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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast near Albany New York an
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elderly couple was brutally murdered in
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their own home
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incredibly police solve the case only
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after they enlisted the help of a
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psychic named Noreen Renier does Noreen
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have remarkable powers that enable her
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to actually experience a crime from the
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victim's point of view tonight shall see
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this unique detective in action imagine
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that you wake up one day in a park in
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New Orleans unable to remember your name
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your age or where you came from how did
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it feel to not know who you are that's
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horrible
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you know expect things like that happen
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to you she goes by the name Gigi no one
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knows what later forget but perhaps
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someone watching can help her remember
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Alfredo and Cecelia new boss seemed the
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perfect couple with a perfect life until
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the night Alfredo came home from work
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and made the sobering discovery that his
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wife had vanished did she leave her
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husband for another man and was she the
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victim of foul play also tonight the
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poignant drama of a man who needs your
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help to uncover his late father's secret
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life
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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we are in a police evidence warehouse in
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Los Angeles an unorthodox murder
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investigation is in progress
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what you are watching is real it is not
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a recreation Noreen Renier is a psychic
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from Orlando Florida who works with the
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police among the psychics we have
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profiled she is unique a true unsolved
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mystery Noreen Renier claims that she
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actually becomes one with the victims
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she feels their pain speaks their words
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and sees the faces of their killers it
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can be a daunting painful and exhausting
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way to make a living
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however the rewards for everyone
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involved are usually substantial to date
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marinas work with the police in 32
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different states and four foreign
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countries on some 385 different crimes
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[Music]
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perhaps Nori's most stunning success was
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a case involving the deaths of Jake and
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Dora Cole an elderly couple from colony
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New York a suburb of Albany at 9:50 p.m.
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on May 15th 1986
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Dora was on the phone with a couples
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only daughter who lived nearby in an
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instant tragedy struck
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Dora screamed out her husband's name
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twice the daughter immediately called
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911 then she telephoned her son James
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Mariani and rushed to meet him at her
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Paris house I hate to tell you this
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they've been killed I'm sorry I'm very
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sorry the elderly female was lying on
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the floor with the phone still in her
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hand it appeared that she had fallen
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over while on the telephone she was shot
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in a top of the head on a right-to-left
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angle the male victim was on the floor
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in a hallway he appeared to be shot in
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the nose the only evidence that we found
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was the entranceway door had been kicked
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in part of the the door stopper was
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laying on the kitchen floor and it was
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two empty shells also laying on the
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floor
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when James Mariani knew at a glance at
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the shells were 25 caliber he became a
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suspect in his grandparents murder
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police asked him to take a lie-detector
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test
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even though they knew he had been at his
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own home when the murders occurred
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did you shoot Jake and Dora no the test
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results were inconclusive and the police
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remain suspicious James had a criminal
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record and friends with criminal records
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I was with the just couple of friends
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Larry wiring JJ the police interviewed
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two men James had done jail time with
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Keith snare and Robert Skinner the
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investigation eventually bogged down two
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years went by then Jake and Dora's
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daughter heard about Noreen Renier and
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asked the police to contact her Noreen
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knew absolutely nothing about the case
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except the names and ages of the victims
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Noreen I sent you some articles that
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were present at the crime scene
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it was November of 1988 Noreen worked
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long distance my speaker fool asses that
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were odorous I'm going to start with the
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glasses I'm gonna start with Dora I'm
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gonna try to tune in and see what she
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saw just before she was killed
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we love to come when she was Dora she
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described how she was on a telephone
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with a female she hears a crashing sound
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in full recipe Oh Jake Jay
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sure norine caught out Jake's name twice
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just as Dora had before she was shot
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she's Jake she describes how she gets up
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hey catch ya goes down a narrow hallway
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and she's confined with someone with the
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gun
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I know you what the hell are you doing
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here
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Noreen remembers as she felt pain in the
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center of her face just where Jake had
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been shot she had given a pretty
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accurate description of both Jake and
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aura and a fairly accurate description
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of the crime scene this made me take
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notice and and feel that she was
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credible on what she was doing I'm going
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to count from five to zero as I count
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your eyes will become heavier the police
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are beginning to feel that Noreen might
