year sentence.
00:22:36
This mystery is
just one of hundreds
00:22:38
that Dr. Craig has helped solve.
00:22:40
But some of her cases
cannot be closed
00:22:43
without additional information,
and maybe you can help.
00:22:49
Barren County, Kentucky.
00:22:50
What's this?
00:22:52
DENNIS FARINA: It all began when
two teenagers were returning
00:22:55
home from exploring caves.
00:22:57
Some kind of bones.
00:22:58
Oh, that's a human bone.
00:23:00
DENNIS FARINA: In
a roadside dump,
00:23:01
they discovered fragments
of a human skeleton.
00:23:05
The county coroner called
Dr. Craig to the scene.
00:23:10
Basically, all we had
when we first started
00:23:13
was a pair of red jeans with
the human leg bone still inside.
00:23:17
OK.
00:23:19
Here's the fibula.
00:23:22
I see another arm
bone and shin bone.
00:23:26
Dr. Craig, I think
I found the skull.
00:23:29
EMILY CRAIG: The skull is the
best indicator of race and sex.
00:23:34
You look at the brow ridge,
you look at the nose,
00:23:36
you look at the
chin, the cheeks--
00:23:38
just the general shape.
00:23:40
DENNIS FARINA: The victim was a
white female in her early 40s.
00:23:44
Cut marks on one of the
bones indicated she might
00:23:47
have been stabbed to death.
00:23:49
EMILY CRAIG: Let's
start collecting this.
00:23:52
Left tennis shoe or a sneaker--
whatever you want to call it.
00:23:55
DENNIS FARINA: Dr. Craig hoped
that the victim's clothes might
00:23:59
match a description in one of
the local police departments'
00:24:02
missing persons files.
00:24:04
When I got these
remains back to the lab,
00:24:06
I was able to do a
very detailed study
00:24:10
and within a very short
time I found a file
00:24:14
that almost exactly matched.
00:24:16
Age, race, sex, height,
time since death
00:24:20
were indicative but
absolutely positive
00:24:25
were the fact that
this victim was
00:24:27
wearing red jeans, white
tennis shoes, and a button
00:24:30
down blouse.
00:24:33
DENNIS FARINA: The victim was
42 year old Nancy Daddysman.
00:24:38
Before she disappeared
two years earlier,
00:24:40
she had lost custody of her five
children in a bitter divorce.
00:24:45
Heartbroken, she had come to
Kentucky for a fresh start.
00:24:49
Nancy vanished after her car
broke down in Bowling Green.
00:24:53
BARNEY JONES: She was planning
to travel on I-65 North
00:24:57
to meet a male friend of hers in
the Indianapolis, Indiana area.
00:25:01
We was able to verify
that it was not
00:25:04
possible that he
would be a suspect as
00:25:06
far as this case is concerned.
00:25:08
DENNIS FARINA: The
hillside, where
00:25:10
Nancy's remains were
found, was 30 miles
00:25:13
from where she was last seen.
00:25:15
Police believe that only
someone familiar with this part
00:25:18
of Kentucky would choose
this place for her body.
00:25:22
EMILY CRAIG: Identifying
the victim is the first step
00:25:25
in solving the crime.
00:25:27
We've done this first step.
00:25:29
Now, we have to
find out who did it.
00:25:32
DENNIS FARINA: Update.
00:25:34
There are new
developments in this case.
00:25:36
Here's one of our
staff with details.
00:25:40
STAFF MEMBER: The 10 year
mystery of Nancy Daddysman's
00:25:42
death received a
major break recently
00:25:45
when an inmate already
serving time in Indiana
00:25:47
for another murder
confessed he had
00:25:50
killed Nancy Daddysman as well.
00:25:55
David M. bell told authorities
he was high on methamphetamine
00:25:58
when he picked Nancy up in his
car, struck her with a pipe,
00:26:02
stabbed her, and
dumped her body.
00:26:04
Bell is currently
serving a 65 year
00:26:06
sentence for his previous
murder conviction.
00:26:12
Molly!
00:26:13
DENNIS FARINA: Coming
up, a young lifeguard
00:26:15
disappears in broad daylight,
and her mother believes she was
00:26:18
face to face with her abductor.