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be able to help them crack the case they
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asked her to work with a forensic
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hypnotist one and zero now going back
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back in time to May 15th 1986
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Dora tell me about the intruder
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[Music]
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we knew him he was a younger man what
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are you doing here
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and he came House dinner he did some
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work my husband want you to tell me his
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name
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focus perhaps we'll take a letter a time
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do you see a letter S do you see another
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letter following the hypnosis session we
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presented Noreen with a series of 10
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photographs we had put three of them in
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there who we felt were the suspects at
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this time the last couple of years I
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don't want to see them why don't you
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just lay them face down and let me pick
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up the energies from them okay Noreen
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took the photographs matter of fact her
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eyes were closed and and just shuffle
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through the photographs held them for a
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while held each one and then kept
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placing one two three photographs down I
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feel the strongest energy from these
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three photographs and this one in
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particular he might have been the one
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that killed Shaykh Endora the man in the
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first photo had nothing at all to do
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with a case but the second photo was
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Robert Skinner a friend of Jake
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Andorra's grandson James Mariani the
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third photo was Mariani himself it was
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not lost on the police that Robert
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Skinner's last name began with s the one
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letter Noreen had visualized
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armed with Noreen's information the
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police check Robert Skinner's alibi
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again it did not hold up eventually the
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DA proved that James Marriott he had
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conspired with Roberts Skinner and key
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snare to rob his grandparents all three
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men are now serving lengthy prison
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sentences Noreen Renier had proved vital
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in solving the case when the skeptics
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asked me how does it work
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my answer usually is you've been using
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your logical rational mind for many
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years explain to me how it works
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how does your memory how do you learn
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math how does the brain work when you
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spell you don't know and neither do i
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but you can use your mind and soak it on
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if she can help me I would welcome
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anything she can give me detective Jim
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temple of the LAPD is currently working
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with Noreen on the case of 42 year old
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rosemary ha co-owner of a Chinese bakery
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near downtown Los Angeles she was
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kidnapped and stabbed to death on
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November 5th 1994
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[Music]
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the last person to see rosemary alive
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was one of her employees just before
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9:00 a.m. they noticed her van
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approaching the bakery
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rosemary slowed down and wait on her way
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into the parking garage across the
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street the employee next observed that
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an Asian man got out of a parked car and
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entered the garage just after rosemary
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drove in he waited for about a half hour
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she never showed he didn't hear anything
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there wasn't anything suspicious but
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after a half hour of waiting he noticed
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the garage door come up again and at
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this time he saw mrs. Hong's car coming
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out of the garage but it was an alley
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asian driving the car
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[Music]
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eleven hours later
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rosemary homs van was found rosemary was
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lying dead on the backseat although
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Noreen Renier usually works by phone for
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this case unsolved mysteries brought her
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to Los Angeles with rosemary homs van
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parked behind it the Rosemary's watch in
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her hand
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Lorraine seemed to become the victim
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yeah I'm rosemary my eyes are just like
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the closed set a little closed setting
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us in the eyes there was some
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oval-shaped face for the police to make
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sure that my credibility becomes strong
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I described what the victim looked like
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before we start the case I don't know
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anything about it so they have no way of
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thinking I checked on who this person
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was I described the person what'd he
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look like or she looked like alive and
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then I become killed
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stay with it stay with it just a little
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longer remember what you are seeing is
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not a recreation suffered and you know
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countless when the point is that she
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focused in on the one one that really
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caused her death and it was extremely
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painful to her that surprised me because
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that hasn't been in any report it hasn't
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been in any news articles it has been on
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any press releases she talked about
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tattoos marks on them on the person that
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we're looking at the tattoo she
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described is indicative of a group a
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gang I guess you might say that we have
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charted for several years my face is
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more broad I have a police artist that I
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work with and I seen the bad guy and he
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draws the bad guy if the victim saw the
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bad guy I can see how the victim saw him
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if for some reason the victim got shot
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in the back or was asleep when they were
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killed I can go there and observe as
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Nerine
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he's doing and what's going on so I can
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be several the victim the the suspect
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and Narine can pop in and out I found