00:26:31
Warren, Massachusetts.
00:26:33
Population-- 4,800.
00:26:36
For the Bish family, it
was the perfect getaway
00:26:40
from the urban violence of
their old Detroit neighborhood.
00:26:44
MAGI BISH: My husband
and I thought,
00:26:45
let's move to the country
and find our peace
00:26:48
and raise our children.
00:26:51
DENNIS FARINA: Molly
Bish was only a year old
00:26:53
when her family moved here.
00:26:55
15 years later, she landed her
first real job as a lifeguard
00:27:00
at a nearby pond.
00:27:01
MAGI BISH: Molly was very
proud to be a lifeguard.
00:27:04
She worked hard for that,
and she did get this position
00:27:08
at the Warren Pond.
00:27:10
It's a beautiful location
but it's surrounded by woods
00:27:13
and it is somewhat isolated.
00:27:17
DENNIS FARINA: It was Molly's
seventh day on the job,
00:27:19
and her mother Magi
drove her to work.
00:27:23
[phone rings]
00:27:25
Three hours later, she received
an alarming phone call.
00:27:29
No, she's not.
00:27:30
She's at work.
00:27:31
MAGI BISH: I got a phone call
from the local police who
00:27:34
said that there had been
no lifeguard all day,
00:27:37
and that Molly's belongings
were on the beach,
00:27:40
but there had been no Molly.
00:27:44
DENNIS FARINA: Magi
rushed to the pond.
00:27:46
She found her daughter's
sandals, chair,
00:27:48
and lunch sitting on the beach,
but there was no sign of Molly.
00:27:52
Molly!
00:27:58
JOHN BISH: It's hard for me
to describe that sinking,
00:28:01
hollow feeling you have
as divers are looking
00:28:05
for your daughter, as dogs
are combing the woods,
00:28:11
and police officers
are searching
00:28:14
and interviewing people.
00:28:16
And I almost immediately
began to think that something
00:28:20
really horrible happened.
00:28:24
RONALD SYRIAC: There were
no clues left behind.
00:28:26
Molly's chair, her lunch
bag, her first aid kit,
00:28:30
and the two-way police
radio was just right
00:28:34
there, intact, undisturbed.
00:28:38
So we had no clues, whatsoever.
00:28:42
DENNIS FARINA:
Magi was convinced
00:28:44
her daughter had been abducted.
00:28:46
And suddenly, she
realized that she may
00:28:48
have seen the man responsible.
00:28:53
It was at the pond the day
before Molly disappeared.
00:28:57
MAGI BISH: We pull
up at the pond
00:28:58
and there's a vehicle
parked in the parking lot
00:29:00
right next to our car.
00:29:03
There's a man sitting
in there smoking.
00:29:08
I look at this man-- he
doesn't nod or greet me.
00:29:13
I just felt uneasy.
00:29:15
I did not want to leave
Molly with this man.
00:29:17
Molly
00:29:18
DENNIS FARINA: Magi escorted
Molly all the way down
00:29:21
to the beach and
expected the stranger
00:29:23
in a late model white car to
be gone when she got back.
00:29:27
MAGI BISH: Lo and
behold, I think I've
00:29:29
been gone a reasonable time.
00:29:32
But this man who is in this
vehicle is still there.
00:29:36
I'm very upset that he's still
there, so I lock eyes with him.
00:29:41
I am giving him a
stare, trying, I guess,
00:29:44
to maybe scare him away.
00:29:47
He returns the stare
and just boldly stares
00:29:49
at me, just cocky as all.
00:29:51
He just squinted his
eyes and he stared at me
00:29:54
and just kept smoking
and he didn't seem to
00:29:56
DENNIS FARINA: Care.
00:29:59
Fearing for her daughter's
safety, Magi waited for the man
00:30:01
to leave.
00:30:07
The following day, Magi, once
again, went with her daughter
00:30:10
to the swimming hole.
00:30:11
This time, the man was
nowhere to be seen.
00:30:14
Instead, there was a truck
unloading sand for the beach.