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the most impressive thing about Noreen
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was going into it not knowing anything
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about the crime she was able to describe
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to me the crime scene described to me
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where the body was found she identified
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a spot as a dump site no one knows about
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that except us so we're going to look at
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everything she says you know with a
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great deal of credibility this is the
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full face composite that Noreen
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visualized for the police artist this is
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a profile view composite based on the
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description given by the employee who
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last saw rosemary homily
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[Music]
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[Music]
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next a husband becomes a potential
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suspect
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when his wife and stepson mysteriously
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disappeared she was beautiful a devoted
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mother
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by all accounts madly in love with her
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husband and now she is missing seven
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months ago Cecilia new ball mysteriously
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vanished along with her six-year-old son
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at the time Cecilia was eight and a half
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months pregnant today her husband
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Alfredo new ball lives under a cloud of
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suspicion he says he had no involvement
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in his wife's disappearance and in fact
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he claims to have an airtight alibi but
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both the police and Cecilia's friends
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think Alfredo knows more than he is
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admitting Alfredo newborn and Cecilia
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Maya met in 1991 after a passionate
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two-year courtship they married at the
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ceremony Cecilia son from a previous
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marriage Rene Perez was the ring bearer
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the couple settled in Chatsworth
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California and almost immediately
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Cecilia became pregnant by September
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20th 1994 cecilius due date was only two
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weeks away that afternoon she sat down
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to write thank-you notes for a recent
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baby shower at around 2:30 p.m.
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Alfredo left for work as he reached the
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front door
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Alfredo says he was stopped short by a
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strange undefined yearning
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the being pregnant she looks so
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beautiful and that went barking he
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kissed her again I left her sitting at
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them inside the apartment
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writing the thank-you notes and that was
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the last time that I saw my wife alfredo
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worked as a nurse's assistant in a
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hospital and retirement home for members
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of the film industry two and a half
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hours after his shift began Alfredo
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phone Cecelia I just had some kind of
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very weird feeling that something was
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wrong she never answered the phone and I
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don't know if for some reasons I thought
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that she could be visiting with some
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friends or being at my mom's Alfredo
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called several times throughout the
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evening
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finally fearing the worst he left work
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early
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even as he approached the apartment
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Alfredo knew that something was not
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quite right Cecilia's Jeep was parked on
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the street instead of in the building's
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security lock inside the apartment
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Alfredo says nothing was out of place
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there were no signs of a struggle or a
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break-in and no signs of Cecilia and
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Rene
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but in cecilius jeep alfredo found a
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sentimental generic goodbye card it was
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signed simply Cecilia a moment later
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Alfredo's concern turned to bewilderment
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Cecilia's wedding and engagement rings
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have been left on the passenger seat of
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the Jeep 12 Fredo the conclusion was
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obvious his wife must have left it the
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relationship was always good we never
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had any problems
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fights why would she do something like
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this not to leave me a note like that
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and painted to leave the wedding rings I
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guess it was very confusing to me
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desperate for answers
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Alfredo phoned the one person he thought
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might know his wife's whereabouts her
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closest friend at work Kevin Annabelle
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it was this phone call it would help
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cast suspicion on Alfredo new ball what
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no CeCe's not here what's going on I
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don't know I mean she's got it either
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put her on I came home she's not here
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and I was like you know how she's not
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here and you're you're really starting
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to scare me what's going on and he was
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unusually calm like if it were me I
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would have been screaming at the person
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I thought where my wife was but he was I
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was more nervous and excited than he was
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I felt like she needed to be away for a
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few days or something I don't know it
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was very strange but a least I believed
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that she was coming back soon
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it appeared that nothing was taken by
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Cecilia or her son Rene all his toys
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were left their clothing was left there
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not so much as a toothbrush hello is
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this alfredo new ball the day after
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Cecilia disappeared the police caught
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Alfredo they had been contacted by one
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of Cecilia's relative
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tell me mr. Duvall when was the last
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time you saw her lime Cecilia
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uh yesterday afternoon I was getting
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ready to go to work then I gave her a
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kiss and it was it mr. new bald didn't
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appear to be that concerned and here he
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has a eight and a half month pregnant
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wife a six year old stepson that
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according to everyone and including mr.