00:30:18
MAGI BISH: When
I seen the truck,
00:30:20
I realized that they
are businessmen in town
00:30:23
and I felt that I could leave
Molly and it would be OK.
00:30:28
DENNIS FARINA: But Magi
never saw Molly again.
00:30:35
The police investigation focused
on the man in the white car.
00:30:39
The sand truck driver had seen
a similar car in the parking lot
00:30:42
just moments before
Molly and Magi arrived.
00:30:47
On the other side of
the pond is a cemetery.
00:30:50
A worker there also saw a white
car later that same morning.
00:30:55
A path leads from the
graveyard to the swimming hole.
00:30:58
JOHN BISH: And it's my fear that
this person parked that path,
00:31:03
went to the pond,
and had taken Molly
00:31:06
through that path into his
car and out of the cemetery
00:31:10
and down the road.
00:31:11
DENNIS FARINA: A
composite sketch
00:31:13
based on Magi's description
produced no solid leads.
00:31:18
Desperate for information, Magi
and her husband took action.
00:31:22
MAGI BISH: We came up with the
idea-- an email chain would be
00:31:26
a wonderful,
explosive way to make
00:31:28
more than one person
get this picture
00:31:31
and keep sharing it with others.
00:31:33
DENNIS FARINA: 35,000 people
were emailed pictures of Molly.
00:31:37
A website devoted to finding
her received thousands of hits.
00:31:41
But a year passed and
there wasn't a single lead.
00:31:49
Magi contacted
sketch artist Jeanne
00:31:51
Boylan, who had worked
on the Unabomber
00:31:54
and Polly Klaas cases.
00:31:56
Jeanne agreed to try to
create a more accurate drawing
00:31:59
of the man in the white car.
00:32:02
JEANNE BOYLAN: When Magi
came in to work with me,
00:32:04
what I tried to do and
what she was willing to do,
00:32:07
was to talk about the positive
aspects of her relationship
00:32:10
with her daughter,
which were plentiful.
00:32:11
When she finally could
fit into my shoes--
00:32:13
JEANNE BOYLAN: It'll allow
for that sense of relaxation,
00:32:16
and then with that
comes new information.
00:32:19
DENNIS FARINA: For nine hours,
the two women chatted as Jeanne
00:32:23
carefully sketched a portrait.
00:32:25
Finally, the drawing
was complete.
00:32:28
But Magi still felt that
there was something missing.
00:32:31
And the way he held that
cigarette the whole time.
00:32:34
JEANNE BOYLAN: I stayed
up fairly late that night
00:32:37
using my own hand
as a model, creating
00:32:39
the image of the hand
holding the cigarette
00:32:41
and then added that
to the drawing.
00:32:42
And I think that was just the
finishing touch that really
00:32:46
brought everything into focus.
00:32:49
Well, what do you think?
00:32:50
When I saw the completed
picture with the cigarette,
00:32:54
I thought, instant fear.
00:32:56
I mean, it was him.
00:32:58
You know, the eyes-- it was
his cockiness, it was his look.
00:33:03
JOHN BISH: We want this person
to know that we will never
00:33:07
stop searching for
her, and that will
00:33:10
never stop searching for him.
00:33:14
I'm very angry,
and that anger is
00:33:16
going to drive me on forever.
00:33:20
I will stop.
00:33:26
DENNIS FARINA: Update.
00:33:28
Three years after
Molly Bish disappeared,
00:33:31
her remains were found about
five miles from Warren Pond.
00:33:37
This case is currently
open and active.
00:33:40
There are no suspects,
but there are
00:33:42
several persons of interest.
00:33:44
There is a $100,000
reward for information
00:33:49
leading to the arrest of whoever
took the life of Molly Bish.
00:33:59
San Antonio, Texas.
00:34:03
On a previous program,
we brought you
00:34:04
the intriguing legend
of the Alamo treasure.
00:34:08
In 1836, as Texas fought for
her independence from Mexico,
00:34:13
189 men made a courageous stand
against 6,000 well-trained
00:34:18
Mexican soldiers at the Alamo.