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new ball if they all got along fine what
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you got - mr. new ball just didn't
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appear to be the grieving husband soon
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to be new father the suspicions mounted
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three days later when Alfredo received a
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letter postmarked a nearby Van Nuys
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California inside the envelope was a
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card identical to the one found in the
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Jeep at a typewritten note Alfredo I
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have gone to undo lies with a man I met
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nine months ago by the name of Arturo he
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said doctor I don't know if this baby is
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yours or his I love you with all my
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heart but you will not amount to
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anything
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and I want only the best for my baby
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Alfredo you can't give us that adios
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Cecilia and Rene my first impression
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after opening the letter was that uh she
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had left but danced after reviewing the
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letter several times some Parsi don't
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sound like Cecilia doesn't strike me as
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I thought Cecilia at all it's calm cabin
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Annabelle also found the letter out of
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character he was I would say she's
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almost obsessed with out and when you're
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when you're that in love with a person
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you don't just meet a doctor and say
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well I think I'm going to Honduras let
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me just write my husband a note that
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doesn't happen I took a look at the
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letter spoke to friends and family of
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Cecilia later on and I am convinced that
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that letter is not from Cecilia whoever
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type this letter knew more about
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Alfredo's side of the family rather than
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knowing very much about Cecilia side of
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the family
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my best guess on this is that Cecilia
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Cecilia's disappearance is not by her
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will I believe there's a third party
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involved in this was there a third party
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and if so was there a connection to
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Alfredo six months before she
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disappeared
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Cecilia received a phone call from a
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still unidentified woman who may have
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been that third party she had gotten a
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call that a woman had a videotape of
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Elle kissing another woman at a baby
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shower and that the woman wanted Cecilia
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to see the tape and Cecilia had a great
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to see the tape the woman said she would
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phone again to arrange a meeting that
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call never came and the matter was
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apparently forgotten
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[Music]
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then just a few weeks before Cecilia
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disappeared a second mysterious call
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this one from a woman who claimed to be
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a co-worker of Alfredo's from oh you
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weren't afraid Oh a woman had called and
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and said that she was giving out they
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were gonna give al a baby shower at work
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and that she had some baby furniture and
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she wanted Cecilia to pick out a piece
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of that furniture but to keep it a
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secret because the shower was gonna be a
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surprise on the 20th yeah that's fine
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police later determined that the call
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had not been made by Alfredo's coworker
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and that no shower had been play but by
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then it was too late she disappeared on
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Tuesday the day she was supposed to get
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together with this lady to pick out a
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piece of furniture for the baby shower
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it's too much of a coincidence for her
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to disappear on the same day it appears
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that someone is trying to lure her away
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from safety away from her family away
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from her friends trying to get her alone
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if she's somewhere she doesn't want to
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come back to me but I just want to know
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what happened to them and that's what I
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I really need the public's help finding
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something about this case it's my
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opinion that mr. new ball is not telling
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me everything that he knows
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as far as Cecilia's disappearance he may
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not have been there when she disappeared
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but it's my opinion that he knows
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something now
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what happened as a celia new ball and
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her son Rene Perez were they abducted
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and perhaps murdered or did Cecilia run
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away to be with another man
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if Cecilia's alive as Alfredo believes
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she is now the mother of their seven
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month old child and Alfredo was
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concerned
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both for her and the baby I want to tell
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or Cecilia if she happens to view this
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please get in touch if she doesn't want
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to ride me or talk to me on the phone to
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at least call her dad you know he's like
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he's not well and I just want to tell
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you that there's a lot of people
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suffering right now and still because
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what is
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[Music]
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in a moment the strange case of a young
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woman suffering from amnesia perhaps
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someone watching knows her true identity
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[Music]
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imagine suddenly finding yourself in a
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strange and alien place you scan your
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surroundings for clues even your own
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possessions are unrecognizable finally
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the terrifying realization you don't
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know where you are they don't know who
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you are
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you're suffering from amnesia that's
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horrible and as it's so subtle like
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you're not prepared for it you don't
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expect things like that happen to you I
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didn't like I didn't know what to do
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I know I didn't go get help somewhere
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the mystery woman of Audubon Park had
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the vague notion that her name might be
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Gigi other than that she knew nothing of
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her past tonight she is still asking
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herself a one fundamental question we
00:29:38
all take for granted Who am I to help
00:29:42
Gigi find the answer we turned out a
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reporter Susan rozgin of NBC affiliate
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WDSU TV New Orleans
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I met with Gigi in Audubon Park where
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her peculiar Odyssey begins six months
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ago
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Gigi struck me as articulate and
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well-educated
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what's it like to not have any past what
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is it like to be a person living without
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a past and not knowing how you got here
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it's strange I feel like I'm a blank um
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I had a nothing to base anything on so I
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could just go by they day by day what I
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realized day by day GG these are the
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things that you had when you woke up
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here at Audubon Park did you recognize
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them right away as your things no I just