00:34:22
Some believe that at the
height of the battle,
00:34:24
the defenders hid a
cache of gold and silver
00:34:27
at the bottom of a well.
00:34:29
FRANK BUSCHBACHER: The
only way they preserve
00:34:31
it is to all stick together
and fight the battle out
00:34:33
to whatever outcome it had.
00:34:35
The reason why it's remained
there is because everybody died
00:34:39
DENNIS FARINA:
Ground radar testing
00:34:41
in the plaza of
the Alamo confirmed
00:34:43
the presence of something
about 13 feet underground.
00:34:48
Frank Buschbacher
believed he had
00:34:50
located the long lost treasure.
00:34:54
After obtaining permission
from the city council,
00:34:56
Buschbacher and a
team of archaeologists
00:34:58
began digging in
front of the monument.
00:35:02
A week later, four feet beneath
the surface of the courtyard,
00:35:06
they found fragments of
Native American pottery,
00:35:09
the bones of butchered animals,
and primitive cooking utensils.
00:35:14
Each relic had to be
carefully unearthed
00:35:16
and then properly catalogued.
00:35:20
THOMAS GUDERJAN: While we
haven't been able to move
00:35:21
as quickly as we ever
originally intended to,
00:35:24
the reason is a very good
reason-- because we found
00:35:26
something no one
expected to find here,
00:35:28
and that's intact 18th
century materials.
00:35:32
DENNIS FARINA: These items
are a valuable treasure
00:35:34
in themselves-- rare artifacts
that help piece together
00:35:38
a history of the Alamo from the
1750s up to the final battle
00:35:43
nearly a century later.
00:35:45
THOMAS GUDERJAN: Here,
we have grapeshot.
00:35:48
We think this is from
the actual battle.
00:35:50
We also have this that looks
like it is the headpiece
00:35:54
to a Mexican soldier's hat.
00:35:57
This would signify his unit
and that sort of thing,
00:36:00
and this may well be part
of a saber from the battle.
00:36:04
DENNIS FARINA: As the
archaeologists inched closer
00:36:06
and closer to the unidentified
object on their radar screen,
00:36:10
their spirits were
lifted by the discoveries
00:36:13
they had already made.
00:36:15
But optimism turned
to disappointment.
00:36:19
They found no trace
of any treasure.
00:36:23
Yet some remain convinced
that it still exists somewhere
00:36:26
deep between the Alamo.
00:36:32
Next, the I-70 serial killer.
00:36:35
He's quick and he's
deadly, and he may be
00:36:38
responsible for nine murders.
00:36:49
Someone is murdering
young women in the Midwest
00:36:52
along Interstate 70.
00:36:54
The authorities need
your help to stop him.
00:36:59
26 year old Robin Fuldauer
of Indianapolis, Indiana
00:37:04
wanted more than anything
to marry and start a family.
00:37:07
But that would never happen.
00:37:09
Robin was found shot to death
at the store where she worked.
00:37:15
23 year old Patricia Smith and
32 year old Patricia Magers
00:37:20
worked side-by-side at a
bridal shop in Wichita, Kansas.
00:37:25
Just three days after Robin
Fuldauer was murdered,
00:37:28
both women were shot to death
in the back room of the shop.
00:37:33
Three weeks later, 24
year old Nancy Kitzmiller
00:37:37
of St. Charles, Missouri was
shot to death in the boot store
00:37:40
where she worked as a manager.
00:37:43
Four murders in three
different states,
00:37:46
separated by more
than 1,200 miles.
00:37:49
At first glance, they seem
to be random killings.
00:37:53
Yet, each took place
at a shopping mall
00:37:55
just off Interstate 70.
00:37:58
Coincidence or
something more sinister?
00:38:03
Raytown, Missouri-- another
link in the deadly chain.
00:38:08
The Woodson Village shopping
center, near an access road
00:38:12
to Interstate 70.
00:38:16
At 6:30 PM, a local
auctioneer noticed a stranger
00:38:20
walking into his auction house.
00:38:22
He looked around briefly
and then walk out again.
00:38:28
Tim Hickman, who
owned a video store,
00:38:31
watched the man
cross the parking lot
00:38:33
and pass by his store.
00:38:35
Minutes later, Tim
heard a gunshot.
00:38:39
He reach his front door
just as the man was
00:38:42
disappearing around the corner.
00:38:44
A grocery clerk also
saw the stranger
00:38:47
as he climbed the embankment
to an Interstate 70 access road
00:38:51
and vanished.
00:38:54
Meanwhile, Tim Hickman went
next door to the gift shop.
00:38:59
I kind of looked in
through the door,
00:39:01
and I didn't see anything, and
I was calling, ma'am, ma'am.
00:39:06
And I stepped forward
a couple more steps
00:39:09
and then I see legs sticking
out of the other room.
00:39:14
DENNIS FARINA:
Saray Blessing lay
00:39:15
lifeless in a pool of blood.
00:39:20
Police believe that
the Raytown tragedy
00:39:23
was connected to the earlier
shopping mall killings.
00:39:26
A multi-state task
force was set up.
00:39:30
Lab tests confirmed that
all five women were killed
00:39:33
by the same gun-- most likely
a semi-automatic .22 caliber
00:39:38
pistol.
00:39:39
That gun was also linked to the
murder of 40 year old Michael
00:39:42
McCown of Terre Haute, Indiana.
00:39:46
He had been killed in a
shopping mall ceramic store
00:39:48
near Interstate 70.
00:39:51
There were now six victims.
00:39:54
The most promising lead
came from the murders
00:39:56
of Patricia Smith
and Patricia Magers
00:39:59
at the bridal shop in Wichita.
00:40:01
Hi, can I help you?
00:40:04
Stay calm.
00:40:05
What do you want?
00:40:06
Stay calm.
00:40:07
Let's just walk
to the back room.
00:40:08
I've got money.
00:40:09
Do you want money?
00:40:10
Anything you want.
00:40:12
Don't move.
00:40:15
Are you the only one here?
- Yes
00:40:16
Is there anybody else here?
00:40:17
- No, nobody else here.
- Where's your cash register?
00:40:18
It's over there.
00:40:19
You can have whatever
you want, just--
00:40:20
Just go in the back room.
00:40:21
Just going to tie
you up, all right?
00:40:22
You have the money.
00:40:23
Just do what he says.
00:40:27
[gunshots]
00:40:29
DENNIS FARINA:
Police did get one
00:40:31
good description of the killer.
00:40:33
It was from a customer
who walked in just minutes
00:40:35
after the two women
had been murdered.
00:40:39
Anybody here?
00:40:41
Hey.
00:40:45
Hey, man, I don't know
what's going on here but I--
00:40:48
Wait a minute.
00:40:49
I want you to come in
the back room with me.
00:40:51
Look, man, I can't go in the--
00:40:52
What are you doing?
00:40:54
I told you to come
in the back room.
00:40:56
I can't come in the back room.
00:40:58
I just want to get out of here.
00:40:59
I didn't see nothing.
00:41:00
I don't know nothing
that's going on here.
00:41:02
I just-- I just want to--
00:41:03
Shut up and get
the hell out of here
00:41:04
then, and don't call the cops.
00:41:08
DENNIS FARINA: Using the
customer's description
00:41:10
and other eyewitness
accounts, a police
00:41:13
artist created
this aged composite
00:41:15
of what he may look like today.
00:41:18
The suspect is between
5 feet 5 inches
00:41:20
and 5 feet 9 inches tall.
00:41:23
He would now be in his
late 40s or early 50s.
00:41:26
The suspect is described as
neatly dressed and clean cut.
00:41:31
He appeared to be
almost in a trance,
00:41:33
as if he were thinking
about something else.
00:41:37
RICH PLUMMER: It's
important for the audience
00:41:38
to know that a serial
killer never stops.
00:41:41
They may stop for
a period of time,
00:41:43
but they never stop
completely and they
00:41:44
will always start up again.
00:41:48
DENNIS FARINA: There were
three other additional murders
00:41:51
in Texas that
police believe were
00:41:53
the work of the same killer,
bringing the total number
00:41:56
of victims to nine.
00:42:00
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00:42:03
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