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assumed they were mine because they were
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with him with me there wasn't anyone
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else close to me so I just assumed they
00:30:42
were mine I couldn't help puzzling over
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the odd assortment of belongings that
00:30:46
sum up Gigi's life laid out for display
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they painted a disjointed picture four
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pairs of scissors a gold-plated table
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setting ups notices that only company
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personnel should have and deposit
00:31:02
envelope specific to banks in the
00:31:04
northeastern United States and finally
00:31:07
there was the makeup Gigi was carrying
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no less than 26
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- blip stick 24 lip liner pencils and
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dozens of other cosmetics presumably
00:31:18
some of these things are clues to Gigi's
00:31:21
real identity but so far they haven't
00:31:24
helped a bit to date police have
00:31:27
reviewed hundreds of missing-persons
00:31:29
files doctors have probed and tested
00:31:32
even sodium amytal a so-called truth
00:31:35
serum couldn't pierce the fog of Gigi's
00:31:37
amnesia now a hospital official named
00:31:41
Doyle McGee has voluntarily assumed the
00:31:43
job of uncovering Gigi's past she's
00:31:46
totally confusing do you believe that
00:31:48
Gigi sincerely does not remember her
00:31:51
past I do she has made a conscious
00:31:56
effort to assist me on every phase of
00:31:59
trying to find out who she is through
00:32:01
the law-enforcement agencies through the
00:32:04
media if she was in fact trying to
00:32:07
conceal her identity she would not have
00:32:11
signed the releases that allow us to do
00:32:13
this
00:32:14
Doyle McGee is especially mystified by
00:32:17
the total absence of anything personal
00:32:20
in Gigi's wallet or handbag he fears
00:32:23
that this omission is no accident
00:32:25
somebody has gone to great pains to make
00:32:28
sure that we don't know who she is the
00:32:30
wallets were fairly new I had absolutely
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nothing personal with him
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no personal photos no credit cards no
00:32:38
checks purse had no receipts and you
00:32:43
know I don't I don't know of any ladies
00:32:45
who didn't accidentally drop a receipt
00:32:47
or something in her purse what could
00:32:51
have triggered Gigi's amnesia
00:32:53
experts believe she may have seen or
00:32:55
experienced something so horrible that
00:32:58
in defense her memory simply shut down
00:33:02
if someone watching helps you find out
00:33:07
who you were are you a little afraid to
00:33:10
find out who you were I went to now even
00:33:14
then because it's been so long that I
00:33:18
you know not knowing that it doesn't
00:33:21
match me but it's good or bad I just
00:33:22
want to know what do the terms past
00:33:26
present and future mean to you now all
00:33:31
the passes to me is the pass done now
00:33:33
and the presents just
00:33:36
in a life in the future he's very
00:33:40
uncertain for me now at this point
00:33:46
Gigi has been trapped in the limbo of
00:33:49
amnesia since February 1995 with luck
00:33:53
she will soon discover her true identity
00:33:56
otherwise she has no choice but to close
00:33:59
the door on her past assemble a new
00:34:01
legal identity and begin her life again
00:34:04
from scratch
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next a man needs your help to find the
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truth about his father's mysterious past
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[Music]
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it is a sorrowful event that we must all
00:34:41
face someday a death of a parent for an
00:34:45
11-year old boy named Bob Coleman it was
00:34:47
a time to reflect on everything he had
00:34:49
ever known about his father or at least
00:34:52
everything his father had wanted him to
00:34:54
know
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by all accounts richard Coleman was an
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ordinary man who lived a fairly
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uneventful life
00:35:04
Richard worked as a vending machine
00:35:06
mechanic in Washington DC it served in
00:35:10
the military and married 1947 Bob was
00:35:14
born two years later and today Bob's
00:35:17
strongest memory of childhood is a love
00:35:19
of baseball he shared with his father he
00:35:23
had a passion to play ball and we'd go
00:35:27
out to the yard to the side yard in the
00:35:29
front yard and he pitched the ball to me
00:35:30
and I'd hit it and it was something that
00:35:34
I enjoy the awful lot and I loved being
00:35:37
outside with him and playing ball
00:35:40
whenever we could Richard Coleman passed
00:35:46
away in 1961 a short time later Bob
00:35:50
received the first hint that his father
00:35:52
had been a man with many deeply held
00:35:54
secrets curiosity drew Bob to an old
00:36:00
trunk at the foot of his parents bed
00:36:03
inside was a tantalizing collection of
00:36:06
his father's military mementos what are
00:36:11
you doing Bobby was dead in the army yes
00:36:17
he was but your dad didn't really like
00:36:20
to talk about it honey
00:36:21
he did something in the army that he
00:36:23
wasn't proud of why don't you just close
00:36:26
it up I remember many many times too
00:36:31
asking my mom about my dad and
00:36:33
specifically honing in on the items in
00:36:36
the footlocker and she didn't have too
00:36:38
many explanations other than that she
00:36:40
believed that my dad had done something
00:36:41
he wasn't real proud of and that his
00:36:44
words were it's over and done with
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14 years past
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finally in 1975 Bob's own experiences in
00:36:57
the military drew him back to the
00:36:58
forbidden contents of the trunk
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bob was flooded with emotion as he once
00:37:04
again held the uniform which had so
00:37:06
fascinated him as a child it had the
00:37:11
silver bars of a first lieutenant still
00:37:13
on it it had the insignia interestingly
00:37:16
enough of Medical Corps a plane caduceus
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which would indicate that the person who
00:37:22
wore that uniform was a medical doctor
00:37:25
in the army
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was it possible the richard coleman
00:37:30
bending machine mechanic had been a
00:37:32
doctor in the army for bomb the very
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possibility triggered a vivid childhood
00:37:38
memory my mom had cut her hand out and
00:37:50
very very badly and there was a lot of
00:37:52
blood she was bleeding profusely and I
00:37:56
remember my dad taking control of the
00:37:58
situation sizing up the emergency he
00:38:03
applied the pressure to the to the cut
00:38:05
and actually knew about pressure points
00:38:07
and and did something that I don't
00:38:09
remember because I was small but he did
00:38:12
something that he actually was able to
00:38:14
stop the bleeding pretty quickly and he
00:38:16
took control this situation in a way
00:38:18
that would lead me to believe that he
00:38:19
knew more about the medical and field
00:38:22
than somebody who was not trained I had
00:38:25
a boy see everything is fine why would
00:38:28
Richard Coleman abandon medicine to
00:38:30
become a vending machine mechanic Bob
00:38:33
could no longer ignore the fact that his
00:38:35
father was not the man he thought he
00:38:38
knew
00:38:41
the trunk yielded other perplexing clues
00:38:44
though the uniform was from the Second
00:38:46
World War
00:38:47
Bob discovered several prestigious
00:38:49
medals from the First World War almost
00:38:52
30 years earlier the awards included a
00:38:56
Legion of Honor ribbon a necrotic heir
00:38:59
the French cross of war another item
00:39:04
from the First World War raised still
00:39:06
more questions it was a World War one
00:39:10
certificate and as I looked at it I
00:39:12
remember noticing that items had been
00:39:15
written over someone had gone back after
00:39:20
it was issued and put my father's name
00:39:23
Richard Coleman and his and a service
00:39:25
number and other information were
00:39:28
written over the original inscriptions
00:39:31
the same envelope which contained the
00:39:34
certificate held a piece of paper which
00:39:36
appeared to be a crib sheet on it
00:39:39
Richard Coleman had practice writing the
00:39:41
same words and numbers that had been
00:39:43
forged on the certificate Bob checked
00:39:46
with a Veterans Administration he wasn't
00:39:49
really surprised to learn that the
00:39:51
discharge certificate had belonged to
00:39:53
another man but a second discovery left
00:39:56
Bob truly stunned there was no record of
00:40:00
a Richard Coleman ever having served in
00:40:02
the Army Medical Corps either in the
00:40:04
first or second world war that's his
00:40:09
room right there the sudden developments
00:40:13
once again thrust Bob back to his
00:40:15
childhood and the final days of his
00:40:17
father's life
00:40:19
hi honey to see you how you feeling
00:40:23
today I've got a little better good
00:40:25
is anybody came to visit you know you're
00:40:28
the first one what about your brothers
00:40:31
and sisters in your family
00:40:34
we're daddy's family honey sure I
00:40:37
remember asking several times well my
00:40:40
dad's sick he's probably going to pass
00:40:43
away where's his family and why isn't
00:40:45
anyone up here to see how he is or you
00:40:49
know to visit him beautifully Tracy yeah
00:40:51
and my mom really wouldn't answer it she
00:40:54
didn't have an answer I guess and I
00:40:56
never never got any satisfactory
00:41:00
explanation for that
00:41:04
who was Richard : and just what secrets
00:41:07
was he hiding the trunk held one other
00:41:10
important clue a roster supplement from
00:41:13
a New York City gun club it listed
00:41:17
Richard as a member in 1944 and gave his
00:41:20
occupation special patrolman from tax
00:41:25
records Bob learned that his father had
00:41:27
been employed as a security guard at a
00:41:29
bank in Manhattan from 1943 to 1945
00:41:33
however the bank had no employment
00:41:36
records for a Richard Coleman when
00:41:41
Barbara searched his father's address
00:41:42
from 1944 yet another startling detail
00:41:46
surfaced my father may have lived with
00:41:50
an ALICE Coleman and I don't know what
00:41:52
her maiden name was but voting records
00:41:55
indicate that they were married and that
00:41:57
she was a housewife and that she lived
00:42:00
with Richard Coleman I've never been
00:42:02
able to confirm their marriage because
00:42:05
there's no record that I can find and
00:42:07
indeed I don't know where Alice Coleman
00:42:10
went to because after 1967 she does not
00:42:14
appear and have met in the Manhattan
00:42:16
phone books
00:42:19
was there something in Richard kolnas
00:42:21
past that made him change his identity
00:42:25
why did he keep his apparent marries to
00:42:27
Alice Coleman secret and why despite a
00:42:31
trunk filled with mementos did the
00:42:33
military have no record of his serving
00:42:36
in either World War Bob's mother passed
00:42:40
away in 1983 without giving him any
00:42:42
clues today Bob Coleman is determined to
00:42:49
find the answers whatever they may be
00:42:53
I'm not trying to judge my father I'm
00:42:56
trying to learn about him and I'm
00:42:59
perfectly aware that there may be
00:43:01
something that he did 50 60 years ago
00:43:03
that was pretty bad perhaps and it would
00:43:07
have prompted him to change his identity
00:43:09
and to obscure his past but it's also
00:43:12
something that's very important to me
00:43:13
because it's my father and it may be the
00:43:15
only way that I ultimately end up really
00:43:18
knowing who he was and what he did and
00:43:20
I'm very passionate and very committed
00:43:22
to doing that
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confess and in hand with modern medicine
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on our next unsolved mysteries bring you
00:43:58
the inspirational stories of a woman and
00:44:00
a young boy who battles serious illness
00:44:03
isn't fully recovered some believe at
00:44:06
the power of prayer helps save their
00:44:07
lives join me next time for another
00:44:12
intriguing edition unsolved mysteries
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